DVD Tuesday Eyes Without a Face defines the beauty in the darkness and gets under your skin like a fishhook Send your movie questions to FlickChickSee Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks on the Movie Talk vodcastHear Maitland on the weekly podcast TVGuide TalkLong long ago in a world far far away I spent years trying to see French filmmaker Georges Franjus poetic horror film Les Yeux Sans VisageEyes Without a Face 1959 Id seen pictures and read plot synopses Everyone said it was great But this was before consumer VCRs let alone DVD or Tivo It never showed up on TV or at any of my local revival houses and I lived in Manhattan during the golden age of revival houses I finally caught it when a college-age friend who borrowed the 16mm print that had been rented by the film department and projected it on a classroom wall for a select group of friends And it was everything I could have hoped Haunting eerie elegant morbid incredib
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Question: I was reading about the partial face transplant that was just done in France, and I had a sudden flash to a movie I saw when I was a kid. It was about a woman who was disfigured in an accident and everyone said there was nothing they could do except this one surgeon. The thing I remember most was a shot of her mouth sewed shut — everyone says I'm imagining it, but I'm sure it was a movie.Answer: It probably says something about me that almost everything makes me think of some movie or other, but apparently I'm not the only one. The movie you're remembering (no, you didn't imagine it) is the 1984 TV movie Why Me?, based on the real experiences of Air Force nurse Leola Mae Harmon (played by Glynnis O'Connor) and Dr. James Stallings (
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