The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich; his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.
暑假到了,双胞胎姐弟俩梅宝(克里斯汀·沙尔 Kristen Schaal 配音)和迪普(杰森·雷特 Jason Ritter 配音)被爸妈赶到一个偏僻小镇“重力泉”过暑假,在这里,他们的斯坦叔公经营着一家专门敲诈游客的旅游景点“神秘小屋”,其中有着各种各样稀奇古怪的东西。然而更让人感到毛骨悚然的,则是这个怪诞小镇里的森林。为人慎重、头脑聪明的迪普觉察到森林的异样,继而发现了一本埋在地下的神秘笔记本,里面记载着存在于神秘小镇的不为人知的秘密。乐天派的梅宝和机智的迪普,结识了神秘小屋的店员温蒂和苏斯,还遇到各种奇妙的小镇居民。在怪诞小镇重力泉,他们经历了一系列奇异事件,小矮人,湖怪,蜡像,通灵者,他们这个暑假注定不平凡。
20世纪末,研习黑魔法的阿尔弗莱德(Aldo Sanbrell 饰)利欲熏心,从地狱召唤来三个绝美却恐怖冷血的女妖。女妖帮助他达成愿望,作为回报阿尔弗莱德必须定期向她们奉上活人作为贡品。为了吸引更多贡品,阿尔弗莱德开了一家高级院,多年来无辜遇害者不计其数。
阿尔弗莱德死后,约翰?斯托克(Sergio Jones 饰)接手此地,他请来六个灵媒,希望驱除盘踞在这里的恶魔。然而“请神容易送神难”,何况他所面对的是来自地狱深处的魔鬼。灵媒专家泰德(Clark Beasley Jr. 饰)及其小组碰上了出道以来最难应付的对手……
An eclectic band of misfits becomes an unlikely family as they take a wild journey in the name of love while on the run from an overzealous FBI duo who want them dead or alive - preferably dead.
A once promising baseball star is constantly hunted by two hitmen when a young boy asks him to sell his baseball jacket. A high school student acquires a sleep control device to help him with his exams, and ends up getting more acquainted with the seller in the process. A prison guard buys a guitar and plays one last song with a rock band after he finds out that his number has been called up… to be an executioner. An English tutor and amateur journalist investigating a murder case makes an offer to gain information on the involvement of … a once promising baseball star.
GOOD DEAL is a woven tapestry of the interconnected lives of people striving through the day-to-day of contemporary Korean society. Quite a spectrum of themes are covered: romance, crime, sports, famly, work, and even Russian literature! As each of its characters seek to make a “deal” with another person to help them stay ahead or even stay alive, they find their interactions much more involved and complex than they first thought. Written and directed by Cho Kyuong-ho, the film mixes wickedly dark humor and sincere sentimentality through its interwoven yet still seamlessly linear style of storytelling.