Johnny Depp with blades for hands in pastel suburbia; Burton's fairy tale.
Burton's Gotham, Nicholson's Joker and the film that made superheroes dark.
Can men and women be friends? The deli scene and "I'll have what she's having".
The hottest day in Bed-Stuy and a pizzeria; Spike Lee's film about race that ends without an answer.
Robin Williams tells his boys to seize the day; "O Captain! My Captain!"
Live action and animation in one noir Los Angeles; Bugs and Mickey on screen together.
John McClane barefoot in Nakatomi Plaza on Christmas Eve; the template for every action film after.
Nobody puts Baby in a corner; the summer of 1963 at a Catskills resort.
Bruce Campbell versus his own hand in a cabin; Raimi's splatstick.
Angels listening to Berliners' thoughts in black and white, one of them falling for a trapeze artist.
Schwarzenegger's commandos hunted by an invisible alien in the jungle; "get to the chopper".
A dead Detroit cop rebuilt as a machine; Verhoeven's satire wrapped in an action film.
Kurt Russell as a trucker in a Chinatown sorcery war; Carpenter's cult comedy.
Four boys walk the tracks to find a body; Rob Reiner's Stephen King coming-of-age.
A day off school in Chicago in a borrowed Ferrari; "Bueller? Bueller?"
A Belarusian boy watches the SS burn villages in 1943; the most harrowing war film made.
Five teenagers in Saturday detention; the John Hughes film that named a generation.
Bill Murray, a proton pack and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in New York.
Schwarzenegger as an unstoppable machine from 2029; "I'll be back".
The mockumentary that goes to eleven; a fake band that toured for real.
Harry Dean Stanton walks out of the desert; the peep-show conversation with Nastassja Kinski.
Leone's four-hour Jewish gangster epic across fifty years of New York.
A TV executive finds a snuff broadcast and his body starts changing; "long live the new flesh".
An Antarctic base and a shape-shifter; Rob Bottin's effects and the paranoia of the blood test.
The transformation scene that won the first makeup Oscar, and a Yorkshire pub called the Slaughtered Lamb.
Manhattan as a prison and Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken; Carpenter's dystopia of 1997.
Five hours in a U-boat in 1941; the claustrophobia has never been bettered.
A disaster movie played straight by Leslie Nielsen; "don't call me Shirley".
Herzog remakes Murnau with Kinski and thousands of real rats in Delft.
Gershwin, black-and-white New York and the bench under the Queensboro Bridge.
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