飓风后的奥尔良,全城陷入瘫痪。当地的监狱中,所有狱警和囚犯已全部撤离,却有一个囚徒被遗忘在这里。警官特伦斯•麦克多纳(尼古拉斯•凯奇 Nicolas Cage 饰)和同事巡查牢房时发现了他,特伦斯出手相助。这个英勇举动使他晋升为中尉,但他的脊柱也受到严重损伤,从此只能靠药物缓解疼痛。不断加剧的疼痛令各种药物失去效力,特伦斯在这一过程中饱受折磨,他不得以求助毒品,身体和经济状况都接近崩溃边缘,脾气也越来越糟。一个英雄警察逐渐堕落。不久,城内发生一起灭门惨案,大毒枭达费特具有重大嫌疑。特伦斯受命调查此案,在这一过程中,他泯灭已久的良知逐渐复苏……
本片荣获2009年威尼斯电影节Christopher D. Smithers Foundation特别奖。
Based on an unknown Schönberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a not-quite loveless marriage. A husband and wife return from a party where she has flirted with another man, while he has cast an appraising eye toward an attractive, fashionably dressed acquaintance of his wife’s. Though each dreams, briefly, of leaving the marriage for the excitement and mystery of a new lover, in the end they decide stability and comfort are more important than the fleeting thrill of new romance. Directors Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, who previously collaborated on two other films about music (The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, 1968, and Moses and Aaron, 1975), rely on long fixed shots in austere black-and-white so that the focus remains on the musical brilliance of Schönberg’s atonal score, performed here by 70 musicians. That Schönberg would choose such a relatively lighthearted message for his newly discovered musical language remains a mystery, especially since the conclusion reached by the husband and wife—to stick with the tried and true—seems directly at odds with Schönberg’s own philosophy of composing. It is just this juxtaposition, however, coupled with Straub and Huillet’s faithful presentation, that makes the opera a compelling addition to the Schönberg canon—and the film such a challenging and intriguing experience.
我们有史以来第一次以如此清晰的方式,目睹胚胎在一个月大到十星期大这个过程中的面部形成过程——直到这个过程结束,胚胎的体积也还只有一颗菜豆那么大。不过,更令人震惊的或许是影片本身——在子宫中,人类的“变形”并不比什么科幻动画与电影作品中的机器人来得平淡。胚胎的发育是地球生物演化数十亿年的缩影,人类的本源和几乎所有其它生物一样,在于鱼类。因此,人类的眼睛也同样是先出现在头的两侧,到后来才转移到中间;你的下唇与颚部最初出现在颈部的位置,一如鱼类的腮,而上唇和鼻孔则是从脑袋的上方逐渐降下来和下面“合体这一切扭曲、旋转、移动与拼接浑然天成,没有一道疤痕和缺口,不过在拼接的交汇处终究还是留下了一点痕迹,那就是你的人中以上内容出自BBC节目Inside the Human Body,由Michael Mosley博士主持。节目中还介绍了诸如“打嗝是从鱼类和两栖类继承下来的行为哦”等等有趣知识。
The turbulent life of soul and blues singer, the late Joe Cocker. A former gas fitter from Sheffield , catapulted to world stardom in 1969 at Woodstock with his legendary performance of the Beatles song,"A Little Help from My Friends". But in the early 1970s, Joe Cocker's inner demons nearly killed him. Overcoming his struggles with alcohol and drugs, he rebuilt his reputation as "one of the great primal rock and roll vocalists of all time" (Billy Joel's description). The film mixes Joe Cocker's own words, with rare archive. His family, friends and the legendary songwriters and musicians he collaborated with, tell Joe Cocker's story. The film has raw, electric performance footage throughout.