窒恋

　　影片的主人公是年近30岁的5位年轻人，他们终日游手好闲，热衷于恶作剧并沉溺于梦幻般不切实际的计划里。其中最年长的浮士德让最年少的摩拉德的妹妹桑德拉怀了孕，基于责任心及周围人的力劝而结了婚。浮士德在一家古董店工作，但因为恶习不改企图勾引店主的老婆而被解雇。一天，桑德拉得知浮士德带着一名舞娘到一家廉价的旅馆过夜，于是第二天她带着孩子离家出走；狼狈的浮士德第一次感到桑德拉的重要性。于是和她的兄弟四人拼命寻找桑德拉的下落，终于找到桑德拉的浮士德一边遭到父亲的痛斥；一边恳求桑德拉的原谅。见到二人重修旧好的摩拉德在次日清晨不辞而别，踏上了自己的旅程。

　　德国移民的名导演埃里克．冯．施特罗海姆花费了一百三十万美元和十一个月的时间摄制而成的超级文艺片，原拷贝长达五小时，公开上映时浓缩成三小时半。由于耗资惊人，好莱坞大亨本来对埃里克颇有微词，后因本片获得意外的卖座成功而作罢。故事以1919年的蒙地卡罗为背景。埃里克扮演一个欺骗美国外交官女儿的白俄亲王，靠着剥削他的情妇----一个貌丑的女仆为生。由于性虐待狂的驱使，他强奸了一个不幸的白痴女子。最后，他被人杀死，他的尸首很有象征意义地被扔在臭水沟里。埃里克对自然主义情有独钟，希望把一切情史都在画面中表现出来。他特地在加州海边搭建起蒙地卡罗的赌场和雄伟宫殿的布景，并且在采光上有十分大胆的处理方式。影像上也富于感官刺激的煽情暴力场面，甚至劳烦电检单位剪掉了其中的一些镜头。在片中，埃里克用一种辛酸的悲观主义眼光来观察人类，对上层社会的腐朽和封建作出激烈的抨击，流露出一种愤而感伤的怜悯色彩。而对低下层的人物和被骗上当的女子，则寄予同情的关注，表现出独特的“埃里克式人道主义精神"。

Baby Let’s Do It

伊莉斯不喜欢过圣诞节，她从小在圣诞树农场长大，这意味着每次节日她都是在忙工作。今年的这个时候，她失去了工作，她很不情愿的同意帮助家人在市内售卖圣诞树，而且表明这是最后一次。英俊富有魅力的达伦多次来购买圣诞树，他暗恋着伊莉斯，这让伊莉斯甚至有点感觉到圣诞节的魅力。然而，一家市内大财团不喜欢他们在那里售卖圣诞树，他们试图说服政府部门来驱逐掉他们。伊莉斯必须想方设法保住售卖摊位，在节日继续供应圣诞树。

　　American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington&♯39;s niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle&♯39;s notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell&♯39;s mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden&♯39;s belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].

　　下等武士原之助因要求改革遭拒而杀掉了自己的主人。主人的女儿美佐和丈夫原田以及高手慎吾带领着众多的武士追杀原之助，原之助开始了自己的逃亡之旅。原之助在逃亡路上遇到了同样是下等武士的寿他，一门心思在河边和妻子一起淘金的寿他欲通过为部落淘金来摆脱自己下等武士的身份，但这样的淘金为政府所不允许。原之助想抢夺寿他的金子，三个流浪武士也对寿他的金子觊觎不已，追杀原之助的人马也赶到此地，而寿他的部落却想杀掉寿他以杀人灭口。有着相似遭遇的原之助和寿他之间可谓不打不成交，英雄惜英雄。三个流浪武士抓住了寿他的妻子胁迫寿他交出藏着的金子，美佐也遭到强奸，寿他部落的大批高手也纷至沓来，一场激战在所难免……

　　谢利亚，一个单身母亲，有时是超自然调查员，被征召去调查在东田纳西州一个寡妇的农舍里可能"闹鬼"的问题。

　　梅多斯小姐（凯蒂·霍姆斯饰）是个温柔而规规矩矩的普通小学教师，其完美的仪态和漂亮的印花连衣裙下却隐藏着一个不为人知的秘密——在没有教学任务或打理她的花园之外，她竟作为一个持枪维持治安的私刑独行侠。可是，在与小镇警长（詹姆斯·巴奇·戴尔饰）步入浪漫之后，她开始纠结......

