电影版魔兽世界上映,暑期档的硝烟开始弥漫,那么在2016年还有哪些好看的电影呢,以下为本年度英国《每日电讯报》影评人为五星电影所写的影评,大家可以选取喜欢的题材,在观影之余,不要忘了练习雅思听力哦。
Joy《乔伊的奋斗》
Director: David O Russell
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Virginia Madsen, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini, Elisabeth Röhm, Édgar Ramírez, Dascha Polanko
Running time: 124 mins
We said: This half-fictionalised biopic of "mop millionaire" Joy Mangano, starring Jennifer Lawrence in the title role, is "a giddy, confounding, recklessly brilliant fairy tale of self-empowerment, fuelled by the redemptive magic of the movies".
影评:该影片是由詹妮弗•劳伦斯饰演的“拖把百万富翁”乔伊•曼加诺的半虚构传记电影。其讲述的是一个“以自强为主线,由电影魔力渲染的激动、困惑、奋力拼搏的精彩传奇故事。”
Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld《极道大战争》
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Yayan Ruhian, Rirî Furankî, Hayato Ichihara
Running time: 125 mins
We said: Japanese director Takashi Miike's supernatural crime movie, in which witch doctors and demons take on a vampire mob boss, "is a tooth-rotting, mind-scrambling aspartame rush of nonsense," but, adds Robbie Collin, "its brilliance stems from the director’s flat refusal to distinguish between the sublime and the ridiculous. The martial arts battles are played for laughs, but the combat is shot from an over-the-shoulder angle that displays the actors' whip-crack athleticism to its fullest advantage."
影评:日本导演三池崇史的超自然犯罪电影。影片中,女巫医生和恶魔雇佣了一名吸血鬼老大,“他牙齿溃烂,丧心病狂”。但是,罗比•科林补充道,“影片精彩的地方在于导演断然拒绝崇高与荒谬的具体分界线。武术打斗场面为的是博观众一乐,而打斗场面从过肩角度拍摄,充分展现演员抽打鞭子的运动能力。”
The Hateful Eight《八恶人》
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Kurt Russell, Samuel L Jackson, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins
Running time: 187 mins
We said: "Twenty-three years after Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino has delivered his most intimate film since that auspicious debut. The Hateful Eight is a parlour-room epic, an entire nation in a single room, a film steeped in its own filminess but at the same time vital, riveting and real. Only Tarantino can do this, and he’s done it again."
影评:继《落水狗》之后的第23年,塔兰蒂诺制作了首战告捷后最私人的电影。《八恶人》是一部会客厅史诗剧,整个美国都浓缩在这间单人房里。尽管这部电影剧本情节单薄,但同时又是至关重要、真实、吸引人眼球的。这只有塔兰蒂诺做的到,并且他再次做到了。
The Assassin《刺客聂隐娘》
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Starring: Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Satoshi Tsumabuki
Running time: 120 mins
We said: This period martial arts movie from Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien, in which a seventh-century female assassin seeks to bring down a corrupt feudal lord, is "an immaculate treasure box of light, texture and movement," says Robbie Collin, "one of the most purely beautiful films I have ever seen".
影评:这部时代武术电影来自台湾导演侯孝贤,在这部影片中,生于7世纪的女刺客设法打击腐败的封建领主。罗比•科林说:“这部电影是一个光、质地和动作的完美无瑕的宝盒,是我看过的最出色的电影。”
Anomalisa《失常》
Director: Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Thewlis, Tom Noonan
Running time: 90 mins
We said: Kaufman, screenwriter of Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, has made an "meticulously crafted" stop-motion animation about depressed middle-aged businessman Michael Stone's fling with a stranger during a conference. Writes Robbie Collin: "The film’s ending, which takes the form of a dazzling, dust-light mini-monologue by Leigh, undercuts Michael’s plight in a way that makes you reassess everything you’ve seen up to that point. Perhaps since birth."
影评:《傀儡人生》和《美丽心灵的永恒阳光》编剧考夫曼,精心制作了这部关于对婚姻倦怠的中年商人迈克尔•斯通在会议期间与陌生女子陷入婚外情的定格动画片。罗比•科林写道:“影片的结尾采取李(Leigh)演绎独角戏的形式,浮光掠影间,迈克婚姻倦怠的处境也变得不那么可悲,让你不禁再次回顾在他身上发生的一切。或许是自出生以后。”
The Witch《女巫》
Director: Robert Eggers
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Ellie Grainger, Lucas Dawson
Running time: 90 mins
We said: Eggers’ debut feature, about a Puritan family terrorised by religious fervour in 17th century New England, is "one of the scariest horror movies in years," writes Robbie Collin. "And not the creep-up-and-prod-you kind of scary either, but a profound, unsettling dread that gnaws at your bones, and which comes back to find you in the dark."
影评:艾格斯的首部故事片,讲述了17世纪新英格兰的一个清教徒家庭受到教会的恐吓。罗比•科林称,该电影是“近年最惊悚的恐怖片之一,不止让你感到毛骨悚然,而且让你从骨子里受到恐惧的侵袭。当你在黑暗中时,脑海里的恐怖情节浮现眼前。”
Everybody Wants Some《各有少年时》
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Blake Jenner, Juston Street, Ryan Guzman, Tyler Hoechlin, Glenn Powell, Temple Baker, Zoey Deutch, Wyatt Russell, J. Quinton Johnson, Will Brittain, Austin Amelio
Running time: 117 mins
We said: "The look of the film – hair, costumes, even sunlight – is exactly right. The sound of it is even better. Music constantly plays from ubiquitous car stereos and turntables, and every scene has its own groove."
影评:“该影片的风格,从发型到服装,甚至是阳光,都显得恰到好处。影片的音质就更棒了。无处不在的车载音响还有唱机里播放出的音乐循循而来,每一个场景都令人人心旷神怡。”
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