练歌厅：火辣的女人们

另一个地球

　　在一个平静的夜晚，一辆飞驰而来的汽车，撞碎了音乐教授约翰（威廉·麦鲍瑟 William Mapother 饰）的幸福生活，他的妻女以及美好的人生都被尚未成年的少女罗娜（布里特·马灵 Brit Marling 饰）夺去。这起事故，也让罗娜的心灵蒙受巨大打击。罪恶感让她过着最底层的生活，却始终逃脱不掉灵魂的谴责。偶然机会，她重逢约翰，并以清洁人员的名义走进约翰潦倒无望的生活。在一段时间相处过后，他们渐渐温暖了彼此漫布创痕的心。与此同时，人类发现了一颗与地球极为相似的行星，而那里似乎也住着人类另一个自己。这是希望，还是美好的梦想？　　本片荣获2011年圣丹斯电影节评委会特别奖。

二狗返乡记

　　品性憨直，风趣幽默，农村吃百家饭长大的孤儿石二狗，在城市打工意外获得彩票大奖五百万，之后，他风风火火的回到老家，借着酒劲给乡亲们发钱，并且还想凭这五百万娶村长的女儿石金凤，但是却遭到石金凤的嘲笑，于是他发奋要为老家人民做点大事——修路，将修路的工程包给了金凤城里的男朋友胡大光，以这样显示他的大度并期望博得金凤的欢喜，可是却由于经验的缺失和文化知识的不足，被胡大光给蒙混了，手上的钱都让胡大光骗走了，连答应给村里修小学的钱也被骗的一光二净，二狗又成了一个身无分文的穷光蛋。 二狗有钱的时候，在众多人中招聘了韩美华作为村里学校的老师，现在二狗没钱了，本以为韩美华会离开石头村，但是由于二狗的善良和执着，早已深深的打动了美丽聪明的城里女孩韩美华。韩美华利用自己的经验和智慧联手以前一直瞧不起二狗的村民们，为二狗打赢了官司。最后在韩美华的指引和村民们的帮助下，石二狗凭借自己坚韧的毅力，白手起家，带领百姓发家致富开创了崭新的事业。

鲸

 影片改编自Samuel D. Hunter创作的同名戏剧，讲述在爱达荷州乡村一个破旧的公寓里，重达272公斤的英语教师查理（布兰登·费舍 饰）隐居避世，固执、坚决地要把自己吃死。查理在中年时期为了同性情人抛弃家人，但情人过世后因为悲伤和内疚暴饮暴食，并且尝试与17岁的女儿艾莉（萨迪·辛克 饰）修复关系。随着查理越来越接近不可避免的命运，他的朋友丽兹（周洪 饰），一个愤世嫉俗的无神论者护士，以及埃尔德·托马斯（泰·辛普金斯 饰），一个年轻的传教士都试图在查理身上找到能被拯救的意志，无论是肉体上还是精神上。然而，只有与查理关系疏远的女儿艾莉才能让他看到目前绝望状态之外的未来，艾莉虽然尖酸刻薄、充满仇恨、浑身是刺，查理却能在她身上找到最后一次赎罪的机会，甚至可能是一丝希望。

四面三角

采石场的圣母

2001年阿根廷社会动荡的盛夏，布宜诺斯艾利斯郊区的三个少女闺蜜，都对发小迭戈暗藏情愫。迭戈与成熟女性西尔维娅相恋后，少女纳塔莉亚在祖母的帮助下，对二人施下黑魔法诅咒。失控的诅咒引发超自然灾难，将所有人拖入采石场湖的黑暗深渊，青春期的嫉妒与欲望，在南美社会的创伤背景下，演变成一场无法逆转的致命危机。

怪兽与女孩

　　Scot想要从歹徒手中救出妹妹，却遭人陷害，被控谋杀，被处以死刑。一位疯狂科学家把Scot的大脑植入大猩猩体内，Scot以大猩猩的身躯复活，开始他的复仇...

等待方舟

　　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.