James Benning’s first film called The United States of America was a 1975 trip across the country, capturing its scenery through a car windshield. This second one also crisscrosses the nation, but without a car, carving it up instead into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to Kelly, Wyoming. The names of the places are nondescript, but the images attached to them are anything but, immaculately composed shots of landscape, cityscape and the spaces in between. As we move from A to Z, the images coalesce into a portrait of today’s USA, tracing out its fault lines almost in passing: fenced-off facilities, a river bed running dry, factories and refineries, run-down streets and gas stations, a camp under a bridge. The past is there too, seeping up through the songs and speeches that sporadically pierce the background noise or the motifs that evoke a whole career; the clouds, trains and cabins are stand-ins for films, not just states. As always, there’s time for more abstract thoughts too: each image may stand for a state, but representativity is slippery. Which state is more cinematic than the rest?
Pixar director Peter Sohn takes viewers on a humorous personal journey through the inspiration behind Disney and Pixar’s feature film “Elemental.” “Good Chemistry The Story of Elemental” traces his parents’ voyage from Korea to New York, explores his dad’s former grocery shop in the heart of the Bronx, and delves into his choice of a career in animation, rather than the family...
刚刚结束牢狱之灾的纳尔逊•曼德拉(摩根•弗里曼 Morgan Freeman 饰),竞选南非总统成功。他领导人们破除种族隔离制度,并身先士卒,雇佣白人护卫队,在各方面建立不同肤色的沟通。作为1995年橄榄球世界杯的东道主,南非重回国际体育大家庭。不过,南非的英式橄榄球队——队员均为白人的跳羚队,却被很多黑人看做种族歧视的代名词。为了破除隔膜,曼德拉高瞻远瞩,支持跳羚队与国外来访球队的交流比赛。他接见了跳羚队队长皮耶那(马特•达蒙 Matt Damon 饰),两人进行了推心置腹的交谈。后者带领着白人球员走访了南非各地,把橄榄球运动普及给普通民众,让这项运动成为了黑白联合的纽带……
本片根据约翰•卡林的作品《与敌人战斗:纳尔逊曼德拉和一场改变国家的比赛》(Playing the Enemy:Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation)改编。
马丁(Michael J. Fox 饰)才回到现实世界与女友团聚,布朗博士(Christopher Lloyd 饰)就心急火燎地把他们带到了30年后的未来世界,原来这一次是马丁未来的两个孩子因参与抢劫锒铛入狱,博士要携马丁一起阻止悲剧发生。
周旋一番后,两个孩子被成功挽救,但三人回到现实世界后,却发现周遭发生了天翻地覆的变化,世界被贝夫(Thomas F. Wilson饰)所控制,马丁的父亲乔治惨死,母亲洛莲(Lea Thompson 饰)竟然成了贝夫的妻子!
这一切都是因为时光机器的秘密不慎被未来的老贝夫识破,他偷偷回去捣鬼,竟因此使得整个世界都在他的掌握下!马丁与博士再次踏上时光穿梭的征途,希望将世界扳回正轨。