I think it was the acid.

Missbehave (US) - Holiday 2008

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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.









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.









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).









"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).









"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.









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.









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.









"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.









"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.









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.









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  









"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. 









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.

4.

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.

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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).

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We must pretend we didn't hear it. That's what Mrs. Grose says.

Pretend?

Then we won't imagine things.



Directed by

Jack Clayton    



Writing credits

Henry James (novel "The Turn of the Screw")

John Mortimer (additional scenes & dialogue)

William Archibald (screenplay) 

Truman Capote (screenplay)



Cinematography by

Freddie Francis (director of photography) 



無罪的人 The Innocents

100 min. 1961



Deborah Kerr ...  Miss Giddens

Peter Wyngarde ...  Peter Quint

Megs Jenkins ...  Mrs. Grose

Michael Redgrave ...  The Uncle

Martin Stephens ...  Miles

Pamela Franklin ...  Flora

Clytie Jessop ...  Miss Jessel

Isla Cameron ...  Anna 



1.

Average Shot Length = ~9.2 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~8.6 seconds.

2.

During the cursed video in The Ring (2002), about 25 seconds in, a young boy's muffled singing can faintly be heard. This audio track is taken from "The Innocents".

3.

Much of the screenplay is not actually derived from Henry James's novella "The Turn of the Screw" but from William Archibald's 1950 Broadway adaptation "The Innocents".

4.

Kate Bush was inspired by the film to pen the song "The Infant Kiss" which appears on her 1980 album "Never For Ever".

5.

To create such sharp visuals, director of photography Freddie Francis used lots of huge bright lamps. Deborah Kerr sometimes had to resort to wearing sunglasses between takes.

6.

Director Jack Clayton turned down the offer of Cary Grant to play the uncle.

7.

Jack Clayton was dismayed to learn that 20th Century Fox insisted on making the film in CinemaScope. His cinematographer Freddie Francis set about making that less of a problem by framing the wide horizontal frame with lots of vertical lines to break it up. Conversely, he also used the wide space to emphasize shadowy spaces and using the emptiness towards an unsettling effect. To that end, he would often place characters at opposite ends of the frame.

8.

The film opens with a creepy song written by Paul Dehn and Georges Auric sung over a black screen for about 45 seconds before the 20th Century Fox logo appears. In some cinemas, the projectionists assumed this was a mistake on the print and edited the film so it began with the appearance of the Fox logo.

9.

Harold Pinter and John Mortimer also worked on the screenplay. The former advised Jack Clayton that he should not use flashbacks, and the latter was brought in to "Victorianize" the script.

10.

Deborah Kerr always regarded this as her finest performance.

11.

Jack Clayton didn't want the children to be exposed to the darker themes of the story, so they never saw the screenplay in its entirety. The children were given their pages the day before they were to be filmed.

12.

François Truffaut regarded this as the best British film since Alfred Hitchcock had left for America.

13.

When the governess first arrives at the house, it's a bright, sunny day. In fact, Freddie Francis had had some of the trees painted lighter to exaggerate this.

14.

Quint's unworldly appearance at the window was achieved by putting actor Peter Wyngarde on a trolley and wheeling him up to and then away from the window.

15.

Freddie Francis used so many lights that he was jokingly accused of trying to burn down Shepperton Studios.

16.

At one point when Deborah Kerr's character wanders around the house at night with only a candelabra for illumination, you might think you see something in the corner of your eye. You do. It's the clapperboard which had briefly wandered into shot. Jack Clayton decided to keep it in because he liked the idea of something almost subliminal being present to add to the air of unease.



"O Willow Waly"

Music by Georges Auric

Lyrics by Paul Dehn



延伸閱讀：

Turn Of The Screw / The Innocents (1961)









塵霧家園 House of Sand and Fog

126 min. 2003



Writing credits

Andre Dubus III (novel)

Vadim Perelman (screenplay)  

Shawn Lawrence Otto (screenplay)



Jennifer Connelly ...  Kathy

Ben Kingsley ...  Behrani

Ron Eldard ...  Lester

Frances Fisher ...  Connie Walsh

Kim Dickens ...  Carol Burdon

Shohreh Aghdashloo ...  Nadi

Jonathan Ahdout ...  Esmail 



1.

