VN.019-夏小秋秋秋

　　通过一部伪纪录片《未解之谜》五个故事娓娓道来：警察进入古宅寻找孩子遭遇神秘生物；一群印度狗仔队发现宝莱坞女星并非镜头般光鲜亮丽；几个朋友必须在遭遇外星人入侵之后与客机相撞的高空跳伞中幸存；动物权利组织闯进痛失爱犬的女士住宅后将经历至暗时刻；以及一位沙漠中的母亲调查莫哈韦沙漠幽浮飞船后成为飞船偷渡者……

　　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.

艾玛在夜深人静的时候被带走了，浑身是瘀伤，意外怀孕了。在妇女庇护所找到了一个新家，她重新发现了自己失去的一面。在住在避难所的妇女和儿童中，个人创伤交织在一起。尽管他们有分歧，但一种微妙的姐妹情谊出现了。“一部关于女性为自尊和独立而战的电影，面对一个剥夺她们发言权的世界。这部电影将观众带到了一个女性避难所的墙壁后面，向他们展示了一个令人惊讶的充满活力的世界，那里的生活正在重建。如果有痛苦，也有力量、快乐和希望。角色和他们的故事植根于真实的经历和情感，由演员和非演员共同扮演。情感诚实至关重要”。导演的笔记。

　　一名男子因猎枪走火而身亡，几乎所有的人都认为这是一起意外，只有一向风格强硬的检事霞夕子（泽口靖子 饰）倍感蹊跷。她执意深入调查，但是最终一无所获。与此同时，名叫安川初音（石野洋子 饰）的女子来到夕子老家的寺院上香，她此行的目的是悼念一个因被误解而意外死亡的男子。安川种种反常举动引起了夕子的注意，她旋即又对安川展开调查，却无意间发现这两起意外事件的关联。层层迷雾渐渐散尽，真相逐渐浮出水面……　　本片根据夏树静子的原著小说《路上の奇禍》改编，是3週連続　罪と女系列的第2部，另外两部分别为《破婚的条件》和《魔术的耳语》。

影片改编自蒲松龄《聊斋志异》之《聂小倩》。小倩生前被人所负含恨而终，死后化为女鬼，被姥姥囚禁于兰若寺。恰逢书生宁生进京赶考，借宿此地，意外救下小倩。逃亡途中，两人不断遭遇人间及地府势力的阻挠，却也在此般经历中感情升温。宁生带着小倩感受了人间美好，小倩决心还阳，却在到达鬼市后发现事情远没有这么简单……

　　李·佩斯出演美国传奇汽车公司德劳瑞恩的创始人——天才汽车设计师约翰·德劳瑞恩，影片设定在1980年代，德劳瑞恩创建还没几年，正在崛起，聚焦约翰和苏戴奇斯饰演的Jim Hoffman的关系。Hoffman看似有趣迷人，其实他是一名前诈骗犯，现在为FBI工作，他来约翰这里当卧底，想要控告其贩毒。两人建立的一段有趣的bromance也很快急转直下，行差踏错。