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　　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.

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 砵仔糕（周潤發(fā) 飾）、阿占（張國榮 飾）和紅豆（鐘楚紅 飾）均是孤兒，在養(yǎng)父（曾江 飾）栽培下成為國際大盜。長大后成了幫他賺錢的藝術(shù)品大盜，而三人同時又認了警察（朱江 飾）為干爹。法國巴黎博物館內(nèi)，名畫《赫林之女仆》被人盜走。與此同時，阿海、阿占和紅豆三人以敏捷身手盜得另一幅名畫，在與法國大哥交易時得知名畫《赫林之女仆》在妖氣重重的古堡內(nèi)，他們在曾江安排下成功地盜取此畫之后，反被集團原兇曾江與法國大哥合謀設(shè)下陷阱，派人追殺滅口。阿海駕車與殺手快艇相撞……三人失散，數(shù)年后，他們在香港重聚，阿海“癱瘓”住在朱江家里，阿占和紅豆已經(jīng)結(jié)婚了。曾江又逼他們?nèi)ネ诞嫛?/p>

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　　Saban Films拿下方·基默、帕特里克·約翰·弗魯格(《芝加哥警署》)主演影片[公寓管理員](The Super，暫譯)北美發(fā)行權(quán)。導(dǎo)演施特凡·里克([月之陰面])，編劇約翰·J·麥克勞克林([黑天鵝])，故事圍繞一位公寓管理員調(diào)查紐約一棟豪華公寓住客失蹤案展開。迪克·沃爾夫(《法律與秩序》)擔(dān)任制片。