天龙八部23

一沙一界，窥一山而知天下。一部平静的纪录片，创作者作为一个观察者，以青原山为轴心，不采用解说词，用客观镜头记录下青原山周遭繁荣、破败、新建、遗弃、农业、工业、佛儒、信仰、自然环境等等。该片为佛、儒、农、工、商、新、旧、山、水等九部分组成，以青原山为轴心，全方位阐释了一沙一世界的中心思想，用不一样的视角表现了人文发展带来了变化，引人深思。

行驶于太平洋上的运输船海龙丸遭遇奇怪的环礁，保险公司的草薙直哉（小野寺昭 饰）和海上保安厅的米森良成（伊原剛志 饰）奉命前去调查。他们在环礁上发现了神秘的碑文和饰品，不久，环礁发生剧烈抖动，俄而竟化作一只巨龟，互相飞向空中。另一方面，位于九州的姫神岛屿大陆失去联系。鸟类学家长峰真弓（中山忍 饰）与刑警大迫力（螢雪次朗 饰）前去寻找失踪的平田教授，却在当地遭遇三只以人类为食的巨型怪鸟。在内阁的授意下，自卫队对怪鸟展开围捕，而就在这个恐慌的夜晚，巨龟也出现在陆地上，与怪鸟展开惊天动地的搏杀……本片荣获第17届横滨电影节最佳导演、最佳女配角（中山忍）、最佳脚本和最佳技术四项大奖；第19届日本电影学院奖最佳女配角奖；1995年电影旬报十佳影片第6名，也是80年来唯一一部入选旬报十佳的怪兽电影。

Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.

台湾中国菜硕果仅存的大师老朱（郎雄）退休后，渐尝老年生活的诸多尴尬：每周日费心做出的一桌丰盛菜肴，并无将三个女儿（杨贵媚、吴倩莲、王渝文）齐齐拉到饭桌的吸引力，已经长大成人的她们，心里藏了许多比陪父亲吃饭更重要的事；多年老友的突然离世，令他在友情这块也有了缺口；而对厨师来讲最重要的味觉的丧失，则将其彻底推到人生的低谷。三个女儿虽各忙各事，却也操心着老朱的晚年生活，计划着为其找个老伴，但她们没料到老朱早已悄无声息地谈起了“黄昏恋”。吃惊过后，老朱最看重的继承了他做菜天赋的二女儿家倩因为自身的生活经历，对父亲、她与父亲的关系有了新的认识，而对老朱来讲更大的惊喜，还在后面。