The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements: water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive: Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna.
　　The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator,
　　the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination.
　　Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.

　　一个资产阶级作家没有随家人撤离，而是满怀喜悦要目睹革命后的古巴现状。他流连于哈瓦那的街头，沉思并观望着这个国家的变化，然而他也不自觉地因为自己的好色风流而陷入道德危机之中。

　　A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast as well.
　　If you're wondering about this film and why it's dubbed in Italian, then read the following comment from IMDb:
　　I have always wondered about the disappearance of "Deluge". Why for so many years, seemingly since it's release in 1933, this film vanished from the face of the earth. After seeing it, courtesy of the efforts of Mr. Wade Williams & Co., I'm still puzzled, but I have a theory. In 1933, "the code" was enacted that pretty much took care of sex and violence in Hollywood. While not an explicit film by any means, "Deluge" does deal fairly frankly with sexuality, lust and rape. I wonder if RKO discovered they had a film that they could not re-release, much like the fabled lost Warner Bros. comedy "Convention City". It's a shame for, while it is a dated film, I find it quite unique and surprising for it's era and a fairly successful attempt to create something different in an era when films were already becoming cookie cutter by-products of the studio machine (not that many of those cookies aren't tasty, mind you). And even though the only available copy at this writing is dubbed into Italian, I don't find that a hinderance. An excellent job was done in subtitling the film, and much of the film is visual anyway.

　　法国导演情侣组合斯特劳布-于伊耶与1991年将索福克勒斯的希腊悲剧《安提戈涅》搬上银幕，文本上采用了德国浪漫主义诗人荷尔德林的著名翻译，版本上则依照布莱希特40年代的改编，拍摄地点是西西里岛上塞杰斯塔的一座古罗马剧院遗址，拍摄时阳光明媚。影片背后文本的多层厚度赋予了本片以极强的现时性：就在拍摄当年的夏天，美军对伊拉克发起了第一轮进攻。这是一部关于教育公民不服从的作品。

　　Whenever I see La Paura I think of it as a companion piece to Eyes Wide Shut, or maybe it is the other way around. Adultery makes both films tick but in different ways. I think Phillip French was right on the money when he pointed out a Wizard of Oz thing in Kubrick's last work. Like Dorothy, Tom and Nicole go through fantasies and nightmares and at the end Dorothy's reassuring childish motto "there's no place like home" is ironically updated to the adult circumstantial adage "there's no sex like marital sex". Kubrick's take is intellectual, he never leaves the world of ideas to touch the ground. He taunts the audience first with an erotic movie and then with a thriller and refuses to deliver either of them. He was married to his third wife for 40 years, until he died. Rossellini was still married to Ingrid Bergman when he directed La Paura; they had been adulterous lovers and their infidelity widely criticized La Paura is a tale, a noirish one. The noir intrigue is solved and the tale has a happy ending. The city is noir; the country is tale, the territory where childhood is possible. The transition is operated in the most regular way: by car, a long-held shot taken from the front of the car as it rides into the road, as if we were entering a different dimension. Irene (Bergman) starts the movie: we just see a dark city landscape but her voice-over narration tells us of her angst and informs us that the story is a flashback, hers. Bergman's been cheating on her husband. At first guilt is just psychological torture but soon expands into economic blackmail and then grows into something else. From beginning to end the movie focuses on what Bergman feels, every other character is there to make her feel something. Only when the director gives away the plot before the main character can find out does he want us to feel something Bergman still can't. When she finds out, we have already experienced the warped mechanics of the situation and we may focus once again on the emotional impact it has on Bergman's Irene. In La Paura treasons are not imagined but real, nightmares are deliberate and the couple's venom suppurates in bitter ways. Needless to say, Ingrid has another of her rough rides in the movies but Rossellini doesn't dare put her away as he did in Europa 51, nor does he abandon her to the inscrutable impassivity of nature (Stromboli). His gift is less transcendent and fragile than the conclusion of Viaggio in Italia. He just gives his wife as much of a fairy tale ending as a real woman can have, a human landscape where she can finally feel at home. Back to the country, a half lit interior scene where shadows suggest the comfort of sleep. After all, it's the "fairy godmother" who speaks the last words in the movie.

