Dear John D., THanks so much for your suggestions. I'm out in a cabin right now, but am eager to re-look at Night of the Hunter upon returning to

Lillian Gish singing to the children in "Night of the Hunter". John Duvall

"Singin' in the Rain" - not Gene Kelly, Malcolm McDowell in "Clockwork Orange". Also, don't know if this counts as a performance, but the German girl singing

And Robert Mitchum in"Night of the Hunter" too - "Leaning on the everlasting arm..." JOhn D.

THanks again to all for these good ones. The Ripley one is great, so thanks for two of you who led me there.

Ridely Scott ALIEN: Just before showdown, after Ripley has discovered that the alien is still on board,she murmurs/hums to calm herself while sitting down and

Kill bill the nurse when she whistles. I dont remember if is volume 1 or 2. Enviado desde mi BlackBerry® de Vodafone ... From: Elisabeth Weis

Hello Claudia, I did a quick text search through this thread but forgive me if I've repeated someone. There's lots of singing in Lord of the Rings, spent a day

Hi Claudia, "Singing in the rain" in Clockwork Orange comes to mind, plays a big part of the plot, not very film recent though. I feel that almost every evil

Claudia, My favorite, although its not in the past 20 years, is in Bergman's Persona. There's an incredible time cut from Liv Ullmann at the hospital not

Do you have Fritz Lang's "M" on your list of old films? In the end sequence of "Alien" the main character Ellen Ripley begins to sing quietly when she's in the

Hi Claudia, Scenes of contentedness (woman puts on dress/jewelry, person at work in the garden), innocent "security" in your environment/moment (singing in the

Hi Claudia I wonder how you clasify worksongs. In documentaries they usually have clear meaning: foreground or background. In dramatic film they vary in

THanks to all who have responded so far. I'm more interested, as noted in my original post, in more recent films where a character is singing or humming to

Claudia, here's what my database says: M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder    Deutschland    1931    Fritz Lang     (0.00.00-0.01.07)     Kids

Pink Floyd the Wall is a musical, so maybe that's not what you're going for. But there's a scene near the end that might be interesting to you for three

The Conversation: Red, Red Robin, sung right near the start unconsciously by the wife but reheard constantly in the recording. liz ... [Non-text portions of

Peter Weir's Green Card http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099699/ Depardieu's character hums this little tune, which ultimately turns out to be a piece of music he

I've forgotten whether it was Teri Garr or Fred Forrest in "One From The Heart" who whistles a few notes as they come down some stairs, but I remember that I

I'm starting work on a project about what happens when characters in movies hum or sing, NOT as performances or musical numbers. There must be countless