2008年12月31日 星期三

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)










對面的惡女看過來 10 Things I Hate About You sounds remotely like "Taming Of The Shrew"

90 min. 1999



Heath Ledger ... Patrick Verona

Julia Stiles ... Kat Stratford

Joseph Gordon-Levitt ... Cameron James 

Daryl Mitchell ... Mr. Morgan





What's another word for "engorged"?

I'll look it up.

Okay.

Swollen. Turgid.

Tumescent?



就觀眾年齡層而論,本片字彙有些艱深。



改編訓駻記。哇!過十年看點除了大小希斯萊傑相見歡,我恨你十件事居然是萊傑處女電影,安迪威廉斯好帥!絕對是YA影史經典畫面,我暈了。小希斯萊傑是小諾頓。也算 Julia Stiles 成名作。打賭硬上,不小心愛上妳,壞人衝康,對不起我還是很愛你,永垂不朽九零青春校園片。除了想放歌,更想放海報。









"Sexy Boy"

Written by Nicolas Godin, Jean-Benoît Dunckel

Performed by Air

Courtesy of Caroline Records





























[下海] 就是不截圖 12.







請給予 Please Give

90 min. 2010



Rebecca Hall  ...  Rebecca 

Elizabeth Keener  ...  Cathy 

Elise Ivy  ...  Marissa 

Catherine Keener  ...  Kate 

Josh Pais  ...  Adam 

Sarah Steele  ...  Abby 

Ann Morgan Guilbert  ...  Andra (as Ann Guilbert) 

Amanda Peet  ...  Mary 

Oliver Platt  ...  Alex 

Paul Sparks  ...  Blind Date 

Lois Smith  ...  Mrs. Portman 

Thomas Ian Nicholas  ...  Eugene 





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"Jesus, Mary and Joseph!"

"Hello? Is there anyone there?"



生人末日 Day of the Dead

91 min. 1985



Lori Cardille  ...  Sarah 

Terry Alexander  ...  John 

Joseph Pilato  ...  Capt. Rhodes (as Joe Pilato) 

Jarlath Conroy  ...  William McDermott 

Anthony Dileo Jr.  ...  Pvt. Miguel Salazar (as Antonè DiLeo) 

Richard Liberty  ...  Logan 

Sherman Howard  ...  Bub (as Howard Sherman) 

Gary Howard Klar  ...  Pvt. Steel (as G. Howard Klar) 

Ralph Marrero  ...  Pvt. Rickles 

John Amplas  ...  Dr. Ted Fisher 

Phillip G. Kellams  ...  Pvt. Miller 

Taso N. Stavrakis  ...  Pvt. Torrez 

Gregory Nicotero  ...  Pvt. Johnson  



1.

The original script, for which George A. Romero couldn't get budget for, involved the scientists living above ground in a fortress protected by electrified fences and the military living safely underground. It also involved a small army of trained zombies, and the conclusion to the trilogy more brutal than the released version. This later became the basis of Land of the Dead (2005)

2.

All the extras who portrayed zombies in the climax received for their services: a cap that said "I Played A Zombie In 'Day of the Dead'", a copy of the newspaper from the beginning of the film (the one that says THE DEAD WALK!), and one dollar.

3.

Most of the zombie extras in this film were Pittsburgh residents who volunteered to help in the film.

4.

The only movie in George A. Romero's "Dead" series where a zombie has a line of dialog (Bub says, "Hello Aunt Alicia."). 5.

In the cafeteria scene, William McDermott (Jarlath Conroy) says that "All of the shopping malls are closed." This is a clear reference to the film's predecessor Dawn of the Dead (1978), which is set in a shopping mall.





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人,性本色 L'humanité

148 min. 1999



Directed by

Writing credits

Bruno Dumont

1999 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize of the Jury



Emmanuel Schotté  ...  Pharaon De Winter 

Séverine Caneele  ...  Domino 

Philippe Tullier  ...  Joseph 

Ghislain Ghesquère ...  Police Chief

Ginette Allegre ...  Eliane

Robert Bunzi ...  English cop

Diane Gray ...  British traveller

Paul Gray ...  British traveller

Amanda Goemaere ...  Child

Honorine Douche ...  Child





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杭特湯普森的叛逆速記 Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

119 min. 2007



Writing credits

Alex Gibney (screenplay)

Hunter S. Thompson (writings)

Produced by

Mark Cuban ....  executive producer  



Hunter S. Thompson  ...  Himself (archive footage) 

Johnny Depp  ...  Himself - Narrator

Oscar Acosta ...  Himself (archive footage) 

Muhammad Ali ...  Himself (archive footage)

Warren Beatty ...  Himself (archive footage)

George W. Bush ...  Himself (archive footage) (as George Bush)

Jimmy Carter ...  Himself (also archive footage)

John F. Kennedy ...  Himself (archive footage)

Robert F. Kennedy ...  Himself (archive footage) (as Robert Kennedy)

Martin Luther King ...  Himself (archive footage)

Annie Leibovitz ...  Herself (archive footage)

George McGovern ...  Himself (also archive footage)

Edmund Muskie ...  Himself (archive footage)

Richard Nixon ...  Himself (archive footage)

Ralph Steadman ...  Himself (also archive footage)

Anita Thompson ...  Herself

Juan Thompson ...  Himself (also archive footage)

Sondi Wright ...  Herself

Jane Fonda ...  Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Kerry ...  Himself - Thompson Memorial Attendee (archive footage) (uncredited)

Henry Kissinger ...  Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Charles Manson ...  Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bill Murray ...  Himself - Thompson Memorial Attendee (archive footage) (uncredited) 



延伸閱讀:

Hunter S. Thompson 1937~2005





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拜瑞盲天 Barry Munday

98 min. 2008



Writing credits

Chris D'Arienzo (screenplay)

Frank Turner Hollon (book "Life Is a Strange Place")



Judy Greer  ...  Ginger Farley 

Mae Whitman  ...  Candice 

Chloë Sevigny  ...  Jennifer Farley 

Malcolm McDowell  ...  Mr. Farley 

Missi Pyle  ...  Lida Griggs 

Colin Hanks  ...  Heavy Metal Greg 

Jean Smart  ...  Carol Munday 

Christopher McDonald  ...  Dr. Preston Edwards 

Cybill Shepherd  ...  Mrs. Farley 

Billy Dee Williams  ...  Lonnie Green  



延伸閱讀:

