A re-staging of the Royal Ballet's 1985 production, with Anthony Dowell - this time as Drosselmeyer - and a new supporting cast. This Royal Ballet production of The Nutcracker (staged by Peter Wright) is a mix of the Balanchine and Vainonen schools of the Nutcracker. The Balanchine version of the Nutcracker emphasizes the child s fantasy: a land of sweets, with comic relief. The Vainonen Nutcracker emphasizes the romantic dreams of an adolescent.

The Nutcracker is Mikhail Baryshnikov's breathtaking and critically acclaimed Emmy-nominated production. This spectacular performance is danced by the magnificent team of Baryshnikov, one of the greatest classical dancers of the century, and Gelsey Kirkland, both showcased at the peak of their careers, with members of the American Ballet Theatre.

《安静！》（Tishe!，2002）是我想特别推荐的一本好纪录片，影片的导演维克托·科萨考夫斯基（Viktor Kosakovsky）是俄罗斯一位重要的纪录片创作者，他在八十年代初进入著名的列宁格勒纪录电影工作室作助理导演，摄影和剪辑师，与苏古诺夫等人合作过，苏联解体后开始单飞，九三年的《Belovy》（1993）和九七年的《星期三》（1997）等纪录片曾获得了近四十个国际奖项。 《安静！》是他零二年的作品，保持了一贯的高水平和独特风格，科萨用DV机花了整整一年的时间从自己位于圣彼德堡的公寓窗户拍摄楼下一条马路上的事，全片没有一句对话，所有你看到的人和事都是偶然的，也必定是真实的。据说导演创作此片的灵感来自自己当时正读的一本书 - 十九世纪德国作家恩·台·阿·霍夫曼（E.T.A. Hoffmann）的《My Cousin’s Corner Window》，讲述一个全身瘫痪的人每天花大量的时间透过窗户去观察外面的世界；同时科萨考夫斯基还说自己的创作灵感来源于最早的摄影 - 一八二六年法国人尼埃普斯（Nicephore Niepce）也正是从自己房间的窗户向外拍摄了世界上第一张照片。 而在这本纪录片中，我所看到的是两个字——变化，季节的变化，道路的变化，天气的变化，建筑物的变化，灯光的变化，色彩的变化。。。从中反映出人们内心思想的逐渐变化，他们不会知道身后的楼房里有一架摄影机正记录着他们生活的点点滴滴，所以他们所展现出来的是绝对的真实，正是这些真实的画面让我体会到真正的快乐和感动。 科萨的镜头并不是固定呆板的，而是自由而运动的，或远或近，或特写或长焦，有时在雨天他也会躲藏在窗户玻璃后面去寻找一种模糊的美丽。。。一对情人的分分合合，一位古怪的老妇坚持收集新鲜的雪花，一只狗躺在阳光下舒服地睡觉，街道清洁工扬起的却是漫天灰尘，破旧的下水道使路面开裂，一对夫妻走在路上一不小心却摔落旁边的大水坑。。。这些看似琐碎不堪又有点荒诞可笑的场景却间接反映着社会环境的变化，从平静到混乱，再从混乱到平静，这是否也暗示着苏联解体后俄罗斯人民思想和生活的转变过程呢？科萨用充满情趣的摄影和音乐将答案蕴藏在那些富有诗意的影像背后，就让我们每一个观看这部影片的人自己去读懂它吧。 《安静！》是最近我看过的很有意思的纪录片之一，它获得了二零零三年欧洲电影节最佳纪录片提名，它的成功之处不在于追溯宏大悲壮的历史或阐述什么精辟慎密的观点，而在于用极其生活化的影像去记录真实的变化。

The colorful holiday classic is finally brought to the big screen, designed by famed children's story author and artist Maurice Sendak, and written for the first time to be as close as possible to the original story. A lavish, exciting and heart-warming celebration of dance, of music, and of life. Based upon the Pacific Northwest Ballet's original production.

After young Clara receives a wooden nutcracker as a Christmas gift, she dreams about a fantastical battle between her Nutcracker Prince and the evil Mouse King. At stake is the Nutcracker's freedom - and Clara's future happiness.