　　Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival
　　YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
　　1969 Won Grand Prize
　　Dusan Hanák
　　A government official in Czechoslovakia mistakenly believes he has cancer. He reasons his involvement in clandestine activities during the Stalin administration have fated him to die from a dreaded disease. He searches for inner peace as he feels the guilt of his past transgressions. This film tied for the Grand Prize at the Mannheim Film Festival in 1969.
　　Slovak director Dusan Hanak was one of Czech cinema's brightest and best talents of the '60s and '70s, but because of censorship this was not manifest until the late '80s. Dusan made an impact on the film world with his auspicious debut 322 (1969). Though banned until 1988, when it was finally released, it earned international acclaim and the Grand Prix award at the Mannheim Film Festival. Hanak's sophomore effort, the documentary Obrazy Stareho Sveta/Image of an Old World (completed in 1972), was also not released until 1988 and neither was his 1980 film Ja Milujem, Ty Milujes/I Love You, You Love. Only Hanak's 1976 film Ruzove Sny/Rose-Tinted Dreams passed muster with censors and saw a timely release.

　　2001年戛纳电影节影评人周单元最佳影片奖
　　2001年东京国际电影节最佳导演奖、评审团奖
　　神学院学生赛耶德·哈桑即将升职做牧师，偏偏在就职典礼之前他的礼服被一个小男孩偷去了。于是他追踪到一个边远的郊区，那里的居民生活贫苦，从未见过牧师，对此知之甚少。最后，赛耶德学会了重要的一课：在宗教教义与艰难的生活现实生活存在着鸿沟，而这样的差异需要用情感去填补。雷萨-米尔卡瑞米导演在东京国际电影节致词时特别强调，他想告诉大家其实伊斯兰教是很爱好和平的宗教，而且也反对恐怖主义，并不是一种带暴力色彩的宗教。
　　与我们同根同种的亚洲人拍的这片子里，处处使我觉得亲切熟稔。年轻人憨憨而不知所措的表情、学校长者官腔却不乏真情的训导、暗淡而陈旧的店铺、城市角落里最卑微的人群、缓慢的生活，这一切都像是我们自己在成长路上所经历所看见过的。
　　他们多诚实，伊朗的贫困与落后历历地显现出来。可我敢说，这片子能打动的绝不止我一个人，也不止我们这些亚洲人。描绘贫穷而非展示贫穷，坦陈伤口而非哀矜伤口，伊朗的导演实在胜过我们某些所谓著名导演太多。

　　每年二月份，阿根廷西北部就会开始下起热带雨林特有的倾盆大雨，雨水把广阔的森林变成了一片人畜都无法通过的沼泽湿地，炙热的太阳晒在沼泽上，热气与雾气让这儿一片死寂。五十岁老妇人梅恰，就住在这片沼泽地的边缘，她与她的表妹塔丽在这儿经营着一座农场，她们各有四个小孩，各有一个老公，两个家庭在沼泽边挣扎着生存，但是这一年夏天，两个意外事件让她们面临了生存的挑战……

　　一个曾经丧失人性的刑讯逼供者.在几十年之后接受电台记者的采访重新回忆自己那段罪孽深重的过去.他以前拷问别人,现在却接受这个记者的“拷问”.在这个下午,拷问的不仅仅是他本人,也拷问了人性,拷问了整个社会制度。

　　Meek farmhand Sasha and policeman Dima have a fraught relationship. They’re brothers-in-law, travel companions, and⁠—secretly⁠—lovers. Over the course of their journey to visit Sasha’s grandmother, unspoken truths are uttered, intimacy is built, and authenticity is challenged. Although they may be far from the peering eyes of their oppressive society, their relationship teeters on a dangerous precipice.
　　Selected and supported by the IFP Filmmaker Lab and destined to evoke both the breathtaking landscapes of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and the tragedy of a Dostoevsky novel, Viatcheslav Kopturevskiy’s auspicious debut drama is an elliptical and much-needed examination of internalized homophobia, repression, and identity in a remote Siberian town.

