在关于爱情、失去和渴望的三个故事中，孤独的灵魂在大城市忙碌的生活中找到了意想不到的情感共鸣和陪伴

　　一个运气不佳的自行车手迈尔斯某天偶然发现一只先进、机器、军用的机器狗A.X.L.，其心脏是真狗的心脏，其他部位装备新一代人工智能。迈尔斯和AXL在日常交往中逐渐增进感情，而无赖军事科学家要不顾一切将AXL捉回，迈尔斯与他的梦中情人、足智多谋莎拉组队，为保护他的新朋友，踏上了一段史诗般的冒险旅程。

　　影片《夏伯阳》根据富尔曼诺夫的同名小说改编，前苏联列宁格勒电影制片厂1934年出品。　　片中塑造了夏伯阳这位苏联国内战争中传奇式的英雄人物。该片是苏联电影史上的杰作，人物形象鲜明，语言性格化，片中“精神战”一场，堪称场面蒙太奇的典范。　　影片荣获1941年斯大林奖金，在1978年评选的国际电影诞生以来100部最佳影片排行榜中，金榜题名。　　夏伯阳是苏联国内战争时期传奇式的英雄人物。　　这是在严酷的1919年红军同高尔察克白匪军作殊死战的战线上。一阵叮当的铃声，一架三套马车从广阔无垠的俄罗斯原野上飞驰而来。一群被白匪击溃的游击队员衣帽不整，狼狈地迎着马车跑来。马车冲进人群，一个目光锐利，像哥萨克那样歪戴着帽子的人敏捷地站起身来喝住人群。“站住，上哪儿去？”被驱赶得弃枪丢鞋的游击队员们，听到他们指挥员的喊声，马上停下。“来，跟我走！”随着一声令下，人们似乎振作起来，跟着马车往回冲去。车上的机枪吐出火舌，扫向敌村。敌人遭到不曾意料的反击，措手不及，一见马车上那勇士更是吓破了胆，纷纷弃甲而逃。游击队转败为胜，夺回村子。这个率领士兵冲锋陷阵的骁勇的指挥官，就是令敌人闻风丧胆的夏伯阳……　　后把英勇善战的将士说成是夏伯阳式的。

1986年4月26日，位于切尔诺贝利核电站几公里处的普里皮亚季小镇。　　在这个明媚的春天里，安雅和彼得正在举行婚礼，小瓦列里与他当核电站工程师的父亲阿列克谢种下了一颗苹果树，森林看管员尼古拉照例在森林中巡视...就在此时，一场事故在核电站发生了。彼得被征召去扑灭大火，就再也没有回来。　　受到这场灾难的影响，放射性物质将大自然顷刻变了样。当地居民突然被疏散。被当局要求封口的阿列克谢，宁愿消失...　　10年后。　　被居民们废弃的鬼城普里皮亚季，成了无人之地，这座现代的庞贝被建成了一个奇特的旅游之地...　　今天的安雅成了这里的导游，而瓦列里在这里寻找他的父亲，尼古拉则继续耕作着他那有毒的花园。　　时间成就了它的作品，一个新生活的希望是否可能？

有人戏称这部电影是“四个男人的一台戏”。　　影片中基本没有特别引人的情节，没有激烈的动作打斗场面，甚至没有撩人心弦的爱情故事，然而绕有趣味的是，影片除却赢得了1700万观众，还被当时权威电影杂志《苏联银幕》评为1983年最佳影片。　　这样一部既叫座又叫好的影片讲述了前苏联20年代四个青年音乐家组办爵士乐队的故事。在那样一个“火红的年代”，属于“资本主义意识形态”的爵士乐很难被苏联官方接受。出现在影片中几乎所有文化场合的标语“艺术要为劳动人民服务！”是那个时代的典型象征。四个热爱爵士乐的青年就这样不合时宜、一波三折地进行着他们“不可能完成的任务”。　　影片拍摄完成的80年代，苏联人已经开始通过一些“非法渠道”接触西方文化，当时，《巴黎最后的探戈》录像带开始半地下流行，持不同政见歌手的音乐会也几乎场场爆满。因此，在这样一种社会背景下影片中发生的故事立刻能得到观众的认同，主人公们对理想的执着、对自我价值的肯定、对友谊的坚持也让人感觉亲近和鼓舞。　　影片运用幽默诙谐的手法对时代进行嘲讽，用优美的音乐旋律和舞蹈动作打动观众，一个本应沉重的题材得以让人轻松地内省。　　导演卡·沙赫纳扎罗夫、编剧亚·巴拉基杨斯基、摄影弗·舍弗兹伊克构成了一个强力组合， 剧本经过10次修改，人物性格设计上的差异赋予了演员极大的发挥空间。透视片中时代里的个体、音乐里的个性，我们看到一种俄罗斯哲学的智慧。或许有一天，你已经忘记了影片故事的情节，但是某些掺杂着辛酸与甜蜜、沮丧与欣喜的电影画面会在脑海中悄然浮现。　　影片获1984年法国格勒诺布尔国际音乐片电影节评委会特别奖，波兰罗兹国际电影节银奖，并参展1984年伦敦、芝加哥、贝尔格莱德等电影节。

　　丹麦第一神（经）编剧安诺斯托马斯延森和美剧《汉尼拔》扮演者麦斯米科尔森早期电影，两人05年合拍神片《亚当的苹果》 还合作过好多黑色喜剧，本片讲四个黑帮分子偷老大的巨款开餐馆且各自回忆童年，充满荒诞和丹麦式冷幽默，结局（看起来）相当治愈，世纪之交的北欧出了好多黑色喜剧，当时丹麦第一神（经）编剧的功力已现端倪，那时麥叔还没成为汉尼拔，居然演了个背心暴力男......

