米兰九口径
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Fernando Di Leo's Milano Calibro 9 is an out-and-out masterpiece of Italian Crime cinema and, in my opinion, one of the most astonishing crime stories ever told. The first film in Di Leo's excellent 'Milieu' trilogy, Milano Calibro 9 was followed by La Mala Ordina (aka. Manhunt, also 1972) and the brilliant Il Boss (1973). The three films are not connected story-wise, but all three are excellent, and highly realistic portrayals of organized crime. As far as I am concerned Manhunt is (allthough excellent) slightly inferior to this one and Il Boss which both stand out as absolute all-time highlights of crime cinema. Milano Calibro 9 is the best of them all, a film that is astonishing in all aspects, be it the ingenious plot that, apart from a compelling story and clever twists, includes social criticism, the performances, the gritty atmosphere and suspense or the brilliant score. I can hardly find the right words to express my admiration for this masterpiece which easily ranks among the greatest Gangster flicks ever brought to screen.  Gastone Moschin stars as Ugo Piazza, a tough and elliptical ex-convict who has just been released from prison. Immediately after his release, Ugo is approached by members of the Milan mob lead by the irascible gangster Rocco (Mario Adorf), as they suspect him to be responsible for the disappearance of a large sum of money belonging to their boss, an American (Lionel Stander) who controls the organized crime in Milan...  Milano Calibro 9 is a film that delivers an astonishingly realistic mood of the underworld like hardly another. The intriguing storyline goes in hand with interesting characters, raw atmosphere, suspense and breathtaking action, social criticism and brutal violence. The film is simply stunning from the beginning to the end, which is even intensified by the brilliant score, a collaboration of the famous composer Luis Enríquez Bacalov and the Italian Progressive Rock band Osanna. Ugo Piazza must be one of the most charismatic gangster characters ever in cinema, and Gastone Moschin was the prefect choice for the role. Moschin delivers a brilliant performance, and the rest of the cast is also great. Mario Adorf is irascible like a rabid dog as the ferocious gangster Rocco, a role that fits him like a glove. The great Lionel Stander fits perfectly in his role of the American Mafia Don.  The two cop characters in the film are played by two of the greatest regulars of Italian genre-cinema, Luigi Pistilli and Frank Wolff (who committed suicide before the film was released). The ravishing Barbara Bouchet is astonishing and incredibly sexy in the role of Ugo Piazza's stripper girlfriend. Bouchet is both a stunning beauty and an excellent actress and this is doubtlessly one of her most memorable roles. This is also a political film and director Di Leo embedded a lot of social criticism about topics like corruption. This film simply has everything one can possibly desire in cinema. Films like Milano Calibro 9 are the reason why I love cinema. This is an absolute masterpiece in all regards and, without exaggeration, one of the greatest Crime flicks ever made! The ingenious opening scene alone is more memorable than most films get in two hours.
空中劫难
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一架试飞的协和号超音速飞机在飞往伦敦途中突然坠入大海,机组人员中仅有一空姐幸免于难。此次空难是美国纽约的一个国际飞机制造公司为独霸飞机市场而阴谋策划的,一恐怖组织获悉了内情,囚禁了幸存的空姐,高价勒索纽约公司。  第二架满载乘客的协和号飞机又将起飞,纽约公司孤注一掷,再施魔手。为粉碎其阴谋,摩西与纽约公司和黑帮组织展开了殊死搏斗......
巨人:福宾计划
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Eric Braeden stars as Dr. Charles Forbin, who has created a supercomputer named Colossus, built solely for the purpose of controlling the nuclear defenses of the Western alliance. It isn't too long after, however, that the Russians announce that they too have built a similar computer for those same purposes on their side--Guardian. And when the two machines begin sharing information at a speed nobody can believe, an attempt is made to disable them.  This unfortunately just raises the machines' ire; and in retaliation, they launch their weapons at each other's home nations. The result is a chilling scenario that is potentially becoming all too real these days.  COLOSSUS THE FORBIN PROJECT was not a big hit at the box office for various reasons. One is that its cast wasn't exactly well known. Another reason is that its ending isn't exactly a happy one. Still a third reason is that Universal had trouble trying to promote it in the wake of the huge success of Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY. The latter reason is obvious Colossus and Guardian, like HAL in the Kubrick movie, become central characters here. The difference here is that while HAL malfunctions due to a programming conflict, Colossus and Guardian remain all too stable, convinced beyond a doubt that they know how to protect Mankind better than Man himself. As the computers point out One inevitable rule is that Mankind is his own worst enemy.  Joseph Sargent's direction is efficient, and the special effects work of Albert Whitlock still manages to work despite its obvious age. An overlooked gem in the sci-fi genre, this should be given a revival.
