Wednesday, September 22, 2021

CINEMATIC HOLY MOMENTS: 1995

by Toby

[re-upload from the now defunct thewanderingimage.tumblr.com]
my personal favorite moments from films to receive a 1995 U.S. release. Not all of which made my actual “Best Films of 1995” 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 1995 "Best of"

The black on black violence montage with juxtaposed images of lynchings. Was like a visceral gut punch when I saw it at a sleepover as a kid
- TALES FROM THE HOOD 
                          (Cundieff)
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Waiting in the rain for Francesca as she drives away. That crushing fatalist feeling of something so good it just couldn’t last
- THE BRIDGES 
        OF MADISON COUNTY 
                                    (Eastwood)
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a horse carriage escape / Port Royal bombing
- CUTTHROAT ISLAND (Harlin)
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Re-entering Earth’s atmosphere
   - APOLLO 13 (Howard)
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the military finally stops a rampaging heartbroken Gojira 
   - GODZILLA VS. DESTOROYAH 
                       (Takao Okawara)
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The staggering mummified man in the background at camp
     - SAFE (Haynes)
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007 in the T-55 tank on the streets of Moscow
  - GOLDENEYE (Campbell)
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Full memory of the airport shooting revealed. 
          **close of the film**
  - 12 MONKEYS (Gilliam)
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The subway bomb & derailment -
DIE HARD 
         WITH A VENGEANCE 
                        (McTiernan) 
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Gromit flying his side-car plane firing a porridge machine gun
- A CLOSE SHAVE (Park)
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The perm scene
    - SAFE (Haynes)
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First-person foot pursuit.. Crime evidence recorded in V.R.
 - STRANGE DAYS (Bigelow)
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The seals chase the boy back to his family -
THE SECRET OF ROAN INISH 
                            (Sayles)
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Saying goodbye at the train station
- BEFORE SUNRISE (Linklater)
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Poor Ginger’s demise; set to the Animals' “House of the Rising Sun”
    - CASINO (Scorsese)
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The big bank heist action centrepiece
   - HEAT (Michael Mann)
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Climactic race to catch Andy's moving truck. **Rocket strapped to R.C., etc.**
    - TOY STORY (Lasseter)
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also; 
this bit of brilliance from Mel Brooks' final directorial effort
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Toby’s Favorite Movie Moments
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