Monday, November 30, 2009

Duel (1971)




Fear is the driving force.


Spielberg's first full-length movie, Duel, helped jumpstart the director's big-screen career, with a gripping, action-packed story hailed by critics as a film that "belongs on the classics shelf reserved for top suspensers".


主人公在空無一人的州際公路上獨自駕車,一倆裝載易燃物品的大卡車出現了。兩車分別超了對方的車,隨著主人公的超車,卡車司機彷如發瘋一般追逐戲弄著戴維的車,甚至還要把他逼上絕路。在被逼無奈的情況下,主人公只得與這輛要置自己於死地的卡車展開決鬥。


Thursday, November 19, 2009

[竇唯]做夢樂隊 - 做夢 (電影"北京雜種"片段)

竇唯
1991年離開黑豹,組建做夢樂隊。
1992年與波麗佳音公司簽約,同年10月樂隊解散。
北京雜種 Beijing Bastards (1993)
導演: 張元
監製: 舒琪
攝影: 杜可風
影片由幾個小故事構成,描繪國內歌手及中國年青人的生活片段,刻劃出男女之間最基本的關係,由爭吵以至懷孕,打胎,生孩子,分手…搖滾歌手崔健與竇唯在種種現實的問題壓迫下,仍堅持自己的音樂理想,激情地唱出內心的樂與怒。這些斷裂的片段帶出中西文化的衝突和影響,匯集成一種拼盤式的東西,雜而純,但卻充滿著旺盛的精力,這就是所謂「雜種」。






Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The Gate 開錯鬼門關 (1987)

Writers: Michael Nankin
Directors: Tibor Takacs
當年一部《開錯鬼門關》引起全球影壇的震撼,並獲得票房上的空前勝利,不但科幻技術全面翻新,內容是緊張刺激,是娛樂片的上乘巨著。
傳說中黑暗的主宰魔鬼的統治者,無時無刻在覬覦著人類的世界。格林和泰裡是兩個活潑的小孩,一天他們在家中的後院挖土,無意間挖到了一個直通地心的無底深洞,他們的惡夢便從此開始,晚上無數的精靈及鬼怪,紛紛從地洞中爬出……

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Ichi




























Dusan Makavejev - Free Radical







Man Is Not A Bird

1965
78 min
Black and White
1.66:1



Love Affair, Or The Case Of The Missing Switchboard Operator

1967
68 min
Black and White
1.66:1



Innocence Unprotected

1968
75 min
Color & Black and White
1.33:1



There's never been another filmmaker quite like Dusan Makavejev. Even in the 1960s, when all of cinema's steadfast rules seemed to be breaking down and artists such as Godard, Cassavetes, and Marker were dissolving the boundaries between fiction and documentary, Yugoslavia's Makavejev stood alone. His films about political and sexual liberation were revolutionary, raucous, and ribald. Across these, his wild, collagelike first three films, Makavejev investigates - with a tonic mix of earnestness and whimsy - love, death, and work; the legacy of war and the absurdity of daily life in a Communist state; criminology and hypnosis; strudels and strongmen.









La traversée de Paris (1956)





二戰期間,納粹開進了法國,巴黎成了被佔領區,物資緊張,出現了黑市交易。 

 

一天晚上,宵禁前,一對夫婦來到了小酒館,之後又來了一位中年壯男;丈夫嫉妒妻子與中年壯男搭訕,於是打了妻子的耳光,妻子離去,所有的人都沉默。當中年壯男準備離開時,卻被丈夫攔住了,丈夫請他吃晚飯。  


晚飯時,所有的人都在懷念有豬肉的日子——對話很有趣,卻也傷感。丈夫得知中年壯男是一名油漆匠的時候——法語的油漆匠與油畫家是同一個單詞,這也就是誤會出現的原因,就向他交了底,說自己是走私豬肉的,需要找一位同伴幫忙,主要工作是在宵禁期間,從巴黎的一端用行李箱轉移豬肉到另一端,為次日的黑市交易做準備。『油漆匠』很感興趣,兩人達成共識。 

 

兩人來到lOUIS的店裡搬豬肉,中年壯男突然發飆,要求LOUIS付「遮口費」,否則就叫警察,他採取的手段是系列的,且極其流氓(指意識形態)的。所有的人都被他打敗了,LOUIS趕快掏錢送瘟神,兩人繼而開始了精彩的穿越巴黎之行。


Angel-A (2005)







Producers & Directors : Luc Besson


He's only human. She's something else.


