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2012年4月3日 星期二

[memo] 以下是筆者投筆從戎後開始購買的白人專輯 edit: 20190602

以下是筆者投筆從戎後開始購買的白人專輯 (節奏藍調新靈魂饒舌樂以外的專輯) [照字母順序排列]:

6LACK - FREE 6LACK (2016)

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991)
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders (1993)

Abiah - Life as a ballad (2014)

Air - Moon Safari (1998) [失望]
Air - The Virgin Suicides (2000) [失望]

The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky (1982)
The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot (1977)
The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe (1976)

Alex Turner - Submarine (2011)
延伸閱讀:
Submarine – The quirk of Juno, the whimsy of Gondry, the light-heartedness of Wes Anderson, the melancholy of 500 Days of Summer

Alicia Keys - The Diary of Alicia Keys (2003)
Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor (2001)

Anderson .Paak - Malibu (2016)

Angie Stone - Mahogany Soul (2001)

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007)

Archie Bell & the Drells - Tighten Up (1968)

Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music (1967)

A$AP Rocky - Long.Live.A$AP (2013)

Babyface - The Day (1996)

The Bar-Kays - Soul Finger (1967)

Beach House - Beach House (2006)
Beach House - Devotion (2008)
Beach House - Teen Dream (2010)
延伸閱讀:
電影配樂大師米榭李葛蘭的姪女 Victoria Legrand

Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)
Belle & Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap (1998)

Benjamin Clementine - At Least for Now (2015)

Betty Wright - My First Time Around (1968)

Big K.R.I.T. - Cadillactica (2014)

Bilal - Airtight's Revenge (2010)
Bilal - In Another Life (2015)

Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby (1961)
Bill Evans - Moonbeams (1962)

Black Heat - Black Heat (1972)
Black Heat - No Time to Burn (1974)

Black Marble - It's Immaterial (2016)

Blood Orange - Freetown Sound (2016)

Blondie - Parallel Lines album (1978)

Blur - Leisure (1991)
Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
Blur - Parklife (1994)
Blur - The Great Escape (1995)

Bobby Womack - Understanding (1972)

Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary (1988)

Boyz II Men - Cooleyhighharmony (1991)
Boyz II Men - II (1994)
Boyz II Men - Evolution (1997)

Bronski Beat - The Age of Consent (1984)

Buddy Guy / Junior Wells - Play the Blues (1972)

Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield (1967)

Carla Thomas - Gee Whiz (1961)

Camera Obscura - Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi (2002)
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country (2006)

Cat Power - Dear Sir (1995)
Cat Power - Myra Lee (1996)
Cat Power - What Would the Community Think (1996)
Cat Power - Moon Pix (1998) [正妹] [新女神]
Cat Power - The Covers Record (2000) [正妹] [新女神]
Cat Power - You Are Free (2003)
Cat Power - The Greatest (2006)
Cat Power - Jukebox (2008)

Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55 (2006) [女神] [空氣]
Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM (2009) [女神] [貝克]
延伸閱讀:
我還不知道地球上存活著這等美麗生物
言之有物的德政哥也不禁女神殿起來哈
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Stage Whisper (2010)

Childish Gambino - "Awaken, My Love!" (2016)

Christian Scott - Christian aTunde ADJuah (2012)

Clarence Reid - Running Water (1973)

Cliff Martinez - Drive (2011)

Cocteau Twins - Treasure (1984)

Cody ChesnuTT - The Headphone Masterpiece (2002)

The Cure - Boys Don't Cry (1980)

Common - Resurrection (1994)
Common - One Day It'll All Make Sense (1997)

Cream - Disraeli Gears (1967)

Cymande - Cymande (1972)

D'Angelo - The Best So Far... (2008)
"The title is deceiving, not to mention a little ridiculous" -- AllMusic

Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask (2005)

David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World (1970)
David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971)
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (1972)
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane (1973)
David Bowie - Low (1977)
David Bowie - Heroes (1977)
David Bowie - The Platinum Collection (2006)

Deep Purple - Deep Purple (1969)
Deep Purple - Machine Head (1972)

De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)

Des'ree - I Ain't Movin' (1994)

Diane Birch - Bible Belt (2009) [正妹] [可是很難聽]
夢幻逸品 (dream girl) 於焉誕生:Anna Karina (as chic as) + Jane Birkin (as leggy as) = Diane Birch!!!

Digable Planets - Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) (1993)

DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince - "He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper" (1988)

The Do - A Mouthful (2008)

Dokken - Under Lock and Key (1985)

Don Covay - See-Saw (1966)

Donny Hathaway - Everything Is Everything (1970)

The Doors - The Doors (1967)

Doris Troy - Just One Look & Other Memorable Selections (1963)

Duke Ellington - Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith (1995) [for stabbing himself]

Erykah Badu - Live (1997)

Eugene McDaniels - Outlaw (1970)
Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse (1971)

Faces - Ooh La La (1973)

Felt - Forever Breathes the Lonely Word (1986)

Fiona Apple - Tidal (1996)
Fiona Apple - When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King... (1999)
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine (2005)
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (2012)

Fishbone - The Reality of My Surroundings (1991)

Flying Lotus - You're Dead! (2014)

Foreigner - 4 (1981)

The Foreign Exchange - Leave It All Behind (2008)

Galaxie 500 - Today (1988)
Galaxie 500 - On Fire (1989)
Galaxie 500 - This Is Our Music (1990)

Gang Starr - Daily Operation (1992)

Gregory Porter - Liquid Spirit (2013)

Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man (1971)

Girls - Album (2009)

Georgia Anne Muldrow - Umsindo (2009)

Gliss - Devotion Implosion (2009)

Gong - Camembert Electrique (1971)

Grizzly Bear - Blue Valentine (2011)

Guru - Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 (1993)

H.E.R. - H.E.R. (2017)

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage (1965)

Hiatus Kaiyote - Choose Your Weapon (2015)
Hiatus Kaiyote - Tawk Tomahawk (2013)

Howard Tate - Howard Tate (1972)

Iggy Pop - The Idiot (1977)
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life (1977)

The Impressions - It's About Time (1976)

India.Arie - Acoustic Sou (2001)
India.Arie - Voyage to India (2002)

The Jam - All Mod Cons (1978)

J. Cole - Cole World: The Sideline Story (2011)

James Blake - James Blake (2011)
James Blake - Overgrown album (2013)

Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet (2017)

Jeangu Macrooy - High on You (2017)

Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994)
Jeff Buckley - Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk (1998)

Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (1967)

Jesse Boykins III - Love Apparatus (2014)

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (1985)
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands (1987)

Joey Bada$$ - All-Amerikkkan Bada$$ (2017)

John Coltrane - Blue Train (1957)
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965)

Joni Mitchell - Blue (1971)

Jorja Smith - Lost & Found (2018)

José James - No Beginning No End (2013)

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1979)
Joy Division - Closer (1980)

Kamasi Washington - The Epic (2015)

Keith Sweat - Make It Last Forever (1987)

The Kills - Keep on Your Mean Side (2003)
The Kills - No Wow (2005)
The Kills - Midnight Boom (2008)


Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City (2012)

Kevin Ayers - Whatevershebringswesing (1971)

Khalid - American Teen (2017)

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)

King Curtis - Instant Groove (1969)

The Kinks - Lola vs. the Powerman & the Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1 (1970)

Kwes. - Ilp. (2013)

Leaders of the New School - A Future Without a Past... (1991)

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (1969)
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II (1969)
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III (1970)
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (1971)

Lee Moses - Time and Place (2002)

Leon Bridges - Good Thing (2018)

Lou Reed - Transformer (1972)
Lou Reed - Berlin (1973)
Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby (1976)
Lou Reed - Street Hassle (1978)
John Cale / Lou Reed - Songs for Drella (1990)

Lianne La Havas - Blood (2015)
Lianne La Havas - Is Your Love Big Enough? (2012)

Love - Forever Changes (1967)

Lucy Pearl - Lucy Pearl (2000)

Lush - Split (1994)

Lykke Li - Youth Novels (2008)

Madlib - Shades of Blue (2003)

Madvillain - Madvillainy (2003)

The Mar-Keys - The Last Night! (1961)

Margie Joseph - Feeling My Way (1978)

Marvin Gaye What's - Going On (1971)

Maxwell - MTV Unplugged (1997)
Maxwell - Embrya (1998)
Maxwell - Now (2001)
Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night (2009)
Maxwell - blackSUMMERS'night (2016)

Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See (1993)

Meshell Ndegeocello - Peace Beyond Passion (1996)

Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate (2016)

Milt Jackson / John Coltrane - Bags & Trane (1959)

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)

Mobb Deep - The Infamous Mobb Deep (1995)

Moses Sumney - Aromanticism (2017)

Dr. Dundiff / Otis Junior

My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything (1988)
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991)
My Bloody Valentine - EPs 1988-1991 (2012)

My Little Airport/介乎法國與旺角的詩意 (2010)
My Little Airport/香港是個大商場 (2011)

Natalie Imbruglia - Left of the Middle (1998) [正妹]

New Edition - Heart Break (1988)

New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies (1983) [幹我買到缺少 Blue Monday & The Beach 兩首歌曲的德國版]
New Order - Low-life (1985)
New Order - Brotherhood (1986)

Nick Cave - From Her to Eternity (1984) [和 PJ Harvey 有過一腿果然很強大]
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads (1996)
Nick Cave - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford [Music from the Motion Picture] (2007)

Nico - Chelsea Girl (1967)
Nico - The End (1974)

Various Artists - Nina Revisited: A Tribute to Nina Simone (2015)

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994)

Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)
Nirvana - In Utero (1993)
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York (1994)
Nirvana - Live at Reading (2009)

