Directors' Final Shots ....
Whether they knew it was their final film or didn't, doesn't really matter, the final shot of the final film of these legendary directors belong to posterity and represent a final epitaph adressed to the viewers and a conclusion wrapping up beautifully an extraoprdinary career.
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- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsKaren BlackBruce DernBarbara HarrisA phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/actor boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.WINK AT THE AUDIENCE
DIRECTOR: Alfred Hitchcock
SHOT: Barbara Harris breaks the fourth wall, smiling and winking at the camera.
The wink is reproduced in the movie poster, coming this time from the Hitchcock always did movies with the audiences in mind, it's all natural to end with what can be seen as a friendly last farewell to the viewers, and panderly wink at the people he toyed with their emotions for half a decade. - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsJacqueline BissetCandice BergenDavid SelbyLiz and Merry become BFFs in college. A decade later, Liz is a serious writer with writer's block, and Merry is a homemaker and a mom who has written a novel. Other bestsellers, riches, and fame follow.DIRECTOR: George Cukor
SHOT: Bisset and Bergen ending in n a tête-à-tête by the fireplace on New Year’s Eve, embracing and drinking a toast to friendship, a scene later copied by Almodovar in The Flower of my Secret. - DirectorJacques BeckerStarsAndré BervilJean KeraudyMichel ConstantinDistrust and uncertainty arise when four long-term inmates cautiously induct a new prisoner into their elaborate prison-break scheme.DIRECTOR: Robert Bresson
SHOT: The main protagonist is put in a cell, then the door is closed and locked.
The loneliness of the character, the hopelessness and nihilistic feel of an ending, a grim conclusion for a director who made more upbeat pictures, but one that strangely mirrors his abrupt and untimely passing a few days after the last shot was shot.
Honorable mentions: a woman crying alone in a restaurant in Maurice Pialat [Garcu], Albert Finney walking away from the camera in Lumet's [Devil], Teresa leaving the house and walking away in Visconti's [Innocente], the judge crying at the camera at the end of Krzysztof Kieślowski [Red] - DirectorJohn FordStarsAnne BancroftSue LyonMargaret LeightonIn 1935 China, seven dedicated missionary women try to protect themselves from the advances of a barbaric Mongolian warlord and his cut-throat gang of warriors.DIRECTOR : John Ford
SHOT : Cartwright secretly poisons two drinks. After Tunga Khan drinks one, he immediately keels over dead. She utters, "So long ya bastard!" Then, after a moment's hesitation, Cartwright drinks from the second cup. - DirectorAkira KurosawaIshirô HondaStarsTatsuo MatsumuraHisashi IgawaGeorge TokoroFollowing World War II, a retired professor approaching his autumn years finds his quality of life drastically reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with his adoring students.DIRECTOR : Akira Kurosawa
SHOT : Sky red hope - DirectorJohn HustonStarsAnjelica HustonDonal McCannHelena CarrollGabriel Conroy and wife Gretta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them.DIRECTOR : John Huston
SHOT : The snow - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsMarlon BrandoSophia LorenSydney ChaplinIn Hong Kong, an ambassador returning to America meets a Russian countess, a refugee without a passport, who decides to hide in his cabin.DIRECTOR : Charlie Chaplin
SHOT : Dance - DirectorRobert AltmanStarsLily TomlinMeryl StreepWoody HarrelsonA look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court.DIRECTOR : Robert Altman
SHOT : In an epilogue at the end of the film the former cast members are reunited at Mickey's Diner. Their conversation pauses as they are joined by Asphodel. - DirectorFritz LangStarsDawn AddamsPeter van EyckGert FröbeIn 1960s Germany, criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse uses hypnotized victims and the surveillance equipment of a Nazi-era bugged hotel to steal nuclear technology from a visiting American industrialist.DIRECTOR : Fritz Lang
SHOT : Final Kiss - DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsErland JosephsonSusan FleetwoodAllan EdwallAt the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.DIRECTOR : Andrei Tarkovsky
SHOT : As Maria leaves the scene, the "mute" Little Man, lying at the foot of the tree, speaks his only line, which quotes the opening Gospel of John: "In the beginning was the Word.[Jn 1:1] Why is that, Papa?" - DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsFernando ReyCarole BouquetÁngela MolinaRecounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita.DIRECTOR : Luis Bunuel
SHOT : As the couple continues their walk, they pass a seamstress in a shop window mending a bloody nightgown. They begin arguing just as a bomb explodes, apparently claiming their lives. - DirectorElia KazanStarsRobert De NiroTony CurtisRobert MitchumF. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.DIRECTOR : Elia Kazan
SHOT : Monroe's life runs to an uncertain but inevitable twilight that echoes a long gone era. - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsTom CruiseNicole KidmanTodd FieldA Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.DIRECTOR : Stanely Kubrick
SHOT : *beep* - DirectorSergio LeoneStarsRobert De NiroJames WoodsElizabeth McGovernA former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.DIRECTOR : Sergio Leone
SHOT : Smile