湯姆漢克斯壞壞





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人之子 La vie de Jésus

95 min. 1997



Directed by

Writing credits

Bruno Dumont 

1997 Golden Camera - Special Mention

1997 Prix Jean Vigo 



David Douche  ...  Freddy 

Marjorie Cottreel  ...  Marie 

Kader Chaatouf  ...  Kader 

Sébastien Delbaere  ...  Gégé 

Samuel Boidin  ...  Michou 

Steve Smagghe  ...  Robert 

Sébastien Bailleul  ...  Quinquin 

Geneviève Cottreel  ...  Freddy's mother (Yvette)  



延伸閱讀:

近代大師導演:布宇諾居蒙





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十字迷情 Hadewijch

120 min. 2009



Julie Sokolowski  ...  Céline vel Hadewijch 

Yassine Salime  ...  Yassine Chikh 

Karl Sarafidis  ...  Nassir Chikh 

David Dewaele  ...  David  



延伸閱讀:

俊美回教徒少年





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野獸邏輯 Flanders

91 min. 2006



Directed by

Writing credits

Bruno Dumont

2006 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize of the Jury



Adélaïde Leroux  ...  Barbe 

Samuel Boidin  ...  André Demester 

Henri Cretel  ...  Blondel 

Jean-Marie Bruveart  ...  Briche 

David Poulain  ...  Leclercq 

Patrice Venant  ...  Mordac 

David Legay  ...  Lieutenant 

Inge Decaesteker  ...  France 





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"Its perverse linking of sensuality to violence and death (in addition to lead actor David Wissak's passing resemblance to Vincent Gallo) will remind some viewers of Claire Denis' far more complex and engaging Trouble Every Day," 



"while the lugubrious pacing and desert vistas recall Gus Van Sant's Gerry, and the mounting sense of dread, Elephant.



-- AllMovie



情色沙漠 Twentynine Palms

119 min. 2004



Yekaterina Golubeva  ...  Katia (as Katia Golubeva) 

David Wissak  ...  David  



延伸閱讀:

[法式軟調] 情色沙漠 Twentynine Palms





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親愛吾兒,你幹了什麼好事?My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

93 min. 2009



Produced by

David Lynch ....  executive producer  



Chloë Sevigny  ...  Ingrid 

Willem Dafoe  ...  Detective Hank Havenhurst 

Michael Shannon  ...  Brad McCullum 

Brad Dourif  ...  Uncle Ted 

Michael Peña  ...  Detective Vargas 

Loretta Devine  ...  Miss Roberts 

James C. Burns  ...  Swat Commander Brown 

Udo Kier  ...  Lee Meyers 

Grace Zabriskie  ...  Mrs. McCullum 

Irma P. Hall  ...  Mrs. Roberts 

Noel Arthur  ...  Naval Guard  





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巫山夢斷腸 The End of the Affair

106 min. 1955



Writing credits

Lenore J. Coffee (writer)

Graham Greene (novel) 



Original Music by

Benjamin Frankel



Deborah Kerr ...  Sarah Miles

Van Johnson ...  Maurice Bendrix

John Mills ...  Albert Parkis

Peter Cushing ...  Henry Miles

Michael Goodliffe ...  Smythe

Stephen Murray ...  Father Crompton

Charles Goldner ...  Savage

Nora Swinburne ...  Mrs. Bertram

Frederick Leister ...  Dr. Collingwood





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我孩子們的爸爸 Le père de mes enfants

112 min. 2008



Directed by

Writing credits

Mia Hansen-Løve

2009 Un Certain Regard - Special Jury Prize



Louis-Do de Lencquesaing  ...  Grégoire Canvel 

Chiara Caselli  ...  Sylvia Canvel 

Alice de Lencquesaing  ...  Clémence Canvel 

Alice Gautier  ...  Valentine Canvel 

Manelle Driss  ...  Billie Canvel 

Eric Elmosnino  ...  Serge 

Igor Hansen-Løve  ...  Arthur Malkavian 

Elsa Pharaon  ...  Colette, la secrétaire  



延伸閱讀:

如果您是本部落格非常忠實的讀者





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全都可以原諒 Tout est pardonné

105 min. 2006



Directed by

Writing credits

Mia Hansen-Løve

2007 Prix Louis Delluc Best First Film



Paul Blain  ...  Victor

Marie-Christine Friedrich  ...  Annette

Victoire Rousseau  ...  Pamela enfant

Constance Rousseau  ...  Pamela adolescente

Carole Franck  ...  Martine

Olivia Ross  ...  Gisèle

Pascal Bongard  ...  André

Wieland Amand ...  Zoltan

Maxime Lancino ...  Un lycéen

Daphné Achouline ...  Une lycéenne

Betty Fréret ...  Une lycéenne

Ludo Harley ...  Lou

Antoine Assayas ...  Gaspard





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亂絲情網 Lilith

114 min. 1964



Writing credits

Robert Alan Aurthur (uncredited)

Robert Rossen (writer)

J.R. Salamanca (novel)



Cinematography by

Eugen Schüfftan



Warren Beatty  ...  Vincent Bruce 

Jean Seberg  ...  Lilith Arthur 

Peter Fonda  ...  Stephen Evshevsky 

Kim Hunter  ...  Dr. Bea Brice 

Anne Meacham  ...  Mrs.Yvonne Meaghan 

Jessica Walter  ...  Laura 

Gene Hackman  ...  Norman 

James Patterson  ...  Dr. Lavrier 

Ben Carruthers ...  Benito (uncredited) 



1.

The film received such a hostile reaction from US critics that an aggrieved Robert Rossen pulled it out of contention at the Venice Film Festival and delayed its release in the UK by two years.

2.

Robert Rossen was dying when he made this film and many regard it as an act of expiation for his behavior during the McCarthy witch hunts in the 50s when he was a leading friendly witness.

3.

Jean Seberg regarded "Lilith" as her favorite film.





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我行我愛 Somersault

106 min. 2004



Abbie Cornish  ...  Heidi 

Damian de Montemas  ...  Adam 

Olivia Pigeot  ...  Nicole 

Alex Babic  ...  Brian the barman 

Sam Worthington  ...  Joe 

Nathaniel Dean  ...  Stuart 

Paul Gleeson  ...  Roy 

Lynette Curran ...  Irene

Erik Thomson ...  Richard

Hollie Andrew ...  Bianca

Blake Pittman ...  Karl 



1.

Made a clean sweep of the Australian Film Institute awards in 2004 to win in all 13 film categories - the first time this has ever occurred in the award's history. It beat the previous record of eleven AFI awards by The Piano (1993).





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噬血地鐵站 Creep

84 min. 2004



Vas Blackwood  ...  George 

Ken Campbell  ...  Arthur 

Franka Potente  ...  Kate 

Joe Anderson  ...  Male Model 

Jeremy Sheffield  ...  Guy 

Craig Fackrell  ...  Homeless Guy 

Kelly Scott  ...  Mandy 

Strapper  ...  "Ray" The Dog  



1.