Noah and the Whale - Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down (2008)
Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring (2009)
延伸閱讀:
On the Road With Noah & the Whale's Charlie Fink
Noah and the Whale - Last Night on Earth (2011) [失望]

Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994)
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)

Otis Brown III - The Thought of You (2014)

Otis Redding / Carla Thomas - King & Queen (1967)
Otis Redding - The Dock of the Bay (1968)

Patti Smith - Horses (1975)

Percy Sledge - When a Man Loves a Woman (1966)

Pete Rock - PeteStrumentals 2 (2015)

Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother (1992)

Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
Pink Floyd - Meddle (1971)
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Pink Floyd - The Wall (1979)

Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988)

PJ Harvey - Dry (1992) [正妹] [新女神]
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me (1993) [正妹] [新女神]
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love (1995)
PJ Harvey - Is This Desire? (1998)
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000)
PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her (2004) [失望]
PJ Harvey - White Chalk (2007)
PJ Harvey & John Parish - Dance Hall at Louse Point (1996)
PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman a Man Walked By (2009)
PJ Harvey - 4-Track Demos (1993)
PJ Harvey - The Peel Sessions 1991-2004 (2006)

Ride - Nowhere (1990)

Portishead - Dummy (1994)
Portishead - Portishead (1997)

Prince - Prince (1979)
Prince - 1999 (1982)
Prince & the Revolution - Purple Rain (1984)
Prince and the Revolution - Parade [Music from the Motion Picture Under the Cherry Moon] (1986)
Prince - Sign 'O' the Times (1987)

Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet (1993)

Pulp - His N Hers (1994)
Pulp - Different Class (1995)

R+R=Now - Collagically Speaking (2018)

Radiohead - Pablo Honey (1993) [for Charlotte Gainsbourg & the beautiful stranger Johnny Depp]
Radiohead - The Bends (1995) [台全北市各大唱片行缺貨中] [終於被我買到哩!!!]
Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)

Rahsaan Patterson - Rahsaan Patterson (1997)
Rahsaan Patterson - Love in Stereo (1999)
Rahsaan Patterson - After Hours (2004)

Rejjie Snow - Dear Annie (2018)

Remy Shand - The Way I Feel (2002)

The RH Factor - Distractions (2006)

Robert Glasper - Mood (2004)
Robert Glasper - Canvas (2005)
Robert Glasper - In My Element (2007)
Robert Glasper - Double Booked (2009)
Robert Glasper / Robert Glasper Experiment - Black Radio (2012)
Robert Glasper / Robert Glasper Experiment - Black Radio Recovered: The Remix EP (2012)
Robert Glasper / Robert Glasper Experiment - Black Radio 2 (2013)
Robert Glasper - Everything's Beautiful (2016)

Roberta Flack / Donny Hathaway - Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (1972)

Roy Ayers / Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Everybody Loves the Sunshine (1976)

Roxy Music - Roxy Music (1972)
Roxy Music - Country Life (1974)

Sampha - Process (2017)

Serge Gainsbourg - Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg (1969)
Various Artists - Monsieur Gainsbourg: Revisited (2006)

OST - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Seu Jorge - The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions (2004)
延伸閱讀:
Jacques-Yves Cousteau 1917~1997

Shintaro Sakamoto - How to Live with a Phantom (2012)

Slowdive - Souvlaki (1993)

Small Faces - There Are But Four Small Faces (1968)

The Smiths - The Smiths (1984)
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow (1984)
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder (1985)
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (1986) [這大概是我做過最三八的事了]
The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come (1987)

A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
While Wilde is on mine
The Strokes - Is This It (2001)

Soft Machine - The Soft Machine, Vol. 1 (1968)
Soft Machine - Third album (1970)

Solange - A Seat at the Table (2016)

Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life (2001)

The Spinners - Mighty Love (1974)

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (1989)

The Stooges - Fun House (1970)
The Stooges - Raw Power (1973)

Suede - Suede (1993) [for androgyny]
Suede - Dog Man Star (1994)
Suede - Coming Up (1997)
Suede - Sci-Fi Lullabies (1997) [頭號酷樂前的陰陽人實在太強大哩反面都很好聽]

她是電台司令的臉蛋
她是晨間秀場的胴體
她於螢幕前搖曳生姿
她是雜誌的形形色色

她是日不落帝國子民
她是煙管的纖細修長
她是鈴鼓的顫動怦然
她是雜誌的色彩斑斕

她很時髦,嗚嗚嗚嗚

Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs (1970)
Syd Barrett - Barrett (1970)

Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega (1985) [新女神]
Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing (1987) [新女神]

SZA - Ctrl (2017)

Talking Heads - Remain in Light (1980)

Taylor McFerrin - Early Riser (2014)

Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair (1985)

Television - Marquee Moon (1977)
延伸閱讀:
Interpol 在編曲結構大量師承

Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent d'Arby (1987)

Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope (1997)

Jenny Lewis / The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat (2006)

John Coltrane / Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (1957)

Thundercat - Apocalypse (2013)

Tindersticks - Tindersticks [II] (1995)
Tindersticks - Trouble Every Day (2001)
Tindersticks - The Complete BBC Sessions (2007)
Tindersticks - Claire Denis Film Scores: 1996-2009 (2011)

Tony! Toni! Toné! - The Revival (1990)

Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (1992) [正妹] [失望]
延伸閱讀:
Tori Amos - A Sorta Fairytale

T. Rex - Electric Warrior album (1971)

Tricky - Maxinquaye (1995)

Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy (2017)

Van Hunt - Van Hunt (2004)

The Yardbirds - Having a Rave Up (1965)

Various Artists - The Stax/Volt Revue, Vol. 1: Live in London (1967)
Various Artists - The Stax/Volt Revue, Vol. 2: Live in Paris

Vincent Gallo - When (2001)
Vincent Gallo - Recordings of Music for Film (2002)


The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (1968)
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (1969)
The Velvet Underground - Loaded (1970)

The Verve - A Storm in Heaven (1993)
The Verve - A Northern Soul (1995)
The Verve - Urban Hymns (1997)

The Walker Brothers - After the Lights Go Out: The Best of 1965-1967 (2003)

Yuna - Nocturnal (2013)
Yuna - Chapters (2016)

The Who - The Who Sings My Generation (1965)
The Who - Who's Next (1971)

The xx - xx (2009)
The xx - Coexist (2012)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell (2003) [崇高] [凱倫歐叫聲好性感]
Karen O & the Kids - Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

張震嶽/這個下午很無聊 (1997) [當兵好]

林強/向前走 (1990)
林強/娛樂世界 (1994) [當兵好]
延伸閱讀:
毫無疑問商業自殺的作品

陳珊妮/I Love You, John (2011)
陳珊妮/四季末的唱遊 (1996)
陳珊妮/乘噴射機離去 (1995)

傷心欲絕/還是偶爾想要偉大 (2017)

陳穎達/動物感傷 (2017)




[持續更新]
























2011年11月27日 星期日

[豆瓣] I'll see you when you get there.






以後有些沒什麼營養的東西,但又想為賦新辭強說愁,或治療身為藝術電影 fanboy 對於美感鑑賞之倒錯,就都放在這裡吧哈!至於過去苦心經營的電影檢視 清單,也都會在這裡找到出口。以後精緻 截圖 放這裡。



我的豆瓣

我的電影標籤



延伸閱讀:

傳統禮教藏不住時髦與俏皮









2011年3月30日 星期三

<font color="#ff0000">[急徵!!!] [自由時報] 伊莉莎白泰勒訃聞 2011/03/24</font>


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請提供刊登伊莉莎白泰勒訃聞的自由時報影劇版,無摺痕者出價新台幣伍佰元,可議價,意者請洽 craiggah@hotmail.com 或批踢踢 craigga 的站內信箱,感謝!









筆者有蒐集明星訃聞的良好習慣,但礙於案牘勞形,今天才知道玉婆前日已過世,請有心人士提供刊登伊莉莎白泰勒訃聞的自由時報影劇版。如果家裡訂閱自由時報,請火速衝到舊報紙區尋找三月二十四日的自由時報,意者請洽 craiggah@hotmail.com 或批踢踢 craigga 的站內信箱,感謝!筆者出價新台幣伍佰元,可議價。



其他報紙也可以。



請不要逼筆者學唐人街傑克尼克遜到圖書館以酷酷掃掩蓋偷報紙行徑。



截至今日,神奇寶貝蒐集到馬龍白蘭度和保羅紐曼。










2011年3月17日 星期四

[急徵] 電台頭A區票子乙張,請洽craiggah@hotmail.com,謝謝。


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為了我的政戰摯友呂姓輔導長,請問誰有多的電台頭A區票子乙張欲出讓,意者請洽 craiggah@hotmail.com,謝謝!!!









2010年10月26日 星期二

<font color="#ff0000">[急徵!!!] [金馬影展] 不設限的美麗 11/13 1440</font>


water drops on burning rocks Pictures, Images and Photos



拜託!我需要一張 11/13 (六) 1440 不設限的美麗,價位伍佰元以內都可以接受,願意出讓者請來信至 craiggah@hotmail.com 或批踢踢 craigga 的站內信箱,請各位說服自己或生活週遭之親朋好友把票讓給筆者,感謝!!!









對了,有人看過文森卡索拿下凱薩影帝的 Mesrine: Part 1 - Killer Instinct & Mesrine: Part 2 - Public Enemy #1 嗎?二部曲海報好像 Vincent Gallo。

2010年10月19日 星期二

[memo] franny & zooey deschanel (好孩子讀書俱樂部)






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Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights

Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye 

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Dave Eggers - How We Are Hungry from the writter of Where the Wild Things Are (2009) & Away We Go (2009)

Jeffrey Eugenides - The Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex 

Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections

延伸閱讀:

Rumor: Noah Baumbach Adapting Jonathan Franzen’s "The Corrections" for HBO

Peter Goldman - The Death and Life of Malcolm X

John Fowles - The Collector

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

George Orwell - Animal Farm

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

J. D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye

William Shakespeare - Macbeth

Zadie Smith - On Beauty



卡謬─異鄉人

廣島之戀─莒哈絲

莎岡─日安憂鬱

麥田捕手─沙林傑

















2009年1月6日 星期二

[下海] 就是不截圖 18.






