塔拉 Tara Tara Tara Tara (1980)

　　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.

洛杉磯警探喬瑟夫（克萊格·謝菲爾 飾）是個(gè)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)敗類，嗑藥嗑得比誰都勤快，調(diào)查命案不忘順手牽羊，更枉顧家中妻小，專搞迷人可愛的阻街女郎。一宗幼童謀殺案現(xiàn)場，喬瑟夫撿回一只受過詛咒的奇異盒子，打開后怪事不斷一樁接一樁：昨夜搞上的妓女意外身亡，他瞬間成為頭號嫌疑犯；一連串似幻似真的恐怖體驗(yàn)更不斷尾隨，無臉怪人四處追殺人群，《養(yǎng)鬼吃人》系列當(dāng)家猛鬼－針頭鬼（Pinhead）也重出江湖，一個(gè)頭兩個(gè)大的喬瑟夫該如何解決這謎一般的虛實(shí)夢魘？本片改編自克里夫巴克（Clive Barker）恐怖小說「受地獄羈絆之心」The Hellbound Heart，這顆壞心腸的主人正是故事男主角喬瑟夫，身為警察的他自身行為不檢點(diǎn)也罷，涉嫌謀殺難以脫罪的他竟然嫁禍好同事，善惡終有報(bào)，惡徒喬瑟夫果然陷入萬劫不復(fù)的魔鬼夢魘，活著比死更痛苦。

　　流行巨星（詹妮弗·洛佩茲 Jennifer Lopez 飾）在結(jié)婚前一刻發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的未婚夫出軌，于是在臺上隨意挑選了數(shù)學(xué)老師（歐文·威爾遜 Owen Wilson 飾）結(jié)婚，二人究竟能否真正擦出愛情的火花？有情人最終能否終成眷屬？

　　春秋戰(zhàn)國時(shí)期，一向昏庸好色的齊宣王（梅艷芳飾）誤闖夜叉山，碰上了美麗的寨主鐘無艷（鄭秀文飾），齊宣王決定把鐘無艷娶為皇后，可是一直傾心于鐘無艷的“狐貍精”（張柏芝飾）出手阻撓，只要鐘無艷愛上其他的人，臉上便會無緣無故多出一塊難看的紅斑。狐貍精后來化身夏迎春勾引齊宣王，齊宣王終日沉醉溫柔鄉(xiāng)。而鐘無艷為了夫君出生入死、南征北戰(zhàn)。齊宣王只會有事求助于鐘無艷時(shí)才好言相向。齊宣王十分好賭，竟然把鐘無艷作為作為籌碼輸?shù)袅耍姛o艷憤怒離開，臉上紅斑也自然消失。夏迎春得逞后也離開了皇宮，齊宣王才發(fā)現(xiàn)自己最愛為何人，浪子回頭。在受到叛徒攻擊時(shí)，還是愛著齊宣王的鐘無艷，趕到了皇宮，幫忙驅(qū)走外敵……