Y.是一位40多岁的以色列导演，他来到沙漠尽头的一个偏远村庄，想要展示他的一部电影。在那里，他遇到了文化部官员Yahalom，并发现自己正在打两场失败的战斗：一场是反对他的国家对于自由的消亡，另一场则是反抗他母亲的死亡。

　　患有癌症晚期的诗人亚历山大（Bruno Ganz）在进医院等待死亡的前一天，想将一直陪伴其左右的狗交托自己的亲生女儿，遭到对方拒绝。女儿对自己处境的不了解，以及女婿打算将自己的祖屋卖掉，令亚历山大神伤不已黯然离开。
　　在亚历山大孤独地面对自己生命的最后一天时，太太安娜在世时的诸多生活片段、探望独自生活在疗养院中的年迈衰弱母亲的情形、花费大半生心血研究的19世纪诗人所罗穆斯等，一一以或真实或梦幻的形态与他会面，来助他解除对“明天会持续多久”的困惑。

　　做事一向理性的水利工程师沃尔特·费伯（山姆·夏普德 Sam Shepard 饰）搭乘的飞机中途失事，被迫降落在墨西哥的沙漠之中。然而在获救之后，沃尔特却一反常态地决定，与素不相识的德国商人去墨西哥丛林寻找多年都未曾连络过的朋友。当他们来到朋友的住处时，发现朋友已经自杀身亡。
　　沃尔特的第二段旅程开始在渡轮之上。年过中旬的沃尔特邂逅了妩媚的年轻女孩赛贝斯（朱莉·德尔佩 Julie Delpy 饰）。钟情于艺术的赛贝斯与专长于科学技术的沃尔特，看似是两个世界的人，然而一段不可控制的情愫在二人之间渐渐蔓延，相约同去欧洲南部旅行。在无意间，沃尔特得知赛贝斯正是自己年轻时女友汉娜（芭芭拉·苏科瓦 Barbara Sukowa 饰）之女。惊讶之余，沃尔特不得不怀疑她就是自己的亲生女儿。

　　巴迪（Homayoun Ershadi 饰）驾驶着自己的汽车，在遍布工地的郊外漫无目的的行驶，他搭载了一名入伍不久的新兵，和他讲述当年从军的经历，而后提出了自己的要求：出钱要新兵掩埋自己自杀后的尸体，新兵惊慌失措，跑掉了。巴迪继续寻找埋尸人，可工地上的流浪汉、神学院的学生，全部拒绝了他的请求。一位在博物馆工作的老人巴格里（Abdolrahman Bagheri 饰）登上了巴迪的车，巴格里曾经自杀，但最终为樱桃的甜美滋味所挽留，巴格里为了治疗儿子的病，应承下了巴迪的请托。巴迪在博物馆外踯躅，心中似乎产生了动摇……
　　本片获1997年戛纳电影节金棕榈奖，1998年波士顿影评人协会最佳外语片奖。

　　本片出自德国新浪潮电影代表人物之一，《铁皮鼓》导演沃尔克·施隆多夫之手，是一部向法国著名导演让·梅尔维尔致敬的经典作品。影片描写第一次世界大战期间，高贵的索菲女伯爵爱上了一位普通士兵，但动荡的时代，因为这段恋情却给两人带来了可怕的灾难，影片悲伤而凄凉，是导演沃尔克·施隆多夫除《铁皮鼓》以外，最被人认同的大师作品……

　　Julien Duvivier最好的作品之一也是他认为自己所有默片中最喜欢的一部。
　　Summary
　　Bullied by his matriarchal mother, abused by his siblings, ignored by his father, Poil de Carotte's childhood is as miserable as it could be.  An illegitimate child, he is the main reason for the enmity which exists between his parents, who continue to live together just to keep up appearances. In the end, Poil de Carotte's suffering becomes more than he can bear...
　　Review
　　Drawing heavily on the poignant novel by Jules Renard on which it is based, Poil de carotte is a modest yet appealing film which has stood the test of time mainly because of the quality of its acting performances and its inherent humanity. It is more memorable than Julien Duvivier's earlier silent version of 1925, also named Poil de Carotte.
　　The part of Poil de Carotte was played by 11 year old Robert Lynen, who was alleged to have been discovered whilst walking down the Champs-Elysées in Paris. Lynen is totally captivating and the film made him an instant star, launching what looked like becoming a very promising film career – until he was shot dead whilst fighting against the Germans in 1944.  Harry Baur, a legendary stage and film actor (who also died during World War II, allegedly at the hands of the Gestapo), also turns in a typically fine performance.  The reconciliation between father and son at the end of the film provides its most enduring image, enough to melt the heart of all but the most stoical of spectators.
　

　　This film is not based on a real story. It is based on thousands.

