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Your most memorable film moments
The survey
Last September, the Observer set out to canvass the views of readers: what, in your view, were the most memorable moments in film history? You told us - in great numbers, and with some passion. We received more than 15,000 votes and over 2,500 different moments received at least one vote. Evidently, plenty of you agree with director Neil Jordan who introduces our list below, "I can far more readily think of my favourite bits of movies than my favourite movies..."Unforgettable
Introducing our moments, celebrated director Neil Jordan is happy to find a list that chimes with his own mind's way of storing films. But what do our favourite 'bits' say about the way film works its magic? Moments 1-10 Moments 11-20 Moments 21-30 Moments 31-40 Moments 41-50 Moments 51-60 Moments 61-70 Moments 71-80 Moments 81-90 Moments 91-100 All 100 moments by year My most memorable film moments...
Adrian NobleAngela Mason Chris Cunningham Dame Glenda Jackson, MP David Holmes Jeffrey Archer Jo Whiley Joan Bakewell Lembit Opik MP Peter Greenaway Professor Richard Dawkins Tony Benn, MP Amy Jenkins Mariella Frostrup Features
Are effects really that special?
Some of our moments result from technological advance. But we seem more interested in the human than the technology argues Rob KennerAt last, at moment 65...
Cuban novelist and former film critic G. Cabrera Infante waits a long time for our list's first foreign-language film Beg, borrow or steal?
Tom O'Sullivan on the fine line between plagiarism and pastiche in advertising's film moments Director's Cut
The scene they wish they had directed How to get a moment to sound good
Composing soundtracks was a kind of accident for me - I never thought I would ever compose for film. Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence was my debut score, but I was actually brought in as an actor first by the director, Nagisa Oshima, though my principal career had been in pop music, with the Yellow Magic Orchestra. So at our first meeting I just asked him if I could compose the music. And so it began? Just a moment?
Philip French analyses the fast and loose way you have interpreted a 'moment'. It might be a second or half an hour. The triumph of craftsmen
Perhaps it's not surprising that the directors who come out on top are strong visual stylists. In fact, those most frequently cited in the poll - Steven Spielberg (six moments), Stanley Kubrick (four), Alfred Hitchcock (three), David Lean (three) and Ridley Scott (three) - are storyboard directors noted for the time they spend in pre-production and their precision on the set. The presence on the list of the last three gives the lie to the sneering mot of François Truffaut (a surprising absence from the list, incidentally) that 'British cinema' is a contradiction in terms - especially as Kubrick and Spielberg have done much of their best work in this country. What will top the list in 2010?
Andrew Collins looks ahead and imagines some memorable moments from the future. (We can but hope.) Words and pictures
Britain's finest young filmmaker, Lynne Ramsay, director of last year's Ratcatcher, ponders the competing claims of 'verbal' and 'visual' moments Win your top ten movies
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