女神殿

We must pretend we didn't hear it. That's what Mrs. Grose says.
Pretend?
Then we won't imagine things.

Directed by
Jack Clayton    

Writing credits
Henry James (novel "The Turn of the Screw")
John Mortimer (additional scenes & dialogue)
William Archibald (screenplay) 
Truman Capote (screenplay)

Cinematography by
Freddie Francis (director of photography) 

無罪的人 The Innocents
100 min. 1961

Deborah Kerr ...  Miss Giddens
Peter Wyngarde ...  Peter Quint
Megs Jenkins ...  Mrs. Grose
Michael Redgrave ...  The Uncle
Martin Stephens ...  Miles
Pamela Franklin ...  Flora
Clytie Jessop ...  Miss Jessel
Isla Cameron ...  Anna 

1.
Average Shot Length = ~9.2 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~8.6 seconds.
2.
During the cursed video in The Ring (2002), about 25 seconds in, a young boy's muffled singing can faintly be heard. This audio track is taken from "The Innocents".
3.
Much of the screenplay is not actually derived from Henry James's novella "The Turn of the Screw" but from William Archibald's 1950 Broadway adaptation "The Innocents".
4.
Kate Bush was inspired by the film to pen the song "The Infant Kiss" which appears on her 1980 album "Never For Ever".
5.
To create such sharp visuals, director of photography Freddie Francis used lots of huge bright lamps. Deborah Kerr sometimes had to resort to wearing sunglasses between takes.
6.
Director Jack Clayton turned down the offer of Cary Grant to play the uncle.
7.
Jack Clayton was dismayed to learn that 20th Century Fox insisted on making the film in CinemaScope. His cinematographer Freddie Francis set about making that less of a problem by framing the wide horizontal frame with lots of vertical lines to break it up. Conversely, he also used the wide space to emphasize shadowy spaces and using the emptiness towards an unsettling effect. To that end, he would often place characters at opposite ends of the frame.
8.
The film opens with a creepy song written by Paul Dehn and Georges Auric sung over a black screen for about 45 seconds before the 20th Century Fox logo appears. In some cinemas, the projectionists assumed this was a mistake on the print and edited the film so it began with the appearance of the Fox logo.
9.
Harold Pinter and John Mortimer also worked on the screenplay. The former advised Jack Clayton that he should not use flashbacks, and the latter was brought in to "Victorianize" the script.
10.
Deborah Kerr always regarded this as her finest performance.
11.
Jack Clayton didn't want the children to be exposed to the darker themes of the story, so they never saw the screenplay in its entirety. The children were given their pages the day before they were to be filmed.
12.
François Truffaut regarded this as the best British film since Alfred Hitchcock had left for America.
13.
When the governess first arrives at the house, it's a bright, sunny day. In fact, Freddie Francis had had some of the trees painted lighter to exaggerate this.
14.
Quint's unworldly appearance at the window was achieved by putting actor Peter Wyngarde on a trolley and wheeling him up to and then away from the window.
15.
Freddie Francis used so many lights that he was jokingly accused of trying to burn down Shepperton Studios.
16.
At one point when Deborah Kerr's character wanders around the house at night with only a candelabra for illumination, you might think you see something in the corner of your eye. You do. It's the clapperboard which had briefly wandered into shot. Jack Clayton decided to keep it in because he liked the idea of something almost subliminal being present to add to the air of unease.

