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. Here's a TV show, but no wonder Rome is cinematic to its roots, as its pilot and first few episodes were directed by feature helmer (and charming fellow) Michael Apted, who is also the director of the amazing, on-going "(insert age here) Up" documentary series, incidentally. This shot, directed by Julian Farino, the first director to take the helm

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Here's a fantastic shot from Agnieszka Holland's beautifully realized Europa, Europa, one of my favorite films. Holland was a friend of the late Krysztoph Kieslowski, another of my favorite directors, and they shared a lot of collaborators. On this film, Holland uses Kieslowski's go-to composer Zbigniew Preisner (who wrote the unforgettable scores for Kieslowski's Double Life of Veronique, Blue, and Red,

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This post would have come a lot sooner had I not been locked in mortal combat with YouTube; it's getting harder to find clips I can comment on or post without being blocked.  (I've appealed and hopefully "fair use" will prevail.)  Nonetheless, where there's a will, there's a way! I love this sequence in Akira Kurosawa's Seven

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I love the ending to Scorsese's hilarious dark comedy The King of Comedy.  The film is a fascinating, entertaining, and hilarious examination of a man's obsessive ambition to be a famous comedian, even though he doesn't nearly have the chops to pull it off -- on talent alone, that is. Robert DeNiro's Rupert Pupkin eventually succeeds in a way