風起云涌之情迷香江

最后的維京人

　　這部犯罪喜劇片講述剛出獄的劫匪安可，聯(lián)手因童年創(chuàng)傷分裂出失憶人格的弟弟曼弗雷德，共赴童年老宅掘地三尺——既要挖出當年埋藏的贓款，更欲掘開塵封記憶的潘多拉魔盒。

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.

遲來的憤怒

　　威尼斯的地平線單元中，出現了這樣一部電影，不扯人性，“三觀”卻正到讓人大呼過癮，這就是講述了一個干脆利落的復仇故事的西班牙電影《遲來的憤怒》?！　∮捌v述了一個男人為了替在搶劫案中慘死的女友和變成植物人的老爸報仇，潛伏八年，甚至睡了搶劫團伙司機的孩子他媽，只為等他出獄，威脅他，順藤摸瓜找到躲藏起來的真兇們，一個一個復仇。

未死之軀

　　厭倦了逼仄臟亂的小公寓，正值青春年少的美麗女孩冰通過網絡找到一所寬敞闊氣且租金極為便宜的大房子，事不宜遲，她連忙致電屋主預約時間，并叫上同公寓好友妮娜隨她一同看房。雖然妮娜對該房第一印象不佳，卻無法改變冰的決定。不久之后，滿心歡喜的冰搬入新居，誰知從第一天開始便有怪事在身邊發(fā)生。在此之后，種種詭異事件交替發(fā)生，甚至冰的意識也受到侵襲。擔心好友的安危，妮娜趕來冰的身邊?！　≈皇强植朗录⑽淳痛烁嬉欢温?，仿佛被詛咒了一般，美麗女孩落入充滿玄幻和恐怖氣息的死亡陷阱之中……

百年好合

　　富豪洪飛虎（古天樂 飾）因怪病找到峨嵋派掌門王鳳（鄭秀文 飾），她對飛虎的生性傲慢毫無好感，于是用盡各種奇怪的方法治療飛虎。王鳳的師姐李莫愁（李冰冰 飾）突然出現，并揚言要鏟除峨嵋派。未免傷及無辜，王鳳盡快醫(yī)好了飛虎。知道了王鳳的惡作劇之后，飛虎憤然離開了?！　榱伺c師姐決戰(zhàn)，王鳳急需練好“傷心斷腸劍”，但從未經歷傷心之苦的她 無法領悟“百年好合”這一招式的要領，王鳳在眾人的勸說下決定求助與飛虎。飛虎不計前嫌，用盡辦法讓王鳳傷心，練好招式。王鳳又能否成功？

19 十九

杰莎貝爾

　　平凡女人杰莎貝爾（莎拉·斯努克 Sarah Snook 飾）與男友普瑞斯頓（馬克·韋伯 Mark Webber 飾）即將迎來新的生命，當他們準備搬入新家之際，卻遭遇一場突如其來的車禍。這場災難讓當下兩個最重要的生命從杰莎貝爾的人生中消失，痛不欲生的她撥通了久未謀面的父親的電話，坐著輪椅回到了位于路易斯安那的老家。某天，杰莎偶然在床下找到一卷母親當年生她之前錄下的影像，畫面中媽媽期望女兒能在18歲那年看到錄影帶，而且用塔羅牌預測了杰莎未來的運勢。預言中有一個看不見的靈魂逡巡在杰莎的身旁，而對方卻滿懷惡意企圖將杰莎趕出房子?！　≡诖酥?，詭異的夢境和神秘事件接連向杰莎襲來，而她將遭遇最為恐怖的一段噩夢體驗……