独立电影
The Last Moose of Ao Lu Gu Ya (2013)
犴达罕 TMDB Douban
★ 8.8 83 ratings
Gu Tao
other title: 犴达罕 / 猎人维加 …
犴达罕是大兴安岭森林里体态最大的动物,威武,敏感,拥有尊严。近年生态的破坏,偷猎者的增多,犴达罕也更稀少。 而这不是一部关于犴的片子。 具有犴一样孤独气质的鄂温克猎人维加在禁猎后失落悲伤,经常酒后用诗和画怀念逝去的狩猎时代。春天来了,维加和伙伴进入原始森林,寻找犴达罕的足迹。 城市里教书的夏老师爱慕维加的才华,维加的生活发生了变化……
The Unbelievable Truth (1989)
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★ 8.3 20 ratings
霍尔·哈特利 actor: 安德林妮·夏莉 / 罗伯特·约翰·伯克 …
other title: 难以置信的事实 / 无法置信的事实 …
Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career. Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.) As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played. The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument). Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.
The Other Bank (1995)
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★ 9.2 12 ratings
蒋樾 actor: 牟森 / 唐长炼 …
other title: 彼岸
1993年独立制作纪录片《彼岸》(1995年完成,此片参加1995年法国真实电影节;1995年香港国际电影节;1995年日本山形国际纪录片电影节;1995年德国奥格斯堡电影节;1996年葡萄牙电影节等)。 它叙述一群未考上大学的外地孩子的明星梦碎的故事。他们来到北京电影学院学习,在实验剧《关于〈彼岸〉的语法讨论》中饰演角色。他们连演七场,很多著名艺术家都前往观看,就他们的真实而富于激情的表演给予高度评价。蒋樾为此跟拍了四个月,但在戏演完的同时,他也因经费短缺而被迫停机。三个月后他再次见到这群孩子时,他们已被命运无情地抛回了残酷的现实,无望地在北京漂流。有的女孩成了歌厅门口招徕顾客的小姐,有的男孩则成了骑车给人送方便面的学徒。又过了四个月后,他们实在撑不住了,只能满含绝望地离去。蒋樾追踪其中三个孩子踏上返乡之途。他们回到农村之后,竟然自己排了一出戏叫《一只飞过了天堂的小鸟》,在村子里上给几十个老人演了一场。戏的一开始就在修理一台拖拉机,到剧终也没修好,最后一群人在荒野里推着拖拉机行走,他们的美梦就此化为乌有。
Along the Railway (2000)
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★ 8.6 56 ratings
other title: 铁路沿线
This important, patient documentary follows a year in the life of the sidings dwellers who eke out a living, begging, foraging, stealing and sleeping rough near the Baoji railway station in Shaanxi.
Watched
Feb. 21, 2019
朦胧的舞台,灯光黑暗,我却找不到蓝色的小药丸
【看电影了没】2000年,中国宝鸡铁路沿线,无家可归的孩子们
人生 社会 独立电影 中国 大陆
Li Wen at East Lake (2015)
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★ 8.7 66 ratings
李珞 actor: 李文 / 左炎 …
other title: 李文漫游东湖
As with everything in life, the same goes for East Lake, a threatened lake near the expanding mega city of Wuhan. You can get worked up about it and get involved - or you can think, it won’t affect me. Fortunately there’s the intriguing new film by Li Luo, which brings to an end these doubts. East Lake (Dong Hu) is a scenic area in the city of Wuhan, threatened by new amusement parks, high-rises and even an airport. ‘East Lake is getting smaller and smaller, but it's bigger and bigger in my memory,’ wrote a friend to the Canada-based Chinese filmmaker Li Luo as a result of the development. In a lucid way, the film investigates how the lake is linked to the people, leading to reflection on identity and survival in today’s China. The form is varied and free. Li uses documentary as well as fictional style elements, and often an ironic mixture of both. © iffr.com
Seafood (2003)
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★ 7.4 39 ratings
Kate Zhu actor: Taishen Cheng
other title: 海鲜
Zhang Xiaomei (Jin Zi), is a prostitute living in Beijing. When relationship problems with her boyfriend erupt, she flees to the resort city of Beidaihe and takes a room in a small hotel where she contemplates committing suicide. There she meets a young poet. The next morning, she wakes and learns that the poet has slit his wrists. When the police arrive, she meets Deng Jianguo (Cheng Taisheng), a middle-aged officer who questions her over the poet's death. Their relationship soon grows increasingly complicated as Deng learns of Xiaomei's plans to commit suicide. Over the course of several days, he takes her to eat seafood dinners, extolling the virtues and health benefits of the diet, including a claim that it makes him a more potent lover. When Xiaomei tries to commit suicide in a nearby town, she is thwarted by Deng who brings her back to Beidaihe and proceeds to rape her. Xiaomei eventually leaves the seaside town for Beijing again.