女巫國王

步履不停

 “人生路上步履不停，為何總是慢一拍”。位于偏遠小鎮(zhèn)的橫山一家，生活平靜祥和。父親恭平（原田芳雄 飾）是業(yè)已退休的醫(yī)生，卻時時牽掛小鎮(zhèn)診所內的事務。長子純平繼承了父親的事業(yè)，卻在15年前為救落水兒童而溺水身亡。次子良多（阿部寬 飾）與父親意見相左，執(zhí)意前往異地當起了繪畫修復師。多年的打拼換來的卻是失業(yè)，困頓的良多與帶著孩子的由香里（夏川結衣 飾）結婚，相互扶持，繼續(xù)生活。又逢純平的忌日，良多和姐姐千奈美（YOU 飾）帶著家人分別趕回家中。平靜的橫山家再次熱鬧起來……本片榮獲2009年藍絲帶最佳導演獎和最佳女配角獎（樹木希林）、2008年報知電影和2009年電影旬報最佳女配角（樹木希林）、2009年每日電影獎最佳男主角（阿部寬）、2008年馬塔布拉塔國際電影節(jié)評審團大獎和最佳影片。

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　　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.

致我的青春

洋基的驕傲

 盧（加里·庫柏 Gary Cooper 飾）出生在一個貧困的家庭之中，雖然他對于棒球這項運動有著狂熱的愛好，但是母親卻希望他能夠成為一名建筑師，因為在母親的觀念里，建筑師才能賺大錢。盧通過不懈的努力考進了哥倫比亞大學念書，同時也沒有放棄自己的棒球夢想。在一次校級比賽中，盧的全壘打讓他受到了球隊經紀人的注意，與此同時，盧的母親患上了絕癥急需一筆醫(yī)藥費，為了拯救母親，同時也為了自己的夢想，盧在20歲那一年簽約成為了洋基隊的職業(yè)球員。頭兩年，盧在球隊里的事業(yè)并不順利，一直都是坐冷板凳的份，直到1925年，盧在賽場上的優(yōu)秀表現(xiàn)漸漸吸引了球迷們的目光，兩年之后，盧一躍成為了球隊里最有價值的球員。

導師2025

在知名補習班里，流傳著一個恐怖傳言：只要在深夜走上被封鎖的四樓，填寫桌上的報名表，寫下上榜的愿望，不論再困難的考試與科系，都能如愿考取。資優(yōu)生貝兒與好友們前去試膽，愿望竟奇跡般一一成真，卻伴隨著接連不斷的離奇死亡。肩負母親對醫(yī)學院的期待，貝兒也在名單上留下自己的名字，自此怪事頻頻纏身；姐姐精神逐漸崩潰，弟弟貝斯為救她挺身而出，決心以自己的名字改寫命運。隨著真相逐漸揭開，他們赫然發(fā)現(xiàn)四樓深埋的秘密，竟與一段駭人師生往事緊緊相連……當對考試的渴望仰賴超自然力量，而這種成功卻要以生命為代價時，是畢業(yè)，還是斃命？他們能夠在瘋癲的教育體制內活下來嗎？

壞繼母

　　Following the sudden and mysterious death of their father, a brother and sister return home to their sprawling New Orleans estate and encounter their unhinged stepmother, who will stop at nothing to gain control of their inheritance.