FBI的头号通缉犯封残（克里斯托弗·沃肯 Christopher Walken 饰）忍狡猾，水菜FBI想尽办法都无法将其缉拿归案。封有一个特殊的爱好，水菜那就是他举办的地下乒乓球赛，这种比赛的特殊之处就在于参赛双方赛前要签订“生死状”。为了早日捉拿峰归案，FBI找到了前职业乒乓球手兰迪（丹·福勒 Dan Fogler 饰），希望他能作为卧底参赛。兰迪已经有20年没有打球了，他觉得这次任务不但可以使自己重拾往日的辉煌，还能替被封害死的父亲报仇，于是他欣然接受了任务。地下乒乓球赛不是你死就是我亡，这里不乏凶狠厉害的乒乓球高手，兰迪真的能顺利完成任务吗？
回复 :17岁的生日派对，24小时的人性大观，在热辣辣的派对，泳池见证了成长。Henry 生日派对前一晚，好友Gabe来过夜，两人无所不谈，谈性说爱，Henry 会否对Gabe动心？生日派对的早上，Henry 的牧师爸爸开始煮早餐，妈妈开始预备，姐姐也回家参加派对。下午，包括爸爸的教会朋友、Henry 的同学和教友，还有一直暗恋亨利的卢根等更多来宾， 都齐集于泳池派对之中。入夜过后，这班青少年和各怀秘密的成年人，将要面对真正的自己。2011年香港同志影展参展作《孩子本色》导演再次探讨信仰和爱慾的关係，信者有冇得救？
回复 :The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements: water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive: Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna.The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator,the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination.Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.
回复 :This is an unusual film of exceptional values--75 minutes long in color, with hardly any spoken dialogs. I saw this Iranian film in Farsi without English subtitles at the Early Iranian cinema retrospective on-going International Film Festival of Kerala, India. That I was watching a print without subtitles did not make a difference as there were very few lines of spoken dialogs.This is a very accessible film for any audience to enjoy--its story and values are not merely Iranian, it's universal.The film is set in rural Iran that had not tasted petro-dollar prosperity. The setting is on fringes of desert land, where water is scarce, rainfall scanty and hardly any blade of grass is green. Add to it wind and dust that buffets and whips man and animal and you can imagine plight of the people who live on the fringes of society.The film is moving tale of a young teenager returning to his village with a goat--only to find his family and villagers have moved on to escape natures vagaries and that one old man remains. He gives the goat to him and goes in search of his family. Water is scarce and well water it treated with reverence and never wasted.
