东陵大盗（四）

　　为了追求真正意义上的自由，两对男女选择一同上路，开始了将近两年的旅途。有一天，黛比接到母亲的电话，得知父亲病危，于是四人便原路回到了英格兰。每个人都被死亡将至的阴霾笼罩，各自对人生，对死亡，也产生了不同的认知。

　　杨世男，再直不过的高中男孩，打游戏、打飞机，对异性兴致勃勃。在这一天，他一如往常站向小便斗，下体却冒出大量鲜血。经过诊断，原来他同时拥有一具完整的男性与女性生殖器，在医师建议之下，父母擅自决定让他／她以女生之姿重生。搬了家，也转了学，从今天开始，她，叫杨诗兰。然而，表面上性别改了，却改不了小男生的心思与对女孩的迷恋。“转性”的崭新生活究竟带来的是福还是祸？

　　賽巴斯，三十歲單身漢，有一隻八歲的愛犬相伴。只要他不在，狗狗就會頻頻哀鳴，引起鄰居抱怨，他只好帶著狗去上班，卻因此被公司開除，只能靠打零工度日，過著流浪犬般的人生。當神祕隕石撞擊地球，空氣被污染，離地一百二十公分以上的人，得要靠呼吸器才能行走。幸好賽巴斯早就超前部署，「魯」到沒在怕！他的魯蛇人生會因此而有所轉機嗎？
　　阿根廷導演安娜卡茲繼2007年成名作品《分手假期》後，再次以精準的影像語言、絕妙的台詞設計，施展冷調黑色幽默，結合末日感軟科幻，在黑白的荒唐人生中提煉一絲安慰。長達三年的拍攝期，正好遇上全球疫情，導演靈機一動，巧妙將大環境變動嵌入這則描繪青年無力感的哀歌，意外讓本片成為一則饒富深意的末世寓言。

　　昭和初期的日本神户，平凡的街道居住着经营洋装成衣铺的妹尾一家四口。一家之主盛夫（水谷丰 饰）和善可亲，思想开化；信奉基督教的主妇敏子（伊藤兰 饰）心灵手巧，操持家中的一切。长子肇（吉冈龙辉 饰）穿上了母亲编织的带有英文字母的毛衣，被朋友们称为少年H，妹妹好子（花田优里音 饰）机灵顽皮，讨人喜欢。经常与外国人接触，让妹尾一家待人接物上多了一份宽容。然而随着国际局势的日趋紧张，日本普通人的生活也受到极大的影响。有的人被当作思想犯逮捕，有的因逃避兵役自绝。二战局势愈演愈烈，少年H用错愕的双眼注视着这个飞速巨变的残酷世界……
　　本片根据舞台设计大师妹尾河童的同名自传体小说改编。

　　舞台剧艺人十郎兵卫（真田广之 饰）在一次演出事故中弄伤脚踝，被迫离开舞台，加入街头浪人剧团。期间他遇见艺妓花里（叶月里绪菜 饰），然碍于身份始终无法靠近，潦倒之时作画打发时光。
　　江户大出版社耕书堂的老板茑屋重三郎（フランキー堺 饰）因幕府的“宽政改革”被没收半数财产，解禁后其亲手培养的浮世绘名家喜多川歌磨（佐野史郎 饰）也另谋高就。偶然机会茑屋看到十郎兵卫的画，大喜过望，将其招至麾下，以“东洲斋写乐”的名字集中出版他的作品。写乐怪异的画风起先受到民众的嘲笑，但渐渐为普罗大众所接受和追捧，歌磨的地位受到威胁……
　　本片获日本电影旬报年度日本片第五名和最佳男主角。
　　[背景]写乐于1794年5月正式出道，次年1月销声匿迹，10个月内共发表一百四十多件作品。创作速度之快，风格数次变化，为当时浮世绘艺术家所不能。随着茑屋重三郎的去世，写乐的真实身份也成为一个永远解不开的谜。

　　一群远离文明世界的人生活在日本南岛上。太根吉一家属于岛上祭神巫女的家系，其祖父山盛还有着神与非人的性格。太根吉和妹妹太马的关系有些暧昧，太马却被岛上的头目龙立元强行纳为侍妾。龟太郎是太根吉的儿子，他非常向往都市的文明生活，极度反感岛上的生活习俗，却无法打破岛上的陈规陋习。岛上的人长期以来都靠种甘蔗为生，现在需要建设一个糖厂。东京某技术员到岛上对糖厂的水源问题进行考查，建议以大瀑布为水源，遭到岛上居民的强烈反对。一个资本家想在岛上修建机场，需要太根吉一家搬迁，却被太根吉断然拒绝。祭神之夜，太根吉和妹妹太马划船出海时见到了龙立元的尸体。一群年轻人划着两条船追了上来，龟太郎是其中的一个。他们用船桨打死了太根吉，而太马则被捆到了桅杆之上……
　　影片根据戏剧《被禁忌的海屿》改编，将社会学与民俗学熔于一炉，描写了日本民族的一种潜在意识，人与人之间的复杂关系，人们恍惚的精神状态，不断重复的单调劳动，对政治的漠不关心……影片的结尾颇有意味，将其简单地视为青年人对文明社会的向往和对抵抗文明建设的太根吉的制裁恐怕也失之武断。影片作为战后派导演今村昌平的代表作之一，被称为是论文式电影，对日本社会民族传统潜在的家长制作了深刻的揭示，论证了这是产生军国主义的土壤。影片被列为1968年日本十部最佳电影第一位，今村昌平获得了导演奖。1971年获罗马宗教电影节金奖。入选了日本名片200部。

