The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich| his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.。吸血鬼狂热爱好者查理•布莱维斯特(William Ragsdale 饰)最大的爱好就是在深夜看恐怖电影。某晚,他隔壁的空房子里来了两个不速之客,根据多年观看恐怖片的经验,查理断定这两个人一定是吸血鬼。然而无论是警察,还是好友女友,没有一个人相信他的说辞。 万般无奈之下,查理只能请来恐怖电视节目“颤栗之夜”的主持人皮特•文森特(Roddy McDowell 饰)。虽然文森特质疑查理的说法,但看在钱的份上他还是前来调查。面对纠缠不休的查理,吸血鬼杰瑞(Chris Sarandon 饰)该如何对付呢?。退伍消防员林渊始终未从失去搭档的阴影中走出来。为完成战友生前心愿,林渊在香港受训成为一名纹身师。在他的小店开张前夜,一位失独母亲的忽然造访,把林渊的记忆重新拉回到5年前的熊熊火焰……从此,林渊与楼上的心理咨询师女房东、失手的儿科医生、破产边缘的金融CEO,一群受伤的都市人,开始了一场关于自责、复仇、承诺、梦想的的命运交织。。