简介:Whenever I see La Paura I think of it as a companion piece to Eyes Wide Shut, or maybe it is the other way around. Adultery makes both films tick but in different ways. I think Phillip French was right on the money when he pointed out a Wizard of Oz thing in Kubrick's last work. Like Dorothy, Tom and Nicole go through fantasies and nightmares and at the end Dorothy's reassuring childish motto "there's no place like home" is ironically updated to the adult circumstantial adage "there's no sex like marital sex". Kubrick's take is intellectual, he never leaves the world of ideas to touch the ground. He taunts the audience first with an erotic movie and then with a thriller and refuses to deliver either of them. He was married to his third wife for 40 years, until he died. Rossellini was still married to Ingrid Bergman when he directed La Paura; they had been adulterous lovers and their infidelity widely criticized La Paura is a tale, a noirish one. The noir intrigue is solved and the tale has a happy ending. The city is noir; the country is tale, the territory where childhood is possible. The transition is operated in the most regular way: by car, a long-held shot taken from the front of the car as it rides into the road, as if we were entering a different dimension. Irene (Bergman) starts the movie: we just see a dark city landscape but her voice-over narration tells us of her angst and informs us that the story is a flashback, hers. Bergman's been cheating on her husband. At first guilt is just psychological torture but soon expands into economic blackmail and then grows into something else. From beginning to end the movie focuses on what Bergman feels, every other character is there to make her feel something. Only when the director gives away the plot before the main character can find out does he want us to feel something Bergman still can't. When she finds out, we have already experienced the warped mechanics of the situation and we may focus once again on the emotional impact it has on Bergman's Irene. In La Paura treasons are not imagined but real, nightmares are deliberate and the couple's venom suppurates in bitter ways. Needless to say, Ingrid has another of her rough rides in the movies but Rossellini doesn't dare put her away as he did in Europa 51, nor does he abandon her to the inscrutable impassivity of nature (Stromboli). His gift is less transcendent and fragile than the conclusion of Viaggio in Italia. He just gives his wife as much of a fairy tale ending as a real woman can have, a human landscape where she can finally feel at home. Back to the country, a half lit interior scene where shadows suggest the comfort of sleep. After all, it's the "fairy godmother" who speaks the last words in the movie.
简介:At 26 years old, Craig (Harry Lloyd) seems to be doing pretty well for himself. He has job stability, a supportive family, and is about to start a wonderful new chapter with his girlfriend. With big life changes on the horizon, what better time to lie to your girlfriend so you can go on a road trip by yourself to the south?
简介:十九世纪的美国西部,一辆马车在荒漠中行驶着。车上有九个素不相识的乘客。其中有被镇上驱赶的妓女Dallas(克莱尔·特雷弗 Claire Trevor 饰),一个酒鬼医生Doc Boone (托马斯·米切尔 Thomas Mitchell饰),寻找丈夫的孕妇Lucy Mallory,威士忌商人Samuel Peacock,逃狱为父报仇的Ringo Kid(约翰·韦恩 John Wayne 饰)。一路上危险重重,马车要躲避印第安人的追杀,Dallas要忍受他人的轻视和冷落,除了对她有好感的Ringo。而Ringo则要处理他和警察的关系。孕妇Lucy在半途就要分娩了,醉醺醺的医生能否化险为夷?一段充满了艰险的旅程过后,最后Ringo和Dallas这两个社会边缘人能否走到一起?本片获1940年奥斯卡五项提名,赢得了最佳男配角和最佳配乐两个大奖。
简介:Part one of the Treasure Island Kids Series follows Charlie, a rebellious teenager sent to summer camp by his parents. This is not any old summer camp, this is the real Island. Meanwhile, the evil Captain Flint plots to take over the island and take all the gold hidden there for himself. Charlie must lead the kids to victory or lose the island for ever.
简介:A fast paced dramatic thriller set in locations throughout Victoria, Australia. Grady (Marcus Graham) an ex-soldier whose life has been disrupted and his emotions disturbed, by his experiences at war and in prison, escapes from police custody after attending the burial of his murdered brother, Chris. Although free he is 'on the run' and is driven by his desire for freedom and a need to avenge his brother's death by finding his killer. With his hands still handcuffed Grady returns home and he turns to his former lover Kate, for help. Initially, Kate is not pleased to see Grady but she reluctantly agrees to help him. Grady attempts to call in some favors from his old cell mate, Keith, who together with Grady, Chris and their cousin Frank, were involved in money laundering operations. Keith is now keen to stay on the side of the law. Keith tells Grady that Frank and Chris were in business together and that Frank should not be trusted - Chris had made that mistake and now he was dead. Grady and Kate drive to Chris's country house and on their arrival they meet Frank Maguire. Frank is very nervous and Grady suspects that Chris was betrayed by the people whom he trusted most. They find a number of clues that Chris had left and they piece together the events leading to his death. Thrown together again they realize that their passion for each other still exists and, in an all explosive climax they are forced to fight for their lives - and their future
简介:A young man still in love with his self-destructive ex agrees to join her on a trip to Cancun where he ends up meeting a local girl - forcing him question everything he wants in life.
简介:Chen Liping reprises her most popular role and is a teacher in this TCS telemovie. This time, she undergoes an ugly duckling-elegant swan transformation as she overcomes tremendous odds to become a role model to a group of notorious students. Also stars Bernard Tan (Chen Chuanzhi) and Lee MeiLing.
简介:二战时期,一批美国战俘被关押在德军的监狱里,故事就发生在17号监狱(Stalag 17)。有两名囚犯想要越狱,却被德军所杀,监狱里的囚犯们开始怀疑他们其中有人出卖了他们。大家都把嫌疑集中在一个人身上——狡猾的Sefton(威廉·霍尔登 William Holden 饰)身上。Sefton虽然也是个囚犯,但他靠组织“赛马”、卖酒还有出租望远镜赚了不少钱。不久,一位美国中尉Dunbar(Don Taylor 饰)被抓进狱中。他在法兰克福火车站制造了爆炸案炸死了不少德军。然而此事随即被德军军官Oberst von Scherbach(奥托·普雷明格 Otto Preminger 饰)所获悉。Sefton被认为就是那个泄露了消息的内奸,挨了一顿揍。然而他依旧宣称自己是无辜的。Dunbar即将被纳粹军处死。到底谁才是真正的内奸?到底中尉Dunbar能否逃过一劫? 本片主演威廉·霍尔登获1954年奥斯卡影帝,导演比利·怀尔德也获得最佳导演提名。
简介:四个同生于十二月、住在孤儿院的男孩得到一次去南方海边度假的机会,他们惬意地享受难得的玩乐日子,但是一个传言却让他们的友谊产生裂痕:当地一对夫妇计划选中他们中的一个收养。年纪最小的米斯提(李·考米 Lee Cormie 饰)最先得知这个消息,为了增加自己的机会而刻意隐瞒,斯比特(詹姆斯·弗拉瑟尔 James Fraser 饰)和斯巴克斯(克里斯蒂安·毕耶斯 Christian Byers 饰)知道后开始勾心斗角,互相阻挠;四人中唯有麦皮斯(丹尼尔·雷德克里夫 Daniel Radcliffe 饰)不关心被收养的事情,因为他遭遇了初恋,一个名叫“露西Lucy”的当地女孩(特丽莎·帕尔马 Teresa Palmer 饰)让他初尝禁果,却又即刻离开他。四个孩子在这个夏天各自得到前所未有的成长……