TOBY'S PRIVATE WATCHLIST & THOUGHTS ON FILM.. PLEASE DON'T READ THESE
Thursday, September 23, 2021
CINEMATIC HOLY MOMENTS: 1991
by Toby
[re-upload from the now defunct thewanderingimage.tumblr.com]
my personal favorite moments from films to receive a 1991 U.S. release. Not all of which made my actual “Best Films of 1991” list, but at least had incredible segments that stayed with me since first viewing. Scenes that I’m sure I’ll want to re-visit again and again.
+= was actually featured on Toby's 1991 "Best of"
Restaurant shootout. (Desert eagle .50, etc.)
- LA FEMME NIKITA (Besson)
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Doughboy & gang mow down the Bloods in the mall parking lot.. A lesser filmmaker would've made this moment feel triumphant; instead there's a sad fatalist weight to it, being staged like the earlier slaying of Ricky. The air is too heavy w/the doom of cyclical violence.
- BOYZ N THE HOOD(Singleton)
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T-1000 jumps motorcycle into the police chopper, then forms into the passenger seat
- TERMINATOR 2:
JUDGEMENT DAY (Cameron)
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Sharon chooses daughter’s fate in the desert
- THE RAPTURE (Tolkin)
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Night-vision sequence in Buffalo Bill’s basement. Really that whole nightmarish climax is horror film gold.
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
(Demme)
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Mike’s vision of his childhood farm crashing into the street -
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO
(Van Sant)
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The youngest "lost boy" recognizes Peter through his aged face & wrinkles. A movie I actually don’t really love all that much, but this sequence has always stuck with me. It’s one of Spielberg & John Williams most spiritual moments together. I wish the rest of the film was worthy of this E.T. quality wonder
- HOOK (Spielberg)
Dr. Lecter’s calculated & ultra-violent escape from the courthouse cell.
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
(Demme)
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Squashing the talking insect typewriter
- NAKED LUNCH(Cronenberg)
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Buried alive?
- THE VANISHING
[SPOORLOOS](Sluizer)
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the climactic rescue from a Nazi Zeppelin
- THE ROCKETEER(Johnston)
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The ballroom dance centrepiece.
- BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
(Trousdale/Wise)
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The hugging embrace that becomes sudden violence.. One of the more disturbing acts I’ve seen in a dramatic non genre film.
A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY
(Yang)
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Charlie returns to the Hotel Earle.
"I’ll Show You the Life of the Mind"
**Dante's Inferno sequence**
- BARTON FINK (Coen bros)
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The entire Ex-presidents sequence.. the Bank robbery, car chase, gas station fire, & foot pursuit through L.A. backyards
- POINT BREAK (Bigelow)
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the entire "Escape from Galleria Mall" scene.
T-1000 in an 18wheeler chasing John Connor through the L.A. floodways on his dirt bike
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