Advertising posters showing a bloody hand sliding down a London Underground train window were banned from the Underground as being in bad taste, even though scenes had been filmed with permission in disused stations on the Underground. 

1.5

Producer Julie Baines found this "highly amusing" and "a bit ludicrous", noting that the film is "not based on real events - if it is, we are all in trouble." The ban was later removed, although not in time for the film's British opening.

2.

The villain, Craig was named after the director Chris Smith's friend, Craig Fackrell who played a homeless guy by the cash machine in the film.

3.

They bought six yellow dresses for Franka, each one had a varying degree of dirtiness because her dress got more grubby throughout the film.

4.

Franka Potente was writer/director Christopher Smith's first and only choice to play Kate. 

5.

Kelly Scott didn't see Sean Harris in full make-up as Craig until the sequence where Craig operates on Scott's character Mandy was filmed. As a result, many of Scott's reactions of fear and confusion were genuine.

6.

It took seven hours a day to transform Sean Harris into Craig and three hours to remove all the make-up at the end of a day's shooting.





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黑色彼得 Black Peter

82 min. 1964



Ladislav Jakim  ...  Petr 

Pavla Martinkova  ...  Asa 

Jan Vostrcil  ...  Petr's father 

Vladimír Pucholt  ...  Cenda 

Pavel Sedlacek  ...  Lada 

Zdenek Kulhanek  ...  Zdenek 

Frantisek Kosina  ...  Shop manager 

Josef Koza  ...  Mason master 

Bozena Matuskova  ...  Petr's mother  



1.

In some areas, the film bore the title Peter and Pavla, reflecting the fact that pretty young Pavla Martinkova played the girl. 


















2008年12月30日 星期二

[下海] 就是不截圖 11.






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消防員的舞會 The Firemen's Ball

73 min. 1967

1969  Nominated Oscar Best Foreign Language Film



Jan Vostrcil  ...  Head of Committee 

Josef Sebánek  ...  Committee Member #2 

Josef Valnoha  ...  Committee Member 

Frantisek Debelka  ...  Committee Member #1 

Josef Kolb  ...  Josef 

Jan Stöckl  ...  Retired Fire Chief 

Vratislav Cermák  ...  Committee Member 

Josef Rehorek  ...  Committee Member #4  



1.

Banned in 1968 by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia.

2.

First color film directed by Milos Forman.

3.

The movie's 1967 release was temporarily blocked by the president himself, while 40,000 Czech firemen quit their jobs in protest, only to return to work after Forman assured them that the movie was not criticizing firemen specifically.





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金髮女郎之戀 Loves of a Blonde

83 min. 1965



Directed by

Milos Forman  

1967 Nominated Oscar Best Foreign Language Film

1965 Nominated Golden Lion 



Hana Brejchová ...  Andula

Vladimír Pucholt ...  Milda

Vladimír Mensík ...  Vacovský

Ivan Kheil ...  Manas

Jirí Hrubý ...  Burda

Milada Jezková ...  Milda's Mother

Josef Sebánek ...  Milda's Father

Josef Kolb ...  Pokorný

Marie Salacová ...  Marie

Jana Novaková ...  Jana (as Jana Nováková)





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喧嘩的寂寞 Private Fears in Public Places

120 min. 2006



Directed by

Alain Resnais

2006 Venice Film Festival Best Director

Writing credits

Alan Ayckbourn (play "Private Fears in Public Places")

Jean-Michel Ribes (writer) 



Sabine Azéma  ...  Charlotte 

Isabelle Carré  ...  Gaëlle 

Laura Morante  ...  Nicole 

Pierre Arditi  ...  Lionel 

André Dussollier  ...  Thierry 

Lambert Wilson  ...  Dan 

Claude Rich  ...  Arthur (voice) 

Françoise Gillard  ...  Speakerine TV 





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"You are the best kisser."

"That was my major in college."



星塵往事 Stardust Memories 

88 min. 1980



Cinematography by

Gordon Willis 



Woody Allen ...  Sandy Bates

Charlotte Rampling ...  Dorrie

Jessica Harper ...  Daisy

Marie-Christine Barrault ...  Isobel

John Rothman ...  Jack Abel

Sharon Stone ...  Pretty Girl on train 



1.

Woody Allen has said many times that, along with The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), this is his favorite of the movies he's made.

2.

Working title for this film was "Woody Allen No. 4". Allen told an interviewer that "I am not even half of the Fellini of 8 1/2".

3.

Woody Allen has always strenuously denied that the film is autobiographical.

4.

This film largely stemmed from a riposte by Woody Allen to a hostile article written about him by novelist Joan Didion, and to the Academy's seeming indifference to his "serious" film Interiors (1978). This explains the film's relatively sour mood towards the critical community and indeed the movie-going public.

5.

Woody Allen's final film for United Artists. The UA executives who had worked with Allen for a decade quit UA to form Orion Pictures, where Allen joined them for another decade.

6.

The scene where Shelly has made her way into Sandy's bed without his knowledge is an homage to John Huston's Wise Blood (1979), made just one year earlier. Actress Amy Wright does exactly the same thing to Wise Blood's main character, Hazel Motes.

7.

It has been noted that this film is an homage to 8 1/2 (1963). Counting What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) as only half a film (because Allen only supplied a new soundtrack to an otherwise completed film), Woody Allen had completed 8 1/2 films before this one. 





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汪洋血迷宮 Triangle

98 min. 2009



Melissa George  ...  Jess 

Joshua McIvor  ...  Tommy 

Jack Taylor  ...  Jack 

Michael Dorman  ...  Greg 

Henry Nixon  ...  Downey 

Rachael Carpani  ...  Sally 

Emma Lung  ...  Heather 

Liam Hemsworth  ...  Victor  





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大丈夫 Husbands

150 min. 1970



Ben Gazzara  ...  Harry 

Peter Falk  ...  Archie Black 

John Cassavetes  ...  Gus Demetri 

Jenny Runacre  ...  Mary Tynan 

Jenny Lee Wright  ...  Pearl Billingham 

Noelle Kao  ...  Julie 

Alexandra Cassavetes ...  Xan (uncredited)

Nick Cassavetes ...  Nick (uncredited) 



延伸閱讀:

卡薩維蒂的第一部彩色片





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"There it is! December 22."