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亂世忠魂 From Here to Eternity

118 min. 1953



Writing credits

Daniel Taradash (screenplay)

James Jones (novel)



1954 Academy Awards

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Frank Sinatra & Donna Reed)

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

Best Director

Best Picture

Best Writing, Screenplay



Burt Lancaster  ...  Sgt. Milton Warden 

Montgomery Clift  ...  Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt 

Deborah Kerr  ...  Karen Holmes 

Donna Reed  ...  Alma 'Lorene' Burke 

Frank Sinatra  ...  Pvt. Angelo Maggio 

Philip Ober  ...  Capt. Dana Holmes 

Ernest Borgnine  ...  Sgt. 'Fatso' Judson 

John Dennis  ...  Sgt. Ike Galovitch 

John Bryant ...  Capt. G.R. Ross (uncredited) 



1.

The scene in which Maggio meets Prew and Lorene in the bar after he walks off guard duty, was actually Frank Sinatra's screen test for the part of Maggio. To impress director Fred Zinnemann, he did an ad-lib using olives as dice and pretending to shoot craps. The entire sequence was kept as is and used in the picture.

2.

A false rumor has been circulating for years that George Reeves, who played Sgt. Maylon Stark, had his role drastically edited after preview audiences recognized him as TV's Adventures of Superman. According to director Fred Zinnemann, screenwriter Daniel Taradash and assistant director Earl Bellamy, the rumor is false. Every scene written for Reeves' character was filmed, and each of those scenes is still present in its entirety in the film as released. This rumor is nonetheless repeated as truth in Hollywoodland, a movie about the investigation into Reeves' death.

3.

The novel was deemed unfilmable for a long time because of its negative portrayal of the US army (which would prevent the army from supporting the film with people and hardware/logistics) and the profanity. To get army support and pass the censorship of the time crucial details had to be changed. The brothel became a night club, the whores hostesses. The profanity was removed, the brutal treatment in the stockade toned down and Captain Holmes removed from the army instead of promoted.

4.

Joan Fontaine was offered the role of Karen Holmes but had to decline due to family problems. She now regrets it and blames the failure of her late career to turning down the offer.

5.

The now classic scene between Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in the rushing water on the beach was not written to take place there. The idea to film with the waves hitting them was a last minute inspiration from the director.

6.

The title phrase comes originally from Rudyard Kipling's 1892 poem "Gentlemen-Rankers", about soldiers of the British Empire who had "lost their way" and were "damned from here to eternity".

7.

An urban myth regarding the casting of Frank Sinatra was that the Mafia made Columbia Pictures an offer they couldn't refuse. This of course was fictionalized in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather and its subsequent film adaptation. The real reason for Sinatra's casting was mainly his then-wife Ava Gardner, who was shooting a film for Columbia head Harry Cohn and suggested to him that he use Sinatra. Although initially reluctant, Cohn eventually saw this as being a good idea, as Sinatra's stock was so low at the time that he would sign for a very low salary. Sinatra had been lobbying hard for the role,even suggesting he would do it for nothing, but he was eventually hired for the token amount of $8,000.

8.

Harry Cohn resisted the idea of casting Montgomery Clift as Prewitt as "he was no soldier, no boxer and probably a homosexual". Fred Zinnemann refused to make the film without him.

9.

Fred Zinnemann insisted on filming in black and white, as he felt that "color would have made it look trivial". He also eschewed the use of any of the popular new widescreen ratios.

10.

Fred Zinnemann was initially reluctant to make the film, as he had an inherent distrust of Columbia head Harry Cohn. He also felt that in the then climate of McCarthyism, to voice anything that cast any doubt over such institutions as the Army, the Navy or the FBI was just asking for trouble.

11.

Burt Lancaster was nervous when he started the film. Most of his previous pictures had been fairly lightweight productions, and this was his first "serious" role. He was especially intimidated by Montgomery Clift's skill and intensity.

12.

As scripted, Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster's classic clinch on the beach was to be filmed standing up. It was Lancaster's idea to do it horizontally in the surf. The scene was filmed at Halona Cove on the eastern side of Oahu, near Koko Head Crater and Sandy Beach, and the location became a major tourist attraction for years after.

13.

The MPAA banned photos of the famous Burt Lancaster-Deborah Kerr passionate kiss on the beach for being too erotic. Many prints had shortened versions of the scene because projectionists would cut out frames to keep as souvenirs.

14.

At the first meeting at the beach, Warden makes a comment about Karen "... acting like Lady Nancy Astor's horse...". This is a variant of "Mrs Astor's Pet Horse" and refers to someone who is either overly dressed-up or made-up, or full of self-importance ("Dictionary of American Regional English").

15.

Joan Crawford was originally meant to play her role in From Here to Eternity, but when she insisted on shooting the film with her own cameraman, the studio balked. They decided to take a chance and cast Deborah Kerr, who then was struggling with her ladylike stereotype, to play the adulterous military wife who has an affair with Burt Lancaster. The casting worked and Ms. Kerr's career thereafter enjoyed a new, sexier versatility.





















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亂世忠魂 From Here to Eternity

118 min. 1953



Writing credits

Daniel Taradash (screenplay)

James Jones (novel)



1954 Academy Awards

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Frank Sinatra & Donna Reed)

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

Best Director

Best Picture

Best Writing, Screenplay



Burt Lancaster  ...  Sgt. Milton Warden 

Montgomery Clift  ...  Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt 

Deborah Kerr  ...  Karen Holmes 

Donna Reed  ...  Alma 'Lorene' Burke 

Frank Sinatra  ...  Pvt. Angelo Maggio 

Philip Ober  ...  Capt. Dana Holmes 

Ernest Borgnine  ...  Sgt. 'Fatso' Judson 

John Dennis  ...  Sgt. Ike Galovitch 

John Bryant ...  Capt. G.R. Ross (uncredited) 



1.

The scene in which Maggio meets Prew and Lorene in the bar after he walks off guard duty, was actually Frank Sinatra's screen test for the part of Maggio. To impress director Fred Zinnemann, he did an ad-lib using olives as dice and pretending to shoot craps. The entire sequence was kept as is and used in the picture.

2.

A false rumor has been circulating for years that George Reeves, who played Sgt. Maylon Stark, had his role drastically edited after preview audiences recognized him as TV's Adventures of Superman. According to director Fred Zinnemann, screenwriter Daniel Taradash and assistant director Earl Bellamy, the rumor is false. Every scene written for Reeves' character was filmed, and each of those scenes is still present in its entirety in the film as released. This rumor is nonetheless repeated as truth in Hollywoodland, a movie about the investigation into Reeves' death.

3.

The novel was deemed unfilmable for a long time because of its negative portrayal of the US army (which would prevent the army from supporting the film with people and hardware/logistics) and the profanity. To get army support and pass the censorship of the time crucial details had to be changed. The brothel became a night club, the whores hostesses. The profanity was removed, the brutal treatment in the stockade toned down and Captain Holmes removed from the army instead of promoted.

4.

Joan Fontaine was offered the role of Karen Holmes but had to decline due to family problems. She now regrets it and blames the failure of her late career to turning down the offer.

5.

The now classic scene between Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in the rushing water on the beach was not written to take place there. The idea to film with the waves hitting them was a last minute inspiration from the director.

6.

The title phrase comes originally from Rudyard Kipling's 1892 poem "Gentlemen-Rankers", about soldiers of the British Empire who had "lost their way" and were "damned from here to eternity".

7.

An urban myth regarding the casting of Frank Sinatra was that the Mafia made Columbia Pictures an offer they couldn't refuse. This of course was fictionalized in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather and its subsequent film adaptation. The real reason for Sinatra's casting was mainly his then-wife Ava Gardner, who was shooting a film for Columbia head Harry Cohn and suggested to him that he use Sinatra. Although initially reluctant, Cohn eventually saw this as being a good idea, as Sinatra's stock was so low at the time that he would sign for a very low salary. Sinatra had been lobbying hard for the role,even suggesting he would do it for nothing, but he was eventually hired for the token amount of $8,000.

8.

Harry Cohn resisted the idea of casting Montgomery Clift as Prewitt as "he was no soldier, no boxer and probably a homosexual". Fred Zinnemann refused to make the film without him.

9.

Fred Zinnemann insisted on filming in black and white, as he felt that "color would have made it look trivial". He also eschewed the use of any of the popular new widescreen ratios.

10.

Fred Zinnemann was initially reluctant to make the film, as he had an inherent distrust of Columbia head Harry Cohn. He also felt that in the then climate of McCarthyism, to voice anything that cast any doubt over such institutions as the Army, the Navy or the FBI was just asking for trouble.

11.

Burt Lancaster was nervous when he started the film. Most of his previous pictures had been fairly lightweight productions, and this was his first "serious" role. He was especially intimidated by Montgomery Clift's skill and intensity.

12.

As scripted, Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster's classic clinch on the beach was to be filmed standing up. It was Lancaster's idea to do it horizontally in the surf. The scene was filmed at Halona Cove on the eastern side of Oahu, near Koko Head Crater and Sandy Beach, and the location became a major tourist attraction for years after.

13.

The MPAA banned photos of the famous Burt Lancaster-Deborah Kerr passionate kiss on the beach for being too erotic. Many prints had shortened versions of the scene because projectionists would cut out frames to keep as souvenirs.