SPOILER: In the scene near the end of the movie where Kathy pulls into her driveway and tries to shoot herself, Jennifer Connelly accidentally put the car in "reverse" instead of "park", and almost severely damaged the camera positioned in the car door. After Connelly apologized profusely, she was urged by the director to continue the scene, and it ended up being one of the best takes. This is the take shown in the final print. 









煤氣燈下 Gaslight

114 min. 1944 



Directed by

George Cukor     

Writing credits

John Van Druten (screen play)  

Walter Reisch (screen play) 

John L. Balderston (screen play)

Patrick Hamilton (based upon the play by)



Charles Boyer ...  Gregory Anton 



Ingrid Bergman ...  Paula Alquist

1945 Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role



Joseph Cotten ...  Brian Cameron

Dame May Whitty ...  Miss Thwaites

Angela Lansbury ...  Nancy

1945 Nominated Academy Awards Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Barbara Everest ...  Elizabeth

Emil Rameau ...  Maestro Guardi

Tom Stevenson ...  Williams

Heather Thatcher ...  Lady Dalroy 



1.

When this film was produced, the studio attempted to have all prints of the previous version, Gaslight (1940) destroyed. These efforts were ultimately unsuccessful, though the film was rarely seen for the next few decades.

2.

The aria that Ingrid Bergman is singing when we see her in the first scene of her in the present day is from the Gaetano Donizetti opera "Lucia Di Lammermoor". The opera is famous for its so-called "mad scene", in which the eponymous Lucia goes insane.

3.

Ingrid Bergman spent some time in a mental institution to research her role, studying a woman who had suffered a nervous breakdown.

4.

Angela Lansbury was only 17 when she made this, her film debut. She had been working at Bullocks Department Store in Los Angeles and when she told her boss that she was leaving, he offered to match the pay at her new job. Expecting it to be in the region of her Bullocks salary of the equivalent of $27 a week, he was somewhat taken aback when she told him she would be earning $500 a week.

5.

The first time Ingrid Bergman met Charles Boyer was the day they shot the scene where they meet at a train station and kiss passionately. As Boyer was several inches shorter than his co-star, he had to stand on a box, which she kept inadvertently kicking as she ran into the scene.

6.

The sets are deliberately overfilled with bric-a-brac to emphasize Paula's increasing sense of claustrophobia.

7.

Both Irene Dunne and Hedy Lamarr both turned down the chance to play Paula.

8.

The book from which Ingrid Bergman reads aloud is "Villette" by Charlotte Brontë.

9.

New scenes not in the original play were added to this version of "Gaslight", and the names of most of the characters were changed. The character that Joseph Cotten plays in this version was changed from a stout, humorously sardonic elderly man to a young, handsome one in order to serve as a potential love interest for Ingrid Bergman in the film, and in order to appeal more to the audience. 









What do you call a mushroom who goes into the bar, buys everybody a drink?

I don't know. What?

A fungi.



"The two films are vastly different in structure, however. And while the ostentatious reverse narrative of Memento makes it more memorable, as it were, The Lookout earns big points for seeming like something that might actually happen."



-- AllMovie 



監守自盜 The Lookout

102 min. 2007



Directed by

Scott Frank  

2008 Independent Spirit Awards Best First Feature



Joseph Gordon-Levitt  ...  Chris Pratt 

Jeff Daniels  ...  Lewis 

Matthew Goode  ...  Gary Spargo 

Isla Fisher  ...  Luvlee 

Carla Gugino  ...  Janet 

Bruce McGill  ...  Robert Pratt 

Alberta Watson  ...  Barbara Pratt 

Alex Borstein  ...  Mrs. Lange 

Sergio Di Zio  ...  Deputy Ted 

David Huband  ...  Mr. Tuttle 

Laura Vandervoort  ...  Kelly  



1.

To help him play a brain damaged man, Joseph Gordon-Levitt did not get much sleep and worked out hard at the gym before shooting to help him appear disoriented. He also befriended people with brain damage and read "The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound".

2.

Sam Mendes and then David Fincher were attached to direct. Once Fincher left the project, writer Scott Frank decided to direct himself. 









