What is the film written on? Is it by the imagination of the director, the expression of the actors, or the response of the audience? Maybe not, it's just a mirror image of reality. When thousands of emotions spread, the distance between people was miraculously shortened in just two or three hours. Former Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky once said: "Putting a person in an infinitely changing environment, letting him pass by countless characters far or near, and making him relate to the whole world: this is the meaning of cinema." ”
On the night the weekend is coming to an end, check out these niche high-scoring movies, each of which has only a few thousand people watching on Douban Marker — they may not be popular enough, but they are affectionate enough. You are also welcome to share your private playlist with us.
Comet Beauty
14984 people saw it
Douban score: 8.6
Directed By: Joseph M. L. Mankiewicz
Released in 1950, Comet Beauty shined at the Oscars the following year, with a record of 14 nominations that has never been better. The film vividly shows us the "upper position" of the entertainment industry, which begins with the worship of the eyebrows and the eyes, until it robs the older generation of acting resources, awards, and even lovers. The title of the film, "All About Eve", breaks the ecology of the entertainment industry, that is, the hot newcomers are always the target of the spotlight, and in the dark places where the spotlight cannot shine, there will always be stars and unwilling and ambitious little people who are no longer beautiful. For fans who love old movies, Betty Davis, George Sanders, and Marilyn Monroe make the film not to be missed.
Laura Montes
1318 people saw it
Douban score: 7.7
Director: Max Ofels
This story tells the legend of the life of the wind and dust woman. Laura Montes peddled her own glamorous history in the circus, and then the film tells the story of her life in flashback collage. This film is Ophirth's last film and a great work that has been underestimated by the history of cinema, it is a masterpiece of the baroque classicist and complex artistic style. In addition, this film is also a textbook for scene scheduling, and its gorgeous and exquisite color design is dazzling.
Firefighter's Ball
2450 people have seen it
Douban score: 8.0
Director: Milos Foreman
This was Milos Fusman's last work before he left the Czech Republic. The film focuses on the annual firefighters' ball, where the firefighters decide to throw a big party and award a golden axe in recognition of his lifelong contributions. But the dance was a mess, and many things backfired. Foreman uses irony and absurdity to take the joke and satire to the extreme, revealing the darkness of human nature, the incompetence of the organizers, and the collective frenzy.
The Great Migration
360 people have seen it
Douban score: 8.4
Director: Jan Troll
It is an epic film of Nordic immigrants to the United States. The film is full of long shots and spectacular natural scenes. In the mid-19th century, a young couple lived in a village in Smyland, southern Sweden, who were struggling to survive on a small piece of barren land. The town suffered from bad weather, a sharp decline in harvests, and famine, so the family decided to immigrate to the United States. They travelled with another family fleeing religious persecution and a man who had escaped a bad wife. Drifting away from the homeland, the swaying ships of the Atlantic Ocean will continue to fade in the journey of time - the days will eventually become brighter.
"Murder within Case"
837 people have seen it
Douban score: 7.1
Director: François Truffaut
Hitchcock-style films, with a tight plot and tight logic, are genres that attract people from beginning to end and win by plot. But perhaps it is the relationship of the times, the plot is a bit too stormy, and the clues on the key plot are not expressed enough to advance the plot, resulting in the rendering of the atmosphere and the audience's understanding are not completely equal. The heroine has a kind of unbridled beauty, detached from the tense clues but enjoyable, which is probably the biggest highlight of this film.
"I Am the King of the Castle"
Movies about children always express two extremes: extreme light, such as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Moonrise Kingdom"; or extreme darkness, such as "Lord of the Flies", "Detachment" and "I Am the King of the Castle". Presumably, young people have some kind of mellow glass-like quality, and the humanity they display can always be fully magnified to achieve a flawless and cruel idealization. As a dark extreme, Charles and Thomas in I Am the King of the Castle are difficult to understand with the eyes of the naïve and thin child image in the completely traditional cognitive concept. They are precocious, sensitive, and deep-minded, taking into account both adult and child traits. In the context of two repressive and very different families, the relationship between the two is unique and indescribable. Seemingly eerie, childish and twisted emotions run through the whole process without being abrupt. One inertia chooses to escape, one inertia chooses to hurt. If you are not a lonely and sensitive person, it is difficult to resonate with this delicate emotion.
