"Sirk has made the tenderest films I know, they are the films of someone who loves people and doesn't despise them as we do," wrote R.W. Fassbinder about the director who was his primary influence.
深鎖春光一院愁 All That Heaven Allows
89 min. 1955
Writing credits
Peg Fenwick (screenplay)
Edna L. Lee (story)
Harry Lee (story)
Jane Wyman ... Cary Scott
Rock Hudson ... Ron Kirby
Agnes Moorehead ... Sara Warren
Conrad Nagel ... Harvey
Virginia Grey ... Alida
Gloria Talbott ... Kay
William Reynolds ... Ned
Charles Drake ... Mick Anderson
Hayden Rorke ... Dr. Hennessy
Jacqueline deWit ... Mona Plash (as Jacqueline de Wit)
Donald Curtis ... Howard Hoffer
Forrest Lewis ... Mr. Weeks
Tol Avery ... Tom Allenby
Merry Anders ... Mary Ann
David Janssen ... Freddie Norton (uncredited)
1.
This film seems to borrow its title from the last line of the poem 'love and life' by Jhn Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester: "All my past Life is mine no more, The flying Hours are gone: Like Transitory Dreams giv'n o'er, Whose Images are kept in store By Memory alone.
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The Time that is to come is not; How can it then be mine The present Moment's all my Lot; And that, as fast as it is got, Phillis, is only thine. Then talk not of Inconstancy, False Hearts, and broken Vows; If I, by Miracle, can be This live-long Minute true to thee, 'Tis all that Heav'n allows." 
"Using two androgynous performers, Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and British musician David Bowie, to play the adversaries Yonoi and Celliers, Oshima suggests that Celliers' ability to withstand abuse from his captors elicits more than just admiration from the commandant." -- AllMovies
聖誕快樂，勞倫斯先生 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
145 min. 1983
Writing credits
Laurens Van der Post (novel "The Seed and The Sower")
Nagisa Ôshima (screenplay)
Paul Mayersberg (screenplay)
Original Music by
Ryûichi Sakamoto
David Bowie ... Maj. Jack 'Strafer' Celliers
Tom Conti ... Col. John Lawrence
Ryûichi Sakamoto ... Capt. Yonoi
Takeshi Kitano ... Sgt. Gengo Hara (as Takeshi)
Jack Thompson ... Group Capt. Hicksley
James Malcolm ... Celliers' Brother
Chris Broun ... Celliers aged 12 
雙姝怨 The Children's Hour
107 min. 1961
Writing credits
Lillian Hellman (play)
Lillian Hellman (adaptation)
John Michael Hayes (screenplay)
Audrey Hepburn ... Karen Wright
Shirley MacLaine ... Martha Dobie
James Garner ... Dr. Joe Cardin
Miriam Hopkins ... Mrs. Lily Mortar
Fay Bainter ... Mrs. Amelia Tilford
Karen Balkin ... Mary Tilford
Veronica Cartwright ... Rosalie Wells
Mimi Gibson ... Evelyn
1.
Audrey Hepburn's final black and white film.
2.
Miriam Hopkins who played Martha in the original film These Three (1936) played the part of Martha's Aunt Lily. Merle Oberon, who played Karen in the original film, turned down the part of Mrs. Tilford.
3.
The film gets its name from a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
神鬼尖兵 The Boondock Saints
110 min. 2000
Willem Dafoe ... Paul Smecker
Sean Patrick Flanery ... Connor MacManus
Norman Reedus ... Murphy MacManus
David Della Rocco ... Rocco
Billy Connolly ... Il Duce
David Ferry ... Detective Dolly
Brian Mahoney ... Detective Duffy
Bob Marley ... Detective Greenly
1.
The woman that the priest refers to in the opening scene of the film, Kitty Genovese, was an actual person. She was raped and murdered by a serial rapist in 1964 outside her home in Queens while 13 eyewitnesses did nothing to save her. This apathetic bystander phenomenon is now referred to as Genovese Syndrome.
2.
The Kitty Genovese story told by the priest that inspires the brothers, also inspires Rorschach, a character from Watchmen (2009), to become a masked hero in the graphic novel.
3.
Was given a very limited release in the United States due to the Columbine Massacre. It was only shown in five theaters for only one week. However, it would later develop a large cult success from word of mouth following the success of DVD sales and would follow up with the sequel The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009).
4.