幸福來訪時 The Visitor

103 min. 2007



Richard Jenkins  ...  Prof. Walter Vale

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



Haaz Sleiman  ...  Tarek Khalil 

Danai Gurira  ...  Zainab 

Hiam Abbass  ...  Mouna Khalil 

Marian Seldes  ...  Barbara 

Michael Cumpsty  ...  Charles  



"Open and Close"

Written and Performed by Fela Kuti

Courtesy of Barclay/MCA/Universal Records

by arrangement with Universal Music Enterprises

© 1971, 1999, 2001 FAK under license to MCA Records Inc.



"Je'nwi Teni (Don't Gag Me)"

Written and Performed by Fela Kuti

Courtesy of Barclay/MCA/Universal Records

by arrangement with Universal Music Enterprises

© 1972, 1973, 1999, 2001 FAK under license to MCA Records Inc.









You're my knight in shimmering armour. Did you know that?

I think you mean shining.

No. Shimmering. You shimmer and you glow.



戀戀情深 What's Eating Gilbert Grape

118 min. 1993



Writing credits

Peter Hedges (novel "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?")

Peter Hedges (screenplay)



Johnny Depp  ...  Gilbert Grape 

Leonardo DiCaprio  ...  Arnie Grape 

1994 Nominated Academy Awards Best Actor in a Supporting Role



Juliette Lewis  ...  Becky 

Mary Steenburgen  ...  Betty Carver 

Darlene Cates  ...  Bonnie Grape 

Laura Harrington  ...  Amy Grape 

Mary Kate Schellhardt  ...  Ellen Grape 

Kevin Tighe  ...  Ken Carver 

John C. Reilly  ...  Tucker Van Dyke 

Crispin Glover  ...  Bobby McBurney 

Penelope Branning  ...  Becky's Grandma  



1.

Leonardo DiCaprio said that playing Arnie was "the most fun I've ever had".

2.

Johnny Depp felt bad about having to ridicule Darlene Cates's character "Momma" and would often apologize to her after shooting. Depp once said to Cates, "Man, I want you to know how much I hated having to say those things about you, or about your character."

3.

Leonardo DiCaprio created Arnie's trademark flicking his finger against his nose, describing it as a sort of "brain wipe... like Arnie is massaging the inside of his brain."

4.

When getting into character, Leonardo DiCaprio remarked of it: "I had to really research to get into the mind of somebody like that. I spent a few days at a home for mentally retarded teens. We just talked and I watched their mannerisms. People have these expectations that mentally retarded children are really crazy, but that isn't so. It's refreshing to see them because everything's so new to them." 









擁抱艷陽天 Monster's Ball

111 min. 2001



Produced by

Lee Daniels ....  producer  



Billy Bob Thornton  ...  Hank Grotowski 

Halle Berry  ...  Leticia Musgrove 

Heath Ledger  ...  Sonny Grotowski 

Amber Rules  ...  Vera 

Peter Boyle  ...  Buck Grotowski 

Charles Cowan Jr. ...  Willie Cooper

Taylor LaGrange  ...  Darryl Cooper

Mos Def  ...  Ryrus Cooper 

Coronji Calhoun ...  Tyrell Musgrove

Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs ...  Lawrence Musgrove (as Sean Combs) 



1.

Vanessa Williams was offered the role of Leticia, but turned it down because of the full frontal nudity.

2.

Wes Bentley turned down the role of Sonny Grotowski.

3.

The part ultimately played by Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs was initially offered to Jeffrey Wright and Don Cheadle.

4.

The movie was named as one of "The 20 Most Overrated Movies of All Time" by Premiere.

5.

Angela Bassett purportedly turned down the role of Leticia, stating "I wasn't going to be a prostitute on film..." However, Lions Gate Production President Michael Paseornek and the film's producer Lee Daniels rebut Bassett stating that she was never even offered the role, and was already committed to another film.

6.

The movie was floating around the studio for six years, and at one time Sean Penn was set to direct with Robert De Niro to star.









好景不常 All Good Things

101 min. 2010



Ryan Gosling  ...  David Marks 

Kirsten Dunst  ...  Katie Marks 

Frank Langella  ...  Sanford Marks 

Lily Rabe  ...  Deborah Lehrman 

Philip Baker Hall  ...  Malvern Bump 

Michael Esper  ...  Daniel Marks 

Diane Venora  ...  Janice Rizzo 

Nick Offerman  ...  Jim McCarthy 

Kristen Wiig  ...  Lauren Fleck 

Stephen Kunken  ...  Todd Fleck 

Trini Alvarado ...  Sarah Davis

Arwen ...  Ivan the dog

Jordie ...  Ivan the dog 



1.

