1942年，精品抗日战争与第二次世界大战正处于白热化阶段。燎原之火，精品生灵涂炭，天灾人祸，哀鸿遍野。当军事家和政治家的目光聚焦在一城一郭的征伐劫掠之时，几乎鲜少有人注意到古老的中原河南正爆发一场惨绝人寰的大旱灾。影片的主角老东家（张国立 饰），狡猾、市侩，典型的封建地主，可即便如此也无法对抗这史无前例的灾难，他被迫逃荒，亲眼见证着儿子、儿媳、老伴等亲人的种种死状。他的遭遇是三百万灾民的缩影，面对这群人的苦难，无论是高高在上的蒋委员长（陈道明 饰），还是深入民间报道灾难真相的美国记者白修德（阿德里安•布劳迪 Adrien Brody 饰），以及海内外的每一个人，如何能从这眼前的人间炼狱之景侧目。绝望无止的逃生坎途，中华民族多舛命运的苦难一斑……本片根据刘震云的小说《温故一九四二》改编。
吴名慧
回复 :詹姆斯·莫里森（James Morrison，1932-2020年）是苏格兰最有天赋的画家之一。 安东尼·巴克斯特（弗林特）在詹姆斯因视力下降和身体状况不佳而苦苦挣扎的最后两年里，为他拍摄了影片。 结果是对这名男子及其遗产的喜爱，深情的肖像，在他的职业生涯中获得了荣耀，其中包括生动地描绘了格拉斯哥的生活，苏格兰海洋和天空的雷鸣般的肖像，冬天的巴黎以及他在北极的工作。 这部电影以Catriona Black的可爱动画和Karine Polwart的优美配乐反映了莫里森的个性和才华。
满江
回复 :Siddartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee) is forced to discontinue his medical studies due to unexpected and brutal death of his father. He has to now find a job in stead. In one job interview, he is asked to name the most significant world event in the last ten years. His reply is 'the plain human courage shown by the people of Vietnam', instead of the expected - man landing on moon. The interviewer asks is he is a communist. Needles to say that he does not get the job.He reaches a coffee shop where he is offered to work for the communist party. When he does not show any interest the party leader tells him about an opening for a medical representative. To escape from the heat and have a snooze, he goes in to a cinema. As a government propaganda newsreel is being shown before the feature, a bomb explodes in the cinema hall. In the stampede that follows, Siddartha, breaks his watch. He goes to a watchmaker but he cannot afford the repairs.Waiting to cross the road, he notices a sexy girl. He drifts back to his days as a medical student in a flashback. The professor is explaining anatomy of female breast. Many flashbacks and dreams occur to Siddartha through the film.On his way to hostel, he has an encounter with some hippies. Along with an ex-classmate, he goes out to see a porn film but to their disappointment, the film turns out to be not-so-pornographic.In such constant wandering in a Calcutta, disintegrated relationships with his sister and a Naxalite (militant communist) brother, his friendship with Keya is only thing that keeps him sane.Keya is a simple girl. They enjoy each other's company but they cannot make any commitment to each other due to the circumstances.After yet another attempt at a job interview, Siddartha leaves the big city to take a modest job of a salesman in a far off small town. He writes to Keya that he still cherishes their relationship. And that he has heard that bird call again but this time it is for real, and not his mind. After completing the letter, he comes out to the balcony of his modest room. The bird calls again. He also hears the sombre chants of a funeral procession. As he turns to the camera, the picture is frozen.This is the first film of the Calcutta Trilogy. The other two were and Seemabaddha (Company Limited, 1971) and Jana Aranya (The Middle Man, 1975). All the three films study the effect the big city of Calcutta has on the educated youth and the price it extracts from them.The seventies were a difficult period for India and West Bengal. The Corruption was rampant; the Naxalite movement had created havoc in Calcutta. In fact, they had turned parts of Calcutta into 'liberated zones'. By the time the Naxalite movement died down, in 1975, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (then, Prime Minister of India) suppressed the fundamental rights and declared "Emergency" for her own political survival. Her son, Sanjay Gandhi became a dictator of sorts without any official designation. The opposition leaders were thrown into prisons.About his social responsibilities as a filmmaker, in an interview with Cineaste magazine, Ray commented, "You can see my attitude in The Adversary where you have two brothers. The younger brother is a Naxalite. There is no doubt that the elder brother admires the younger brother for his bravery and convictions. The film is not ambiguous about that. As a filmmaker, however, I was more interested in the elder brother because he is the vacillating character. As a psychological entity, as a human being with doubts, he is a more interesting character to me. The younger brother has already identified himself with a cause. That makes him part of a total attitude and makes him unimportant. The Naxalite movement takes over. He, as a person, becomes insignificant."In a letter to Seton in 1970, Ray wrote that Pratidwandi was the most provocative film he had made till then. The film is said to have evoked extreme reactions. "People either loved the film or hated it", Dhritiman Chatterjee told Andrew Robinson, Ray's biographer.
李珊
回复 :这部纪录片由资深音乐录影带导演格兰特·辛格执导，以亲密的视角纪录了蒙德兹过去几年的生活和旅程。
