Greatest Montage Of All Time?
 

My contender is: Napoleon (1927)

I am personally always shaking by the end of this one. Especially at the crescendo with the camera shakes and the cross-dissolve.

Here's a video I made about the montage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II_7yjVD0AQ

I love the "peach" montage in Parasite. It's so elegant and expertly edited. Here's a good video essay that appreciates it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma1rD2OP85c

It's got to be this. The ultimate 80s montage!


https://youtu.be/Olgn9sXNdl0

Re: Greatest Montage Of All Time?
 

The whole Battleship Potemkin!

ahhhh gotta love scarface one of my favorite 80s movies <3

Re: Greatest Montage Of All Time?
 

True Blood Montage And Lafayette from true blood montage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMaEIBw0yfo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2cBiTEmlgI

Re: Greatest Montage Of All Time?
 

Kissing montage in Cinema Paradiso

Re: Greatest Montage Of All Time?
 

Spring Breakers always gonna be my answer.

Greatest? Maybe not. But shoutout to the montage in The 13th Warrior in which Banderas's character learns a new language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVVURiaVgG8

To me the montage that's perhaps effected me most is the montage at the end of Requiem for a Dream. I have yet to watch anything since that has left me so utterly devastated. May not be "best" by technicality, (many would say that belongs to Potemkin or Kane), but emotionally I've never really felt too much with either. Requiem destroyed me. So much so that I sometimes dread going back to it.

If there was one scene in the film which got to me more than any other scene in the film, I revisited Requiem for a Dream last month and it still holds up really well. It felt like an assault on my senses.