Kirsten Dunst stated in interviews that this was her best performance ever. She also said that when she read the script, she felt the same way Jodie Foster did when she read the script of The Accused (1988).

2.

Ryan Gosling felt so bad about a scene he had to pull Kirsten Dunst's hair, he sent her flowers the day after.

3.

Kirsten Dunst revealed on the "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" (2009) that the real person that David Marks is based on visited the set of the film being made and watched from a distance. 









恐怖斷魂屋 Session 9

100 min. 2001



Writing credits

Brad Anderson  

Stephen Gevedon 



David Caruso  ...  Phil 

Stephen Gevedon  ...  Mike 

Paul Guilfoyle  ...  Bill Griggs 

Josh Lucas  ...  Hank 

Peter Mullan  ...  Gordon Fleming 

Brendan Sexton III  ...  Jeff 

Lonnie Farmer  ...  Doctor (voice) 

Larry Fessenden  ...  Craig McManus 

Jurian Hughes  ...  Mary Hobbes (voice)  



1.

This was one of the first feature films shot using Sony's 24P HD video, which shoots at 24 frames per second, like film, as opposed to the 30 frames per second of conventional NTSC video.

1.5

Using this technology, Brad Anderson and director of photography Uta Briesewitz were able to produce the uniquely effective, deep-focus images using mostly natural light.

2.

The fictional "Patricia Willard scandal" at Danvers State Hospital, cited by Mike at the film's beginning, strongly appears to have been inspired by a real-life wave of problematic "Satanism and sex-abuse" allegations that swept the United States circa the 1980s,

2.5

including (among others) one involving the Amirault family in nearby Malden, Massachusetts. Reporter Dorothy Rabinowitz won a Pulitzer Prize for her book chronicling that bizarre case, "No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times," in 2001. 



"Soul Ecstasy"

Written by Setev Salas, Ross Harrs & Craig Borrell

Performed by The Inner Thumb

Courtesy of Emperor Norton Records and Salidified Songs (BMI)









Mark likes to pretend that he's someone else in bed.

Who?

Anthony Michael Hall. 



幸福事件 Happy Accidents

110 min. 2000



Marty Davey  ...  Directory Operator (voice) 

Marisa Tomei  ...  Ruby Weaver 

Vincent D'Onofrio  ...  Sam Deed 

Nadia Dajani  ...  Gretchen 

Holland Taylor  ...  Therapist, Maggie Ann "Meg" Ford 

Tovah Feldshuh  ...  Lillian Weaver 

Sean Gullette  ...  Mark 

Bronson Dudley  ...  Victor 

José Zúñiga  ...  Jose 

Anthony Michael Hall ...  Himself 

[下海] 就是不截圖 13.

殺死妳的溫柔 Killing Me Softly

100 min. 2002



Directed by

Kaige Chen (as Chen Kaige)

Writing credits

Sean French (novel) (as Nicci French)

Kara Lindstrom (screenplay)



Heather Graham  ...  Alice 

Joseph Fiennes  ...  Adam Tallis 

Natascha McElhone  ...  Deborah 

Ulrich Thomsen  ...  Klaus 

Jason Hughes  ...  Jake 

Kika Markham  ...  Mrs. Blanchard 

Amy Robbins  ...  Sylvie 

Yasmin Bannerman  ...  Joanna Noble 

Rebecca R. Palmer  ...  Michelle Stowe (as Rebecca Palmer)  



Produced by

Ivan Reitman ....  executive producer  









迷情漩渦 Maelström

95 min. 2000



Directed by

Writing credits

Denis Villeneuve 

2001 Berlin International Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize 

For its innovative dramatic structure, its playfulness, and its contemporary sensibility.



