肯·罗素(Ken Russell)根据约翰·惠廷(John Whiting)1961年的RSC戏剧改编,原作为阿道司.赫胥黎(Aldous Huxley)于1952年进行的卢丹冤案的研究。 影片主要内容是发生在17世纪法国,个人自由主义色彩浓厚的乌尔班·格兰迪神父(Ur bain Grandier)顶撞到了天主教枢机黎塞留公爵的权威,从而导致公爵和教会开始共谋如何利用修女被“恶魔”附身这一借口来陷害神父,最终导致悲剧发生。 这部电影虽然有很多大胆惊人的地方,但不妨碍其成为英国电影中独特且具有里程碑意义的影片。奥利弗·里德(Oliver Reed)饰演格兰迪神父和凡妮莎·雷德格雷夫(Vanessa Redgrave)饰演的女修道院院长都表现出色,Derek Jarman设计的片场布景更是令人难忘。 编剧阿尔多斯·赫胥黎为导演肯·罗素这部火花四溅的杰作提供了素材。这部影片描述了在17世纪的法国,修女对主教暗生情愫,这种情绪在修道院中蔓延,整个修道院的修女都赤身迎接主教 ,她们被认为被恶魔附身,但除魔方法匪夷所思。导演罗素称这部影片是他所有作品中“唯一的、而且最政治性 的 影片”,这一对“洗脑”作出清晰刻画并对政教之间的勾结作出描绘的影片被英国电影分级委员会和华纳影业禁放,华纳影业至今仍宣称这部影片强烈不适于公开放映。
马特(克瑞恩·奥伯里恩饰)在茫茫的南极上空盘旋,这眩目的洁白和不动声色的宁静相比起一年前与丽莎(玛戈·斯蒂雷饰)在布鲁克斯顿音乐节上的那次相遇,是如此的不同,以至于如此的刻骨。那个欲望初绽的夏天,尾随着《Movin’on up》的喧嚣,马特和丽莎的爱也在性爱的旋涡中翻滚。他们在窗口边肢体交缠,他们在浴缸中胴体翻转,他们在洁白的床单上虐恋、High到极点,他们在高级酒店中完成此情此爱的最后一个狂热句点。也就是那个夏天,喧嚣的音乐轰然而至,《Primal Scream》、《Franz Ferdinand》、《The Dandy Warhols》、《Black Rebel Motorcycle Club》一首接一首,在舞台上颤然而至。而每一首歌,象征一次高潮,象征马特和丽莎音乐会后翩然而至的性爱记忆。爱有缠绵,亦有纷扰不安的纠缠,那次脱衣舞店里的暧昧经历,让马特黯然夺门而出,于是催生了丽莎痛彻心扉的自慰和马特怀里的泪。然而,有笑,有泪,有怒吼的音乐,有安静的琴声,有邂逅,亦有分离。丽莎回美国的那天,马特第一次去了丽莎的家,却没有去机场送她,因为丽莎说:“我忍受不了太长的送别。 后来,马特去了南极,当他坐着飞机盘旋在皑皑白雪的上空的时候,当他考察着千年的冰层的时候,当他行走在广袤雪中央的时候,他想起了丽莎,想起了这个“21岁,靓丽开放的美国女孩儿”的一切,想起了每次激情中她的娇喘,想起了她送给他的生日的一本关于南极的书 [1] 。
未来世界,地球爆发了惨绝人寰的核战争。曾经显赫一时的超级大国美利坚合众国,也在连番的自戕战争中灰飞烟灭。现如今,以当初华盛顿等地为中心,高高的围墙将被核污染的大地隔绝在外,仅存的8亿人类生活在这名为超级城市一号的封闭空间内。只是人类从来不曾吸取教训,各种恶性犯罪层出不穷 ,鲜血染红大地。在此期间,名为“特警判官”的一群暴力机器得到确立,冷酷干练的Dredd(Karl Urban 饰)即是其中一员。他接手新人卡珊卓·安德森(Olivia Thirlby 饰)的培训评审工作,与之一同调查城市中似乎永无止境的恶性案件。 围绕着各种罪案,超级罪恶女头目“马-马”(Lena Headey 饰)浮出水面,成为这对特警搭档面前最大的对手……
杰克·怀特霍尔(Jack Whitehall)登台登场,讲述了关于幸福夫妻,酒店生活,人类愚蠢和流浪汉的父亲的搞笑故事。
A cinematic homage to Peter Rice, one of the most distinguished engineers of the late 20th century. Tracing Rice's extraordinary life and career, from his Dundalk childhood to his work on the Sydney Opera House,The Pompidou Centre and the Lloyd's Building, to his untimely death in 1992, Marcus Robinson uses stunning time-lapse photography and revealing interviews to tell the story of a genius who stood in the shadow of architectural icons. Until now.
