棕榈树与输电线

　　《衡量一个人》片名取自柏拉图名言：「衡量一个人，端看他拥有权力时的所做所为」（The measure of a man is what he does with power）。剧情描述一个中年失业父亲、奋力寻找工作的故事，他在经历各种羞辱人的面试和受训课程后，最后找到了令他讨厌的超市警卫的工作，却拥有监视顾客与同侪的无上权力。但他被迫必须揪出在超市行窃的小贼，而这些人却都是跟他一样同属生活无继的人…。
　　这是文森林顿与导演史蒂芬布塞的第三度合作，片中除了文森林顿外，其他演员清一色均为素人，也使电影展现出不同于以往的戏剧力道，被誉为史蒂芬布塞迄今的最佳作品。

　　影片根据东野圭吾畅销悬疑小说《长长的回廊》改编。回廊亭大宅中暗藏无数秘密，绝望女人为爱复仇的欲望纷争正在上演！
　　富商病逝，他的亲属们聚集在回廊亭等待数十亿遗产将会如何分配，众人各怀鬼胎。关键时刻，律师周扬带着遗嘱和一本神秘日记而来，更牵扯出⼀场发生在一年前的火灾凶杀案，死者是富商流落在外的私生子，更是全部遗产的第⼀顺位继承人！凶手，似乎就隐藏在众人之中……

　　2008年金融危机下，美国内华达州昂皮尔小镇的重要经济支柱石膏厂倒闭，人去镇空，这里的邮政编码也被取消。丈夫去世后，几乎在在昂皮尔小镇度过了一生的弗恩（弗兰西斯·麦克多蒙德饰）无力独撑生活。为了将生活成本压到最低，她将简陋的家当搬上了改装后的厢式货车，开始了一边打工、一边西行的公路生活。她在亚马逊流水线上、在游乐园的咖啡厅里、在国家森林公园做临时工。一路上，她和许多厢式货车寄居者相遇、相识，彼此帮助，并缔结了友谊。

　　路小星（杨幂 饰）是一位初出茅庐的见习女警，她的弟弟死于一场意外，而作为见证人的路小星则双目失明。尽管失去了视觉，但路小星的其他感官却因此而意外的活跃起来，即便生活在黑暗之中，路小星却依旧能够敏感的感受到周遭的一举一动。
　　一场车祸中，路小星成为了目击者，凭借着自己的特殊能力，她做出了证词，路小星绝佳的感官和记忆力吸引了老刑警鲁力（王景春 饰）的注意。林冲（鹿晗 饰）是车祸的另一位目击者，可奇怪的是，他所做出的证词恰恰和路小星的证词截然不同。一个是五感健全的普通人，一个是双目失明的盲人，究竟应该相信谁的证词？而又是谁在撒谎呢？

　　阿保（雷宇扬 饰）、阿东（陈小春 饰）、螳螂（郑浩南 饰）、勇仔四人是社团内的刀手，专事清除社团的敌对人物。四人入行多年，在社团内地位颇高的同时也要面对无休止的杀伐跟其他社团的敌视。阿东行事稳重，投资各类事业，为几位兄弟的未来多有筹划；阿保做事极端，为螳螂出头得罪了尖沙咀大哥蛇皮，阿保发现女友艾薇（蒙嘉慧 饰）与阿东的暧昧视频，兄弟感情出现了嫌隙。
　　阿东等人谋划除掉蛇皮，却被老大公子（曾江 饰）向警方出卖，侥幸逃脱的阿东、阿保放弃偷渡，返港为死去的手足报仇。

　　爱丽丝在位于苏黎世郊区的呼叫中心工作，专门推销网络服务和保险产品。年轻的爱丽丝利用巧妙的话术，打电话给孤独的陌生老年人，装作是她们的孙女，并告诉她们自己急需用钱。就这样，爱丽丝从中赚来一笔不少的钱，然而她并不知道，从银行职员、警察到擦肩而过的陌生人，无数当地人的生活因为爱丽丝的行为发生了改变。

　　A pair of ex-cons hatch a scheme to burn down a nightclub in Brisbane.