　　剧情改编自意大利语言学家兼小说家佳维诺莱达自学成功的真实故事，他原是萨丁尼亚地区的牧羊人，二十岁之前还目不识丁，后因不堪父亲的淫威而自愿从军。军中一位袍泽教他读书识字，从此改变了他的精神世界。退伍后他跑去上大学研究语文，然后回故乡用知识跟严父对抗。
　　幕后花絮：
　　本片是意大利导演塔维亚尼兄弟首部扬威国际影坛的力作，获戛纳电影节金棕榈大奖。导演用沉寂多时的意大利新写实主义电影手法来处理这个发生在穷乡僻壤的父子对抗故事，气氛平实感人，有一种原始的美。当年轻的佳维诺在聆听了陌生人的手风琴演奏，而决定拿两只小羊换取手风琴的那一刻令人兴奋，因为他终于采取行动反抗父亲了。

 Corruptors will be tried in Padang Mahsyar before making their way to the bridge connecting Hell and Heaven. The sin of consuming the rights of the people will lead them to the fierce fires of hell.

 失去丈夫后，玛格达带着女儿莱德前往森林中的避暑别墅，准备将其出售。这原本是为了治愈创伤的第一步，却因莱德失踪和突发森林大火而发生了意外转折。

　　匈牙利著名女导演梅萨罗什（《收养》）最知名的作品
　　被禁止发行两年后，在1984年嘎纳电影节上获得了评委会大奖！
　　世界女性电影史上不朽的经典杰作！
　　梅萨罗什曾被英国国际电影年鉴评选为影坛五大导演之一。
　　八十年代最好的东欧电影之一
　　本片1982年拍摄完毕，1984年才准许发行。它反映了二十世纪四十年代匈牙利的政治、文化和社会生活。这是一部半自传体的影片。导演梅萨罗什是匈牙利著名女导演，她的经历几乎和影片中女主人公一样。1935年年仅5岁时和父亲移居苏联。影片中，女主人公从贾诺什留下的日记里开始理解玛格达，但还是不喜欢她。从玛格达身上，反映了匈牙利的历史的这一段进程。梅萨罗什拍摄了20多部影片。主要的有《九个月》、《郊区的房子》、《就象家—样》、《留给我爱人的日记》(本片续集)、《遗产》、《母亲和女儿》等。本片获得1984年第37届戛纳电影节评委会特别奖。
　　这部斯大林时期的自传体电影《给我孩子的日记》，用50年代的新闻片连续镜头和片断描绘了那个年代复杂的个人和政治景象。在西方被禁止发行两年后，还是在1984年嘎纳电影节上获得了评委特别奖。
　　★★剧情介绍:
　　1947年的一天，一批逃往苏联的匈牙利地下党员乘飞机回到布达佩斯，十几岁的小姑娘尤莉也在其中。她父亲，一位著名的雕塑家在苏联30年代大清洗时被捕，杳无音讯。母亲是画家，会多国语言，常带尤莉去看电影，但在尤莉很小的时侯就去世了。尤莉随祖父母回国，住在姑妈玛格达家里。玛格达过去是地下党员，战后是一家报纸的主编，她的公寓华丽而舒适。尤莉在特权阶层子女才能上的学校念书，姑母要收她为养女。但尤莉不同意，她不喜欢玛格达。她逃学去看电影，想念过去的生活，想念父母。尤莉很喜坎姑母的老战友贾诺什，老布尔什维克，大工厂的总工程师。贾诺什的妻子和女儿在一次空袭中被炸死，儿子成了残废。他也很关心尤莉。玛格达后来当了监狱长，积极参与1949年开始的大清洗运动，贾诺什突然失踪了。尤莉决定离开玛格达，到一家工厂当工人。1953年她去监狱探望了贾诺什，她示意将和他的儿子一起等着他自由归来。

　　A former army colonel comes from a village to live in the city with her daughters where he finds it hard to adapt with the modern life.

　　一个男人因为凶杀案含冤入狱，而真正的凶手则逍遥法外。凶手是一位文人，对祖国接连不断发生的背叛事件和人心冷漠而感到心寒。身陷囹圄的男人在遇到一些奇怪神秘的事件后，感到牢狱生活似乎不再那么难以忍受。