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　　1973年美国康涅狄格州，感恩节快要到来，一场冰风暴也即将到来。平凡乏味的家庭生活使中年夫妻厌倦，丈夫本•胡德（凯文•克莱恩饰）一直在引诱邻居珍妮特•哈珀，而妻子（琼•艾伦饰）对丈夫的谎言也早已不耐烦了。儿子保罗（托比•马奎尔饰）迷恋着学校里最有人缘的那位女生。女儿温迪（克里斯蒂娜•里奇）兴趣于电视里的水门事件听证会。
　　冰风暴的夜晚，夫妻两个去朋友家参加一个鸡尾酒会，鸡尾酒会的一个重要内容是进行换房间钥匙的游戏。在酒会结束后，每个妻子都可以和别家男人结成新欢。而他们儿子则赶去面对一场诱惑与考验，女儿正陶醉在同邻家男孩子的性游戏中……

　　故事发生在南北战争结束之后，从前线退下来的老兵霍华德（詹姆斯·斯图尔特 James Stewart 饰）想要回到故乡，重新过上宁静的生活。可是到达目的地后他才发现，原本应该属于自己的土地，早已被他人侵占，想要赎回土地，霍华德必须付出一笔不小的代价。
　　身无分文的霍华德决定当一名赏金猎手来赚取外快，他将目标放到了大盗本（罗伯特·瑞安 Robert Ryan 饰）的身上。在捉拿罗伯特的过程中，霍华德结识了两名帮手罗伊（拉尔夫·米克 Ralph Meeker 饰）和杰西（米勒德·米切尔 Millard Mitchell 饰），两人误以为霍华德是警探，所以愿意无条件的帮助他。可是，当三人捉住了本后，另外的两人才发现了霍华德的真实身份，于是他们提出了瓜分赏金的要求。

　　杰克是个密歇根一小镇上的一名虔诚教徒。圣诞节后的某天，他的女儿克里斯汀突然失踪，杰克不得不请私家侦探帮忙寻找。没想到私家侦探却在一部色情电影里见到了克里斯汀...

　　张国荣在片中饰演一个爱好打鼓和音乐的青年，他向往将自己的音乐传播到四面八方，对于时常流行的音乐他认为是没有灵魂的，他在酒吧和音乐坊为喜欢音乐的年轻人演奏。有一天被一个制作人发掘，要捧他做明星，却设置了种种限制，让哥哥觉得失去了人生的自由和爱好音乐的灵魂，然后他远离了名利场，选择水为真正爱好音乐的年轻人演奏。其间他的坚持不馁但得到了伙伴们的支持也得到了爱情，最后在他的自我努力下，不但使得他的音乐推向了市场，而且受到了广泛的欢迎，大批的歌迷欣赏他的音乐，经过努力，哥哥终于实现了自己的音乐梦想。

　　黛海丝是个爱好文学艺术并希望得到别人肯定和关怀的女郎，她有稳定安逸的生活环境，别人都羡慕不已，但却没人了解她内心的孤独。结果她因为得不到关心而企图毒死丈夫，被控谋杀后却得到人们的同情。丈夫不愿家丑外扬，连同她的父亲恩威并施，终于让她无罪释放，但她却一路回想起自己的生活：结婚的盟约、婚后生活的无聊、父亲的私欲、丈夫的不解风情、倾慕的男孩远走高飞等情节后感到了无生趣。从此丈夫把她当作疯子，她则以烟酒浇愁，越发寂寞痛苦。
　　影片取材自法国著名作家、诺贝尔奖得主莫里亚克的文学名著，并由他亲自编剧，《广岛之恋》女主角希娃担纲主演，赢得威尼斯影展的最佳女主角。影片忠实还原了莫里亚克原著的精髓，那种透入心骨的寂寞和痛苦强烈地渗入观众的心灵，文学意味很重，偏重描写人物的内心感受和思想活动，夹杂有倒叙和回忆的表现手法，有当时法国电影左岸派崇尚的意识流痕迹。

