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“Appearance: Casablanca (1942)
Creators: Murray Burnett and Joan Alison (play, Everybody Comes To Rick’s); Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch
Performer: Humphrey Bogart
Defining moment: His curt nod to the bandleader to strike up La Marseillaise ” read more
“Appearances: The Back To The Future trilogy (1985-1990), A Million Ways To Die In The West (2014)
Creators: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Performer: Christopher Lloyd
Defining moment: His apology for the “crudeness” of his ridiculously detailed scale model of Hi” read more
“Appearance: Taxi Driver (1976)
Creator: Paul Schrader
Performer: Robert De Niro
Defining moment: Bickle kindly gives his date a Kris Kristofferson album she already owns; then takes her out to a porn film.
Fascinating fact: One of Schrader’s inspiratio” read more
“Appearances: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Creator: Quentin Tarantino
Performer: Uma Thurman
Defining moment: Beatrix Kiddo’s drastic rationalising of the Crazy 88 during the slay-full House Of Blue Leaves showdown.
Fascinating fa” read more
“Appearance: There Will Be Blood (2007)
Creators: Paul Thomas Anderson, Upton Sinclair
Performer: Daniel Day-Lewis
Defining moment: “We offer you the bond of family that very few oilmen can understand…” claims Plainview, luring dumbfounded landowners to his ca” read more
“Appearance: American Psycho (2000)
Creator: Bret Easton Ellis
Performer: Christian Bale
Defining moment: Patrick Bateman’s soliloquy on the genius of Huey Lewis, followed by his iconic Hip To Be Square flat-ricide.
Fascinating fact: In retrospect, Bret” read more
“Appearance: Forrest Gump (1994)
Creator: Winston Groom
Performer: Tom Hanks
Defining moment: When he asks Jenny if their son is “normal”; it’s a moment that shows a tragic awareness of his own limitations.
Fascinating fact: In the book, Forrest is ” read more
“Appearances: Escape From New York (1981), Escape From L.A. (1996)
Creator: John Carpenter
Performer: Kurt Russell
Defining moment: On being asked if he’s going to kill Lee Van Cleef’s character: “I’m too tired, maybe later.”
Fascinating fact: ” read more
“Appearances: The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit trilogies (2001-2014)
Creator: J. R. R. Tolkien
Performer: Ian McKellen
Defining moment: In a small but perfect grace note from the Council Of Elrond, as the first to hear Frodo’s offer to take the One Ring all ” read more
“Appearances: Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989)
Creators: Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis
Performer: Bill Murray
Defining moment: Giving two students an ESP test, happily electric-shocking the obnoxious sophomore guy while flirting with the girl. Poor science,” read more
“Appearance: Pulp Fiction (1994)
Creator: Quentin Tarantino
Performer: Samuel L. Jackson
Defining moment: A brutal choice, with Tim Roth reaching for his wallet a very close second place (“It’s the one that says Bad Motherfucker.”), but the winner has to be qu” read more
“Appearance: To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
Creator: Harper Lee
Performer: Gregory Peck
Defining moment: “To begin with, this case should never have come to trial...” Finch’s quietly devastating closing argument destroys the prosecution case and has inspired dec” read more
“Appearances: The Rocky series (1976-2015)
Creator: Sylvester Stallone
Performer: Sylvester Stallone
Defining moment: “Down! Stay down!” Battered to the canvas by Apollo Creed, the easy thing for Rocky would be to do just that. But up the Italian Stallion climb” read more
“Appearance: The Big Lebowski (1998)
Creators: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Performer: John Goodman
Defining moment: Responding to a perceived bowling foul with thermo- nuclear intensity. “Mark it zero!” Walter is a stickler for rules.
