韩宝仪
发表于1分钟前回复 :转自:http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/2010/views-from-the-avant-garde-friday-october-1/views-from-the-avant-garde-jean-marie-straub“The end of paradise on earth.”—Jean-Marie StraubThe 33rd verse and last chant of “paradise” in Dante’s Divine Comedy. The film starts with verse 67, “O somma luce…” and continues to the end. “O Somma luce” recalls the first words uttered by Empedocles in Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 1987 The Death of Empedocles—“O himmlisch Licht!…” (O heavenly light!). This extract from Hölderlin’s text is also inserted into their 1989 film Cézanne.“O somma luce” invokes utopia, or better still “u-topos,” Dante, Holderlin, Cézanne… the camera movement, recalling Sisyphus, in the film’s long shots, suggests its difficulty.In O somma luce, with Giorgio Passerone’s Dante and the verse that concluded the Divine Comedy, we find at the extremity of its possibilities, the almost happy speech of a man who has just left earthly paradise, who tries to fully realize the potential of his nature. Between the two we find the story of the world. The first Jean-Marie Straub film shot in HD.So singular are the textual working methods of Straub-Huillet, and now Straub on his own, that it is hard to grasp how far reaching they are. Direction is a matter of words and speech, not emotions and action. Nothing happens at the edges, everything is at the core and shines from there alone.During the rehearsals we sense a slow process by which ingredients (a text, actors, an intuition) progress towards cohesiveness. It is, forgive the comparison, like the kneading of dough. It is the assembling and working of something until it becomes something else… and, in this case, starts to shine. Actually it’s very simple, it’s just a question of opening up to the light material that has been sealed up. Here, the process of kneading is to bring to life and then reveal. The material that is worked on is speech. So it is speech that becomes visible—nothing else. “Logos” comes to the cinema.The mise en scène of what words exactly?The process of revealing, “phainestai”; “phainomenon,” the phenomenon, is what take splace, what becomes visible to the eye.Is “Straubie” Greece?This mise en scène of speech, which goes beyond a close reading of the chosen text, is truly comes from a distant source.—Barbara Ulrich
冯晓泉
发表于2分钟前回复 :《镖行天下前传之燃眉危机》讲述右玉关在番军的长期围攻之下岌岌可危,奸相严嵩把持下的朝政却坐视不管,右玉关守将杨选只有率部顽强抵抗,苦苦等待友军支援的粮草。平安镖局押送的粮草于纷飞的战火中安全送达右玉关,无疑给已经断粮三天的右玉关雪中送炭。平安镖局副总镖头谷平安将押镖的粮草交付给守将杨选,获悉番军最近虽不攻城,却接连向城内抛扔死尸。谷平安当即赶到城门处察看番军抛扔进城的死尸,发现每具死尸上都有不同程度的黑斑。谷平安押镖行走江湖多年,见多识广粗通医术,知道死尸上的黑斑乃传染性极强、病死率极高的黑斑病。谷平安、王兆兴在察看完右玉关的殓尸房准备集中处理的尸体之后,更加坚定番军通过黑斑病将右玉关变成一座死城的企图。黑斑病在右玉关迅速蔓延,城内民众和兵士感染上黑斑病的人数不断增加,如何根治黑斑病、制止黑斑病在右玉关蔓延,成了能不能守住右玉关的关键所在。守将杨...