反案記 Call Northside 777

111 min. 1948



Directed by

Henry Hathaway   

Writing credits

Jerome Cady (screenplay)

Jay Dratler (screenplay)

Leonard Hoffman (adaptation) 

Quentin Reynolds (adaptation)

James P. McGuire (articles)

Jack McPhaul (articles) (uncredited) 



James Stewart ...  P.J. "Jim" McNeal

Richard Conte ...  Frank W. Wiecek

Lee J. Cobb ...  Brian Kelly

Helen Walker ...  Laura McNeal

Betty Garde ...  Wanda Skutnik

Kasia Orzazewski ...  Tillie Wiecek

Joanne De Bergh ...  Helen Wiecek

Leonarde Keeler ...  Leonarde Keeler - Polygraph Examiner (uncredited) 



1.

The man administering the polygraph test to convict Richard Conte was the actual inventor of the polygraph or lie detector machine, Leonarde Keeler. He plays himself in the movie. 



延伸閱讀:

支離破碎的黑色電影幽魂





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"The film's internal tug-of-war is best encapsulated by the two lead performances: Gena Rowlands, who was nominated for an Oscar for her gutsy, unglamorous role,"



"and John Adames, hapless even for a child actor, whose work was so reviled he was named Worst Supporting Actor by the Golden Raspberry Awards."



-- AllMovie 



女煞葛蘿莉 Gloria

121 min. 1980

1980 Golden Lion Tied with Atlantic City (1980) 



Julie Carmen  ...  Jeri Dawn 

Buck Henry  ...  Jack Dawn 

John Adames  ...  Phil Dawn 

Lupe Garnica  ...  Margarita Vargas 

Jessica Castillo  ...  Joan Dawn 

Gena Rowlands  ...  Gloria Swenson  



延伸閱讀:

The Good, the Bad, and the Indes





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失憶薇若妮卡 La mujer sin cabeza

87 min. 2007



María Onetto  ...  Verónica 

Claudia Cantero  ...  Josefina 

César Bordón  ...  Marcos 

Daniel Genoud  ...  Juan Manuel 

Guillermo Arengo  ...  Marcelo 

Inés Efron  ...  Candita





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"Before she struck out on her own, Claire Denis worked as an assistant for such A-listers as Wim Wenders, Jacques Rivette, and Jim Jarmusch." 



"The influence of those mentors is apparent in Chocolat, Denis' debut feature, but it's the singularity of her organic vision that is most impressive." 



-- AllMovie



巧克力 Chocolat

105 min. 1988



Directed by

Claire Denis 

1988 Nominated Golden Palm

Writing credits

Claire Denis 

Jean-Pol Fargeau  



Camera and Electrical Department

Benoit Akpatsi ....  grip 

Jean-Claude Basselet ....  electrician 

Muriel Edelstein ....  assistant camera 

Paul Edimo ....  electrician 

Jules Foumou ....  electrician 

Agnès Godard ....  camera operator 

Yvon Sausseau ....  grip 

Bouba Wamvou ....  grip  



Isaach De Bankolé  ...  Protée 

Giulia Boschi  ...  Aimée Dalens 

François Cluzet  ...  Marc Dalens 

Jean-Claude Adelin  ...  Luc 

Laurent Arnal  ...  Machinard 

Jean Bediebe  ...  Prosper 

Cécile Ducasse  ...  France enfant / France, as a girl 

Mireille Perrier ...  France Dalens

Emmet Judson Williamson ...  Mungo Park 





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"Julian Sands -- the poor man's Jeremy Irons -- stammers and lurches his way though scene after scene of borderline S & M self-abasement. Sitting through his effete take on upper-class longing is a bit like watching a petulant kindergartener whimpering piteously for his mother's milk." 



"The ordinarily bewitching Sherilyn Fenn, meanwhile, does little to flesh out the underwritten high-class hot-pants character with which she's been saddled. Mercurial without motivation, her character-free character slanders the female sex far more than the film's stylized violence could ever threaten it."



-- AllMovie



盒裝美人 Boxing Helena

107 min. 1993



Directed by

Jennifer Chambers Lynch  

1994 Razzie Award Worst Director



Julian Sands  ...  Dr. Nick Cavanaugh 

Sherilyn Fenn  ...  Helena 

Bill Paxton  ...  Ray O'Malley 

Kurtwood Smith  ...  Dr. Alan Harrison 

Art Garfunkel  ...  Dr. Lawrence Augustine 

Betsy Clark  ...  Anne Garrett 

Nicolette Scorsese  ...  Fantasy Lover / Nurse 

Meg Register ...  Marion Cavanaugh

Matt Berry ...  Young Nick Cavanaugh 



1.

Kim Basinger pulled out of the title role, and was successfully sued for $9 million for violation of a verbal contract. The award was overturned on appeal, and the case was settled out of court.

2.

Jennifer Chambers Lynch wrote the screenplay when she was 19 years old.

3.

Madonna was originally going to play the lead. At that time, the project was titled "Boxing Hanna." 



"IT AIN'T OVER TIL IT'S OVER"

Performed, Written and Produced by Lenny Kravitz

Courtesy of Virgin Records America, Inc.



"WOMAN IN CHAINS"

Performed by Tears for Fears

Written by Roland Orzabal

Produced by Tears for Fears & David Bascombe





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擒兇記 The Man Who Knew Too Much

75 min. 1934



Writing credits

Charles Bennett (by)

D.B. Wyndham-Lewis (by) (as D.B.Wyndham Lewis)

Edwin Greenwood (scenario) 

A.R. Rawlinson (scenario)

Emlyn Williams (additional dialogue)



Original Music by

Arthur Benjamin  



Leslie Banks ...  Bob Lawrence

Edna Best ...  Jill Lawrence

Peter Lorre ...  Abbott

Frank Vosper ...  Ramon

Hugh Wakefield ...  Clive

Nova Pilbeam ...  Betty Lawrence

Pierre Fresnay ...  Louis Bernard 



1.

The siege at the end of the film showing the police in a gun battle is based on the real life Sidney Street siege which took place on 3 January 1911 in London.

2.

When Peter Lorre arrived in Great Britain, his first meeting with a British director was with Alfred Hitchcock. By smiling and laughing as Hitchcock talked, the director was unaware that Lorre had a limited command of the English language. Lorre learned much of his part phonetically

3.

The title of this film comes from the name of a book written by G.K. Chesterton.





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"I'm sorry we were gone so long, but we go and pick up Hank."



擒兇記 The Man Who Knew Too Much

120 min. 1956



Writing credits

John Michael Hayes (screenplay)

Charles Bennett (story)  

D.B. Wyndham-Lewis (story)



Original Music by

Arthur Benjamin   (The Storm Clouds Cantata re-used from the 1934 version) 

Bernard Herrmann   (music scored by) 



James Stewart ...  Dr. Benjamin McKenna

Doris Day ...  Josephine Conway McKenna

Brenda De Banzie ...  Lucy Drayton (as Brenda de Banzie)

Bernard Miles ...  Edward Drayton

Ralph Truman ...  Inspector Buchanan

Daniel Gélin ...  Louis Bernard (as Daniel Gelin)

Bernard Herrmann ...  Conductor (uncredited)

Alfred Hitchcock ...  Man in Morocco Marketplace (uncredited) 



1.