"O Willow Waly"
Music by Georges Auric
Lyrics by Paul Dehn

延伸閱讀：
Turn Of The Screw / The Innocents (1961)




塵霧家園 House of Sand and Fog
126 min. 2003

Writing credits
Andre Dubus III (novel)
Vadim Perelman (screenplay)  
Shawn Lawrence Otto (screenplay)

Jennifer Connelly ...  Kathy
Ben Kingsley ...  Behrani
Ron Eldard ...  Lester
Frances Fisher ...  Connie Walsh
Kim Dickens ...  Carol Burdon
Shohreh Aghdashloo ...  Nadi
Jonathan Ahdout ...  Esmail 

1.
SPOILER: In the scene near the end of the movie where Kathy pulls into her driveway and tries to shoot herself, Jennifer Connelly accidentally put the car in "reverse" instead of "park", and almost severely damaged the camera positioned in the car door. After Connelly apologized profusely, she was urged by the director to continue the scene, and it ended up being one of the best takes. This is the take shown in the final print. 




煤氣燈下 Gaslight
114 min. 1944 

Directed by
George Cukor     
Writing credits
John Van Druten (screen play)  
Walter Reisch (screen play) 
John L. Balderston (screen play)
Patrick Hamilton (based upon the play by)

Charles Boyer ...  Gregory Anton 

Ingrid Bergman ...  Paula Alquist
1945 Academy Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role

Joseph Cotten ...  Brian Cameron
Dame May Whitty ...  Miss Thwaites
Angela Lansbury ...  Nancy
1945 Nominated Academy Awards Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Barbara Everest ...  Elizabeth
Emil Rameau ...  Maestro Guardi
Tom Stevenson ...  Williams
Heather Thatcher ...  Lady Dalroy 

1.
When this film was produced, the studio attempted to have all prints of the previous version, Gaslight (1940) destroyed. These efforts were ultimately unsuccessful, though the film was rarely seen for the next few decades.
2.
The aria that Ingrid Bergman is singing when we see her in the first scene of her in the present day is from the Gaetano Donizetti opera "Lucia Di Lammermoor". The opera is famous for its so-called "mad scene", in which the eponymous Lucia goes insane.
3.
Ingrid Bergman spent some time in a mental institution to research her role, studying a woman who had suffered a nervous breakdown.
4.
Angela Lansbury was only 17 when she made this, her film debut. She had been working at Bullocks Department Store in Los Angeles and when she told her boss that she was leaving, he offered to match the pay at her new job. Expecting it to be in the region of her Bullocks salary of the equivalent of $27 a week, he was somewhat taken aback when she told him she would be earning $500 a week.
5.
The first time Ingrid Bergman met Charles Boyer was the day they shot the scene where they meet at a train station and kiss passionately. As Boyer was several inches shorter than his co-star, he had to stand on a box, which she kept inadvertently kicking as she ran into the scene.
6.
The sets are deliberately overfilled with bric-a-brac to emphasize Paula's increasing sense of claustrophobia.
7.
Both Irene Dunne and Hedy Lamarr both turned down the chance to play Paula.
8.
The book from which Ingrid Bergman reads aloud is "Villette" by Charlotte Brontë.
9.
New scenes not in the original play were added to this version of "Gaslight", and the names of most of the characters were changed. The character that Joseph Cotten plays in this version was changed from a stout, humorously sardonic elderly man to a young, handsome one in order to serve as a potential love interest for Ingrid Bergman in the film, and in order to appeal more to the audience. 




What do you call a mushroom who goes into the bar, buys everybody a drink?
I don't know. What?
A fungi.

"The two films are vastly different in structure, however. And while the ostentatious reverse narrative of Memento makes it more memorable, as it were, The Lookout earns big points for seeming like something that might actually happen."

-- AllMovie 

監守自盜 The Lookout
102 min. 2007

Directed by
Scott Frank  
2008 Independent Spirit Awards Best First Feature

Joseph Gordon-Levitt  ...  Chris Pratt 
Jeff Daniels  ...  Lewis 
Matthew Goode  ...  Gary Spargo 
Isla Fisher  ...  Luvlee 
Carla Gugino  ...  Janet 
Bruce McGill  ...  Robert Pratt 
Alberta Watson  ...  Barbara Pratt 
Alex Borstein  ...  Mrs. Lange 
Sergio Di Zio  ...  Deputy Ted 
David Huband  ...  Mr. Tuttle 
Laura Vandervoort  ...  Kelly  

1.
To help him play a brain damaged man, Joseph Gordon-Levitt did not get much sleep and worked out hard at the gym before shooting to help him appear disoriented. He also befriended people with brain damage and read "The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound".
2.
Sam Mendes and then David Fincher were attached to direct. Once Fincher left the project, writer Scott Frank decided to direct himself. 




