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　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.

　　Jane is trapped in an unknown world with endless possibilities. She has to discover a way to access them and alter her reality before she is destined to repeat the same test over and over again, Ad Infinitum.

　　美联社、《生活》杂志等著名媒体都曾报道过1964年的“月光凶杀案”，当时小镇坠入一片恐慌，一到黄昏就全镇戒严，全副武装的警察上街巡逻。直到三个月再无袭击发生，警察才逐渐撤出。1976年，曾有一部根据该案件改编的同名影片上映。两名幸存者描述凶手有六英尺高，头戴面具，只露出眼睛和嘴巴。　　2014年版《杀出魔鬼镇》中，连环凶杀再度开始，面具杀手时隔六十多年重现特克萨卡纳，究竟是有人故意模仿，还是有更恐怖的事情暗中酝酿？一个孤独的高中女生，似乎知晓解开这一切的秘密。

　　阿格涅丝卡·霍兰凭借这部迄今为止最具野心的作品达成了导演生涯的巅峰，她呈现了一部关于20世纪捷克标志性作家弗朗茨·卡夫卡的传记片。影片以万花筒般的拼贴手法构建而成，追随卡夫卡留下的足迹——从19世纪的布拉格出发，直至他在维也纳辞世，时间跨度涵盖第一次世界大战及之后。《弗朗茨》一片将为观众提供一个独特的视角，一窥这位文学巨匠背后的人生轨迹。