玉女聊齋

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.

赤腳大仙

銀色星球

　　改編自叔叔杰西·祖拉斯基(Jerzy Zulawski)的科幻小說杰作《月球三部曲》，故事描述人類逃離毀滅的地球，飛船墜落在銀色星球上，不久后有人開始在星球上進行造神運動，然信徒分化后一派奉此外來政權(quán)為神，另一派則視之為魔，人性貪婪的劣根性，在這星球上暴露的一覽無遺……　　本片被譽為是“一部拍給另一個世界的人看的電影”。影評人一致推崇這部片是導(dǎo)演安德烈·祖拉斯基電影生涯中，最具史觀、野心勃勃且兼具后現(xiàn)代主義的科幻哲思電影，也是他重回故鄉(xiāng)波蘭拍攝的歸鄉(xiāng)代表作?！　∵@部充滿爭議的杰作，安德烈以非常風(fēng)格化又帶著原始情欲的方式，傳達其所鐘愛的命題：一則后現(xiàn)代主義式的寓言。故事的結(jié)局，地球人不但改變原本的內(nèi)在，連外在也慢慢變成介于人與鳥的中間物種。這種由內(nèi)而外，進而轉(zhuǎn)化成另一物種的隱喻，也為這部猶如政治寓言的科幻史詩，更添加了奇幻色彩。　　1977年當(dāng)影片拍好八成時，新上任的波蘭文化助理大臣禁止此片拍攝，并下令銷毀場景、布置和服裝，直到1986年波蘭民主化，本片才跟著其它禁片出土。本片同時也發(fā)掘了戛納影后克里斯提娜·楊達的潛能，拍攝這部處女作不久，她成為基耶斯洛夫斯基及瓦伊達最喜愛的女演員，也成為波蘭的國民影后。

洛奇

 洛基?巴爾博厄(西爾維斯特?史泰龍 Sylvester Stallone 飾)是費城的過氣拳擊手。他空有拳擊熱忱，卻只混雜于三流拳擊賽中。一天，他對售貨員艾黛麗安（塔里亞?希雷Talia Shire 飾）一見傾心，雖然這個姑娘長相一般，性格內(nèi)向，卻毫不阻礙洛奇對她愛得熾熱。愛情得意，事業(yè)也開始一路暢通。為了慶祝美國建國200周年，當(dāng)?shù)嘏e辦了一個拳擊比賽，勝出者將獲得15萬美元的高額獎金。美國一個拳擊巨星在比賽中受了傷，主辦方選中了洛奇去上演一場“灰姑娘”式的比賽，大敵當(dāng)前的同時，也是洛奇事業(yè)轉(zhuǎn)機、大顯身手的良機。洛奇在賽場上苦撐15回合，在面腫血流之際，會不會有奇跡的發(fā)生？

貪種滋生

　　The bizarre and mysterious suicide of the Wendolyn’s patriarch brings the dysfunctional, pharma family back together. While the family members squabble over their dwindling inheritance, an ancient curse preys on their greed and arrogance. The Wendolyn’s made billions on painkillers, but no drug can kill the pain that they’ll soon endure.