和山田进行LV.999的恋爱

　　藥物成癮的凡妮莎與男友仰賴社福漏洞苟且偷生，白天推著破舊除草機逐戶敲門、騷擾乞錢，夜晚徘徊荒郊曠野，蟄居廢棄拖車。日復一日，兩人不是在醫院無賴討藥，就是在街上失神遊蕩。行屍走肉般的生活逐漸讓凡妮莎感到不安，發現懷孕後，她力圖振作，卻發現自己無法割捨早已放棄人生的萎靡男友。在感情與理性間搖擺不定的她，終將墮回萬劫不復的愛情煉獄，抑或能堅定擁抱新生的勇氣？
　　加拿大離島出身的新銳導演艾許莉麥坎錫，將家鄉沉迷藥癮、頹廢過活的失業青年群象，改編成現實羅曼史，描繪在絕望與無奈的漩渦中載浮載沉的邊緣悲歌。堅持草根視角，啟用在地演員，以大量貼身特寫手法，展現陰性影像書寫的特殊風格。

　　Murayama Kaita, a Japanese painter, novelist and poet died in 1919 at the age of 22, leaving behind an impressive and time-defying body of work. In his most recent film, Sato Hisayasu offers a surreal, time-crossing, meta-layered essay on the artist, his originality and his legacy.
　　Dear Kaita Ablaze brings together a young woman Azami obsessed with Murayama's painting, a young man Saku, who can hear unusual frequencies and claims to be Murayama or his spiritual imprint and a quartet of young performers with psychic abilities. They bond over Murayama’s work which they recreate in performative dance while driving to a mysterious cave called Agartha.
　　Sato Hisayasu (The Eye's Dream, Muscle, The Bedroom), renowned for his pinku and exploration of madness and lust, returns to IFFR. Dear Kaita Ablaze is hyper-dense, obsessive and driven, effortlessly mashing surrealism with sci-fi and mysticism, layering seemingly unrelated events and encounters to bring them together in a monumental climax.
　　– kijA

　　同志Henry接到祖父病重的消息。他决定暂时放下自己在纽约颇成功的事业，回答家乡照料老人，然而，在家乡他又遇见了他，那个让他多年前心碎离开的好友：一个直男，已经离婚，带着两个孩子独自生活。
　　而这位直男慢慢也开始困惑于自己对好友的感情，到底是友情还是爱情。他尝试从爱情上去接纳他，最终还是失败，毕竟他是个直人。
　　男主角一直把心思放在直人身上，却不知镇上杂货店的印第安人老板已悄悄地爱上了自己。老板每天费尽心思地为他病重的爷爷调理饮食，却羞涩木讷地不敢向他表白（这小镇的同志还真多）。在本镇那些友善的居民朋友的撮合下，他和老板终于走倒了一起。
　　故事发生在美丽的蒙大拿山区，风景优美，民风淳朴。

　　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.

　　著名影评人伍岳在京城非常有名气，只要他说好的电影，票房一定大卖。著名美食评论家黄珊也非常有名气，人送外号：活的大众点评。这两个人虽然各自频繁约会，但就是不结婚。这天，伍岳出门开车散心，黄珊赌气开车出家门。伍岳的车撞上黄珊的车，两人在路边产生争执，最后伍岳同意了修车的费用负责，同时伍岳请黄珊吃饭表示歉意。在后来的相处中两人的矛盾再次被激化，互相怀疑互相打击。一天，两人去看电影，看完电影，伍岳写了一篇影评发在网上，不久，因为这篇影评房地产商大牛投资的影片票房惨败，大牛仇视伍岳，对他实施了绑架，绑架的目的就是想让他再写一篇正面影评，伍岳不从，大牛痛哭流涕，说自己资金链断裂，但因为有情怀，所以借了很多钱拍电影，伍岳被感动，答应帮他一次。为了救伍岳，黄珊来到大牛的老巢，两人终于逃出困境，也最终走到了一起。按他们自己的话来说：他们走到一起。也算是“为民除害”了。

　　美国深海勘查潜艇“赛任1号”在一次例行任务中失事，当局命令潜艇设计师（主人公）组织一支由军人和各类科学家构成的小队，乘坐另一艘同型潜艇“赛任2号”下海救援“赛任1号”，成员里面有两个女性，其中一个是潜艇设计师的前妻。
　　搜索的线索是“赛任1号”上面的一只“黑匣子”。救援队据此潜航到一个非常隐蔽的海沟。途中这艘黄色潜艇被一个巨大的白色不明物体包裹住，艇长用电击法驱走这个怪物。三名潜水员出艇勘查，发现这里的海藻发生过变异，大得出奇。一名潜水员遭隐藏在海藻林间的异形生物突袭而亡，另两名生还者采集了一些变异的海藻后返回潜艇。
　　潜艇为了躲避变异生物的袭击，进入了海沟内部探险，结果发现海沟最底部有一个巨大空洞，潜艇浮出水面，艇员们穿着如同宇航服的特种防护衣进入这个幽深的洞穴，发现内部竟然有人工开凿的痕迹，里面到处都是变异生物，有的类似巨型蜜蜂，有的类似海蛇和恐龙的杂交体，并且所有的生物身上都带有剧毒。
　　队员们在留守在潜艇中的通讯指挥员的指示下不断深入，寻找遗失的黑匣子。然而当他们在洞内巡视时，一头异形怪物穿破一名队员的保护罩，进入他的体内，队员们被迫将其击毙。
　　同时，潜艇上的变异海藻入侵了潜艇上的饮水系统，接触海藻或者饮用了被海藻污染的水，都会被侵蚀逐渐变为海藻的饲料，一个杂役兵因此感染而死。
　　队员们划着橡皮筏返回潜艇途中，又被水中的异形逐个消灭。
　　潜艇设计师和两个女队员以及一个男科学家继续在洞中考察。他们发现了一个实验室，在一具干尸面前的电脑上查到了所有的秘密，原来这个海沟是美国政府遗弃的一个研究生物武器的秘密基地，科学家通过生物基因杂交生产出了大量的生物武器，但是不知是何原因试验发生事故，所有的科学家被那些生物杀死，无一幸免。
　　他们试图炸毁试验基地，不料在一个基因交换室遇到了最可怕的怪物------一个竖挂在墙壁上的多脚海星。在大家用步枪抵抗这个海星的时候，一个男科学家被海星巨大的触手卷走，一个女队员则被海星吸进口中……
　　任务结束，旧情鸳鸯回到潜艇上，却被一直呆在潜艇中的通讯指挥员截住并吐露实情：其实根本不存在什么黑匣子，这次行动的真正目的就是取回生物试验的那张资料光盘，所以他才一步步引导队员们接近那个嗜血实验室，而且第一批返回的队员们有两人本来可以免受异形攻击的，也是他从中作祟将舱门反锁，让那两个队员活活的被异形拉进水中……
　　通讯指挥员实现了自己的全盘计划，把幸存的三人：旧情鸳鸯和艇长关在寄生着变异海藻的船舱内，幸而潜艇设计师把那张要命的光盘留在手中，提出和通讯指挥员合作，将其骗入船舱并被海藻感染而死。
　　正当幸存者逃离危险之地时，却发现艇长没有跟随他们一起进入逃生舱，艇长告诉他们，刚才制服通讯指挥员时他不小心被海藻感染了，决定牺牲自己毁灭这个秘密基地。
　　最后，那对夫妻带着光盘乘逃生舱逃离了恐怖深渊，回到陆地上揭露政府的阴谋，而艇长则启动了潜艇的自毁系统，炸毁了海沟的出口，将那些变异生物永远封闭在海底深渊之中。