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　　Fernando Di Leo's "Milano Calibro 9" is an out-and-out masterpiece of Italian Crime cinema and, in my opinion, one of the most astonishing crime stories ever told. The first film in Di Leo's excellent 'Milieu' trilogy, "Milano Calibro 9" was followed by "La Mala Ordina" (aka. "Manhunt", also 1972) and the brilliant "Il Boss" (1973). The three films are not connected story-wise, but all three are excellent, and highly realistic portrayals of organized crime. As far as I am concerned "Manhunt" is (allthough excellent) slightly inferior to this one and "Il Boss" which both stand out as absolute all-time highlights of crime cinema. "Milano Calibro 9" is the best of them all, a film that is astonishing in all aspects, be it the ingenious plot that, apart from a compelling story and clever twists, includes social criticism, the performances, the gritty atmosphere and suspense or the brilliant score. I can hardly find the right words to express my admiration for this masterpiece which easily ranks among the greatest Gangster flicks ever brought to screen.
　　Gastone Moschin stars as Ugo Piazza, a tough and elliptical ex-convict who has just been released from prison. Immediately after his release, Ugo is approached by members of the Milan mob lead by the irascible gangster Rocco (Mario Adorf), as they suspect him to be responsible for the disappearance of a large sum of money belonging to their boss, an American (Lionel Stander) who controls the organized crime in Milan...
　　"Milano Calibro 9" is a film that delivers an astonishingly realistic mood of the underworld like hardly another. The intriguing storyline goes in hand with interesting characters, raw atmosphere, suspense and breathtaking action, social criticism and brutal violence. The film is simply stunning from the beginning to the end, which is even intensified by the brilliant score, a collaboration of the famous composer Luis Enríquez Bacalov and the Italian Progressive Rock band Osanna. Ugo Piazza must be one of the most charismatic gangster characters ever in cinema, and Gastone Moschin was the prefect choice for the role. Moschin delivers a brilliant performance, and the rest of the cast is also great. Mario Adorf is irascible like a rabid dog as the ferocious gangster Rocco, a role that fits him like a glove. The great Lionel Stander fits perfectly in his role of the American Mafia Don.
　　The two cop characters in the film are played by two of the greatest regulars of Italian genre-cinema, Luigi Pistilli and Frank Wolff (who committed suicide before the film was released). The ravishing Barbara Bouchet is astonishing and incredibly sexy in the role of Ugo Piazza's stripper girlfriend. Bouchet is both a stunning beauty and an excellent actress and this is doubtlessly one of her most memorable roles. This is also a political film and director Di Leo embedded a lot of social criticism about topics like corruption. This film simply has everything one can possibly desire in cinema. Films like "Milano Calibro 9" are the reason why I love cinema. This is an absolute masterpiece in all regards and, without exaggeration, one of the greatest Crime flicks ever made! The ingenious opening scene alone is more memorable than most films get in two hours.

　　罗百万：从来没有人赢过我罗百万！ 龙三：赌王戒指跟你太久了它需要一个新的主人。赌坛也需要一个新的赌王！ 罗百万：你们串通起来陷害我！ 何俊升：你没有做师父的资格，今天我们终于可以好好的赌一把。 罗百万：今天我就给你这个机会！ 赌王间的世纪之战，师徒、兄弟、情人间的爱恨情仇。

　　讲述了几个从小住在一起的朋友有一天突然意识到他们不喜欢自己眼下的生活，所以他们决定一起出发去寻找传说中的宝藏。

　　黑社会老大文哥（高雄 饰）被人追杀，其弟阿南（任达华 饰）安排五个人来做其兄的保镖，并命令他们查出暗杀文哥的幕后人物。这五人分别是阿鬼（黄秋生 饰）、阿来（吴镇宇 饰）、阿Mike（张耀扬 饰）、阿信（吕颂贤 饰）和阿肥（林雪 饰）。阿来和阿信是知名的高手，阿鬼、阿Mike、阿肥则是金盆洗手的昔日英雄：阿鬼是文哥以前的手下，阿Mike是神枪手，阿肥是枪械专家。五人同心协力，将杀手擒获，并查清了幕后主使人。五个不认识的江湖人成为肝胆相照的好友，这时，阿南告诉阿鬼，阿信与文哥之妻通奸，要求阿鬼去杀死阿信，阿来坚决不允许这么做。阿Mike和阿肥又分别支持阿来和阿鬼，最后他们约定在一家小餐厅解决这个问题，互相对准的枪口真是一触即发……

