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威尼斯,这个古老绵城市,在未来的某一天不幸地被大水侵蚀。政府组织了一支突击队准备进行救援工作,奇怪的是,此次救援工作却成了一次地下战争在地下通道里,发现了一群怪物,更严惩的是突击队员们依个遭到残害,结果, 科学家们在研究中发现,一种奇怪的现象在隐隐地影响着这座城市。就这样,整个城市的人们都面临着危机,和这种奇怪而又可怕的东西展开了激烈的斗争……
In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears vengeance against the descendants of the Inquisitors. 300 years later, a comet that was passing overhead on the night of the Baron’s execution returns to earth, bringing with it the Baron in the form of a horrible, brain-eating monster that terrorizes the Inquisitor’s descendants.
The origins of the Justice League are explained as Detective John Jones and Batman try to discover what the 'Centre' is, Superman and Wonder Woman are soldiers for the United States Army, Flash is trying to live in a world were special agent King Faraday is hunting him and Hal Jordan has been selected to go with Task Force X to Mars.
Upon arrival to Venus, cosmonauts find furious volcanoes and sundry prehistoric beasts in Klushantev's film, based on a novel by the Soviet sci-fi writer Aleksandr Kazantsev. Footage has been recycled in three Corman productions: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, Queen of Blood, and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (the directorial debut of Peter Bogdanovich).
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Based on the novel by Karel Capek, the prominent Czech writer of the early 20th century who coined the word robot for his play R.U.R., the story revolves around a discovery of Krakatit - a powerful explosive - by Prokop, an experimental scientist who, following an accidental explosion in his lab, slips in and out of delirium. When he realises that, in a delirious period, he has given the formula for making Krakatit to one of his colleagues, he tries to find the man, who does not realize how dangerous a thing Krakatit is. In the process, he nearly gives his discovery away again to foreign interests, a group of anarchists, and even greater forces of darkness...
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.
Alone in Space is a high concept adventurous, warm and funny genre feature film that doesn't shy away from big questions about life and death. Alone in Space takes the audience on a ride with two kids lost in space, accompanied by a friendly alien.
