女神殿

心靈獨奏 The Soloist
117 min. 2009

Writing credits
Susannah Grant (screenplay)
Steve Lopez (book "The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music")

Jamie Foxx  ...  Nathaniel Ayers 
Robert Downey Jr.  ...  Steve Lopez 
Catherine Keener  ...  Mary Weston 
Tom Hollander  ...  Graham Claydon 
Lisa Gay Hamilton  ...  Jennifer Ayers (as Lisagay Hamilton) 
Nelsan Ellis  ...  David Carter
Lorraine Toussaint  ...  Flo Ayers 
Justin Martin  ...  Young Nathaniel 
Jena Malone ...  Cheery Lab Tech

1.
Most of the homeless people shown in the film are actually homeless.
2.
In the scene that Nathaniel Ayers and Steve Lopez attend a rehearsal concert, all the seats are covered with canvas. This was not cinematic imagery; this is actually done in some concert halls during rehearsals to reflect a more accurate sound as if the seats were being occupied.
3.
As of April 2009, Nathaniel Ayers "has a girlfriend and is doing reasonably well" according to Steve Lopez. He is also taught himself to play the flute.
4.
This is the second time Robert Downey Jr. has portrayed a real-life reporter. He previously portrayed San Francisco Chronicle reporter Paul Avery in Zodiac (2007).
5.
Graffiti of the repeated phrase "I like myself" can also be seen behind Edward Norton in a promotional photo for Fight Club (1999).
6.
Lorraine Toussaint (who played Mr. Ayers' mother), Lisa Gay Hamilton (who played Mr. Ayers' sister Jennifer), and Nelsan Ellis (who played LAMP director David Carter) are all real-life graduates of The Juilliard School's Drama Division. Mr. Ayers was a student in their prestigious Music Division.
7.
Nathaniel Ayers, Jr. The subject of the movie is himself seen in the front row of the concert, during the last scene of the movie.




"How are we going to fix it so your shit don't fall on my shoes?"

魔鬼知道你死前 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
117 min. 2007 

Directed by
Sidney Lumet   
Writing credits
Kelly Masterson  

Philip Seymour Hoffman ...  Andy Hanson
Ethan Hawke ...  Hank Hanson
Albert Finney ...  Charles Hanson
Marisa Tomei ...  Gina Hanson
Aleksa Palladino ...  Chris Lasorda
Michael Shannon ...  Dex
Amy Ryan ...  Martha Hanson
Sarah Livingston ...  Danielle Hanson
Brían F. O'Byrne ...  Bobby Lasorda
Rosemary Harris ...  Nanette Hanson 

1.
Title taken from the Irish toast: "May you have food and raiment, a soft pillow for your head; may you be 40 years in heaven, before the devil knows you're dead."
2.
In the original script, Andrew and Hank Hanson were not brothers. Sidney Lumet made this change to increase the drama of the movie. He also removed the character of Andrew & Gina's daughter.
3.
The high-heeled shoes that Marisa Tomei wears in her nude scene with Ethan Hawke are her own shoes.
4.
One of two films released in the same year co-starring Philip Seymour Hoffman which center around sibling relationships. The other is The Savages (2007)
5.
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke are both in real-life old friends of Marisa Tomei.
6.
Sidney Lumet was introduced to digital film techniques through this production and reportedly loved working with digital film, primarily due to it's convenience. This was his first and ultimately only film to be shot in the digital format.
7.
In the DVD's Director's commentary, Sidney Lumet says the nude scene between Gina and Hank was shot, Ethan Hawke wanted to make Marisa Tomei, feel more comfortable, and insisted on being nude as well. He further insisted that every male crew member strip naked while filming the scene to accommodate Tomei.
8.
The scene of Andy and Hank robbing the drug dealer was filmed with two simultaneous setups, one on Philip Seymour Hoffman and one on Ethan Hawke to better capture their tension and reactions to each other. Sidney Lumet is experienced with the use of multiple camera setups in a single take from his career in live television.




"My theory is that everybody is a potentiaI murderer."

火車怪客 Strangers on a Train 
101 min. 1951

Writing credits
Raymond Chandler (screen play) 
Czenzi Ormonde (screen play)
Whitfield Cook (adaptation by)
Patricia Highsmith (from the novel by)
Ben Hecht (uncredited) 

Farley Granger ...  Guy Haines
Ruth Roman ...  Anne Morton
Robert Walker ...  Bruno Antony
Leo G. Carroll ...  Sen. Morton
Patricia Hitchcock ...  Barbara Morton
Kasey Rogers ...  Miriam Joyce Haines (as Laura Elliott)
Marion Lorne ...  Mrs. Antony
Jonathan Hale ...  Mr. Antony
Robert Gist ...  Det. Leslie Hennessey
Jack Cushingham ...  Fred Reynolds (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock ...  Man Boarding Train Carrying a Double Bass (uncredited) 

