　　James Benning’s first film called The United States of America was a 1975 trip across the country, capturing its scenery through a car windshield. This second one also crisscrosses the nation, but without a car, carving it up instead into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to Kelly, Wyoming. The names of the places are nondescript, but the images attached to them are anything but, immaculately composed shots of landscape, cityscape and the spaces in between. As we move from A to Z, the images coalesce into a portrait of today’s USA, tracing out its fault lines almost in passing: fenced-off facilities, a river bed running dry, factories and refineries, run-down streets and gas stations, a camp under a bridge. The past is there too, seeping up through the songs and speeches that sporadically pierce the background noise or the motifs that evoke a whole career; the clouds, trains and cabins are stand-ins for films, not just states. As always, there’s time for more abstract thoughts too: each image may stand for a state, but representativity is slippery. Which state is more cinematic than the rest?

460

2022

美利坚合众国

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　　简单一碗拉麵，就能让你的人生再度翻新。
　　位于东京人来人往街道的老牌拉麵店备前亭，四十年的岁月提供无数东京饕客身心灵的满足与慰藉。这裡不仅提供美好的餐点，也是许多寂寞人聚集的所在。有人在这裡找到童年的味道，有人在此处遇到终身的伴侣，有人在这小小的空间得到无比温暖的陪伴与鼓励。灯火通明的小店，在植田老闆夫妇的热情款待下，彷彿成了都市寂寞人的重要归宿。从冈山来到东京，透过看书自学，到成为独当一面撑起一间拉麵店的老闆，多年来，植田正基与妻子和子守著小小的店面，除了研发出独门酱油、盐味、辣味噌口味的拉麵，随著四季更迭，植田老闆也利用休假日，跟著老顾客们一同走进日本各地田野，亲手摘取新鲜当季食材，不仅将这些食材与拉麵完美结合，也端出了以现採春笋煮成的竹笋饭、夏季的比目鱼生鱼片、秋天的山药泥拌饭、冬日加上年糕的招牌拉麵等别具巧思的时节料理，让顾客透过味蕾，感受四季的美好光景。
　　【关于电影】
　　美国导演的拉麵之旅，一场跨文化的美好飨宴
　　《四季拉麵物语》以位在东京饭田桥的老牌拉麵店“备前亭”为主角，这间日式风味十足的小店，店面不大、没有华丽的装潢，主要员工只有老闆植田正基和其妻子和子。超过四十年的开店岁月，夫妻二人一大清早便开始备料、熬煮汤头，然后准备等待客人上门。这一切看似平凡到不能再平凡的日常，在美国导演约翰达斯巴哈的镜头记录下，却显得格外兴味十足。特别是镜头跟著植田老闆每一个俐落的动作，聚焦他每一个认真专注的眼神，每个细节都让人实实在在地感受到日本职人“一辈子就做好一件事”的敬业精神。面对这样的文化洗礼，导演约翰达斯巴哈表示，自己第一次拜访便深深被这间小店的气氛迷住了，在这裡能感受到时光倒流，回到了昭和时代的日本，那存在于小津安二郎、黑泽明经典电影中的复古情怀，彷彿被活生生重现在现实生活中，而整个空间陈设，搭配上众人一边喧闹一边大口吃拉麵的模样，也让人联想到伊丹十三的《蒲公英》。导演约翰达斯巴哈表示：“我希望透过这部电影，让观众就算无法立刻亲口品嚐备前亭拉麵的滋味，也能体验到我所感受的美好！”
　　东京饕客的心灵避风港，拥抱四季的幸福滋味
　　全片除了深度访问植田老闆夫妇，听他们谈起年轻时因缘际会的相识、相恋、结婚、失意、浪子回头、成功创业等往事；也找来了多位被植田老闆征服味蕾的饕客现身说法。毕竟，身处在全日本最热闹的东京，随处可见比备前亭更奢华、更新颖、口味更多元的拉麵店，那究竟是什麽，让他们多年来始终对这小小的店面流连忘返呢？这群忠实老饕中，有退休人士、忙碌上班族、独居OL、知名独立乐团乐手、外国留学生，走进备前亭的他们，彷彿回到舒适的家。植田老闆总是记得每个人的名字和喜欢吃的餐点，每当他们毫无防备地说起工作的烦恼、人生的瓶颈，植田老闆总是一边煮麵，一边给予真诚的陪伴，让他们从身到心都温暖了起来。到了假日店休，植田老闆更会相揪这群常客们一起上山下海，春天挖竹笋、夏天採梨子、秋天掘山药、冬天捣麻糬，甚至还会跑到千叶海岸附近钓比目鱼。而跟著他们一行人纪录一切的导演约翰也笑称，拍摄期间自己也是不断被植田老闆喂食，拍完整部电影，彷彿尝尽了四季的美好滋味。

