赤腳大仙

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.

梅根失蹤

　　梅根斯和艾米性格迥異，卻成為了最好的朋友。一天梅根在網絡聊天室里遇見男孩喬希，兩人一投即合。然而，梅根在去見喬希后神秘消失，艾米于是竭盡全力尋找好朋友。(文/life_is_good@YDY)

塔米·菲的眼睛

 該作品改編自2000年同名紀錄片，講述塔米·菲（杰西卡·查斯坦 飾）和吉姆·貝克（安德魯·加菲爾德 飾）這對夫婦作為電視福音布道家的大起大落。在上世紀70-80年代，塔米·菲和吉姆·貝克從貧寒中奮起，創建了當時世界上最龐大的宗教廣播電視網和一個主題公園，他們傳遞的愛、接納和繁榮的主題受到人們的尊敬。塔米 · 菲以她夸張的睫毛，獨特的歌聲、以及她熱情擁抱各行各業的人們而成為傳奇。不過好景不長，經濟上的不當行為、詭計多端的競爭對手以及性丑聞的爆發使得這對夫婦的婚姻破裂，導致他們精心構建起來的帝國開始崩塌。

超乎想象2

 Bart Millard, lead singer of MercyMe, faces a personal crisis at the peak of his success. As his world unravels, he struggles with his beliefs and inner demons while seeking a path through adversity.

光榮何價

 這部電影是伍迪·格斯的優秀傳記，他是美國最偉大的民謠歌手之一。他在上世紀30年代離開了自己位于得克薩斯州的家，去找工作，發現了美國工人階級的苦難和力量。

風來之所

自父親去世以來，19歲的阿麗莎成了她患有抑郁癥的母親和年幼妹妹的照顧者。她只想逃離自己的責任以及身邊的痛苦。她最好的朋友梅赫迪（23歲）性格內向，患有白癜風。盡管他有文憑，卻仍然失業，這讓他覺得自己對不起家人。兩人都用幽默和想象力來逃避艱苦的生活。梅赫迪講述并繪制超現實主義的故事，而阿麗莎則盡可能地重新塑造自己的現實。當他們得知全國范圍內舉辦的一場繪畫比賽可能會改變他們的生活時，他們偷了一輛車，開始了一場瘋狂的公路旅行。他們的友誼經受了考驗，他們發現了突尼斯最好的一面和最壞的一面。他們的希望破滅了，但他們的旅程改變了他們。三個月后，梅赫迪非法移民離開了，因為阿麗莎無法拋下她的家人。