50 things

I enjoyed this list: http://cinema-fanatic.com/2011/04/22/100-things-i-love-about-the-movies/

I managed to come up with half that number, 50 things I love about the movies:

1. Christina Ricci tapdancing in Buffalo 66

2. Harry Dean Stanton's monologue in Paris, Texas

3. Eric Blore in the Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers films

4. Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson singing in Rio Bravo

5. The opening of the box at the end of Kiss Me Deadly

6. The Marseillaise scene in Casablanca

7. The ending of The Third Man

8. Woody Allen's blind date in Play It Again Sam

9. The dance scene in Bande à Part

10. Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice

11. Gene Kelly doing the Singing in The Rain number

12. Cary Grant in His Girl Friday

13. The whole car chase in Mad Max 2

14. John Wayne lifting Natalie Wood into his arms in The Searchers

15. Henry Fonda in My Darling Clementine

16. The spaceship sequence in Life of Brian

17. Bill Murray, divingboard scene in Rushmore
    

18. The attack on the Death Star in Star Wars

19. The creature with eyes in its hands in Pan's Labyrinth

20. The Oh, Captain, my Captain scene at the end of Dead Poet's Society

21. The train station sequence in The Untouchables

22. The decapitated woman laughing in The Brain That Wouldn't Die

23. The bank robbery in one long take in Gun Crazy

24. The mirror sequence in The Lady From Shanghai

25. Tony Curtis disguised as a millionnaire in Some Like It Hot

26. Steve Martin making coffee in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

27. Adrienne Shelly in Trust

28. Buster Keaton buying a new hat with his dad in Steamboat Bill Jr.

29. The wedding in The Deer Hunter

30. The pre-title sequence in Raising Arizona

31. The German woman singing for the French soldiers at the end of Paths of Glory

32. The car / subway chase in The French Connection

33. The dead guy in yellow jacket standing upright towards the end of Blue Velvet

34. The breaking into the CIA computer room sequence in Mission Impossible

35. Diane Keaton in Love and Death

36. The knights descending from their "horses" in The Holy Grail

37. James Stewart being drunk in Philadelphia Story

38. The swimming pool scene in Let The Right One In

39. The sound of Lee Marvin walking in Point Blank

40. Brad Pitt chasing the killer in Seven

41. Kurt Russel in Escape From New York

42. Indiana Jones shooting that one guy in Raiders of The Lost Ark

43. The duel at the end of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

44. Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday

45. Shout! dance sequence in Animal House

46. Jeff Bridges hitting the ball on a string, on the roof in The Fabulous Baker Boys

47. Linda Manz' voiceover in Days of Heaven

48. The scene with The Mystery Man and the telephone in Lost Highway

49. The heist in Rififi

50. Jon Polito in Miller's Crossing

I'm going to have to think some more to come up with another 50 things. And yeah, I should go back to working on my next book...