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Sylvester
分类:剧情片
类型:剧情
演员:Eugen,Klöpfer,Edith,Posca,弗里达·李察,Karl,Harbacher,EugenKlöpfer,EdithPosca,KarlHarbacher,尤利乌斯·E·赫尔曼,RUdolfBlümner
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简介:Sylvester, by the hugely underrated Lupu Pick is one of the least known films of the silent era, and unjustly so. Pick, the director of the slightly less obscure Scherben (Shattered), is almost as forgotten as this, his masterpiece... a film that without doubt, in it's time, was one of the most important of the German silent era.This great Kammerspiel is the middle entry in a trilogy written by the master screenwriter Carl Mayer (see here for a web resource for Mayer, as well as a writeup on Sylvester), all three of which were intended to fall under the directorial auspices of Pick: the first was Scherben (Shattered), the second was Sylvester (New Years Eve), and the last was Der Letzte Mann (The Last Laugh), which, as the film went into production, shifted directorial hands-- and was ultimately helmed by another of Mayer's ongoing collaborators, the great F. W. Murnau.Much has been made about the supposed innovations of Der Letzte Mann/Last Laugh: that it was the first film to be produced without interti
tles, and that it was the film to "unchain the camera" via the integration of subjective camera movements. Some attribute these innovations to Murnau completely, others give credit to Karl Freund for innovating the moving camera. Others suggest that it was within the sc ript for Letzte Mann that instructions for the moving camera can be located, and that this innovation, in this film, rests wth Mayer.As for the interti tle issue, the myth is easy to debunk: in Germany at least, one can, through exploration of chronologically preceding ti tles written by Mayer, see that this screenwriter had been seeking out this kind narrative-pictorial purity for years already by the time Letzte went into production. Hintertreppe (Backstairs, 1921, directed by Leopold Jessner, assisted by Paul Leni), Scherben (Shattered, 1921), Die Strasse (The Street, 1923, directed by Karl Grune), Sylvester (New Years Eve, 1924, Pick) all ran, in initial, domestic German release, with one-to-no interti tles. That makes Der Letzte Mann the fifth film that Mayer sc ripted for execution without interti tles.Putting aside the issue of the preceding use of moving camera by Yevgeni Bauer, Raul Walsh, Giovanni Pastrone, D.W. Griffith, etc-- the issue of who in Germany who first conceived and extensively utilized the subjective moving camera is put to rest with a simple viewing of Sylvester.Like all Carl Mayer tales-- and like Scherben before it-- Sylvester is an exceedingly simple story... it is New Years Eve, and all levels of the social strata are celebrating. Like a restless deity exploring the substance of his human creations, in all the colliding facets of their existence, the camera comes in out of the rolling waves of the void of nighttime... announcing with a single opening interti tle the insc ription from the Tower of Babel: "Go go let us go down and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."With this we move in off of the ocean, and into a city-- it is New Year's Eve and the street is a sea of revelers. Here Pick and Mayer's camera lingers for a couple of minutes before picking up the thread that constitutes the "story", to which the rest of the film is oblivious:A small family unit which runs a low-down bar on the main thoroughfare in town constitutes the central zone of the film. A husband and wife are keeping the food and drinks coming to the drunken, lower-working class revelers tossing confetti and streamers for the holiday. A baby sleeps in a carriage. Suddenly an ominous dark silhouette appears on the frosty outer side of the rear kitchen's window, and is sighted by the wife, who instantly deflates-- all her joy and enthusiasm for the coming countdown to midnight are instantly sapped.The intimate Kammerspiel which follows, triggered by the arrival of the wife's mother-in-law, is constantly orbited by the world outside. (As is typical for a Mayer film, the characters are nameless: The husband, The wife, His Mother) The camera continuously places the emotional strife of the trio of the man and his wife, and her terrible feuding with her schizoid mother-in-law, into context of the larger human universe. Intercut with their scenes of impending tragedy and near operatic gloom are shots of the oblivious streets: grand hotels with elegant appointments and well-heeled revelers in tux flowing out of limousines (welcoed through a revolving door operated by Emil Janning's spiritual predecessor), organ grinders and panhandlers with beaten faces crushedby prison time, bawdy bourgoise, flappers, rowdy laborers, streamers and confetti everywhere. Whereas most films place their characters in the center of the human universe, absorbing all the significance and spiritual gravity made available via the story, Sylvester, despite the pathos of the impending tragedy