14.

At the first meeting at the beach, Warden makes a comment about Karen "... acting like Lady Nancy Astor's horse...". This is a variant of "Mrs Astor's Pet Horse" and refers to someone who is either overly dressed-up or made-up, or full of self-importance ("Dictionary of American Regional English").

15.

Joan Crawford was originally meant to play her role in From Here to Eternity, but when she insisted on shooting the film with her own cameraman, the studio balked. They decided to take a chance and cast Deborah Kerr, who then was struggling with her ladylike stereotype, to play the adulterous military wife who has an affair with Burt Lancaster. The casting worked and Ms. Kerr's career thereafter enjoyed a new, sexier versatility.





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亂世忠魂 From Here to Eternity

118 min. 1953



Writing credits

Daniel Taradash (screenplay)

James Jones (novel)



1954 Academy Awards

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Frank Sinatra & Donna Reed)

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

Best Director

Best Picture

Best Writing, Screenplay



Burt Lancaster  ...  Sgt. Milton Warden 

Montgomery Clift  ...  Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt 

Deborah Kerr  ...  Karen Holmes 

Donna Reed  ...  Alma 'Lorene' Burke 

Frank Sinatra  ...  Pvt. Angelo Maggio 

Philip Ober  ...  Capt. Dana Holmes 

Ernest Borgnine  ...  Sgt. 'Fatso' Judson 

John Dennis  ...  Sgt. Ike Galovitch 

John Bryant ...  Capt. G.R. Ross (uncredited) 



1.

The scene in which Maggio meets Prew and Lorene in the bar after he walks off guard duty, was actually Frank Sinatra's screen test for the part of Maggio. To impress director Fred Zinnemann, he did an ad-lib using olives as dice and pretending to shoot craps. The entire sequence was kept as is and used in the picture.

2.

A false rumor has been circulating for years that George Reeves, who played Sgt. Maylon Stark, had his role drastically edited after preview audiences recognized him as TV's Adventures of Superman. According to director Fred Zinnemann, screenwriter Daniel Taradash and assistant director Earl Bellamy, the rumor is false. Every scene written for Reeves' character was filmed, and each of those scenes is still present in its entirety in the film as released. This rumor is nonetheless repeated as truth in Hollywoodland, a movie about the investigation into Reeves' death.

3.

The novel was deemed unfilmable for a long time because of its negative portrayal of the US army (which would prevent the army from supporting the film with people and hardware/logistics) and the profanity. To get army support and pass the censorship of the time crucial details had to be changed. The brothel became a night club, the whores hostesses. The profanity was removed, the brutal treatment in the stockade toned down and Captain Holmes removed from the army instead of promoted.

4.

Joan Fontaine was offered the role of Karen Holmes but had to decline due to family problems. She now regrets it and blames the failure of her late career to turning down the offer.

5.

The now classic scene between Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in the rushing water on the beach was not written to take place there. The idea to film with the waves hitting them was a last minute inspiration from the director.

6.

The title phrase comes originally from Rudyard Kipling's 1892 poem "Gentlemen-Rankers", about soldiers of the British Empire who had "lost their way" and were "damned from here to eternity".

7.

An urban myth regarding the casting of Frank Sinatra was that the Mafia made Columbia Pictures an offer they couldn't refuse. This of course was fictionalized in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather and its subsequent film adaptation. The real reason for Sinatra's casting was mainly his then-wife Ava Gardner, who was shooting a film for Columbia head Harry Cohn and suggested to him that he use Sinatra. Although initially reluctant, Cohn eventually saw this as being a good idea, as Sinatra's stock was so low at the time that he would sign for a very low salary. Sinatra had been lobbying hard for the role,even suggesting he would do it for nothing, but he was eventually hired for the token amount of $8,000.

8.

Harry Cohn resisted the idea of casting Montgomery Clift as Prewitt as "he was no soldier, no boxer and probably a homosexual". Fred Zinnemann refused to make the film without him.

9.

Fred Zinnemann insisted on filming in black and white, as he felt that "color would have made it look trivial". He also eschewed the use of any of the popular new widescreen ratios.

10.

Fred Zinnemann was initially reluctant to make the film, as he had an inherent distrust of Columbia head Harry Cohn. He also felt that in the then climate of McCarthyism, to voice anything that cast any doubt over such institutions as the Army, the Navy or the FBI was just asking for trouble.

11.

Burt Lancaster was nervous when he started the film. Most of his previous pictures had been fairly lightweight productions, and this was his first "serious" role. He was especially intimidated by Montgomery Clift's skill and intensity.

12.

As scripted, Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster's classic clinch on the beach was to be filmed standing up. It was Lancaster's idea to do it horizontally in the surf. The scene was filmed at Halona Cove on the eastern side of Oahu, near Koko Head Crater and Sandy Beach, and the location became a major tourist attraction for years after.

13.

The MPAA banned photos of the famous Burt Lancaster-Deborah Kerr passionate kiss on the beach for being too erotic. Many prints had shortened versions of the scene because projectionists would cut out frames to keep as souvenirs.

14.

At the first meeting at the beach, Warden makes a comment about Karen "... acting like Lady Nancy Astor's horse...". This is a variant of "Mrs Astor's Pet Horse" and refers to someone who is either overly dressed-up or made-up, or full of self-importance ("Dictionary of American Regional English").

15.

Joan Crawford was originally meant to play her role in From Here to Eternity, but when she insisted on shooting the film with her own cameraman, the studio balked. They decided to take a chance and cast Deborah Kerr, who then was struggling with her ladylike stereotype, to play the adulterous military wife who has an affair with Burt Lancaster. The casting worked and Ms. Kerr's career thereafter enjoyed a new, sexier versatility.





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亂世忠魂 From Here to Eternity

118 min. 1953



Writing credits

Daniel Taradash (screenplay)

James Jones (novel)



1954 Academy Awards

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Frank Sinatra & Donna Reed)

Best Cinematography, Black-and-White

Best Director

Best Picture

Best Writing, Screenplay



Burt Lancaster  ...  Sgt. Milton Warden 

Montgomery Clift  ...  Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt 

Deborah Kerr  ...  Karen Holmes 

Donna Reed  ...  Alma 'Lorene' Burke 

Frank Sinatra  ...  Pvt. Angelo Maggio 

Philip Ober  ...  Capt. Dana Holmes 

Ernest Borgnine  ...  Sgt. 'Fatso' Judson 

John Dennis  ...  Sgt. Ike Galovitch 

John Bryant ...  Capt. G.R. Ross (uncredited) 



1.

The scene in which Maggio meets Prew and Lorene in the bar after he walks off guard duty, was actually Frank Sinatra's screen test for the part of Maggio. To impress director Fred Zinnemann, he did an ad-lib using olives as dice and pretending to shoot craps. The entire sequence was kept as is and used in the picture.

2.

A false rumor has been circulating for years that George Reeves, who played Sgt. Maylon Stark, had his role drastically edited after preview audiences recognized him as TV's Adventures of Superman. According to director Fred Zinnemann, screenwriter Daniel Taradash and assistant director Earl Bellamy, the rumor is false. Every scene written for Reeves' character was filmed, and each of those scenes is still present in its entirety in the film as released. This rumor is nonetheless repeated as truth in Hollywoodland, a movie about the investigation into Reeves' death.

3.

The novel was deemed unfilmable for a long time because of its negative portrayal of the US army (which would prevent the army from supporting the film with people and hardware/logis

2009年1月5日 星期一

[下海] 就是不截圖 17.






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"Mrs. Thatcher will be happy with me."



豪華洗衣店 My Beautiful Laundrette 

93 min. 1985



Saeed Jaffrey  ...  Nasser Ali 

Roshan Seth  ...  Hussein Ali 

Daniel Day-Lewis  ...  Johnny (as Daniel Day Lewis) 

Gordon Warnecke  ...  Omar Ali 

Derrick Branche  ...  Salim N. Ali 

Rita Wolf  ...  Tania N. Ali 

Souad Faress  ...  Cherry N. Ali 

Richard Graham  ...  Genghis 

Shirley Anne Field  ...  Rachel  



1.

My Beautiful Laundrette and A Room with a View both opened in New York on the same day, March 7, 1986. Both movies featured Daniel Day-Lewis in prominent and very different roles:

1.5

in A Room with a View, he played a repressed, snobbish Edwardian upperclassman, while in Laundrette, he played a lower-class gay ex-skinhead in love with an ambitious Pakistani businessman in Thatcher's London.

1.6

When American critics saw Day-Lewis, who was then virtually unknown in the US, in two such different roles on the same day, many (including Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times and Vincent Canby of The New York Times) raved about the talent it must have taken him to play such vastly different characters.

2.

Johnny's comment "The Laundrette as big as the Ritz..." references the novella, 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz' by F. Scott Fitzgerald.





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辦公室殺手 Office Killer

82 min. 1997



Writing credits

Todd Haynes (additional dialogue) (uncredited)

Tom Kalin   

Elise MacAdam   

Cindy Sherman (story) 



Original Music by

Evan Lurie 



Carol Kane ...  Dorine Douglas

Molly Ringwald ...  Kim Poole

Jeanne Tripplehorn ...  Norah Reed

Barbara Sukowa ...  Virginia Wingate

Michael Imperioli ...  Daniel Birch

David Thornton ...  Gary Michaels

Mike Hodge ...  Mr. Landau

Alice Drummond ...  Carlotta Douglas

Julia McIlvaine ...  Linda, Girl Scout #1

Cleopatra St. John ...  Girl Scout #2

Ben Affleck ...  Man in Office (scenes deleted) 



1.

According to Christine Vachon, the production company Killer Films gets its name from this film.



