2008年2月29日 星期五

Before Night Falls (2000)












這海報很好看的電影是影展甜心:威尼斯影帝(!)評審團大獎,美國獨立製片精神獎

佳男提名佳導佳影,提名奧斯卡(!)金球獎影帝。



詩人媽媽是導演老婆,潛水鐘與蝴蝶 語言訓練師,Julian Schnabel 是美國人,不

能因為拍過潛水鐘就誤以為法國人,更何況劇本乃英翻法。強尼戴普不是男妓,他

是屁眼如小叮噹口袋廣大的變裝癖。



目前為止 Julian Schnabel 三部電影都是傳記電影,處女作 Basquiat 關於美國新

表現主義藝術家 Jean-Michel Basquiat,Jeffrey Wright 飾演。









Diego Luna 戲份一分鐘解決。Olivier Martinez 戴眼鏡比較帥!











右邊這位美女叫 Najwa Nimri (Najwa),西班牙歌手。可惜沒多久就跳樓自殺。







左邊這位是澎澎,屁眼屁眼如小叮噹口袋廣大。右邊這位是維多中尉,撫摸雄壯陽具

的舉動讓詩人凍未條。







可惡我居然沒認出西恩潘。導演老婆詩人媽媽潛水鐘與蝴蝶語言訓練師。









在夜幕降臨前 Before Night Falls 

125 min. 2000



Javier Bardem ...  Reinaldo Arenas 

Olivier Martinez ...  Lázaro Gómez Carriles 

Johnny Depp ...  Bon Bon / Lieutenant Victor 

Olatz López Garmendia ...  Reinaldo's Mother

Diego Luna ...  Carlos 

Sean Penn ...  Cuco Sánchez

Najwa Nimri ...  Fina Zorrilla Ochoa 

















Mysterious Skin (2004)










Roger Ebert 影評



Neil 天生玻璃,教練扮演著引導的角色;Brian 則是無法承受,將其轉化為外星人綁架作為逃避,男生女生都沒什麼興趣了。(asexual)



除了葛瑞荒木,我所知道的四大同志導如下:Todd Haynes (最酷),葛斯范桑,阿莫多瓦,蔡明亮。話說就是葛瑞荒木在體育館外"發掘" Rose McGowan 的,並邀約 The Doom Generation。 



教練背向小 Neil 時表情爽快,心想小朋友應該無法滿足成人吧!結果是把整隻手塞進去 (到手肘深度),挖哩勒。尺寸大小應該蠻適合。



延伸閱讀:青春苦澀的緩飆電影









神秘肌膚 Mysterious Skin

99 min. 2004



Chase Ellison ...  Neil (Age 8) 

George Webster ...  Brian (Age 8) 

Elisabeth Shue ...  Mrs. McCormick 

Bill Sage ...  Coach 

Joseph Gordon-Levitt ...  Neil 

Brady Corbet ...  Brian ← 大快人心重拍版胖子 

Kelly Kruger ...  Deborah  





05 ← 紐約時報的訪問都很棒!

















Berserk


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a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    狂暴的,狂怒的

                      Now he was in a berserk rage.

                      這時他正氣得發狂。



ad. (副詞 adverb)

          1.    狂暴地,狂怒地





breaking_and_entering The talented cinematographer Benoît Delhomme (Cyclo, The Proposition) is given free reign to go quietly berserk, framing the simplest domestic scenes with a confounding (使混亂) density of effect. Focal range fluctuates on the whim of some mystifying lyrical impulse. 





michaelclayton3_large But one of Bach's top partners has just gone berserk, stripping naked in Milwaukee during a deposition【律】宣誓作證;具結書 hearing and running through a parking lot in the snow. This is Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson), who opens the film with a desperate voiceover justifying himself to Michael.



















Michael Clayton (2007)












Michael Clayton 



影評世界小甜心。很奇怪上院線沒多少人捧場,到了出租店跑三家都供不應求。



Tony Gilroy 劇本除了神鬼呆蒙世界末日,還有魔鬼代言人休葛蘭非常手段羅素克洛

千驚萬險。← 剛走出戲院就會混淆的中文片名



那些會問納尼亞是不是凱特布蘭琪的天才們,班傑明鈕扣等著精神錯亂吧!









有時候真的很想問喬治:大叔你知道你幾歲了嗎?(47)









全面反擊 Michael Clayton

120 min. 2007

by Tony Gilroy



Tom Wilkinson ...  Arthur Edens 

Sydney Pollack ...  Marty Bach 

Tilda Swinton ...  Karen Crowder 

George Clooney ...  Michael Clayton 

















2008年2月28日 星期四

Grovel


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vi. (不及物動詞 intransitive verb)



          1.    匍匐

                      The dog groveled at his feet when he shouted at it.

                      他一叫,那狗就趴在他腳下。

          1.    卑躬屈膝;屈服

                      She will not grovel to anyone.