等待方舟
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Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.  Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory  n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.  What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.  On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.  One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.  Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.
他们叫我吉克
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这是一部非常真实的超级英雄电影,论日系少女如何用大(中)爱(二)唤醒一个超级英雄。情节设计丝毫不亚于好莱坞,不时有意式小幽默。影片十分注重人物的塑造,主人公原来只是小偷,核废料让他意外获得超能力,但他并没有想去拯救世界,只想用这种超能力继续干偷抢的勾当,而女孩才是让他真正成为英雄的存在,节奏十足,意大利风情混搭日系萝莉风,疯狂又真实的片子,感觉看到了人性的善良和丑恶的融合..
浮生六相
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《六个角色》可能是今年最受期待的泰国电影,尤其是它众星云集的演员阵容。在充满紧张气氛的拍摄现场,紧张的导演(马里奥·毛雷尔饰)试图拍摄一部恐怖电影。任性的演员阵容也无济于事。与此同时,六个陌生人突然出现,讲述了他们的故事,并解释说他们是一个死去的编剧留下的剧本中的人物。导演一开始嘲笑这些陌生人,但最终开始被他们讲述的引人入胜的家庭故事所吸引。2011年凭借《永恒》访问釜山的导演m·l·班德瓦诺夫·德瓦库拉,是像《简·达拉》系列一样,在描写强烈情感的情色和改编方面才华横溢的导演。《六个人物》改编自意大利剧作家路易吉·皮兰德娄的《六个人物寻找作者》,突出了导演的优势和视野。
活色生香
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1970年,平安夜。妓女伊莎贝尔(佩内洛普•克鲁兹 Penélope Cruz 饰)临盆在即,情急之下,老鸨舍命拦车,结果她在车上产下一子,取名维克多。20年后,维克多爱上了跟他有染的女孩艾莲娜,但约会却被放鸽子。气愤的维克多登门造访,被犯毒瘾的艾莲娜以枪相逼。两人僵持时,警察桑丘和大卫(贾维尔•巴登 Javier Bardem 饰)刚好经过。此前,醉酒驾车的桑丘正在跟同事倾诉老婆偷情之事。在对抗中,大卫被维克多射伤导致下肢瘫痪,后者因此锒铛入狱。6年后,入狱期满的维克多在电视中看到了残疾运动员大卫,后者代表西班牙队参加92年巴塞罗那残奥会,并赢得了篮球金牌。维克多要找大卫复仇,却跟大卫妻子成了同事,这阴错阳差的背后竟隐藏着惊人的秘密……
荒野大镖客
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墨西哥边境小镇来了一位大镖客(克林特·伊斯特伍德 Clint Eastwood 饰),他得知镇上势不两立的两大帮派罗霍兄弟和镇长巴克斯特相厮杀已久,便决定与两派斡旋,除去镇上恶势力,恢复小镇的平静。他目击罗霍兄弟劫杀了一队士兵并私占黄金,于是利用两具士兵尸体吸引巴克斯特来寻找罗霍兄弟的罪证。同时,他又将消息透露给罗霍兄弟,导致双方展开了一场激烈枪战。乔在两派激战时找到了黄金,并发现被罗霍兄弟囚禁的女人玛利索,他将玛利索交给巴克斯特,换回了在激战中被捕获的儿子安东尼奥。但后来他得知玛利索是被罗霍家的雷蒙抢占,于是设法救出了她,帮助她与丈夫孩子一起逃出镇子。深爱着玛利索的雷蒙发现心爱的女人被放走,便认定是巴克斯特一家所为,于是展开了疯狂的报复。究竟两大帮派谁胜谁负,作为中间人的大镖客能否实现恢复小镇和平的计划?
朱丽叶与魔鬼
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费里尼拍摄了另一部自传性很强的电影《朱丽叶与魔鬼》,在这部电影里,费里尼过分追求求神秘主义的梦境空间,在影片里极尽详能的描述描写一个资产阶级的女人遭到丈夫的欺骗,精神迷惘,陷于离奇古怪的幻觉,最后终于清醒的故事。虽然费里尼和茱莉埃妲两人携手共度一生,而且费里尼也从来没有传出与其他女人的诽闻,但是我想所有对费里尼非常熟悉的影迷都不相信费里尼从没有出轨的行为。尤其在看了这部电影之后,因为在费里尼的电影中充分的表现出费里尼是一个性欲旺盛且对女人充满遐想的导演,他甚至在他的男人外遇只是把自己的性器官借给别人用一下罢了,并没有出卖自己的灵魂。或者这正是费里尼的迷人之处吧,他永远是神秘的,让人无法捉摸的。