Films Directed by Women

HBO(Home Box Office)拍摄的关于脑部受损的昏迷病人的纪录片。
HBO的拍摄组进入JFK医护中心，花费了2年的时间，跟踪拍摄了4位头部受伤并昏迷的病人的诊断治疗过程，还有病患家属们的配合治疗等，而所有在细微中所体现出的医疗人员与病患之间的感情，亲属间的亲情，都很感人。
DVD Bouns花絮里，还有第五名被拍摄的病患，他的恢复过程也是很感人。

改编自萨尔曼·拉什迪的名作《午夜之子》，它用男主角萨利姆·希奈的一生道尽印巴复杂历史时期的人事变迁，以魔幻现实主义手法构造出一个出人意料的奇思怪想：在印度同一时刻降生的1001个孩子，能够在一个人的心灵中每夜聚会，这个会议于是成了现代印度的一面镜子。这个基本构想足以造就一部杰作，因为它不仅给了人一个新奇的意象，而且赋予《午夜之子》以史诗般广阔的画面，使观众得以从多个视角认识印度社会。电影在很大程度上遵从了原著，以自由飞腾的想象力，通过一个人的命运来审视一个民族的历史，使作品具有丰富的社会内容和深刻的思想内容。萨尔曼·拉什迪本人则担任了本片的旁白。

A teacher comes to terms with his past during a school trip to Salisbury Cathedral.

A single mother’s American Idol audition helps her rise above a history of poverty, sexual abuse, and illiteracy to achieve national prominence.

在一场热闹的派对上，帅气的男孩尤瑟夫（加内姆·泽雷利 Ghanem Zrelli 饰）邂逅了美丽的女孩玛利亚姆（玛丽亚姆·艾尔·费尔詹尼 Mariam Al Ferjani 饰），两人之间起了奇妙的化学反应。本以为这是一次浪漫的邂逅的尤瑟夫，却震惊的从玛利亚姆口中得知，就在不久之前，她被几个警察强暴了。
在正义感的驱使之下，尤瑟夫带玛利亚姆前往私人诊所检查身体，然而却因为玛利亚姆没有能够证明自己身份的文件而遭到了诊所的拒绝接待，一连串的遭遇让尤瑟夫和玛利亚姆感受到了走投无路的滋味，但他们明白，他们必须将命运牢牢掌握在自己的手中，唯一能够拯救玛利亚姆的只有他们自己。

碧碧（西多尼·凡·克罗斯克 Sidonie von Krosigk 饰）是一个活泼可爱又善良正直的小巫女，因为用魔法做了好事，魔法协会决定提前给碧碧举办成人礼，这也就意味着，碧碧能够早一步的拿到可以看到过去和预知未来的魔法水晶球。然而，邪恶的女巫拉比亚（科琳娜·哈弗奇 Corinna Harfouch 饰）故意摔坏了碧碧的水晶球，为了惩罚拉比亚，魔法协会将拉比亚的水晶球给了碧碧。
失去了水晶球，拉比亚感到非常的愤怒，她制定了一个邪恶的计划，不仅要夺回属于自己的东西，还要将碧碧一家人永远的赶出魔法界。不幸的是，拉比亚的阴谋诡计成功了，但在最后的节骨眼上，碧碧还是识破了她的骗局。

李红（张曼玉 饰）和丈夫南生（梁家辉 饰）本是生活在广东番禹的一对夫妻，后来在李红的努力下，终于成功申请到了去美国签证，南生则留在国内等待机会。李红到了美国后发生改变，写信告诉丈夫自己想回家。南生一直劝慰鼓励她，直至南生收到那封申请离婚的信，他一方面难以相信，另一方面也担心妻子，遂偷渡到了纽约。南生初到美国，人生地不熟，因为偷渡者的身份更是连同学拒绝收留他。在走投无路之时，南生结识了一位有中国血统的15岁妓女Jane，暂时安顿下来的南生继续寻找妻子。南生渐渐了解了一些关于妻子在美国生活的片段，南生当初的想象一点点被颠覆，本来想帮助妻子的他也快心灰意冷了。突然一天，分别多年的两人竟然偶遇，而一切都已不再如前……

母亲死后，两兄弟和妹妹得知他们将会继承母亲的遗产，唯一的条件的是他们必须步行朝圣到西班牙的圣城圣地亚哥——德康波斯特拉在。但他们彼此相互厌恶，同时一点也不喜欢走这漫漫长路……

Rahul Seth is a dashing young millionaire who believes he is "western" enough to rebel against his mother and grandmother. They are not too keen about his Caucasian girlfriend Kimberly who, to make matters worse, is a pop star. Before you can say "karmic intervention," Kimberly dies in a freak accident and Rahul is devastated. Instead of allowing him to mourn in peace, Rahul's mother sees the opportunity she's been waiting for. She threatens to call off his sister's wedding unless he finds himself a "nice Indian girl." Rahul enlists the services of Sue, a fiercely independent escort whom he believes to be Hispanic, and therefore not "married" to the conventions taught to young Indian women. With a wink in her eye, Sue accepts the deal to pose as his Indian bride-to-be. She needs the money and having never been a fan of the typical Indian male, she feels her heart is safe. The charade begins....

Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguised as a boy, gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad who proclaims he loves her.

Hana is a psychologist and a thoroughly independent woman. Her unemployed husband, jealous of his wife, finds a younger girlfriend, but their teenage son Honzik is frustrated; everyone ignores him. Hana's patient Eva, an attractive middle-aged woman, is having problems with her 25-year-old son; she is in love with her son's friend and her son is offended by her behavior. To complete the circle, he falls in love with Hana and Honzik is utterly disgusted by their affair. Another of Hana's patients is Dub, a millionaire who can have pretty much anything, or anyone, he wants. He wants Hana. But he can't have her.

After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child.

A vibrant account of immigrant Jewish life (and loss) as told by denizens of Manhattan’s Lower East Side (including The Living Theatre cofounder Judith Malina).

一个复杂而又迷幻的实验探索着时间和身份。《逆时针》是一部真实的，富有惊人创意的电影，巧妙得混合了电影和视频技术。导演简·雅顿和杰克·邦德精妙地捕获到西方社会中许多人那份生活所带给他们的焦虑感和危险性的心理，富含着高度紧张和高智慧。《逆时针》是一部充满神秘迷幻令人感到不安而又令人兴奋的电影。

In this documentary by Coline Serreau, known for her feature film Why Not?, a selection of Frenchwomen in characteristically no-win situations discuss what they are experiencing and answer, if only by implication, the question: "What do women want?"

一个原本出身贫苦的乡村家庭，因在西弗吉尼亚州的家园里发现石油，从此飞黄腾达，遂搬离这个穷乡僻壤，迁到富豪名人聚居的比佛利山庄居住。他们一下子挤身富豪行列，暴发户相展露无遗，更被许多投机骗子视为最肥美的羊牯，闹出笑话连篇。

故事发生在二战期间美国的一个小镇上，主人公莫利一家的生活因为战争而发生了巨大的转变，莫利的父亲漂洋过海去照顾伤员，至于家里的其他人都在尽力将战争对生活的影响降到最低。莫利参加了一个舞蹈比赛，这期间她和朋友们经常有灵感迸发，过的热闹而愉快。与此同时一个从伦敦来的名叫艾米丽的女孩，为了躲避战争，搬进了莫利的家里，莫利怎样才能与这个陌生人和睦相处呢？

在四面环海、风景如画的阿伦黛尔王国，生活着两位可爱美丽的小公主，艾莎和安娜。艾莎天生具有制造冰雪的能力，随着年龄的增长，她的能力越来越强，甚至险些夺走妹妹的生命。为此国王紧闭宫门，也中断了两姐妹的联系。悲哀的海难过后，艾莎（伊迪娜·门泽尔 Idina Menzel 配音 ）终于到了加冕的年龄，各国王公齐来祝贺。艾莎战战兢兢，唯恐被人识破隐藏了多年的秘密。然而当听说安娜（克里斯汀·贝尔 Kristen Bell 配音）将要和初次见面的南埃尔斯王子汉斯（圣蒂诺·方塔纳 Santino Fontana 配音）结婚时，依然情绪失控露出了马脚。在此之后她逃到山中，构建了属于自己的冰雪王国，而阿伦黛尔也陷入可怕的寒冷之中。
安娜独自来到山中，在山民克斯托夫（乔纳森·格罗夫 Jonathan Groff 配音）的帮助下总算来到姐姐的宫殿，她能否让国家重新找回失落的绿意？

索朗日是一位25岁的年轻女导演，有一个女儿，有丈夫却并不住在一起。与一位双性恋的电影明星保持着情人关系，同时热衷于与陌生人的各种短暂激情游戏。直到某天她邂逅了布鲁诺——与她是同一类人的男人。

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A unique concert film, 6 October 2001

Author: craigjclark from Haddonfield, NJ


It's hard to imagine anyone else writing, directing and visualizing a film quite like this. Essentially a record of Laurie Anderson's "Mister Heartbreak" tour, this concert film is mostly comprised of songs and music with a smattering of spoken word pieces thrown in for good measure. Her more recent concerts have been a bit more subdued, so this is a good chance to see her with all the bells and whistles (so to speak).

As for the performances, Anderson is radiant and off-the-wall as usual, and her back-up band is top-notch, including such talented players as Adrian Belew, David Van Tieghem and Joy Askew (with whom Anderson shares an amusing phone call in the middle of the show). And William S. Burroughs even waltzes through from time to time.

Recommended for Laurie Anderson fans, and -- along with her "Collected Videos" -- could make her some new ones.