The monologue by Michael Nyqvist, where he talks about John Wick to his son. The background music is perfectly synced to the action and leads perfectly to the climax.
This scene from John Wick 1, where he's introduced by Michael Nyqvist. Listen to the background music and how it matches the action and builds up to the end of the scene.
It's a great choice by the director how everyone scowled when they didn't get the canned bullshit answer disguised as an enlightened one. How this one panelist decided to break the mesmerized charade and you see confusion and anger in peoples' eyes.
BUT... that "we used to be" line is also lazy nostalgic whitewashing of a mountain of incredibly inconvenient, sordid history.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990): When Splinter and Danny are talking, and Splinter asks about his parents. And gives a line that's become even more powerful since I lost my dad last year - "All fathers care for their sons."
Waking Life: Really this whole movie, because it's just scene after scene of interesting ideas and great dialogue, which, thanks to the way the movie is built, doesn't need to be super-connected. But I guess the scene i keep coming back to is when Wiley is with an old man in what looks like a bar. It ends with a powerful line: "Which is the most dominant human trait - fear? Or laziness?"
Johnny Mnemonic: "I! WANT! ROOM SERVICE!" Just a great delivery and a real show of how he's gotten to the end of his rope.
Midnight in Paris: Hemingway's introductory scene.
Casablanca: The ending especially, but also La Marseillaise vs. the Nazi anthem.
The Third Man: The Merry-Go-Round scene. It's a chilling look into villainy, and the obvious fact that Harry Lime was not always the monster he is in the film - because he can't look at his victims as people. It's why The Lives of Harry Lime worked as a radio show.
The Marseillaise scene is an excellent choice - a lot of the actors in that scene were actual refugees from the Nazis, so their emotions were genuine and powerful.
That Casino Royale scene might be in my personal top five. After having drifted away from Bond since the last one I had really enjoyed - that would be The Living Daylights - while watching this Madagascar parkour I felt the spark rekindle completely.
EDIT: #1 in my old classics bucket list is to someday watch Lawrence Of Arabia on the big screen. I think the restoration and remaster was overseen by Martin Scorsese.
Same. Even on my decently large TV at home—with the extreme letter-boxing for 70mm—the restoration looks fantastic. Some day in the theater, my friend…
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