母之爱

超越鼓丘

树叶已经开始变了，但乔纳森·鲁斯特教授对即将到来的学期仍然准备不足。本周末，他正在为考古系的野外工作课程寻找合适的地点。在同行学者和雇工的帮助下，该团队在拂晓时分出发。这次旅行为乔纳森提供了一个难得的机会，让他亲自动手，成功可能意味着出版，也可能意味着终身教职。当一名助教神秘失踪时，探险队很快就脱轨了。很快，这群人发现自己处于现实和来世的交汇处，陷入了令人难忘的疯狂之中。

大怪兽巴朗

　　科学万能の現代、だが未だ地球上には解明できぬ謎が残されている……。東北地方に、婆羅陀魏山神という神をまつる村があった。訪れた調査隊はそこで生ける神・バラダキを目撃する。それは湖に棲息する中生代の恐竜・バランであった。急遽出動した自衛隊の攻撃を逃れ、バランは空へと舞い上がる。やがて姿を現したバランは、浦賀水道から東京上陸を狙う。３６ミリ機関砲さえ跳ね返すバランに対し、自衛隊はダイナマイトの２０倍もの威力を誇る特殊火薬をもって対抗するが……。ミニチュアワークは相変わらず冴えているが、“未知の謎”を主題にしているわりにはストーリーが平板。冒頭からバランの全身を出し、その破壊力の描写に終始している感がある。資料によっては「東洋の怪物」のサブタイトルも見受けられるが、フィルム・クレジット上には存在しない。

诺查丹玛斯灭亡录〜基因的新世纪

等待方舟

　　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.

团战之夜

 故事围绕着一个“来自未来的人”（山姆·洛克威尔 饰）展开，他来到洛杉矶的一家小餐馆，在那里他必须招募一群心怀不满的顾客，与他一起完成一个为期一晚、跨越六个街区的任务，以拯救世界免受流氓人工智能的终极威胁。

包宝宝

 画面开始，一双丰满的手灵巧地揉面、按记儿、擀皮儿、包包子。没过一会儿，一笼白白净净又馋人的包子就做得了。相貌平平的女主人推开厨房的窗户，短暂的歇息。稍后，包子蒸熟，女主人端着它来到餐桌前。此时，她的老公已经起床，正目不转睛地盯着电视的新闻。而他看了表后狼吞虎咽，便匆匆上班去了。失落的女主人拿起最后一个包子，可刚一张嘴包子便大哭了起来。不知为何包子有了生命，而倍感孤独的女主人格外开心，于是将包宝宝当做自己的孩子抚养。小包子一天天长大，他起初和女主人分外亲近，但是他渐渐有了自己的个性，渴望独立，渴望远行……本片是《超人总动员2》的贴片短片，荣获奥斯卡电影金像奖最佳动画短片奖。