　　威尔斯唯一一部公映的彩色电影，故事依旧奇情：澳门富商从秘书口中听到一个爱情传说，有人为了香灯有后愿意付钱找人与妻子上床。传说归传说，但澳门富商却要使这个不朽故事成真，找来美女珍．摩露，当正是自己妻子，要她找人轰烈地做爱做的事。乍听下来真是一场天方夜谭，但影片拍来感人至深，53岁的威尔斯与成熟的珍．摩露演出动人不已，最后一个镜头更被影迷形容是「魔术」，令影片入围柏林国际电影节竞逐最佳电影金熊奖。
　　The only colour film by Welles publicly released is another showcase of the absurdity of human nature. A Macau millionaire is told a legend about someone who is willing to pay a huge sum for someone who would sleep with his wife in order to produce an heir. In an act to make the legend real and to immortalise it, the millionaire finds Jeanne Moreau to be his wife and starts to search for the man who would make love to her. A potent performance by Welles and Moreau makes the film purely magical; a Golden Berlin Bear nominee for Berlin International Film Festival.

　　特丽丝塔娜（凯瑟琳•德纳芙 Catherine Deneuve 饰）的母亲在临死前，把她托付给堂•路普（Fernando Rey 饰）照顾。衰老的路普衣食无忧，性格强势看重荣誉，但同时，也是镇上女人们所熟知的好色之徒。路普表面上是特丽丝塔娜的监护人，而他实际对后者抱有隐而未发的强烈欲望。
　　特丽丝塔娜在路普的家中感受到压抑，女仆和女仆的聋哑儿子也远不是她可以倾诉心事的友人。在一次外出中，塔里斯塔纳偶遇一位年轻的画家，后者令她看到了爱情的希望，知晓特丽丝塔娜处境的画家殴打了路普，两人一起离开小镇。不久，特丽丝塔娜罹患重病，无计可施的画家只好寻求路普的帮助……

　　《望夫石》（La Pierre de l'attente，1991），陳英雄一部21分鐘的短片，曾經獲得1992年里爾國際電影節（Lille International Short and Documentary Film Festival）評審團大獎

　　"Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
　　"The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport  both in their professional and daily lives  between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps.
　　The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial." -Steve Grayson
　　"my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty." - Jonathan Rosenbaum

　　一个曾经丧失人性的刑讯逼供者.在几十年之后接受电台记者的采访重新回忆自己那段罪孽深重的过去.他以前拷问别人,现在却接受这个记者的“拷问”.在这个下午,拷问的不仅仅是他本人,也拷问了人性,拷问了整个社会制度。

　　The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements: water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive: Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna.
　　The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator,
　　the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination.
　　Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.

　　伊凡尼（南尼·莫莱蒂 Nanni Moretti 饰）有一个和睦温暖的家庭，儿子安德烈和女儿艾琳更是让这个家庭乐也融融。而伊凡尼身为心理医生，常常接触到各式各样的心理病患者，从而更加珍惜目前的生活。然而生活的残酷随之而来，在一个看上去平常的早晨，却传来了一个令这个家庭为之崩溃的消息——儿子在潜水运动中遇上不测，不幸身亡。
　　伊凡尼一家顿时陷入了一篇黑暗当中，母亲终日以泪洗脸，姐姐艾琳压抑着痛苦照顾悲伤的父母，而父亲，更是因为过度悲痛而不能继续工作。而儿子空空如也的房间，深深刺痛了每个家人的心。
　　远方寄来一个女孩子的来信，来信成全了家人对儿子的追思，并令到这个家庭重新有了一丝生机。然而逝者如斯，各人内心的伤痛，只有时间能慢慢治疗。

　　罗塞塔（瓦伦蒂娜•斯卡里希 Valentina Scalici 饰）和卢恰诺（朱塞佩•伊拉西塔诺 Giuseppe Ieracitano 饰）是一对相依为命的姐弟，她们的母亲因为逼女儿卖淫而锒铛入狱。此事遭媒体曝光后，两人随后被两个警察送上了去孤儿院的列车。其中一个警察因事先行告退，将姐弟俩托付给警察安东尼奥（恩里克•洛维索 Enrico Lo Verso 饰）独自看护。姐姐背负着雏妓的心理压力，但是弟弟却总是我行我素，两人常常发生争执。安东尼奥总是默默旁观，小心翼翼地呵护着两颗稚嫩的童心。在经历了抢劫、酒店驱逐，学校开除、哮喘疾病等一连串霉运后，安东尼奥似乎跟姐弟俩建立一种亦父亦友的关系，然而一张报纸却让他们的世界陷入崩溃的边缘……
　　本片获第45届戛纳电影节评委会大奖。

　　The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men commit petty crimes all day begin with arms theft, and culminating with a night with three streetwalkers. After their pleasure, the boys try to cheat the hookers, but they ladies are smarter than that and have stolen their cash ahead of time. The punks then return to the city for more crimes. Exploits include the harassment of three homosexuals, and attempts to seduce some women.

