Gabriel

这部姬情恐怖喜剧是一个关于依赖共生关系的寓言：玛雅曾经是一个演员，现在靠在当地购物中心和图书馆重演她以前的一个角色为生。一天，她与来自伦敦的犹太裔年轻学者莉亚一见钟情。当莉亚突然患上癫痫、身体越发衰弱，玛雅决定跟随女友回到伦敦。莉亚的母亲查娜刚好住在她们楼下，她是一个霸道而神秘的女人，玛雅试图和她搞好关系，但不见成效。随着玛雅注意到楼里出现的奇怪现象，她怀疑查娜的秘密可能比预想的要黑暗得多——而她最爱的莉亚可能正背负着最大的秘密。

故事發生在冰島的房地產狂熱時期，一位加拿大籍的醫學生從患有思覺失調的外婆那裡繼承了一棟老房子。許多房地產開發商都催促她賣掉房子，她收到一條神秘的消息，迫使她調查家族秘辛。她發現了一段隱藏許久的家庭悲劇，外婆的死也存在諸多疑點，但她不知道自己正惹禍上身。

Siskel and Ebert once ran a special show entitled Movies I'm Embarrassed to Admit I Liked. I suppose that if I composed such a list of guilty pleasures, this one would be one of them . . . but upon reflection, it's really a lot better than that. Fifteen year-old science prodigy Mitch (Gabe Jarret) is recruited by ambitious college professor William Atherton (in yet another of his patented roles as a loathsome character) to work on the professor's prize laser project, not knowing that the prof is really developing a government weapon. Along the way, Mitch is befriended by Chris (Val Kilmer), another prodigy a few years his senior who teaches the Mitch how to loosen up.　　This could have degenerated into nothing more than just another teen revenge comedy, but there's so much more the dialogue is laced with sharp wit; there are some lovely scenes that have nothing to do with the story yet are carefully set up, almost as blackouts (e.g., Mitch goes to a lecture at which a few students have left tape recorders instead of attending; later, at another lecture there are more tape recorders than students; and, in a final scene, one large tape recorder gives the lecture to a room populated by nothing but other small recorders!); and throw-away scenes that make you want to stop and back up the tape (e.g., Chris off-handedly cutting a slice off a bar of solid nitrogen to make a slug for the coffee machine).　　It's also one of the few movies to boast the presence of the memorable Michelle Meyerink -- as Jordan, the girl-nerd who made being smart and female something to be emulated. And there's Tears for Fears great song, Everybody Wants to Rule the World providing the perfect coda as the closing credits begin to roll . . . . Yes really now, what's there to be embarrassed about

布兰顿（希拉里•斯万克 Hilary Swank 饰）来到法奥斯城，成为了当地的大众情人，很受女性欢迎。然而他却有着不为人知的隐秘——俊男本是女儿身。“他”的真名叫蒂娜，一直对自己是个女性缺失认同。他喜欢成为男性，并决定来到这个陌生的城市开始新角色和新生活。　　布兰顿和当地女孩拉娜（科洛•塞维尼 Chloë Sevigny 饰）恋爱了，还和拉娜的前男友成为好友——尽管他们粗野、酗酒，行为暴戾，但被接纳的布兰顿却得到了认同感。生活朝着布兰顿想要的方向发展，一次交通违章却暴露了所有的秘密。布兰顿被识破女儿身，尽管拉娜原谅了她，悲剧却发生了。拉娜的前男友对布兰顿怒不可遏，将她摧毁在一场残忍的暴力事件中。

这是史诗片巨匠冈斯的早期作品，原版长达九个小时。　　影片讲述一个类似现在电视肥皂剧的故事：铁路工程师从一次车祸中救回一个女孩，把她当作女儿来领养。不料他自己和儿子都对女孩产生好感。为了不让儿子占有她，遂把女孩嫁给了一个富人。但儿子和养女之间有着压制不住的爱情。儿子跟她丈夫发生争执，不幸死亡。老人把儿子的死归咎于养女，不愿再见到她。后来他眼睛瞎了，养女偷偷回来照料他，直至为他送终。　　影片的革命性表现在如下方面：开场的火车事故蒙太奇采用快速剪辑，极具震撼力；平庸的剧情中增加了大量文学典故，丰富了内涵；摄影和剪辑均具有一定的形式感，如镜头的节奏跟音乐相吻合，画面中的机器被用作现代化的象征等，开启了“纯电影”的先河。片名指命运的轮回、欲望的轮回，由车轮形象来暗示。

Best friends and lovers Miguel and Johnny have known each other since childhood. They spend their time skateboarding with their friends in throbbing Mexico City where they sell their own blood and get donors for the ER black market as a way to make money. But when an important transaction goes wrong, Miguel’s mother sends him out of the country. Away from Johnny, Miguel will find the path to his own destiny.

故事发生在巴黎阿拉伯人和犹太人聚居区，那里有许多妓院。上了年纪、体弱多病的犹太妇女罗莎，负责照顾一群妓女所生的孩子，而她自己过去也曾当过妓女，并在纳粹集中营度过一段可怕的时光。影片主要表现罗莎夫人与她所照顾的一个阿拉伯男孩令人感动的关系。

Set in a small Quebec town in the late-1920′s, this emotional drama follows the life and exploits of Celeste Beaumont, a talented young pianist who gains local celebrity at the town movie theater for her gifts as a silent film pianist.   Awkward Pierre Blaudell is her biggest fan and eventually marries her.   Shortly after this she bears his son, Pierre, who joins the army.   She insists on joining him at the base and his meddlesome, snooty parents insist she give them her son.   Pierre is killed in the war, and Celeste flees to New York where she finds steady employment as a jazz pianist.   She finds a life-long companion with a black musician and chronicles her experiences in a diary that she passes on to her son after he grows up.   Her son becomes a painter and once his own son, Antoine, is grown, reads him the story of Celeste, the youth’s grandmother.   Intrigued, Antoine heads to the Big Apple in hopes of finding her.　　This movie is an emotional drama about how Antoine, played beautifully by François Méthé, discovers the details of his heritage.   This film won many awards in Canada and at Cannes in 1988.   François Méthé, who was about 11-years-old, never acted again after this movie.　　From IMDb　　A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn’t seen since infancy.   He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents.   The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents.   As he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son Antoine, who’s about 10 or 12, tries to break through his father’s silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.