延伸閱讀:

陶德‧海恩斯在劇本上的跨刀相助





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親愛的!是誰讓我沈睡了 Reversal of Fortune

111 min. 1990



Directed by

Barbet Schroeder... was previously best known as a producer of some of the best films of the French New Wave.

Writing credits

Alan M. Dershowitz (book) (as Alan Dershowitz)

Nicholas Kazan (screenplay)



Glenn Close ...  Sunny von Bülow / Narrator

Jeremy Irons ...  Claus von Bülow

1991 Academy Awards Best Actor in a Leading Role



Ron Silver ...  Professor Alan Dershowitz

Annabella Sciorra ...  Sarah

Uta Hagen ...  Maria, Sunny's Personal Maid

Fisher Stevens ...  David Marriott

Christine Baranski ...  Andrea Reynolds, Claus' Girlfriend

Felicity Huffman ...  Minnie, Dershowitz's Student Staff

Kristi Hundt ...  Older Cosima von Bülow

Kara Emerson ...  Young Cosima von Bülow

Heather Rose Dominic ...  Maggie (uncredited) 





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Oh, I got it.

"The hand that rocks the cradle...is the hand that rules the world."



推動搖籃的手 The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

110 min. 1992



Annabella Sciorra ...  Claire Bartel

Rebecca De Mornay ...  Mrs. Mott / Peyton Flanders

Matt McCoy ...  Michael Bartel

Ernie Hudson ...  Solomon 



Julianne Moore ...  Marlene Craven

Madeline Zima ...  Emma Bartel 

1993 Nominated Young Artist Awards Best Young Actress Under Ten in a Motion Picture



John de Lancie ...  Dr. Victor Mott

Kevin Skousen ...  Marty Craven 



1.

Madeline Zima's film debut.

2.

The title of the film is taken from the poem of the same name written by William Ross Wallace. The poem praises motherhood as the primary impetus for changing the world.

3.

Rebecca De Mornay had actually been angling for the part of Tinkerbell in Hook (1991). Losing the role to Julia Roberts prompted her to actively seek something a little darker instead.

4.

Kevin Spacey was considered for the role of Michael Bartell.

5.

The Gilbert & Sullivan operas both refer to a nanny switching babies. In Pirates of Penzance, the hard-of-hearing nanny accidentally apprentices an orphaned baby as a Pirate instead of a Pilot. In H.M.S. Pinafore, the noble-born Captain and a lowly sailor were switched by a nanny at birth, and when this is revealed, they both switch positions on the ship.





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Because you are a mean girl!

You're a bitch!



辣妹過招 Mean Girls 

97 min. 2004



Writing credits

Rosalind Wiseman (book "Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence")

Tina Fey (screenplay)



Lindsay Lohan ...  Cady Heron

Rachel McAdams ...  Regina George

Lacey Chabert ...  Gretchen Wieners

Amanda Seyfried ...  Karen Smith

Lizzy Caplan ...  Janis Ian

Ana Gasteyer ...  Cady's Mom

Tina Fey ...  Ms. Norbury

Amy Poehler ...  Mrs. George

Daniel Franzese ...  Damian

Neil Flynn ...  Cady's Dad

Jonathan Bennett ...  Aaron Samuels

Tim Meadows ...  Mr. Duvall

Rajiv Surendra ...  Kevin Gnapoor

Elana Shilling ...  Spelling Girl 



1.

Amanda Seyfried, who plays Karen in the film, was initially supposed to play Cady, but producer Lorne Michaels thought she would be better as the "dumb girl".

2.

Initially, Lindsay Lohan was cast as Regina, but decided to play the "nice girl" so the public wouldn't base her real personality on Regina's. Rachel McAdams was chosen to play the "mean girl" because "only nice girls can play mean girls" according to the producer.

3.

In the scene where Cady was asked if her "muffin was buttered", the line was originally going to be, "Is your cherry popped?" The same goes for the girl who "made out with a hot dog" this was going to be "masturbated with a hot dog". These were omitted in order for the film to gain a PG 13+ rating instead of a R

4.

Producer Tina Fey confessed that, when casting the film, she liked Jonathan Bennett (Aaron Samuels) because "he looked like Jimmy Fallon".





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精靈總動員 Elf

97 min. 2003 



Directed by

Jon Favreau   



Will Ferrell ...  Buddy

James Caan ...  Walter

Bob Newhart ...  Papa Elf

Edward Asner ...  Santa

Mary Steenburgen ...  Emily

Zooey Deschanel ...  Jovie

Daniel Tay ...  Michael

Faizon Love ...  Gimbel's Manager

Peter Dinklage ...  Miles Finch

Amy Sedaris  ...  Deb 

Jon Favreau ...  Doctor 



1.

When this screenplay first emerged in 1993, Jim Carrey was attached to star in the lead.

2.

The outside of Gimbels is a digitally altered view of the 34th St. Macy's, a reference to Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Gimbels was Macy's main competition but it is now closed.

3.

Terry Zwigoff was offered a chance to direct the film, but turned it down.



"Baby, It's Cold Outside" 

(1949)

Written by Frank Loesser

Performed by Will Ferrell, Leon Redbone and Zooey Deschanel



延伸閱讀:

[訪談] Zooey Deschanel - Elf





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All I want to say to you guys is, may you both live to be 100.

And me, 100, but minus a day,

so I'll never know beautiful people like you have passed away.



瑞秋要出嫁 Rachel Getting Married

113 min. 2008



Writing credits

Jenny Lumet (written by)



Sebastian Stan  ...  Walter / Bowtie Party Guest 

Roslyn Ruff  ...  Rosa 

Anne Hathaway  ...  Kym 

2009 Nominated Academy Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Bill Irwin  ...  Paul 

Anna Deavere Smith  ...  Carol 

Rosemarie DeWitt  ...  Rachel 

Anisa George  ...  Emma 

Mather Zickel ...  Kieran

Tunde Adebimpe ...  Sidney 



延伸閱讀:

Neil Young - Unknown Legend



1.

The dishwasher scene was based on an actual event involving Sidney Lumet and Bob Fosse.





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Ah, I don't like that surfin' shit. Rock and roll's been goin' downhill ever since Buddy Holly died.

Don't you think the Beach Boys are boss?

You would, you grungy little twerp.

Grungy!



美國風情話 American Graffiti

110 min. 1973



Richard Dreyfuss ...  Curt

Ron Howard ...  Steve (as Ronny Howard)

Paul Le Mat ...  John

Charles Martin Smith ...  Terry (as Charlie Martin Smith)

Cindy Williams ...  Laurie

Candy Clark ...  Debbie

Mackenzie Phillips ...  Carol

Harrison Ford ...  Bob Falfa

Suzanne Somers ...  Blonde in T-Bird 



Produced by

Francis Ford Coppola ....  producer  

Other crew 

Haskell Wexler ....  visual consultant 



1.

Harrison Ford was asked to cut his hair for the film. He refused, stating that his role was too short, and offered to wear a hat instead.

2.

The '55 Chevy Bob Falfa drove is the same '55 Chevy used in the movie Two-Lane Blacktop (1971).

3.

There is a rumor that while George Lucas and a co-worker were editing the film, the co-worker asked Lucas for "reel two, dialogue two", which abbreviated to R2-D2, a name which surfaced in Lucas' later film, Star Wars (1977).

4.

Dissatisfied with the name American Graffiti (1973), producers Francis Ford Coppola and Ned Tanen suggested that George Lucas retitle it "Another Slow Night in Modesto" or "Rock Around the Block".

5.

After the success of Easy Rider (1969), Universal Studios hit upon the idea to let young filmmakers make "semi-independent" films for low budgets in hopes of generating similar profits. The idea was to make five movies for low budgets (one million dollars or less), not interfere in the filmmaking process, and give the directors final cut. The other movies were: The Hired Hand (1971), The Last Movie (1971), Taking Off (1971), and Silent Running (1972).

6.

Wolfman Jack, who played himself in the movie, was specifically chosen by George Lucas to play a role in the movie because Lucas remembered listening to him on the radio when Lucas was in high school.

7.

Re-released as a double feature with The Sting (1973).

8.

In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #62 Greatest Movie of All Time.

9.

When the rear wheels/axle of Holstein's police car get yanked out by the cable, there is a movie theater in the background. The movie listed on the marquee is Francis Ford Coppola's Dementia 13 (1963).

10.

Although this film is often credit with being the first major film to include "character epilogues" stating what happened to each person after the events of the film, this was actually done prior to this film, two years earlier in The French Connection (1971).

11.

The playing of "oldies" in the soundtrack became part of a 1970s trend where various recordings by the original artists were used to score a film.

12.

George Lucas [THX 1138] License plate on John Milner's car is "THX-138". THX 1138 (1971) is a film also directed by George Lucas. This number plate is on display inside 'The Main House' of LucasFilm's Head Office at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County.


















2009年1月4日 星期日

[下海] 就是不截圖 16.






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天才接班人 Wonder Boys 

107 min. 2000



Writing credits

Michael Chabon (novel)

Steve Kloves (screenplay)



Michael Douglas ...  Prof. Grady Tripp

Tobey Maguire ...  James Leer

Frances McDormand ...  Dean Sara Gaskell

Robert Downey Jr. ...  Terry Crabtree

Katie Holmes ...  Hannah Green

Rip Torn ...  Quentin 'Q' Morewood 

Richard Knox  ...  Vernon Hardapple 

Jane Adams ...  Oola

Michael Cavadias ...  Miss Antonia 'Tony' Sloviak

Richard Thomas ...  Walter Gaskell

Alan Tudyk ...  Sam Traxler

Elisabeth Granli ...  Emily (photo)

James Ellroy ...  Wordfest Party Guest  



1.

