本片描写了十九世纪末期，制服意大利北部贫穷困苦的农村中好几户农家生活的点滴，制服由很多个小故事组成。其中的一段叙述一位佃农的儿子去学校读书，对当时这个地方的人而言，读书是件很不容易的事情，家长不懂得受教育的意义与好处，不愿意送孩子去读书，神父多次劝告下家长方才这样做的。这些家庭还需要在生活上加倍省吃俭用来供这些孩子们读书。一个佃农的孩子在读书回来时，鞋子坏了，父亲就砍了一颗树，连夜制成了一双木鞋。地主知道了这事之后，就把这户佃农赶了出去。影片讲述了3个农夫同在一个东家干活的故事，尤其要强调的是各个家庭成员与他们邻居的关系。意大利导演艾玛诺·欧密以其敏锐的能力把一些非专业演员安排在此片做主演，历时12个月。这部影片就影像风格来说几乎是一部纪录片，不同的只是由演员来表演，是生活流电影的名作。重现19世纪意大利佃农生活，优美动人。此片因其精彩的表演和感人的情节荣获1978年戛纳电影节最佳影片金棕榈大奖、1979年恺撒电影节最佳外语片奖等十多项国际性电影大奖。这部影片就影像风格来说几乎是一部纪录片，不同的只是由演员来表演，是生活流电影的名作。荣获第31届戛纳电影节最佳影片金棕榈奖。
回复 :本片采用了事件重现的方法再现了1976年美国得克萨斯州达拉斯市一起枪杀警察案。导演埃罗尔•莫里斯（Errol Morris）11年后采访了被判死刑、后转终身监禁的犯罪嫌疑人兰道•亚当姆斯（Randall Adams）、指证亚当姆斯的惯犯大卫•哈里斯（David Harris）、当年案件审判的三位证人米勒夫妇和麦克•兰道（Michael Randall），以及参与此案侦破与审判的警察、法官与律师们。通过不同人物对案件发生情形不同角度的描述，莫里斯成功证实了亚当姆斯的冤屈，并借片中一位公诉员之口点名警察是区分一个民主社会与极权的“细蓝线”。此片的公映在美国引起极大反响。德克萨斯罪犯申诉庭推翻了对亚当姆斯的判决。由于达拉斯拒绝对此案进行重审，亚当姆斯终于1989年被无罪释放，后成为积极反对死刑的社会活动家。本片也成为美国纪录片史上极为重要的一部，赢得国际纪录片协会大奖、美国国家影评人协会奖，并入选美国国家电影保护局保护名单。
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回复 :Frank Lloyd Wright is America's greatest-ever architect. However, few people know about the Welsh roots that shaped his life and world-famous buildings. Now, leading Welsh architect Jonathan Adams sets off across America to explore Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpieces for himself. Along the way, he uncovers the tempestuous life story of the man behind them and the significance of his radical family background.In a career spanning seven decades, Frank Lloyd Wright built over 500 buildings, and changed the face of modern architecture: Fallingwater, the house over the waterfall, has been called the greatest house of the 20th century; the spiralling Guggenheim Museum in New York reinvented the art museum; the concrete Unity Temple was the first truly modern building in the world. But the underlying philosophy that links all Wright's buildings is as important as anything he built.Those ideas were rooted in the Unitarian religion of Frank Lloyd Wright's mother. Anna Lloyd Jones was born and raised near Llandysul in west Wales and migrated to America with her family in 1844, most likely to escape religious persecution. Her son, Frank, was raised in a Unitarian community in Wisconsin, a small piece of Wales in America. The values he absorbed there were based on the sanctity of nature, the importance of hard work, and the need to question convention and defy it where necessary. Wright's architecture was shaped by, and expressed, these beliefs.Frank Lloyd Wright set out to create a new American architecture for a new country. He built his own lifelong home in the valley he was raised in, and he named it after an ancient Welsh bard called Taliesin. It was the scene of many adventures - and a horrific crime. In 1914, a servant at Taliesin ran amok and killed seven people including Wright's partner, Mamah Cheney, and her two young children.Wright rebuilt his home and went on to marry a Montenegrin woman, Olgivanna Milanoff, some 30 years younger than him. It was Olgivanna who struck upon the idea that saved Wright's career after the Wall Street Crash and personal scandal laid it low. She decided that her husband should take on apprentices and that the apprentices should pay for the privilege. The Taliesin Fellowship had a hands-on approach, with apprentices often building extensions to Wright's own houses, labouring and cooking for him. Somehow it worked, lasting for decades and nurturing hundreds of young talents.Frank Lloyd Wright died in 1959 aged 91 while working on his final masterpiece, New York's incomparable Guggenheim Museum. He had been born in the wake of the American civil war, the son of a pioneer, and died a television celebrity, in the space age. He is buried in the shadow of Taliesin, alongside his Welsh ancestors.A 150 years after his birth, Jonathan Adams argues that Frank Lloyd Wright is now a vitally important figure who can teach us how to build for a better world. Wright believed in what he called organic architecture; buildings that grace the landscape, express an idea of how to live and respond to individual needs. This bespoke approach - a philosophy, not a style - puts him at the heart of modern architectural thinking.
回复 :一对日久生厌正在办理离婚手续的年轻夫妻，却突然遇上一老一少两个窃贼前来行窃，转眼间行窃意外演变为无法控制的绑架，同时引出一个真假难辨的妖艳小三。这完全不搭调的5个人，由于时空错置造成一系列令人啼笑皆非、欲休还闹的奇特情景，冤家、人质和绑匪也因此逐渐原形毕露……影片融合了悬疑、动作、爱情、喜剧等元素，是一部样式丰富的复合类型片。相信这别具一格的无厘头爆笑款，能让观众在惊险荒诞而又哭笑不得的故事中，最后感悟一种另类别样的真情相爱的发酵过程。
