Making A Scene - Favorite Film Clips

by **Project Willow** » Mon May 31, 2010 3:25 pm

Jeff wrote:Viewer discretion for this one, please. I've hesitated to post from Possession because of its disturbing content, but Isabelle Adjani's performance is so turbulent and even courageously berserk that, if you can bear it, you can't forget it.

by **Cordelia** » Mon May 31, 2010 4:17 pm

Ecchhh!

I think I'll stick with Adjandi's performances of torment as the sculptress Camille Claudel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQWZAbKN-NU and in her first film, as Victor Hugo's obsessed daughter, in Truffaut's 'The Story of Adele H'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST7phO25 ... re=related

by **Laodicean** » Mon May 31, 2010 4:45 pm

by **Jeff** » Mon May 31, 2010 5:54 pm

sorry about that...

by **barracuda** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:23 am

This one isn't a really great film, but the wonder of George Sanders, Ivan Albright and Oscar Wilde is too much to resist.

by **Perelandra** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:14 am

Those last several were marvelous.

by **Jeff** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:35 pm

by **Alaya** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 5:41 pm

Jeff wrote:Viewer discretion for this one, please. I've hesitated to post from Possession because of its disturbing content, but Isabelle Adjani's performance is so turbulent and even courageously berserk that, if you can bear it, you can't forget it.

55 seconds was too much. Oh that is so creepy.

by **Laodicean** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 6:07 pm

by **Laodicean** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:30 pm

by **Jeff** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:21 pm

by **barracuda** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 1:03 am

by **Allegro** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 2:02 am

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Something the Lord Made

Alan Rickman, Mos Def

We find out, at marker 3.25, that apparently not before the 1930’s would physicians have touched the heart, the physical one, in that surgeons had indoctrinated nolitangere: do not touch. The movie is sited in Nashville, Tennessee, during America’s Jim Crow period, and if that wasn’t enough to deal with, Rickman’s and Def’s characters’ partnership challenged the ancient doctrinal myth of nolitangere in Vanderbilt University’s lab, initiating the field of heart surgery by operating on blue babies: infants suffering a congenital heart defect that causes suffocation (Blue Baby Syndrome). Refer.