When a comet passes the earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa with it. Carried along is a bunch of people. Among them Angelika, who just escaped from a ruthless weapon dealer's ship, and her two brothers, who are searching her. Then there's a group of natives, who plan a rebellion against the French colonists. All these conflicts become secondary when the people finally realize that they are doomed to live together on an alien planet. However this time of peace and world-happiness won't last for long...
基克尔(约翰·巴里摩尔 John Barrymore 饰)是一名知识非常渊博的科学家,他将毕生的经历都投注到了探索人性的善恶奥妙之中,并且最终制造出了一种可怕的药剂,这种药剂能够令基克尔化身成为海德先生,基克尔将自己所有的恶意和坏念头都投射到了海德的大脑里。白天,基克尔行医救人乐善好施,待到夜幕降临,海德先生便会现身,杀人害命,无恶不作。
基克尔有一位名叫伊芙(妮塔·纳尔迪 Nita Naldi 饰)的未婚妻,两人之间的感情非常的要好,然而,海德先生的存在让基克尔不自觉的被名叫碧翠丝的放荡妓女所吸引。分裂的人格让基克尔感到万分的痛苦,他想要消灭海德先生。
小男孩尼克(胡里奥·博希加斯 Julio Bohigas-Couto 饰)在一个风雨交加的夜晚目睹了邻居安吉尔(哈维尔·古铁雷斯 Javier Gutiérrez 饰)杀害自己妻子的场面。在和安吉尔的追逐之中,一辆车将尼克撞倒,导致了他的死亡。一晃眼多年过去,薇拉(阿德丽安娜·尤加特 Adriana Ugarte 饰)和丈夫大卫(阿尔瓦罗·莫奇 Álvaro Morte 饰)带着他们的女儿住进了尼克曾经居住过的房子。
有一个电闪雷鸣的夜晚,薇拉意外的在电视里看到了尼克,让薇拉感到震惊的是,自己似乎能够通过电视和25年前的尼克对话。在薇拉的告诫之下,尼克免于一死,但过去的改变也牵连着薇拉的生活发生了巨变。大卫不再是薇拉的丈夫,而他们的女儿自然也不复存在。
In this futuristic sci-fi film, based on the legends of the Golem, insane scientists have invented technology that give them total control over the half-human, half-android population of Earth. Trouble ensues when one of the creatures begins showing independent will. He must be destroyed lest he influence the rest. They pursue him, but somehow he continues to elude the evil doctors. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
In this futuristic sci-fi film, based on the legends of the Golem, insane scientists have invented technology that give them total control over the half-human, half-android population of Earth. Trouble ensues when one of the creatures begins showing independent will. He must be destroyed lest he influence the rest. They pursue him, but somehow he continues to elude the evil doctors. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
五个年轻人巴比、麦克、小桃、朱丽和玛格趁着假期开着小船出海游玩,却因为大意而被搁浅在海上,屋漏偏逢连夜雨的他们又遇上暴风雨,在大雨倾盆的情况下,他们找到了一艘并没有人的豪华游艇,以为找到了桃花源,在里面饮酒作乐,没想到可怕的危险就隐藏在这座豪华游艇里。游艇好像是一个大的实验室,里面有奇奇怪怪的远古鱼类化石。巴比看到实验台上的白色粉末,尝了一下,以为是毒品。而后,玛格被会飞的鱼咬伤,他们才意识到问题的严重。麦克仔细研究了电脑里的资料,发现原来这些鱼都是吃了受污染的浮游生物后发生了异变。可此时已经为时已晚,除了麦克其余四人都被感染。游艇即将爆炸,这些怪物也即将被消灭,只有麦克跳海逃出。谁知怪物并没有死,麦克也没有逃生。
