i'm surprised and delighted to see 2 of my very favourite film moments mentioned above, by Katsuben, and Gary2;Anju drowning herself in Sansho the Bailiff,(my favourite film) simultaneously incredibly beautiful and heartbreaking ;also the final scene in The Green Ray/Summer/Le Rayon Vert.i loved the film and that moment anyway,but seeing the ray itself(a very rare sunset-at-sea phenomenon)at Aruba with my wife a couple of years ago was the most romantic moment of our lives-the perfect end to our best holiday,(we didn't imagine it, as i know some people doubt its existence-another happy couple also saw it, an unforgettable flash of Emerald)and has made the film all the more special.
Other favourite film moments;the long peepshow scene in Paris Texas,the beginning and end of The Searchers(though i'm no Wayne fan),the children's moonlit boat trip down river in Night of the Hunter,the Stargate sequence in 2001,the coastal idyll in Pierrot le Fou, Jack Lemmon's exclamation,"Sugar!"when Monroe clambers into his bunk on that train ride made in heaven,the expression on Rosetta's face at the end of the Dardenne brothers'film ...
Isn't cinema wonderful!THE greatest art form when it lives up to its potential.Such moments are the reason i became a hopeless addict of World Cinema,have sat through so much mediocrity:Always Hope, if not always Expectation. 