A feature documentary about bold adventure, exquisite athleticism and the pursuit of a perfect moment on skis. It is the story of big mountain skiing, a sport that barely existed 35 years ago. It started in the 1970s in the mountains above Chamonix, France, where skiers began to attempt ski descents so extreme that they appeared almost suicidal. Men like Anselme Baud and Patrick Vallencant were inspired by the challenge of skiing where no one thought to ski before. Now, two generations later, some of the world’s greatest skiers pursue a sport where the prize is not winning, but simply experiencing the exhilaration of skiing and exploring big, wild, remote mountains. STEEP features many of the sport’s greatest athletes including Bill Briggs, Stefano De Benedetti, Eric Pehota, Glen Plake, Shane McConkey, Seth Morrison, Chris Davenport, Ingrid Backstrom and Andrew McLean. The man who is often described as the greatest big mountain skier of all, the late Doug Coombs, is the character at the center of STEEP. He died in a skiing accident in La Grave, France, in April, 2006, just days after being filmed for STEEP. His rich life and tragic death reveal the essential question at the heart of big mountain skiing: How does a skier weigh the risks versus the rewards of a sport where the possibility of dying is ever-present? STEEP was shot on High Definition and on film in Alaska, Wyoming, Canada, France...
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Saturday, December 15, 2007
Steep
The Eye(2008)
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Sydney Wells (Jessica Alba) is an accomplished, independent, Los Angeles-based concert violinist. She is also blind, and has been so since a childhood tragedy. As our story opens, Sydney undergoes a double corneal transplant, a surgery she has waited her whole life to have, and her sight is restored. After the surgery, neural ophthalmologist Dr. Paul Faulkner (Alessandro Nivola) helps Sydney with the difficult adjustment, and with the support of her older sister Helen (Parker Posey), Sydney learns to see again.
But Sydney's happiness is short-lived as unexplainable shadowy and frightening images start to haunt her. Are they a passing aftermath of her surgery, Sydney's mind adjusting to sight, a product of her imagination, or something horrifyingly real? As Sydney's family and friends begin to doubt her sanity, Sydney is soon convinced that her anonymous eye donor has somehow opened the door to a terrifying world only she can now see.
"The Eye" is a bone-chilling supernatural thriller that tests the boundaries of perception and reality. Directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud, the team who directed the suspenseful international hit "Them," "The Eye" stars Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola and Parker Posey. Produced by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner with Mike Elliott, Don Granger and Michelle Manning serving as executive...
Sweeney Todd
Johnny Depp and Tim Burton join forces again in a big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical thriller "Sweeney Todd." Depp stars in the title role as a man unjustly sent to prison who vows revenge, not only for that cruel punishment, but for the devastating consequences of what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to reopen his barber shop, Sweeney Todd becomes the Demon Barber of Fleet Street who "shaved the heads of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard from again." Joining Depp is Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney's amorous accomplice, who creates diabolical meat pies. The cast also includes Alan Rickman, who portrays the evil Judge Turpin, who sends Sweeney to prison and Timothy Spall as the Judge's wicked associate Beadle Bamford and Sacha Baron Cohen is a rival barber, the flamboyant Signor Adolfo...
Horton Hears a Who
An adaptation of Dr. Seuss's 1954 children's book, "Horton Hears a Who" is about an imaginative elephant (Jim Carrey) who hears a cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Suspecting there may be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community that thinks he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to help. Carell voices the mayor of Who-ville, a distinguished figure of a very small size, too small to be seen by the elephant's...
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Jason Lee ("My Name Is Earl") will star as David Seville in the CG/live-action hybrid film, based on the 1950s cartoon series about chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore, who lay waste to Seville's surroundings and sing in three-part...
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
長江七號 CJ7(周星馳Steven Chaw)
"長江七號"劇情描述一位窮困潦倒的父親(周星馳飾)帶著兒子小迪(徐嬌飾)住在一棟破屋裏,一家全靠老爸做苦力維生,還常常到處撿破爛當家用。但望子成龍的爸爸,還是咬緊牙關讓小迪讀明星學校,並不惜賣命掙錢支付高額的學費;而小迪也因家境清寒之故,經常成為師生取笑欺負的對象,惟獨美麗善良的袁老師〈張雨綺〉對他始終關愛有加,不離不 棄。
看著同學開心的玩著新科技玩具狗"長江一號",眼紅的小迪成天也吵著父親想買一隻來陪 伴。禁不住兒子的要求,口袋空空的老爸只好把從垃圾堆裏撿到的塑膠球帶回家當禮物。沒 想到,這顆球不但變身成一隻可愛的外星生物,還身懷眾人意想不到的超能力!
欣喜若狂的小迪將這個新朋友命名為"長江七號",並偷偷瞞著父親和同學將它帶到學校作 伴,期望小巧玲瓏但看似能力非凡的長江七號能幫他教訓欺人太甚的同學,以及解決學校裡 所有疑難雜症。父子兩人悲苦的命運真的會因為外星生物長江七號的降臨而改變嗎?
2008年1月31日(四)起全亞洲陸續上映
As with the title CJ7, the earlier working titles, Yangtze River VII and Long River 7, referred to the Chinese manned space program. The mission of Shenzhou 6 was completed in 2006 and the real Shenzhou 7 is set to launch in September 2008.
The film will have a budget of $20 million US, and will be heavy on CG effects.
