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.
This one isn't a really great film, but the wonder of George Sanders, Ivan Albright and Oscar Wilde is too much to resist.
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:14 am
by Perelandra
Those last several were marvelous.
Re: Making A Scene - Favorite Film Clips
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:35 pm
by Jeff
Re: Making A Scene - Favorite Film Clips
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 5:41 pm
by Alaya
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.
Re: Making A Scene - Favorite Film Clips
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 6:07 pm
by Laodicean
Re: Making A Scene - Favorite Film Clips
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:30 pm
by Laodicean
Re: Making A Scene - Favorite Film Clips
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:21 pm
by Jeff
Re: Making A Scene - Favorite Film Clips
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 1:03 am
by barracuda
Re: Making A Scene - Favorite Film Clips
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 2:02 am
by Allegro
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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.