　　《奥迈耶的痴梦》改编自约瑟夫·康拉德1895年发表的处女作小说，影片在马来西亚取景拍摄，被《电影手册》评为2011年法国今年最受期待的新片之一。该片讲述了一位荷兰富商在马来西亚寻找黄金的故事。

　　已经奔三的伊藤开司（藤原龙也 饰）做着无聊乏味的便利店员工作，对财富的渴望换来的不过是些无奈失落。某日，一位名叫远藤澟子（天海佑希 饰）的女人带领手下找到伊藤，要求他作为担保人偿还巨额高利贷债务。拮据的伊藤无力清债，只得按照远藤的建议登上“希望号”赌船奋力一搏。但在上船的那一刻起，伊藤以及其他众多同病相连的所谓“失败者”便陷入了巨大财富帝国的圈套。在赌博游戏中失败的伊藤众人，从此沦为帝国的奴隶，日日在地下工程中劳作，以期有朝一日能够脱离债务重返自由。帝国主管利川根（香川照之 饰）等人冷血无情，用尽招数榨取奴隶价值，不堪忍受剥削的伊藤最终选择了九死一生的“勇者之路”，用生命为赌注向利川根发起挑战……
　　本片根据著名同名漫画改编。

　　1960年捷克卡罗维发利国际电影节最佳导演水晶球奖。
　　Originally titled Seryozha, the Russian A Summer to Remember was co-adapted by Vera Panova from her own short story. War and Peace director Sergei Bondarchuk plays the new stepfather of young Seryozha (Borya Barkhatov). So close do the stepfather and the boy become in the months following their meeting that, when time comes for the boy to move on in life, he refuses to leave his new dad's side. Their summer idyll takes place on a Soviet collective farm, managed by Bondarchuk and depicted by novice filmmakers Georgiy Daneliya and Igor Talankin in the most glowing and apolitical of terms. Though there isn't much to the plot, the film admirably succeeds as a sort of cinematic tone poem.
　　From All Movie Guide: Russian filmmaker Georgi Daneliya ranks among his country's most popular directors of satirical comedies. The Georgia-born Daneliya comes from a distinguished family of film performers; his grandmother, Veriko Andzhaparidze, was a famed Georgian silent film actress, his cousin, Sofiko Chiaureli, is also a major actress, and his mother, Meri Andzhaparidze, spent more than a decade at Mosfilm Studios. However, he first chose to train as an architect (perhaps out of respect for his father, an engineer). Following his graduation in 1955, Daneliya worked only briefly in that field when he decided he'd rather be in films, enrolling in Mosfilm Studios' Directors' Courses in 1958. In 1960, Daneliya co-directed Seryozha/A Summer to Remember with Igor Talankin. Two years later, he made his solo directorial debut, Put K Prichalu/The Way to the Wharf (1962). His 1969 comedy Ne Goryuy!/Don't Worry! successfully blended humor and melancholy, a device that would become Daneliya's trademark. In addition to directing, Daneliya co-authors the scripts for his films and occasionally works on screenplays for other directors. Daneliya has won numerous national and international awards for his work. In 1964, his Ya Shagayu po Moskve/I Walk Around Moscow received an honorable mention at the Cannes Film Festival, while in 1975 Afonya received a special award at the All Union Festival, a major U.S.S.R. event. Daneliya's biggest hit in the U.S.S.R., Mimino (1977), earned the special prize at the Moscow International Film Festival and the U.S.S.R. State Prize. In 1991, Daneliya earned the Nika Award (the Russian equivalent to an Oscar) for Best Screenplay for Pasport (1990).

　　This is an unusual film of exceptional values--75 minutes long in color, with hardly any spoken dialogs. I saw this Iranian film in Farsi without English subtitles at the Early Iranian cinema retrospective on-going International Film Festival of Kerala, India. That I was watching a print without subtitles did not make a difference as there were very few lines of spoken dialogs.
　　This is a very accessible film for any audience to enjoy--its story and values are not merely Iranian, it's universal.
　　The film is set in rural Iran that had not tasted petro-dollar prosperity. The setting is on fringes of desert land, where water is scarce, rainfall scanty and hardly any blade of grass is green. Add to it wind and dust that buffets and whips man and animal and you can imagine plight of the people who live on the fringes of society.
　　The film is moving tale of a young teenager returning to his village with a goat--only to find his family and villagers have moved on to escape natures vagaries and that one old man remains. He gives the goat to him and goes in search of his family. Water is scarce and well water it treated with reverence and never wasted.

　　影片根据加拿大作家Jane Rule创作的小说“Desert of the Heart”改编而成，背景设置于美国许多地方不允许离婚的1950年代。主人公之一是35岁的英文教授薇薇安，她为了离婚来到法律相对宽容的内华达州雷诺市，暂住在一间农场为离婚官司和流程做准备。严肃的薇薇安因此结识了农场主弗兰西丝的继女凯伊，凯伊比她年轻10岁，平时在赌场打工，是一个对取向不做掩饰的活泼女性。尽管薇薇安意识到自己被凯伊所吸引，她还是对开始这段关系有所顾虑，不确定自己是否做好了和同性在一起的准备。与此同时，被继母弗兰西丝依赖着的凯伊则意识到：薇薇安就是她等待已久的命中注定之人。1985年，成本仅35万美元的《爱的甘露》正式公映，成为了第一部大规模公映的女同爱情长片，它的美好、幽默和对女性情欲的坦荡表达不仅征服了无数观众的心，也让很多人意识到两个女性的爱是可能的，而且并不总以悲剧结尾。这部叫好又叫座的先锋作为日后涌现的更多女同作品铺平了道路。