丹尼斯·波特 — 编剧 (12)
梦童 (1985) [电影] 豆瓣
Dreamchild
导演: Gavin Millar 演员: 卡罗尔·布朗 / 伊安·霍姆
其它标题: Dreamchild / 梦的小孩
蔡康永在北大演讲时提及的影片。著名儿童幻想小说《爱丽丝梦游奇境记》背后的故事,牛津大学著名数学家道格森(笔名刘易斯·卡洛尔)与爱丽丝的原型,少女爱丽丝的往来。关于这段故事历史上不乏揣测,然后真相究竟如何,又有谁能知道。当影片中暮年爱丽丝乘船去代替过世的大叔领奖时,叫人感慨万分。本片色调偏黑暗晦涩,有点诡异。
硫磺石与蜜糖 (1982) [电影] 豆瓣
Brimstone and Treacle
导演: 理查德·隆克瑞恩 演员: 斯汀 / 丹霍姆·艾略特
其它标题: Brimstone and Treacle
英国歌坛巨星斯汀主演的惊悚片,他饰演一个外貌像天使,内心似恶魔的流浪汉马丁,偶然地钓上了高尚的圣诗作曲家汤马士,并得悉他有个女儿。于是借口归还他遗失的钱包,成为汤马士家中的座上客。后来,马丁发现他有一个虔诚的妻子,而她女儿则在车祸中瘫痪了,于是一场骗财的阴谋随即展开。导演对人性的善良和邪恶有所探讨,而宗教的神秘力量则是塑造了本片戏剧张力的重要支柱。斯汀演得相当出色,而且创作了电影音乐。
天降财神 (1981) [电影] IMDb 豆瓣 TMDB 维基数据
Pennies from Heaven
导演: 赫伯特·罗斯 演员: 史蒂夫·马丁 / 伯纳黛特·彼得斯
其它标题: Pennies from Heaven / 天降好运
阿瑟是一个热爱音乐的唱片商,他一直有一个梦想就是创造自己的音乐,但是由于没有钱他未能如愿,偶然中他遇到了年轻漂亮的艾琳,他们一起为音乐而疯狂,作出了一系列令人不可思议的事情,他们能不能实现自己的梦想呢?是不是真的会有天降财神的事情呢?
第29轨 (1988) [电影] 豆瓣
Track 29
导演: 尼古拉斯·罗伊格 演员: 加里·奥德曼 / 泰莉莎·拉塞尔
其它标题: Track 29
A doctor's wife tires of his obsession with model trains, and spends her days wondering about the son she gave up for adoption at birth. While eating at a roadside cafe, she encounters a British hitchhiker, who turns out to be her son. They spend time together trying to find a bond. The son begins to hate the husband, and the wife begins worrying about the safety of her husband and his train set. Written by Ed Sutton {esutton@mindspring.com}
For this psychological drama, Dennis Potter reworked his 1974 TV play, Schmoedipus, transposing the setting from London to the United States. The title "Track 29" is taken from the lyrics of "Chattanooga Choo Choo." Distraught and dreamy Linda Henry (Theresa Russell) complains to her husband, surgeon Henry Henry (Christopher Lloyd), about their sex-less, childless marriage, but he's obsessed with his basement model railroad layout and also engaged in an affair with a nurse (Sandra Bernhard). When mysterious stranger Martin (Gary Oldman) drops in on Linda, he claims to be her long-lost illegitimate son. As seen in flashbacks, the 16-year-old Linda was raped at a carnival by a man (Gary Oldman) who resembles Martin. Subsequent events hint at Martin as a delusion, a product erupting from Linda's fantasy world. Written by Bhob Stewart {bhob@genie.com}
高尔基公园惨案 (1983) [电影] 豆瓣
Gorky Park
6.8 (5 个评分) 导演: 迈克尔·艾普特 演员: 威廉·赫特 / 李·马文
其它标题: Gorky Park / 血洒红场
《高尔基公园》 【美】 马丁?克鲁兹?史密斯
三具尸体在苏联的高尔基公园中被发现,面目和指纹都被损毁,以致无法辨认身份。一名莫斯科刑警负责侦查这宗无头血案,经过锲而不舍的追查,他发现美国皮草商人李马文涉有重嫌,而一名死者的女朋友琼娜库拉则在从事叛国阴谋时被逮捕,两者之间到底有无牵连……小小探员在制度之内奋力想澄清真相。电影版《血洒红场》非常有名,名列侦探电影top 10之一,曾提名1984年的金球奖。
唱歌神探 (2003) [电影] 豆瓣
The Singing Detective
导演: 基斯·戈登 演员: 小罗伯特·唐尼 / 罗宾·怀特
其它标题: The Singing Detective / 奇探心魔
一名侦探小说作家(Robert Downey Jr. 饰)躺在医院病榻上构思新作情节:一名愤世嫉俗的私家侦探一到夜晚摇身一变成为乐团主唱歌手,故事主人翁被卷入1950年代洛杉矶一宗妓女凶杀案……随着病情加剧,他渐渐无法分辨故事与现实,精神状态陷入疯狂边缘……