法國名導Luc Besson繼1999年飽受爭議的《聖女貞德》之後沉寂6年,終於重執導筒,完成了他的第十部影片《天使A》。在暫時封鏡的6年間,他一直以「監製」身份出現,扶植了大量新人新作,由其參與製作的電影多達50部,其中不少劇本都出自他的手筆。這部低調上陣的《天使A》在拍攝期間一直處於保密狀態,在影片公映前,Luc Besson甚至拒絕組織新聞媒體的試映會,為本來就萬眾矚目的影片又憑添了幾許神秘色彩。


安德烈(加梅勒·杜布茲飾)是躋身於巴黎黑社會的小混混,個頭矮小的他靠招搖撞騙謀生,很多犯罪活動都和他有著千絲萬縷的聯繫。不過安德烈明顯不能勝任騙子的「雅號」,因為失魂落魄的他債台高築,拖欠當地黑幫頭目弗蘭克(吉爾伯特·梅爾基飾)一大筆錢。不久前,安德烈中了一次彩票大獎,獎品是移民美國的綠卡,然而日漸嚴峻的形勢讓他的移民夢也變為無法挽回的泡影。幾經弗蘭克的威逼恐嚇,安德烈決定讓自己的靈魂得到解脫...




Naked (1993)












Writers: Mike Leigh

Directors: Mike Leigh


英國導演Mike Leigh導演的影片《Naked》在1993年康城電影節上獲得最佳導演獎,男主演David Thewlis獲得最佳男演員獎。《Naked》是一部關於仇視和厭倦的影片,它使許多觀眾感到憤怒和沮喪。影片中的男主人公仇視女性也仇視他自己和他周圍的世界。這部影片充滿苦汁和毒液的傷痕,並且吐露了令人膽寒的無窮無盡的苦澀。冷漠和絕望是這部影片的基調。據說,一些英國婦女觀眾看本片時退席表示抗議,她們憤怒地說:「五個英鎊(指門票),五次強姦!」。


流浪漢Johnny,素行不良而又憤世嫉俗,他從失業問題嚴重的工業城曼徹斯特來到倫敦,尋找前任女友,但卻對她的室友蘇菲產生好感。不過,Johnny不善於處理感情問題,竟然以冷酷粗魯的態度來對待蘇菲,結果令人難以置信。片中幾個角色都好像現代社會中的外星人,一方面享受著自由的性愛,另一邊卻感到心靈空虛,難道生命的本質就是如此矛盾?


















Night and the City (1950)




Writers: Jo Eisinger

Producers: Samuel G. Engel

Directors: Jules Dassin


夜晚就是今夜,就是明晚,就是任何一個晚上。  


哈瑞是個靠幫酒吧拉客的皮條客,他一直不放棄搞大的願望,四處尋找發財的機會,他和酒吧老闆胖子菲利的太太海倫關係曖昧,菲利有所察覺,一日,他利用計謀和前著名摔跤手喬治瑞斯搭上了關係,哈瑞希望通過組織摔跤比賽牟利,這引起了掌控倫敦摔跤比賽的黑幫不滿,喬治的兒子因為知道哈瑞的底牌而警告他不要耍花招,而菲利正好利用黑道對哈瑞的不滿設計陷害,躊躇滿志的哈瑞一門心思想靠比賽賺錢,他用激將法找來了史瑞勒對陣喬治瑞斯的手下尼古拉斯,在經理人的撮合下簽下倫敦最紅的摔跤比賽合約,誰知道人算不如天算,未到比賽,雙方發生了激烈的衝突,一個意外,喬治瑞斯在和對手的爭執裡暴斃,控制倫敦黑幫的喬治瑞斯之子懸賞追殺哈瑞,巨額的懸賞讓許多人眼紅,他成了過街老鼠,亡命在黎明的倫敦……  


本片是黑色電影的代表作,改變自傑拉爾德·克什(Gerald Kersh)的同名小說,有趣的是導演只是按照劇本拍攝直到拍攝完成沒有看過小說原文。但是,導演把准了影片的基調,使得電影始終瀰漫著小人物絕望和緊張的氣息,他著重描繪了人被強勢力量拋棄後注定的命運,夜色裡哈瑞穿過倫敦街道躲避追趕的鏡頭一下子就抓住了觀眾的情緒,導演展示了個體和強勢博弈的必然宿命,特別是哈瑞最後的一席話應驗了樂極生悲的俗語。


