俄罗斯变奏曲

隐藏杀手

　　一个异形在美国流窜，为了得到它想要的，它杀掉所有挡它路的人，并且用他们的身体作为新的藏身之所，它不断追寻的是生命的能量，然而另一个借用了一个死去的FBI探员身体的异形对它紧追不舍，无数无辜的人们在这场追击中丧生

肖菲勒

胡加尔的一天

　　说来平平无奇，奇在竟煞是好看。娓娓道来自己过去一天的是新锐摄影师彼得胡渣，请他到香闺畅谈的是知名作家莲达罗森克兰兹。本打算将纽约艺术圈好友的生活日常结集成书，书出不成，抄本却奇迹留下，让埃拉萨克斯看得心神一动，在一室之内以灵巧多变的镜头摆位，重塑1974年那平凡却奇妙的一天。请来《欲流双行道》的宾韦沙念55页独白，三分型格三分忧郁再带三分初成名的忐忑。漫溢于16米厘的光影质感之间，是安迪华荷、苏珊桑塔格那一代人浸透于生活的艺术灵光。

超级火山

当一座超级火山威胁到夏威夷岛时，一组专家必须与时间赛跑，拯救那些在熔岩路径上的人，并永远阻止它。

普通事故

　　只是一场意外，却又超乎意外。驾车撞死一条狗，男子与妻女来到陌生车房。凭其义肢走动时的声响，车房工认出司机或是当年施酷刑的狱吏。仇人送上门，雪恨更待何时。然而，狱中受折磨时双眼被蒙，嫌疑犯是行刑者确实无误？从早到晚奔波一轮，找来几个狱友确认俘虏身份，痛苦回忆涌上心头。在无 垠沙漠等待把他活埋私了，有若在人性荒原等待果陀，替天行道又是否问心无愧？以悬疑惊栗布局，暗黑写实的人物故事来自巴纳希狱中亲见亲闻，将苛政、滥权、以暴易暴一一置于道德伦理的天秤上，丈量人性轻重；悲愤中不失幽默，连消带打贪污贿赂之风。一面金棕榈奖，绝非意外。

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.