The Best-Placed Intermission Cards Of All-Time (On Blu-ray) (1 Viewer)

[Dick]

My first choice: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. I just find that the moment Kubrick (or the studio) chose to pause his film is simply brilliant. Most people would probably pay a second admission fee just to find out what happens next...

 

[Jack Theakston]

HOUSE OF WAX has a great intermission and pickup point that really feels built into the screenplay (because it is.)

 

[Peter Apruzzese]

Agree with both of those choices.

One of my favorites is “Tora Tora Tora” - we’re in the office of the Secretary who can’t decide to call the President after getting assurances an attack is imminent, Goldsmith’s score slowly builds, the camera pans over to his desk calendar showing “December 7, 1941”, music up, fade-out.

 

[Patrick McCart]

Doctor Zhivago is a great one.

 

[ahollis]

My pick for best intermission placement is Gone With The Wind. A powerful end to the first part and the beginning of reconstruction and a hope for a better life beginning part two.

 

[ahollis]

Doctor Zhivago is a great one.

Yep that’s a great one also. The train speeding down the tracks as Pasha stares out the back of the train. The part 2 opening with the train that Zhivago is riding coming out of the tunnel is a perfect opening.

 

[darkrock17]

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World has probably the best leads into an intermission. A montage of all the characters getting into one hilarious predicament after another. It's the perfect way to tell the audience that if they thought the first half of the film was crazy, just wait until you see the second half.

 

[Angelo Colombus]

Lawrence of Arabia has a nice intermission break.

 

[trajan007]

SOUND OF MUSIC----CAMELOT

 

[Thomas T]

Cleopatra (1963) has the perfect intermission as one story (the Caesar one) is over. After the intermission and entr'acte, there's a new story (the Antony one). Reputedly, Mankiewicz would have preferred two movies, Caesar And Cleopatra and Antony And Cleopatra but Fox would have none of that and insisted on one film.

My Fair Lady (1964) has the intermission just after the "new" Eliza is revealed to us and off to the grand ball. It leaves us with an anticipation of what will happen at the ball which will come in the second half.

 

[Douglas R]

EL CID, where the Intermission makes perfect sense, with Part 2 showing that a considerable number of years have past since the end of Part 1. Deleting the Intermission for TV showings with just a jump cut makes a nonsense of that section of the film.

 

[Rob W]

To the best of my knowledge, Monty Python & The Holy Grail is the only film in which the intermission card gets a huge laugh.

 

[darkrock17]

To the best of my knowledge, Monty Python & The Holy Grail is the only film in which the intermission card gets a huge laugh.

Because it's Monty Python, so of course it's going to get laughs.

 

[JohnRice]

Doctor Zhivago is a great one.

My favorite also.

 

[OliverK]

Both El Cid and Cleopatra indeed have great intermission points and with Cleopatra I would have appreciated this to be split into two movies as then I would not feel so guity when I lose interest in the second half. As it is now watching Cleopatra feels a bit as if I had to watch 2001 and 2010 as one film with me rapidly losing interest after the first part.

 

[Paul Rossen]

Spartacus

Ben-Hur

The Alamo

 

[JohnMor]

Another vote for Doctor Zhivago. And I find that shot of Pasha absolutely chilling.

 

[JohnRice]

Fiddler on the Roof is another fave. Kicks you in the orbs, then goes to the overture.

 

[AnthonyClarke]

And a vote for 'South Pacific'. Very poignant placement.

 

[alistairKerr]

I don't know if "The Towering Inferno" blu ray has the intermission - but when I saw it in the cinema on it's first release - the tension was so high just before the break that when it came the entire audience gasped in relief - it was an amazing collective experience!