I really can't imagine Glee lasting more than three seasons—or at least, I have no idea what the show would look like at that point. In less than one season, there have been so many insane tonal shifts and mixed messages about what this show is really about that the idea of a third season makes my head hurt. (Although…

I'm twenty minutes away by foot. I'll be there.

I barely knew who Banksy was, and I thought it was awesome. In some ways, the less you know about it, the better.

Mal'akh
From The Lost Symbol:

Tim Meadows came out to pull the Walker Texas Ranger lever—oops, I mean the Chuck N0rris Rural Policeman handle. Apparently John C. Reilly was the guest for the previous night's show.

Legally Prohibited Tour
Mrs. The Information and I saw Conan last night at the Chicago Theater. It was awesome. Although with his new beard, he's looking a lot like William Atherton circa 1985.

Warner Bros. finally gave it a DVD release last year. What's your excuse?

OMG!
I remember seeing them perform "Enola Gay" for the first time at a special screening of "Urgh! A Music War," and being totally blown away. That movie introduced me to a hell of a lot of good music. It also reminded me that Sting used to be cool once.

Thanks for the link! The moment when Judy turns to the camera and the screen goes red always knocks me flat. I also love Herrmann's music cue when they cut back to her after the flashback.

Yep, that's Powell and Pressburger, too. From 1940 to 1949, they had an amazing string of movies: Contraband, 49th Parallel, One of Our Aircraft is Missing, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, A Canterbury Tale, I Know Where I'm Going!, A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, and The Small Back…

@phodreaw: My first experience with "Vertigo" was very similar: I saw it on video, but I must have had a fever or something, because I spent the rest of the night hallucinating that the events of the movie had happened to me, which was decidedly unpleasant. My first viewing of it on the big screen was equally…

I probably should have included Khan's introduction in the list of classic scenes above.

Good things are worth waiting for: a VHS copy would probably have been the edited American version, which loses almost an hour and recuts the movie into chronological order. The original, three-hour version is unmatchable. (I believe it's David Mamet's favorite movie.)

Another vote for "The X-Files." If someone agrees to cover the third season (Clyde Bruckman! Pusher! Jose Chung!), I promise to comment the shit out of those threads.

I can only imagine the conversation between Franco and his agent:

@Gern: I can't wait for that Blu-Ray. I was lucky enough to catch the new restoration of "The Red Shoes" at the Music Box in Chicago, and it looks phenomenal.

Wrath of Khan, anyone?
At this point, any additional posts on this Q&A feel like piling on, but I don't think any list of great movie scenes is complete without the Kobayashi Maru, the scene underground at the Genesis planet ("Khan, you bloodsucker!"), and Spock's death scene and final monologue.

God, yes: I love "A Canterbury Tale." My favorite scene is of Eric Portman and Sheila Sim talking together in the fields, but there are many more. I even went to Canterbury a few years ago to reenact that movie as best as I could…

Chungking Express
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned this movie yet, which is one of the great storehouses of images and moments in modern cinema. Faye Wong redecorating Tony Leung's apartment to the sound of "Dreams" is probably my favorite, but it's hard to choose just one.

God, yes. Especially when Scotty looks up, and realizes that the background has changed from the hotel room to the stables at the mission, where he saw Madeline alive for the last time.