欢乐岁月

1900年的巴黎，妓院普萝奈像一座宫廷一样，成为寒夜里最温暖的地方。波莉娜·德埃（Iliana Zabeth 饰）刚十五岁半，写了封自荐信要求到妓院工作，声称希望“自由”；美丽的玛莲娜（Alice Barnole 饰）遇上一个肯给她蓝宝石的客人，她以为是爱情，却迎来把她割成笑面人的刀子；朱莉（Jasmine Trinca 饰）不幸染上梅毒，老相好只给她写来情意绵绵的信，放任她死亡，只有姐妹们哭泣……妓院里浮光掠影着百年前的种种，男人和贵族们的奇怪欲望，女人们被持续物化，虐恋和疾病永不止息，假面舞会要终结怎样的痛苦……

　　当至亲成为器官黑市中的“商品”，一位父亲选择了最残酷的复仇！前棒球教练张其茂在经历女儿被偷、妻子自杀、自身蒙冤入狱的沉重打击下，多年后出狱的他发现女儿的失踪背后隐藏着更恐怖的阴谋——她可能已成为活体器官买卖网络中的“器子”。为揭开骇人真相并找回女儿，张其茂毅然化身复仇者，独自闯入由金钱与暴力筑成的罪恶迷局，开启了一场以命相搏、惊心动魄的终极对抗。

　　Amazon rainforest, 1538. King Carlos V de España y I de Alemania sends a group of Spanish soldiers to the new continent to locate Teziutlan, a legendary city created with gold, to claim it to the Spanish Empire. Alone in the rainforest and without a help, soldiers face not only indigenous tribes but the manifest hate themselves by their respective birth places. Leaded by old Don Gonzalo, married with young Doña Ana, his aging and weak health turns in danger Ana, who is disputed by Alférez Gorriamendi, Gonzalo's right-hand, and soldier Martín Dávila. After to realize that Viceroy of Port Prince has send another expedition looking for them leaded by Juan Medrano after to accuse Don Gonzalo of treason, Dávila, Gorriamendi and other soldiers as Sargento Bastaurrés and Barbate must decide if fight against Medrano's and his men or continue until Teziutlan. But the rivalry and hate between them will reveal more dangerous than the own rainforest and the indigenous tribes

　　故事发生在伊朗的一个城市，主人公侯塞因在两伊战争退伍之后，做了比萨速递员，靠送比萨给到富人区来维持生活。他爱上朋友阿里的姐姐，并希望娶她为妻。阿里是个小偷，一次，他偷到手的手袋里竟有一块黄金。侯塞因想给自己的爱人买一件首饰，在旁人的怂恿下，他与阿里去珠宝店购物，却遭到奚落，在贫富世界的巨大差异下，侯塞因感到深深的失落，愤怒之下他打劫了那家珠宝店，并为之付出沉重的代价。

　　学了九年京剧却在内地没有出路的阿燕（秦海璐）不得已来到旺角理智地化为妓女挣快钱，并给自己定下（做到双程护照到期的）期限，在所住小巷结识同样来自大陆但是非法入境的少女阿芬（麦惠芬）后，她被阿芬在逆境中的乐观与单纯打动，两人在异乡成为朋友。
　　返回牡丹江小镇换作另一种身份决定好好生活时，阿燕发现周围世界已与她所理解的大不相同，见识到现实中另外的（不同于在港时的）残酷与无情，心生失落，而当收到阿芬寄来的榴莲时，各种复杂滋味涌上她心头。

　　灵感来源于一个真实的故事。20 世纪 60 年代，在一家与其说是疗养院不如说更像监狱的精神病院里，年轻的护士安娜（Mariarosaria Mingione 饰）在青少年病房工作。在这里，她遇到了可爱的露西亚（Gaia Girace 饰），一个 15 岁的精神分裂症患者，并与她产生了感情。在玛丽医生（Monica Guerritore 饰）和刻板的奥雷斯特医生（Pietro Ragusa 饰）为新的实验性治疗方法进行无休止斗争的背景下，安娜和露西亚之间的感情不断加深，迫使她们为各自的人生做出决定性的选择。

　　来自克里夫兰的美国小伙子威廉•布莱克（约翰尼•德普 Johnny Depp 饰）往西部去讨生活，他准备前往当地的一间工厂应聘会计。不料，他错过了应聘时间，被赶了出来。还遭到了当地迪金森金属厂的老板的百般凌辱，甚至被枪指着脑袋。
　　当他沮丧地来到当地的小酒馆，一夜情发生了。岂料，和他发生一夜情的女子的男友突然闯了进来，子弹穿过女子的胸膛嵌在了威廉的胸膛上，威廉本能之下杀死了女子的男友，夺了他的马匆匆逃走了。
　　一段充满了惊险、追杀的逃亡之旅开始了……

