黑豹
发表于3分钟前回复 :Salomé (1923), a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name. The play itself is a loose retelling of the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the Baptist (here, as in Wilde's play, called Jokaanan) at the request of his stepdaughter, Salomé, whom he lusts after.Salomé is often called one of the first art films to be made in the U.S.[citation needed] The highly stylized costumes, exaggerated acting (even for the period), minimal sets, and absence of all but the most necessary props make for a screen image much more focused on atmosphere and on conveying a sense of the characters' individual heightened desires than on conventional plot development.Despite the film being only a little over an hour in length and having no real action to speak of, it cost over $350,000 to make. All the sets were constructed indoors to be able to have complete control over the lighting. The film was shot completely in black and white, matching the illustrations done by Aubrey Beardsley in the printed edition of Wilde's play. The costumes, designed by Natacha Rambova, used material only from Maison Lewis of Paris, such as the real silver lamé loincloths worn by the guards.No major studio would be associated with the film, and it was years after its completion before it was released, by a minor independent distributor. It was a complete failure at the time and marked the end of Nazimova's producing career.A longstanding rumor, which seems to have started while the film was still in production, suggests that its cast is comprised entirely of gay and bisexual actors in an homage to Oscar Wilde, as per star and producer Nazimova's demand. It is, of course, impossible to say, but one of the extras in Salomé reported that a number of the cast members—both featured and extras—were indeed gay, but not an unusual percentage of them, and certainly not all of them. What can be said is that Nazimova herself was a lesbian, the two guard characters (who, next to Salomé, have the most screen time) are at least played very stereotypically gay, and several of the female courtiers are men in drag.Salomé was screened in 1989 at the New York International Festival of Lesbian and Gay films and in 1990 at the New York Gay Experimental Film Festival.In 2000, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
炫龙
发表于4分钟前回复 :心理学博士玛格丽特·麦瑟森(西格妮·韦弗 Sigourney Weaver 饰)擅长用科学的手段分析各种难以解释的超自然现象,对于所谓的超能力更是充满质疑。在助手汤姆·巴克利(希里安·墨菲 Cillian Murphy 饰)的协助下,她们深入乡间,戳穿了一个又一个“灵媒”的骗局。与此同时,曾经在20世纪60~70年代引起轰动的超能力者西蒙·希尔沃(罗伯特·德·尼罗 Robert De Niro 饰)强势复出,引起新一波的热潮。玛格丽特曾让西蒙的弟子的原形毕露,可她始终回避与西蒙的正面对决。一些人的推波助澜似乎要将他们的对决变成可能,但玛格丽特却突然去世。悲愤交加的汤姆决定独自挑战西蒙,他不知道自己即将面对的是什么……