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.

　　Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division of Poland under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.

　　故事发生在巴西东北部，一名工人出于自卫杀死了老板，开始逃亡。一路上他目睹地主对农民的残酷剥削，便发奋当了一名侠客兼土匪，宣传暴力革命，还土地于人民。这是一部非常暴力的政治影片，其主题和倾向非常明显，但片中融合了大量民俗的元素。
　　本片被众多评论家誉为是巴西电影史上最重要的一部电影。这是一部刻画人物生动的，给人深刻不灭印象的电影杰作，多来一直被认为是巴西乃至整个南美电影史上永恒的一部杰作。

　　A great spanish cult movie!!
　　This is one of the most astonishing films ever made. It has some scenes that it should be in the history of cinema. Like the filming by Fernando Fernan Gomez of the militias using a big roll of paper to win a positions. Or the begging of the film based on real events. The birth of the director inside the carp where the first cinematographer was showing "the train arriving to the station". Being shoot in really simple way it's amazing the proper use of the audiovisual language. The late Guillermo Cabrera Infante showed this film in a Canadian film festival in Spanish without subtitles when the projection finish the audience didn't move and they ask for seen the film again. The effect of this film in the audience is unbelievable. None a single person that has seen this rare Spanish movie could forget it. Except the main actor Fernando Fernan Gomez who never remember work on it.

　　一名阿根廷历史女教师原本对政治不闻不问，天真地相信课本上的一切。直到她怀疑自己的养女是一名政治犯的女儿，才开始关注这个国家的动荡现实。在调查女儿真实身份的过程中，她一步步揭露了政治腐败的真相，她对幸福生活的狭隘幻想破灭了。

　　这是一部关于一位早逝的电影天才的散文式纪录片，《格列佛最后的旅行》用日记+影像的形式再现了1964-1972年捷克导演帕维尔·祖拉塞克的私人生活，他的情感困扰和动荡的时代背景，帕维尔生前只留下了两部电影和33篇日记，1964年29岁的他刚刚独立拍完一部短片并写了几本出色的电影剧本，一个有天赋的年轻编剧即将要成为导演，然而与妻子的矛盾也逐渐显现在艺术家过于自我的生活里，那时新浪潮刚刚萌芽不久，卡罗维发利影展吸引了众多世界的目光，一批刚毕业的青年导演也初露锋芒，包括帕维尔在内的许多人都看到了实现个人梦想的机遇。。。68年前后的改革让布拉格迎来了春天，青年人的生活色彩开始丰富，新潮和时尚充满在这座东欧小城里，可帕维尔的生活却逐渐脱离轨道，妻子离她而去，带走了可爱的女儿，而他正困扰于新剧本的创作，他开始怀疑自己的一些想法，甚至觉得自己也许并不适合做这一行。。。
　　当苏联坦克悍然侵入布拉格时，帕维尔选择了沉默，并没有像其他人那样走上街头抗议，而是以电影为控诉极权暴力的途径，尽管在《为年轻刽子手的辩护》中这样的主题显得并不是很直白露骨，但事实上隐藏的含意是不言而喻的，而这也决定了帕维尔和他的电影的命运，影片只在一座小剧院里放映了两周就被禁，帕维尔连同埃德尔瓦·朔尔姆、杨·南曼奇、乔拉·赫兹等人一起上了捷克秘密警察的黑名单，他的工作室被迫关闭，胶片拷贝被没收，那段时期他彻底放下了电影，重新组建了新的家庭，并有了儿子，可谁又知道一个受到禁锢而无法展示自己才华的艺术家心中真正的苦闷呢，十七年后当丝绒革命即将爆发之前，54岁的帕维尔却没能等到重获自由的那一天。
　　影片由帕维尔的儿子马瑞克扮演父亲，片中贯穿头尾的画外音朗读日记也是由他亲自叙述的，导演马丁·苏黎克用家庭电影的实验性拍摄手法将一个艺术家短暂而悲剧的一生展现在观众眼前，时代是如何影响个人的命运，黑白与彩色交织的画面暗示着帕维尔分离的情感世界，一种是与女儿在一起时的温馨，另一种是陷入孤独和迷惘时的无助，在他的眼中我看到了忧伤，即使与家人相处时他的安静的目光背后依然有着深深的痛苦感，对前妻的愧疚，对女儿的思念依然折磨着他的心灵。摄影机始终跟随着主人公，一点一滴地记录下生活的全部，略带苛砾感的影像构建起一个很私人的空间，但生活毕竟是可以被再现的，而特殊的时代却是很难去复制的，所以影片里还插入了不少真实的纪录影像，将真实的场景与演员的再现两者结合为一体，剪接处丝毫没有唐突感。
　　在我看来尽管帕维尔·祖拉塞克的遭遇能代表捷克新浪潮一代从最初的充满理想到被无情扼杀再到逐渐归于沉寂的悲剧结局，但他更多还是作为一个普通人而存在，他的生活里也有着普通人的爱恨得失，有着那个年代东欧人生活中共同的压抑和痛苦，人们应该记住他和他的电影，记住那段悲伤的往事，但历史并不能倒转，传奇也不可能再去重复。
　　《格列佛最后的旅行》（The Key for Determining Dwarfs or The Last Travel of Lemuel Gulliver），2002年，58分钟，黑白+彩色，捷克共和国。03年捷克评论家协会最佳纪录片奖；03年德国威斯巴登东欧电影节最佳影片金百合花奖。