　　一宗離奇失蹤案，讓山叔（許紹雄飾）痛失了愛妻山嫂，也讓張以靜（高海寧飾）自小沒了母愛。山叔本是一名鎖匠，經營一家名為《誠信》的鎖店，卻因為這場意外失智了。他隨後收了一位愛徒程浩仁（姜皓文飾）。阿仁接班了山叔的好手藝，精通開鎖，甚至青出於藍。正因為他的這一手好功夫，經常被警察找去幫忙開鎖的他也因此和警探劉業信（黃浩然飾）變成了好友。至今阿仁從未遇見他開不了的鎖。一直到有一次的開鎖工作中，他碰見了多年沒見的老友李全凱（陳沛江飾）。自此，接二連三的怪事陸續發生，阿仁在回家途中無意間聽見新搬來的鄰居關小姐（黃詩棋飾）吹起了耳熟能詳的口琴旋律。不曾見過關小姐的阿仁開始對關小姐產生好奇並偷偷監視著她。與此同時透過以靜，得知當年山嫂的撲索迷離案，並不單純，極有可能與關小姐的出現有關。結果阿仁又在某次的開鎖工作中撞見了一宗謀殺案，因而被劉sir視為頭號嫌疑犯。
　　究竟阿仁在隱藏著什麼？阿仁是不是遇見了一把他怎麼樣都解不開的鎖？那首不寒而慄的口琴旋律，阿凱的出現，山嫂的死，這把打不開的鎖到底背後捲入了多少人？警探劉sir有沒有機會幫助自己的好友擺脫嫌疑？難道每個人心中真有一把鎖，每一道門的背後都有許許多多未知的故事在等著我們......

　　一个桀骜不驯、目中无人的三流男艺人王子，在几年的“自我经营”失败后，让公司彻底放弃，把他交给一个初出茅庐的台湾小实习生贝拉接管。两人首次见面就电光火石，吵得不可开交。
　　贝拉带着王子的助理吉米把王子“骗”去台湾一个叫南湾的北斗镇的偏僻山村，为当地大葱节做揭幕表演，王子带着满肚子怨气应付完了这一天，当晚就要返回北京。无奈保姆车路上抛锚，只得再借宿一晚。第二天一睁眼，王子就叫嚣着死活都要走，却发现整个镇子上的人和事都跟他昨天经历的一模一样，王认为贝拉等人集体整蛊，但是越看越不像，这一天果然也没有走成。
　　第三天，在同一段熟悉的旋律中醒来，发现一切照旧。他拔腿就跑，用尽所有能用的交通工具打算逃离此地，在终于要看见机场的时候，朝阳升起。王子睁开眼镜，发现自己依然躺在七星镇破败的旅店中。至此，他才不得不相信一个事实，他仿佛永远都要循环这一天了。在无限循环中，王子度过了各种各样的人生：戏弄人间，悲观厌世，超脱世俗等。最终，在一个收破烂老头的“循环死亡”中，他领悟了生命的真相。从此，他归于平凡，最终成功地走出了这一天。

　　秋良（赤楚卫二饰）在一家压榨员工的公司上班，他忍受着无休止的加班、老板的权力压迫和不合逻辑的任务，每天都感觉生不如死。一天早上，小镇被僵尸占领，熟悉的风景已经被摧毁。看到这样的场景，秋良高兴地大喊 ——因为他再也不用去办公室了。秋良展现出内心的积极面，列出了他在成为僵尸之前想做的 100 件事，包括打扫房子和在阳台上露营，然后开始完成他的遗愿清单。

　　“Everything’s Going to be Great” is a funny and sad valentine to big dreamers whose dreams won’t necessarily come true. It’s about individuality vs conformity. It’s about fantasy vs reality. But mostly it’s about family, as it follows a year in the life of a family struggling with defining success, ghosts, identity, and regional theatre. Lester Smart has always felt his life was headed in one direction....the theater. And he will sing and dance whatever number he needs to do to be center stage.