幸福來訪時 The Visitor
103 min. 2007

Richard Jenkins  ...  Prof. Walter Vale
2009 Nominated Academy Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role 

Haaz Sleiman  ...  Tarek Khalil 
Danai Gurira  ...  Zainab 
Hiam Abbass  ...  Mouna Khalil 
Marian Seldes  ...  Barbara 
Michael Cumpsty  ...  Charles  

"Open and Close"
Written and Performed by Fela Kuti
Courtesy of Barclay/MCA/Universal Records
by arrangement with Universal Music Enterprises
© 1971, 1999, 2001 FAK under license to MCA Records Inc.

"Je'nwi Teni (Don't Gag Me)"
Written and Performed by Fela Kuti
Courtesy of Barclay/MCA/Universal Records
by arrangement with Universal Music Enterprises
© 1972, 1973, 1999, 2001 FAK under license to MCA Records Inc.




You're my knight in shimmering armour. Did you know that?
I think you mean shining.
No. Shimmering. You shimmer and you glow.

戀戀情深 What's Eating Gilbert Grape
118 min. 1993

Writing credits
Peter Hedges (novel "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?")
Peter Hedges (screenplay)

Johnny Depp  ...  Gilbert Grape 
Leonardo DiCaprio  ...  Arnie Grape 
1994 Nominated Academy Awards Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Juliette Lewis  ...  Becky 
Mary Steenburgen  ...  Betty Carver 
Darlene Cates  ...  Bonnie Grape 
Laura Harrington  ...  Amy Grape 
Mary Kate Schellhardt  ...  Ellen Grape 
Kevin Tighe  ...  Ken Carver 
John C. Reilly  ...  Tucker Van Dyke 
Crispin Glover  ...  Bobby McBurney 
Penelope Branning  ...  Becky's Grandma  

1.
Leonardo DiCaprio said that playing Arnie was "the most fun I've ever had".
2.
Johnny Depp felt bad about having to ridicule Darlene Cates's character "Momma" and would often apologize to her after shooting. Depp once said to Cates, "Man, I want you to know how much I hated having to say those things about you, or about your character."
3.
Leonardo DiCaprio created Arnie's trademark flicking his finger against his nose, describing it as a sort of "brain wipe... like Arnie is massaging the inside of his brain."
4.
When getting into character, Leonardo DiCaprio remarked of it: "I had to really research to get into the mind of somebody like that. I spent a few days at a home for mentally retarded teens. We just talked and I watched their mannerisms. People have these expectations that mentally retarded children are really crazy, but that isn't so. It's refreshing to see them because everything's so new to them." 




擁抱艷陽天 Monster's Ball
111 min. 2001

Produced by
Lee Daniels ....  producer  

Billy Bob Thornton  ...  Hank Grotowski 
Halle Berry  ...  Leticia Musgrove 
Heath Ledger  ...  Sonny Grotowski 
Amber Rules  ...  Vera 
Peter Boyle  ...  Buck Grotowski 
Charles Cowan Jr. ...  Willie Cooper
Taylor LaGrange  ...  Darryl Cooper
Mos Def  ...  Ryrus Cooper 
Coronji Calhoun ...  Tyrell Musgrove
Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs ...  Lawrence Musgrove (as Sean Combs) 

1.
Vanessa Williams was offered the role of Leticia, but turned it down because of the full frontal nudity.
2.
Wes Bentley turned down the role of Sonny Grotowski.
3.
The part ultimately played by Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs was initially offered to Jeffrey Wright and Don Cheadle.
4.
The movie was named as one of "The 20 Most Overrated Movies of All Time" by Premiere.
5.
Angela Bassett purportedly turned down the role of Leticia, stating "I wasn't going to be a prostitute on film..." However, Lions Gate Production President Michael Paseornek and the film's producer Lee Daniels rebut Bassett stating that she was never even offered the role, and was already committed to another film.
6.
The movie was floating around the studio for six years, and at one time Sean Penn was set to direct with Robert De Niro to star.




