海楠
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:转自:http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/2010/views-from-the-avant-garde-friday-october-1/views-from-the-avant-garde-jean-marie-straub“The end of paradise on earth.”—Jean-Marie StraubThe 33rd verse and last chant of “paradise” in Dante’s Divine Comedy. The film starts with verse 67, “O somma luce…” and continues to the end. “O Somma luce” recalls the first words uttered by Empedocles in Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 1987 The Death of Empedocles—“O himmlisch Licht!…” (O heavenly light!). This extract from Hölderlin’s text is also inserted into their 1989 film Cézanne.“O somma luce” invokes utopia, or better still “u-topos,” Dante, Holderlin, Cézanne… the camera movement, recalling Sisyphus, in the film’s long shots, suggests its difficulty.In O somma luce, with Giorgio Passerone’s Dante and the verse that concluded the Divine Comedy, we find at the extremity of its possibilities, the almost happy speech of a man who has just left earthly paradise, who tries to fully realize the potential of his nature. Between the two we find the story of the world. The first Jean-Marie Straub film shot in HD.So singular are the textual working methods of Straub-Huillet, and now Straub on his own, that it is hard to grasp how far reaching they are. Direction is a matter of words and speech, not emotions and action. Nothing happens at the edges, everything is at the core and shines from there alone.During the rehearsals we sense a slow process by which ingredients (a text, actors, an intuition) progress towards cohesiveness. It is, forgive the comparison, like the kneading of dough. It is the assembling and working of something until it becomes something else… and, in this case, starts to shine. Actually it’s very simple, it’s just a question of opening up to the light material that has been sealed up. Here, the process of kneading is to bring to life and then reveal. The material that is worked on is speech. So it is speech that becomes visible—nothing else. “Logos” comes to the cinema.The mise en scène of what words exactly?The process of revealing, “phainestai”; “phainomenon,” the phenomenon, is what take splace, what becomes visible to the eye.Is “Straubie” Greece?This mise en scène of speech, which goes beyond a close reading of the chosen text, is truly comes from a distant source.—Barbara Ulrich
玩具船长
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:笨手笨脚的拉里(王牌接线员拉里 Larry The Cable Guy饰)刚刚度过他人生中最糟糕的一天,极度郁闷的拉里决定约上他的邻居比尔(比尔·恩格瓦尔 Bill Engvall饰)以及从小玩到大的好友埃弗雷特(DJ·考尔斯 DJ Qualls饰)一醉解千愁,趁这个周末好好散散心。正当“蠢蛋三人组”喝到尽兴的时候,他们居然被一个军官误认为是开小差的士兵而被莫名其妙地赶上飞机,准备派到伊拉克战场作战。更离谱的是,“蠢蛋三人组” 被错误地空投到了墨西哥的陌生小镇上,三人还信以为真以为他们正身处中东,决定大干一场。当地军阀卡洛斯·桑坦纳(丹尼·特乔 Danny Trejo饰)残暴不仁,危害百姓。“蠢蛋三人组”在误打误撞下,竟然阴差阳错地从一伙强盗手中解救出了被围困的村民。一时间,三人成为了小镇人民心中的大英雄。