疯狂游戏 (1994) [电影] 豆瓣
Mesmer
6.4 (5 个评分) 导演: 罗杰·斯波蒂斯伍德 演员: 艾伦·瑞克曼 / 敦尔·当纳利
其它标题: Mesmer / 巫医
影片描述了一个古代“巫医”,他经常用一种类似气功或是特异功能的手法治疗病况特殊的病人,尤其是女病人。但这种医术远远超出一般医生的理解范畴,因此他经常被当作巫医遭人轻视。这到底是福是祸?
克里斯塔贝尔 (1988) [电影] 豆瓣
Christabel
其它标题: Christabel
An English girl marries a German lawyer in the 1930s and they try to live as normal a life as they can in Hitler's Germany. When Allied bombs start falling on German cities, Christabel takes her two young sons to a village in the mountains. Then she learns that her husband and some of his friends have been arrested for plotting to assassinate Hitler. She travels to the prison where he is held, wondering if telling the commandant that she knows Winston Churchill will help her husband or seal his fate. This is said to be based on a true story.
Lipstick on Your Collar (衣领上的唇印) (1993) [剧集] 豆瓣
Lipstick on your Collar 所属 电视剧集: Lipstick on Your Collar
演员: Giles Thomas / Ewan McGregor
The main story is set in a British Military Intelligence Office in Whitehall during 1956, where a small group of foreign affairs analysts find their quiet existence disrupted by the Suez Crisis. Ewan McGregor plays Mick Hopper, who is doing his national service as an interpreter of Russian documents. Bored with his job, Hopper spends his days creating fantasy daydreams that involve his work colleagues breaking into contemporary hit songs. Louise Germaine plays Sylvia Berry, the blonde wife of the violent Corporal Pete Berry (Douglas Henshall). Sylvia is an object of desire for Mick's fellow clerk Private Francis Francis and a middle-aged pipe-organist named Harold Atterbow (Roy Hudd). Unlike the street-wise Hopper, Francis is a clumsy Welsh intellectual whose academic career has been interrupted by his army call up. The appearance of the bookish niece of a seconded American officer enables the two conscripts to pair off with suitable partners, after initial mismatching. Some of the side themes include the influence of American rock and roll on English society, the gulf between the senior analysts, who are regular army officers, and the conscripted other ranks, the work of Russian playwright Chekhov, and the appreciation of opulent theatre pipe organs. The unusual context — a military culture transplanted into a civil service style office environment — reflects Potter's own national service during the 1950s. While this piece has the form of a romantic comedy, unlike the less conventional works of Dennis Potter's middle period, it is not without graphic sex and violence, as well as Potter's characteristic flashes of dreamlike imagery. The centrepiece of this production is the surreal musical sequence set to the song In a Persian Market.