　　The issue of War widow representation in Israeli cinema is one of the most complex for the local industry for it seems to be unique and with a very local and specific iconography.
　　The war Widow is a difficult character to digest. Because this is an especially painful topic in Israel, its mode of representation is almost always problematic.
　　Gila Almagor in Tofano's "siege" is one of the first characters of the "modern" war widows to appear on Israeli cinema screens.
　　The human and social complexity of the status of widows was not represented adequately and personally until her complex and fine appearance in this film.
　　It was mostly Preceded by cliches of heroic women who have sacrificed for the nation with characters to which it was very difficult to get attached, nor to their personal grief.
　　"Siege" was directed by an unknown Italian director of that period. Although Gilberto Tofano was brought as a professional director on the wings of inspiration made by the French New Wave of those years, he managed to turn out a very exciting work which has caught the Israeli warmth and sense of social siege which surrounds the Israeli widows, including the great expectations from them and the social stigmas.
　　Tofano wrapped his leading lady with lots of warmth and gave a place of honor to Almagor's impressive presence in the film.
　　This is without a doubt one of Almagor's best and most accurate performances. The restraint in her performance plus the shooting and expressive use of angles by Tofano and his soft European touch which was far off from the aggressive local product managed to produce a sense of documenting an authentic tragedy with a tangible personal touch that minimized the national dimension. The result stands the test of time proudly several decades after its creation.

吴林艳和尚冠英从小在一起长大，儿时的小伙伴，后来吴林艳搬家从此天各一方，音信全无。但也时常想念着对方，后来同来到一个城市，偶遇对方最终喜结连理。

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　　在日本大城市的某个角落，生活着一个与周遭格格不入的沉默女孩久美子（菊地凛子 饰）。她是灰暗的匆忙世界中难得一见的一抹亮色，只不过大多时候她都泯灭人群之中。每天上班时分，穿着工装的她宛如没有灵魂的木偶，目光呆滞地等待下班时间。同侪们聚在一起讨论时尚话题，她则蜷缩在茶水间为 上司准备茶水，心中隐藏着促狭阴暗的念头，只不过最终没有勇气实现。久美子是一只没有自由的工蚁，被上司使唤来使唤去，她空虚呆滞地行走，甚至不愿跟老同学们有任何的交流和接触。夜幕降临，逼仄的公寓内是她小而安全的理想王国。她用泡面喂兔子，最爱观看的是一部名为《冰血暴》（Fargo，1996）的电影。由于反复播放，录影带的画质已经不堪入目，她坚信剧中人所埋藏的宝藏一定存在。
　　世界那么大，她想去挖挖。

 故事发生在18年前的小镇里，4名被拐儿童，被养父收留，养父教给他们生存的技能“偷盗”但是邪不胜正，养父被警方抓获后，女孩梦香被父母领走，只剩下三名儿童，他们无人认领，只能自食其力过着偷偷摸摸的生活，18年后..三人长大成人，男主角牛大带着牛二和牛三来到了城市里，因为担心偷盗毕竟不是长远之计，三人开始寻找工作，但又无功而返，三人无意间结识了长大后的梦香，为了梦香也和肥鲨产生了矛盾…牛二和牛三在无意中捡到了犯罪团伙正在交易的重要物品，龙坤龙麒兄妹带领手下，开始调查失踪物品的下落，可没想到犯罪团伙中的警方卧底“高成”见机行事，在最关键的时候通过巧妙手段，混入了龙坤设计的交易中..此时肥鲨将牛氏三兄弟行踪告诉了龙坤，心狠手辣的龙坤绑走了梦香，牛大听到了梦香被绑走的消息，于是前去营救梦香，一次精彩的殊死搏斗后，牛大一行人配合高成和警方，成功抓获了龙坤等人并掌握了有力的犯罪证据..