　　1909年，一个德国探险家在亚马逊丛林中罹患怪病，求助于族人几乎被屠戮殆尽的巫医，他们沿河蜿蜒而上，试图寻找失散的族人和能治病的神秘植物；1941年，一位美国探险家也踏上雨林土地，偕一位当地老者回溯足迹，雨林中沉睡的记忆逐渐被唤醒，过往留下的疯狂与灾难亦如热带植物般滋长，蔓生成更扭曲的疮疤......
　　根据人物原型在亚马逊流域探险日记而写成的《蛇之拥抱》，是年轻哥伦比亚导演希罗·盖拉写给南美大陆的黑白影像诗，获得戛纳电影节导演双周单元大奖，更代表哥伦比亚角逐奥斯卡最佳外语片。

　　布依族电影《刺梨花开》以脱贫攻坚为时代背景，以健康扶贫为主线，讲述了布依族女医生罗红回乡创办卫生室、助力健康扶贫的感人故事。目睹家乡缺医少药、乡亲们“看病难”的现实情况，罗红毅然放弃在省城医院的工作，在各级党组织的支持下，在青年扶贫干部农家辉的帮助下，克服重重困难，在花香村建起了卫生室，罗红也挑起了村医的担子。在为兴建卫生室奔波的过程中，罗红和龙家辉也历经了“误会——暗恋——倾心”一波三折的感情纠葛。最终，在卫生室落成之际，这对有情人收获了他们美好的爱情。影片通过“大时代”里的“小故事”，展现了贵州各族干部群众团结一心决战脱贫攻坚的精神风貌。

　　Nour, a 14-year-old boy, is enjoying the beginning of the summer holidays in the South of France. He is the youngest of four brothers. They live together in a council estate, taking turns caring for their mother who is in a coma. She used to love Italian Opera, so Nour plays it for her, and develops a passion for that music. Between community work and rising tensions at home, Nour dreams of escaping to a faraway place. When he crosses paths with Sarah, an Opera singer teaching summer classes, he finally finds the opportunity to come out of his shell and explore new horizons.

　　故事发生在20世纪70年代清秀美丽的西南山区，为响应毛主席号召，高中生覃相民和幺姑留在当地的学校教书，青梅竹马的两人相互扶持，感情愈加亲密起来。相民的父亲想让他学习医术，可相民却一心想考入大学见识外面的世界。正巧队上分配下来一个推荐……

　　This early 70's giallo by Umberto Lenzi is certainly among the best in his filmography and also in the whole genre. Personally I think Lenzi's best films are the funny cartoon-turned-film Kriminal, the stylish giallo Seven Blood-Stained Orchids, the explosive Napoli violenta and this. In the eighties he did plenty of film trash in form of Eaten Alive, Hitcher in the Dark or Black Demons, all of which are ripping something off and/or very dull and slow moving. Knife of Ice came when the giallo boom was at its hottest and the result is convincing.
　　Technically the film is superb, containing great cinematography in the beginning when we learn about the main character's trauma towards trains. From this point on, Lenzi shows us his ability to benefit the widescreen and, for example, the bicycle ride near the forest is genuinely beautiful! This scene also shows Lenzi's ability to build suspense, very slowly but meaningfully. After all, there aren't so many murders in the whole film, only the suspense circulating around the murderer's identity.
　　One suspect is a devil worshipper which brings new aspects to the mystery. Since the final scene takes place in a church, one can wonder if Lenzi wanted to comment on something, maybe the hypocritical morale of church and superstition. The main character (Carrol Baker) is mute which demands a lot from her face and eyes. The actress works very well, giving us a believable performance circulating around the emotions of fear and mental pain. The other actors are good, too. The finally, however, may not give too positive a sight about female sex since they all are expressed rather negatively in the film, one way or another. Still this is easily among the most noteworthy in the genre, not as bloody as the Argento films, for example, but equally suspenseful and visually also interesting.