美國派(番外篇)4：集體露營

啄木鳥和雨

　　寧靜的山村進入雨季。村中的老伐木工人岸克彥（役所廣司 飾）為人古板，與兒子關系緊張。他在上工途中給東京來的新人導演田邊幸一（小栗旬 飾）和副導演帶路，由此被拉入一部喪尸電影的外景拍攝。在被迫充當臨時演員后，克彥竟對電影產生了微妙的興趣，他開始不請自來的幫助攝制組與村民溝通，開展工作，甚至忽略了本職與妻子的忌日。　　突然闖入的攝制組擾亂了山村的平靜和克彥的生活，也改變了導演幸一自身。幸一生性靦腆缺乏自信，在攝制組中毫無威信。偶然間他發現自己的喪尸劇本竟為克彥所欣賞，不禁大受鼓舞，兩人在數次的泡澡時間里進行了奇妙的溝通。在克彥的幫助下，幸一慢慢樹立了自信，電影拍攝也步入正軌。然而臨關機前的一場瓢潑大雨再次令拍攝陷入危機，克彥的缺席也令幸一惶恐無措起來……　　影片獲第24屆東京國際電影節評委會大獎。片中兩位主演役所廣司和小栗旬在現實中亦均擔任過導演。

亭亭鳳凰臺

該片以詩圣杜甫創作鳳凰臺為引，講述了三位甘肅成縣人士回鄉參加鄉賢大會時，揭開了一段深埋于記憶長河的往事。

在你的愛情里

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.

潛艦情緣

她是一名戰術潛艇軍官。他是管家。在潛水90天之前，她選擇了“四個小時”。但它就在這里！誰跟著她！誰粘的！如果747機組人員以浪漫為榮，我們會去哪里？就像我們有時間在軍事建筑上戀愛一樣！然而，太平洋還不夠大。北冰洋也沒有。當你用如此偉大的愛彼此相愛時，世界是如此渺小。。。

血腥兄弟會

　　A group of college freshmen pledge an exclusive fraternity but soon realize there's more at stake than they could have ever imagined.