F.M.是一个颓废青年,某日他发现某种迷幻的音乐会使人们变得烦躁不安,他怀疑政府正借此对民众进行洗脑。。。
邪恶教授Jacob ten Brinken(埃里克·冯·施特罗海姆 饰)通过结合妓女与杀人犯的基因创造出了没有道德观、天性放荡的人造人美女Alraune(海蒂嘉德·纳福 饰),某天夜晚,教授的侄子Frank Braun(卡尔海因茨·伯姆 饰)偶然遇到了Alraune,两人对彼此一见钟情并准备私奔,为阻止二人,ten Brinken教授将人造人实验的事情告诉了Frank,被吓到的Frank独自一人前往巴黎。失去Frank后,Alraune的性情变得越来越轻佻邪恶,她一方面设计陷害自己的情敌和家庭教师,另一方面在四个男人之间周旋:Frank的两个朋友Wolfie和Gerold、她的仆人Mathieu以及教授的雇员Mohn医生,就在她将一个又一个人送向死亡与毁灭的深渊时,Frank突然回来了。
米哈伊尔·阿法纳西耶维奇·布尔加科夫1891年生于基辅,1940年逝世于莫斯科。世界文坛称他是一位思想深邃、以大无畏精神向一切邪恶挑战的文学大师。其代表作《狗心》、《白卫军》、《大师和玛格丽特》等曾被苏联当局查禁没收,或“默杀”。作家死后恢复名誉、苏联文坛两度掀起“布尔加科夫热”。现在他的作品进入现代经典之列,被誉为20世纪最伟大的文学珍品之一。
《狗心》作于一九二五年初,在文学圈子里获得一致好评,人们发现它确实尖锐地抨击了现实,但它抨击的是现实中的粗野、愚昧和荒廖。小说写一条狗因为做了人的脑垂体移植手术,突然成了有人外表的流氓,致使流氓习气随着脑垂体分泌的激素,渗入了取名沙里科夫的实验室怪物的每个细胞。沙里科夫的可怕不公在于他身上那些流氓无产者的劣性,并且在于他对社会主义的庸俗化.表面上看来,《狗心》很像一个科幻故事,但是实际上却有着反乌托邦小说的关于哲理和社会的深邃思考。
国际知名的医生菲利普·普列奥布拉任斯基教授,为了进行改善人种的优生学试验,把一个刚刚死去的行窃的酒鬼的脑垂体和睾丸移到一只叫沙里克的狗身上。沙里克竟变成了“还处于最低发展阶段的”人——沙里科夫。
这个能讲人言、衣食如人的衣冠禽兽,一天天显示出是一个怀着“一颗最为卑鄙龌龊的心”的败类:酗酒、偷窃、说谎、告密、无耻下流,直至栽脏陷害、用手枪威胁要强占教授的住宅。更有意味的是,这个狗“出身”的沙里科夫竟然被政府赏识而任命为莫斯科公共卫生局清除流窜动物科科长。他穿上了皮夹克(这是当时文学作品里革命者的形象模式),出入有专车——尽管是卡车。幸而两位“造物主”普列奥布拉任斯基教授和博尔缅塔尔大夫及时用手术把沙里科夫还原为沙里克,才没酿成惨祸。
在这篇小说里,布尔加科夫力究天人之际,思考着人与自然、人与社会的关系、人的能力限度以及人对于整个自然界的责任。实际上,布尔加科夫继续阐释着一个重大的主题:人不应该僭越,不应该觊觎全能的上帝的位置。这个上帝便是自然、社会的客观法则。试图超越社会、自然的进程,把科学变为破坏客观规律的迷信,狂热蛮干地“创造历史”,是不能不受到惩罚的。正如小说《不祥之蛋》中,佩尔西科夫教授虽然掌握了科学,却缺乏对人类社会的责任感,最后死于疯狂的群众的乱拳之下;而给人类社会带来可怖的厄运的洛克,急功近利而智力低下到根本谈不上什么责任感问题,却“带着官家的公文”,则是更为可怕的。
而在《狗心》中,国际首屈一指的名医菲利普·普列奥布拉任斯基教授空前绝后的完美手术只能创造出险些置其于死地的社会败类。普列奥布拉任斯基教授经受了自作自受的“科学实验”之后,终于觉悟道:“看吧,如果一个研究者不是摸着大自然的脉搏,与之共进,而是想加速问题的解决,揭开那神秘的帷幕,那么,就给你个沙里科夫尝尝,还让你吃不了兜着走。”
看来,人要充当上帝——造物主的角色,结果只能是对上帝的讽刺性模拟。干扰世界的客观进程最终只能落得搬起石头砸自己的脚的下场。
In a dream Uncle Jack looks through a magic telescope owned by the ghost of a hermit and sees what life was like millions of years ago, including a battle between prehistoric monsters.
《通向行星路》的制作期长达三年,它是一部雄心勃勃的意识形态电影,包含着极具开创性的特效和精湛的手工模型作品。这部影片对库布里克《2001太空漫游》(2001:A Space Odyssey,1969)中对失重状态、灼热的星球和旋转式的太空站模型的在现实主义描写有着重要影响。
Klushantsev的《通向行星路》捕捉到了太空竞争的时代思潮。按照莫斯科电影官僚的指示,他在影片中增加了苏联第一个绕地卫星的模型。结果,这部五十分钟电影在苏联激起了观众的恐慌。据报道,电影片段在美国电视播放时,有些观众恐慌得晕厥过去。
这使得他随后的影片也是他唯一一部标准长片——1962年的《暴风雨之星》让人有点失望。这部影片是这一时期苏联科幻电影知名度较高的一部,故事由一队到金星探索的苏联航天员展开,队伍中有四个男人,一个女孩,还有一个笨重的机器人(这个机器人很明显是效仿了米高梅影片《禁忌星球》(Forbidden Planet,1956)中的机器人角色)。当两个宇宙飞船被流星摧毁时,这一队人被迫在星球表面下降着陆。他们一着陆就遇到恶毒的蜥蜴人,掠夺性的翼龙和食人的植物,而最后,他们得以逃离,回到太空中。
The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.