The Devil's Soldier
As a political bargaining chip, Naval Intelligence Officer O'Neill became the first female officer in U.S. history to participate in special forces "SEALs" training. With this, Senator Di Haiwen, who has been calling for equality between men and women, won many votes. However, the self-interested Di Haiwen did not care about O'Neill's feelings and encounters as an individual, because she knew in her heart that O'Neill could not complete the cruel and terrible training in the Special Forces. To everyone's surprise, O'Neill not only completed the training mission well, but even passed the final exam to become an official member of the Special Forces. Demi Moore successfully interprets a new definition of femininity – the coexistence of femininity and fortitude. Maybe sometimes embarrassing yourself is another kind of salvation for yourself.
The Dying Show
329 people have seen it
Douban score: 8.1
Directed by: Sol Tryon
A black comedy directed by Sol Tryon. Binew, a self-esteemed artist, decided to ask his friend Mills, an obscure poet and autobiographer, to help him record the last hours of his life on his deathbed, and took his request to ride him around town on a tricycle. It wasn't until it got dark that Binew pulled out an invitation card and handed it to Mills, inviting him to his "death show," and Binew would continue to perform until the last minute. Life is short, let's treat it as an absurd theatrical performance.
The Silent Wedding
8573 people have seen it
Director: Horatio Maraere
Set in a small village in Romania in 1953, Lancu and Mara are about to receive their grand wedding. However, at this moment of joy, news came of the death of the dictator Stalin, and in order to pay tribute to him, Ranku and Mara were told that they had to cancel the wedding. For this couple, how can the death of an insignificant person stop their love? A silent wedding comes into being— silence is the last resistance to dictatorship, and the wedding eventually turns into a funeral.
The Wandering Uleck
2279 people saw it
Director: Pepe Danquart
This is the self-description of a wanderer. In Israel in 1942, an eight-year-old boy escaped from a Concentration Camp in Warsaw. He tried everything he could to survive, first hiding in the forest, then hiding his identity, and living as a Christian orphan on a Polish farm. War is inhuman, but it secretly strips away the good in human nature. When fragile beliefs turn into armor, how long will it take to go on a long and turbulent journey?
Fanny's Memoirs
1644 people saw it
Douban score: 8.3
Director: Lola Doerlen
Movies related to World War II always like to look through the eyes of children, perhaps so that it is easier to see the essence of war. Adapted from Fanny's Memoirs, the film truly portrays the experience of a brave Jewish child fleeing Nazi persecution during World War II. "Are the Jews bad? Can't we just be Jews? "We can't be Jews." But aren't the reasons for genocide more absurd than the problems of children? If all the world's questions had a concise answer, then all tragedies would come to an abrupt end.
The Knight
2717 people have seen it
Douban score: 7.3
Director: Zhao Ting
The film as a whole is getting better, and the tones change from dark to bright. The use of natural light is so skillful and sincere, in every dawn and sunset light, only galloping on horseback is the home of the rider's soul. A large number of handheld shots and follow-up shots make the picture tremble slightly, and the video played by the mobile phone shows the rider's former stubbornness and glory in the face of injury and illness. Working on a dream is too simple, and it is the most difficult to have to give up the dream you have chased all your life.
There are not many lines in the film, and a large number of them are depictions of trivial actions. On the surface, it looks superfluous and does not promote the development of the story, but it truly shows the helplessness of the rider in the dilemma in the plain. The horse's leg was injured and could not run, and only one shot was killed. People are hurt, and life goes on despite losing the ability to realize their dreams. When all your thoughts are gray, look back at the people who care about you. As at the end of the film, Bridy, a rider preparing to give up his life for the race, looks back at his father and sister in the distance— he undresses and goes home.