Fascinating fact: The ” read more
“Appearances: The Star Wars series (1980-2005)
Creators: George Lucas, Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan
Performer: Frank Oz
Defining moment: Lifting a sunken X-Wing out of a swamp. “I don’t believe it,” says Luke. “This is why you fail,” replies the crestfa” read more
“Appearance: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Creator: John Hughes
Performer: Matthew Broderick
Defining moment: Parading through Chicago lip-syncing Danke Schoen while the crowd goes wild. Ever noticed that Ferris is a faker?
Fascinating fact: The ill-s” read more
“Appearance: Gone Girl (2014)
Creator: Gillian Flynn
Performer: Rosamund Pike
Defining moment: The most telling glimpse inside Amy’s mind comes via her meticulously filled wall planner – here is her master plan, her final revenge, her psychopathology. She has ev” read more
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“Appearance: Goodfellas (1990)
Creators: Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
Performer: Joe Pesci
Defining moment: The shinebox to-do is pretty iconic but the knife-edge tension of DeVito’s improvised drinking confrontation with Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) remains unmat” read more
“Appearance: Blade Runner
Creators: Philip K. Dick, Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples
Performer: Harrison Ford
Defining moment: Deckard’s place as futuristic gumshoe/assassin is defined by his brutal shooting of replicant snake dancer Zhora and the bitter look th” read more
“Appearance: American Beauty (1999)
Creator: Alan Ball
Performer: Kevin Spacey
Defining moment: Visually the rose petals peeling off Mena Suvari was the image of the film, but it is Lester’s touching voice-over that really lingers: “I can’t feel anything but g” read more
“Appearances: The Dirty Harry series (1971-1988)
Creators: Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink, Dean Riesner
Performer: Clint Eastwood
Defining moment: Best summed up by District Attorney Rothko to Harry: “Where the hell does it say that you’ve got a right to kick ” read more
“Appearances: The Star Wars series (1977-2015)
Creator: George Lucas
Performer: Mark Hamill
Defining moment: “But I was going into Tosche station to pick up some power converters.” Luke Skywalker: cinema’s greatest whiner.
Fascinating fact: In the ” read more
“Appearance: Shaun Of The Dead (2004)
Creator: Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg
Performer: Simon Pegg
Defining moment: Shaun finally ditches the kitchen appliances and picks up a cricket bat. The sporting way to lay waste to the undead.
Fascinating fact: While fi” read more
“Appearance: The Godfather (1972), The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Creator: Mario Puzo
Performer: Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro
Defining moment: Forging his destiny with the murder of neighbourhood padrone Don Fanucci.
Fascinating fact: Orson Welles claim” read more
“Appearance: Amélie (2001)
Creator: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Performer: Flora Guiet, Audrey Tautou
Defining moment: Upon Amélie finding the photo album of lost postcards, the narrator gives the perfect summation of Amélieness: “Any normal girl would call the number, ” read more
“Appearance: The Beverly Hills Cop trilogy (1984-1994)
Creator: Daniel Petrie Jr.
Performer: Eddie Murphy
Defining moment: His incredulous but knowing squeal, "Getthefuckouttahere!" to snippy gallery flunky Serge when he's told the price of the works of art.
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“Appearance: Big Trouble In Little China (1986)
Creator: John Carpenter, W. D. Richter
Performer: Kurt Russell
Defining moment: Ol' Jack Burton bursts into a room, shoots his gun in the air... and gets knocked out by falling masonry. Thus proving that he's a perfect” read more
“Appearance: The Terminator series (1984–)Creator: James CameronPerformer: Linda Hamilton, Emilia ClarkeDefining moment: In T2, doing chin-ups in the hospital. Once a timid nobody, now a fearsome warrior with the fate of mankind in her hands.Fascinating fact: The T-1000's doppelgänger of Co” read more
“Appearance: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), When Nature Calls (1995)
Creator: Jack Bernstein, Tom Shadyac, Jim Carrey
Performer: Jim Carrey
Defining moment: Plenty of improv and rubber-faced japery, but for pure physical comedy the slo-mo acting out of a footb” read more