シャトー ~監禁~ Chateau




Thursday, November 05, 2009

Le Petit Soldat 小兵 (1963)



A Film by Jean-Luc Godard 高達

Set during the Algerian War, Le Petit Soldat follows Bruno Forestier, a disillusioned young deserter who becomes involved in the French nationalist movement. He is ordered to kill an Algerian sympathizer, and although does not hold deep political beliefs, commits the murder and undergoes torment when captured. At the same time, he meets and falls in love with a women (Anna Karina in her film debut) who he does not know is fighting for the other side. Godard's controversial follow-up Breathless, Le Petit Soldat was originally banned from release in France because it refers to the use of torment on both sides, during Algeria's struggle for independence.

6弦武士 Six-String Samurai (1998)




Vegas needs a new king


Actors : Jeffrey Falcon • Justin Mcguire
Writers : Lance Mungia • Jeffrey

Directors : Lance Mungia


巴第是一個充滿神秘和超能力的人物,耍吉他跟耍劍一樣屌。
有一回他無意中救出一個小孩,兩個人為了躲避追敵,逃到了「墮落的維加斯」,這個搖滾樂的未來之城...


一部低成本的實驗電影,充滿新潮搖滾前衛幻想,塑造了一個噱頭十足的吉他武士,風格獨特。


The desert spectacle of swords, adventure and rock 'n' roll wowed audiences at the Slamdance and South by Southwest festivals.


血屍夜 Near Dark (1987)

Deleted Scene with Commentary by Director Kathryn Bigelow

Actors : Lance Henriksen • Jenny Wright • Bill Paxton • Adrian Pasdar • Jenette Goldstein • Tim Thomerson

Writers : Kathryn Bigelow • Eric Red
Directors : Kathryn Bigelow
Pray For Daylight
In the dusty heart of the American southwest, innocent country boy Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar of Mysterious Ways) is seduced by a beautiful girl (Jenny Wright) into joining a roving pack of vicious drifters led by the enigmatic Jesse (Lance Henriksen of The Terminator and Aliens). But this is no ordinary band of outlaws; Caleb is now trapped in a nightmare of soulless evil that waits in the shadows, hellish mayhem that thrives on blood and absolute horror that begins Near Dark.
Bill Paxton (Twister) and Jenette Goldstein (Aliens) co-star in this extraordinary shocker co-written and directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Strange Days) that Entertainment Weekly calls "ultrastylish, ultraviolent and altogether brilliant." This is more than simply the most ferociously original vampire movie of our generation; Near Dark is one of the best horror movies of all time.

The Fly (1958 - 1989)

The Fly (1958)

"Hang on to your hair" (The New York Times)! This highly influential sci-fi classic starring David (Al) Hedison, Vincent Price and Patricia Owens has one of the most "spine-tingling" (The Film Daily) endings in horror film history! A scientist unwittingly transforms himself into a hideous mutant insect in this "chilling" (Los Angeles Examiner) film that'll have you on the edge of your seat, screaming "Help me! Help me!"

The Return of the Fly (1959)

"Keep that citronella handy" (Los Angeles Times)! This chilling sequel to the horror classic The Fly, starring Vincent Price, Breet Halsey and David Frankham follows the son of the original experimental scientist in some horrifying experiments of his own! With "plenty of thrills and chills" (The Citizen-News), it's "the stuff of which nightmares are made" (L.A. Mirror News)!

變形人魔 The Fly (1986)

塞斯是一個孤僻的科學家,終日埋首物理學研究。有一次在派對上認識維妮卡,而告以自己研究的作品…塞斯一心想用在有生物的傳送,不借以自己做實驗品,最後因不慎而轉化為蒼繩,此時維妮卡已懷有他的孩子,塞斯不准她墮胎,而欲再次組合……

變形人魔續集 The Fly II (1989)

遺傳的命運永遠躲不過!"變形人魔"之子為愛情而奮鬥,矛盾的掙扎、被分解了的喜悅,藉著死亡、重生、轉移,再次呈現。