乡谣情缘

　　美国哥伦比亚大学迎来了新一届学生。黑人青年马里克（Omar Epps 饰）拥有极高的运动天赋，为了得到全额奖学金，他必须拼命训练取得优异成绩。超级大四学生富吉（Ice Cube 饰）的愤世思想深深影响了马里克，他对自己的前途倍感迷茫；白人女孩克莉丝蒂（Kristy Swanson 饰）对大学校园的一切都感到新鲜，在一次狂欢醉酒后，她遭到强暴，从此投身于女权运动中；来自爱达荷的白人男孩雷米（Michael Rapaport 饰）木讷保守，与周遭格格不入，偶然机会他结识了几个光头党的朋友，在偏执的路上越走越远……
　　本片荣获1996年美国有色人种大奖NAACP Image Awards最佳男配角奖（Laurence Fishburne）。

　　取经路上，唐僧（贾永泉 饰）师徒四人遇到豹精（王玉清 饰）到员外家抢亲，经过一番搏杀，寡不敌众的豹精暴毙而亡，员外一家很是高兴。次日，一行四人途经牛魔宫，踫上牛魔王与铁扇公主闹家务，悟空（董志华 饰）出言不逊，得罪了铁扇公主。师徒继续西行，这日，他们来到车池国，如今的车池国被妖孽控制，唐僧率徒在此停留数日，捣毁了妖窟，恢复了昔日宁静的生活。红孩儿（穆立新 饰）接其母铁扇公主信告，得知孙悟空冲撞其母，决心为母报仇。观音菩萨得知唐僧师徒有难，差弟子木吒、金吒与哪吒前往相助，最终收降了红孩儿......
　　故事取材于吴承恩名著《西游记》。

　　Vital, 40 ans, travaille comme chef d’atelier dans une usine textile. Il est choisi comme « cobaye » par Alix, 25 ans, venue réaliser une étude ergonomique dans l’entreprise de son père sous couvert d’anonymat. La fille du patron est rapidement sous le charme de cet ouvrier réservé et secret qui s’ouvre peu à peu à son contact et se met à rêver d’une autre vie…

　　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 prisoner/penitent 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 not"/"are 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.

　　本片基于艾米·利普罗特所著回忆录，她和芬沙伊德改编剧本，讲述刚从康复中心出来的罗娜在离开十多年后，回到了苏格兰的奥克尼群岛，回到童年时的牧羊场，再度体会到了自然之美和静谧的珍贵。

　　查理（查尔斯·劳顿 Charles Laughton 饰）是靠着在街头卖艺维生的小混混，一天，一个名叫利比（费雯·丽 Vivien Leigh 饰）企图抢走查理的卖艺所得，结果被后者抓住，两人不打不相识，查理可怜无家可归流落街头的利比，于是答应带着利比一起表演。
　　聪明的利比有用极高的表演天赋，她的杰出被名叫潘斯特（雷克斯·哈里森 Rex Harrison 饰）的剧院经理看在眼里。潘斯特邀请利比去剧院演出，利比想带上查理，但被他拒绝了，两人就此分道扬镳。一晃眼多年过去，利比成为了炙手可热的大明星，而查理已久只是在街头流浪的乞丐，这样地位悬殊的两人再度相遇了。