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.
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)
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
"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.
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
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
"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
"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
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The Good, the Bad, and the Indes
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
"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
"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
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.
"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)
浪蕩子 The Libertine
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.
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John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
