O的故事

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　　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.

养鬼吃人8：地狱世界

　　这部最新续集故事从五个年青的互联网游戏者，接到一个神秘的邀请开始，去参加一个名叫《地狱互联网》站点的特殊聚会，不过他们没有想到，那是一个恐怖的难以用言语表达的夜晚。。。全新特技、视觉效果，一个恐怖电影迷不能放过的片子。　　这是一部全新而独特的Hellraiser系列最新篇，大部分原班人员继续上阵。和其它几集比较来说，表面看只是一出跟其它B级片没两样，同样洒狗血的电影，但Rick Bota在血和核突以外，还加上深入一点的人性探讨。前几集的故事主要跟家庭、人的欲望和恶行有关，结果令他们惨受地狱使者的骚扰，充满冷色调的美术设计，令Clive Barker所营造的世界，更见冷酷。

灵雀密语

本片以乡村考古为背景，讲述少女露西与母亲卡罗琳重返家族故地时，意外揭开一段被岁月掩埋的亲情谜团。露西在两只神秘灵雀的指引下，与好友化身“小侦探”，通过老宅残片、褪色信件与家族旧物，逐步拼凑出曾祖母时代因战乱而断裂的情感纽带。这部别致的定格动画采用手工剪纸方式制作，创作团队用2000个纸偶和826个布景拍摄，堪称完成了一项不可能的工作。片中既有细腻舒缓的情绪铺陈，也不乏快速剪辑的惊险片段。导演安东尼·兰席奥以一段层层递进的冒险旅程为载体，娓娓道来几代人之间的情感牵绊，描绘出一部充满诗意、幽默和温情的动画佳作。

老板和小可爱

公寓管理员

　　Saban Films拿下方·基默、帕特里克·约翰·弗鲁格(《芝加哥警署》)主演影片[公寓管理员](The Super，暂译)北美发行权。导演施特凡·里克([月之阴面])，编剧约翰·J·麦克劳克林([黑天鹅])，故事围绕一位公寓管理员调查纽约一栋豪华公寓住客失踪案展开。迪克·沃尔夫(《法律与秩序》)担任制片。

总统班底

 根据水门事件揭发人Carl Bernstein和Bob Woodward所写自传改编的电影。二人是《华盛顿邮报》的记者，在水门事件里，他们历尽艰辛揭开政治黑幕，人物和事件一同成为美国一段家喻户晓的历史。故事由五名盗贼开始，他们潜入水门大度行窃。本来是一桩不甚重大的刑事案件，却在Bernstein（达斯汀·霍夫曼Dustin Hoffman 饰）和Woodward（罗伯特·雷德福Robert Redford  饰）的追查下，最终撕开了一条大裂缝，矛头直指总统尼克松。从1972年到1974年，从尼克松竞选总统到尼克松连任上台，华盛顿邮报受到的压力越来越大，甚至被威胁。主编本·布莱德利站在了新闻自由和相信自己记者的这边，Bernstein和Woodward得以继续追寻事件真相，得到了重要线人“深喉”的帮助，经历了难以想象的曲折艰辛后，水门事件最终导致尼克松总统下台。

冬歇

退休夫妇斯特拉（莱丝利·曼维尔 饰）和格里（塞伦·希德 饰）选择在深冬时节飞往阿姆斯特丹短暂休憩，期待在冰雪交织的景致中唤醒感官，重新审视彼此的人生轨迹。然而，在霜覆的街道与冰封的运河之间，那些关于北爱尔兰故土的尘封记忆逐渐浮现——一段艰难岁月与非常事件的重现，正悄然侵蚀着他们看似平静的关系表面。