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基恩
314By 1820, Edmund Kean is the most admired Shakespearan actor. But if his art is peerless, his free lifestyle is ill thought of, particularly by the high society. Kean has fallen passionately in love with Countess Elena de Koefeld, the wife of the ambassador of Denmark. Elena loves him too but hesitates to give up her rank in society and follow Kean. On the other hand, Anna, a rich heiress who refuses to marry Lord Mewill, the husband chosen by her parents, confesses her love for Kean and decides to become an actress like him... The aristocrats, outraged by Edmund's profligate ways, decide to boycott his performances and his career is broken. Kean does not recover from such a blow and, on a stormy night, dies in Elena's arms. -
布朗夫人
2766她是西方世界备受尊崇,极有权力的女人——大英帝国的女皇;他却是所有社会阶级中最卑微的男人——一个看管马匹的仆役,而命运让他们相遇、相知、相惜,他们的情谊却变成别人眼中的丑闻,甚至差点令大英帝国瓦解。由于维多利亚女王遭遇了丧夫之痛,悲恸之余使她远避苏格兰深居简出,不愿治理朝政,于是女王身旁的大臣决定将亲王生前在苏格兰家乡的仆役布朗先生召来伺候女王,也希望他能经常带她出游,以纾解女王郁闷的心情。 结果布朗对女王的忠心和情愫,令她深受感动,促使两人发展出一段似有若无的暧昧情感。但是这段不寻常的感情却被小报披露,使得国会议员也议论纷纷,更有人打算罢黜女王,最后在布朗的恳求劝说之下,才使得女王决定重回宫中亲视朝政,也挽救了岌岌可危的王室家族。 -
弹无虚发
2679强硬的缉毒署特工科尔( Cole )潜入墨西哥蒂华纳( Tijuana )危险的地下世界,寻找他的记者前妻。他认为,这名前妻被一个有魅力的卡特尔老板绑架,并渴望担任公职。 -
忠实的朋友
1782契若夫是外科医生,拉宾是养畜专家,涅斯特拉托夫是建筑学院士、建筑事业管理局的领导,三个童年时代的好朋友如今都已成为著名的学者。契若夫和拉宾决定要实现他们童年时代的幻想,趁休假的日子到河上去旅行,他们好不容易才找到了高高在上、脱离群众的涅斯特拉托夫。当他们把他带到一张木筏上而不是豪华客轮的头等舱时,这位一向自高自大的院士大为惊奇。他们乘着搭有柳条栅子和舒适床铺的木筏沿着雅乌兹河旅行。影片作者在他们的旅途上安排了各种滑稽可笑的情境,使院士始终处于尴尬的、受教育的地位。当他自吹自擂的老毛病发作时,两位朋友像孩提时代—样,把他浸到河里灌水,直到奉承求饶为止。但他旧习难改…… -
恩培多克勒之死
432The 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. -
想吹口哨我就吹
596还有5天,西尔维乌就要从感化院中释放,可是自从他知道自己那消失了多年的母亲再次出现,并决定带走与他相依为命的弟弟后,这5天开始变得如一个世纪般漫长。 自从多年前母亲突然消失后,西尔维乌独自把弟弟带大,将他视作自己的儿子。如今在最后关头,他越来越担心弟弟就这样被带走。仓惶之中,他决定绑架自己暗恋的心理学社工安娜,并带她一起逃走。逃离感化院的西尔维乌,第一次尝到了自由的味道:穿过发间的风,开阔的大路,还有他的初吻……一切都因此有了可能。 -
我们的音乐
527Divided into three kingdoms -- Enfer (Hell), Purgatoire (Purgatory) and Paradis (Paradise) -- Notre Musique is an indictment of modern times. 頑皮老頭高達在新作挑釁如常,堅持如舊,對電影愛情如一,但從形式到內容,卻續有新境。比前作《愛之頌》更練達更擊中要害,是他近年最激的反思作品。三段結構的開篇〈地獄〉,戰地實錄與荷里活戰爭片交替,寓意彰甚:人類真會嗜戰。〈煉獄〉借薩拉熱窩做說書人,真實與虛構人物(包括高達自己)到此舉行文化圓桌會議,大家在寬恕迷宮中兜轉,唯有佇立已修復的莫斯塔古橋,才感一絲希望。高達最後領我們到〈天堂〉,人間竟有春色如許?但-有美軍駐守!全片最動人一幕:學生問 DV 可否打救電影?高達哀哀面向鏡頭,良久不語...... -
我杀的那位
150Haunted by the memory of Walter Holderlin, a soldier he killed during World War I, French musician Paul Renard (Phillips Holmes) confesses to a priest (Frank Sheridan), who grants him absolution. Using the address on a letter he found on the dead man's body, Paul then travels to Germany to find his family. As anti-French sentiment continues to permeate Germany, Dr. Holderlin (Lionel Barrymore) initially refuses to welcome Paul into his home, but changes his mind when his son's fiancée Elsa identifies him as the man who has been leaving flowers on Walter's grave. Rather than reveal the real connection between them, Paul tells the Holderlin family he was a friend of their son, who attended the same musical conservatory he did. Although the hostile townspeople and local gossips disapprove, the Holderlins befriend Paul, who finds himself falling in love with Elsa (Nancy Carroll). When she shows Paul her former fiancé's bedroom, he becomes distraught and tells her the truth. She convinces him not to confess to Walter's parents, who have embraced him as their second son, and Paul agrees to forego easing his conscience and stays with his adopted family. Dr. Holderlin presents Walter's violin to Paul, who plays it while Elsa accompanies him on the piano. The film's original title, The Man I Killed, was changed to The Fifth Commandment to avoid giving wrong impressions in the minds of the public about the character of the story. It ultimately was released as Broken Lullaby.