钢琴课2024

　　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）。

　　二战时期，一批美国战俘被关押在德军的监狱里，故事就发生在17号监狱（Stalag 17）。有两名囚犯想要越狱，却被德军所杀，监狱里的囚犯们开始怀疑他们其中有人出卖了他们。大家都把嫌疑集中在一个人身上——狡猾的Sefton（威廉·霍尔登 William Holden 饰）身上。Sefton虽然也是个囚犯，但他靠组织“赛马”、卖酒还有出租望远镜赚了不少钱。不久，一位美国中尉Dunbar（Don Taylor 饰）被抓进狱中。他在法兰克福火车站制造了爆炸案炸死了不少德军。然而此事随即被德军军官Oberst von Scherbach（奥托·普雷明格 Otto Preminger 饰）所获悉。Sefton被认为就是那个泄露了消息的内奸，挨了一顿揍。然而他依旧宣称自己是无辜的。Dunbar即将被纳粹军处死。到底谁才是真正的内奸？到底中尉Dunbar能否逃过一劫？
　　本片主演威廉·霍尔登获1954年奥斯卡影帝，导演比利·怀尔德也获得最佳导演提名。

　　富商段宇宸（姜皓文 饰）因为意外失忆，踏上了一段追寻真相的旅程，却在途中揭出被隐藏多年的秘密。在这个故事中，姜皓文同时饰演段宇宸及另一角色魏星，让人期待他如何展现这两个不同的人生……

　　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.

　　故事发生在一座名为布莱恩的美国小镇之中，这座小镇已经有150年的历史了，为了庆祝小镇成立150周年，政府委托了当地的一位名叫克莱尔（克里斯多弗·盖斯特 Christopher Guest 饰）的艺术家，将小镇的历史编排成为歌舞剧，于庆典当天在城市剧场上演。
　　很快，克莱尔就在小镇里开始了选角的工作，他所选用的演员，都是扎根在小镇的草根民众，虽然他们并没有经受过专业的表演训练，但他们每个人，都怀揣着这颗挚爱家乡的真挚的心。某日，克莱尔接到来自百老汇的消息，说他们将派出名为古夫曼的男子来现场观看演出，如果古夫曼先生喜欢市民们的表演，那么这场歌舞剧将会得到在百老汇上演的机会。