The script's initial sale garnered a considerable amount of publicity (including the cover of USA Today) as a "rags-to-riches" story; writer/director/composer Troy Duffy was a bartender at J. Sloan's in Los Angeles when Miramax head Harvey Weinstein not only bought the script, but signed Duffy to direct, his band to score the film and agreed to purchase the bar for Weinstein and Duffy to co-own.
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However, Duffy quickly managed to sour the deal, putting the script into turnaround where it was eventually produced for less than half of the budget offered by Miramax.
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After its limited theatrical release, the film gained popularity on home video as a Blockbuster Exclusive, unfortunately Duffy's contract did not give him any royalties from video sales. Duffy's initial success and consequent self-destruction are chronicled in the documentary Overnight (2003).
延伸閱讀：
最精彩的還是威廉達佛所飾演辦案如神的探員
男人的鬥爭 Rififi
115 min. 1955
Directed by
Jules Dassin
1955 Cannes Film Festival Best Director
Writing credits
Auguste Le Breton (novel)
Jules Dassin (adaptation)
René Wheeler (collaboration)
Auguste Le Breton (collaboration)
Auguste Le Breton (dialogue)
Jean Servais ... Tony le Stéphanois
Carl Möhner ... Jo le Suedois
Robert Manuel ... Mario Ferrati
Janine Darcey ... Louise le Suedois
Pierre Grasset ... Louis Grutter aka Louis le Tatoué
Robert Hossein ... Remi Grutter
Marcel Lupovici ... Pierre Grutter
Dominique Maurin ... Tonio le Suedois
Magali Noël ... Viviane
Marie Sabouret ... Mado les Grands Bras
Claude Sylvain ... Ida Ferrati
Jules Dassin ... Cesar le Milanais (as Perlo Vita)
1.
The argot French slang word, "Rififi" is defined loosely as trouble/violent conflict/a brutal show of force, usually in reference to chest puffing and macho tough guy posturing by thugs and criminal element of Paris.
2.
L'Age D'or, the club in the film, was named after Luis Buñuel's film of the same name. Production designer Alexandre Trauner worked on both films.
3.
Dassin claims his reasoning for the lengthy silence was realism. He explains that this also reinforces their astonishing teamwork under stress and that these men can, and carry these tasks out with no need for words. They work in a state of complete silence where any sound (like Jo bumping the piano) was their mortal enemy. Note that Cesar wears ballet slippers during the heist.
4.
In the 1972 robbery of the United California Bank, a group of thieves used Styrofoam adhesive to spray inside of an alarm box. This effectively stopped the arm of the alarm from ringing much like the technique used within the film.
5.
SPOILER: The death of Cesar was not in the original story. Dassin (who himself played the character under the pseudonym, "Perlo Vita") says he added the scene in direct reference to the American blacklist situation (essentially, the terrible cost of the betrayal of friends and colleagues). 
留住最後一支舞 Save the Last Dance
112 min. 2001
Julia Stiles ... Sara
Sean Patrick Thomas ... Derek
Kerry Washington ... Chenille
Fredro Starr ... Malakai
Terry Kinney ... Roy
Bianca Lawson ... Nikki
Vince Green ... Snookie
Garland Whitt ... Kenny
Elisabeth Oas ... Diggy
Artel Great ... Arvel (as Artel Jarod Walker)
Cory Stewart ... Lip
Kim Tlusty ... Lindsay
"U Know What's Up"
by Edward Ferrell (as Edward Ferrell 2nd), Darren Lighty, Cliff Lighty, Balewa Muhammad (as Balewa Muhammad),
Veronica McKenzie & Anthony Hamilton
Performed by Donell Jones
Courtesy of LaFace Records/Arista Records, Inc.
"You"
by Raphael Saadiq, Battlecat (as Kevin Gilliam), Snoop Dogg & Q-Tip (as Kamaal Fareed)
Performed by Lucy Pearl featuring Snoop Dogg & Q-Tip
Courtesy of Pookie Records/Beyond Music
Snoop Dogg performs courtesy of Priority Records
Q-Tip performs courtesy of Arista Records, Inc.
"Get It on Tonite"
by Montell Jordan, Joerg Evers, Juergen Korduletsch, Darren Benbow, Antoine Wilson,
Brian Palmer & Sergio Moore
Performed by Montell Jordan
Courtesy of Rush Associated Labels Recordings
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
Contains sample from "Love for the Sake of Love"
Performed by Claudja Barry
Courtesy of Lollipop Productions Inc.