                      她不會向任何人屈服。





we got a lot of groveling to do with these people 

薛尼波拉克告訴喬治克隆尼我們有很多道歉工作要做





see squat genuflect

















Sedate


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a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    沈著的;安靜的;平靜的;嚴肅的



we just got him sedated 喬治克隆尼剛給湯姆威金森吃安眠藥

















Axiom


axiom 







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n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    【邏】【數】公理;自明之理

          2.    原理,原則,規律

          3.    格言





breaking_and_entering It seems to be an axiom of Mr. Minghella's practice as a filmmaker that, in each of his movies, exactly one person is allowed to be funny. (Rueful irony, of the sort practiced by both Will and his partner, Sandy, played by Martin Freeman, doesn't count.) 





see decorum

















Gentrification


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n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    將日漸破敗的市區改造為良好的中產階級居住區





The Columbia Guide to Standard American English



gentrification (n.), gentrify (v.) 

   

Both the verb (meaning "to restore to middle-class standards and purposes a deteriorated part of a city") and the noun (the process of doing so) have achieved Standard status, though only relatively recently. 



Each also has a pejorative generalized use meaning "to uplift or improve status of speech, dress, or other manners." 





breaking_and_entering 

Will escapes to his fabulously chic warehouse studio in the King's Cross district of London, a working-class neighborhood in the midst of gentrification—or at least what passes for it in this guilt-ridden fantasy of class conflict and mutual appreciation. 





see parochial

















Nocturnal


nocturnal







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noc/TUR/nal



a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    夜的;夜間發生的

                      Stars are a nocturnal sight.

                      星星是夜間的景觀。

          2.    夜間活動的

                      The owl is a nocturnal bird.

                      貓頭鷹是夜間活動的鳥。

          3.    夜間開花的





breaking_and_entering When the handsome English architect wants her, she’s astonished, particularly after she discovers that he knows about her son’s nocturnal activities, and Binoche shifts between lust and opportunism. She’s a much more sexual actress in this movie than in anything she has done in years. 

















Lascivious


lascivious







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[luh-siv-ee-uhs]



a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    淫蕩的;好色的





breaking_and_entering Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster want power, and Buster Keaton and Clark Gable want girls. Gary Cooper and James Stewart seek justice; John Wayne and Clint Eastwood seek revenge. Humphrey Bogart and George Clooney demand candor from a duplicitous world. Fred Astaire wants to dance. Woody Allen has an incorrigible (根深蒂固) desire to make a joke, and Jim Carrey longs to turn his face and body into rubber. But what does Jude Law want? He is too honorable to just draw on his lascivious-cherub (二品天使) good looks. 





see debauchery insalubrious

















Breaking and Entering (2006)












裘德洛明格拉三度合作。怪了明明記得在欣欣晶華看到預告,怎麼就直接進百視達?

從來就不覺得畢諾許好看,甚至曾被我評為三色妹之末,但陸陸續續看了些作品,你

會發覺她是個很有魅力的女人,而且很像楊貴媚。



明格拉繼處女作 Truly Madly Deeply 再次自己寫故事,十分無聊的故事。

















Vera Farmiga 身體瘦歸瘦,奶子比想像中大上許多。陪裘德洛抓偷兒的俄羅斯 (或巴

爾幹) 妓女,本片最有趣的角色。













非法入侵 Breaking and Entering

118 min. 2006



Jude Law ...  Will Francis 

Robin Wright Penn ...  Liv

Martin Freeman ...  Sandy Hoffman 

Rafi Gavron ...  Mirza 'Miro' Simic 

Juliette Binoche ...  Amira Simic 

Vera Farmiga ...  Oana 





Here’s one of the few rules in movies which matter: an actor won’t last as a leading man unless he plays characters who want something passionately. 



Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster want power, and 

Buster Keaton and Clark Gable want girls. 

Gary Cooper and James Stewart seek justice; 

John Wayne and Clint Eastwood seek revenge. 

Humphrey Bogart and George Clooney demand candor from a duplicitous world. 

Fred Astaire wants to dance. 

Woody Allen has an incorrigible desire to make a joke, and 

Jim Carrey longs to turn his face and body into rubber. 



But what does Jude Law want? He is too honorable to just draw on his lascivious-cherub good looks. In the remake of "Alfie," playing a cheap stud, he was rueful and easy-tempered, and he seemed eager to cheer himself up—you could sense his discomfort. 



He has hidden behind makeup, in "Road to Perdition," and has played diffident men, in "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "All the King’s Men." In "Cold Mountain," he wanted to get home, but he was war-weary, rather than impassioned. 



