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　　Appropriately, her own 14th arrondissement (specifically Rue Daguerre) is a source of pleasure for the protagonist (Jasmine Thiré) and viewer, having been photographed carefully, beautifully, and lovingly. The first word that this all brought to mind way “playful,” and I’m pleased that my simple descriptor is something Varda would consider appropriate. Says her, “It’s playing a game with reality. The game is called cinema.”

　　During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open. His arrival arouses curiosity and a degree of suspicion, as people note that he appears to know the area, yet gives no explanation for his presence at that bleak time of year in the dead-end town.

　　故事发生在第二次世界大战期间，周作（长门裕之 饰）身患重病对生活失去了希望，他来到了位于冈山县的一处温泉旅馆里，决定在那里结束自己的生命。在旅馆中，周作结识了名叫新子（冈田茉莉子 饰）的17岁少女，在新子的细心照料下，周作渐渐恢复了健康，也重新燃起了生的希望。
　　当周作再次见到新子时，已经是三年之后，周作并没有珍惜来之不易的健康，而是将它们会活在酒精和玩乐之中。周作打算邀请新子一起殉情，但新子开朗的性格令他们最终打消了这念头。时间继续流淌着，新子和周作的感情还在不断的纠缠着，为了等待周作的不期而至，新子一直都没有婚嫁。

　　This film is an extremely entertaining psychological thriller with Carrol Baker excellent as a rich American widow getting away from it all at a secluded Italian villa. Enter smart aleck down on his luck playboy, Lou Castel, who has some golddigging motives behind his slick hipster seduction techniques and has no qualms about how he gets what he wants. He encourages Baker's character's incipient alcoholism and dubious self-esteem, brings in his supposed 'sister' to help drag Baker even further into a maze of sick mind games, drug addiction and group sex, all culminating in a descent into near-madness and self-destructive depravity.
　　I won't give away anymore, suffice to say that the film delivers on its swinging sixties, Euro sleaze ambience and psychological suspense thriller credentials in spades. Director Umberto Lenzi's work has been, at best, uneven and he's churned out his share of crap. However, he made some quite good giallos and crime pictures in the sixties and seventies and this is one of them (other good films by Lenzi -- SPASMO, SEVEN BLOODSTAINED ORCHIDS, ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, to name only a few).
　　Unfortunately this film is ofen confused with another okay but not-quite-as-good Lenzi film that was also released briefly here in America under the same PARANOIA title (but is more commonly known, especially on video, as A QUIET PLACE TO KILL).

　　Edith Hardy uses charity funds for Wall Street investments in hopes of buying some new gowns. She loses all the money and borrows from wealthy oriental Tori. When her husband gives her the amount she borrowed, Tori won't take it back, branding her shoulder with a Japanese sign of his ownership. She shoots him. Her husband takes the blame. In court Edith reveals all to an angry mob. Written by Ed Stephan {stephan@cc.wwu.edu}
　　Richard Hardy, a hardworking stockbroker, labors overtime to keep up with the ruinous bills incurred by his beautiful but irresponsible wife Edith, a venal, spoiled socialite who is impervious to his pleas for fiscal restraint. Acting on what she believes to be an insider information, she impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the Red Cross charity she chairs for a stock tip. When she finds the money has been lost, she desperately turns to a Japanese ivory trader with whom she has been thoughtlessly flirting and persuades him to replace the money in exchange for an assignation. When her husband's long-awaited business deal finally materializes, she desperately tries to withdraw from their agreement by replacing the money. Angered and disappointed with her resistance to his advances, he uses a branding device to mark her shoulder as his property. Feeling violated, Edith shoots him in the shoulder and leaves. In order to protect his wife's reputation, Richard confesses to the crime and faces trial for attempted murder. Written by Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)

　　教授艾玛拉斯（爱米尔·强宁斯 Emil Jannings 饰）执教于一所校风严谨规矩繁多的学校中，他自己的性格亦是如此，一生都循规蹈矩的他最看不惯的就是学生们桀骜出格的举动。一次偶然中，艾玛拉斯得知自己的一群学生要去看歌舞表演，怒不可遏的他当即决定前往剧场将这些不守规矩的黄毛小子们逮个正着。令教授意想不到的是，他的这一举动将永远的改写自己余生的命运。
　　劳拉（玛琳·黛德丽 Marlene Dietrich 饰）是剧场里的万人迷，几乎所有的男人都情不自禁的拜倒在她的石榴裙下，艾玛拉斯教授也不例外，当他在剧院里第一次见到劳拉时，便陷入了对她深深的迷恋中无法自拔。经过苦苦的追求，劳拉终于成为了艾玛拉斯的新娘，两人之间悬殊的个性和地位也为将要发生的悲剧奠定了基调。

　　这个城市最后一位正派的拖车司机为了成为道路之王，为了养活挣扎中的家庭，不顾一切地冒着风险。

　　在不久的将来，一艘太空探索船在一个未知的星球上坠毁。当他们发现这个星球上居住着巨大的恐龙时，他们很快就会遇到一些最可怕的恐惧

　　优步司机詹姆斯刚把美女乘客送到派对地点，二人相谈甚欢，美女主动问詹姆斯能不能晚点来接她，他欣然答应。在去下一个接单的路上，他不由得暗自窃喜，想入非非；这时上来另一位乘客，陌生男子开始跟他尬聊起来，到了定位地址后仍不下车，并要求詹姆斯开到派对地点载上美女三人一起找夜店继续玩耍。美女上车后，詹姆斯和美女慢慢发现这个陌生男子举止奇怪，但已无法回头，随后二人陷入陌生男子的亡命“猫鼠游戏”中。

　　暗夜来袭都城内邪祟出没，数名王室宗亲与大臣接连离奇死亡。顿时龙颜震怒朝野沸腾，年轻的御前夜巡使燕离临危受命，立下军令状三日内必破悬案，誓死捍卫“夜巡使”的尊严。面对形势的步步紧逼，特务机构的处处掣肘，幕后凶犯的层层圈套，燕离抽丝剥茧与人、妖各方斗智斗勇殊死角力。伴随着真相的临近，一场关乎生命与荣誉，阴谋与爱情，江山与苍生的人妖鏖战也徐徐拉开了帷幕。

　　五年前，苏灿全家被杀，苏灿侥幸逃脱，从此隐姓埋名沦为乞丐。五年后，等他带着徒儿再次回到广州之日，广州发生了天翻地覆的变化。烟馆满街，民不聊生，新上任的总督钟懿和广州知府徐友谅面和心不合，父亲曾经的好友赵海已成为当地第一首富，青梅竹马的赵倩也变成了留洋归来的美女。总督上任途中曾遇到刺客，苏乞儿误打误撞卷入其中，遭到广州知府的通缉捉拿。苏乞儿一面应对官府的围追堵截，一面暗中调查杀害全家的凶手，无意间，却发现了洋人的一个惊天秘密。而此时，苏乞儿与赵倩的感情也在日渐复苏。面对家仇、国恨，曾经的青梅竹马，苏乞儿该何去何从？

　　卢卡斯（以利亚·罗德里格斯 Elijah Rodriguez 饰）生活在美国的华盛顿特区，早早14岁的他就已经踏上了犯罪之路成为了帮派分子。深谙其危险性的他决心不让刚10岁的弟弟重蹈覆辙，而此时一名阿富汗战争老兵（尚格·云顿 Jean-Claude Van Damme 饰）的出现让卢卡斯看到了机会……