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　　日本映画の黄金時代を支えた独立プロによる名作を紹介するシリーズに、原爆投下直後の広島の惨状を描いたドラマが登場。終戦後のある学校で、女生徒が原爆症によって倒れる。同じように被爆している生徒たちの胸には、地獄のような風景が甦っていた。

　　弗兰克（詹姆斯·斯图尔特 James Stewart 饰）是一名飞机驾驶员，一天，他奉命驾驶着一架搭载着油田工人的运输机从撒哈拉沙漠上空驶过，不幸遭遇了沙尘暴，恶劣的天气令弗兰克不得不将飞机迫降在了茫茫的沙漠之中。迫降的过程中，飞机机身多处受损，一时之间无法再度起飞，如此一来，一群人就被困在了沙漠中央。
　　就在众人走投无路之际，一名乘客挺身而出，他自称是一名飞机设计师，在他的建议之下，大家决定将还没有破损的零件从飞机上拆下来，用以制造另一架小型飞机，哪知道在建造新飞机的过程中，意外频出，人员伤亡惨重。

　　In the time of Counter-Reformation, a miller and his son come under investigation by a priest of the Inquisition, when rumors spread that their prosperity comes from working with the Devil.
　　The Devil's Trap is a film directed by František Vlá?il, based on a novel by Alfréd Technik, adapted by František A. Dvorák and Miloš Kratochvíl. It was the first of three historical dramas that Vlá?il made during the Czech New Wave (technically he isn't really a part of the New Wave, however these films were made during the same era of artistic freedom), preceding his more well known Marketa Lazarová (1967) and Valley of the Bees (1968).
　　Set in the late 16th Century during the Catholic Reformation, in the Moravian Karst, situated in what is now the Eastern Czech Republic, it tells the tale of a miller (Vítezslav Vejrazka), and his son Jan (Vít Olmer), who come under suspicion and are investigated by a Jesuit priest of the Inquisition (Miroslav Macháchek), when rumors of witchcraft are spread by the local regent (Cestmír Randa), who is jealous of the miller's prosperity and degree of respect among the local populace.
　　As expected from Vlá?il, this film is a stunning experience all the way through. From the opening shot, an ominous manipulation of perspective with a close up of a mangled figure of Christ dominating the foreground against a tiny figure in black walking along the horizon, to the breathtaking confrontational finale inside the vast stalactite filled Karst caverns, it is a wonderful display of visual mastery.
　　Maybe not quite as impressive as Marketa Lazarová, but still full of astonishing imagery. As seen from unique angles and distinct points of view which highlight the director's remarkable sense of awareness of framing, motion, and positioning on the emotional and dramatic tone of the scene. The most memorable being a repeated shot where the camera is suspended and launched with speed through the air towards the miller's door.
　　The story here is a simple one and I would say more accessible than his later works. With a conventional structure emphasized as much by its plot and characters, than by its expressionistic cinematography or authentic historical detail. The events play out without much surprise, and there is a strong underlying, almost supernatural, mysterious aspect that is left unresolved, in fact barely explored, which is slightly disappointing, but only because it's so fascinating that I wish there was more.
　　Acting is great all around. Particularly the villains: Miroslav Macháchek as the priest, casting a sinister and imposing shadow wherever he goes, and Cestmír Randa as the weasel like regent behind all the persecution. While Vít Olmer brings a charismatic leading man presence in his role as the miller's son Jan, in love with the lovely orphan girl Martina (Karla Chadimová), who becomes a dangerous object of rivalry between Jan and other young men of the village.
　　The film also features the evocative music of Zden?k Liška (perhaps the most prolific composer of the Czech New Wave). In this his second of eleven collaborations with Vlá?il, his compositions are used sparingly, but to great effect, complimenting but never overpowering a scene. The best example of which can be heard in an amazingly shot celebration and dance sequence at the end of the second act.
　　The Devil's Trap might not be a masterpiece, but it is still a strong effort, with a fascinating straightforward story and a glorious historical setting captured beautifully by Vlá?il's unmistakable visual prowess. A fine work that would also be the perfect starter plate to prepare yourself for the challenging feast of Marketa Lazarová or The Valley of the Bees. It even has an easy to digest running time. It's therefore puzzling why this gem remains largely overlooked and ignored.