在世界著名男高音鲁契亚诺·帕瓦罗蒂逝世十周年之际，一部官方授权纪录片宣布立项，由好莱坞著名导演朗·霍华德执导。帕瓦罗蒂1935年出生，2007年因癌症去世，这部未命名纪录片的拍摄将会得到包括帕瓦罗蒂遗产委员会、环球音乐以及Decca唱片等相关部门的全力支持与合作。该片还未确定上映时间。作为好莱坞大导演，人物传记片是朗·霍华德最擅长的类型片之一。

*Shinjuku Mad* was one ofKoji Wakamatsu's six films from 1970. Grim and gritty, stark and steady, burdened with anti-moralizing, generously padded with sex, and totally redeemed by a soundtrack that needs to be released NOW. I knew nothing about this film, loading it up on to my laptop, and every last one of this film's sixty-sixty minutes kept me riveted.Bear with me. The film opens with the band cycling through a jazzy rave-up, the black and images depict dead Japanese throughout a modern city. From the alleyways of the slums, to center of the park, you catch glimpses of bodies everywhere. This introduction is capped off by a lingering shot of a blood-soaked naked woman, face down. By this point, the band has reached a sort of peak. There's a cut, the band changes the direction of the song a bit, and then we're treated to a series of exterior shots from downtown, the lunch hour, maybe. You see a lot of storefronts and stairwells, people moving about. All of the people in these splices are done in negative image.What follows can only be described as harrowing. After the credits, the reel switches to color. We're treated to the on-screen stabbing of a young man in a toga, his attackers strip his special lady-friend of her toga, spend about two minutes smearing her breasts with still-warm blood, and then take turns raping her. She doesn't seem to put up much of a fight. The scene is lensed with all of the enthusiasm of a television spot for a whole foods market.Well, that's a fucked up way to start a movie. If you're still reading, I'll have you know the brutality eases up a little, but the camera's tendency to seek out each scene's more lurid details is relentless. The band never lets up, either. Another constant feature of the film is the protagonist's alienation from society. That's a pretty dated-concept, in a way. This film is cashing in on what could loosely be called the Existential demographic in 1970's Japan. Parts of it could have been written by Oe. Others by Mishima. It definitely, at times, addresses a bit of that lingering air of revolution, but more on that later.The father of the kid stabbed in Technicolor shows up in the nest reel, in the same apartment his son was murdered in. This confused, grieving father asks a totally baked Shoko Asahara for information about the events leading up to his son's death. The long-haired no-goodnik is toking on a Sharpie-sized doobie. He gets so fucking high he passes out and the dad is left there in the empty apartment, getting a major contact-buzz.So, the plot is basically that kind of exchange in larger and larger settings, intercut with glorious shots of the disillusioned father walking through industrial slums. The father, searching for the "Why" to his son's death goes on his quest and pisses just about everyone he comes into contact with off. He goes into subway stations and totally kills some beatniks' buzzes. Then he bullies a Hare Krishna ROCK AND ROLL SUPERSTAR and his belly-dancing percussionist at a park. Then he heads off to a bar, and we're treated to what must have been Tokyo's Greatest Garage Band getting low-down and sleazy here. This scene pretty much sums up what the film is about. As you dig the scuzz and the fuzz, the camera catches all manner of degeneracy and wanton reefer-use. And the bar has no less than three groups of people making out. And they get excessive with the groping.Eventually, the father catches the ringleader of the vicious band of murderer-rapists. "Shinjuku Mad," is his name. After an unbelievably long and convoluted exchange between the protagonist and Shinjuku Mad, it comes out that Mad and the boys are rebelling against all of Japan. It's open season on everyone but them. His son was only a casualty, nothing personal. Their intent is to go on rebelling against society through random acts of violence against people and property.After going through all the trouble of finding Shinjuku Mad, the old man's mind is blown by revolution for revolution's sake. After a few pummellings, he manages to turn the fight around. He winds up leaving with a nude girl that had been tied to a post for the entire scene.He goes back to the apartment his son was murdered in to find his special lady-friend naked with six other dope-smoking cats grooving on free love and blue balls.He decides he's happier with Shinjuku Mad alive and kicking, the band is at another one of its high points, and the camera pans out to the railroad yard, telephones wires, and the bare sides of modern buildings.That was Japan, thirty-seven years ago.

杜威?费恩（Jack Black 杰克?布莱克 饰）是一名已过而立之年，却仍在为理想打拼的摇滚音乐人。他不屑于那种粗制滥造、充满向商业谄媚味道的虚伪乐曲，一心追逐真情实感的纯粹摇滚乐。为此，他和无数支乐队分道扬镳，至今事业无成，还面临被房东赶出去的窘境。杜威的男房东兼老友内德?斯尼勃利（Mike White 麦克?怀特 饰）此前曾是狂热躁动的死亡摇滚乐手，如今摇身一变成为了居家好男人以及代课老师。杜威闲赋家中时，偶然接到一通来自某中学的招聘电话，对方邀请内德迅速来学校代课。穷极无聊兼为生计所迫的杜威偷梁换柱，以内德的身份进入这所校风极为严谨的名门中学教学。学生们的死气沉沉一度让他倍感无聊，某天，杜威无意中发现孩子们的音乐天赋。于是，他瞒天过海，带领这群只知道读书的孩子们进入一个全新且乐趣无穷的摇滚世界……

美国各地发生了数次番茄杀人事件，政府为此成立了一名专家小组来阻止番茄的进一步进攻。本片是一部B级恶搞怪兽片，并以独特的讽刺方式得到了影迷的追捧。