Books on James Leer's desk include Albert Camus's "The Plague", Truman Capote's "Answered Prayers", and Kenneth Anger's infamous "Hollywood Babylon".

2.

The list of famous suicides is taken name-for-name from a list in Kenneth Anger's "Hollywood Babylon II", including the notorious Alan Ladd reference.

3.

In the theatrical version James Leer included Alan Ladd's death in his list of celebrity suicides. After complaints from Ladd's family, Paramount removed the offending line in all future releases of the film, including home video. Because of this, VHS and DVD releases carry a disclaimer, shown before the feature, warning that the film has been edited for content.

4.

Tobey Maguire and Robert Downey Jr play lovers in this film; both of them would later play lead Marvel superheros in Spider-Man (2002) and Iron Man (2008), respectively.





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露西亞與慾樂園 Lucía y el sexo

128 min. 2001



Paz Vega  ...  Lucía 

Tristán Ulloa  ...  Lorenzo 

Najwa Nimri  ...  Elena 

Daniel Freire  ...  Carlos / Antonio 

Elena Anaya  ...  Belén 

Silvia Llanos  ...  Luna 

Diana Suárez  ...  Madre de Belén 

Javier Cámara  ...  Pepe  



"Un Rayo de Sol"

(Daniel Vangarde (as Vangarde) / Carrere / Jaén)

(c) Bleu Blanc Rouge Editions Soc - Editions Productions Zagora

Ediciones Musicales Clipper's, S.L.





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Writing credits

Jim Thompson (novel)

Donald E. Westlake (screenplay)



致命賭局 The Grifters

110 min. 1990

1991 Independent Spirit Awards Best Feature & Best Female Lead



Anjelica Huston ...  Lilly Dillon

John Cusack ...  Roy Dillon

Annette Bening ...  Myra Langtry

Stephen Tobolowsky ...  Jeweler

Gailard Sartain ...  Joe

Noelle Harling ...  Nurse Carol Flynn

Pat Hingle ...  Bobo Justus

Paul Adelstein ...  Sailor - Young Paul

Jeremy Piven ...  Sailor - Freshman

Gregory Sporleder ...  Sailor - Spooney

David Sinaiko ...  Sailor - Stinky

Martin Scorsese ...  Opening Voice-over (voice) (uncredited) 



1.

The stock con Myra describes to Roy when they first meet is a variation on the "Wire" con used in The Sting (1973).

2.

The Arizona motel sequence, from Lilly's approach through her dialogue with the clerk, mirrors that in Psycho (1960)

3.

Character names "Lilly Dillon" and "Myra Langtry" allude to 1800s actress Lilly Langtry.

4.

Cher and Michelle Pfeiffer were considered for the role of Lilly Dillon.

5.

Sissy Spacek auditioned for the role of Lilly.

6.

Melanie Griffith was originally slated to play Lily, but she became pregnant and had to pass on the part.

7.

John Cusack was a big fan of the book and tried to option the rights when he was still in high school.

8.

Annette Bening's performance is directly inspired by the iconic noir actress Gloria Grahame, particularly her role in The Big Heat (1953).





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"Orson Welles! Ugh! The most hideous man alive!"



Brimming with both feral energy and surprising humanity, Heavenly Creatures was best defined by its director Peter Jackson, who called it "a murder story about love, a murder story with no villains." 



This idea is reflected in the film's treatment of its "heavenly creatures," two schoolgirls whose consuming fantasy world is much more fulfilling than what the real world offers them: reality, in the end, is the film's true villain, as its intrusion on the girls' fantasy world ultimately brings everything crashing down. 



-- AllMovie



夢幻天堂 Heavenly Creatures

99 min. 1994



1995 Nominated Academy Awards Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

1994 Venice Film Festival Silver Lion



Melanie Lynskey  ...  Pauline Parker 

Kate Winslet  ...  Juliet Hulme 

Sarah Peirse  ...  Honora Parker Rieper 

Diana Kent  ...  Hilda Hulme 

Clive Merrison  ...  Dr. Henry Hulme 

Simon O'Connor  ...  Herbert Rieper 

Jed Brophy  ...  John / Nicholas 

Jean Guérin ...  Orson Welles

Stephen Reilly ...  Mario Lanza

Peter Jackson ...  Bum Outside Theater (uncredited) 



1.

Almost all locations used for filming were the genuine locations where the events occurred. The tea shop where Honora Parker ate her last meal was knocked down a few days after the shoot ended. According to director Peter Jackson, when they got to the location of the murder on the dirt path, it was eerily quiet; the birds stopped singing, and it didn't seem right. So they moved along a couple of hundred yards.

2.

Juliet Hulme was revealed to be mystery writer Anne Perry who came forward and revealed her real identity in 1994 during the making of the film, but all attempts to find Pauline Parker failed. In 1997, Pauline Parker was finally traced to a rundown cottage on a farm near Strood, Kent, England, where she currently runs a children's riding school. Since assuming the name of Hilary Nathan, she has become a devout Catholic and devoted her life to handicapped children.

3.

Orson Welles' photograph in the stream is a reference to a similar shot in The Third Man (1949).

4.

The feature film debut for stars Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet.

5.

Since the Parker-Hulme murder had been an infamous crime that was strongly sensationalized in New Zealand history Jackson decided rather than do a film that would be a historical look back at the crime to instead create a drama about Parker and Hulme's intense friendship. In addition to reading Pauline Parker's diary Jackson and company undertook a nation wide search for anyone who had known the girls and interviewed them to get a closer look at their life.

6.

Both Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet went on to find fame and popularity in roles with the character name of Rose: Lynskey in "Two and a Half Men" (2003) and Winslet in Titanic (1997).





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"We're taking you to Contention, putting you on the 3:10 to Yuma, day after tomorrow."



A train and a horse, moving out of frame together, shot with such understated affection that Mangold captures the iconography of old Westerns while still finding some new poetry in them. 



It's the most lyrical moment in the film, capping a very solid straightforward narrative with a moment that reminds everybody that a human being who genuinely loves movies made this one. 



Mangold has no interest in transcending or subverting genres, because he still finds so much pleasure in them.



-- AllMovie



決戰3:10 3:10 to Yuma 

122 min. 2007



Writing credits

Halsted Welles (screenplay) 

Michael Brandt (screenplay)  

Derek Haas (screenplay)

Elmore Leonard (short story)



Russell Crowe  ...  Ben Wade 

Christian Bale  ...  Dan Evans 

Logan Lerman  ...  William Evans 

Dallas Roberts  ...  Grayson Butterfield 

Ben Foster  ...  Charlie Prince 

Peter Fonda  ...  Byron McElroy 

Vinessa Shaw  ...  Emma Nelson 

Alan Tudyk  ...  Doc Potter 

Luce Rains  ...  Marshal Weathers 

Gretchen Mol  ...  Alice Evans 

Lennie Loftin  ...  Glen Hollander 

Johnny Whitworth  ...  Darden 

Kevin Durand ...  Tucker 



1.

Russell Crowe was director James Mangold's very first choice for the role of Ben Wade. After Tom Cruise dropped out of talks for the film, putting it into turnaround, it was the casting of Crowe that got the production back up and running.

2.

Russell Crowe, director James Mangold, and producer Cathy Konrad unanimously preferred Christian Bale as the co-lead.

3.

At one point, Tom Cruise and Eric Bana were pursuing the starring roles in this film. But when Columbia Pictures put this film in turnaround, the actors left to pursue other projects.



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Something my granddad used to tell us. You know Macumba? Voodoo.

My granddad was a priest in Trinidad. He used to tell us,

"When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth."



生人勿近 Dawn of the Dead

126 min. 1978



David Emge ...  Stephen

Ken Foree ...  Peter

Scott H. Reiniger ...  Roger

Gaylen Ross ...  Francine 



1.

Filmed in Monroeville Mall, Monroeville, PA.

2.

The two zombie children who attack Peter in the airport chart house are played by Donna Savini and Mike Savini, the real-life niece and nephew of Tom Savini. Incidently, these are the only zombies in all of Romero's "Dead" films that spontaneously run and never do the trademark "Zombie shuffle".

3.

Filming at the Monroeville Mall took place during the winter of 1976-77, with a three week reprieve during the Christmas shopping season (during which other footage, e.g. the TV studio, was shot). Filming at the mall began around 10 p.m., shortly after the mall closed, and finished at 6 a.m. The mall didn't open until 9, but at 6 the Muzak came on and no one knew how to turn it off.

4.

Tom Savini, head of makeup effects, was unhappy with how the blood mix (produced by 3M) photographed; it looked fluorescent. Director George A. Romero felt it was perfect for the film's comic book style.

5.

Extras who appeared in this film were reportedly given $20 in cash, a box lunch, and a Dawn of the Dead T-shirt.

6.

Dario Argento was an admirer of George A. Romero's work, and vice-versa. When Argento heard that Romero was contemplating a sequel to Night of the Living Dead (1968) he insisted that Romero come out to Argento's native Rome to write the script without distractions. Romero knocked out the script in 3 weeks and, though Argento read the script as it came out, he left all the writing to Romero. Argento also provided most of the film's soundtrack and, in return for the rights to edit the European version of the film, assisted in raising the necessary funds.

7.

Tom Savini choose the gray color for the zombies' skin, since Night of the Living Dead (1968) was in B&W and the zombie skin-tone was not depicted. He later said it was a mistake, because many of them ended up looking quite blue on film.

8.

Peter is the first person in the franchise to refer to the undead as "zombies". The term is never used in Night of the Living Dead (1968).

9.

The most profitable film in the "Dead" series.

10.

It took up to three hours in makeup to transform someone into a zombie.





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To have someone in your control...

To have them know that they are alive...

only because you have not decided to the contrary.



