Monday, September 29, 2008

I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse (1973)



J'irai comme un cheval fou (I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse)

Director & Writer : Fernando Arrabal

Arrabal's second film; I Will Walk Like A Crazy Horse (J'irai Comme un Cheval Fou) forsakes the political allegory present in Viva La Muerte for a dramatic discovery of faith and organized religion .

The story follows a man, Aden, played by the American George Shannon, who flees society after the death of his controlling mother. Out in the wilderness he encounters the beauty of nature, and under the tutelage of a hermit named Marvel, becomes a "normal homme." Aden falls desperately in love with Marvel, who can communicate with animals, the clouds, and the sun. Upon returning to civilization, Marvel in tow, Aden is more aware than ever of the hideous and hypocritical nature of human society.

I Will Walk Like A Crazy Horse has long been considered a masterpiece of surrealist film and stands as Arrabal's most delirious and devilish picture, an outrageous portrait of both other-worldly beauty and inner torment.


Sunday, September 21, 2008

天空小說 Out of The Blue (1995)

故事背景發生於灣仔188商場內,那是當時年輕人的集散地,售賣不同種類的扭蛋玩具和潮流玩意。至於商場的設計,總是很容易令顧客迷失。我覺得那正代表了年輕人的生活──對物質的向往,以及迷失、封閉與欲望。

內容是一個有關影印店老板,尋找女友面上的痣在左邊還是右邊的故事。也加入了小時候站在影視會門外、追看影帶的情節。

幕後有王家衛的御用班底張叔平及杜可風,前者當此短片的美術指導及監制,後者則擔任攝影指導。雖然他們都是非常傑出的人才,但這樣未免令短片走不出王家衛的影子。

這部片的形式很特殊,不需要承受票房的壓力,於是可以順著創作人的心意去做。雖然沒有票房收入,但是由於有贊助商,一定程度上,也有模式上的限制。例如有一場戲,由於調子主要是藍色,跟可口可樂另一市場競爭對手的那種藍有點相像,因此在贊助商的“勸喻”下,最後導演也無奈地妥協,將該場刪去。

幻の光 Maboroshi no hikari (1995)


1995年威尼斯電影節導演新人獎 / 最佳攝影獎

1995年芝加哥電影節最佳影片

1995年日本藍絲帶大獎最佳新人獎 (江角真紀子)

這是一部講述愛、解釋不了的失去,還有希望與重生的影片。

貧窮的一對年青夫妻,住在東京的一棟小公寓之中,丈夫白天在紡織廠工作,妻子常常在快下班的時候到工廠外看著他工作的情形,晚上再一起騎著單車經過後樂園球場回家。就在他們生下第一個孩子不久後的一天晚上,丈夫沒有回家,直到警察來通知妻子,丈夫死在火車之下,而且據火車駕駛的說法,他是自殺的。守寡了數年之後,在鄰居的說媒之下,妻子帶著年幼的兒子遠嫁到遙遠的鄉下漁村。從此日復一日過著平穩幸福的簡單生活,看著潮來潮往,春去秋來……但是在她的心中一直有個揮不去的疑問埋藏著……

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Frankenhooker (1990)

The Frankenstein legend gets stitched up by the makers of Basket Case and Brain Damage in this outrageous horror comedy. When his pretty fiancee "goes to pieces" under the blades of a runaway lawnmower, aspiring mad scientist Jeffrey Franken hatches an unorthodox scheme to bring his beloved back to life. He reassembles his girlfriend from the body parts of New York prostitutes. But his dream girl runs amok on 42nd Street, turning tricks that literally make people's heads spin. Can Jeffrey still find true love? Or has he created a monster?


狗男女的愛 Amores Perros (2000)

愛是一頭狗娘!

不是嘛,兩兄弟一同愛上一個女人,付出鉅大換來卻是一場禁戀;有婦之夫拋妻棄子,為的是與名模相好,可是一場命運播弄,忘情夫抱恨終生;昔日游擊隊員今日狙擊殺手,力挽女兒失去的愛。三段故事一場撞狗意外,天衣無逢的串連一起,將愛和愛引伸出來的傷痛,鞭得體無完膚。若愛是頭狗, 愛更是潑婦!

Monday, September 15, 2008

Phantasm 五鬼拍門 / 鬼追人

Phantasm I - IV ( 1979 - 1998 )






Michael Baldwin and Bill Thornbury star in the shocker that started it all, in which two brothers discover that their local mortuary hides a legion of hooded killer dwarf creatures, a flying drill-ball, and the demonic mortician known as The Tall Man (an iconic performance by Angus Scrimm) who enslaves the souls of the damned. More than 25 years later, it remains unlike any fright film you've ever seen. Reggie Bannister co-stars in the heart-stopping classic from writer/director Don Coscarelli that launched the most uniquely chilling series in horror history and is still hailed as one of the scariest movies of all time. Experience Phantasm again, now featuring frightening extras never before seen in America!

殺手阿一( 動畫版 )

殺し屋1 Koroshiya ichi : The Animation Episode 0 (2002)

The scourge of the Yakuza is born

A masochistic mobster meets his match in the dark streets of Tokyo. His nemesis, Ichi, is a psychopathic killer with an unrelenting thirst for bloodshed. A horrifying secret burns in his mind, and his hands deal death without mercy. At last, the shrouds of mystery are parted to reveal the origin of the monster. The city will know its greatest fear at the unveiling of Ichi the Killer!

The mind-shattering prequel to the hit cult thriller : Ichi the Killer !

Monday, September 01, 2008

Breathless (A bout de souffle) 斷了氣




There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless.

With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, crackling personalities of rising stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and anything-goes crime narrative, Jean-Luc Godard's debut fashioned a simultaneous homage to and critique of the American film genres that influenced and rocked him as a film writer for Cahiers du cinema. Jazzy, free-form, and sexy, Breathless (A bout de souffle) helped launch the French new wave and ensured cinema would never be the same.

米修是個不受道德束縛的輕狂青年,殺人偷車視作等閒,終於因殺警成為通緝犯。他在巴黎街頭邂逅性感美籍女子,深深為之著迷;為逃過法律制裁,游說她雙雙遠赴意大利,展開新生活。然而,過去的陰霾始終揮之不去,一次的出賣令結局從此逆轉。男女主角尚保羅.貝蒙多及珍茜寶懾人的演出,充份表現了當時年青人的反叛及對社會的批判,導演高達的嶄新拍攝手法令《斷了氣》成為法國電影新浪潮的經典示範作。