西西奥莉娜1号

初始者

　　获得第24届圣丹斯电影节剧情片类评委会大奖的《雷管》，讲述的是四位合作者出于兴趣发明了一台查错仪器，却意外地发现这台仪器拥有强大的商业价值，最终四人相互争斗的局面。《雷管》是导演什恩-卡鲁斯(ShaneCaruth)首次执导的剧情长片，该片由他自己投资，并身兼编剧、导演、主演数职，体现出独立电影的“DIY”精神。另外，令人津津乐道的是该片不足7000美元的超低制作成本，只相当于一辆富康车的价钱……

等待方舟

　　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.

钟无艳

　　春秋战国时期，一向昏庸好色的齐宣王（梅艳芳饰）误闯夜叉山，碰上了美丽的寨主钟无艳（郑秀文饰），齐宣王决定把钟无艳娶为皇后，可是一直倾心于钟无艳的“狐狸精”（张柏芝饰）出手阻挠，只要钟无艳爱上其他的人，脸上便会无缘无故多出一块难看的红斑。狐狸精后来化身夏迎春勾引齐宣王，齐宣王终日沉醉温柔乡。而钟无艳为了夫君出生入死、南征北战。齐宣王只会有事求助于钟无艳时才好言相向。齐宣王十分好赌，竟然把钟无艳作为作为筹码输掉了，钟无艳愤怒离开，脸上红斑也自然消失。夏迎春得逞后也离开了皇宫，齐宣王才发现自己最爱为何人，浪子回头。在受到叛徒攻击时，还是爱着齐宣王的钟无艳，赶到了皇宫，帮忙驱走外敌……

老板和小可爱

恩典

 马里亚诺·德·桑蒂斯是意大利共和国总统。此人与现实中的任何总统均无关联，完全是作者虚构的人物。他丧偶多年，且信奉天主教，有一个女儿名叫多罗泰亚——和他一样，女儿也是一名法律学者。任期即将结束之际，在波澜不惊的日常中，两项最后的职责摆在了他面前：就两份敏感的总统特赦申请做出决定。这些抉择构成了真正的道德困境，并且以看似无法理清的方式，与他的私人生活纠缠在了一起。在疑虑的驱使下，他必须做出抉择。而这位杰出的意大利总统，怀着强烈的责任感，必将履行这份职责。

忘我星途

　　A narcissistic performer's world crumbles when he mysteriously loses his talent right before the biggest opportunity of his career.

急冻奇侠

　　故事开始于明朝，凤三（元华 饰）心肠歹毒，无恶不作，身为锦衣卫，同时又是凤三的师弟，方守正（元彪 饰）发誓要将凤三绳之于法。然而，凤三此人诡计多端，甚至想要偷取能够扭转时空的黑玉佛，借此逃脱法网，几番争斗之后，两人双双跌落山崖。　　时光荏苒，转眼已是现代，考古队在雪地中挖掘出了凤三和方守正被冰封住的尸体，将两人运往美国研究，然而，途中一场意外却令两人死而复生。方守正于机缘巧合之下遇见了名为阿玉（张曼玉 饰）的不良少女，阴差阳错的成为了她的保镖，而凤三不改奸邪本性，加入了黑社会，继续为非作歹。当方守正得知凤三依旧作恶多端后，他决定继续自己未完成的使命。