Marie-Josée Croze  ...  Bibiane Champagne 

Jean-Nicolas Verreault  ...  Evian 

Stephanie Morgenstern  ...  Claire Gunderson 

Pierre Lebeau  ...  The Fish (voice) 

Klimbo  ...  Head-Annstein Karlsen  



延伸閱讀：

坎城影后瑪麗喬絲克魯茲









有關時間旅行的熱門問題 Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel

83 min. 2009



Chris O'Dowd  ...  Ray 

Marc Wootton  ...  Toby 

Dean Lennox Kelly  ...  Pete 

Anna Faris  ...  Cassie 

Meredith MacNeill  ...  Millie  









豺狼之日 The Day of the Jackal

141 min. 1973



Writing credits

Frederick Forsyth (book)

Kenneth Ross (screenplay)



Edward Fox ...  The Jackal

Adrien Cayla-Legrand ...  The President

Olga Georges-Picot ...  Denise

Derek Jacobi ...  Caron

Michael Lonsdale ...  Lebel (as Michel Lonsdale)

Jean Martin ...  Wolenski

Eric Porter ...  Colonel Rodin

Delphine Seyrig ...  Colette

Jean Sorel ...  Bastien-Thiry

Nicole Desailly ...  Yvonne De Gaulle (uncredited) 



1.

Edward Fox was cast as the Jackal after director Fred Zinnemann was impressed with him in The Go-Between (1970).

2.

There are 31 individual insert shots of clocks in the movie. By contrast, High Noon (1952), also directed by Fred Zinnemann and more directly concerned with the passage of time, contains only 13 insert shots of clocks.

3.

When the Jackal meets the weapons supplier in Genoa, there is a picture of John F. Kennedy on the cover of an Italian magazine reporting on President Kennedy's recent visit to Europe. The scene is set on 2 August 1963, about three months before Kennedy himself was assassinated.

4.

The film features no soundtrack music other than diegetic background music from marching bands, street musicians and radios after the first five minutes.

5.

Michael Caine, Jack Nicholson and Roger Moore were considered for the role of the Jackal. 









再死一次 The Dead Zone

104 min. 1983



Writing credits

Jeffrey Boam (screenplay)

Stephen King (novel)



Christopher Walken  ...  Johnny Smith 

Brooke Adams  ...  Sarah Bracknell 

Tom Skerritt  ...  Sheriff Bannerman 

Herbert Lom  ...  Dr. Sam Weizak 

Anthony Zerbe  ...  Roger Stuart 

Colleen Dewhurst  ...  Henrietta Dodd 

Martin Sheen  ...  Greg Stillson 

Nicholas Campbell  ...  Frank Dodd 

Sean Sullivan  ...  Herb Smith 

Jackie Burroughs  ...  Vera Smith 

Géza Kovács  ...  Sonny Elliman

Ramon Estevez ...  Teenage Boy with Camera  



1.

Director David Cronenberg had to re-shoot the scene in which John Smith has his first premonition. It showed a little girl's room burning and a small E.T. doll could be seen on one of the shelves. The scene had to be re-shot when Universal Pictures threatened to sue.

2.

Cronenberg fired a .357 Magnum loaded with blanks just off camera to make Smith's flinches seem more involuntary; this was Christopher Walken's own idea.

3.

Before the accident, Johnny instructs his class to read "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". Christopher Walken would later go on to appear in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow (1999).

4.

One of only three David Cronenberg films that do not have a score by his friend, composer Howard Shore. This was due to studio politics in which Paramount wanted a more familiar composer to write the music for the film. Michael Kamen, who had written the music for the film Venom (1981) for the studio, was chosen instead.

5.

This film (and Stephen King's novel) are both loosely based upon the life of famous psychic Peter Hurkos. Hurkos claimed to have acquired his alleged powers after falling off a ladder and hitting his head.

6.

The poem Johnny reads in the beginning of the film is the end of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.

7.

The Dead Zone was the first of several Stephen King novels and short stories that took place in the small town of Castle Rock. Others include Stand by Me (1986), Cujo (1983), The Dark Half (1993), and Needful Things (1993).









羅蘭祕記 Laura

90 min. 1944



Directed by

Otto Preminger   

Rouben Mamoulian (uncredited)  



Writing credits

Vera Caspary (novel)

Jay Dratler (screenplay)

Samuel Hoffenstein (screenplay) 

Elizabeth Reinhardt (screenplay) (as Betty Reinhardt)

Ring Lardner Jr. (uncredited)



Gene Tierney  ...  Laura Hunt 

Dana Andrews  ...  Det. Lt. Mark McPherson 

Clifton Webb  ...  Waldo Lydecker 

Vincent Price  ...  Shelby Carpenter 

Judith Anderson  ...  Ann Treadwell 

Grant Mitchell ...  Lancaster Corey (scenes deleted)

Dorothy Adams ...  Bessie Clary, Laura's Maid (uncredited) 



1.