Director Cameo: [Alfred Hitchcock] in the Moroccan marketplace in a crowd watching the elevated acrobats with his BACK to the camera, on the extreme left, immediately before the murder. Be *alert* and look QUICKLY (and if possible, have "pause" and "rewind" controls available), as this cameo is very easy to miss - even after repeated viewings - because the eye is naturally drawn to the acrobats.

2.

Bernard Herrmann (the composer of the score) can be seen conducting the orchestra during the Albert Hall sequence.

3.

The film was unavailable for decades because its rights (together with four other pictures of the same period) were bought back by Alfred Hitchcock and left as part of his legacy to his daughter. They've been known for long as the infamous "Five lost Hitchcocks" amongst film buffs, and were re-released in theatres around 1984 after a 30-year absence. The others are Rear Window (1954), Rope (1948), The Trouble with Harry (1955), and Vertigo (1958).

4.

At first, Doris Day refused to record "Que Sera, Sera" as a popular song release, dismissing it as "a forgettable children's song." It not only went on to win an Academy Award, but also became the biggest hit of her recording career and her signature song. 

5.

John Michael Hayes wrote the screenplay based on Treatment written by Angus MacPhail. But Hayes was infuriated when Alfred Hitchcock submitted both Hayes' and MacPhail's names to receive credit for the screenplay. Hayes demanded the credit be sent for arbitration to the Writers Guild of America who judged Hayes the sole author. Though he was successful in his bid for credit, it caused a never-healed rift between Hitchcock and John Michael Hayes.

6.

Alfred Hitchcock told Francois Truffaut that his 1934 version was "the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional". Nevertheless, Hitchcock preferred the earlier version, largely because it wasn't so polished.

7.

Director Trademark: [Alfred Hitchcock] [stairs] Big scene on the stairs at the end.

8.

When people eat in Morocco or any Arab country, they usually eat using the thumb, index and middle finger. That does not mean that eating with the five fingers or other hand is not accepted or bad in any way as indicated in the movie. 



"Que Sera, Sera"

By Jay Livingston and Ray Evans

Performed by Doris Day (uncredited)





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114 min. 2004



Writing credits

Stephen Jeffreys (screenplay) (play)



Johnny Depp ...  Rochester

John Malkovich ...  Charles II

Rosamund Pike ...  Elizabeth Malet

Tom Hollander ...  Etherege

Hugh Sachs ...  Ratcliffe

Kelly Reilly ...  Jane 



1.

Most of the film was lit using candles rather than conventional movie lights. In order to keep the effect of candles but still get enough light, cinematographer Alexander Melman designed a special piece of equipment, a stand than held a bank of candles and a reflective backing. These were known on the set as Birthday Cakes.

2.

Unlike most period films, this one was shot almost entirely with a hand-held camera. The two most notable shots with a fixed camera (not a hand held one) are the two panoramas of the interior of the theater, which was intentional. 



延伸閱讀:

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

Gloat


gloat







Y

幸災樂禍



D



–verb (used without object) 

1. to look at 

or 

think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.  



–noun
 

2. an act or feeling of gloating. 





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The third tale returns to the diner, as two over-the-hill rock bands pull up for a quick bite. Leads Alain Bashung and Arno (playing themselves) discuss their former friendship and current status, Bashung trying not to gloat [over] his continued popularity while Arno exaggerates a waning career.



Final segment is pure nostalgia, as four ex-gangsters "rescue" former colleague-in-crime Pierrot (Roger Dumas) from a hospital and head off to their old hideout, only to discover that the secluded log cabin surrounded by forests has been torn down and replaced by the very exposed diner. With vet thesps including Jean Rochefort, Laurent Terzieff and Venantino Venantini as the old thieves, auds can relax into their amiable camaraderie, comfortable in watching masters enjoying each others' company.



It's nice to see Mouglalis in a comedy, and even nicer to see how she handles the wry lines with confident aplomb; all the actors are clearly enjoying themselves.



camaraderie

【法】同志間的友愛和忠誠

aplomb

【法】沈著,泰然自若





serendipitous

serendipitous scientific [discov]eries. 

Although Spielberg said he wanted to give Tom Hanks the time and space to develop elaborate situations like Tati [serendipit]ously blundered through

fluke

Personally, I’d like to see her [chained] to a word-processor because the screenplay [to] Juno simply couldn’t have been a [fluke] and I want more.

Vicinity

















Fulcrum


fulcrum







Y

(槓桿) 支點



D



–noun 

1. the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body.

2. any prop or support.

3. Zoology. any of various structures in an animal serving as a hinge or support



–verb (used with object) 

4. to fit with a fulcrum; put a fulcrum on. 





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Pic's fulcrum is a roadside diner, where down-and-out petty thief Franck (Edouard Baer) considers a stick-up until he realizes luck isn't with him lately. 



Waitress Susie (Anna Mouglalis), clued in to Franck's thwarted objective, confesses she tried the same thing two days earlier, but with no money in the cash register, she figured she might as well work the counter for a while.





demotion

James E. Davis, was demoted following the Collins [debacle].

inductee

a sequence where [inductees] in Jockey shorts carry the Statue of Liberty through a Vietnam field

induct

The [committee] inducted her as [president].  

They inducted him [into] the mystic rites of the order.  

postulant

Audrey Hepburn stars in The Nun's Story as Sister Luke, postulant of a Belgian order of [nuns].



beseech

implore

There he is [implored] by other waiters to lend them his clean towel

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Quell


quell







Y

D



–verb (used with object) 

1. to suppress; put an end 

to

; extinguish: The [troops] quelled the rebellion quickly.  



2. to vanquish



–verb (used with object)

1. to conquer or subdue 

by 

superior force, as in battle



2. to defeat in any contest or conflict; be victorious over: to vanquish one's [opponent] in an argument.

3. to overcome or overpower: He vanquished all his [fears].



; subdue.

3. to quiet or allay (emotions, anxieties, etc.): The child's mother quelled his fears of the thunder.  





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There were times on the set of Darjeeling, for instance, when Anderson would doubt his instincts: "Okay, am I doing too much of a 'thing I do' here?" he would ask the crew. Coppola was quick to quell the director’s [insecurities].





bluff

buff

is getting his edges [buffed] by Raymond's [ingratiating] eccentricities and attachment [to] routine. 



divest

sequence in which Sister Luke divests [herself] of her religious [robes], dons street garb, and walks out to an uncertain future.

elide

to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation

Law. to annul or quash

Postscript noting the fates of certain characters conveniently [elides] the sad and/or ironic destinies awaitin[g s]ome of them. 