　　A small town community comes together to eradicate the heroin epidemic from its midst by whatever means necessary.

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　　A brilliant and outragously funny satire of society, 7 December 1999
　　Author: Dave Joerg (joerd000@mail.zdv.uni-mainz.de)
　　"Flodder" is one of the funniest movies ever made and few people realise that it is a Dutch movie made by none other than the Holland version of John Carpenter, the famous Dick Maas, author and director of the thriller "Amsterdamned". The Flodder family is the reincarnation of the term a-social. When the whole family bunch, basically all bastards, criminals and sluts must be relocated from their City slum because of toxic waste under their house, the city council house no choice. The only available space is in the "Zoendal" - the "Sun Valley" the best area in Amsterdam where all doctors, snobs and businessmen can afford to live their lives. And where the central point of interest and politics is the tennis club of the community. The Flodder family brings devastation to the tranquil world that ruled before. They are simply unbelievable. The characterisation is incredibly funny, beginning with Ma Flodder who searches other people's trash cans for food or making illegal liquor in her cellar and ending with the eldest daughter who is the biggest slut on earth. Together they make the most horrible family imaginable, a sort of immoral mirror image to the Brady Bunch or the Waltons. When the City counsel of Amsterdam hoped that the Flodders would show their good will to be more civilised in their new area, it turns out that Holland's most famous family would rather bring out the worst in the rich people of "Sun Valley"-wonderland. The rest is a hilarious, brilliant and well made social satire that can be watched as a provocative movie as well as a straightforward comedy. Dick Maas at his best. I salute him! Flooder was the Dutch smash hit in 1986 and brought two sequels and a tv series. All of the sequels were nice but not as great as the original.
　　Flodders (1986) is available on DVD in Germany in a dubbed German version in Dolby Digital 5.1. under the name:
　　"Flodders -Eine Familie zum knutschen"
　　Why is First Floor Features, the producer of the movie not bringing the Dick Maas blockbusters out on DVD in the Netherlands, I wonder. The are not even available on video there. These movies have so much potential, still to this day and have a huge silent but true following.

　　影片聚焦于在被称作功夫之城的佛城老街，在老街长大的小无赖李一因为爷爷临终前的遗言踏上了波折的习武之路。起初的他因为遍寻老街无高手教习，在网上自学武术。但之后在心上人陈晓面前耍酷被打得落花流水，被世达集团的拳击运动员王西搭救后决心进入世达学习拳击运动。为加入世达集团李一借机与世达集团老板jack——美国退役拳王说自己了解老街其他门派的祖传兵器。这正中jack下怀。之后世达集团偷兵器被老街传人发现，一番打斗后孙叔被子弹打伤，兵器被抢走。李一能否得到大家谅解，在老街一个个功夫高手浮出水面后是否能习得绝世功夫打败再次来犯的世达集团?看醒悟李一如何用绝世功夫拯救被抓心上人，夺回被抢宝兵!

　　故事讲述一群身手不凡的国家运动员启程去一个穷村落扶贫，那儿有一帮混蛋欺善怕恶鱼肉乡里，这几个运动员的到来以及他们手上的金钱正是这群混蛋们觊觎的对象，于是，这群武艺高强的运动员就赤手空拳与这群有枪的坏蛋们展开殊死拼搏。他们当中有足球运动员、体操运动员、田径运动员，泰拳+高难度体育项目、创意十足！