主演：穆罕默德·阿里,乔治·福尔曼,唐·金,詹姆斯·布朗,BB·金,蒙博托·塞塞·塞科,斯派克·李,诺曼·梅勒,乔治·普林普顿,马利克·鲍恩斯

简介：

　　这是一部迟到了很久的纪录片，记载的是1974年穆罕默德·阿里和乔治·福尔曼在前扎伊尔首都金沙萨进行的着名的“丛林之战”，居然还跟现场直播一样扣人心弦。胶片的仰视视角将阿里放大成了一个文化标记，但由诺曼·梅勒和乔治·普林顿撰写的犀利解说词则令他重返凡间。

5900

1996

一代拳王1996

主演：穆罕默德·阿里,乔治·福尔曼,唐·金,詹姆斯·布朗,BB·金,蒙博托·塞塞·塞科,斯派克·李,诺曼·梅勒,乔治·普林普顿,马利克·鲍恩斯

主演：修玛·阿贝丁,阿米特·巴戈,亚当·S·鲍尔托,比尔·克林顿,史蒂芬·寇贝尔,比尔·布拉西奥,卡米尔·约瑟夫,西尼·莱瑟斯,简·林奇,比尔·马厄,芭芭拉·摩根,安德鲁·诺,劳伦斯·奥唐奈,巴拉克·奥巴马,迪恩·欧拜达拉

简介：

　　许多政治家都经历过政治生涯走下坡路的故事,但是很少有电影能够完全捕捉到像政客韦纳这种深刻且非常滑稽的一面。随着对安东尼·韦纳本人和他的家庭，以及他的纽约市长竞选团队的前所未有的采访，这部电影纪录了即将崩塌的政治事件。故事开始于前国会议员始料未及的重返政坛，但随着韦纳被迫承认新发色情短信的指控，故事又急转直下。媒体不停地挖掘和曝光他的一举一动,韦纳拼命想开拓进取,但是越来越大的压力和严重的24小时连续的新闻报道葬送了他的政治抱负。
　　韦纳的这场政治闹剧和个人的悲剧，揭露了前国会议员的傲慢，同时也批判了媒体对其家人攻击的丑陋一面。在纽约市这个响亮而热闹的大背景下，这部影片以一种无比坚定的、幽默而感伤的方式揭示出日益多见的政治运动的本质。

主演：宫崎骏,铃木敏夫,宫崎吾朗,米林宏昌,Philippe Descola,蒂莫西·莫顿,Susan Napier,Shin-Ichi Fukuoka,Seiji Kanoh

简介：

For over 50 years, Hayao Miyazaki has been enchanting the world with his films. Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro), Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke), Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away), or his latest film Kimitachi wa dō ikiru ka (The Boy and the Heron), to name only a few of eleven feature films, ten short films, several manga, and also through Studio Ghibli, a museum and a theme park. They form a luminous body of work and characters that have become cult classics. Miyazaki’s films, often autobiographical, also reflect the state of the world and the turmoil of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, made of wars and ecological disasters. He was born in Japan in 1941, during World War II. As a child, he immersed himself in drawing manga until he had a revelation upon discovering Hakuja den (The White Snake Enchantress), the first Japanese colour animated film by Taiji Yabushita. From then on, he decided to devote his life to animation, this magical art capable of overcoming the darkness that had always deeply inhabited him... Thanks to exceptional access granted by Studio Ghibli to numerous film excerpts and rare Japanese television archives, we discover the life of Miyazaki as well as a profoundly ecological body of work that questions our relationship with the natural world and living beings. Thinkers like anthropologist Philippe Descola or philosopher Timothy Morton, as well as close associates, his son and film director Gorō Miyazaki, and Toshio Suzuki, his longtime producer and friend, bring us closer to this tireless, obsessive, and mysterious artist.

2283

2024

宫崎骏：自然之魂

主演：宫崎骏,铃木敏夫,宫崎吾朗,米林宏昌,Philippe Descola,蒂莫西·莫顿,Susan Napier,Shin-Ichi Fukuoka,Seiji Kanoh

　　1978年，一名德国少年被杀。这部系列纪录片通过受害者的姐姐以及涉案王室成员的叙述对此案进行了探究。

主演：布莱恩·史蒂文森,Christy Stevenson,Howard Stevenson

简介：

　　True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality shows public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson's struggle to create greater fairness in the legal system and demonstrates how racial injustice emerged, evolved and continues to threaten the country, challenging viewers to confront it.

3672

2019

真正的正义2019

主演：布莱恩·史蒂文森,Christy Stevenson,Howard Stevenson

　　故事讲述来自得克萨斯州的1000个17岁男孩参加了从零开始的代议制政府的故事。

　　it was announced in September 2023, with another four episodes planned for the series, continuing to follow the officers from a South Carolina sheriff's department as they search for missing people. The second season will document more troubling cases and mysteries in the South Carolina area.

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