简介:A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a boy from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him live there.Robert Altman's sadly neglected film that, along with his later "Images", fits into the unconventional psycho-thriller mold. A bizarre story with Sandy Dennis as a spinster who takes in a handsome young man (Michael Burns) who is pretending to be mute. She imprisons the boy and supplies his every need, including a prostitute (Luana Anders), whom she goes out and brings home for Burns' pleasure.
简介:The issue of War widow representation in Israeli cinema is one of the most complex for the local industry for it seems to be unique and with a very local and specific iconography.The war Widow is a difficult character to digest. Because this is an especially painful topic in Israel, its mode of representation is almost always problematic.Gila Almagor in Tofano's siege is one of the first characters of the modern war widows to appear on Israeli cinema screens.The human and social complexity of the status of widows was not represented adequately and personally until her complex and fine appearance in this film.It was mostly Preceded by cliches of heroic women who have sacrificed for the nation with characters to which it was very difficult to get attached, nor to their personal grief.Siege was directed by an unknown Italian director of that period. Although Gilberto Tofano was brought as a professional director on the wings of inspiration made by the French New Wave of those years, he managed to turn out a very exciting work which has caught the Israeli warmth and sense of social siege which surrounds the Israeli widows, including the great expectations from them and the social stigmas.Tofano wrapped his leading lady with lots of warmth and gave a place of honor to Almagor's impressive presence in the film.This is without a doubt one of Almagor's best and most accurate performances. The restraint in her performance plus the shooting and expressive use of angles by Tofano and his soft European touch which was far off from the aggressive local product managed to produce a sense of documenting an authentic tragedy with a tangible personal touch that minimized the national dimension. The result stands the test of time proudly several decades after its creation.
简介:19世纪末,威名四震的“虎豹小霸王”布奇(保罗·纽曼 Paul Newman 饰)与搭档太阳舞小子(罗伯特·雷德福 Robert Redford 饰)在美国西部的一个小镇上四处抢劫银行,与对手凶残搏杀,与警察机智周旋。一次,两人抢劫“飞人”公司邮车,引来警长与当地居民的追捕。但他俩依旧我行我素,与女教师埃塔(凯瑟琳·罗斯 Katharine Ross 饰)逍遥自在地过着快乐时光。当他们再次抢劫“飞人”邮车后,招来一队骑警,对他们紧追不舍,展开天罗地网的搜捕,迫使布奇和太阳舞小子展开了逃亡之路。从悬崖跳下逃命的两人找到埃塔,商议去玻利维亚谋生。在异国他乡,他们尝试金盆洗手走上正道,终究还是认为这种生活不适合他们,于是重操旧业。埃塔一气之下,抛下他们重回美国。他们在一座小镇不慎暴露身份,被追捕的警察重重包围。前有拦截,后有追兵,虎豹小霸王是否能够在重重夹击之下浴火重生? 本片获得第42届奥斯卡最佳原创剧本奖、最佳摄影奖、最佳原创歌曲奖、最佳配乐奖等
简介:Mannheim-Heidelberg International FilmfestivalYearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)1969 Won Grand PrizeDusan HanákA government official in Czechoslovakia mistakenly believes he has cancer. He reasons his involvement in clandestine activities during the Stalin administration have fated him to die from a dreaded disease. He searches for inner peace as he feels the guilt of his past transgressions. This film tied for the Grand Prize at the Mannheim Film Festival in 1969.Slovak director Dusan Hanak was one of Czech cinema's brightest and best talents of the '60s and '70s, but because of censorship this was not manifest until the late '80s. Dusan made an impact on the film world with his auspicious debut 322 (1969). Though banned until 1988, when it was finally released, it earned international acclaim and the Grand Prix award at the Mannheim Film Festival. Hanak's sophomore effort, the documentary Obrazy Stareho Sveta/Image of an Old World (completed in 1972), was also not released until 1988 and neither was his 1980 film Ja Milujem, Ty Milujes/I Love You, You Love. Only Hanak's 1976 film Ruzove Sny/Rose-Tinted Dreams passed muster with censors and saw a timely release.
简介:8/ 《植物园的狂欢》(Slavnost V Botanickej Zahrade/The Gala in the Botanical Garden,1969),87分钟,黑白+彩色,导演:Elo Havetta 六十年代最具创造力的斯洛伐克电影之一,依我的看法这部影片代表了东欧魔幻现实主义电影的最高水准。哈维塔的首部影片,用荒诞夸张的情节来表现斯洛伐克人民的悲欢离合,其中黑白与彩色交织的影像来自著名的斯洛伐克摄影师斯蒙西奇(Dodo Simoncic)。
简介:故事发生在二十世纪的一个英国小镇里。古淳(格兰达·杰克逊 Glenda Jackson 饰)和厄苏拉(珍妮·林登 Jennie Linden 饰)是情同手足的两姐妹,姐姐古淳在学校里担任教师的职务,性格严谨而刻板,妹妹厄苏拉不久之前才回到家乡,身为自由派画家的她向往着无拘无束随心所欲的生活。 在一场婚礼中,姐妹两人结识了鲁伯特(阿兰·贝茨 Alan Bates 饰)和杰拉德(奥列佛·里德 Oliver Reed 饰)两名男子。厄休拉和鲁伯特坠入了情网,并且携手走入了婚姻的殿堂。与此同时,古淳和杰拉德之间也产生了暧昧的情愫。四人前往瑞士度假,在那里,古淳邂逅了一名风流倜傥的雕塑家,移情别恋。这让杰拉德感到无法接受。
简介:The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.