简介：George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes.While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle.The film's title is a metaphor for self-promoting tycoons who perform quick financial takeovers, impose dictatorial controls for short-term profits, then move on to greener pastures.The Carpetbaggers is the kind of trashy classic most people were too embarrassed to admit they enjoyed back in the early 60s.But this Harold Robbins adaptation is so cheerfully vulgar, it's hard not to have a good time - especially given the thinly veiled portrait of Howard Hughes at its center. George Peppard plays the heel-hero, who founds an airline company in the 1920s and buys a movie studio in the 1930s, crushing friends and mistresses along the way.The high cheese factor is aided by the good-time cast Carroll Baker as Peppard's hot stepmom, Bob Cummings (quite funny) as a cynical agent, and Elizabeth Ashley, who married Peppard, in her debut -uncharacteristically, as a good girl.One sad note is Alan Ladd, looking and sounding very end-of-the-line in his final role, as a man's man cowboy star.Elmer Bernstein's swaggering score helps goose the action along.
简介：Bipedalism, or 'two-footed walking', is the story of a painter who grew up in an orphanage and only years later learns the circumstances of his father's disappearance and death. Childhood memories bring the main character back to the past he buys a house in the suburbs that used to belong to his family. In the basement, he finds his father's archives and scientific research documents on the hybridization of human race with related biological species. Studying the archive material, he unexpectedly finds evidence of efforts to renew the experiments on the remaining hybrid population. The painter then becomes a researcher, and consequently a victim. The basic idea of his father's research was to change, control and influence the process of human evolution - initially connected with eugenics theories of the period before World War II, and now being placed in a context of modern 'biotechnological' expectations by his former colleagues. The main character tries to recreate and realize his father's heritage, who was forced to cooperate with state terror organizations, using the results of his secret research. In a tragic manner, this information turns into the main character's reality, at first forcing him to reappraise his father's values and later driving him to madness.
简介：A tenuously linked group of nobodies trudge through their woeful existence in dreary Winnipeg. A sickly middle-aged man in a failing marriage, a stand-up comedian whose sets are met by utter indifference, a stoner couple who share only trivial exchanges, and a young loner unsympathetic to his caring mother are each living lives lost in translation, detached from their surroundings and the people around them. -- from viff.org
简介：玛格达（马蒂娜·戈黛特 Martina Gedeck 饰）是一位小有名气的作家，正在进行一部小说的创作。沉迷于写作的她拿不出多余的时间来料理家务，因此总是生活在垃圾堆之中，对这一状况再也看不下去的朋友将一位名叫艾美瑞卡（海伦·米伦 Helen Mirren 饰）的女管家介绍给了玛格达，希望她能够让玛格达的日常生活重回正轨。艾美瑞卡是一个年迈而又脾气古怪的女人，不仅如此，她的行为和语言都十分的粗俗，令玛格达十分的不适应。不仅如此，在料理家事上，艾美瑞卡也从来不会参考主人的意见。刚开始，两人之间关系十分的紧张，但随着时间的推移，他们建立起了一种珍贵的信任和默契。
简介：弗兰克（米兰·佩斯彻尔 Milan Peschel饰）和西蒙（斯黛菲·库恩特 Steffi Kühnert饰）本是一对幸福的夫妇，他们拥有稳定的工作、新买的房子，还有一双儿女。然而一个突如其来的消息不仅让弗兰克震惊，更让整个家庭都瞬间坍塌——弗兰克被诊断出脑部长了一颗不能动手术的肿瘤。即将面对死亡的他，在尽力克服着药物治疗和化学治疗带来的副作用。弗兰克所剩时日不多，他开始用手机每天记录下这生命的最后时刻。本片荣获2011年第64届戛纳电影节一种关注单元一种关注大奖。导演阐述这部电影的源起来自身边一些饱受疾病困扰的友人，这些即将走到生命尽头的历程，就成为了本片的故事。影片几乎没有剧本，只有简单的大纲，所有的对话都来自演员的现场发挥。
简介：When their father's will forces them to live together, siblings Nik and Tesla — and Tesla's kids — try to overcome their differences to become a family. Claudia Pandolfi, Alessandro Preziosi and Ludovica Martino star in My Brother, My Sister, directed by Roberto Capucci. Only on Netflix October 8.