團地妻：隔壁的呻吟聲

　　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.

　　Voltage Pictures拿下艾瑪·羅伯茨、海登·克里斯滕森主演的浪漫愛情片[小意大利](Little Italy，暫譯)的國際銷售權。該片由唐納德·佩特瑞([倒霉愛神])執導，故事類似現代版羅密歐與朱麗葉，講述一名見習廚師同一位餐廳老板墜入愛河。他們父親是商業死對頭，母親卻是秘密的閨中好友。

 【故事簡介】利翁茲·奧馬克與天人的戰斗以真正的改革者剎那·F·清英等人的勝利拉上了帷幕。獨立治安維和部隊A-Laws解體，世界終于走向了和平。這樣過了兩年，西歷2314年，表面上消失了的天人為了防止戰爭發生仍然在暗處活動著，這時，新的戰爭打響了信號。再次集結起來的高達駕駛員們乘坐著新式高達，開始了戰斗！【STAFF】企畫：sunrise原作：矢立肇、富野由悠季腳本：黑田洋介人設原案：高河弓動畫人設：千葉道德機體設定： 海老川兼武、柳瀨敬之、福地仁、鷲尾直廣、寺岡賢司、中谷誠一、大河原邦男動畫機體設定： 中谷誠一美術設定：須江信人（KUSANAGI）美術監督：若松榮司（KUSANAGI）色彩設計：手島明美（Wish）音響監督：三間雅文攝影監督：葛山剛士（旭Production）旁白：古谷徹制作人：池谷浩臣（sunrise）、佐々木新（sunrise）監督：水島精二制作：創通、sunrise

　　許久不見的克里斯提安(43歲)與吉奧(45歲)，終於在他們父親的葬禮上重逢。個性截然不同的兄弟難得聚在一起，在守靈夜酒酣耳熱之際，臨時起意決定去實現小時候的夢想-騎著電動自行車進行一趟從黑森林到波羅的海、橫越整片德國的冒險旅程。在這段時速最高僅25公里的漫活旅程中，兩人經歷了許多意想不到的遭遇，也重新認識了彼此，甚至改變了他們往後的人生。