Directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell and Jennifer Jason Leigh,“The Hateful Eight” will be released on Feb 18.
SYNOPSIS
In THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie's Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…
Directed By: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demian Bichir, Tim Roth, Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Rating: III
Running Time: 167mins
Distributor: Sundream Motion Pictures Limited 特別鳴謝「驕陽電影」提供照片及資料
Decalogue II
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Decalogue II
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Directed byKrzysztof Kieślowski
Produced byRyszard Chutkovski
Written byKrzysztof Kieślowski
Krzysztof Piesiewicz
StarringKrystyna Janda
Aleksander Bardini
Olgierd Łukaszewicz
Music byZbigniew Preisner
CinematographyEdward Klosinski
Edited byEwa Smal
Distributed byPolish Television
Release dates 1988
Running time 57 minutes
CountryPoland
LanguagePolish
The Decalogue - Two (Polish: Dekalog, dwa) is the second part of the television series
The Decalogue by Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski.
Dorota Geller, a married woman, faces a dilemma involving her sick husband's prognosis. Her husband's doctor, who believes in God, is made to swear by his prognosis, but gets it wrong.
Plot
The episode focuses on two people: an elderly doctor (Aleksander Bardini), who lives alone in the ubiquitous Dekalog apartment block and works in a local hospital; and Dorota Geller (Krystyna Janda), a violinist with the Philharmonic Orchestra, who is in her 30s and lives in the same building.
The doctor lost his family during the war and has remained a bachelor ever since. He spends his free time raising plants and birds in his house and telling bits of his life story to his cleaning lady, Barbara.
The doctor meets Dorota coming out of the lift one day, as she is smoking a cigarette by the window. She apparently wants to talk to him, but is not courageous enough at first. The doctor goes out to buy milk and runs across Dorota again, since she has not moved from the spot where they met earlier that morning. She follows the doctor to his apartment. She asks him if he remembers her - he does, because she in fact ran over the doctor's dog with her car two years ago. After this unpleasant beginning of conversation, Dorota reveals what she urgently wants a prognosis of her husband's condition, who is seriously ill in hospital. The doctor is reluctant to do so, saying that Dorota has to come to the hospital during visiting hours, and closes his door. He then takes pity on her and asks her to come to the hospital later that day. He asks for Andrzej Geller's file. Later that day Dorota comes in and the doctor tells her that Andrzej is very ill and that things are not looking good, but he also says that in his experience patients with even less chances than him have recovered, so his prognosis is very reserved.
Dorota does not give up and visits the doctor at his apartment again. She reveals important information: she is pregnant but not by her husband, and this could be her last chance to get pregnant. She wants to know if Andrzej will live. She has decided that if he dies, she will carry to term - if he survives, she will abort. The doctor suddenly finds himself in a situation to decide on the life of others. He takes a keen interest in Andrzej's case and conducts many studies. Dorota is having a lot of problems of her own. She goes to the gynaecologist and schedules an abortion anyway. She also meets with an acquaintance of her lover's, also a musician who is on tour. She receives a passport from her lover and a request to bring some scores along when she joins him abroad. She also angrily confronts an alpinist friend of her husband's who has come to return Andrzej's mountaineering gear to her, telling him that Andrzej is still alive and that his gear belongs in the mountaineering club. The team will be leaving for India, probably to climb Mount Everest.
In an ambiguous scene in a laboratory, the doctor seems to come to the conclusion that Andrzej's disease is progressing (although the scene seems to suggest that Andrzej could be recovering). Dorota tells him that he does not escape liability by his reserved prognosis and that she is going to have an abortion the following day. He tells her not to go ahead with the abortion because Andrzej is dying. She has him swear by his prognosis, which he does.
In a typically "Kieślowskiesque" scene, Andrzej opens his eyes and sees a bee miraculously swimming out of a glass with strawberries that Dorota had brought to him. Andrzej stands up and goes to the doctor's office. The doctor says that he is surprised (although he doesn't look it) that he recovered. Andrzej says that he came back from "beyond" and is happy to have a baby with Dorota. He asks the doctor if he understands what it means to have a child, to which the doctor (evidently getting emotional) replies, 'I do'.
Cast
Krystyna Janda - Dorota
Aleksander Bardini - the doctor
Olgierd Łukaszewicz - Andrzej
Artur Barciś - laboratory assistant
Stanisław Gawlik - postman Wacek
Krzysztof Kumor - gynaecologist
Krystyna Bigelmajer - nurse
Karol Dillenius - patient in Andrzej's hospital room
Jerzy Fedorowicz - Janek, friend of Andrzej
In other roles
Krystyna Bigelmajer
Ewa Ekwinska,
Piotr Siejka
Aleksander Trąbczyński
Adaptations
In 2009 a Bengali film Dwando, directed by Suman Ghosh was based on this film where Ananya Chatterjee played the role of Dorota, Kaushik Sen played the role of Andrzej and Soumitra Chatterjee played the role of the doctor.
