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　　苏联版的“侠盗罗宾汉”的故事。因为可以接触到客户的财务数据，在保险公司供职的主人公可以推断出哪些客户是诈骗犯或腐败分子。他白天是朝九晚五的公司职员，晚上是“偷车大盗”。 他“抢劫和敲诈”那些坏人的汽车，并把获得的钱都匿名捐给慈善机构。他很快遇到了一个麻烦，他最好的朋友是个警察，正在竭力抓捕那个窃车贼...
　　目前看过梁赞诺夫最好的作品，一个俄版都市侠盗的故事，简单而精巧，情节紧凑人物丰富，喜剧桥段大都能够跨越语言的界限，之后几部著名作品中使用的的手法也基本成熟，尤其是其中追逐的桥段对空间的立体运用十分独特，效果超越同时期好莱坞公路电影。

　　文德斯1995年的纪录片，其实是他在慕尼黑电影学校教学期间鼓励学生们一起跟他玩的纪录片。纪录片献给了德国电影先驱
　　与卢米埃尔几乎在同时发明电影的德国人马可斯兄弟。因为素材少，于是就用默片的方式来搬演。影片前15分钟可以单独成章，是用马克斯女儿的旁白来演出父亲如何发明活动影像。随后才放入当时已白发苍苍的女儿露西的访谈。
　　文德斯还嫌玩得不够，于是把照片里的三兄弟之一和露西的姐姐一起请出来，黑白的他们和彩色的世界。又是一出天使下凡的《柏林苍穹下》，那些漂亮的移动镜头配合了先人抬头观看的黑白画面，说不出的美丽。

　　MC and journalist Shad Kabango meets with Hip-Hop's biggest stars to retrace how Hip-Hop became the world's most popular music, but realizes that Hip-Hop's true legacy is something much more profound.

　　结束了与北海巨妖的战争，英雄珀修斯（萨姆·沃辛顿 Sam Worthington 饰）与儿子赫利俄斯（约翰·贝尔 John Bell 饰）在一座小村庄过着平静的生活。但是奥林匹亚的战火从未停歇，以宙斯（连姆•尼森 Liam Neeson 饰）为首的众神与泰坦巨人进行着旷日持久的惨烈战争，甚至连被宙斯囚禁良久的三神（天神宙斯、海神波塞冬、冥王哈迪斯）之父——克洛诺斯也即将复活。战争的天平渐渐向泰坦巨人一方倾斜，在冥王哈迪斯（拉尔夫·费因斯 Ralph Fiennes 饰）的策划下，宙斯误入冥界，神力尽失，遭到囚禁。为了驱逐黑暗，将光明带回大地，珀修斯重披铠甲，与一众英雄前往冥界营救宙斯，诸神的战火迎来了最关键的时刻……
　　本片为2010年3D电影《诸神之战》的续集。

　　Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.
　　Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)
　　As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.
　　The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).
　　Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.