This is the second of a weekly column of random things I love from movies I’ve seen over the years. And tell me in the comments something you’ve never forgotten from a movie.

I LOVE the scene in the 1931 version of FRANKENSTEIN where the misunderstood Monster meets a young girl, the only person to show him a bit of kindness and acceptance. Without saying a word, Boris Karloff communicates relief, wonder, excitement, happiness, delight and finally confusion and fright as the Monster’s brief magical interlude ends tragically for the newfound friends.

 
I LOVE the breathtaking virtuosity on display behind and in front of the camera in this precisely choreographed four-minute scene from CHILDREN OF MEN. The scene looks like it was shot in one continuous take, with no camera stops or editing, but that’s not true. According to the film’s visual effects supervisor, this attack was produced in “six sections and at four different locations over one week and required five seamless digital transitions.” The magic of filmmaking! CHILDREN OF MEN was directed in 2006 by Alfonso Cuarón. He’ll win three Academy Awards for GRAVITY seven years later.

 
 
I LOVE Paul Newman as the chain gang prisoner in COOL HAND LUKE.

 
 
I LOVE Peggy Lee singing “He’s a Tramp” in the 1955 Disney feature LADY AND THE TRAMP.

 
I LOVE the aggressively disturbing opening credits for David Fincher’s remake of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, twisted images accompanied by a cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

 
I LOVE this poster.

 
I LOVE the Myers family’s special dinner to welcome the neighbors’ French exchange student. From the 1980s teen movie BETTER OFF DEAD.

 
I LOVE the solution to the locked-door mystery of MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, directed in 1974 by Sidney Lumet. (And no!, I am not giving away the end, so watch the movie.)

 
I LOVE the trailer for DON’T, a movie that doesn’t exist, from Quentin Tarantino’s GRINDHOUSE.

 
I LOVE love love love absolutely love THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, the 1964 musical featuring Catherine Denueve.