Debilitate

















Torrid






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torrid



Y

D




–adjective
 

1. subject to parching 

or 

burning heat, esp. of the sun, as a geographical area: the torrid sands of the [Sahara]. 



2. oppressively hot, parching, or burning, as climate, weather, or air. 

3. ardent; passionate: a torrid love story.  





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William Hurt is a spirited but struggling lawyer just getting by in a marginal Florida coast town whose persistent pursuit of sultry Kathleen Turner pays off in the way of a torrid affair, highly satisfying for both parties.



She's the young wife of loaded middle-aged businessman Richard Crenna, and it isn't long before the passion can't tolerate the limitations imposed. Just as in Double Indemnity it's the dame who hatches the murder plot, with the guy finally falling into line and coming up with the ingenious way to pull it off.





cf. decimate

desiccate

What [rescues] his best films [from] desiccation is the playfulness behind the theorizing 

parch

Walking in the [sun] parched his throat.

A staple of the Indian diet was parched [corn]. 

The obsessive central love story here is [repressed] on all levels, which serves to [parch] the film more than [intensify] it. 

scorch

charcoal

char

The fire charred the [paper]. 

with a slow zoom into the fresh-[charred] heart of a greasy, [gristle]-flecked beef [patty]. 

Inflict

















Bludgeon (續:敲打 單字大集合)


 



Daniel Day-Lewis and Rebecca Miller





That's the closest I'll ever come to getting a knighthood, so thank you. My deepest thanks to the members of the Academy for whacking me with the handsomest bludgeon in town.



這大概是本人最接近封爵的時刻了,感謝影藝學院以這座小金人重擊我。





Y

D

–noun 

1. a short, heavy club with one end weighted

or 

thicker and heavier than the other. 



–verb (used with object) 

2. to strike or knock down with a bludgeon.

3. to force into something; coerce; bully: The boss finally bludgeoned him into accepting responsibility. 



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As a tale of death and expediency, "Shallow Grave" also invites comparison to Alfred Hitchcock, who dealt with a wayward corpse throughout "The Trouble With Harry" and once (on one of his television shows) let a heroine bludgeon her husband with a leg of lamb before feeding the murder weapon to the police. 



But even at his most ghoulish, Hitchcock never forgot to invite his viewers' involvement in ways that Mr. Boyle pointedly ignores. 



These may be jaded times, but we're not yet beyond requiring violence to be leavened by some element of humanity, no matter how macabre or dark. It's not enough to provide brilliantly artful back lighting when one character is busy carving up another with a handsaw. 





0.6 馬術

0.7 腳步 

Strut



0.8 敲打

cudgel 

flog

drub

to beat with a stick, thrash. 

Valkyrie has taken a [drubbing] on the PR front, mostly because of people's [poisonous] initial reactions to Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.

Latin grammar was drubbed into their [heads].

bludgeon

My deepest thanks to the members of the Academy for whacking me with the handsomest [bludgeon] in town.

and once let a heroine [bludgeon] her husband with a leg of lamb before feeding the murder weapon to the police. 



clobber

I gave it all I could. I thought the war would have carried us. Well... if you just would've clobbered the son of a bitch, you know?

Um, a kid named Dallas. He runs a dinky jazz quintet. But he happens to be keeping company with JJ's screwball sister. It's a real goody, if, like me, you wanna clobber JJ.

spar

to box with light blows

and Sands finds himself [verbally] sparring with a priest 

Mr. Tautz has kindly consented to be your psychic sparring partner.

He was gonna come out of the Army and go right up to the top. Well, one afternoon, he and I were sparring in the gym. You know, kind of friendly-like. He must have been set pretty flat on his feet...

See if you can dig me up a sparring partner real fast.

pugilist

Let's you and me have a little talk about the pugilistic profession. 拳擊手

This riveting 1947 drama, regarded by many as the greatest boxing movie of all time, centers on a former pugilist who looks back on his life in and out of the ring and realizes that self-respect is a more important prize than winning.

clout

blow esp. with hand, cuff 

Howard uses clout to back [Obama]

Thanks to the box-office [clout] of stars [Taylor] and [Burton], not to mention the [titilation] factor of hearing all those naughty words on the big screen, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf was a hit,

And if Castle Rock is now [backing] the film, I wonder what that means for both the production design of the musical [numbers], and the production’s clout when it comes to licensing songs.

Fresh off The Godfather (1972), producer Francis Ford Coppola had the clout to get his friend George Lucas's project made, but only for $750,000 on a 28-day shooting schedule.

slug

slog

to hit hard, plod

I've been slogging [away] for years and then people prick up their ears when they see you in a different language

a hunger for something more than a [weary] slog into middle age. 

Jarhead is not only a far [tougher] slog, it's naturally more successful in presenting itself as a referendum on the second Gulf war.

I am afraid, is no more than it seems: a confusing slog [through] metaphysical murkiness.

Slogging as a cookbook editor at a major publishing house,

But above all, the heart of this slog [through] Whitetrashville, U.S.A., is true—at least if you see it as the story of another survivor who not only believed the [scuzzy] tale, but saw herself in it.

Revenge's protagonist Emily Thorne has slogged through two seasons, a fake identity, and a terrorist organization to inflict revenge [on] her enemies, the Graysons.

wallop

deliver vigorous blows, as in boxing

That fist of his [packs] a wallop. 

Corny as it is, Van Sant's ending still [packs] a wallop. 

His final scene provides a genuine dramatic [wallop] that resolves the movie's central conflict,

The fact that the film succeeds in delivering such a wallop without descending into [bitchy] tirade makes it an [enduring] testament to the powers of elegant satire, further proof that there is no more dangerous combination than wit and a typewriter. 

The entire Montreal sequence certainly benefits [from] some incredibly moving writing and acting, but it's the cinematic poetry -- the combination of words and images and music -- that delivers an [emotional] wallop. It's the first time you realize how deeply the film gets under your skin.



rebuff

bluff

buff

buffet

a blow, as with the hand or fist.

or brilliantly designed capitals of industry in which little people are manipulated and [buffeted] about by the string pullers.

biff

It's their turf. I couldn't hear them without been seen, and that would only biff their play.

brash

He's hyper-reactive, flickering between [brash], [bashful], playful, and awkward

bash

strike with a crushing or smashing blow

Even Durst’s critically [bashed] follow-up, the 2008 sports film The Longshots was released last Summer.

