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死神假期
993Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained. [Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration. To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming. More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching. (Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk) In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it. (Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net) I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line "The Weirdest Love Story ever told!" (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts. (Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org) See also the remake: Death Takes A Holiday (1971) -
披着娘皮的蜥蜴
465Florinda Bolkan plays the daughter of a prominant English politician who keeps having recurring "nightmares" in which she makes love to a bisexual nympho who lives downstairs and conducts all-night LSD orgies. When the nocturnal wet dreams become murderous, the neighbor turns up dead, and Florinda is the main suspect. Did she actually commit the murder she dreamt about? Is she being framed by her philandering husband? Did Florinda actually make nightly visits downstairs aside from borrowing the occasional cup of sugar? How DID Florinda's letter opener end up stuck in the dead neighbor's chest anyway? The complex plot unfolds amidst red herrings, outlandish dream sequences, lesbian hanky panky, and ominous close-ups of Florinda Bolkan's guilt-ridden facial expressions every time someone mentions the murder. All this takes place in swinging late-1960's London. -
国家反抗者弗里茨·鲍尔2015
844纳粹时代结束十二年后,大多数公民还在纳粹政权的恐怖阴影中。总检察长弗里茨·鲍尔一直致力于纳粹罪行的举报。根据1957年的线索,他找到了前党卫军阿道夫·艾希曼的下落,鲍尔希望将艾希曼绳之以法。但他反复受阻,高级检察官乌尔里希和BKA员工保罗·格布哈特破坏鲍尔的进程…… -
红楼枪声
645Kathy is a smart and tough 1950's advice columnist at a San Francisco newspaper, with her name plastered on billboards all over the city. One day, Bill Doyle, a Los Angeles detective, walks into her office - it is instant attraction. After marrying Bill, Kathy gives up her career and becomes a homemaker. However, she is not your typical 1950's homemaker. After hosting several cocktail parties in their San Fernando Valley home, she realizes that Bill is content with his position, and shows no ambition in furthering himself. Kathy will not sit idly by while everyone around her is "moving up in the world". She personally takes upon herself the task of pushing Bill's career along, even if it comes down to murder -
他是她, 她是他
819皮埃尔(斯特凡·德·胡特 Stéphane De Groodt 饰)、伊美(奥雷·阿蒂卡 Aure Atika 饰),埃里克(彼埃尔·弗兰斯科·马丁·拉弗尔 Pierre-François Martin-Laval 饰)、佩内洛普(露易丝·布尔昆 Louise Bourgoin 饰)是两对结婚多年的父亲,他们彼此四人亦都是好友,彼此之间感情十分的深厚。 但不幸的事,在皮埃尔和佩内洛普之间,逐渐产生了超越了友谊的情谊,担心这段违背了伦理道德的感情会伤害所有人,于是,他们准备分手,并且决定在分手之前再爱最后一次。哪知道,上帝给他们开了一个天大的玩笑,当激情过后,第二天两人醒来时却发现,他们的灵魂进入了彼此的身体,无奈之下,他们只得假扮对方,开始体味他们不曾了解的生活。 -
神偷诺诺
826顽皮的男孩Nono虽然常惹事生非,但其实他从小就立志,长大后要跟爸爸一样,成为一名出色的警探。没有母亲的他,在成年礼的前两天独自被送上火车,准备到叔叔家去「磨练心性」,殊不知遇上自称父亲好友的聪明老贼,就此开展了一连串精彩刺激的「成年须知」之旅。就在两人逐渐建立起忘年情谊的同时,Nono惊见报纸上自己被绑架的消息。觉得事有蹊跷的他开始抽丝剥茧拼凑线索,没想到种种暗示竟指向与素未谋面的母亲有关?他该选择相信他的大朋友吗?惊心动魄的推理情节、趣味横生的冒险之旅,结局出人意料。《神偷NONO》有着轻鬆诙谐的基调,佐以悬疑推理的紧凑步调,保证同时满足每个人内心都曾梦想成为侦探并且历险办桉的愿望。 -
奥勃洛莫夫一生中的几天
445奥勃洛摩夫(奥列格•塔巴科夫 Oleg Tabakov 饰)是含着金汤匙出生的千金大少爷,父亲留下的巨额财产让他从未亲手挣过一分钱,每一天,奥勃洛摩夫都躲在家里,过着自闭而又慵懒的生活。施托尔茨(尤里•博加特廖夫 Yuri Bogatyryov 饰)是奥勃洛摩夫唯一的朋友,他看不下去挚友封闭的生活,于是带着他外出健身、社交和游玩,随着时间的推移,奥勃洛摩夫渐渐融入了正常的社会生活。 一次聚会中,奥勃洛摩夫结识了美丽的女孩奥尔加(叶莲娜•索洛维 Yelena Solovey 饰),后者的善良和温柔深深打动了奥勃洛摩夫,然而,自卑却让他误以为奥尔加喜欢的是施托尔茨,为了不破坏好友的感情,他选择了主动退出。 -
海底大揭秘第一季
669《海底大揭秘》揭开了我们的大海里隐藏的秘密和失落的世界。这一创新系列运用突破性的技术、惊险的摄影和顶级海洋考古学家的评论,对人类文明的史诗和地球本身的深层历史提供了深刻的新见解,揭露了沉没的城市、沉船、宝藏和深海令人惊叹的自然奇观。从中国海、墨西哥湾和地中海,到尼罗河、波罗的海和大西洋,这个系列将解释船只是如何沉没的,现代科技如何在充满挑战的气候中运作,古代地质构造可以告诉我们地球上的生命,纳粹的秘密可能在哪里,以及为什么对亚特兰蒂斯的搜索还在进行。以墨西哥湾为例,本纪录片绘制贸易、奴隶制、战争和石油工业的图表,以证明北美的故事只能通过观察海浪来理解;中国海下面藏着有史以来最大战舰的残骸,环太平洋地区的勘探则揭示了破坏性自然灾害背后的致命地质力量,并提供了下一个“大”战舰可能于何时何地出击的线索。 -
贝鲁特
11091972年的貝魯特,美國外交官梅森史凱爾斯(喬漢姆 飾)主辦了一場派對,恐怖份子突然攻擊派對,造成了血腥悲劇...... 10年後,梅森回到波士頓工作,但也成了酒鬼。一天,有個陌生人接近他,給他護照、機票和現金,加上一封來自「朋友們」的緊急邀請,要他立刻飛往貝魯特。他很不情願地抵達,看到之前美麗如畫的海濱城市,已變成深受暴力之害的戰區,他很快得知被召喚回來的真正理由─恐怖份子綁架了他的好友也就是中情局探員卡爾萊利(馬克佩雷格里諾 飾),美國大使館給他的任務就是前往談判,對方的條件是釋放恐怖組織首領阿布拉賈爾,據說他遭到以色列監禁,必需用阿布拉賈爾的自由來交換卡爾萊利。 大使館派珊蒂克勞德(羅莎蒙派克 飾)協助梅森進行談判,他祕密跟綁匪碰面,並設法發現線索,來幫助他釐清以色列軍事大佬、美國政客、巴勒斯坦解放陣線部長和腐敗官僚間的權力拉扯。他心頭縈繞著過去的創傷,還要面對一個艱難的問題,在這個真相只有在權宜或有利時刻才會浮現的世界,你要信任誰?