The film was begun by Rouben Mamoulian, but Otto Preminger, who initiated the project as producer and took over the direction, brought on a new cameraman and scrapped all of Mamoulian's footage.

2.

The character of Waldo Lydecker appears to be based on the columnist, broadcaster, and "New Yorker" theater critic Alexander Woollcott, a famous wit who, like Waldo, was fascinated by murder. Woollcott always dined at the Algonquin Hotel, where Laura first approaches Waldo.

3.

Darryl F. Zanuck was opposed to casting Clifton Webb because of his known homosexuality, but Preminger prevailed and the 54-year-old Webb, making his first screen appearance since the silent era, was nominated for an Oscar. 









靈嬰 The Brood 

92 min. 1979



Original Music by

Howard Shore 



Oliver Reed  ...  Dr. Hal Raglan 

Samantha Eggar  ...  Nola Carveth 

Art Hindle  ...  Frank Carveth 

Henry Beckman  ...  Barton Kelly 

Nuala Fitzgerald  ...  Juliana Kelly 

Cindy Hinds  ...  Candice Carveth 

Susan Hogan  ...  Ruth Mayer 

Gary McKeehan  ...  Mike Trellan 

Robert A. Silverman  ...  Jan Hartog (as Robert Silverman)  



1.

David Cronenberg wrote the film following the tumultuous divorce and child-custody battle he waged against Margaret Hindson. Cronenberg also said that Samantha Eggar's character, Nola Carveth, possessed some of the characteristics of his ex-wife.









波蘭斯基：通緝與渴望 Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired 

100 min. 2008



Directed by

Marina Zenovich  

2009 Emmy Awards Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming

Writing credits

Joe Bini

P.G. Morgan

Marina Zenovich

2009 Emmy Awards Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming



Produced by

Steven Soderbergh ....  executive producer  



Sharon Tate ...  Herself / Sarah Shagal (archive footage)

Terence Stamp ...  Himself (archive footage)

Laurence J. Rittenband ...  Himself (archive footage)

Roman Polanski ...  Himself (archive footage)

Jack Nicholson ...  Himself / Jack Gittes (archive footage)

Hugh M. Hefner ...  Himself (archive footage)

Roger Gunson ...  Himself

Faye Dunaway ...  (archive footage)

Mia Farrow ...  Herself (also archive footage)

Harrison Ford ...  Himself (archive footage)

Douglas Dalton ...  Himself (also archive footage)

Catherine Deneuve ...  Herself / Carole Ledoux (archive footage)

John Cassavetes ...  Guy Woodhouse (archive footage) 



"Lullaby"

Written by Krzysztof Komeda (as Christopher Komeda)

Sung by Mia Farrow









赤子冰心 L'eau froide

93 min. 1994



Virginie Ledoyen  ...  Christine 

Cyprien Fouquet  ...  Gilles 

László Szabó  ...  Père de Gille 

Dominique Faysse  ...  Mère de Christine 

Smaïl Mekki  ...  Mourad 

Jackie Berroyer  ...  Père de Christine 









狂犬病 Rabid

91 min. 1977



Directed by

Writing credits

David Cronenberg  

Produced by

Ivan Reitman ....  executive producer  



Marilyn Chambers  ...  Rose 

Frank Moore  ...  Hart Read 

Joe Silver  ...  Murray Cypher

Howard Ryshpan  ...  Dr. Dan Keloid 

Patricia Gage  ...  Dr. Roxanne Keloid  



1.

Sissy Spacek was David Cronenberg's first choice to play Rose. Ivan Reitman suggested Marilyn Chambers because he wanted sex appeal.

2.

A poster for Carrie (1976) is visible after Rose walks out of the porn theatre. Sissy Spacek, who played Carrie in that film, was the first choice for Rose but was turned down because of her Texas accent.

3.

The song that plays on the radio in Hart's workshop is Marilyn Chambers' own disco single "Benihana" (about 25 minutes into the film). 