由英国皇家芭蕾舞团出演。 芭蕾舞剧《胡桃夹子》是世界上最优秀的芭蕾舞剧之一，它之所以能吸引千千万万的观众，一方面是由于它有华丽壮观的场面、诙谐有趣的表演，但更重要的原因是柴科夫斯基的音乐赋予舞剧以强烈的感染力。 《胡桃夹子》剧本是根据德国名作家霍夫曼的童话《胡桃夹子和鼠王》改编的，全剧共分两幕，描绘了儿童的独特天地。舞剧的音乐充满了单纯而神秘的神话色彩，具有强烈的儿童音乐特色。剧情大致为：圣诞节，女孩玛丽得到一只胡桃夹子。夜晚，她梦见这胡桃夹子变成了一位王子，领着她的一群玩具同老鼠兵作战。后来又把她带到果酱山，受到糖果仙子的欢迎，享受了一次玩具、舞蹈和盛宴的快乐。

A young child and his mother face a visit from the terrifying sandman.

芭蕾舞剧《胡桃夹子》是世界上最优秀的芭蕾舞剧之一，它之所以能吸引千千万万的观众，一方面是由于它有华丽壮观的场面、诙谐有趣的表演，但更重要的原因是柴科夫斯基的音乐赋予舞剧以强烈的感染力。《胡桃夹子》剧本是根据德国名作家霍夫曼的童话《胡桃夹子和鼠王》改编的，全剧共分两幕，描绘了儿童的独特天地。舞剧的音乐充满了单纯而神秘的神话色彩，具有强烈的儿童音乐特色。剧情大致为：圣诞节，女孩玛丽得到一只胡桃夹子。夜晚，她梦见这胡桃夹子变成了一位王子，领着她的一群玩具同老鼠兵作战。后来又把她带到果酱山，受到糖果仙子的欢迎，享受了一次玩具、舞蹈和盛宴的快乐。

The film will be based around three of Hoffmann's tales (Klein Zaches, The Golden Pot and The Sandman), with the main character being Hoffmann himself. In particular, it will focus on the duality between the imaginative universe of his writings and his real-life profession as a government clerk (which will be based on his letters and journals)

The master of Italian horror Dario Argento is teaming up with one of the world’s most energetic punk icons Iggy Pop in an attempt to darken the holidays with horror. In an effort to keep his next film as pure as possible (maybe due to studio intrusion on his previous effort, the lackluster Dracula 3D) Mr. Argento has started a crowd-funding campaign for this new project. According to the pitch, this crowd-funded film will be a tribute to the films of Argento and his entire career, a chance to put a juicy horrific cherry on top of a long and storied career. Casting Iggy Pop in the lead role is just the chocolate sauce on top of the cherry. The Sandman is based on a German short story dating back to 1816, originally told by author E.T.A. Hoffman. According to this legend, The Sandman was someone who stole the eyes of any children that wouldn’t just close them and go to sleep, then he’d go feed them to his hungry children on the moon. It sounds like a great role for Iggy Pop, running around snatching out the eyeballs of children. Bring in the passionate direction of Dario Argento, and it begins to shape up as a film any horror fan definitely would like to see. The director says he is “tired of Christmas movies showing goodness. Beauty, snowflakes, sleds pulled by reindeer. I’m tired of these things. I’d rather have a Christmas movie where there is also strength, violence, horror, and this is what I am going to do.”

一部給低估了的傑作，鑑於前作被指離經叛道，劉別謙改拍童話式故事，拍出令德國人瞠目結舌的格調與清新幽默感，論者認為它比《卡里加里醫生的密室》更應名垂青史（兩片其實是雙生兒，只是主角一個作惡一個行善）。不肯成長的男孩被叔父強迫娶妻，玩具大王借女兒的模樣造出機械公仔，演出一幕騙婚記，但竟弄假成真。幕開只見我們的導演跑出來，用紙板砌出人與物，接着疊現真實畫面。戲演下去，所有場景透視詭異，道具有時索性繪在牆上。全片優美且自由奔放，活像頑童開心炮製的藝術品。值得一看的還有德國默片女星奧茜奧華黛的傳奇身影。 Proceeding The Cabinet of Dr Caligari by one year, this is both vintage early Lubitsch with its sly slapstick and Rabelaisian humour, and the only work that shares the subliminal, hallucinatory style of German expressionism. He exhibits a blinding array of camera effects, like an astounding shot of a dozen images of mouths in one frame. Also ahead of his time is an opening scene with Lubitsch himself constructing a miniature stage contraption that becomes the film set. A Pirandelloesque concept of art and artifice informs the Hoffman-inspired story about a man who purchases a life-sized doll to stand in for a bride. He gets more than he bargained for - the owner's daughter pretending to be doll! Source: 28th HKIFF