　　土耳其首部获柏林电影节金熊奖电影。在传统封建的农业社会中，水源代表权力。小村饱受干旱之苦，Hasan为了向Osman争取与群众分享水源，引起兄弟间的纷争，结果Osman杀了人，Hasan为他顶罪入狱，连妻子子也归Osman所有。

　　The issue of War widow representation in Israeli cinema is one of the most complex for the local industry for it seems to be unique and with a very local and specific iconography.
　　The war Widow is a difficult character to digest. Because this is an especially painful topic in Israel, its mode of representation is almost always problematic.
　　Gila Almagor in Tofano's "siege" is one of the first characters of the "modern" war widows to appear on Israeli cinema screens.
　　The human and social complexity of the status of widows was not represented adequately and personally until her complex and fine appearance in this film.
　　It was mostly Preceded by cliches of heroic women who have sacrificed for the nation with characters to which it was very difficult to get attached, nor to their personal grief.
　　"Siege" was directed by an unknown Italian director of that period. Although Gilberto Tofano was brought as a professional director on the wings of inspiration made by the French New Wave of those years, he managed to turn out a very exciting work which has caught the Israeli warmth and sense of social siege which surrounds the Israeli widows, including the great expectations from them and the social stigmas.
　　Tofano wrapped his leading lady with lots of warmth and gave a place of honor to Almagor's impressive presence in the film.
　　This is without a doubt one of Almagor's best and most accurate performances. The restraint in her performance plus the shooting and expressive use of angles by Tofano and his soft European touch which was far off from the aggressive local product managed to produce a sense of documenting an authentic tragedy with a tangible personal touch that minimized the national dimension. The result stands the test of time proudly several decades after its creation.

　　工于心计的克里斯托弗·沃尔肯饰演恶名昭彰的纽约大流氓韦佛兰，他在出狱之后要收回他在坐牢时失去的毒品市场，跟哥伦比亚帮、意大利帮和华青帮等竞争对手展开宣战，逐渐建立起比以前更庞大的犯罪王国。但因其不可一世的嚣张态度，也激起了另一帮派头目的不满，因而展开一场黑道大火拼……

　　“捷克新浪潮电影的黑暗、诡异的奇葩” 捷克奇幻电影杰作选之《魔格亚纳》
　　风靡全球的捷克奇幻电影魅力！
　　导演： 乔拉．赫兹
　　影片简介:一个家庭因为财产分配上的矛盾,姐姐购买了使人产生幻觉的毒药,给妹妹使用了,可是并没有使自己得到需要的东西,幕后隐藏的黑手到底是谁呢？

　　The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich; his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.

　　在1950年初成立，在斯大林的个人崇拜。故事开始在省城。 tomek的父亲，一个家庭军队的前成员被逮捕，所以离开母亲抚养两个孩子单独的任务。楼上的邻居自杀，当她的丈夫也被逮捕并运到战俘营。这是冬天，让孩子保持在学校他们的手，温暖的手打败自己。在学校教师的平均，狭隘的理想主义者，当他们问孩子们去教堂星期日，全班站起来打败宣传课的目的。 tomek被送到培训学校在夏季。在那里，他把他的头抽水思想吸收，当他的父亲从监狱获释，他发现另一个男孩他已经离开了。
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　　一九五八年的《开罗车站》（Cairo Station）是夏因其中一部早期经典，不过该片比时代先行，上映时被观众喝倒釆，同时也因对性及社会问题的描写而被禁足足有十二年。后来重见天日，广泛被推崇为最重要的阿拉伯电影之一。
　　夏因上阵自导自演，演活了一个卖报卫生的开罗小男人。化身成埃及版差利，闲时喜欢将杂质上的美女照片剪下来贴满他的车站小屋内，又爱上了在附近买柠檬水的惹火尤物。但通俗剧的形式，最终以小男人死于非命的反通俗剧结束，而他眼中的神圣不可侵犯的惹火尤物只不过是另一个男人的财物。
　　《开罗车站》被评为最先将新写实主义引进歌舞片充斥的埃及电影世界的作品。导演对埃及的性别政治以及不优良传统的关注和批判，已在此片尽露端倪。

