人类合约

 故事开始于十六世纪初，因为皇后凯瑟琳（宾妮·巴尼斯 Binnie Barnes 饰）无法生育，英国国王亨利八世（查尔斯·劳顿 Charles Laughton 饰）同她离婚，另娶了名为恩尼（梅尔·奥勃朗 Merle Oberon 饰）的女子为皇后，哪知道野心勃勃的恩尼整天盘算着推翻丈夫的统治自立为王，当她的阴谋败露之后，亨利八世亲手将她送上了断头台。恩尼死后，亨利八世娶了奇恩（温迪·巴里 Wendy Barrie 饰）为妻，哪知道在生产时，奇恩因为难产而死，只留下了一个可怜的婴儿威尔斯（迈尔斯·曼德 Miles Mander 饰）。之后，大臣们想要国王迎娶德国公主，可这一次，国王驳回了大臣们的请求。

　　《火箭人》（The Rocketeer）是迪士尼１９９１年推出的电影，故事题材是由 Dave Stevens 同名的图文小说改编而成。　　本片是发生在１９３０年代的好莱坞，有一个军方的秘密武器意外落在一位竞技表演飞行员 Cliff Secord 手中，他对此一推进器颇感惊奇， 最后他背上了这付怪东西、戴上面具，成了行侠仗义的『火箭人』，然而各方人马都想夺得这项秘密武器，尤其有一位好莱坞影坛的知名男演员 Neville Sinclair ，他其实是纳粹潜伏在好莱坞的情报份子，为了夺得火箭，他还挟持了 Cliff 的女友 Jenny Blake，火箭人 Cliff 于是展开他的救援行动。　　本片由《亲爱的我把孩子缩小了》、《野蛮游戏》、《侏罗纪公园３》以及《百胜天龙》影集的知名导演 Joe Johnston 所执导，他同时也是《星际大战》系列的特效大师。至于演员方面，男主角 Cliff 由 Bill Campbell 担任，女主角则是 Jennifer Connelly，至于片中那位大反派间谍演员，则是由曾演过００７的 Timothy Dalton 担任。　　本片配乐的是 James Horner ，原本原声带都已经绝版多年，但在前几年《铁达尼号》造成发烧的时候， James Horner 的作品又造成热潮，迪士尼旗下的好莱坞唱片于是再版发行了这张电影原声带，如今则又绝版了。

　　从小失去双亲的玛丽娜18岁了，为了申请奖学金，她必须离开养父母，前往大西洋海岸，从她从未谋面的祖父母处获得签名。新姨妈、叔叔、堂亲，她在众多新家人间周旋，不确定自己是会被接纳还是排斥。这段旅途唤醒了玛丽娜尘封已久的情感，揭开家族往昔的隐秘创伤，她由此拼凑起那些支离破碎、往往矛盾的记忆碎片，试图重现她几乎遗忘的父母身影。

　　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.

　　1453年，东罗马帝国陷落后，地处中欧的神圣罗马帝国，不得不直接面对土耳其人的侵扰。土耳其人热衷扩张，虽然他们信奉伊斯兰教，但他们认为他们才是真正的“罗马皇帝”，神圣罗马帝国的皇位，已由哈布斯堡王朝掌权两百年，他们是基督教世界的最后保卫者，双方再维也纳一决高下：一方信誓旦旦，另一方誓死捍卫。

　　塞西莉亚（西德妮·斯威尼 饰）是一个非常虔诚的修女，她来到意大利乡间修道院开始新生活，却在这个几乎全是女人的地方意外怀孕，原来这里隐藏着黑暗和可怕的秘密。