A challenging thriller that tackels gender issues. Four friends spend a hot summer afternoon at an abondoned quarry. They enjoy bathing in the lake and soaking up the sun. However, a dispute ensues and the tension rises as they find themselves trapped.
作为一个电影公司的制片人，Griffin Mill（蒂姆·罗宾斯 Tim Robbins 饰）每天要从无数的剧本里面挑选极少的几部拍成电影。他最近的日子不太好过，先是Larry Levy（彼得·盖勒 Peter Gallagher饰）和他竞争日益激烈，然后又是不断收到匿名的恐吓信，让他忐忑不安。他怀疑是某个被他拒绝了的编剧所为。他把怀疑集中到一个叫David Kahane的编剧身上，于是他在电影院找到David并和他一起来到酒吧。后来两人竟争吵起来，在停车场甚至发展成打斗。在打斗中，David不慎摔下下水道身亡，Griffin只能将其伪装成是被抢劫身亡的样子。作为最后一个见到David的人，Griffin成了警方的嫌疑人，更让他恐惧的是，他还是收到匿名的恐吓信，甚至在他的车上发现了一条蛇......接下来，Griffin该怎么玩这个游戏？
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. The plot finally fails, Justine is sent to jail and Darley decides to return to England.
- Written by Guy Bellinger （From IMDb）
James Benning’s first film called The United States of America was a 1975 trip across the country, capturing its scenery through a car windshield. This second one also crisscrosses the nation, but without a car, carving it up instead into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to Kelly, Wyoming. The names of the places are nondescript, but the images attached to them are anything but, immaculately composed shots of landscape, cityscape and the spaces in between. As we move from A to Z, the images coalesce into a portrait of today’s USA, tracing out its fault lines almost in passing: fenced-off facilities, a river bed running dry, factories and refineries, run-down streets and gas stations, a camp under a bridge. The past is there too, seeping up through the songs and speeches that sporadically pierce the background noise or the motifs that evoke a whole career; the clouds, trains and cabins are stand-ins for films, not just states. As always, there’s time for more abstract thoughts too: each image may stand for a state, but representativity is slippery. Which state is more cinematic than the rest?
New York pretentious Diana Sullivan is writing a series of articles on the theme of "family" for Cosmopolitan magazine. Primarily to keep an eye on her but also because of the personal connection, Diana invites her mid-teen daughter, Grace Sullivan, to accompany her on a trip to research the next in the series, dealing with their own family, most specifically a wing that lives deep in the backwaters of the Louisiana bayou, which has been largely overtaken by oil companies of late. They are most directly connected by brothers: Diana's grandfather Mike, and Joe, the patriarch of the Louisiana wing. Diana and Grace have never met their Louisiana relations, they in turn who do not even know that Diana and Grace exist. As difficult as it becomes, Diana and Grace are able to meet their Louisiana relations, led by Joe's widowed young wife, Ruth Sullivan, who acts as if Joe is still with them, who sees anything related to the city as suspect, and who rules her household with an iron fist to ...
