一家银行遭到了劫持,一个吸毒成性的谈判专家迈克尔·约翰逊(迈克尔·加·怀特 Michael Jai White 饰)负责谈判,而绑匪正是他的哥哥(奎顿·杰克逊 Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson 饰)。他无心谈判,一心想要逃走并且在此过程中也不断的羞辱着迈克尔。 一时间,两人玩起了警匪之间的猫鼠游戏……
Wunder der Schöpfung is an extraordinary, fascinating Kulturfilm trying to explain the whole human knowledge of the 1920s about the world and the universe. 15 special effects experts and 9 cameramen were involved in the production of this film which combines documentary scenes, historical documents, fiction elements, animation scenes and educational impact. It its beautifully colored, using tinting and toning in a very elaborated way. Some visual ideas in the sequences with a space shuttle visiting different planets in the universe seem to have to be the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey. In the context of Germany's Kulturfilm phenomenon, Wunder der Schöpfung was among the greatest achievements of the 1920s. The production was constructed, rehearsed, and shot over a period of two and a half years, under the supervision of Hanns Walter Kornblum. The idea to describe the universe and man's place in it well suited UFA's Grossfilm mentality, one year before the Metropolis catastrophe. Hundreds of skilled craftsmen participated in the project, building props and constructing scale models drawn by 15 special effects draughtsmen, while 9 cameramen in separate units worked on the historical, documentary, fiction, animation, and science-fiction sequences. Without star roles or even protagonists, the film's plot is crowded with meticulously structured and skillfully acted single scenes an artful mosaic of small vignettes. No less than four credited university professors ensured the factual background behind the scientific and historical events portrayed. The film's symbol of progress and the new scientific era is a spacecraft, travelling through the Milky Way, making all the planets and their inspiring worlds familiar to us, with the extravaganza of their distinctive features. The film's educational intentions, however, become steadily more obscure, humorous, or even campy as this popularization project proceeds. With the excuse of presenting the end of the world a not-so-new concept as a new, undeniably scientific truth, the film veers happily along a new path, displaying detailed apocalyptic scenes of the end of mankind. For today's audiences, this amazing film demonstrates how the universe was comprehended in the 1920s, and how that view was sold to contemporary audiences.
Mandy is a mother, a writer, a nihilist. Mandy is a modern woman in a crisis. Raising a son in the midst of a female revolution, mining the pain of her parents’ separation and professionally writing about a love that no longer exists, she falls upon a troubled man, Pete, who’s searching for a sense of worth, belonging and ‘restored’ Male identity.
《毒醉心迷》的片名“Better Living Through Chemistry”系越战年代美国著名反战勇士、嬉皮士运动代表人物阿比·霍夫曼(Abbie Hoffman)的名言,直译为“毒品让生活更美好”。 片中的男主人公是一位普通的药剂师,过着糟糕的婚姻生活,直到有一天一位神秘性感的少妇顾客登门拜访,药剂师很快坠入这名神秘少妇的温柔乡,纵情于毒品与两性欢愉,并利用自己的职业同少妇一起精心策划了一场针对其丈夫的谋杀。