战场上的快乐圣诞

　　微电影《我是你的小幂phone》

　　Y.是一位40多岁的以色列导演，他来到沙漠尽头的一个偏远村庄，想要展示他的一部电影。在那里，他遇到了文化部官员Yahalom，并发现自己正在打两场失败的战斗：一场是反对他的国家对于自由的消亡，另一场则是反抗他母亲的死亡。

　　The film is about the early years of famed children’s author Astrid Lindgren (Pippi Longstocking) when she experienced something that was a “combination of both miracle and calamity that came to shape her entire life.”

　　林天为给师傅报仇向澳门博彩协会会长梅少龙提出挑战，只有这样，才可以获得当年师傅出事时的资料。挑战赛上，林天得知师叔谢正环已被老常务一只耳的徒弟柳峰杀害。林天找柳峰报仇，却发现师妹孟双双也遭绑架，她牺牲自己救了林天。 林天被送进戒治所，他认为这一切都是梅少龙所为。戒治所中，林天与室友死爱钱结为患难兄弟，并结识了一只耳，这才了解到，一只耳与自己师父，以及梅少龙的过往秘辛。 挑战赌神之日，消失多年的李春生突然现身。原来，李春生是害林天家破人亡的罪魁祸首。而梅少龙则是为保护林天而隐身多年。林天用今非昔比的赌术战胜了李春生，不仅为民除害，也成为了新一代赌神。

　　影片讲述奶昔搅拌机推销员雷·克洛克(迈克尔·基顿饰)在上世纪50年代遇到了经营汉堡快餐的麦当劳兄弟后嗅到商机；1961年，他用270万美元买下了麦当劳兄弟的汉堡连锁，将其打造成了全球最大的快餐王国。

　　取材于1964年震惊纽约的一桩谋杀案，基蒂·吉诺维斯被残忍地奸杀，她的37个邻居都亲眼目睹了这一过程，但无一人挺身而出或是报警求助。《纽约时报》为此曾撰文直接将矛头指向了那些未伸出援手的目击者。而影片《沉默37人》却展现了一个不同的视角，从这37名目击者所面临的各种问题深刻剖析了他们视若无睹的原因，反映了当代社会问题，发人深省。

　　八十年代初，一个春天的早晨，陕西某地的杏花村生产队里，锣鼓喧天，鞭炮齐鸣，生产队长冯二强为新房的落成举行庆祝仪式。这时，冯二强的哥哥冯大强却在为儿子根田结婚没有住房而发愁。大强认为除了厚着脸皮向二强借房以外别无他法。妻子文英坚决反对。大强又急又气，最后还是不听妻子的劝阻到二强家借房去了。结果，房没借成，反遭弟媳玉琴一顿尖酸刻薄的辱骂，气得原来住在二强家的老母冯大娘也含着泪水随大强走了。当时的杏花村，因为生产队长冯二强拒不实行生产责任制，整个生产队还是在吃大锅饭，而且越吃越穷。得到只是少数__QUOTE__灵虫虫__QUOTE__。为此，原县委书记、曾在杏花村蹲过点的韩云亭特来找二强商议解决的方法。韩云亭是二强的大舅，知道家中因借房而引起了风波，批评了二强。最后，二强不得不同意将新房中的一小间借给了根田、杏花办喜事。婚后第二天，玉琴借故当众大闹了一场，辱骂了杏花。杏花一气之下，跑回了娘家桃岭村。由此，根田、文英都责怪大强，说不该去低三下四地借房。大强抱怨自己没本事，拖累了孩子和家人。杏花经过思考，返回杏花村。正好韩云亭来宣布杏花村实行生产责任制的决定。大家满怀希望，干劲倍增，但二强等人却不肯善罢甘休。正当大强和乡亲们喜庆丰收，吃开园瓜的时候，牛铃奉二强指令宣布__QUOTE__全部农作物收归集体拉平分配__QUOTE__，又引起一场__QUOTE__瓜田风波__QUOTE__。二强在风波中丢了队长的职务。群众推举文英当队长，文英挑起了这副担子。韩云亭又以自身的经历，做二强的思想工作，使二强的思想发生了转变。文英不计前嫌，诚恳帮助二强，使二强一家人认识了错误，决心痛改前非。冯大娘一家人团聚了，杏花村的面貌改变了，人们高声欢唱党的富民政策，大家沿着党指引的道路继续前进。

