So very, very difficult to pick out a scene from a film if the film is one you’ve enjoyed from beginning to end, but I’ll mention three, each film I saw in the cinema at the time they were released, so no spoilers before seeing them.
Alien chest burster – literally, what the **** just happened!
Raiders Of The Lost Ark – Indy/ swordsman the whole cinema cheered as one.
Pan’s Labyrinth – when the officer beats the man to death with the bottle. Such cold brutality showing the monsters are us. I’ve only seen the film once,I can’t watch it again.
A couple of other mentions, 2001, A Space Odyssey – I went to the cinema on my own to watch it in 1967, came out knowing that cinema could never be the same for me after that. I was 14.
A Clockwork Orange – again, I went on my own, I’d never seen anything like it, the casual cruelty of the characters and the violence were a shock. I was 17.
Both were when they’d just been released, so zero knowledge of what they were about.
Bugger me! Someone else remembers Diva. Great film.
I love Diva to bits, saw it in the cinema, got a VHS copy, then a DVD, and I’ve got the soundtrack album!
Watched it not so long ago, my g/f had never heard of it. The aria from La Wally is a favourite piece of music.
