红辣椒(1991)

 Hamish arrives on the soil of his mother’s birth; she is felt instantly. A shocking car accident rips him apart, shattering his clenched control. A beast broken, he finds himself lost in the world of his long deceased mother. Young teen Evan, also involved in the accident befriends Hamish.The tremors of want and love beneath the stifling soil push to the surface, as he is led by the vitality of the unbridled boy Evan. He experiences the electric eroticism of living, and danger. His rage accelerates to violence, and ultimately his vibrant release.

 改编自赛珍珠的普立兹奖小说，是好莱坞在三十年代开始注意东方题材的代表性作品。影片虽是描写中国农村夫妇的悲剧故事，但主角均由美国人扮演，导演悉尼．弗兰克林也采取西方古典电影的风格来处理，在制作上相当严谨认真。剧情描写保罗．茂尼与路易丝．莱娜本来是贫困的农民，面对饥荒的威胁甚至以烤土充饥。后来茂尼得到了一笔财富，竟整天花天酒地迷恋情妇，莱娜只有发挥贤妻的耐性期待丈夫浪子回头。今天看来类似故事已显得老套，但本片的拍摄与特技表现杰出，路易丝．莱娜亦获得奥斯卡最佳女主角奖。

 Exploring the friendship between renowned preacher George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin, and Whitefield's impact during the pivotal Great Awakening religious movement.

　　所谓的无船员的船携带咖啡驶入纽约,但是当警察和一些科学家在船上发现了船员可怕的尸体和大量的盒子装满绿色虫蛋。爆炸的时候蛋温度升高和任何人谁接触的物质都会爆炸。现在政府介入和幸存的军官,一名上校和一名宇航员发现这些蛋可能与灾难性的火星任务有关。

Ayşe, Ali, Mehmet and Zeynep are middle-class millennials struggling to make ends meet in Istanbul. Either still living with their parents or hardly getting by without help from their families, they are all beset by similar woes: money crunch, joblessness, social isolation. In view of the world’s horrors that Zeynep enumerates in her diary entries, these are minor problems, ‘slight disasters’, but they are all-consuming, at least to the extent of making them cry in the still of the night. 　　However, Umut Subasi’s first feature, Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster, is not a melodrama. With an appealingly light touch, it diagnoses the malaise of a generation that has run up against a dead end, one whose future prospects are indistinguishable from a game of chance. This is a world where astrology, the lottery and online personality tests compete with visa and job applications as life-shaping elements. 　　Fittingly, the film is structured around chance and coincidence, with its handful of characters encountering each other in every permutation, as though there were no world outside this small social bubble. With self-aware, frontal framing that pins characters to their surroundings and a counterintuitive musical score that turns pathos into humour, Subasi offers a social-media movie without social media, one whose characters are united in their double lives and frustrated desires. 　　源自：https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2023/films/almost-entirely-a-slight-disaster

　　在喜玛拉雅山长大的亚星（郑中基）练有一身瑜伽好功夫，某日奉父母之命下山参加印度西施家族举办的瑜伽选夫比赛的途中，被恨嫁的大家姐（应采儿）缠住。为了阻止亚星参加比赛，大家姐想出把他变成人见人厌的坏小子的狠招，不想联合三大恶人也没能将亚星改变，不甘心之下，大家姐又找来以坏混世的大胆叔叔（吴镇宇）。　　可惜大胆叔叔与朋友惊青舅父（刘青云）及其两个外甥已不幸被印度催眠术催眠，连自己是谁都不再晓得，然而亚星总算找到了领门人，赌场的两头神蛇把他教成了沉迷于赌博和吸毒的坏小子，此时，大家姐发现还是原来的亚星比较好，决定陪其一同喝下“印度神奇油”回到从前。