Category: Cinemas Greatest Scenes
Cinemas Greatest Scenes: Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator speech.
In 1938, Charlie Chaplin set to work on his first talking film that would ridicule the German tyrant Adolf Hitler. […]
Cinemas Greatest Scenes: Jerry Lewis’ Funny Bones monologue.
In 1995, a small British-American comedy-drama was released to little fanfare called Funny Bones starring Oliver Platt, Jerry Lewis and […]
Cinemas Greatest Scenes: A League of Their Own – “There’s no crying in baseball!”
A League of Their Own (1992) is a delightful film about the All American Girls Professional Baseball League of the […]
Cinemas Greatest Scenes: The Wizard of Oz – ‘Over The Rainbow’ song sequence.
Film fairy tales often need a special quality and ingredient to help them stand the test of time, if they […]
Cinemas Greatest Scenes: The Death of Sergeant Elias.
When I first saw the movie poster for Platoon in 1986, with Sgt. Elias’ arms raised in the air, I was […]
Cinemas Greatest Scenes: The Grapes of Wrath – I’ll Be There speech.
John Ford’s own understanding and fondness of the American people and their history is no more evident than in his […]
Cinemas Greatest Scenes: Cinema Paradiso’s Kissing Montage.
Cinema Paradiso to my mind is one of the most heartwarming and nostalgic foreign language films ever produced. It begins […]
Cinemas Greatest Scenes: Sergio Leone’s Mexican Standoff.
In the late sixties, Sergio Leone’s The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966) was harshly criticized for its glorified […]
