千禧曼波

心中的惡魔

　　1989年的寂靜深夜，南哈特福特三名神職人員遭到屠殺。行兇者名叫瑪莉婭·羅西（蘇珊·克蘿蕾 Suzan Crowley 飾），事后被診斷體內(nèi)藏有七重人格。在此后的歲月里，她被帶往意大利驅(qū)魔。時(shí)隔20年，瑪莉婭的女兒伊莎貝拉·羅西（費(fèi)爾南達(dá)·安德拉德 Fernanda Andrade 飾）決定拍攝一部關(guān)于母親的紀(jì)錄片，她啟程前往羅馬，見到了久違的母親，而瑪莉婭所說的話令她頗為震驚。為了探明母親的病因，她在當(dāng)?shù)卣业搅藘晌徊m著教會(huì)偷偷進(jìn)行驅(qū)魔的教士年輕驅(qū)魔師（賽門·克特曼 Simon Quarterman 與 伊凡·海慕特 Evan Helmuth 飾）。在他們的努力下，瑪莉婭體內(nèi)的魔鬼們漸漸顯現(xiàn)出來……　　本片榮獲2012年BMI電影與電視獎(jiǎng)最佳電影配樂獎(jiǎng)。

尸骨袋2

　　《尸骨袋》改編自斯蒂芬·金（Stephen King）的同名恐怖小說。　　暢銷小說作家Mike Noonan（皮爾斯·布魯斯南 Pierce Brosnan 飾），在妻子Jo(安娜貝絲·吉什 Annabeth Gish 飾)死后，無法走出悲痛的深淵。他不斷地夢(mèng)到和Jo一 起購(gòu)買的緬因州湖畔別墅，夢(mèng)到裝在袋子里的腐爛尸骨，夢(mèng)見Jo也從裹尸袋中奔跑而出。終于他在Jo的召喚下回到了那棟詭異的別墅。在那里，他卷入了一樁年輕美貌寡婦與家財(cái)萬貫的祖父對(duì)小女孩的撫養(yǎng)權(quán)爭(zhēng)奪戰(zhàn)，并不時(shí)遭遇神秘鬼魂的騷擾。那些不斷升級(jí)的噩夢(mèng)，還有神秘鬼魂的騷擾，都讓他意識(shí)到，這個(gè)小鎮(zhèn)隱藏著一些秘密，而死去的Jo也有事情想要告訴他……

等待方舟

　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.

最爽的一天

　　名不見經(jīng)傳的鋼琴家安迪（馬提亞斯·施維赫夫 Matthias Schweigh?fer 飾）和從未干過什么正經(jīng)事整天游手好閑的本諾（弗洛里安·大衛(wèi)·菲茨 Florian David Fitz 飾），這兩個(gè)個(gè)性迥異似乎永遠(yuǎn)都不會(huì)有交集的人，相識(shí)于病房之中，兩人都患上了無法治愈的絕癥，時(shí)日無多。　　在本諾的慫恿之下，安迪決定和他一起逃出病房，來一趟充滿了陽(yáng)光和激情的非洲之旅，他們要盡情享受轟轟烈烈毫無顧忌的人生，才能甘心接收死亡的終結(jié)。就這樣，兩個(gè)“亡命之徒”踏上了他們的旅途，一路上，瘋狂的兩人制造了數(shù)不清的麻煩和笑料，而他們?cè)愀獾慕】禒顩r，亦令兩人屢屢同死神擦肩而過。最終，當(dāng)他們抵達(dá)了目的地時(shí)，又會(huì)有怎樣的一番景象在等待著兩人呢？

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羊背上的DJ

　　本片在2025年圣丹斯電影節(jié)一舉拿下世界劇情片競(jìng)賽單元評(píng)審團(tuán)特別獎(jiǎng)（創(chuàng)作視野）和觀眾獎(jiǎng)兩項(xiàng)大獎(jiǎng)。馬其頓偏遠(yuǎn)村莊的15歲的牧羊少年沉醉于音樂世界，但在傳統(tǒng)社會(huì)規(guī)則下，他必須面對(duì)來自周遭環(huán)境與父親的質(zhì)疑。某日放羊途中，他偶遇了一場(chǎng)大型的電子舞會(huì)，邂逅令他心動(dòng)的女孩……導(dǎo)演喬治·M·溫科夫斯基的長(zhǎng)片首作試圖探索集體期望與自我表達(dá)之間的微妙平衡。片中鮮活的色彩、詼諧的橋段、惹人憐愛的角色和韻律十足的音樂，為這個(gè)成長(zhǎng)故事注入勃勃生命力。影片溫柔且有力地回答了藝術(shù)如何成為精神避難所，又如何變?yōu)槌砷L(zhǎng)催化劑。