床第水手

等待方舟

　　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.

靜水

　　在明尼蘇達(dá)州北部的“邊界水域”中，六個(gè)老朋友之間的周末露營之旅在神秘的環(huán)境下死亡后變得悲慘起來，隨著他們企圖在本集團(tuán)內(nèi)揭露殺手，引發(fā)進(jìn)一步的動(dòng)蕩。

大佛回國

西伯利亞的理發(fā)師

　　在一輛開往莫斯科的火車上，軍事學(xué)院的學(xué)生安德烈.托爾斯泰（歐列格·緬希科夫 Oleg Menshikov飾）偶遇了風(fēng)情萬種的美國女人珍（朱莉婭·奧蒙德 Julia Ormond 飾），兩人暗生情愫。珍謊稱自己是個(gè)寡婦，來俄羅斯看 望瘋狂的機(jī)械師父親（理查德·哈里斯 Richard Harris 飾），但實(shí)際上是被請(qǐng)來騙取軍事學(xué)院院長拉德洛夫?qū)④姡ò⒘锌酥x·彼得連科 Aleksey Petrenko 飾）信任的交際花，好讓機(jī)械師的“西伯利亞理發(fā)師”伐木機(jī)能夠順利駛進(jìn)西柏林亞。但是沒想到將軍對(duì)珍動(dòng)了真感情，并想向她求婚，而安德烈對(duì)珍的感情愈演愈烈，珍一方面想接受安德烈的感情，另一方面又想完成任務(wù)，于是事件發(fā)展到了不可收拾的地步。在一次演出中安德烈因?yàn)榧刀屎驼`會(huì)，抽傷了院長，被流放到了西伯利亞。在火車站上盡管珍趕上了最后的送別，但是安德烈始終沒能和珍見最后一面。十年后，珍終于在西伯利亞找到了安德烈的住所，但終究逃不過命運(yùn)的改變……若干年后珍回到了美國，把這段往事在信中講述給了軍事學(xué)院的兒子。