Blitz Patrollie chronicles the adventures of Rummy Augustine (Joey Rasdien) and his partner, Ace Dikolobe (David Kau), police officers who have had the misfortune of being stationed in a little known depot in the belly of the Johannesburg CBD. Rummy is bogged down with trying to start a family and an overbearing mother-in-law who just won't move out. The overzealous Ace, on the other hand, can think of nothing better to do in the morning than to put on his lucky bulletproof vest and head out to kick some bad guy ass. Whilst in a poor white neighborhood, trying to solve yet another small-time crime, Rummy and Ace, along with their inept sniper colleagues, accidentally stumble upon a massive drug haul. What ensues is a series of mishaps as the duo encounter some of the city's craftiest crooks in a race against time to catch the bad guys and claim their place in crime fighting glory.
这个根据真实故事改编的影片背景发生在1966年,披头士乐队在西班牙南部城市阿尔梅里亚巡演时。“闭上眼睛活着很容易”是一句歌词,来源于列侬在这次西班牙巡演时谱写的披头士乐队的一首单曲:《Straberry field forever》(草莓园永恒),这部影片也是与他有关的影片,但是讲述的并不是他的故事,而是三位不同经历,不同出身的人想方设法去接近和探访约翰列侬的故事:一个狂热痴迷约翰列侬的奔赴披头士乐队巡演地的西班牙英语老师,一个年仅十六岁离家出走的男孩,一个怀有身孕同样也在逃避着什么的年轻女孩···他们在一起的旅途,会碰撞出什么样的火花和故事?而这部影片与约翰列侬又有着什么样的关系? 2014年西班牙戈雅奖最佳影片、最佳女演员 、最佳原创剧本。
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
故事发生在1845年的英国,安妮(查利·墨菲 Charlie Murphy 饰)、夏洛特(菲恩·阿特金斯 Finn Atkins 饰)和艾米丽(克洛伊·皮里 Chloe Pirrie 饰)三姐妹和他们年迈的老父亲一起过着相依为命的生活。弟弟布兰威尔(亚当·纳盖提斯 Adam Nagaitis 饰)的屡屡骚扰让这家人本就贫困的生活雪上加霜。 三姐妹都知道,如果父亲死了,她们或许就要失去赖以生存的房子,流落街头,为了避免这一事态的发生,她们用各自的方法努力着。三姐妹天生善于幻想,热爱写作,可是当时的文坛是不可能发表女性作家所写的作品的。于是,她们使用了男性的笔名写作投稿,并且最终获得了成功。
Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career. Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.) As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisonerpenitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone (I'm a mechanic), yet the symbolism is rich he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played. The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . You need a woman not a girl) is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly arty and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual am notare too argument). Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the unbelievable truth of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.
1960年捷克卡罗维发利国际电影节最佳导演水晶球奖。 Originally titled Seryozha, the Russian A Summer to Remember was co-adapted by Vera Panova from her own short story. War and Peace director Sergei Bondarchuk plays the new stepfather of young Seryozha (Borya Barkhatov). So close do the stepfather and the boy become in the months following their meeting that, when time comes for the boy to move on in life, he refuses to leave his new dad's side. Their summer idyll takes place on a Soviet collective farm, managed by Bondarchuk and depicted by novice filmmakers Georgiy Daneliya and Igor Talankin in the most glowing and apolitical of terms. Though there isn't much to the plot, the film admirably succeeds as a sort of cinematic tone poem. From All Movie Guide Russian filmmaker Georgi Daneliya ranks among his country's most popular directors of satirical comedies. The Georgia-born Daneliya comes from a distinguished family of film performers; his grandmother, Veriko Andzhaparidze, was a famed Georgian silent film actress, his cousin, Sofiko Chiaureli, is also a major actress, and his mother, Meri Andzhaparidze, spent more than a decade at Mosfilm Studios. However, he first chose to train as an architect (perhaps out of respect for his father, an engineer). Following his graduation in 1955, Daneliya worked only briefly in that field when he decided he'd rather be in films, enrolling in Mosfilm Studios' Directors' Courses in 1958. In 1960, Daneliya co-directed SeryozhaA Summer to Remember with Igor Talankin. Two years later, he made his solo directorial debut, Put K PrichaluThe Way to the Wharf (1962). His 1969 comedy Ne Goryuy!Don't Worry! successfully blended humor and melancholy, a device that would become Daneliya's trademark. In addition to directing, Daneliya co-authors the scripts for his films and occasionally works on screenplays for other directors. Daneliya has won numerous national and international awards for his work. In 1964, his Ya Shagayu po MoskveI Walk Around Moscow received an honorable mention at the Cannes Film Festival, while in 1975 Afonya received a special award at the All Union Festival, a major U.S.S.R. event. Daneliya's biggest hit in the U.S.S.R., Mimino (1977), earned the special prize at the Moscow International Film Festival and the U.S.S.R. State Prize. In 1991, Daneliya earned the Nika Award (the Russian equivalent to an Oscar) for Best Screenplay for Pasport (1990).
奥利弗(约翰·霍华德·戴维斯 John Howard Davies 饰)一出生就被抛弃,在孤儿院生活了九年之后,他被送到了棺材铺当学徒。无法忍受苦不堪言的生活,奥利弗从师傅的身边逃跑来到了巴黎,在那里,他结识了扒手法钦(亚利克·基尼斯 Alec Guinness 饰)。就这样,奥利弗被迫开始了自己的扒手生涯。 一次偶然中,奥利弗被警察逮捕,所幸得到了好心的老先生布莱罗(亨利·斯蒂芬森 Henry Stephenson 饰)收留,一辈子颠沛流离的奥利佛总算体会到了家的滋味。不幸的是,扒手团伙却不愿意放过奥利弗,他们绑架了他,其中,一个名叫南希(Kay Walsh 饰)的女孩对奥利弗心生恻隐,她决定不惜违抗老大的命令,尽自己所能帮助这个可怜的孩子。