美人記·昭君

 砵仔糕（周潤發 飾）、阿占（張國榮 飾）和紅豆（鐘楚紅 飾）均是孤兒，在養父（曾江 飾）栽培下成為國際大盜。長大后成了幫他賺錢的藝術品大盜，而三人同時又認了警察（朱江 飾）為干爹。法國巴黎博物館內，名畫《赫林之女仆》被人盜走。與此同時，阿海、阿占和紅豆三人以敏捷身手盜得另一幅名畫，在與法國大哥交易時得知名畫《赫林之女仆》在妖氣重重的古堡內，他們在曾江安排下成功地盜取此畫之后，反被集團原兇曾江與法國大哥合謀設下陷阱，派人追殺滅口。阿海駕車與殺手快艇相撞……三人失散，數年后，他們在香港重聚，阿海“癱瘓”住在朱江家里，阿占和紅豆已經結婚了。曾江又逼他們去偷畫……

　　Several years after a deadly struggle with her serial killer aunt, Jordan works to escape her troubled history. But when her aunt's revenge-seeking specter surfaces to join forces with a deranged convict, Jordan must return to the haunted town of Silver Falls for a final showdown with the ghosts of her past.

 亨利（加里·庫柏 Gary Cooper 飾）是一位熱血沸騰的青年，戰爭爆發了，他自愿前往意大利，成為了一名救護車駕駛員。在意大利，亨利結識了名為凱瑟琳（海倫·海絲 Helen Hayes 飾）的美麗護士，之后，亨利因為受傷被送進了米蘭醫院，在那里，他和凱瑟琳重逢了。住院期間，亨利和凱瑟琳墜入了情網，凱瑟琳的腹中亦懷上了亨利的骨肉。傷愈之后，亨利回到了戰場，卻發現我軍的士氣大跌，處處彌漫著慘淡的氣氛。上司開始大量處決涉嫌逃跑的士兵，亨利亦難以幸免，他僥幸逃脫了自己人的槍子，他決定找到凱瑟琳，兩人逃離戰場，去過他們與世無爭的日子。然而，意大利警察的追捕緊隨其后，兩人踏上了逃亡的旅途。

　　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.