團鬼六：修道女繩地獄 団鬼六 修道女縄地獄 (1984)

　　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.

　　「人可生如蟻而美如神」：一班裁制亮麗戲服的中年裁縫慨嘆自己生如蟻，一名奧斯卡導演拍出她們美如神的生命。導演邀約一眾他熱愛的演員，重塑一家高級裁縫工作室色彩斑斕、五味集陳的過往，追憶70年代一班堅毅溫柔的女裁縫的故事：表面盛勢凌人卻細膩體貼的老板、善良卻抑郁的妹妹拍檔、單純的寡婦和她的小兒子、偏愛小鮮肉的姨姨、被家暴的妻子、昔日美艷的舞者、逃避通緝的少女??一群日常女子拋開小我、互相照顧，照亮平凡生活中超越自我的不平凡，展現她們的獨立、愛欲、掙扎和力量。意大利金像獎觀眾人次最高獎意大利銀絲帶獎年度電影

　　2056 - Company soldier Hannah and scientists Gavin and Dimitri are on board of RUBIKON space station researching an algae project aimed to provide humanity with a permanent supply of oxygen and food. But all of a sudden the earth beneath them disappears in a brown, toxic fog and all contacts are broken - are they the last survivors? Should they leave the safe station, risk their lives by flying back? What is worth living for, what is worth dying for?

 露絲·威爾森、庫什·珍寶、裴淳華正商談主演改編自大熱音樂劇《The Band》的新片[最偉大的時光](Greatest Days，暫譯)。影片由科奇·吉爾佐(《名姝》)執導，片名靈感源自英國流行組合接招合唱團(Take That)的同名歌曲。故事圍繞著五名女學生展開，她們在自己最喜歡的男孩樂隊的演唱會上，度過了一生中最難忘的夜晚。25年后，她們的生活以及生活方式發生了翻天覆地的變化，她們相聚在一起回望過去并探索未來。接招合唱團成員包括加里·巴洛、霍華德·唐納德、杰森·奧蘭奇、馬克·歐文和羅比·威廉姆斯。環球音樂集團將全力助陣該項目，接招合唱團的大量歌曲將獲得使用，包括《Patience》《Back For Good》《A Million Love Songs》《Relight My Fire》《Could It Be Magic》等金曲將全部在影片中呈現。