That boot-camp sequence feels like a reduced version of the head-[bashing] training episode in Kubrick’s "Full Metal Jacket.

rash

her fussing, her weeping, her [rashes] on hands and head.

brunt

the main force or impact, as of an attack or blow

His arm took the brunt of the [blow]

The defendant bearing [most] of the brunt in the trial is Hanna.



pummel

Such an attitude allows Seagal to guiltlessly pummel [scores] of thugs, [dumbfounding] the audience with flawlessly executed violence and [unfathomable] stamina. 

Fitzgerald continues to pummel the Blue Bear.

sock

The three sisters' [show] was a sock.

Sagnier manages to sock [across] the idea that a relatively sweet young woman could fall for a guy three decades her senior. 

swipe

a strong, sweeping blow, as with a cricket bat or golf club.

a provocative, if [meretricious], evening of theater that ends in a [paroxysm] of LaButality with a bear [swipe] to the spectator's head.

swat

One imagines him in retirement, burning flowers and swatting flies.

whack

thwack

a sharp blow with something flat

the album is a [gumbo] that adds juicy dub [thwacks], regal synthetic horns, tangled piano [vamps], [dashes] of spiritual jazz, and rolling Afro-beat, almost all of which is [cloaked] in light reverb.



jab

poke, or thrust abruptly or sharply, as with the end or point of a stick

My brother, can I borrow your Hey, Soul Classics? My brother, you gotta go buy your own. Hook it off the jab. Can't you be an uncle, not a playmate?

prod

as if with something pointed

I prodded him with my [elbow]. 

but prodding a [craven] audience with the possibility that

co-habit harmlessly rather than jostling one another to [disturbing], inventive or laugh-out-loud effect. 

cf. jostle

nudge

to push gently with elbow, to get someone's attention. 

He's [not] out to jostle our complacencies but [only] to give them a little [nudge] 

Earnest, goofy video artist Christine (played by July) is trying to [nudge] a [foot] in the door at the local Center for Contemporary Art... into the hands of the [standoffish] director.

The kids are supposed to be typical young adolescents, but they're so rebellious, reckless and creative that we sense the screenplay [nudging] them. 

Slightly [raw], but [pushed] towards thriller territory with just the right nudge.

I'll tell you, Cod. I've learned my lesson. If I ever do get another chance, I'm gonna keep my mouth shut. I'm gonna play the game. If I forget, you remind me. I'll give a gentle nudge in the ribs. Give me a swift kick in the ass. Yes, sir.

















Bludgen

















































(blood) Feud


feud







Y

D



–noun 

1. Also called blood feud. a bitter, continuous hostility, esp. between two families, clans, etc., often lasting for many years or generations.

2. a bitter quarrel or contention: a feud between labor and management.  



–verb (used without object) 

3. to engage in a feud.





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All of these developments easily hold the attention, as do others involving a [sisterly] feud between Sylvia and Coco, the sexually predatory antics of plant supervisor Mike (Bobby Cannavale) and the inept efforts of local students to "liberate" cattle in a midnight raid on a feedlot; cows, they conclude, are dumber than they thought.





squabble

In the subsequent domestic [squabble], Von Sydow shoots and wounds his wife. 

spar

to box with light blows.

and Sands finds himself [verbally] sparring with a priest

altercation 

bicker

engage in petulant or peevish argument

to flicker, glitter

The [two] were always bickering. a [stream] bickering down the valley. 

The [sun] bickered through the trees.

She hitches a ride with the professor and Marianne, as do a ceaselessly [bickering] married couple.

shuffle

scuff

scuffle 

there is a [scuffle] and Tom kills Philippe and disposes of his body 

fissure

rift

A deep [rift] had started in their family life.

wedge

a wedge of [pie].  

to wedge [open] a log.  

to wedge clothes [into] a suitcase.

her entry into that world has driven a [wedge] into it that sets everybody [at odds]

brawl

casts the actor as a barroom [brawler] who uses his skills to [settle] disputes for people who can't afford a lawyer.

Raucous

















Rambunctious


rambunctious







Y

D




–adjective 

1. difficult to control 

or 

handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.  



2. turbulently active and noisy: a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand.



C



rambunctious (adj.) 

 

meaning "boisterous, loud, disorderly, wild, and unruly," is Standard English: She’s a rambunctious young woman, not easily broken to the harness of office work.





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Linklater's sensibility is far gentler, however, and his generosity extends not only to Don, who becomes progressively upset by what he learns, and the few-alternative illegals, but to such other characters as Amber (Ashley Johnson), a high schooler too bright to remain stuck as a cashier at Mickeys; Pete (Ethan Hawke), Ashley's rambunctious uncle who tries to encourage her to [raise] her sights, and Rudy (Kris Kristofferson), a longtime local rancher ideally positioned to illustrate to Don how things have changed for the (much) worse.





blare

The [radio] is blaring: turn it off!

The [loudspeakers] blared the speech repeatedly.

The
soundtrack's [jarring] contrast between sheer silence and a [blaring] brass band

chug

Hauser is an intriguing character, seen chugging [shot] glasses of hot sauce 

The Strangers [chugs] dutifully along for its contractually obligated 90 minutes,



bedlam

Christine is [brow]beaten by the police, bulli[ed] by the press, and finally committed to a local bedlam seemingly filled with people whose mental illness consisted [in] pissing off the cops. 

Raucous

















Juggernaut (續:猶太教 印度教 單字大集合)






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juggernaut



Y

【印神】世界主宰 (印度教主神之一Vishnu 的化身)



D

–noun 

1. (often lowercase) any large, overpowering, destructive force or object, as war, a giant battleship, or a powerful football team.

2. (often lowercase) anything requiring blind devotion or cruel sacrifice. 



3. Also called Jagannath. an idol of Krishna, at Puri in Orissa, India, annually drawn on an enormous cart under whose wheels devotees are said to have thrown themselves to be crushed. 





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Making a shaped, involving film from Schlosser's intensively researched, highly popular expose of the junk food juggernaut in the United States repped a considerable challenge, and the author and Linklater have made eminently reasonable decisions about where to [train] their focus.





。猶太教

goy

Disparaging. a non-Jewish person, gentile 

Let's talk to a goy doctor? That exits?

gentile

of or pertaining to any people not Jewish.

Christian, as distinguished from Jewish.

heathen or pagan

Jew, Gentile, black man, white: we all want to help one another.

We speak of olam ha-ba, the world to come. Not heaven. Not what the gentiles think of as afterlife.

kike

Disparaging and Offensive

a person of Jewish religion or descent 

Why don't you try me, you fucking kike? I will! I will!



canopy 

niche 

Tabernacle

cabalism

A doom-ridden pulp [cabalist] with a dark sense of purpose as well as humor, 

Drugs, cabalistic [signs], and attempts to [marshall] the people into action all seem to fail as they slowly sink into near violence.

kabala

I remember catching you in bed with a blonde, your back to her, your nose buried in a book on [esoterics]. Yes. While [dissipating] my youth in St. Tropez, I studied Kabbala.