好景不常 All Good Things
101 min. 2010

Ryan Gosling  ...  David Marks 
Kirsten Dunst  ...  Katie Marks 
Frank Langella  ...  Sanford Marks 
Lily Rabe  ...  Deborah Lehrman 
Philip Baker Hall  ...  Malvern Bump 
Michael Esper  ...  Daniel Marks 
Diane Venora  ...  Janice Rizzo 
Nick Offerman  ...  Jim McCarthy 
Kristen Wiig  ...  Lauren Fleck 
Stephen Kunken  ...  Todd Fleck 
Trini Alvarado ...  Sarah Davis
Arwen ...  Ivan the dog
Jordie ...  Ivan the dog 

1.
Kirsten Dunst stated in interviews that this was her best performance ever. She also said that when she read the script, she felt the same way Jodie Foster did when she read the script of The Accused (1988).
2.
Ryan Gosling felt so bad about a scene he had to pull Kirsten Dunst's hair, he sent her flowers the day after.
3.
Kirsten Dunst revealed on the "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" (2009) that the real person that David Marks is based on visited the set of the film being made and watched from a distance. 




恐怖斷魂屋 Session 9
100 min. 2001

Writing credits
Brad Anderson  
Stephen Gevedon 

David Caruso  ...  Phil 
Stephen Gevedon  ...  Mike 
Paul Guilfoyle  ...  Bill Griggs 
Josh Lucas  ...  Hank 
Peter Mullan  ...  Gordon Fleming 
Brendan Sexton III  ...  Jeff 
Lonnie Farmer  ...  Doctor (voice) 
Larry Fessenden  ...  Craig McManus 
Jurian Hughes  ...  Mary Hobbes (voice)  

1.
This was one of the first feature films shot using Sony's 24P HD video, which shoots at 24 frames per second, like film, as opposed to the 30 frames per second of conventional NTSC video.
1.5
Using this technology, Brad Anderson and director of photography Uta Briesewitz were able to produce the uniquely effective, deep-focus images using mostly natural light.
2.
The fictional "Patricia Willard scandal" at Danvers State Hospital, cited by Mike at the film's beginning, strongly appears to have been inspired by a real-life wave of problematic "Satanism and sex-abuse" allegations that swept the United States circa the 1980s,
2.5
including (among others) one involving the Amirault family in nearby Malden, Massachusetts. Reporter Dorothy Rabinowitz won a Pulitzer Prize for her book chronicling that bizarre case, "No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times," in 2001. 

"Soul Ecstasy"
Written by Setev Salas, Ross Harrs & Craig Borrell
Performed by The Inner Thumb
Courtesy of Emperor Norton Records and Salidified Songs (BMI)




Mark likes to pretend that he's someone else in bed.
Who?
Anthony Michael Hall. 

幸福事件 Happy Accidents
110 min. 2000

Marty Davey  ...  Directory Operator (voice) 
Marisa Tomei  ...  Ruby Weaver 
Vincent D'Onofrio  ...  Sam Deed 
Nadia Dajani  ...  Gretchen 
Holland Taylor  ...  Therapist, Maggie Ann "Meg" Ford 
Tovah Feldshuh  ...  Lillian Weaver 
Sean Gullette  ...  Mark 
Bronson Dudley  ...  Victor 
José Zúñiga  ...  Jose 
Anthony Michael Hall ...  Himself