I don’t think I can do this because when I think of films what comes to mind are film moments, images that rest with me, come up now and then for no particular reason or at least no reason that I can discern.* For example, Death saying, “I remember the position,” after the knight knocks over the chess pieces in The Seventh Seal—that’s my best moment of all time (maybe). But then there was the moment of choice in Sophie’s Choice and the singing of The Marseilles in Casablanca.
*This is not exactly true. Since you presented this assignment I’ve sat back and tried to let movie images waft through my mind and am not sure of the accuracy—like I think I have an image of a boy from The Bicycle Thief and another of the sailors on The Potemkin from the film of the same name, a film that I saw with my parents when I was a little boy in some small room in Manhattan sitting on one of many folding chairs set out for the almost all left wing (old time communist perhaps) audience. And then—do I have it right or is I a fantasy—the association of my parents in the late fifties sailing to Russia on another ship also called the Potemkin…

David Koulack
70 years old
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada R3M 0G6