　　娜塔莉（伊莎贝尔·于佩尔 Isabelle Huppert 饰）是一名哲学教师，和丈夫汉斯（安德烈·马孔 André Marcon 饰）结婚数十年，两人共同养育了两个孩子，日子过得平静而美满。某日，汉斯忽然和娜塔莉坦白，自己在外面有了情人，不仅如此，他还打算从家里搬出去和情人同居，虽然娜塔莉表面故作镇定，但内心却遭受了强烈的打击。
　　娜塔莉的母亲（爱迪丝·斯考博 Edith Scob 饰）曾是一名当红模特，如今却饱受抑郁症的困扰，三番五次自杀未遂，无奈之下，娜塔莉只得违背了母亲的意愿，将她送进了养老院。与此同时，娜塔莉听从她曾经的学生法比安（罗曼·科兰卡 Roman Kolinka 饰）的建议前往法比安与他朋友们在山上所建立的公社。

　　Two differences between this Austrian version and the generally available American version are immediately obvious: they differ both in their length and in the language of the intertitles. The American version is only 1,883 metres long - at 18 frames per second a difference of some 7 minutes to the Austrian version with 2,045 metres. Whereas we originally presumed only a negligible difference, resulting from the varying length of the intertitles, a direct comparison has nevertheless shown that the Austrian version differs from the American version both in the montage and in the duration of individual scenes. Yet how could it happen that the later regional distribution of a canonical US silent film was longer than the "original version"?
　　The prevalent American version of Blind Husbands does not correspond to the version shown at the premiere of 1919. This little-known fact was already published by Richard Koszarski in 1983. The film was re-released by Universal Pictures in 1924, in a version that was 1,365 feet (416 metres) shorter. At 18 frames per second, this amounts to a time difference of 20 minutes! "Titles were altered, snippets of action removed and at least one major scene taken out entirely, where von Steuben and Margaret visit a small local chapel." (Koszarski)
　　From the present state of research we can assume that all the known American copies of the film derive from this shortened re-release version, a copy of which Universal donated to the Museum of Modern Art in 1941. According to Koszarski the original negative of the film was destroyed sometime between 1956 and 1961 and has therefore been irretrievably lost. This information casts an interesting light on the Austrian version, which can be dated to the period between the summer of 1921 and the winter of 1922. Furthermore, the copy is some 200 metres longer than the US version of 1924. If one follows the details given by Richard Koszarski and Arthur Lennig, this means that, as far as both its date and its length are concerned, the Austrian version lies almost exactly in the middle between the (lost) version shown at the premiere and the re-released one.A large part of the additional length of the film can be traced to cuts that were made to the 1924 version in almost every shot. Koszarski describes how the beginning and the end of scenes were trimmed, in order to "speed up" the film. However, more exciting was the discovery that the Austrian version contains shots that are missing in the American one - shots/countershots, intertitles - and furthermore shows differences in its montage (i.e. the placing of the individual shots within a sequence). All this indicates that Die Rache der Berge constitutes the oldest and most completely preserved material of the film.

　　未到30 岁的茑哲一朗，竟有动人毅力，走到堪称日本最后之秘境的四国德岛县祖谷地区，展示非凡人文视野。这是春菜踏进成人阶段前的人生仰望，作为交通意外的遗孤，命运要她被农夫收养，在美丽山区成长，以为身世扎根，其实心灵与无数外来者一样飘荡。茑哲一朗寓剧情于纪录中，泛看祖谷民生。从农耕到筷子制造业，从猎鹿到反对隧道通车，皆指涉内在归属寻觅及外在生态变迁。坚持行将烟没的菲林拍摄，邀河濑直美演出是个相认，不但是后褔岛醒觉，更勇敢追寻岛国命脉。

　　退伍反毒特警约翰返家即遇宿敌以刀、枪、黑巫术对付他全家。约翰别无选择，从墨西哥、芝加哥、牙买加各地追凶。不过，他的对手疤面人不但拥有现代化的杀手集团，也是功夫高手。两恶恶斗，生死相搏，自是本片最高潮之处。