What’s the Greatest Final Shot of a Feature film?

At Arts and Faith, Buckeye Jones asked a distracting question today:

What’s your all-time favorite closing shot of a movie?

Here are a few of mine…

I’ll add to this list as they come to mind, but here is the initial rush of closing shots that played like a YouTube montage in my head…

• Raiders of the Lost Ark: The warehouse. Probably my favorite ending ever.
• Before Sunset: The peak of both Julie Delpy’s career, and Nina Simone’s career. Probably my favorite ending ever.
• Barton Fink: Plop. (Greatest big screen moment by a bird ever.) Probably my favorite ending ever.
• Three Colors: Blue, White, *and* Red: Crying through windows.
• Birdy: “What?”
• Raising Arizona: Maybe it was Utah. Best closing monologue ever… except for this next one…
• No Country for Old Men: “And then I woke up.”
• A History of Violence: Eye contact at the dinner table.
• The Mission: The shot at the end of the end credits
• Fargo: The Gundersons in pregnant anticipation.
• Beau Travail: The dance
• The Last Days of Disco: The subway dance
• Lost in Translation: The murmured secret
• Twin Peaks (the series finale): “How’s Annie?” (Okay, I know, that’s cheating. But still.)
• The Graduate: Of course.
• Se7en: Brad Pitt in torment.
• Blade Runner: Director’s cut or Final cut.
• Brazil: Gilliam’s own final shot.
• Once: It’s a good movie, but the closing shot makes it great.