It's not 1985 anymore...it's 1986, and Chuck Steel is 'the best God damn cop on the force' according to his long suffering boss, Captain Jack Schitt. But even this maverick, renegade, loose cannon, lone wolf, cop on the edge, who doesn't play by the rules has his work cut out when the Governor of LA decides to reduce the licensing hours for clubs and bars triggering a sudden, inexplicable spate of high profile disappearances in the city. The disappearances all have the same thing in common, a crime scene covered in blood but with no sign of the victim. The police are perplexed until they get a break in the case when one of the victims manages to escape. Chuck goes to interview the victim at the hospital but is confronted by a crazed old man who introduces himself as Abraham Van Rental. He warns a disbelieving Chuck that an evil scourge is about to descend on the city of Los Angeles - the scourge of the TRAMPIRES - a mutated hybrid of vampire and tramp.
爱丽丝(Emilie Piponnier 饰)拥有着人人羡慕的生活,和丈夫感情稳定恩爱有加,孩子可爱乖巧常伴膝下。某日,她像往常一样刷卡购物消费之时,竟然被告知信用卡因为欠费而被锁定了。直到此时,爱丽丝才发现自己的美丽人生梦在很久之前就破灭了,丈夫不仅将他们的积蓄挥霍一空,而且还是花在了应召女郎的身上。这个男人选择了抛妻弃子,还顺手卷走了曾经充斥着一家人欢声笑语的公寓。霎时间,爱丽丝失去了所有,面临流落街头的窘境。 追寻着丈夫留下的线索,爱丽丝来到了夜总会,想看一看究竟是怎样的女人害得自己落得现在这般下场,哪知道,在夜总会里,爱丽丝竟然发现了生活的新希望,她竟然顺势也成为了坐镇其中的应召女郎。
1997年是一个特殊的年份。改革开放的总设计师小平同志去世。而上海,作为一个国际大都市,正经历着巨大的变迁。这变迁既有具象的,如城市旧区改造;也有抽象的、心理层面的变革——比如人们的性观念、中年男女对于婚姻和生命的反思等等。英国导演Phil Agland拍摄的《逝——上海冬夜的爱与死》准确地抓住这个城市跃动的脉搏,交替讲述了这座城市里几个人各自不同的故事。他选取的人物与故事不但皆与爱和死相关联,而且电影始终保持着恰到好处的节奏感——从故事的铺陈、演进到高潮即将到来前一刹那令人屏息的张力,无不显示了导演卓越的控制能力。在电影离结尾约三十分钟的时候,各条线索同时到达了引而不发的边缘——居住于贫困旧屋的孩子即将经历一场高风险的心脏手术;京剧小演员一个月之后马上要登台公演;弄堂里的寡妇要面临再婚的抉择;而杀害女友的团委干部即将接受最终的审判。这令全片自始至终保持着一种纪录片里不常有的剧烈的悬念感。 团委干部杀害女友的故事在电影中占据了最大的比重。爱与死在这个故事中交织在一起。一个国家机关的知识分子,对自己的女朋友何以下此毒手?性质更为严重的是,他在杀人之后将女友的尸体分成好几部分,抛入江中。手段之残忍,令人难以想象。电影忠实地追随了此案从审讯、宣判、上诉到终审的全过程,杀人犯从最初的抵赖到最后泪流满面,受害者家属在旁听席间的表情,无一不显现了人性的幽微之处,令观众深受震动。而受害者家属对于“杀人犯也会死,他的家人也会难过”的说法之剧烈抨击,更将故事推出更深的、道德反思的层面。 很难想象《逝》出自一个英国导演之手,因为全片的上海风味是此浓重,街坊邻里和杀人罪犯皆操一口鲜活的上海话,丝毫没有剧情片的矫饰,原生态的幽默比比皆是。因此,这不仅是一部可以令西方人更准确全面地了解上海的纪录片,而且更适合上海观众观看,因为在那些词不达意的英文字幕背后,有可以令人或会心一笑或捧腹大笑的对话,而笑过之后,是对身处其中的故乡更深一层的了解,更具省思意味的自知。
It was the world's last Islamic empire - a super-power of a million square miles. From its capital in Istanbul it matched the glories of Ancient Rome. And after six centuries in power it collapsed less than a hundred years ago. Rageh Omaar sets out to discover why the Ottomans have vanished from our understanding of the history of Europe. Why so few realise the importance of Ottoman history in today's Middle East. And why you have to know the Ottoman story to understand the roots of many of today's trouble spots from Palestine, Iraq and Israel to Libya, Syria, Egypt, Bosnia and Kosovo.
Set under the lush canopies of Uganda's Ngogo Forest, scientists and field trackers have lived alongside this tribe for the last 25 years, watching as they built a sophisticated political and familial structure: forming alliances, building trust, caring for one another, and often going head to head in a never ending fight for power. Reed and his team embedded a camera crew to capture an intimate look at the chimps of Ngogo, which saw some of the most tumultuous battles and dramatic changes in the tribe's history. During the series, babies will grow, relationships will blossom, and leaders will rise and fall.
One year on from the notorious "Jack The Ripper" murders, the killings have stopped, but the identity of the killer remains a mystery. Down-at-heel newspaper reporter Sebastian Stubb has moved on to reporting on other scandals, but when a new "Ripper" letter appears on his desk and the killings start again, he unwittingly finds himself at the center of a new mystery. Has the "Ripper" returned, or is it a copycat killer? Or something else entirely?