文德斯1995年的纪录片，春暖其实是他在慕尼黑电影学校教学期间鼓励学生们一起跟他玩的纪录片。纪录片献给了德国电影先驱与卢米埃尔几乎在同时发明电影的德国人马可斯兄弟。因为素材少，春暖于是就用默片的方式来搬演。影片前15分钟可以单独成章，是用马克斯女儿的旁白来演出父亲如何发明活动影像。随后才放入当时已白发苍苍的女儿露西的访谈。文德斯还嫌玩得不够，于是把照片里的三兄弟之一和露西的姐姐一起请出来，黑白的他们和彩色的世界。又是一出天使下凡的《柏林苍穹下》，那些漂亮的移动镜头配合了先人抬头观看的黑白画面，说不出的美丽。
白建良
回复 :
秋家若
回复 :影片讲述二战后，玛雅(劳米饰)与丈夫(克里斯饰)在纽约重新开始生活。他们遇到了一个熟悉的男人(乔尔饰)，他们的生活开始瓦解。这对夫妇想知道，他是不是那个在奥斯威辛集中营的军官。
赵默
回复 :The story appears simple on the surface, but is revealed, especially after multiple viewings, as more multi-layered and textured than Cassavetes at his best. Ostensibly it concerns a 14-year old Catholic girl, Wynne (Agutter) growing up in this post-modern wasteland, who develops a crush on her much older adoptive brother (Marshall)- a crush which perversely deepens and grows into infatuation once she starts to believe he is the local sex killer. This is in itself an idea that makes you sit up and jolt, but as the narrative develops, it continues not necessarily along a linear path but in several confusing and fascinating directions: the family's history, (detailed effectively in chilling flashback during an improvised seance) is a chequered one, and has suffered at least one major relocation and upheaval in the last ten years.At the crux, however, it's the depiction of socialal changes that make I Start Counting so fascinating and elevate its language far beyond the confines of the standard horror film. The major subtext- that teenage girls were maturing more quickly than before, and developing full sexual and romantic appetites (even if in thought rather than deed) but were not possessed of enough discretion to make the right choices- was a step forward for a genre in which its young females had previously been portrayed as bimbo victims (Cover Girl Killer and The Night Caller spring to mind), but not one that all viewers would necessarily agree with.But most striking of all, and possibly the most enduring image which the viewer will take away with them, is of the masterful symbolism with which director Greene invests every shot. Every inch of the Kinch family's world- their house, their walls, their TV, Agutters underwear, bedroom furniture and toys, Sutcliffe's clothes, Marshalls van, the local Catholic church, their town centre, their record shop) - is painted a bright, scintillating white- a white which, by inference, is slowly becoming smudged and corrupted with the dirt of the outside world. White also symbolises, of course, purity and innocence (two qualities Catholic schoolgirls are supposed to hold dear), and it is into this world of innocence that the ever-present red bus (a symbol of violation and penetration), conducted by the lecherous yet similarly juvenile Simon Ward, makes regular journeys. The allegory is further expanded in one scene where Agutter believes she sees the Christ figure in church weeping blood: by the time we acknowledge it, its gone, but the seed has already been planted. Rarely in a genre production has the use of colour and background been so important or effective in creating a uniformity of mood.I Start Counting is as near-perfect an end to a decade as one could hope for, and exactly the kind of film people should be making now- which is, of course, exactly why they never will. A genre essential.by D.R. SHIMON@lounge.moviecodec.com