David Denby -- The New Yorker









Squalid


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a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    髒的

          2.    卑鄙的;惡劣的



畢諾許和裘德洛上床就是為了拍照存照 that's squalid

















Sabbatical


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a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    安息日的;安息的;休息的



n. (名詞 noun)

          1.    休假;公休

          2.    sabbatical leave (美國某些大學給大學教師每七年一次的)公休假

          3.    sabbatical year (《聖經》中的)安息年;【美】休假年









C24348-b 

Before his self-imposed sabbatical, Stamp appeared in a couple of worthwhile films in the early seventies including the British science fiction film The Mind of Mr. Soames (1970) and Nello Risi’s Una Stagione all’inferno (1970) where he appeared as the French poet Arthur Rimbaud alongside Jean-Claude Brialy as Paul Verlaine. 

















Hiatus


hiatus







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n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    裂縫;空隙

          2.    (文件中)脫漏部分





119049732170 After winning an Oscar nomination for his second movie, Billy Budd (1962), Stamp took something of a hiatus -- he was one of the leading figures of London's Swinging Sixties -- and didn't appear again until The Collector came out in 1965.





see proviso



















Decorum


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n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    端莊,彬彬有禮;合宜[U]

                      levity not in keeping with decorum

                      與端莊穩重不協調的輕浮

          2.    節,禮儀[P]

                      observe decorums

                      恪守禮節





t73586uj7wb This is an alarming [breach] of school decorum, and leads to a parent-teacher-student conference, during which I kept hoping someone would quote Rodney Dangerfield: "When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with."





see decoy demure prim axiom 

















Sardonic


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sar/搭/nic



a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    冷嘲的,譏諷的

                      There was a sardonic expression on her face.

                      她臉上有一種嘲諷的表情。





t73586uj7wb Hell, the movie was written and directed by Noah Baumbach, whose parents were writers (the novelist Jonathan Baumbach, the film critic Georgia Brown), and look how he turned out. By the time he was 26 he had already directed "Kicking and Screaming" (1995), about sardonic and literate college graduates whose only ambition was to remain on campus. 





see hedonistic

















The Collector (1965) Terence Stamp & Jean Shrimpton (珍蝦)












其他改編自 John Fowles 的電影:一九六八年 The Magus,米高肯恩安東尼昆 Anna Karina 主演;一九八一年法國中尉的女人,哈洛品特寫劇本。有點像春光乍洩 David Hemmings (話說就是安董臨時換人),男主角 Terence Stamp 演技太出色了!以下是人物小介紹。









 



出生於一九三九年,英俊如 Terence Stamp 是搖擺六零 (swinging sixties) 英倫偶像,交往對象包括女明星碧姬芭杜 Julie Christie、模特兒 Jean Shrimpton。一九六二年處女作 Billy Budd 提名奧斯卡佳配,隔了三年才有威廉惠勒蝴蝶春夢,並拿下坎城影帝。



一九六六年 Vitti 精典爛片 Modesty Blaise,阿飛外傳舞台劇男主角,把電影版本機會讓給好友米高肯恩,一九六八年帕索里尼定理,費里尼勾魂懾魄。發現超級名模女朋友偷客兄後,暫別演藝生活到印度進行心靈探索。近期代表作為超人第二集壞人 頭目 和沙漠妖姬。



延伸閱讀:



女金剛智破鑽石案

外形正好互補


Terence Stamp Turns 68





 













The Collector (1965)

by William Wyler



Terence Stamp ...  Freddie Clegg 

Samantha Eggar ...  Miranda Grey 





















Issue: June 1962

Cover by: David Bailey









Issue: May 1963



Jean Shrimpton, who will be the most famous British model of the next decade, wears a large white hat by Christian Dior.









http://www.vogue.co.uk/magazine/issue.aspx/Archive/Model,Jean%20Shrimpton/Search,Model/

















Re: "She looks like a young Monica Vitti."












Why don’t we get some breakfast, see if you can get a nurse out there. Try to get the blond, She looks like a young Monica Vitti.





"She looks like a young Monica Vitti."



原來這就是傳說中的 Vitti 護士,好吧是有點像啦!可能和黑白影像為主有關。填表格者是網球教練。結果哥哥也沒有聽老爸的話找金髮妞,出門隨便找個黃種人送早餐,接著鏡頭就帶到這場景。



深怕新鮮感被破壞,我很少電影看兩次的,除非是大螢幕上映 (丹妮芙心花怒放) 或是特殊原因 (阿特曼過世),烏賊與鯨還是那樣令人心碎而真實,也很高興自己第一次看幾乎沒有遺漏什麼。





349_box_348x490 烏賊與鯨並非 Noah Baumbach 的處女作,之前有三部劇情長片,九五年的處女作 Kicking and Screaming 甚至出了 Criterion 版本!(對筆者來說等同入圍柏坎威)。



最後引述自女學生的鮑魚發展史:



"He had long, delicate fingers and plump palms similar to a raccoon's. With finesse, he piled the meat from a crab claw, and sucked oysters from their shells."





















"When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy 

I wouldn't have had anything to play with." -- Rodney Dangerfield











哥哥女朋友像蘿拉鄧說不定也是向大衛林區致敬。











"All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid. 

Whales inspire major novels." -- Roger Ebert