"Benihana"

by Marilyn Chambers (uncredited)









窗外有藍天 A Room With a View

117 min. 1986



Directed by

James Ivory    

Writing credits

E.M. Forster (novel)

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (screenplay)

1987 Academy Awards Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

Produced by

Ismail Merchant ....  producer  



Maggie Smith ...  Charlotte Bartlett, a chaperon

Helena Bonham Carter ...  Lucy Honeychurch, Miss Bartlett's cousin and charge (as Helena Bonham-Carter)

Denholm Elliott ...  Mr. Emerson, an English tourist

Julian Sands ...  George Emerson

Simon Callow ...  The Reverend Mr. Arthur Beebe

Patrick Godfrey ...  The Reverend Mr. Eager, Chaplain of the Anglican Church in Florence

Judi Dench ...  Eleanor Lavish, a novelist

Fabia Drake ...  Miss Catharine Alan

Joan Henley ...  Miss Teresa Alan

Daniel Day-Lewis ...  Cecil Vyse (as Daniel Day Lewis)

Rosemary Leach ...  Mrs. Marian Honeychurch

Rupert Graves ...  Freddy Honeychurch

Mia Fothergill ...  Minnie Beebe

James Wilby ...  Party Guest (uncredited) 



1.

In the book, Lucy kisses George in a field of violets, but it was the wrong season for this when filming so just a plain field of barley was used.

2.

Charlotte Bartlett and Eleanor Lavish discuss the plotline of E.M. Forster's other Italian novel "Where Angels Fear to Tread" when on the picnic. Helena Bonham Carter starred in the film adaptation of the novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991).

3.

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and A Room with a View (1985) both opened in New York on the same day, March 7, 1986. Both movies featured Daniel Day-Lewis in prominent and very different roles:

3.1

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.

3.2

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.

4.

First cinema film of Helena Bonham Carter.

5.

During a film making discussion with Gus Van Sant during the Oregon Sesquicentennial Film Festival, James Ivory stated that he chose to make A Room with a View (1985) because he wanted to return to Italy. 









"OK, before you go, then, just answer me this one question, Did you or did you not trim your pubic hair before we met?"



尋找午夜之吻 In Search of a Midnight Kiss

90 min. 2007



Directed by

Writing credits

Alex Holdridge

Produced by

Seth Caplan ....  producer

Scoot McNairy ....  producer

2009 Independent Spirit Awards Independent Spirit Awards



Scoot McNairy  ...  Wilson

Sara Simmonds  ...  Vivian

Brian McGuire  ...  Jacob

Kathleen Luong  ...  Min (as Katie Luong)

Twink Caplan  ...  Wilson's Mother

Robert Murphy  ...  Jack

Bret Roberts  ...  Bui



"Wind of Change"

Performed by Sybil

Written by Scorpions (as The Scorpions)









深閨疑雲 Suspicion

99 min. 1941



Writing credits

Samson Raphaelson (screenplay) 

Joan Harrison (screenplay)  

Alma Reville (screenplay)

Anthony Berkeley (from the novel "Before the Fact" by) (as Francis Iles)



Cary Grant ...  Johnnie

Joan Fontaine ...  Lina 

1942 Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role



Cedric Hardwicke ...  General McLaidlaw (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)

Nigel Bruce ...  Beaky

Dame May Whitty ...  Mrs. McLaidlaw

Isabel Jeans ...  Mrs. Newsham

Heather Angel ...  Ethel - Maid

Auriol Lee ...  Isobel Sedbusk

Reginald Sheffield ...  Reggie Wetherby

Leo G. Carroll ...  Captain Melbeck

Carol Curtis-Brown ...  Jessie Barham (uncredited)

Alfred Hitchcock ...  Man Mailing Letter (uncredited) 



1.

Director Cameo: [Alfred Hitchcock] about 45 minutes in, mailing a letter at the village post office.

2.

In the scene where Johnnie brings a glass of milk up to Lina, Alfred Hitchcock had a light hidden in the glass to make it appear more sinister.

3.

Joan Fontaine's performance in this movie is the only Oscar-winning performance that Alfred Hitchcock directed.

4.

This movie marked Alfred Hitchcock's first film as a producer as well as director.

5.

Alfred Hitchcock wanted an ending similar to the climax of the novel, but the studio, more concerned with Cary Grant's "heroic" image, insisted that it be changed.

5.5

Writer Donald Spoto, in his biography of Hitchcock, "The Dark Side Of Genius", disputes Hitchcock's claim to have been overruled on the film's ending.

5.6

Spoto claims that the first RKO treatment and memos between Hitchcock and the studio show that Hitchcock emphatically desired to make a film about a woman's fantasy life.