in the tiny family unit's unfolding drama, de-emphasizes the importance of the family... the narrative strains at times to disassociate itself with them, lingering for solid stretches of minutes, tracking up and down the streets, picking out stranger after stranger, settling on no one and everyone.It's via this dis/association that the power of the film multiplies, gathering the force and impact of the cruel reality of existence: a world paying lip service to the rest of itself, even in it's most awful of crises. The world spins; life goes on. I mentioned in my previous essay (li nked above) for Sylvester:I still believe that to be true. What Mayer was attempting to do here is very difficult to articulate in words... thus the opening statement from Babel. This is a film beyond language, beyond a general statement. That barrier that confounds its explanation is the same existential barrier that exists between the family unit and the world outside, which is the barrier that exists between every human heart’s lived life, and the rest of the surrounding world. To paraphrase Tom Regan in Miller’s Crossing: “Nobody really knows anybody—not that well.” 时间:2023-11-22 02:16:58
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内蒙古知青纪事
分类:国产剧
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简介:对于知青的这段历史,我们一直觉得通过影视剧、小说等等表现形式已经说得够多了,似乎很难再找出什么,再去挖掘出什么。然而,当我们把镜头转向内古这一片苍茫草原的时候却发现,有关这一群人、有关这一代人我们把镜头转向内古这一片苍茫草原的时候却发现,我们知道的,我们所能讲述的,真的还只是沧海一粟,少之又少。事实是,上个世纪六、七十年代,这个群体的总数有1700多万人,当中有30多万人来到了内蒙古,在茫茫草原上燃烧了他们的青春年华。其中的一些人,甚至将青春永远定格在了那一刻,溶入了那永难忘怀的浓浓绿色之中。而这片绿色上,又承载着他们青春的梦想和难以言喻的激情,以及所有青年人都曾经历过的爱情、友情、亲情,我们把镜头转向内古这一片苍茫草原的时候却发现,继续影响着他们的人生,乃至他们后代的人生际遇……
时间:2023-11-22 02:16:44
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刑男狱女
分类:喜剧片
类型:喜剧
演员:,Note,Chern-Yim,Uttama,Chiwanichpan,Udom,Chouncheun,Jaturong,Mokjok
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简介:Kun and Busaba are going to have their happy wedding together. But their sweet moment is collapsed when Kun is alleged to be the assassin who kills a politician and holds a confidential clip. Kun claims himself as innocent before he is moved to zone 8E88 where he is forced to unveil the truth about the clip.Meanwhile, the son of the deceased politician is in need to find the clip that he believes it's with Kun, so the unusual scheme breaking the prison begins.
时间:2023-11-22 02:07:22
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钻石婚礼
分类:喜剧片
演员:,Martin,Brambach,Anja,Franke,Dietrich,Hollinderbäumer,Udo,Kroschwald,MartinBrambach,AnjaFranke,DietrichHollinderbäumer,UdoKroschwald,MarleenLohse,JörgPohl
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简介:Die Hochzeitsglocken läuten.Es soll der schönste Tag im Leben von Julia und Alex werden.Doch Manfred, ein Kleinganove mit zwei li
nken Händen und Vater vom Bräutigam, verwandelt den Hochzeitstag in einen Alptraum. Eine temporeiche Realzeit-Komödie, die keine Zeit zum Verschnaufen lässt.Ein toter Kurier, ein stinksaurer Mafioso, eine neurotische Altachtundsechzigerin, ein paar funkelnde Diamanten und eine wartende Braut: Eine Hochzeit, die Du Deinem ärgsten Feind nicht wünschst. 时间:2023-11-22 02:00:38
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曼谷重击
分类:动作片
演员:,Kietisak,Udomnak,Pimchanok,Leuwisetpaibul,Sorapong,Chatree,Supaksorn,Chaimongkol
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简介:由父亲一手训练的博斯有一群亲如兄弟的队友和一支名为Fight Cup的队伍,他们在制作人多查诺和美国人斯尼合办的选拔赛中脱颖而出,有机会前往好莱坞发展,兴奋不已的年轻人们拉上好友Jaram(索拉朋·切特里 Sorapong Chatree 饰)一起庆祝,岂料第二天醒来后发现遭人暗算,不但汽车悉数被盗,好友Joy也被对方捉走作为人质。博斯等人回顾,猜想事情的起因是昨夜与服务员们的争执,而实际上,他们此刻已经陷入了多查诺的圈套。多查诺与斯尼合作,开设面对世界各地富人们的搏命赌局,而博斯和队员们,就是赌局中的选手,他们必须从重重恶战中救出Joy,更要捣毁多查诺的犯罪组织……
时间:2023-11-22 02:00:23
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Чудовкраюзабуття
分类:剧情片
类型:剧情
演员:,Valentyn,Trotsyuk,Anatoly,Khostikoyev,Kostyantyn,Stepankov
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简介:In a small Ukrainian village, someone starts circulating the rumors about the Second Coming and that the Messiah is already somewhere in the region. A mysterious stranger is found dead near the village. The local authorities come to investigate but the villagers seem reluctant to talk about it. The case is closed for the lack of evidence. Then another stranger appears who looks like a spitting image of the dead man. The second appearance ultimately unravels a complex web of lies, guilty secrets, confusion and despair that prove dangerous and inescapable enemies that may alter the very fabric of the village’s existence.ba
sed on Valery Shevhuck's story "Petro the Fugitive", it's a hidden gem from an obscure director that makes a compelling and thought-provoking viewing. 时间:2023-11-22 01:59:35
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永别
分类:剧情片
演员:,Pattraporn,Jaturanrassmee,Wanlop,Rungkamjad,Namfon,Udomlertlak
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简介:在一个小村庄裡,中年男子正骑著车穿过宁静的村子。男子叫Wit,他已经于三天前死亡,按照泰国的习俗,过世的人将会在三天后回到自己最思念的地方。Wit的魂魄回家了。突然间,年轻女子的声音打破了寂静,她是Koi,二十来岁的美丽女子,Wit未来的妻子… Wit想起了过去,自己当时是如何追求Koi,然后说服她与自己结婚。转眼间,Koi已经是中年妇女,带著两个小孩,丈夫不知去向,而她必须独自活下去…
时间:2023-11-22 01:58:15