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What will top the list in 2010?

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Andrew Collins looks ahead and imagines some memorable moments from the future. (We can but hope.)

Okay, You've had your say, and the best 100 moments of the first century of film have been handsomely collated. But what now? Which classic moments will imprint themselves on our collective cinema-going imagination in the decades to come? Will technological advance or emerging trends in celebrity megalomania and writer-empowerment affect what turns a length of celluloid (or a less-romantic fistful of digital noughts and ones) into a magic moment? Or will it be the same old collection of murders, courtroom speeches and Mexican standoffs? Here are our 10 movie moments of the near-future.

The astonishing 20-minute sequence in Lars Von Triers' My Arse when he leaves his camera rolling in a flight case in the back of his car while he drives to the airport. Twenty minutes of total darkness accompanied only by the sound of a car engine and some bumping encapsulates everything Dogme 2005 stood for.

The denouement of Quentin Tarantino's remake of Gone With The Wind in which Laurence Fishburne, playing Rhett Butler, takes Scarlet (Juliette Lewis) in his arms and utters the immortal line, 'Frankly, bitch, I don't give a fuck.'

Roberto Benigni's devastating balloon-folding routine in his controversial, award-winning comedy about genocide in Rwanda, It Could Be Worse.

Vinnie Jones, plays a maverick environmental health inspector, triumphing over the giant cow that has been terrorising London in Moo, with the much-quoted wisecrack, 'No milk today, fanks.' Ker-boom!

The knife fight between Leonardo DiCaprio and a completely computer-generated James Dean at the Griffith Observatory in Gus Van Sant's 50th-anniversary remake of Rebel Without A Cause.

'It tastes good.' Bill Clinton (a heavily made-up Billy Bob Thornton) enjoys that special cigar moment with Monica Lewinsky (Christina Ricci) in Oliver Stone's uncompromising biopic, WJC.

Tom Cruise's pivotal courtroom speech in Cameron Crowe's Coming Clean. Cruise plays a huge Hollywood star who risks all by admitting his homosexuality at a libel hearing on the eve of release of his latest film. (Anne Heche plays his wife.)

The first half-hour of Spielberg's Gulf War epic The Desert And Private Hope. The rest is sentimentalised propaganda, but that realistic carpet bombing sequence

Robin Williams' head explodes in David Cronenberg's Scanners II. Not a great film, but at least Williams shuts up.

The tear-jerking death of the first goat (voiced by James Van Der Beek) in Disney's back-to-basics animated adaptation of The Three Billy Goats Gruff. The Troll is voiced by George Clooney. Songs by Randy Newman.

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