　　1991年8月19日苏联政变，结束了戈尔巴乔夫的政权。这一天，在几千公里之外，哈萨克的首府Alma-Ata（当时尚未独立）有一位名不见经传的33岁导演，正在拍摄他的第一部长片，那时还没有人知道他就是日后被广为讨论的Omirbayev，哈萨克新电影运动的带代表人物。而他的这一部影《卡依哈》也因时际会地成了在电影史上前、后苏联的分水领。卡依哈，一个二十岁的乡下青年，搭上前往Almaty的火车，他想继续升学，但是因为隔壁同学作弊，导致他失去入学考试资格。他继续留在城里，接受驾驶市公交车的训练。直到一天遇到喜欢的女子Indira，她是暑期打工的大学生。
　　本片描绘因为苏联解体，哈萨克必需寻找自己出路的时候，一对身处对未来充满不确定因素的男女，他们伤感与来不及发生的爱情故事。摄影机紧跟着主角在城市中的脚步，他们的情绪、错误与游荡。面对需要步步为营的城市，每个孤寂与惊恐的个体所赖以为生的，只是他们的梦想。

　　一个小组学生乘公共汽车去一个小镇, 为了完成专业实践。 所有人都是朋友, 并且他们决定唱一些现代歌曲, 使其它乘客设法睡觉。 乘客的当中一个生气和呼喊"中止了他们。 但当他们到达镇子, 知道事件以后, 大家对待他们好象罪犯一样。

　　扎根于社会、政治之上不可明言的故事，用客观的画面让观者自己去构建残酷的现实，以平淡的铺陈步步引向深刻的隐喻。叙事、画面，处处可见这位传奇导演对阿巴斯和马克马尔巴夫等追随者的影响。

　　《街童》是巴西著名导演赫克托.巴本科第一部获得国际声誉的经典影片，是80年代巴西最好的电影之一，1982年金球奖最佳外语片提名等众多国际性电影大奖。

　　改编自卡夫卡未完成的长篇小说《美国》，但其关注的并非真实的美国，更像是没有详细年代的关于美国的寓言。卡尔•罗斯曼由于丑闻而接受其舅舅的邀请搬去美国，然而他无法摆脱欧洲大陆旧式习惯，更糟的是，欧洲的阶级结构无法让他通过自己的双手谋生。这一电影版关注资本主义社会创造的残酷而变幻莫测的阶级关系。同时忠于原著而未添加影片的结局。施特劳布夫妇风格的一贯操作与卡夫卡氛围的完美结合：中景固定机位，面无表情的演员，人物肢体和语言刻意僵硬，强调侧面特写，镜头推进及平移刻意突兀。由此我们可以寻求到改编卡夫卡作品的带实验性的可能。

　　Les déboires d’une troupe de théâtre dans le Bengale des années 50.

　　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。

　　哈斯的彩色电影，《萨拉戈萨手稿》的姊妹篇，个人觉得他的风格更适合彩色，此片要比《萨》更为出色。这是一次内心的历险。故事背景设在二战前期，一位年轻人乘坐一辆奇怪的列车去看望住在疗养院中垂死的父亲。但这个即将拆毁的地方唤起了他许多过去的回忆。他被过去的士兵、殖民地的雇佣兵、昔日生活中的女孩，以及他的父母所包围...
　　获奖：波兰电影奖最佳产品设计奖
　　戛纳电影节评审团奖并提名金棕榈

　　1967年6月5日，以色列出其不意对周边阿拉伯国家发动第三次中东战争，并在六天内赢得胜利。在埃及宣布战争失败后，几名缺水缺粮的埃及士兵想穿越已被以色列占领的西奈沙漠到苏伊士，回到和平地区。
　　本片是作品寥寥的以色列导演Rafi Bukai的处女作，他从几名埃及士兵的视角来表现这部“人道主义的，反战的，无关政治的”作品。
　　本片在1986年瑞士洛迦洛电影节上获得了一个奖，同年代表以色列角逐奥斯卡最佳外语片。

　　Six acclaimed foreign directors will shoot short films about Istanbul. "Unutma Beni Istanbul" ("Do Not Forget Me Istanbul") is part of a project carried out within the scope of the city being European Capital of Culture 2010.