6.

SPOILER: Alfred Hitchcock originally wanted Johnnie to be guilty, but the studio insisted that the public wouldn't accept Cary Grant as a murderer. Hitchcock's original ending had Johnny killing Lina by poisoning her milk, but then convicting himself by mailing a letter that Lina had written.

Crass

crass







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D



–adjective 

1. without refinement, delicacy, 

or 

sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid: crass commercialism; a crass misrepresentation of the facts.  



2. Archaic. thick; coarse. 



obtuse

–adjective

2. not sharp, acute, or pointed; blunt in form.





C



crass (adj.)   

 

is a pejorative word meaning a range of unpleasant, gross, affrontive, tasteless, stupid, egregious, insensitive things, and it is often used, especially in the adverb crassly, as an intensifier with no very explicit meaning. It is Standard in these senses and uses. 





　

This is one film that could benefit, dramatically, from the gutsy decision to become crasser and more graphic, to make palpable for the audience the grimy filth and humiliation of Bettie's molestation, spousal abuse, and sexual assault, thus drawing an even more vivid contrast between these events and the modeling.



As for its strengths, Harron and lead Gretchen Mol somehow convey Page's innocence so thoroughly that the film's recreations of the Bunny Yeager nude stills come across as unadulterated celebrations of the female body -- 



so [pure] and [unfettered] 

that 

we feel an angel has [disrobed] before us, 



and find ourselves subconsciously overlooking Bettie's birthday suit. It is a mystifying accomplishment. (How did the filmmakers pull this off?) Equally admirable is cinematographer W. Mott Hupfel III's ability to somehow capture the look (in movie form) of old black-and-white '50s photographs and (in the film's Miami sequences) early Kodachrome snapshots, with their heightened primary colors. 



Overall, Harron has created an interesting if flawed work, and a worthy addition to the overlooked cinematic canon of obscure period biopics -- much as she did with her debut, 1996's I Shot Andy Warhol. But, in the final analysis, 



the film feels [vapid] and [empty], 

like 

a hand reaching for something [elusive] 

and 

grasping only [air].





bumpkin rustic yokel

boor

They snickered and whispered and made [boors] of themselves.

churl

isn't it [churlish] to ask why they didn't take less time to do what everyone can do? 

He was a churl in his [affections].  

obtuse

crass

This is one film that could [benefit], dramatically, from the gutsy decision to become [crasser] and more graphic

The sheer [crassness] of some of the scenarios -- 

the crass methods of [political] hucksters.

knave

Our Lady of Humanitarian Narcissism here [endures] another dreadful fate: losing her child to a mob of [knaves]

Schmuck

Deprecate

deprecate







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D



–verb (used with object)

1. to express earnest disapproval of. 

2. to urge reasons against; protest against (a scheme, purpose, etc.).

3. to depreciate; belittle.

4. Archaic. to pray for deliverance from. 





　

Downey is spirited and winning in one of the more conventional roles he's played to date, displaying both his quicksilver inventiveness and hangdog self-deprecation. 



As the wilted housewife brought back to full [bloom] by a little Latin loving, Hunt has most of the good lines and delivers them with expert timing. De Almeida is all charm and smooth moves, and Stevens and Zane both make the most of brief roles. 



quicksilver

【化】水銀,汞

wilt

–verb (used without object) 

1. to become limp and drooping, 

as 

a fading flower; wither.

2. to lose strength, vigor, assurance, etc.: to wilt after a day's hard work. 



Productionwise, pic looks to have been one of the choice crew assignments in recent times, with the fabulous locations caught in peak season. Sven Nykvist's lensing, heavy on travelogue, bathes the exquisite settings, and Luciana Arrighi's production design, in rosy warmth. Rachel Portman's able score is abetted by any number of standard and classical tunes.





decry 

(vigorous disapproval, denounce) 

to decry [all] forms of discrimination. 

deprecate

(earnest, thoughtful dispproval)

to deprecate a plan because of possible [environmental] damage.

denigrate 

(speak damagingly of, 

criticize in derogatory terms)

denigrating his works as [trifling & poorly] executed. 

derogate

(decrease value)

Fear of change makes them derogate every [proposal] put forth. 

descry 

(discern, rare)

Through the [fog] we could [vaguely] 

de[s]cry the drifting barge.

Castigate