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Some more moments:

John Dunbar's (Costner's) suicidal galloping past the Confederate  
troops in crucifixion pose in Dances with Wolves.

The baby alien rupturing the John Hurt character's stomach in Alien.

Schindler fumbling the ring at the climax of Schindler's List.

The Jean Seberg character's quizzical expression at the end of A bout  
de souffle.

Attached to a seat and with eyes prized wide open by pincers, Alex  
(McDowell) being filmically 'brainwashed' in A Clockwork Orange.

The flower ornaments of dancers seen from above in Busby Berkeley's  
musicals; the tracking shot through female dancers' legs.

Ivan the Terrible's profile in close-up with his people in extreme  
long shot in the same frame at the end of part 1; the pouring of  
coins over the protagonist's head during the coronation at the  
beginning.

Leatherface wildly swinging his noisy chainsaw like a flag in the  
final instance of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

The glass foregrounded in large close-up as Kane breaks into Susan's  
room after her suicide attempt in Citizen Kane.

The male corpse with eyes turned upwards in the bathtub in Clouzot's  
Diabolical.

The facial operation in Franju's Eyes without a Face.

The extended kissing scene in close shots between the Ingrid Bergman  
and Cary Grant characters in Notorious.

The red corridor of Wong Kar-Wei's In the Mood for Love.

The knee-stroking in Rohmer's Claire's Knee.

'I love the smell of Napalm in the morning' in Apocalypse Now.

The penis-cutting in Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses.

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