1.
Alfred Hitchcock bought the rights to the original novel anonymously to keep the price down, and got them for just $7,500.
2.
Raymond Chandler is credited as the main author of the script, but it was almost completely written by Czenzi Ormonde who was credited as second author.
3.
Raymond Chandler's version of the script ended with Bruno Antony being arrested and institutionalized, with the final image being the villain writhing in a straight jacket.
4.
In the scene where Bruno searches for the cigarette lighter in the drain, Alfred Hitchcock personally selected the items of rubbish that lie on the floor.
5.
Alfred Hitchcock originally wanted William Holden to play the part of Guy Haines.
6.
Raymond Chandler seems to have gone out of his way to behave disagreeably to Alfred Hitchcock. When Hitchcock arrived at Chandler's home for a story meeting, Chandler hollered from his window, "Look at the fat bastard trying to get out of his car!"
7.
This was the last full feature for Robert Walker who died eight months after filming finished from an allergic reaction to a drug.
8.
The character of Bruno was named after Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the convicted kidnapper/killer of the Lindbergh baby.
9.
When the movie was released in Germany in 1952, about five minutes were removed which were considered too brutal or sadistic. Later the scenes were re-added for TV, but they are subtitled, while the rest of the movie is dubbed.
10.
As Guy leaves the last match, part of a quotation clearly including the words "two impostors" is visible on the beam above his head. It is from Rudyard Kipling's poem "If." The line reads "If you can meet with triumph and disaster / And treat those two impostors just the same..."
11.
Alfred Hitchcock had admired Edgar Allan Poe's stories since his teenage years, and went on to put Edgar Allan Poe references in his films. French critics noticed that there are connections between the runaway carousel in this film and Poe's "A Descent into the Maelstrom".
12.
Alfred Hitchcock wanted to end the film with Guy (Farley Granger) saying "Bruno, Bruno Anthony - a clever fellow." But the studio forced him to shoot a happy ending.




Emma. Don't move. 
Standing there, you don't look like Emma Newton. 
You look like Emma Spencer Oakley of 46 Burnham Street, St Paul, Minnesota. 
The prettiest girl on the block. 

辣手摧花 Shadow of a Doubt
115 min. 1943

Writing credits
Thornton Wilder (screenplay)  
Sally Benson (screenplay)  
Alma Reville (screenplay)
Gordon McDonell (story)

Teresa Wright ...  Charlotte 'Young Charlie' Newton
Joseph Cotten ...  Uncle Charlie Oakley
Macdonald Carey ...  Jack Graham
Henry Travers ...  Joseph Newton
Patricia Collinge ...  Emma Spencer Oakley Newton
Hume Cronyn ...  Herbie Hawkins
Wallace Ford ...  Fred Saunders
Edna May Wonacott ...  Ann Newton
Charles Bates ...  Roger Newton
Janet Shaw ...  Louise Finch - Waitress
Edwin Stanley ...  Mr. Green - Bank President (uncredited) 

1.
Alfred Hitchcock often said that this was his favorite film.
2.
Patricia Collinge, who plays Emma Newton in the film, wrote the garage scene between Charlie (Teresa Wright) and Jack (Macdonald Carey).
3.
Edna May Wonacott, who plays young Ann Newton, and Estelle Jewell, who plays Charlie's friend, Catherine, were both locals of Santa Rosa, where the film was shot on location. Many of the film's extras were also locals of the town, which was too far away from Hollywood to be affected by Actors Guild guidelines demanding the use of professional actors.
4.
The portrait that hangs on the wall of Charlie's room to the right of her door is one drawn by Willy Pogany of actress Mary Philbin, who was a leading lady at Universal just 20 years before.
5.
The name "Charlie" is spoken approximately 170 times.
6.
Alfred Hitchcock had wanted Joan Fontaine for the role of Young Charlie, but she was unavailable.
7.
Hitchcock wanted William Powell to play Uncle Charlie, but MGM refused to lend the actor for the film. So the role went to Joseph Cotten.
8.
In 1959 interview, Teresa Wright said that this was her favorite film.
9.
Uncle Charlie arrived in Santa Rosa on August 22 or 23, 1942: the headlines in the paper were "Brazil Declares War", which had happened on August 22. However, there are also two clues that point to the film being set in pre-Pearl Harbor America (prior to Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked the United States in the Pacific, bringing the U.S. into World War II).
9.1
In the first dinner scene after Uncle Charlie's arrival, he presents gifts to the Newton family, including a pair of photos of their parents to Mrs. Newton, his sister. She remarks that the photos were made in 1888, and her son exclaims "Fifty-three years ago!" That would make the year 1941, not 1942.
9.2
Also, when Uncle Charlie and his niece visit her father's bank, there's a sign on a teller's cage urging customers to "Buy Defense Bonds!" U.S. government bonds were renamed "War Bonds" after Dec. 7, 1941; "Defense Bonds" were sold prior to that date. The "Brazil Declares War" headline probably reflects a news story contemporary with the shooting of the movie, but it's in the wrong time frame for the action of the story itself.
10.
In his interview with François Truffaut on "Shadow" (first published in 1967), Alfred Hitchcock said the dense, black smoke belching from the train that brings Charles Oakley to Santa Rosa was a deliberate symbol of imminent evil.
11.
Alfred Hitchcock on the train to Santa Rosa playing cards. He has the entire suit of spades in his hand, including the symbolic ace.
12.
Cynicism underlies all the proceedings, from young Charlie's "miraculous" summoning of her Uncle Charlie (tantamount to calling up the Angel of Death) to Uncle Charlie's chilling exposition of his view on life, relayed to his niece: 
12.1
"You live in a dream. Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you ripped the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?" 
12.2
This is one of Hitchcock's most unsettling films, preoccupied like many other Hitchcock works with good vs. evil, and the capacity for evil that lurks within us all; and it is also one of his most stylized, gorgeously shot by Joseph Valentine.