是誰在跟我玩遊戲 

111 min. 1998



Writing credits

Stephen King (novella "Apt Pupil")

Brandon Boyce (screenplay)



Brad Renfro ...  Todd Bowden

Ian McKellen ...  Kurt Dussander

Mickey Cottrell ...  Sociology Teacher

Ann Dowd ...  Monica Bowden

Bruce Davison ...  Richard Bowden

James Karen ...  Victor Bowden

Marjorie Lovett ...  Agnes Bowden

Heather McComb ...  Becky Trask

David Schwimmer ...  Edward French

Jan Triska ...  Isaac Weiskopf

Joe Morton ...  Dan Richler 



1.

There had been talk of a film version in 1984. James Mason agreed to play Kurt, but died from a heart attack before filming could begin. Richard Burton was considered as his replacement, but died from a cerebral hemorrhage before he could accept the part. The first attempt to film this story, in 1987, ran over budget and was stopped after six weeks of shooting while it remains only ten days of filming. According to Stephen King, who saw a rough cut of 3/4 of the movie, "it was really good". It starred Rick Schroder and Nicol Williamson, and was directed by Alan Bridges.

2.

The movie is based on a novella (a long short story) by Stephen King from a book of short stories called "Different Seasons" which also includes "The Body" which became Stand by Me (1986) and "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" which became The Shawshank Redemption (1994).

3.

When Stephen King learned that Bryan Singer was to direct, he sold the film rights for just $1.

4.

At the start of the film, the voice of the off-screen teacher is actually writer Christopher McQuarrie, a childhood friend of director Bryan Singer and writer Brandon Boyce.

5.

Ian McKellen admitted he was surprised to be asked to play 75-year-old Kurt Dussander, since he was only 57 at the time of filming.

6.

Anthony Hopkins turned the main part down.

7.

Ian McKellen said that one of the things that convinced Bryan Singer to cast him as Dussander despite him being British, and considerably younger than the character, was when Singer raved to McKellen about about a performance by an actor he had recently seen in Cold Comfort Farm (1995) (TV), and McKellen informed him that he was the same actor he was talking about.

8.

The movie ending and the novella ending are drastically different. In the novella's ending, after Dussander's death, Todd murders Mr. French and then goes up on an overpass and begins to snipe people in cars going by, until the police kill him. In the movie he essentially gets away with everything, without having to kill Mr. French.





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Do you ever wish you would die?

No.

It's foolish to ask for luxuries in times like these.



"The scenes in which the father wrestles with making an unthinkable sacrifice raise some fascinating questions about the evolution of relationships in the post-apocalyptic world, and the true nature of unconditional love in extreme circumstances." 



"Those scenes will undoubtedly haunt the soul of any parent for days after viewing the film, and spark some interesting thoughts on just how different our world could be in the blink of an eye."



-- AllMovie



末路浩劫 The Road

111 min. 2009



Writing credits

Cormac McCarthy (novel)

Joe Penhall (screenplay)



Viggo Mortensen  ...  Man 

Kodi Smit-McPhee  ...  Boy 

Robert Duvall  ...  Old Man 

Guy Pearce  ...  Veteran 

Molly Parker  ...  Motherly Woman 

Michael Kenneth Williams  ...  Thief  



1.

The U.S. release date was postponed from November 26, 2008, to October 16, 2009, to allow for additional post-production work. The 2009 release date was further delayed to November 25, 2009, to position the picture for Academy Awards competition.

2.

Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee reported bonding by eating crickets to help them get into character.

3.

Kodi Smit-McPhee won his part over hundreds of boys due to a strong audition and his resemblance to Charlize Theron, who had been cast as Woman.

4.

Viggo Mortensen nearly turned down the role of Man because he had planned a break from film work. After completing his work as the Man, Mortensen took a long break from acting.

5.

An apparent CGI aerial shot, which also appears in the trailer, is a digital recreation of actual destruction by Hurricane Katrina to Empire, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. The shot shows large, twin boats on a highway in front of a bridge over the Empire Lock on Louisiana state highway 23. In the movie rendering, a large city skyline appears on the horizon, where in actuality there would be only the rural peninsula of Plaquemines Parish.

6.

John Hillcoat filmed the soft-drink vending-machine scene with Man and Boy several times, each with a different brand beverage, out of concern that Coca-Cola executives would not want their product to appear in the motion picture. A telephone call from Viggo Mortensen to the president of Coca-Cola secured permission for a can of Coca-Cola to appear, consistent with the source novel.

7.

During a preview Q&A screening in London, director John Hillcoat revealed that Kodi Smit-McPhee won the role of 'The Boy' partly due to an audition tape sent in by Kodi's father that showed them re-enacting the scene where the father shows the boy how to kill himself by placing a pistol in his mouth.

8.

To live the role, Viggo Mortensen would sleep in his clothes and deliberately starve himself.

9.

Nobody in the film is credited with a name. The only person who introduces themselves is the Old Man. However, his name is taken as fake by the main character.


















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心靈獨奏 The Soloist

117 min. 2009



Writing credits

Susannah Grant (screenplay)

Steve Lopez (book "The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music")



Jamie Foxx  ...  Nathaniel Ayers 

Robert Downey Jr.  ...  Steve Lopez 

Catherine Keener  ...  Mary Weston 

Tom Hollander  ...  Graham Claydon 

Lisa Gay Hamilton  ...  Jennifer Ayers (as Lisagay Hamilton) 

Nelsan Ellis  ...  David Carter

Lorraine Toussaint  ...  Flo Ayers 

Justin Martin  ...  Young Nathaniel 

Jena Malone ...  Cheery Lab Tech



1.

Most of the homeless people shown in the film are actually homeless.

2.

In the scene that Nathaniel Ayers and Steve Lopez attend a rehearsal concert, all the seats are covered with canvas. This was not cinematic imagery; this is actually done in some concert halls during rehearsals to reflect a more accurate sound as if the seats were being occupied.

3.

As of April 2009, Nathaniel Ayers "has a girlfriend and is doing reasonably well" according to Steve Lopez. He is also taught himself to play the flute.

4.

This is the second time Robert Downey Jr. has portrayed a real-life reporter. He previously portrayed San Francisco Chronicle reporter Paul Avery in Zodiac (2007).

5.

Graffiti of the repeated phrase "I like myself" can also be seen behind Edward Norton in a promotional photo for Fight Club (1999).

6.

Lorraine Toussaint (who played Mr. Ayers' mother), Lisa Gay Hamilton (who played Mr. Ayers' sister Jennifer), and Nelsan Ellis (who played LAMP director David Carter) are all real-life graduates of The Juilliard School's Drama Division. Mr. Ayers was a student in their prestigious Music Division.

7.

Nathaniel Ayers, Jr. The subject of the movie is himself seen in the front row of the concert, during the last scene of the movie.





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"How are we going to fix it so your shit don't fall on my shoes?"



魔鬼知道你死前 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

117 min. 2007 



Directed by

Sidney Lumet   

Writing credits

Kelly Masterson  



Philip Seymour Hoffman ...  Andy Hanson

Ethan Hawke ...  Hank Hanson

Albert Finney ...  Charles Hanson

Marisa Tomei ...  Gina Hanson

Aleksa Palladino ...  Chris Lasorda

Michael Shannon ...  Dex

Amy Ryan ...  Martha Hanson

Sarah Livingston ...  Danielle Hanson

Brían F. O'Byrne ...  Bobby Lasorda

Rosemary Harris ...  Nanette Hanson 



1.

Title taken from the Irish toast: "May you have food and raiment, a soft pillow for your head; may you be 40 years in heaven, before the devil knows you're dead."

2.

In the original script, Andrew and Hank Hanson were not brothers. Sidney Lumet made this change to increase the drama of the movie. He also removed the character of Andrew & Gina's daughter.

3.

The high-heeled shoes that Marisa Tomei wears in her nude scene with Ethan Hawke are her own shoes.

4.

One of two films released in the same year co-starring Philip Seymour Hoffman which center around sibling relationships. The other is The Savages (2007)

5.

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke are both in real-life old friends of Marisa Tomei.

6.

Sidney Lumet was introduced to digital film techniques through this production and reportedly loved working with digital film, primarily due to it's convenience. This was his first and ultimately only film to be shot in the digital format.

7.

In the DVD's Director's commentary, Sidney Lumet says the nude scene between Gina and Hank was shot, Ethan Hawke wanted to make Marisa Tomei, feel more comfortable, and insisted on being nude as well. He further insisted that every male crew member strip naked while filming the scene to accommodate Tomei.

8.

The scene of Andy and Hank robbing the drug dealer was filmed with two simultaneous setups, one on Philip Seymour Hoffman and one on Ethan Hawke to better capture their tension and reactions to each other. Sidney Lumet is experienced with the use of multiple camera setups in a single take from his career in live television.





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"My theory is that everybody is a potentiaI murderer."



火車怪客 Strangers on a Train 

101 min. 1951



Writing credits

Raymond Chandler (screen play) 

Czenzi Ormonde (screen play)

Whitfield Cook (adaptation by)

Patricia Highsmith (from the novel by)

Ben Hecht (uncredited) 



Farley Granger ...  Guy Haines

Ruth Roman ...  Anne Morton

Robert Walker ...  Bruno Antony

Leo G. Carroll ...  Sen. Morton

Patricia Hitchcock ...  Barbara Morton

Kasey Rogers ...  Miriam Joyce Haines (as Laura Elliott)

Marion Lorne ...  Mrs. Antony

Jonathan Hale ...  Mr. Antony

Robert Gist ...  Det. Leslie Hennessey

Jack Cushingham ...  Fred Reynolds (uncredited)

Alfred Hitchcock ...  Man Boarding Train Carrying a Double Bass (uncredited) 



1.