小呼吸 W.
129 min. 2008
Produced by
Bill Block .... producer
Moritz Borman .... producer
Teresa Cheung .... executive producer [章小蕙]
Josh Brolin ... George W. Bush
Colin Hanks ... Speechwriter #1
Toby Jones ... Karl Rove
Dennis Boutsikaris ... Paul Wolfowitz
Jeffrey Wright ... Colin Powell
Thandie Newton ... Condoleezza Rice
Scott Glenn ... Donald Rumsfeld
Richard Dreyfuss ... Dick Cheney
Bruce McGill ... George Tenet
Sean Stone ... Fraternity Pledge #1
James Cromwell ... George H.W. Bush
Marley Shelton ... Fran
Michael Gaston ... General Tommy Franks
Keenan Harrison Brand ... Marvin Bush
Ellen Burstyn ... Barbara Bush
Jason Ritter ... Jeb Bush
Jennifer Sipes ... Suzie Evans
Elizabeth Banks ... Laura Bush
Ioan Gruffudd ... Prime Minister Tony Blair
Charles Fathy ... Pres. Jacques Chirac (voice)
Teresa Cheung ... Miss China [章小蕙]
1.
Christian Bale was initially cast as George W. Bush, and even underwent weeks of prosthetics tests before filming began. However, he withdrew from the production at the last minute, prompting Oliver Stone to immediately look for a replacement.
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Josh Brolin was subsequently given the role following his notable performances in No Country for Old Men (2007) and American Gangster (2007).
2.
When W. enters the Oval Office at the end, there's a portrait of John Quincy Adams hanging above his head. Adams is the only other son of a former President to be elected President.
3.
Oliver Stone and George W. Bush were both in Yale's class of 1968, though Stone dropped out after one year and went to Vietnam instead of graduating, while Bush graduated with his class.
4.
When W. tells his father about the Yale football game over the phone, he mentions "Hill" and "Dowling." These are Yale football running back Calvin Hill and quarterback Brian Dowling, who were the stars of the undefeated 1968 Yale team.
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Hill, a fraternity brother of Bush's, went on to a career in professional football and now consults with several NFL teams; he married Janet Hill, who had been Hillary Clinton's college roommate. Their son, Grant Hill, is an NBA player. Dowling also had a stint in the NFL, albeit a briefer one than Hill's.
"... the town's unexplained animosity adds to the suggestion that what drives them all, including the intellectual David, is beyond the bounds of 'civilization.'" -- AllMovie
稻草狗 Straw Dogs
118 min. 1971
Writing credits
David Zelag Goodman (screenplay)
Sam Peckinpah (screenplay)
Gordon Williams (novel "The Siege of Trencher's Farm") (as Gordon M. Williams)
Dustin Hoffman ... David Sumner
Susan George ... Amy Sumner
Peter Vaughan ... Tom Hedden
T.P. McKenna ... Major John Scott
Del Henney ... Charlie Venner
Jim Norton ... Chris Cawsey
Donald Webster ... Riddaway
Ken Hutchison ... Norman Scutt
Len Jones ... Bobby Hedden
Sally Thomsett ... Janice Hedden
Robert Keegan ... Harry Ware
Peter Arne ... John Niles
1.
Among the actors initially considered for the role of David Sumner were Donald Sutherland, Jack Nicholson and Sidney Poitier. Actresses originally considered and/or auditioned for the role of Amy were Diana Rigg, Charlotte Rampling and Helen Mirren.
2.
The title comes from the Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu, who wrote, "Heaven and earth are not humane, and regard the people as straw dogs." 天地不仁，以萬物為芻狗
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When Sam Peckinpah was planning the scene in which Amy is raped twice, he would not tell Susan George how he was going to shoot the scene. Under pressure from her, he eventually told her bluntly that Amy would first be raped and then buggered.
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She refused to take part in Peckinpah's plans for explicit portrayal of this and threatened to resign. He eventually relented, allowing George to depict Amy's trauma by concentrating on her eyes and face, rather than her body.
4.
Dustin Hoffman - not usually a fan of violent films - admitted that he only took the role in this movie for the money.
5.
The movie's poster was as #12 of "The 25 Best Movie Posters Ever" by Premiere.
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