Well, Melancholia is (and will always be) my favorite ending ever. It's beyond great (just like all of Triers endings)
Also;
Zabriskie Point
Planet of the Apes (1968)
The Great Silence
Reservoir Dogs
The Mist
The Life of David Gale
Dancer In the Dark
Also The Idiots, Antichrist, Breaking the Waves and Dogville to name a few, hehe.
Sigh... yes... but it's hard to beat Dancer.
2001: A Space Odyssey, let's be honest...
LVT does great endings
Wes Anderson does great endings
Quentin does great endings and i think made my all time favorite ending with KB1, still get chills just thinking about it
Fight Club's ending, o yea
American Werewolf in London, shit chyeah
The Departed, fuck yes
Cast Away. BOOOOOOOOO!
every single mad men
I'll say one thing... Rosebud
and goddamn did the end of Magnolia make me cry like a bitch the last time I saw it. Gotta have the subtitles on for that part, just beautiful. Then I cried through the credits and once they were over, started up again. Fuck that movie.
Well, I laughed.
Yeah. They were tears of joy, like a laugh/cry. Really weird. Wish I could experience something like that at least once a week.
Quote from: 72teeth on May 15, 2012, 03:55:45 PM
Cast Away. BOOOOOOOOO!
it might've been kind of a limp dick ending, but I like it. He falls in love :inlove:
I know that nobody cares but me, but Waking the Dead.
Also:
Brick
25th Hour
The Iron Giant
Monsters
Let the Right One In
The Vanishing
Carlito's Way (a six star movie)
coppola has some great endings:
godfather 1, 2 & 3 all have awesome different endings.
apocalypse now
the conversation (AWESOME ENDING)
bram stoker's dracula (surprising sad ending)
Kurosawa's Ran
Kill Bill 1 (yes)
also: Jackie Brown
PTA has the Boogie Nights and There Will be Blood endings.
2001, Shinning, Clockwork and Eyes Wide Shut.
Melancholia was incredible. Ditto Dancer in the Dark and Dogville.
Reygadas's Silent Light somehow manages to become as resonant as Ordet.
I personally love the ending for the Coen's The Man Who Wasn't There and No Country for Old Men.
The 400 Blows.
Probably my all time favorite ending for any movie is 8 1/2.
And it may not be a movie, but I think the ending for The Sopranos was a moment of true genius.
I am in love with the ending of Eternal Sunshine.
Limbo
Yes
Seven
The Usual Suspects
American Beauty
Lost in Translation
Naked
Everything Kubrick.
Quote from: Alexandro on May 15, 2012, 10:18:48 PM
Probably my all time favorite ending for any movie is 8 1/2.
THIS.
Quote from: ono on May 15, 2012, 11:42:46 PM
Limbo
John Sayles?
that was a terrific ending.
Grave of the fireflies
Fave von trier ending - breaking the waves
Fave woodsy Allen ending - Manhattan (it's like magnolia + pdl)
Fave Scorsese ending - age of innocence
Roy Andersson does incredible endings.
Quote from: Pubrick on May 16, 2012, 04:26:44 AM
Fave von trier ending - breaking the waves
This one wins for me.
FilmCrit Hulk has a good article on this called The Ending Is The Conceit mostly about (the totally underrated) "Super" but also discussing "transformative endings," a PTA specialty.
FOR REFERENCE, THE LIST OF OTHER MOVIES THAT INCLUDE THESE SORTS OF TRANSFORMATIVE ENDINGS INCLUDE THE ALTERCATION WITH KAY/CLOSING DOOR OF THE GODFATHER, THE ZIPPING OF THE BAG IN ALL THAT JAZZ, THE "HAIL SATAN!" OF ROSEMARY'S BABY, THE SEAT-BELT SIGN IN SAY ANYTHING, THE WALK ACROSS THE POND IN BEING THERE, THE LAST FEW MINUTES OF FIGHT CLUB ("YOU'VE MET ME AT A VERY STRANGE TIME IN MY LIFE"), AND THE ENTIRETY OF PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON'S WORK (THINK ABOUT IT: HIDING THE BLOOD ON THE CUFF, "YOU'RE A STAR," THE HINT OF A SMILE, A HUG FROM BEHIND, AND LASTLY, "I'M FINISHED." PTA IS THE MASTER OF THE SMALL GESTURE).
http://filmcrithulk.wordpress.com/tag/the-ending-is-the-conceit/
Quote from: polkablues on May 15, 2012, 09:39:19 PM
25th Hour
The first ending that made me cry in the cinema.
I like movies that seem to have resolved itself but then come at you with a surprise. obviously 6th sense is the clearest to mind, but I like the ones that are more emotional - like Eat Drink Man Woman, Raising Arizona, and In America.
withnail (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPNA_BoCFPs&feature=player_embedded)
and How to Get Ahead in Advertising!
Wet Hot American Summer i.e. "No, we said nine so we could be here by nine thirty."
crimes and misdemeanors
the first time i cried at one is in dead poets society
all bresson
nights of cabiria
city lights
the new world, days of heaven
l'eclisse, l'avventura, blowup
stroszek
beau travail
sunset boulevard
barton fink
written on the wind, imitation of life
late spring
ghost world
taste of cherry
before sunset