Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’
The film takes youthful impetuousness and hatred of oppression as its subject and also ponders the cult of genius and sexual morals. Rainer Werner Fassbinder simultaneously plays both Baal and himself and is surrounded by many actors who were later to perform in his own films. After the film was broadcast on West German television, Brecht’s widow Helene Weigel prohibited any further screenings, arguing that the social circumstances engendering Baal’s rebelliousness had not been adequately explained.
本片用迷幻的影像和摇滚乐讲述了一个非典型乐队主唱的成长史。儿时,平克(鲍勃•吉尔道夫 Bob Geldof 饰)的父亲在二战中身亡,母亲与家庭医生关系暧昧,这让他幼小心灵备受创伤。在学校,他对呆板的填鸭教育深恶痛绝,时刻准备着绝地反击。成年后,他在泡吧时结识了风骚的舞女,并与之发生了关系。然而,性欲的满足感并没有维持太久,他就厌倦了这种不靠谱的感情,特别是他对于女人的怀疑和嫉妒达到了无以复加的地步,因此当对方再度示好投怀送抱的时候,他便歇斯底里地爆发了,仿佛要把全世界都砸碎了才算安心。在此期间,他还表达了强烈的反战情绪和愤世嫉俗的观念,在物质丰富的生活中,他的精神生活极度匮乏,在工业化大行其道的环境里,他还固守着梦想的断壁残垣……
清晨,空荡幽暗的卧室。潜行者(亚历山大·凯伊达诺夫斯基 Aleksandr Kajdanovsky饰)悄然无息地起身准备与另外两人会合前往一片恐怖复杂的地带。可妻子(阿丽萨·弗雷因德利赫 Alisa Frejndlikh饰)却极力哀求他不要冒险进入该地。而这位训练有素、 经验丰富的潜行者,即将穿越的是一片有着千变万化陷阱和圈套的地区“The Zone”。这块二十年前因陨星坠落而荒芜的恐怖地区,传说有一个名叫“The Room”的囚室,它能满足人们潜意识里最深层的意愿和欲望。潜行者与为寻求灵感的作家(安纳托里·索洛尼岑 Anatoli Solonitsyn饰)和为探明真相的科学家(尼古莱·格陵柯 Nikolai Grinko饰),踏上了这片变幻莫测的死亡之地。
这部极具史诗片气质,探究人类灵魂本质的科幻电影《潜行者》,用诗意而极富隐喻的长镜头,挖掘着人类潜意识与外部世界的重重矛盾与深层意义。1957年,一场发生在苏联车里亚宾斯克附近名叫玛雅卡工厂的核灾难,深深触动了导演安德烈·塔科夫斯基,成为本部电影中的创作素材。影片也改变自小说《The Roadside Picnic》。本片荣获1980年第33届戛纳电影节天主教人道奖。
美国华尔街股市大亨戈登·盖柯(迈克尔·道格拉斯 Michael Douglas 饰)在金融界叱咤风云,人人敬畏。在随时随地上演的金融大战中,他总能百战百胜。初出茅庐的纽约大学毕业生巴德·福克斯(查理·辛 Charlie Sheen 饰)野心勃勃,却空有满腔热血而投报无门。 一个偶然的机会,他接触到盖柯,用一个股市内幕情报帮其赚了笔大钱而受到重用,成为盖柯的合伙人之一。在对金钱、美女、上流社会的渴求下,巴德开始利用身边所有的人来刺探一切有利的商业情报,为自己获利。直到在一场收购他父亲所工作的蓝星航空公司的过程中,贪得无厌的盖柯出尔反尔想要解散并卖掉它,这让尚有良知的巴德幡然醒悟。他利用盖柯教会他的一切股市战术,狠狠地反击了大亨盖柯,帮助父亲拯救了蓝星航空。然而,因为违法操控股票内线交易,巴德不得不面临着冰冷的铁窗……
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most trusted advisors.
This is a brilliant surrealistic film.
But also a fully realistic story about a time when the brave avant-guarde artists were trying to explore the unknown landscapes of human possibilities.
The contrast between two realities: the poor village and the dadaist artists is shown very smart and brings the possibility of changing the world by the art.
Unfortunately, that progressive ideals of making the world better by revealing new areas of imagination, that ruled in the first half of XX century, were crushed by the war.
And, the tragedy finishes: the artistic ideals are dead, international art brotherhood also, but, as a real disaster: Yugoslavia is also dead, as a country, but as an artistic vision of nation's brotherhood, too.
So, the art falls apart