一口气拿下葡萄牙国际电影节的最佳导演、最佳女主角及特别评审团大奖，〈Sorum〉这座鬼魅公寓又确是几得人惊。主角Yong-hyun刚搬进的504号房，上一手住客是死于火灾的作家。左邻右里 - 三流作家、失恋女子、的士司机和理发师 - 又全是神怪之辈，每人都似乎有不为人知的不快经历。究竟，504号这人间阴糟藏着甚么秘密？传说中死去的弃婴，又何时重访？结局一张挂墙旧照，震撼地砌出千丝万缕的家族情仇。导演不卖弄鬼怪，靠音效靠埸景靠气氛的营造阵阵阴气，看不到的鬼魅（即如心中有鬼？）才最慑人心寒。

《浊流》分为三个篇章，分别改编自明治时期日本女作家樋口一叶的三个短篇小说《十三夜》、《除夕》和《浊流》。导演今井正是50年代日本左派电影的代表人物，本片他以女性的命运作为故事的发展主线，细致展示了明治时期市井百姓的生活。

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.

日本漫畫大師手塚治虫的著名作品《火之鳥》，主軸向生命意義提出了問號。「火之鳥」是中國傳說中的「火鳳凰」，亦是西方神話中的「不死鳥」。牠擁有千年的壽命，老去之後，牠會投身火中，然後獲得重生。相傳任何人只要嚐了火鳥的血即能獲得永恆的生命，長生不死。由古而今以至未來，為了這個遠古的夢想而引發的爭戰殺戮從沒間斷。此輯收錄了鳳皇篇.宇画篇.大和篇