Andy Warhol′s Screen Tests were filmed from early 1964 to November 1966. Factory visitors who had potential "star" quality would be seated in front of a tripod mounted camera, asked to be as still as possible, and told not to blink while the camera was running. Warhol manipulated light and shadow in increasingly inventive ways to capture the appearance, style, personality, and mood of both famous and lesser-known visitors to his studio, the Factory. His subjects included Dennis Hopper, Gerard Malanga, Edie Sedgwick, Susan Sontag, and Salvador Dalí. Although each film was shot at standard sound speed, or twenty-four frames per second, Warhol specified that prints be projected at a slower speed of sixteen frames per second, a rate used in the projection of silent films. The result is an unusual fluidity of pace, a rhythm gently at odds with the starkness of the lighting and the boldness of the close-ups of face and hair.In total more than 500 Screen Tests were made. Helmut was the seventh.
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奥尔良监狱里新来了两个“无辜”的罪犯：Zack（汤姆·威兹 Tom Waits 饰）和Jack（约翰·劳瑞 John Lurie 饰）。Zack是一个DJ，被女友抛弃后在街上浪荡的他接受了一个朋友的工作：把一辆车开到一个地方，路上他却被警察拦了下来随后在车后座发现了一具尸体；而Jack则被一个老朋友所说服，去见一个年轻貌美的妓女，就在他准备享受一番之时，警察破门而入将他带走。不久，监狱里又来了一个意大利杀人犯Bob（罗伯托·贝尼尼 Roberto Benigni 饰）。三人在一间牢房里闹了不少笑话。百无聊赖的他们计划逃狱，竟然成功了。三人艰辛走过沼泽地，穿过树林，来到了一个意大利女人Nicoletta（尼可莱塔·布拉斯基 Nicoletta Braschi 饰演）住的小屋。Bob和Nicoletta两个意大利人沉浸在爱河中，最后只剩下Jack和Zack继续上路，而他们两人又将在面对岔路口时走向何方......本片由美国独立电影导演吉姆·贾木许Jim Jarmusch执导，为一部黑白电影，参加了1986年的戛纳电影节。