Wunder der Schöpfung is an extraordinary, fascinating Kulturfilm trying to explain the whole human knowledge of the 1920s about the world and the universe. 15 special effects experts and 9 cameramen were involved in the production of this film which combines documentary scenes, historical documents, fiction elements, animation scenes and educational impact. It its beautifully colored, using tinting and toning in a very elaborated way. Some visual ideas in the sequences with a space shuttle visiting different planets in the universe seem to have to be the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
In the context of Germany's Kulturfilm phenomenon, Wunder der Schöpfung was among the greatest achievements of the 1920s. The production was constructed, rehearsed, and shot over a period of two and a half years, under the supervision of Hanns Walter Kornblum. The idea to describe the universe and man's place in it well suited UFA's Grossfilm mentality, one year before the Metropolis catastrophe. Hundreds of skilled craftsmen participated in the project, building props and constructing scale models drawn by 15 special effects draughtsmen, while 9 cameramen in separate units worked on the historical, documentary, fiction, animation, and science-fiction sequences. Without star roles or even protagonists, the film's plot is crowded with meticulously structured and skillfully acted single scenes an artful mosaic of small vignettes. No less than four credited university professors ensured the factual background behind the scientific and historical events portrayed.
The film's symbol of progress and the new scientific era is a spacecraft, travelling through the Milky Way, making all the planets and their inspiring worlds familiar to us, with the extravaganza of their distinctive features. The film's educational intentions, however, become steadily more obscure, humorous, or even campy as this popularization project proceeds. With the excuse of presenting the end of the world a not-so-new concept as a new, undeniably scientific truth, the film veers happily along a new path, displaying detailed apocalyptic scenes of the end of mankind. For today's audiences, this amazing film demonstrates how the universe was comprehended in the 1920s, and how that view was sold to contemporary audiences.
'In Vitro' is an otherworldly rumination on memory, history, place and identity. Set in Bethlehem decades after an ecological-disaster, the dying founder of a subterranean orchard is engaged in a dialogue with her young successor, who was born underground and has never seen the town she's destined to replant and repopulate. Inherited trauma, exile and collective memory are central themes.
不是陨石撞击地球,也不是恐怖份子的全球威胁,更不是发生核子战争,人类熟悉的世界一夕之间面目全非,没有人知道是什么原因导致全球电力系统故障,消灭所有生命,唯独一个位于东欧的小区域幸存下来,仍保有正常的电力运作。面对毁天灭地的灾难,这个人类最后的希望堡垒必须全力反击,阻止这场灭绝浩劫……
哥伦比亚的古老圣地——苏马帕斯帕拉莫是世界上最大的高山苔原生态系统,也是首都 1100 万居民的饮用水源。在保护这处“只可远观,不可亵玩”的圣地时,居民们还得忍受其严酷的气候。由于人迹罕至,苏马帕斯已变成法外之地和罪犯的藏身之所,于是守卫F与父亲和其他当地人承担起了守护山脉的任务。
印度某市,所有人的手机突然被来自天空的神秘力量席卷吸走,手机销售大亨、电信运营老板、国家电信部高官等与手机相关的许多人相继离奇死去;城市上空,巨型变异鸟怪(阿克谢•库玛尔 饰)突然出现,大开杀戒,向所有手机用户宣战,民众陷入恐慌……
危机时刻,科学家瓦西博士(拉吉尼坎塔 饰)在美女助理妮娜(艾米•杰克逊 饰)的帮助下,一路追踪事件真相,但后果已无法挽回,能够拯救人类的唯一方法只有——重启机器人“七弟”,他将如何变身新一代超级英雄,与这股亦正亦邪的势力开启昏天黑地、脑洞大开的鏖战?......
2070年,传统能源因为核战争的爆发毁于一旦,世界变成一片废墟。此时,在莫斯科的地堡实验室内一种新能源应运而生。这种新能源是从人体内抽取能量供应给地球,以避免地壳运动引发灾难,代价则是每隔一段时间将会有一批年轻人被选中参加名为“死亡之舞”的比赛,淘汰者将付出生命,聚合自己的能量提供至地心。当又一场比赛开始之际,生活在城市底层的年轻人科斯特亚被带到了地堡的竞技场。他遇到了同为选手的安娜,并对她产生好感。而安娜的真实身份竟是地堡仪式祭司的女儿。为了保护女儿,祭司请求科斯特亚带走安娜。二人逃离之时,撞破新能源的真相,原来淘汰者的能量并未补充给地球,而是由地堡的委员们和获胜者吸取永保寿命。这对情侣能够幸存么,还是竞技场将“吞噬”他们的生命?一场大幕刚刚拉开。。。。。。
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1976年戛纳正式竞赛片,想象力令世人震惊.
