简介：The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich; his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.
简介：故事发生在1882年的美国西部平原，在那片广阔的土地上，生活着名为“拓荒者”的人们，他们自由的选择土地，辛勤劳作，放牧牛羊，安居乐业，查理（凯文·科斯特纳 Kevin Costner 饰）、苏（安妮特·贝宁 Annette Bening 饰）、莫斯（亚布拉哈姆·本鲁比 Abraham Benrubi 饰）和斯皮尔曼（罗伯特·杜瓦尔 Robert Duvall 饰）正是其中的成员。 可是，随着时间的推移，居民的增多，广袤的平原不再是能够自由驰骋的疆土，只是单纯善良的四人还没有注意到局势的变化。一次意外中，西部小镇的恶霸巴克斯特（金·寇兹 Kim Coates 饰）联手警长恶整了前来购买物资的莫斯并禁止“拓荒者”们再接近小镇，直到这时，查理一行人才意识到，是时候拿起武器为他们的尊严和自由而战了。
简介：U.S Postal Inspectors are called in when a suburban couple are killed by a mail bomb. Suspicion immediately falls on the couple's estranged and heavily in debt son, who also just happens to be a Navy munitions expert. But investigations reveal that he is on the run from a past event in his life that is associated with the bombings.
简介：都勒（塞缪尔•杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 饰）是一个失意的黑人商贩，为了能获得孩子的抚养权，他费力地争取到了房屋贷款。在酗酒者分享会上，滴酒不沾的他难掩心中的欢喜，言辞激动。凯文（本•阿弗莱克 Ben Affleck 饰）是一家艺术品基金会的白人律师，他曾经帮助某富豪做过慈善捐助工作。但当老人死后，他却在上司的授意下，接连清洗了基金会的老成员，此举被老人的继承人视为背叛，一纸诉状将其告上法庭。 正在此时，一场车祸让都勒和凯文相遇。因为拿错了对方的文件，两人的命运发生了改变。因为错过了约会的时间，都勒的孩子被判由妻子抚养，从此父子难得见面。而凯文也在法庭上被逼上了绝路，陷入了信任危机。这时，两人才发现彼此的对抗只会让事情更糟，但是化敌为友的路途却荆棘丛生……