巨星養(yǎng)成記

等待方舟

　　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.

格吉（殺人鬼）

岳家小將

 公元1126年，北宋靖康元年。漠北女真人以4萬鐵騎入侵中原。由于太上皇宋徽宗的昏聵以及軍備疏散，金兵長驅(qū)直入，如入無人之境。一路燒殺搶掠，直攻到東京汴梁。城破之日，金兵虜徽、欽二帝，是為靖康之恥。此后欽宗之弟趙高繼位，是為高宗。一代英雄岳飛護佑高宗，被困牛頭山。為迫岳飛投降，金將兀術(shù)派二太子金彈子（張成忠 飾）、三公主銀鈴子（張希玲 飾）和張兆奴（張躍寧 飾）前去偷襲岳家莊，欲虜岳母以作要挾。岳飛之子岳云（尋峰 飾）自幼喜好舞槍弄棒，一雙銀錘使得風(fēng)生水起。他聞聽父親被困牛頭山，計劃偷偷前往助陣，卻被幾個兄弟掣肘。牛皋之子牛通（劉衛(wèi)民 飾）偶然遇見偽裝后的金彈子等人，無意中得知偷襲計劃，于是連忙趕往岳家莊報信。得知消息的岳家小將們整飭裝備，等待即將到來的一場大戰(zhàn)……

左撇子女孩

　　一位單親母親帶著兩個女兒在鄉(xiāng)下生活數(shù)年后重返臺北，在熱鬧的夜市擺起小吃攤。面對新環(huán)境，三人以各自的方式努力適應(yīng)，既要維持生計又要守護家庭完整。當(dāng)傳統(tǒng)觀念根深蒂固的外祖父禁止左撇子小孫女使用"惡魔之手"后，這個三代同堂家庭深埋的秘密開始逐漸浮出水面。

外星人爆發(fā)

　　In a small rural community local police officers Zoe and Patrick begin their shift as normal but it soon becomes clear that something is wrong. Strange events unfold before their eyes, residents begin behaving strangely and mass suicide panic spreads amongst the community they are trying to protect. Zoe and Patrick realise they are under siege from alien machines as they become cut off from the outside world. They are forced to do battle against these uninvited visitors. With the help of some of the residents Zoe and Patrick begin unravelling the mystery and soon discover it is not all as it seems. Can Zoe and Patrick save their community and the outside world from extinction?　　在一個小的農(nóng)村社區(qū)，當(dāng)?shù)鼐熳粢梁团撂乩锟碎_始正常換班，但很快就清楚出了問題。奇怪的事情展現(xiàn)在他們眼前，居民開始奇怪的行為，大規(guī)模的自殺恐慌在他們試圖保護的社區(qū)中蔓延。佐伊和帕特里克意識到，當(dāng)他們與外界隔絕時，他們正受到外來機器的圍攻。他們被迫與這些不速之客作戰(zhàn)。在一些居民的幫助下，佐伊和帕特里克開始解開這個謎團，很快發(fā)現(xiàn)它并不像看上去的那樣。佐伊和帕特里克能拯救他們的社區(qū)和外部世界免于滅絕嗎？

亞美利加納

　　講述了一群性格迥異的角色圍繞一件罕見的美洲原住民文物展開激烈爭奪的故事，在這件文物流入黑市后，一位懷揣夢想的靦腆女服務(wù)員（西德尼·斯維尼 Sydney Sweeney 飾）與一位渴望愛情的退伍軍人（保羅·沃爾特·豪澤 Paul Walter Hauser 飾）聯(lián)手，試圖將其據(jù)為己有，卻因此成為冷酷罪犯（埃里克·迪恩 Eric Dane 飾）的目標(biāo)，而他正為一名西部古董商人（西蒙·雷克斯 Simon Rex 飾）效力。隨著更多人卷入這場爭斗，血雨腥風(fēng)接踵而至。

英雄無聲

該片由四個單元組成，分別是《軍屬》《遺囑》《抉擇》《生命大接力》?！盾妼佟分v述解放軍軍官侯澤剛率隊到國外執(zhí)行維和任務(wù)后，他懷孕即將分娩的妻子吳秀芬查出患癌癥，腹中的二孩剛出生就夭折，吳秀芬對丈夫隱瞞實情，頑強地抗擊病魔和撫養(yǎng)7歲的大兒子，讓丈夫在國外安心執(zhí)行維和任務(wù)的故事；《遺囑》講述雙擁模范許大周一家?guī)资耆缫蝗占赖旄锩沂康墓适?；《抉擇》講述雙擁模范鄭尚德一家三代人守護烈士陵園幾十年的故事；《生命大接力》講述縣武裝部政委邊文軍救助受重傷生命垂危的貧困女孩小劉梅的故事。