Tuesday, September 21, 2021

CINEMATIC HOLY MOMENTS: 2000

by Toby

[re-upload from the now defunct thewanderingimage.tumblr.com]
my personal favorite moments from films to receive a 2000 U.S. release. Not all of which made my actual “Best Films of 2000” 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 2000 "Best of"

The possessed refrigerator hallucination.. Sarah losing her marbles
- REQUIEM FOR A DREAM 
                        (Aronofsky)
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the car chase that closes story #1 
**& inevitably ends up tying all 3 stories together**
- AMORES PERROS (Iñárritu)
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Tigris of Gaul VS. Maximus
    - GLADIATOR (Ridley Scott)







"I’ve Seen it All" train musical number 
- DANCER IN THE DARK 
                      (Von Trier)
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Sarah throws several packets of reserve blood throughout the room in an attempt to locate the invisible killer 
   - HOLLOW MAN (Verhoeven)
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The entire motorcycle chase climax & showdown w/Ambrose. So much of this movie is a dramatically inert dud, but at least Woo brought his A game for the action scenes 
- MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 
                             (Woo)
Prologue sequence with Nasia's Faulkner-esque voiceover. 
"My friend George said he can read God’s mind.." 
- GEORGE WASHINGTON 
           (David Gordon Green)
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Fielding's manic breakdown during dinner conversation 
  - WAKING THE DEAD 
                  (Keith Gordon)
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The "Nunnery" monologue @ Blockbuster
    - HAMLET (Almereyda)
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Max Schreck‘s fate.. The way the film stock burns away on a frozen image of Orlok -
SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE 
                         (Merhige)
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young Yang Yang, in despair, jumps into the swimming pool
         - YI YI (Yang)
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Giant worm-like sand cyclone goes after the observation team
- MISSION TO MARS (De Palma)
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"Lonesome Valley".. The serendipitous flood
O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU? 
                         (Coen bros)
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Flashback of David's High School car accident
- UNBREAKABLE (Shyamalan)
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Wuxia sword battle across a bamboo canopy
- CROUCHING TIGER, 
                   HIDDEN DRAGON 
                            (Ang Lee)
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Chuck's “You have to keep breathing“ monologue. 
**audible rainfall outside**
   - CAST AWAY (Zemeckis)
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Dr. Fisher begins to “Dance the Night Away” in rotating MARS1 core.. The big zero-gravity dance set-piece with Dr. Blake
- MISSION TO MARS (De Palma)
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Ignoring his own health condition, George rescues a drowning boy in the community swimming pool 
 - GEORGE WASHINGTON 
          (David Gordon Green)
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also;
ladies & gentleman, Mr. Harlan Pepper
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Toby’s Favorite Movie Moments
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