　　Howard Tyler (Frank Lovejoy) is a family man, living in California, who can't seem to get by financially. He meets up with a small-time, but charismatic, hood Jerry Slocum (Lloyd Bridges). Soon, Slocum convinces Tyler to participate in gas station robberies to get by. Later, they kidnap a wealthy man in hopes of getting a huge ransom. Things go wrong when the man is murdered by Slocum then thrown in a lake. Tyler reaches his limit emotionally, and he begins drinking heavily. He meets a lonely woman and confesses the crime while drunk. The woman flees and goes to the police.
　　When the two kidnappers are arrested, a local journalist (Richard Carlson) writes a series of hate-filled articles about the two prisoners which eventually lead to a brutal lynching.
　　The despair of the lower middle-class: A family man ashamed of being unemployed allows himself to be convinced by a gangster to take part in a kidnapping. The police arrests them both and the anger of the small town’s population is unforgiving. THE SOUND OF FURY is a dark crime movie that builds up to an apocalyptic storm, but never loses sight of social realities, thus telling a lot about the daily despair of the working-class. A masterpiece, it was Cy Endfield’s last film before he felt compelled to move to Britain.

　　当你发现你的朋友有罪，你是大义灭亲还是姑息放纵？今年奥斯卡最佳影片《聚焦》讲述了“聚焦”小组揭露天主教性侵儿童丑闻的故事。无独有偶，这部德国版“聚焦”再度把牧师娈童话题置于台面。有别于《聚焦》一层层抽丝剥茧的揭露真相，通过神父视角展现各方势力交织下的无奈痛苦，以小格局揭露真相背后深不可测的阴谋，对《圣经》的引述尽显反讽意味。荣获圣芭芭拉国际电影节人民选择奖。

　　Raynor is an undercover narcotics cop. For his next assignment he chooses the more inexperienced but tough and good-looking Kristen. Their ultimate target is Gaines, a renowned but very elusive drug dealer. While doing their work they unexpectedly fall into a morase of drug-addiction and fall in love with each other. Despite subjecting themselves to the life of low class, one track junkies they do not get the evidence they want to convict Gaines, and instead are forced into using false evidence in court.

　　Straight Shooting is landmark in the history of the Western. The first feature directed by Ford, it revived the career of Harry Carey who gives a rough and tumble performance here as a hired gun who turns on his employers to defend an innocent farmer and his family.

　　“Sangen Om Den Eldröda Blomman” ( “Song Of The Scarlet Flower” ) was a recent and remarkable silent surprise for this Herr Von; the oeuvre is an excellent Herr Stiller silent film that this German count watched in a newly restored and tinted copy. It combines the well-known aesthetics, technical improvements and artistic merits for which the Nordic director was known and praised since those early silent times till today.
　　The film tells of the merry and carefree love life of young Olof ( Herr Lars Hanson ) a woodsman who during his search for true love, seduces many frauleins ( just like this German aristocrat… well, not exactly because the purpose of this Herr Von’s seduction of rich fräulein heiresses are their great fortunes… ). He will suffer disappointment and deception, all those problems that turn up in any loving relationship. Finally he will find responsibility and maturity, learning during his particular quest that his actions always have consequences in different degrees to the people around him. This Herr Von can describe “Sangen Om…” as a kind of coming of age film, the special introspective growth toward maturity of a free and easy youngster.
　　As this German count said before, the film displays Stiller’s characteristic artistic virtues. ; in the first part of the film, we can see elements of comedy, not exactly like the comedy of intrigues in other Stiller films, but humor of a more cheerful sort, highlighting the self-involvement of our hero. Olof ‘s frivolous flirtations with the different girls eventually turn romantic and then turn into drama. There is conflict in the troubled relationship between Olof and his father and later with the father of his beloved. The beautiful and wild natural landscapes of Norrland and northern Sweden lend the tale a certain power and is characteristic of Herr Stiller’s other silents where Nature emerges as an important character in the story. This is strongly reflected throughout the film but especially during the frantic scene wherein Olof descends into the troubled waters of a river, a beautiful metaphor for the hardships that our hero has to endure until he finds himself.
　　“Sangen Om Den Eldröda Blomman” is an excellent, beautiful film, a solid, technically perfect and intricate production of 1919 that demonstrates once again the importance of Herr Stiller for silent film history.