女教师2

等待方舟

　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.

三十一

　　万圣节前一天，五名狂欢节员工被绑架挟持到一个称为“肃杀世界”的孤立院子。在万圣节时，他们会被扔进一个名叫“31”的虐待狂的游戏中，他们将面对一群穿得像小丑一样的疯子。然而，小丑并不是唯一需要担心的，一个更宏大的邪教仪式和更残酷的阴谋将被唤醒......

百年好合

　　富豪洪飞虎（古天乐 饰）因怪病找到峨嵋派掌门王凤（郑秀文 饰），她对飞虎的生性傲慢毫无好感，于是用尽各种奇怪的方法治疗飞虎。王凤的师姐李莫愁（李冰冰 饰）突然出现，并扬言要铲除峨嵋派。未免伤及无辜，王凤尽快医好了飞虎。知道了王凤的恶作剧之后，飞虎愤然离开了。　　为了与师姐决战，王凤急需练好“伤心断肠剑”，但从未经历伤心之苦的她 无法领悟“百年好合”这一招式的要领，王凤在众人的劝说下决定求助与飞虎。飞虎不计前嫌，用尽办法让王凤伤心，练好招式。王凤又能否成功？

肖菲勒

中华战士

　　影片以悲壮的笔触，描述了30年代时期，不丹国卡尔城金将军与日军勾结，在城里生产毒气，中国派遣特务“天字第一号”和现代镖局负责接出城主尤达。女镖师阿琼在爱慕尤达的金将军女儿芊芊帮助下，意欲和尤达一起逃走，但“天字第一号”力主要破坏毒气计划，结果被抓。金将军为救爱女，反过来帮助他们，与日军开始一场大战。