Chow plays a man who lives in a partly demolished house. He takes in a homeless boy (who is actually played by a girl, Xu Jiao). Whether the semi-demolished house and the homeless boy are on Earth, or on the alien planet is not clear. As Chow's character can't afford to buy a toy for the child, he finds a makeshift toy in the garbage and brings it back to his "son". The "toy" is actually a powerful alien device and the aliens are desperate to get it back.[4] Some rumours state that it is a "pet" rather than a "toy".
The reason Chow's character can't afford to buy the child a toy is because he is fired without pay from his part-time job as a construction worker. His boss is a contractor played by Lam Chi Chung.
Chow plays an astronaut who crashes his spacecraft on another planet. He befriends an android translator (played by Kitty Zhang) who can communicate with aliens.
Scenes include Chow's character being taken to hospital after seemingly plunging to his death; the adopted child crying, whilst Kitty Zhang's android character plays teacher; a birthday party for the child.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
神探 Mad Detective
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两名警员到树林查案,结果一名警员王国柱(李国麟)连人带枪失踪,另一名警员高志伟(林家栋)平安而回,失枪却接连牵涉不同的抢劫谋杀案。
重案组督察何家安(安子杰)受命调查此案多月毫无进展,何家安决定找旧上司,已退职的陈桂彬(刘青云)请教。
陈桂彬是破案天才,手上从没破不到的案,多年前因自切一只耳仔给退休的警司,被认定患上精神病而被退职。
陈桂彬跟妻子张美华(林熙蕾)本已过着隐世生活,何家安出现让陈桂彬才能得以发挥,沉睡的心热炽起来,妻子却明了世俗只会当丈夫是疯子。
陈桂彬初次接触高志伟,即认定王国柱已遇害,高志伟就是凶手,但杀人动机则有待调查。何家安奇怪陈桂彬的判断,陈桂彬说出自己有“看”到人内心阴暗面的能力,还有看到人因犯错而“遗失了的人格”。
陈桂彬的办案方法奇特,例如,会重返案发现场扮演凶手和受害者去感受两者的心态,意图找出动机,过程不断的违规犯戒,为何家安带来不少麻烦,最后更不发一言夺走了何家安的配枪。
调查下,陈桂彬终找到当日树林内的真相,就是高志伟因执行任务时失掉了枪,他的“无知”(林雪)在惊慌下盲目地抢王国柱的枪,冲突间他的“凶残”(张兆辉)把王国柱杀掉,他不同层次的“贪婪”便拿着王国柱的配枪抢劫杀人。
正当陈桂彬雀跃地把结果告知何家安时,竟看到了何家安的“软弱”,何家安对陈桂彬的信心已动摇,并转而投高志伟,相信了他的“伪善”。
陈桂彬知道高志伟的“凶残”一定会杀何家安,选择冒性命之危险救...
In Mad Detective sucht ein junger Cop die Hilfe seines ehemaligen Mentors und Ex-Cops um das mysteriöse Verschwinden eines Polizisten aufzuklären. Ching Wan Lau spielt den ‘Mad Detective’, dessen grenzgenialen Ermittlungsmethodenbei denen er in die Seele des Täters sieht um die Verbrechen aufzuklären zwar sehr erfolgreich waren, aber für die Oberen der HK Polizei untragbar wurden als er dem Polizeipräsidenten sein eigenes abgeschnittenes Ohr als Geschenk überreichte. Regie führen (natürlich) Johnny To und Ka-Fai Wai, der ebenfalls fürs Drehbuch verantwortlich war.
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기담 The Last Breath
New Korean horror “Epitaph” will explores a scary story of a hospital morgue, serial killings and some rather strange doctors. With its intriguing plot, this movie is become one of the summer’s most highly anticipated horror film. Set in 1940’s Seoul during the long Japanese occupation, and locate against an attractive setting, rather than a sinister haunted house, it creates a uniquely eerie ambiance. Epitaph is also a debut film for the Jeong Brothers (Jeong Beom-sik and Jeong Sik), which create a refined, intelligent and surprisingly efficient gothic horror, along with well cast and acted.
The story has several flashbacks and time lag structure, but it does not devolve into a confusing mess, which is a huge relief. It’s generally divided into three segments. The first part begins when Dr. Park receives an old photo album from his 20’s in 1941, when mysterious things captured him and his colleagues in a modern hospital, these doctors witness weird events and learn that death is the sole healer. Park was bound by his parents to marry a girl, whom he never met, but he find himself attracted to a stunning looking young girl’s dead body, allegedly a victim of a failed double suicide, who happened to be his arranged marriage. The second segment is a tale of a little girl named Asako, she was carried into theBut after the incident, the awful ghost of her mother always haunting her, a doctor named Lee who convinced that this only an effect of her guilty feeling, attempts to cure her. On the third segment, it going across the previous two odd stories, a married couple doctors returned to the hospital from Tokyo and find themselves wrapped up in some serial murders of Japanese soldiers, and soon plunged into a world of confusion and fear when they discover something evil is lurking the hospital floors.
Although Epitaph does connect in the requisite Tale of Two Sisters-like "plot twist," it’s at least completed in a method that makes some sense in terms of the characters in question. Most essential of all, dissimilar with most Korean horror films lately, Epitaph is authentically terrifying, without resorting to the typical “worthless Sadako Clones” strategies. One sequence in particular, in which Asako's haunted mother, looking like a Barbie squished by a steamroller, gargles and screeches what may have been intended as a lullaby to her frightened-out-of-her-mind daughter, made it one of a scary scene ever. Epitaph, though not quite as magniloquently entertaining as Black House, nevertheless will make a significant contribution to rehabilitating K-horror's international reputation. With this exact, developed yet psychologically satisfying Gothic horror piece, the Jeong Brothers have effectively verified that they are talents to watch out for as potential directors.