極地戀人 Los Amantes Del Circulo Polar
107 min. 1998

Najwa Nimri  ...  Ana joven 
Fele Martínez  ...  Otto joven (as Fele Martinez) 
Nancho Novo  ...  Álvaro 
Maru Valdivielso  ...  Olga 
Peru Medem  ...  Otto niño 
Sara Valiente  ...  Ana niña 
Víctor Hugo Oliveira  ...  Otto adolescente (as Victor Hugo Oliviera) 
Kristel Díaz  ...  Ana adolescente (as Kristel Diaz) 
Beate Jensen  ...  Madre de Otto  




"Whatever you do, don't you dare infIict bloody Rachmaninoff on him. He's not ready!"

鋼琴師 Shine
105 min. 1996

Geoffrey Rush  ...  David Helfgott - Adult 
1997 Academy Awards Best Actor in a Leading Role

Sonia Todd  ...  Sylvia 
Alex Rafalowicz  ...  David Helfgott - Child 
Armin Mueller-Stahl  ...  Peter 
Nicholas Bell  ...  Ben Rosen 
Danielle Cox  ...  Suzie - Child 
Rebecca Gooden  ...  Margaret 
Noah Taylor  ...  David Helfgott - Adolescent 
Ian Welbourne ...  Boy Next Door
Googie Withers ...  Katharine Susannah Prichard
Maria Dafnero ...  Sonia
Stephen Sheehan ...  Roger Woodward - Younger
Marianna Doherty ...  Suzie - Teenager
John Gielgud ...  Cecil Parkes
Joey Kennedy ...  Suzie - Adult
Lynn Redgrave ...  Gillian
John Martin ...  Roger Woodward - Older 

1.
Geoffrey Rush had once learned the piano up until aged fourteen. He took up piano lessons again thirty years later for the film and also acted as his own hand double body double.
2.
The international popularity of Shine caused a sensation leading to a musical tour for Helfgott, whose performances were less adroit than many audiences expected, sparking criticism that writer-director Scott Hicks had exaggerated his subject's talent for dramatic purposes. 
3.
At the 1997 Oscar ceremony, the real-life David Helfgott performed Flight of the Bumblebee, causing many viewers to fear for his unstable behavior, especially as the film presents him as a childlike individual with a sometimes Tourette's-style candor. 




What is a ghost?
A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again?
An instant of pain, perhaps.
Something dead which still seems to be alive.
An emotion suspended in time.
Like a blurred photograph.
Like an insect trapped in amber.

惡魔的背脊 El espinazo del diablo
106 min. 2001

Marisa Paredes ...  Carmen
Eduardo Noriega ...  Jacinto
Federico Luppi ...  Dr. Casares
Fernando Tielve ...  Carlos
Íñigo Garcés ...  Jaime
Irene Visedo ...  Conchita
José Manuel Lorenzo ...  Marcelo
Junio Valverde ...  Santi 

Produced by
Agustín Almodóvar ....  producer 
Pedro Almodóvar ....  executive producer  

1.
Was strongly inspired by the director's personal memories, especially his relationship with his uncle, who supposedly came back as a ghost.
2.
The Spanish comic series "Paracuellos" by Carlos Giménez was an important source of inspiration. This semi-biographical work takes place in a Francoist orphanage during the early 50's. Giménez worked as a storyboard artist on this film.
3.
This labor of love for director Guillermo del Toro was sixteen years in development.
4.
The film came together when Guillermo del Toro bumped into Pedro Almodóvar at the 1994 Miami Film Festival where he had just shown Cronos (1993). Almodovar told him that he had just seen his film and wanted to produce his next movie.
5.
The film's title refers to the medical condition of spina bifida.
6.
Guillermo del Toro wrote the film when he was in college.
7.
Described by Guillermo del Toro as being a sibling film to El laberinto del fauno (2006) (this being the masculine "brother" film, and Pan's as the feminine "sister" film).