如果說《智取威虎山》 ( The Taking of Tiger Mountain）為2015年香港電影金像獎最佳電影及最佳導演大熱，應該沒有人反對。該片是一部2014年博納影業出品、徐克導演的中港合拍3D電影，改編自作家曲波所寫的長篇小說《林海雪原》中的著名故事《智取威虎山》，講述剿匪小分隊與東北土匪鬥智斗勇的故事。張涵予、梁家輝、林更新、佟麗婭和余男主演。
骯髒的現實主義
賣盜版碟的人把巴納希帶到一個中產電影系學生的家門。這人一眼就認出了巴納希。伊朗是文化審查嚴重的地方，很多電影不會上映，正規影視店也不會售賣，取而代之，盜版事業一直有需求。所以沒了盜版業者，伊朗愛好電影的人，包括巴納希，「連 Woody Allen 也沒得看」，所以賣盜版也真算是「文化活動」，極端點說，沒有他們，可能真的未必有成功的伊朗導演，最少中產電影學生失去了不少學習機會。學生也抓住了與大導演對話的寶貴時機，問怎樣去找靈感。巴納希在這裡對新一代電影人作出了呼籲，表示電影書和其他電影已經是別人寫過、拍過的了，應該從別的地方找尋靈感。
Taxi (2015 film)
Directed byJafar Panahi
Produced byJafar Panahi
Written byJafar Panahi
StarringJafar Panahi, Hana Saeidi
Production company Jafar Panahi Film Productions
Release dates 6 February 2015 (Berlin)
Running time 82 minutes
CountryIran
LanguagePersian
Taxi (full title Jafar Panahi's Taxi; Persian: تاکسی), also known as Taxi Tehran, is a 2015 Iranian docufiction starring and directed by Jafar Panahi. The film premiered in competition at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Golden Bear and the FIPRESCI Prize.[4] In 2010, Panahi was banned from making films and travelling, so his niece Hana Saeidi, who also appears in the film, collected the award on his behalf.
Similar to Abbas Kiarostami's A Taste of Cherry (1997) and Ten (2002), Taxi has been described as "a portrait of the Iranian capital Tehran" and as a "documentary-like film is set in a Tehran taxi that is driven by Panahi" with passengers who "candidly confide[d]" to Panahi. According to Jean-Michel Frodon, the passengers include "Men and women, young and old, rich and poor, traditionalists and modernists, pirated video vendors, and advocates of human rights, [who sit] in the passenger seat of the inexperienced driver [who they refer to as] Harayé Panahi (Aghaye Panahi, آقای پناهی), 'Mr. Panahi'." The passengers are played by non-professional actors, whose identities remain anonymous.
Like his previous two films This Is Not a Film and Closed Curtain, the film was made despite Panahi's 20-year ban from making films. His previous two films had been shot in extreme secrecy in Panahi's apartment and in a private house. In this film Panahi filmed out in the open on the streets of Tehran.
Shortly after the film's premiere at Berlin was announced, Panahi released an official statement in which he promised to continue making films despite the ban and said "Nothing can prevent me from making films since when being pushed to the ultimate corners I connect with my inner-self and, in such private spaces, despite all limitations, the necessity to create becomes even more of an urge."
Reception
The film currently holds a score of 91/100 on Metacritic, based on 25 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim."
Taxi won the Golden Bear prize at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival. Because Panahi was legally unable to leave Iran to attend the festival, his niece Hana Saeidi (who appears in the film) was there to accept the award on his behalf.[12] Berlin Jury president Darren Aronofsky described the film as "a love letter to cinema...filled with love for his art, his community, his country and his audience."
In an interview following the win at Berlin, Panahi pleaded with authorities to allow his film to be screened publicly in Iran. The Iranian government’s film branch, the Cinema Organisation, offered a statement that was at once celebratory and critical, congratulating Panahi for the win while accusing the Berlin Film Festival of spreading misunderstanding by awarding the prize to Panahi.
Box office
The film opened in Italy on August 27, 2015 where it earned the ninth place spot, grossing $124,280 from 41 screens. It stayed in the ninth position the following week, but saw a 54% increase to end the weekend with $191,688 (thus bringing its cute to $396,526). The movie dropped to 12th place in its third week with $122,970, while increasing the screen count to 82. It's three-week cumulative total is $597,093.
It also has opened in Austria where it has made $110,446 since opening on July 24, 2015.
As of December 30, the film has a worldwide total of $3,353,426.