　　本片依据Howard Hughes的生平改编。
　　Howard Hughes（Leonardo DiCaprio 饰）出生于美国德州休士顿，18岁时，他继承父亲德州油井的财富，心怀电影梦想移居好莱坞。1926年他买入125家戏院的控制权，砸下数百万美金拍了实景空战史诗电影《地狱天使》，成为著名的制片人；1939年，他入主环球航空公司，他迅速使公司扭亏为盈，二战期间与美国军方合作，主持了蓝云杉飞机的发明和改进。
　　Howard Hughes在事业上取得巨大成功的同时，他也饱受了忧郁症和精神官能强迫症的折磨；他的感情生活波折重重，Katharine Hepburn（Cate Blanchett 饰）、Ava Gardner（Kate Beckinsale 饰）先后离开他，让他备受打击。
　　影片选取Howard Hughes重要的生活事件，真实地再现了他的传奇。

　　悍匪龙志强，在香港回归前，趁香港英政府不作为，而屡犯巨案，先后绑架富豪利家及雷家之长子，勒索超过二十亿元，事主怕被报复, 交赎款后都不敢报警。中国公安部极为关注，与香港警方合力，派香港警员何天卧底潜入龙志强犯罪团伙，发现他正策划绑架澳门富豪贺不凡，最终陆港警察合力勇擒龙志强，救出贺不凡。

　　影片改编自菲利普·罗斯2008年出版的同名小说，故事围绕上世纪50年代美国一名犹太裔男青年马科斯·梅思纳的苦闷与彷徨展开。

　　Miguel __QUOTE__Bayoneta__QUOTE__ Galíndez, a retired boxer after a shocking event in his life, living now in Finland without a purpose until a light situation puts him on the verge of an important decision.

The story appears simple on the surface, but is revealed, especially after multiple viewings, as more multi-layered and textured than Cassavetes at his best. Ostensibly it concerns a 14-year old Catholic girl, Wynne (Agutter) growing up in this post-modern wasteland, who develops a crush on her much older adoptive brother (Marshall)- a crush which perversely deepens and grows into infatuation once she starts to believe he is the local sex killer. This is in itself an idea that makes you sit up and jolt, but as the narrative develops, it continues not necessarily along a linear path but in several confusing and fascinating directions: the family__APOS__s history, (detailed effectively in chilling flashback during an improvised seance) is a chequered one, and has suffered at least one major relocation and upheaval in the last ten years. At the crux, however, it__APOS__s the depiction of socialal changes that make I Start Counting so fascinating and elevate its language far beyond the confines of the standard horror film. The major subtext- that teenage girls were maturing more quickly than before, and developing full sexual and romantic appetites (even if in thought rather than deed) but were not possessed of enough discretion to make the right choices- was a step forward for a genre in which its young females had previously been portrayed as bimbo victims (Cover Girl Killer and The Night Caller spring to mind), but not one that all viewers would necessarily agree with. But most striking of all, and possibly the most enduring image which the viewer will take away with them, is of the masterful symbolism with which director Greene invests every shot. Every inch of the Kinch family__APOS__s world- their house, their walls, their TV, Agutters underwear, bedroom furniture and toys, Sutcliffe__APOS__s clothes, Marshalls van, the local Catholic church, their town centre, their record shop) - is painted a bright, scintillating white- a white which, by inference, is slowly becoming smudged and corrupted with the dirt of the outside world. White also symbolises, of course, purity and innocence (two qualities Catholic schoolgirls are supposed to hold dear), and it is into this world of innocence that the ever-present red bus (a symbol of violation and penetration), conducted by the lecherous yet similarly juvenile Simon Ward, makes regular journeys. The allegory is further expanded in one scene where Agutter believes she sees the Christ figure in church weeping blood: by the time we acknowledge it, its gone, but the seed has already been planted. Rarely in a genre production has the use of colour and background been so important or effective in creating a uniformity of mood. I Start Counting is as near-perfect an end to a decade as one could hope for, and exactly the kind of film people should be making now- which is, of course, exactly why they never will. A genre essential. by D.R.