帕维尔.祖拉契克,捷克新浪潮电影运动中的天才导演,被誉为"捷克新浪潮电影革命中真正的灵魂",做为整个东欧电影新生运动中最独特的剧作家之一,他创作了好几部在捷克东欧电影史上占有重要地位的影片.
黑白电影“The End of August at the Hotel Ozone”出品于1967年。它是编剧Pavel Juracek和导演Jan Schmidt合作的第二部作品,这两人是可以代表上世纪60年代捷克电影新浪潮流派的两位天才。
在当时的东欧,一些有政治报复的电影人希望通过银幕来唤醒人们对极权的认知和反抗,但囿于体制壁垒难以使用现实主义体裁,于是拍出了大量科幻、童话、象征或神秘主义电影。Juracek和Schmidt正是属于这一阵营。
故事开始于一场几乎毁掉全人类的战争之后,山野里出现由一个老妇带领的八个年轻姑娘,她们一路跋涉,寻找食物和或许还活着的男人,希望成为“新世界之母”。
当时东西方核储备竞争造成的末世恐慌是这部电影想当然的象征物,却不像其它多数末世电影般先给出一片荒土和废墟的影像,并将角色披上盔甲、戴上面罩,塑造得如机器人一般——在“The End of August at the Hotel Ozone”里,大地一片盎然生机,植物在疯长,到处都是动物,片中的八位姑娘个个也健康丰满、强壮矫健。她们就这样生活在饱和到几乎溢出来的自然之中,只是见不到人,祖先留给她们的是枪弹、炸药和汽油。
影片强调她们是因懂事前就脱离了社会与文明,于是不再具备某些被公认的“人性”。片中有一些很残酷的镜头——动物保护主义者一定难以忍受——譬如像一群狼一样把一头奶牛剖开、用枪托砸碎一只一直渴望跟随她们的狗的脑袋等等。经历过文明的老妇教会她们怎样使用语言、文字、杯子和枪,但没有办法使她们成为文明人,因为她们失去了社会。
影片后半部里他们遇到了一个孤独活在农场里的老人,从他那里见识了诸多文明的遗迹,譬如一台再也放不出的电视、一张旧报纸和一架械动留声机,她们只对留声机感兴趣——这里电影似乎在暗示:音乐与文明之间并非有必然的联系。
最终老妇因病去世,姑娘们冷漠地准备抛下农场老人离开,并要带走那架动留声机,老人豁然明白她们不懂感恩、毫无人情,他被姑娘们枪杀了。
电影里有太多的象征与隐喻,每个人都可以给出自己的解释。另外,其黑白影像细节锐利而构图绝妙,从远景到人物脸部特写的镜头切换干净果断、了无痕迹。无论从内涵还是美学来估判,这都是部深刻的经典之作。
其实,上文中提到的那些极权下勇于政治干涉的电影人,他们中的一些在革命者和艺术家两种角色之间终于晃晕了脑袋。本来,他们是不得不用一些象征、意象、解构的方式来呈现其主题,结果主题却被形式颠覆了,他们的后期作品成为了干脆的试验影像,尽管依旧精妙,却已是空中楼阁。
难得一见的流星雨即将在俄罗斯上空出现,青年男女们兴奋非常,纷纷走上街头见证着历史性的一刻。美丽女孩尤利娅(伊琳娜·斯达森保姆 Irina Starshenbaum 饰)不顾身为军官的父亲的反对,执意和特姆(亚历山大·佩特罗夫 Alexander Petrov 饰)交往。在流星雨来的这天,他们躲在一隅偷欢,却不知莫大的危机正在袭来。一艘外星飞船遭到意外,结果又被俄罗斯空军击中。它在迫降的过程中给莫斯科造成毁灭性的打击,而尤利娅的闺蜜也在灾难中丧生。在此之后,尤利娅和朋友们闯入禁区,遭遇了外星人。阴差阳错,她决定救治受重伤的外星飞行员汉克(林奈·穆罕默托夫 Rinal Mukhametov 饰),而特姆等憎恶外星人带来的灾难,对汉克恨之入骨。
跨越时空的爱情在此过程中产生……