Braun

The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich; his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.

安娜·肯德里克加盟克里斯多夫·莫利斯([四头狮子])执导的未定名喜剧。卡司包括凯万·诺瓦克、丹尼尔·布鲁克斯、丹尼斯·欧哈拉等。新片剧情目前暂未透露，据悉肯德里克在片场以FBI探员造型亮相。See-Saw Films、Archer Gray Productions联合制作。影片已在佛罗里达、多米尼加开机拍摄。

间谍加布利尔（约翰•特拉沃塔 John Travolta）在多年特工生涯中，获知政府多年非法收敛了一笔公款。而加布利尔若想实现自己心中的梦想，钱是最关键的因素。正因如此，机智狡猾的加布利尔决定向这笔赃款下手。　　要想计划能顺利进行，加布利尔需要一名顶尖的电脑黑客。斯坦利（休•杰克曼 Hugh Jackman）正是地球上最顶级的黑客之一，多年前他就把FBI引以为豪的安全系统搞得天翻地覆，亦因此的引来牢狱之灾，妻子带着女儿远走他乡。出狱后一直被禁止使用电脑和其他电子产品。　　加布利尔派他的女搭档金吉尔（哈莉•贝瑞 Halle Berry）游说斯坦利出山，承诺成功后帮斯坦利取回女儿的抚养权并安排其远走高飞享受新生活。经不住诱惑，斯坦利再度出山。然而，事情并没有像预想中顺利……

魔符是由科奇恐三栖作家斯蒂芬・金和恐怖小说作家彼得.斯乔布(Peter Straub)于1984年合作完成的一本小说，讲述一名12岁的小男孩杰克.索耶(Jack Sawyer)从美国东海岸出发，游历美国以及平行世界“疆域”，寻找魔符，以拯救他垂危的母亲的故事。