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| 珈琲時光
Café Lumiére |
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6/11 (Sun) 12:15pm |
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日本 台灣 Japan Taiwan / 2003 / 103mins /
日語及英語對白，中英文字幕
In Japanese & English with English & Chinese Subtitles
導演 Dir: 侯孝賢 Hou Hsiao-hsien
演員 Cast: 淺野忠信 Tadanobu Asano、一青窈 Yo Hitoto
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關於交通工具的電影之中，以鐵路為背景所發展的故事最多。那些定時定候的車聲，那一去不回的列車，那些擦身而過的乘客，不就是人間的寫照？侯孝賢向小津致敬的作品，偏偏顛覆前輩的電影語言風格︰鏡頭不是靜靜躲在一邊，場口之間淡入淡出而非跳接。但父母對未婚懷孕女兒的關懷、舊書店老闆與女作家欲言又止的兒女私情、珍惜老好事物的小津精神，侯孝賢豈會棄之不顧？
Young Japanese
writer Yoko, who has just come back from Taiwan
for researching the life of a musician, finds
out that she is pregnant by a Taiwanese whom
she does not want to marry. Yoko's parents urge
her to marry though her father is uncommunicative
in spite of his wife's best efforts to get him
to open up. During this difficult time she befriends
the owner of a secondhand bookstore, Hajime.
They meet often in coffee shop, make small talks
and enjoy the passing scenes. He is startled
and confused when he learns about Yoko's situation.
Café Lumiére is easy to be distinguished as the
film that Ozu would have made if he lived in
the modern age. The pace deliberately slow, the
film painstakingly detailed and beautifully shot,
allowing us to view the world the characters
inhabit, providing extraordinary details of a
calm Tokyo life.
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| 迷失東京
Lost in Translation |
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13/11 (Sun) 12:30pm |
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美國 US / 2003 / 97mins /
英語、日語、德語及法語對白，中英文字幕
In English, Japanese, German and
French with English & Chinese Subtitles
導演 Dir: 蘇菲亞哥普拉 Sofia Coppola
演員 Cast : 標梅利 Bill Murray、絲嘉莉鍾安遜 Scarlett Johansson
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名導哥普拉和太太吵架，三歲的女兒蘇菲亞會大喊cut阻止。她長大後所拍的第二套長片，也將曖昧關係行將爆發前叫cut，原來導演的天生本領正是要掌握事件該發展到哪個地步。赴日拍廣告的甘草演員碰上悶透的攝影師太太，在陌生的地方靜靜靠近，合該有事之際偏懂得放手讓美好的在心中，恰到好處但窩心得要命，盡得浪漫經典《相逢恨晚》(Brief
Encounter,1945)的精髓。唯有在色慾關係早已見怪不怪的年代，男女之交不越雷池半步的故事才變得感人。
Solitary married middle-age actor meets unhappy married young woman in a place
neither of them is familiar with, and suddenly
realize that they're all the other has got –
at least for the time being. Sofia Coppola takes
what should be the premise for a typical encounter
and turns it into something that anyone who has
ever experienced an emotion of any description
can watch and appreciate. The relationship builds
in intensity until the wonderfully satisfying
conclusion - which nobody will disagree, except
to say that it is at once both heartbreaking
and exquisitely affirming.
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| 池袋色情男女
Scoutman |
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20/11 (Sun) 12:00noon |
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日本 Japan / 2000 / 114mins /
日語對白，中英文字幕 In Japanese with English & Chinese Subtitles
導演 Dir:石岡正人 Masato Ishioka
演員 Cast :松本未來 Miku Matsumoto, 中泉英雄 Hideo Nakaizumi,
藤本由佳 Yuka Fujimoto, 小室有里 Yuri Komuro
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在日本，要入電影圈，拍成人電影是方法之一，石岡正人恰好是成功個案，由他拍這齣「拍三仔」的三仔，有如用解碼眼鏡看清日本AV界內幕二三事的快意。兩個少女的殘酷桃色奮鬥史，故事未必是真但經歷相信不假，反而比貨真價實的紀錄片來得震撼。銅鑼灣少女頂多會被纖體公司或者模特兒公司星探留難，人家池袋的Scoutman(AV星探)一開口就會問靚女拍唔拍AV咩招式唔拍得，光明正大還是究極變態？請記住經濟學的供求定律。Scoutmen
could be defined as the agent to recruit
girls off
the streets for adult video (AV). Don't be
amazed of the dialogues between the scoutmen
and the
girls on the street – direct, not embarrassed
and like dealing the price of a product. A
young couple elopes and come to live
in Tokyo. Once
they burn out their savings, they start to
seek a job and the man comes to know
a group of young
scoutmen and gets hired as one of them. Through
their encounter with these people, the couple's
beliefs and values are shaken. The movie looks
straight into one of the most notorious corners
of Japan's enormous pornographic industry where
girls sell their bodies like common goods,
while overworked salarymen get off weird fetishes
on
the girls.
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| 東京物語
Tokyo Story |
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27/11 (Sun) 12:00noon |
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日本 Japan / 1953 / 136mins /黑白 B&W /
日語對白，中英文字幕 In Japanese with English & Chinese
Subtitles
導演 Dir: 小津安二郎 Ozu Yasujiro
演員 Cast: 笠智眾 Ryu Chishu、原節子 Hara Setsuko、
東山榮子 Higashiyama
Chieko
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看得人心酸，因為你和我都是兒女，兼且或多或少做過以為是無傷大雅的忤逆事情。鄉間的年邁父母出城探望長大成人的兒女，兒女卻各有各的生活未能照料，落得成為人球的下場。最後，老母親病逝，眾人醒覺但遺憾又如何。小津簽名式的低角度拍攝、平穩的鏡頭及笠智眾+原節子不慍不火的演技，還有跡近儒者的人文關懷，大師的電影風格元素一目了然。
An elderly couple arrives in the metropolis to visit their children and grandchildren.
They feel guilty about troubling their hosts,
and sad about being neglected by them. In the
course of the trip, the old couple becomes aware
of both the virtues and vanities of their offspring.
Shortly after returning home, the wife dies.
Tokyo Story displays Ozu's unique style—low camera
height, 180-degree cuts and steady (even static)
camera movements which creates a quiet world
against which his characters' personalities stand
out. Tokyo Story may consist only of a minimal
plot drive, but it carries to a limit of Ozu's
faith that provides more than common drama to
engage us deeply.
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