自慰书店：一个男人，两个女人

捏造

　　2003年，福冈市的一所市立小学，发生了一起老师欺凌学生的恶性事件。一名男性教师以种族歧视为由，对“有美国人血统”的四年级学生处处找碴，施行恶毒的语言暴力和残酷的体罚。该学生的家长对教师提起民事诉讼，550名律师自发组成原告律师团。福冈市教育委员会也对教师做出了停职处罚。行为如此恶劣的教师堪称罕见，经《周刊文春》《朝日新闻》等主流媒体报导，引起轩然大波，涉案教师被冠上“史上最恶劣的‘杀人教师’”的名号；但欺凌事件真的发生了吗？随着调查的深入，事件发生了惊人的逆转……　　影片改编自记者福田真澄2007年出版的一本书，名为《捏造：福冈“杀人老师”的真相》。

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.

坏继母

　　Following the sudden and mysterious death of their father, a brother and sister return home to their sprawling New Orleans estate and encounter their unhinged stepmother, who will stop at nothing to gain control of their inheritance.

老人与猫

 哈利（ Art Carney 饰）是个退休教师，终其一生都在为妻女奋斗，住在纽约上西区的他，一直没有为自己追求什么，当政府为了兴建停车场而决定拆除哈利的房子，他打包行李带着他最忠心的好友 Tonto 一同展开了一场跨越美国的旅程，他沿途拜访子女与多年好友，也因此结识了许多新朋友...本片由 Paul Mazursky 执导，获得1974年奥斯卡最佳男主角与金球奖喜剧音乐类影片最佳男主角。

第27天生死劫

蒙特利尔，我的美人

53岁华裔移民凤霞（陈冲 饰）在加拿大蒙特利尔已经生活了大半辈子，人生被“妻子、母亲、移民”的身份牢牢捆绑：一段早已失去爱意的婚姻、需要照料的家庭、中西文化的夹缝，让她活成了别人期待的样子，也压抑了真实的自我。直到她遇见充满活力的年轻魁北克女孩卡米尔（夏洛特·奥宾 饰），一段意外的亲密关系唤醒了她埋藏多年的欲望与渴望。凤霞被迫直面内心的渴望，在家庭责任与自我解放、传统束缚与自由人生之间，做出艰难却决绝的选择，完成一场迟来的中年觉醒与自我救赎。

怪物计划

　　一个想拍摄出恐怖纪录片的剧组在网路上发布了试镜公告，表明他们要找寻隐藏于现实生活中的骇人怪物，没想到有三个自称兽行者、吸血鬼与恶魔的报名者要前来试镜。他们相约于月全蚀之夜，在一栋森林中的偏远豪宅见面，原本只是要请对方分享自己的灵异经验，没想到竟弄假成真，变调成一场挥之不去的恐怖梦魇。