A global scientific summit debates and fails on a plan to stop a massive asteroid heading straight for Earth, with all countries blaming each other for the impeding disaster. With communications tense, the daughter of a tech billionaire assembles her own team of specialists to try to destroy the asteroid before it is too late.

　　塔基亚娜（Nina Ivanova 饰）是一位非常美丽的姑娘，大学毕业之后，她决定前往工人夜校教授文学课。怀着满腔教育抱负的塔基亚娜没有想到的是，在夜校里，那些工人们根本就不把文学课当做是一回事，学习态度非常的消极和散漫，这让塔基亚娜非常的受打击。然而，随着时间的推移，塔基亚娜渐渐的在这些工人们的身上看到了吃苦耐劳的一面，对他们的看法有了大大的改观。　　工人萨沙（尼古拉·雷布尼科夫 Nikolai Rybnikov 饰）爱上了塔基亚娜，可是塔基亚娜拒绝了他，这让萨沙陷入了抑郁的情绪中，破罐子破摔。之后，塔基亚娜在一次偶然的机会下发现了萨沙不为人知的一面

伊朗电影杰作《风之棋局》（1976）今年完成修复并参与多个电影节，此前其实很少人看过！这部片在1976年曾入选德黑兰国际电影节并举行试映会，可惜放映被恶意妨碍——放映机发生故障，菲林亦遭到破坏，后来电影节评委将视频从竞赛中撤出。在没有发行商愿意投资的情况下，制片人再没将视频送到任何电影节或举办任何公开放映（据说著名影人Henri Langlois、罗塞里尼和萨耶哲雷在一些私人放映中看过，赞不绝口）。1979年伊斯兰革命后，此片更因其非伊斯兰教内容被禁。随后原底片丢失，坊间只流传一个经审查的低清VHS版本。 佚失四十多年后，导演的儿子竟在一个卖旧戏服配饰的跳蚤市场上，偶然地发现了此片的35毫米底片及声片！他立即买下并送到法国。视频由电影基金会修复，过程更由导演及其女儿亲自监督，此片的摄影师Houshang Baharlou亦亲身参与调色工序...

　　In the time of Counter-Reformation, a miller and his son come under investigation by a priest of the Inquisition, when rumors spread that their prosperity comes from working with the Devil.　　The Devil's Trap is a film directed by František Vlá?il, based on a novel by Alfréd Technik, adapted by František A. Dvorák and Miloš Kratochvíl. It was the first of three historical dramas that Vlá?il made during the Czech New Wave (technically he isn't really a part of the New Wave, however these films were made during the same era of artistic freedom), preceding his more well known Marketa Lazarová (1967) and Valley of the Bees (1968).　　Set in the late 16th Century during the Catholic Reformation, in the Moravian Karst, situated in what is now the Eastern Czech Republic, it tells the tale of a miller (Vítezslav Vejrazka), and his son Jan (Vít Olmer), who come under suspicion and are investigated by a Jesuit priest of the Inquisition (Miroslav Macháchek), when rumors of witchcraft are spread by the local regent (Cestmír Randa), who is jealous of the miller's prosperity and degree of respect among the local populace.　　As expected from Vlá?il, this film is a stunning experience all the way through. From the opening shot, an ominous manipulation of perspective with a close up of a mangled figure of Christ dominating the foreground against a tiny figure in black walking along the horizon, to the breathtaking confrontational finale inside the vast stalactite filled Karst caverns, it is a wonderful display of visual mastery.　　Maybe not quite as impressive as Marketa Lazarová, but still full of astonishing imagery. As seen from unique angles and distinct points of view which highlight the director's remarkable sense of awareness of framing, motion, and positioning on the emotional and dramatic tone of the scene. The most memorable being a repeated shot where the camera is suspended and launched with speed through the air towards the miller's door.　　The story here is a simple one and I would say more accessible than his later works. With a conventional structure emphasized as much by its plot and characters, than by its expressionistic cinematography or authentic historical detail. The events play out without much surprise, and there is a strong underlying, almost supernatural, mysterious aspect that is left unresolved, in fact barely explored, which is slightly disappointing, but only because it's so fascinating that I wish there was more.　　Acting is great all around. Particularly the villains: Miroslav Macháchek as the priest, casting a sinister and imposing shadow wherever he goes, and Cestmír Randa as the weasel like regent behind all the persecution. While Vít Olmer brings a charismatic leading man presence in his role as the miller's son Jan, in love with the lovely orphan girl Martina (Karla Chadimová), who becomes a dangerous object of rivalry between Jan and other young men of the village.　　The film also features the evocative music of Zden?k Liška (perhaps the most prolific composer of the Czech New Wave). In this his second of eleven collaborations with Vlá?il, his compositions are used sparingly, but to great effect, complimenting but never overpowering a scene. The best example of which can be heard in an amazingly shot celebration and dance sequence at the end of the second act.　　The Devil's Trap might not be a masterpiece, but it is still a strong effort, with a fascinating straightforward story and a glorious historical setting captured beautifully by Vlá?il's unmistakable visual prowess. A fine work that would also be the perfect starter plate to prepare yourself for the challenging feast of Marketa Lazarová or The Valley of the Bees. It even has an easy to digest running time. It's therefore puzzling why this gem remains largely overlooked and ignored.