Also, do we believe him as a Ka[bb]alistic scholar? 

shiva

Pesel told me -she sat shiva for him. (猶太教) (近親者所守的) 七日服喪期

yeshiva 

As befits a movie by a onetime yeshiva [student], Storytelling is to be understood as a work of commentary. 正統猶太小學

synagogue

But I bet I can now that you put a bomb in the synagogue. 猶太教堂

He's gonna go to the synagogue meet and greet, dressed like a homeless.

manna

pic will be manna for Ceylan's loyal band of critical admirers, [feted] at serious [fests], but a B.O. [dud] in most territories. (聖經) 以色列人漂泊荒野時上帝所賜的食物

Exactly how does a press agent work? A press agent eats a columnist's dirt and is expected to call it manna.

dybbuk

No, a dybbuk soesn't eat. (猶太民間傳說) 惡靈,陰魂附體



Talmudic

"Batman & Robin" was awful, sure, but we now have the opposite problem, with superhero mythologies getting treated with Talmudic [reverence] and investment. 

30 years of comic-book irreverence generated their own special currency -- like Reeve's indelible "Superman" -- and that shouldn't be completely thrown out. Why so serious, indeed.

kosher

Potato chips called "X Brand" chips (kosher [processed] and endorsed by [non] profit) were distributed after the release and success of "Malcolm X".

mitzvah

He said you were bar mitzvah there when in March of 1888. (猶太教) 戒律





。印度教

caste

juggernaut

highly popular expose of the junk food [juggernaut] in the United States

Both films will have to compete with 20th Century Fox's 3D [juggernaut] "Avatar" as it enters its seventh [frame] with an overall domestic haul of $561.3 million as of Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the main body of Patton 's army... resupplied now and rolling like a juggernaut, slashes toward the Saar. Nazi resistance appears to crumble.

Since this year alone has produced Inception and Toy Story 3 – both [commercial] juggernauts despite containing [mindbending] time structures or complex emotional maturity not usually found in summer blockbusters,

Veda
 

Sometimes, Vedas. the entire body of Hindu sacred writings, chief among which are four books, the Rig-Veda, the Sama-Veda, the Atharva-Veda, and the Yajur-Veda. 吠陀

mantra

Lynch’s frequently updated Twitter stream flows like a stilted [algorithm] for transcendental meditation mantras (”Don’t look at the big pile.”) 真言, (印度教、大乘佛教中的) 祈禱文

Chiwetel Ejiofer portrays Mike Terry whose mantra is that "There is always an escape."

but instead he gets Perry's [mantras]: "You don't need your thumb and your thumb doesn't need you." [Demonstrably] not true.



ashram

Hebrew-school ace Aaron goes impulse shopping at first a church and then, more [pivotally], an [ashram] after a chance encounter with Hare Krishna sylph Chali (印度教) 聚會所【美】嬉皮士群居之會所

bhakti 

while Aaron's absurdly petulant reaction to his pensive little sister's spelling [tutorials] leaves his bhakti in serious [doubt]. (印度教) 對神的虔信



raja

Miss G, tell Fiamma about how you rode on elephants with rajas! (印度等的) 王公,首領



。回教

mosque

I will organize|and lead a new mosque in New York: Muslim Mosque, Incorporated. 清真寺,回教寺院

Do you where I can find him? At the mosque. Take the stairs and turn left.

I beg you, I will do whatever is your will. I will purchase ten kilos of the finest seed, and find an American mosque, and I will feed them to all the birds outside.

ayatollah

Is it a communist conspiracy? Or maybe it's ayatollahs in the street with blowguns. 伊朗回教什葉派的宗教領袖

Among the shareholders in Manchurian Global, were they to ever publish a list, which they won't, you would find former presidents, deposed kings, trust fund terrorists, fallen Communist dictators, ayatollahs, African warlords and retired prime ministers.



。佛教

sutra

Let's chant a sutra. 佛經 (婆羅門教《吠陀》經中的) 箴言,箴言集





。種族

apartheid

Dap (Laurence Fishburne) is a politically conscious brother who leads anti-[apartheid] demonstrations and [eschews] the social climbing of the Greek system. 

ethos

Sociology. the fundamental character or spirit of a culture; the underlying sentiment that informs the beliefs, customs, or practices of a group or society; dominant assumptions of a people or period 

In the [Greek] ethos the individual was highly valued.

The maturation of his [maverick] "home movie" ethos, John Cassavetes's Faces (1968) incisively explores the disintegration of an upper middle-class marriage. 



gringo

Usually Disparaging. (in Latin America or Spain) a foreigner, esp. one of U.S. or British descent.

A brash gringo (indie fave Steve Buscemi) struts into a Mexican dive, 

So you built our patio while you were on the county? Out in the fresh air? Nice gringo lady making you pies?

cockney

of the East End district of London

Wealthy wastrel James Fox hires insouciant [cockney] Dirk Bogarde as a valet.

gook

Disparaging and Offensive. 

a native of Southeast Asia or the South Pacific, esp. when a member of an enemy military force

That's why you tie his gook hands, take down his gook pants, and grab his gook balls.

wog

Chiefly British. Disparaging and Offensive. any nonwhite, esp. a dark-skinned native of the Middle East or Southeast Asia To boot a load car radios to drop on some wog down there. The wog's at the back laying a turd.

Shut your mouth, dirty wogs.

Become like those white assholes that call us "wog"? Your family, rich and powerful back home, has been let down by you. Go on, fuck off.

I mean, for three weeks, right, this fucking wog... Sorry, mate, sorry. Didn't mean nothing by it. You know, just slip of the tongue, like.

wop

You hit me! Yeah, and I'm about to do it again, too. Why, you dirty wop!【美】【俚】【貶】義大利移民,義大利佬



Kraut

We'd send over a 75mm shell, the krauts would return an 88. Their tanks are diesels. Even when we managed to hit one they kept on running. Our tanks... the men call them "Purple Heart boxes." 酸泡菜【俚】【貶】德國佬 (尤指德國兵)

The krauts had the hill, and we were ordered to take it.

Carthaginian

It was here. The battlefield was here. The Carthaginians defending the city were attacked by three Roman legions. They were brave, but they couldn't hold. They were massacred. 迦太基人

bohunk

It has to do with a certain guy? I know, honey. I know. We're all upset that Ginny's marrying a bohunk.【美】【俚】東歐人,東歐低層勞工

















Juggernaut