　　Though Delluc's career was short-lived, it burst vigorously(7 films in 4 years)that it forever left its imprint on french cinema history, and they rightly honoured him by giving the annual Prix Delluc to the best French film of the year. He was responsible for the creation of influential cinema  journals like Le Journal du Ciné-Club and Cinéa, founding numerous film societies, writing countless articles and coining the term "cineaste". Delluc believed that films should be set in the natural without elaborate posturing, and characters should be portrayed in an intimate way where the past and present, illusion and reality can be correlated, all considered to be avant-garde at its time. He died only a few weeks after the shooting of The Flood at the age of 33.

　　The lines start with “O Somma Luce” which is the title of the film and also the 67th line of the 33rd canto in “Paradiso” of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” to the end of “Paradiso”.  The film is completed with music and lines instead of emotions and narrations.  This is a recent attempt to combine film with literature.
　　The film begins with a black screen and the music of Edgard Varese. The BGM is “Deserts” that was recorded in 1954. After some moments of darkness, the music ends and a middle-aged man sits on a hill, reciting something. He is Giorgio Passerone, an Italian literature professor, and he is reading out of the last part of ‘Paradiso’ of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Jean-Marie Straub expressed how he thinks of Dante through a subtle accent and dialect. The director who had encoded many great artists and musicians including Bach, complete the combination of Dante and Varese, which could seem strange. (Lim Kyung Yong)

　　德国慕尼黑，丈夫克里斯特告别了妻子亚丽安娜（Margit Carstensen 饰）与瘸腿女儿安吉拉（Andrea Schober 饰），赴奥斯陆公干，但他在半路中转，约会了情人并将其带到自己的乡间别墅。但他意外发现亚丽安娜与情人——自己的助手早已抵达别墅偷情，四人很快在尴尬的气氛中回过神来，坐到了一张桌子上享用晚餐。负责照料别墅的卡斯特与加百列母子注视着四人，内心各有不同的触动。当天夜里，安吉拉在保姆的陪伴下亦抵达别墅，她的出现让亚丽安娜为其腿疾绷紧的神经再次拉紧，气氛一时僵硬。
　　第二天夜里，安吉拉组织别墅里的所有八人进行一场叫做“中国轮盘赌”的问答游戏，分成两组的八人互相提问作答，牵出了各自内心隐藏的秘密。

　　尼基与弗洛是一对儿女亲家，但二人的性格却截然相反，尼基严谨，做任何事都保持一种巨人作风，但弗洛就比较随和、开放。这两位炯异的人对即将离开罗马尼亚远赴美国的孩子们也持不同意见，一个希望儿女留在身边，另一个坚决支持出国，尼基的女儿因此更喜欢弗洛，到了美国后也给他写信，尼基因此心理不平衡，最终选择了谋杀弗洛里...

　　Ayse/Eleni who is a member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her early ages. However, the events that happen cause her to face her own past.

　　雷达（尼古拉斯·卡萨雷 Nicolas Cazalé 饰）的父亲（Mohamed Majd 饰）是一位非常虔诚的穆斯林，当他觉得自己大限将到命不久矣之时，决定完成身为一名穆斯林的毕生梦想——前往圣地麦加朝圣。本来父亲的打算是让雷达的哥哥开车载他去麦加，可不巧的是，他的大儿子因为一场交通意外而被吊销了驾驶执照无法上路行驶。无奈之下，父亲只得找到小儿子雷达，命令他成为司机。
　　只有20岁的雷达即将面临学校的会考，与此同时，他还有一个正在热恋的如花似玉的女朋友。面对父亲强势的命令，雷达虽然心里百般的不情愿，却也只能顺从。一路上，父子两人之间爆发了无数次战争。

　　The main hero of the film is an electrician with a far greater effect on the people around him than his job defines. He is the last link in a huge energetic system and he becomes the binding bridge between the geopolitical problems of post-soviet space and the common people.
　　The economic devastation of the country had an enormous impact on the industrial workers and yet despite the upheaval, these people did not seize to love and suffer, to have and be friends and to enjoy their lives… In particular our resilient electrician, who possesses a wonderful and open heart. He not only brings electric light (which is often out) to the lives of the inhabitants of this small city, but he also spreads the light of love, loyalty, life and mainly laughter.

　　阿兰．德龙主演的这部犯罪动作片，摒弃了一般银行抢劫后分赃不均而终被逮捕的老套情节，把劫宝的场面安排在飞机上进行，结局则是因家族内一次无意揭发的奸情而致西西里部落全被逮捕。影片布局可谓层次分明，有峰回路转之妙。从开幕西西里家族营救囚车中的萨丹开始，便推展出不少戏剧性的高潮，如阿兰．德龙如何外出召妓惹祸；保险公司随员的太太如何发现丈夫不在飞机上而在报警时认出阿兰．德龙；探长如何监视阿兰．德龙的妹妹而使西西里兄弟被捕等，这些设计都能顺里成章而前后呼应。