Today’s scene of the day comes from 1979’s Convoy and it features Kris Kristofferson as the greatest trucker of all time, Rubber Duck. In this scene, Rubber Duck rescues a fellow trucker from jail and lets the authorities know what they can do with their law.
He’s not a zombie!
He’s Bill Murray!
And today is Bill Murray’s birthday so it seems like a good time to share a scene that I love. In this scene from 2009’s Zombieland, Bill Murray proves that not even the zombie apocalypse can stop the Murraycane.
(Unfortunately, Bill comes to a tragic end in Zombieland but at least he gets to enjoy himself for a while.)
I love the opening of Dario Argento’s 1971 giallo, Four Flies On Grey Velvet. This was Argento’s third film as a director and it tells the story of an American drummer who gets caught up in a gruesome murder. In the opening credits, we watch as Michael Brandon drums away and finds time to take care of a distracting fly. In just a matter of minutes, Argento tells us everything we need to know about our hero and the role that he’ll be playing in this film. Like the best drummers, he holds everything together and that’s a good skill to have because, in typical Argento fashion, his entire life is about to fall apart.
From Four Flies on Grey Velvet:
(Only ten days to go until Horrorthon!)
Gerrit Graham, RIP. He was one of the great character actors and he’s one of the main reasons why Used Cars is one of my favorite comedies.
(And don’t worry. The dog was okay!)
Jean-Luc and Anna
It’s probably not great shock to anyone that my favorite scene from a Jean-Luc Godard film would involve dancing.
From 1964’s Bande à part:
Today’s scene that I love comes from one of the first movies that I ever reviewed at this site, the psychedelic classic Ghetto Freaks! They knew how to have a good time in the freezing cold of the late 60s/early 70s.
Here’s Grouch Marx summing up my political ideology in song. This is from the film Animal Crackers.
Today is Oliver Stone’s birthday so, for all conspiracy-loving readers, here is a key scene from Stone’s 1991 film, JFK! In this scene, Kevin Costner’s Jim Garrison meets the mysterious man known as X (played by the much-missed Donald Sutherland). X explains the conspiracy to Garrison.
This scene certainly convinced a lot of people. Personally, I think Oswald acted alone but one cannot deny Stone’s talent as a filmmaker.
Today’s scene that I love comes from the greatest show ever made about my home state of Texas, Mike Judge’s King of the Hill.
Listen as Jeff Boonhaumer explains the Internet!
Today’s scene that I love is one of the greatest television moments of the past ten years. It’s one that I still think about on a nearly daily basis.
Oddly, ever since it went off the air, there’s been an attempt on the part of the media to pretend that Selina Meyer was meant to be some sort of inspiring figure. This scenes reminds us that she wasn’t even supposed to be likable.
(I groaned when the cast of Veep reunited to support Kamala Harris in 2024 because Veep was literally the last show that Harris should have been trying to remind people of.)
