In Skazka, Alexander Sokurov weaves digital magic to create a phantasmagorical vision of the Afterlife, worthy of Dante. But wait: are we in the limbo of Purgatory, or a paradoxical Paradise reserved for notorious men of world history? Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and more: all are present and accounted for. Since they exist only as archival media images, each figure comes in a serial set. In the blackest of political comedies, these fallen men beg, in turn, to be let through Heaven’s Gate – but the angels who peek through never open wide. Little wonder, as the former leaders wander listlessly, bitching (in a Babel of multiple languages) about each other’s clothes, hair and hygiene. In what is effectively a work of animation, Sokurov has pulled together many talents into an extraordinary technological feat. It blends pictorial elements from art history to form an endlessly unfolding landscape, replete with fog and ghostly armies of the sacrificed victims of history. Announced as Sokurov’s last film, Skazka is an inspired riff on the high culture of Peter Greenaway mixed with the low culture of mash-up artists Soda_Jerk. Can we now expect some entrepreneur to bring us the interactive Skazka video game?
纽约基斯科山,小青年托比·马歇尔(亚伦·保尔 Aaron Paul 饰)和伙伴们共同经营一家改装车行,他同时也是一名技术精湛的赛车高手。虽然刚刚在一场比赛中赢得奖金,但是车行的经营状况还是到了令人堪忧的底部。恰在此时,拥有专业赛车手资格的土豪迪诺·布鲁斯特(多米尼克·库珀 Dominic Edward Cooper 饰)找上门来。迪诺此前撬走了托比的女友,两人可谓不共戴天。但是迪诺此次给他带来一单不小的改装生意,托比和伙伴们成功打造出一辆时速超过370公里的福特野马,而嫉妒心炽盛的迪诺为了最强赛车手的名号向托比发起挑战。为了丰厚的报酬,托比和好友利托·比特共同参赛。谁知迪诺导致利托死亡,事后还嫁祸托比。 出狱后,托比借来他的那辆得意之作福特野马,发誓要为利托讨回公道……
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Howard Tyler (Frank Lovejoy) is a family man, living in California, who can't seem to get by financially. He meets up with a small-time, but charismatic, hood Jerry Slocum (Lloyd Bridges). Soon, Slocum convinces Tyler to participate in gas station robberies to get by. Later, they kidnap a wealthy man in hopes of getting a huge ransom. Things go wrong when the man is murdered by Slocum then thrown in a lake. Tyler reaches his limit emotionally, and he begins drinking heavily. He meets a lonely woman and confesses the crime while drunk. The woman flees and goes to the police. When the two kidnappers are arrested, a local journalist (Richard Carlson) writes a series of hate-filled articles about the two prisoners which eventually lead to a brutal lynching. The despair of the lower middle-class: A family man ashamed of being unemployed allows himself to be convinced by a gangster to take part in a kidnapping. The police arrests them both and the anger of the small town’s population is unforgiving. THE SOUND OF FURY is a dark crime movie that builds up to an apocalyptic storm, but never loses sight of social realities, thus telling a lot about the daily despair of the working-class. A masterpiece, it was Cy Endfield’s last film before he felt compelled to move to Britain.