Alfred Hitchcock bought the rights to the original novel anonymously to keep the price down, and got them for just $7,500.

2.

Raymond Chandler is credited as the main author of the script, but it was almost completely written by Czenzi Ormonde who was credited as second author.

3.

Raymond Chandler's version of the script ended with Bruno Antony being arrested and institutionalized, with the final image being the villain writhing in a straight jacket.

4.

In the scene where Bruno searches for the cigarette lighter in the drain, Alfred Hitchcock personally selected the items of rubbish that lie on the floor.

5.

Alfred Hitchcock originally wanted William Holden to play the part of Guy Haines.

6.

Raymond Chandler seems to have gone out of his way to behave disagreeably to Alfred Hitchcock. When Hitchcock arrived at Chandler's home for a story meeting, Chandler hollered from his window, "Look at the fat bastard trying to get out of his car!"

7.

This was the last full feature for Robert Walker who died eight months after filming finished from an allergic reaction to a drug.

8.

The character of Bruno was named after Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the convicted kidnapper/killer of the Lindbergh baby.

9.

When the movie was released in Germany in 1952, about five minutes were removed which were considered too brutal or sadistic. Later the scenes were re-added for TV, but they are subtitled, while the rest of the movie is dubbed.

10.

As Guy leaves the last match, part of a quotation clearly including the words "two impostors" is visible on the beam above his head. It is from Rudyard Kipling's poem "If." The line reads "If you can meet with triumph and disaster / And treat those two impostors just the same..."

11.

Alfred Hitchcock had admired Edgar Allan Poe's stories since his teenage years, and went on to put Edgar Allan Poe references in his films. French critics noticed that there are connections between the runaway carousel in this film and Poe's "A Descent into the Maelstrom".

12.

Alfred Hitchcock wanted to end the film with Guy (Farley Granger) saying "Bruno, Bruno Anthony - a clever fellow." But the studio forced him to shoot a happy ending.





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Emma. Don't move. 

Standing there, you don't look like Emma Newton. 

You look like Emma Spencer Oakley of 46 Burnham Street, St Paul, Minnesota. 

The prettiest girl on the block. 



辣手摧花 Shadow of a Doubt

115 min. 1943



Writing credits

Thornton Wilder (screenplay)  

Sally Benson (screenplay)  

Alma Reville (screenplay)

Gordon McDonell (story)



Teresa Wright ...  Charlotte 'Young Charlie' Newton

Joseph Cotten ...  Uncle Charlie Oakley

Macdonald Carey ...  Jack Graham

Henry Travers ...  Joseph Newton

Patricia Collinge ...  Emma Spencer Oakley Newton

Hume Cronyn ...  Herbie Hawkins

Wallace Ford ...  Fred Saunders

Edna May Wonacott ...  Ann Newton

Charles Bates ...  Roger Newton

Janet Shaw ...  Louise Finch - Waitress

Edwin Stanley ...  Mr. Green - Bank President (uncredited) 



1.

Alfred Hitchcock often said that this was his favorite film.

2.

Patricia Collinge, who plays Emma Newton in the film, wrote the garage scene between Charlie (Teresa Wright) and Jack (Macdonald Carey).

3.

Edna May Wonacott, who plays young Ann Newton, and Estelle Jewell, who plays Charlie's friend, Catherine, were both locals of Santa Rosa, where the film was shot on location. Many of the film's extras were also locals of the town, which was too far away from Hollywood to be affected by Actors Guild guidelines demanding the use of professional actors.

4.

The portrait that hangs on the wall of Charlie's room to the right of her door is one drawn by Willy Pogany of actress Mary Philbin, who was a leading lady at Universal just 20 years before.

5.

The name "Charlie" is spoken approximately 170 times.

6.

Alfred Hitchcock had wanted Joan Fontaine for the role of Young Charlie, but she was unavailable.

7.

Hitchcock wanted William Powell to play Uncle Charlie, but MGM refused to lend the actor for the film. So the role went to Joseph Cotten.

8.

In 1959 interview, Teresa Wright said that this was her favorite film.

9.

Uncle Charlie arrived in Santa Rosa on August 22 or 23, 1942: the headlines in the paper were "Brazil Declares War", which had happened on August 22. However, there are also two clues that point to the film being set in pre-Pearl Harbor America (prior to Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked the United States in the Pacific, bringing the U.S. into World War II).

9.1

In the first dinner scene after Uncle Charlie's arrival, he presents gifts to the Newton family, including a pair of photos of their parents to Mrs. Newton, his sister. She remarks that the photos were made in 1888, and her son exclaims "Fifty-three years ago!" That would make the year 1941, not 1942.

9.2

Also, when Uncle Charlie and his niece visit her father's bank, there's a sign on a teller's cage urging customers to "Buy Defense Bonds!" U.S. government bonds were renamed "War Bonds" after Dec. 7, 1941; "Defense Bonds" were sold prior to that date. The "Brazil Declares War" headline probably reflects a news story contemporary with the shooting of the movie, but it's in the wrong time frame for the action of the story itself.

10.

In his interview with François Truffaut on "Shadow" (first published in 1967), Alfred Hitchcock said the dense, black smoke belching from the train that brings Charles Oakley to Santa Rosa was a deliberate symbol of imminent evil.

11.

Alfred Hitchcock on the train to Santa Rosa playing cards. He has the entire suit of spades in his hand, including the symbolic ace.

12.

Cynicism underlies all the proceedings, from young Charlie's "miraculous" summoning of her Uncle Charlie (tantamount to calling up the Angel of Death) to Uncle Charlie's chilling exposition of his view on life, relayed to his niece: 

12.1

"You live in a dream. Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you ripped the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?" 

12.2

This is one of Hitchcock's most unsettling films, preoccupied like many other Hitchcock works with good vs. evil, and the capacity for evil that lurks within us all; and it is also one of his most stylized, gorgeously shot by Joseph Valentine.





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極地戀人 Los Amantes Del Circulo Polar

107 min. 1998



Najwa Nimri  ...  Ana joven 

Fele Martínez  ...  Otto joven (as Fele Martinez) 

Nancho Novo  ...  Álvaro 

Maru Valdivielso  ...  Olga 

Peru Medem  ...  Otto niño 

Sara Valiente  ...  Ana niña 

Víctor Hugo Oliveira  ...  Otto adolescente (as Victor Hugo Oliviera) 

Kristel Díaz  ...  Ana adolescente (as Kristel Diaz) 

Beate Jensen  ...  Madre de Otto  





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"Whatever you do, don't you dare infIict bloody Rachmaninoff on him. He's not ready!"



鋼琴師 Shine

105 min. 1996



Geoffrey Rush  ...  David Helfgott - Adult 

1997 Academy Awards Best Actor in a Leading Role



Sonia Todd  ...  Sylvia 

Alex Rafalowicz  ...  David Helfgott - Child 

Armin Mueller-Stahl  ...  Peter 

Nicholas Bell  ...  Ben Rosen 

Danielle Cox  ...  Suzie - Child 

Rebecca Gooden  ...  Margaret 

Noah Taylor  ...  David Helfgott - Adolescent 

Ian Welbourne ...  Boy Next Door

Googie Withers ...  Katharine Susannah Prichard

Maria Dafnero ...  Sonia

Stephen Sheehan ...  Roger Woodward - Younger

Marianna Doherty ...  Suzie - Teenager

John Gielgud ...  Cecil Parkes

Joey Kennedy ...  Suzie - Adult

Lynn Redgrave ...  Gillian

John Martin ...  Roger Woodward - Older 



1.

Geoffrey Rush had once learned the piano up until aged fourteen. He took up piano lessons again thirty years later for the film and also acted as his own hand double body double.

2.

The international popularity of Shine caused a sensation leading to a musical tour for Helfgott, whose performances were less adroit than many audiences expected, sparking criticism that writer-director Scott Hicks had exaggerated his subject's talent for dramatic purposes. 

3.

At the 1997 Oscar ceremony, the real-life David Helfgott performed Flight of the Bumblebee, causing many viewers to fear for his unstable behavior, especially as the film presents him as a childlike individual with a sometimes Tourette's-style candor. 





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What is a ghost?

A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again?

An instant of pain, perhaps.

Something dead which still seems to be alive.

An emotion suspended in time.

Like a blurred photograph.

Like an insect trapped in amber.



惡魔的背脊 El espinazo del diablo

106 min. 2001



Marisa Paredes ...  Carmen

Eduardo Noriega ...  Jacinto

Federico Luppi ...  Dr. Casares

Fernando Tielve ...  Carlos

Íñigo Garcés ...  Jaime

Irene Visedo ...  Conchita

José Manuel Lorenzo ...  Marcelo

Junio Valverde ...  Santi 



Produced by

Agustín Almodóvar ....  producer 

Pedro Almodóvar ....  executive producer  



1.

Was strongly inspired by the director's personal memories, especially his relationship with his uncle, who supposedly came back as a ghost.

2.

The Spanish comic series "Paracuellos" by Carlos Giménez was an important source of inspiration. This semi-biographical work takes place in a Francoist orphanage during the early 50's. Giménez worked as a storyboard artist on this film.

3.

This labor of love for director Guillermo del Toro was sixteen years in development.

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The film came together when Guillermo del Toro bumped into Pedro Almodóvar at the 1994 Miami Film Festival where he had just shown Cronos (1993). Almodovar told him that he had just seen his film and wanted to produce his next movie.

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The film's title refers to the medical condition of spina bifida.

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Guillermo del Toro wrote the film when he was in college.

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Described by Guillermo del Toro as being a sibling film to El laberinto del fauno (2006) (this being the masculine "brother" film, and Pan's as the feminine "sister" film).