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?
《掬水月在手》记录了中国古典诗词大师叶嘉莹(1924-)传奇的人生。她一生历经战乱、政治迫害、海外飘零,晚年回归改革开放的中国,持续创作、传承教学,重系文革中断的古典诗词命脉。影片交织了叶嘉莹个人生命和千年中国古典诗词,表现她在诗词长河中寻求存在的意义轨迹。《杜甫〈秋兴〉八首集说》为叶嘉莹最重要的研究代表作,〈秋兴〉八首描绘中国盛唐兴衰,本片借此隐喻叶先生经历的动荡岁月,并邀请音乐家佐藤聪明以〈秋兴〉八首为本,结合雅乐及现代乐,创作电影音乐,为杜甫诗歌带来新的生命。
主持李居明四出搜罗灵异个案,在台湾目睹轿仙显灵事件,到歌星李亚萍家中采访通灵事件,此外又到阳明山庄参观当年震撼全港之狐仙修炼之地。李邀得倪淑君共同采访曾姓外星人之家属,并访问当年轰动灵学界之“借尸还魂”事件主角朱秀华。在香港邀请专家提供赌博投注玄机。另外,又介绍神像收留所,专门收留被弃置之神像,访问星相学大师张法荣,探讨外星人面相学。李亲自到日本,访问曾经历过死而复生之电影红星丹波哲郎,畅谈死后感受。李邀请电影红星钟淑慧演绎发生在东华义庄之灵异事件,并即场摄录玩碟仙过程。最后赴汉城参与神迹显灵大会,采访神婆金桂花,目睹其以神赐力量替人治病。
美食纪录片《老广的味道》以食物为载体,以独特视角深入食材原生地,发掘老广们真实鲜活的的日常美食之美—食材蕴含的风物之美、乡土之美,收获耕耘的劳作之美、匠心之美。节目共六集,每集45分钟,主题为节庆、流转、地气、点睛、探秘、守候
At 86, writer Robert Caro is working to complete the final volume of his masterpiece, “The Lyndon Johnson Years“ its editor Robert Gottlieb, 91, waits to edit it. This unique double portrait reveals the work habits, quirks, and professional joys of these two intellectuals at the height of a journey that consumed their lives, and impacted generations of politicians, activists, writers and readers.
Surgeon Gabriel Weston 为我们寻找变胖的真相。
爱奇艺纪录片人文赛道节目《最是烟火慰平生》揭示传奇人物与历史的奇妙张力,以名人历史和名人喜欢的饮食为切入点展现每个传奇历史人物人生境遇的起起落落。本片将选取如李清照,苏东坡等6位见证中国巨大历史变迁和影响历史走向的“传奇人物”。在他们的重要人生节点同时也是重大历史节点中,挖掘“美食”对于他们的激励与抚慰,使“美食”因 “人物精神”而获得一种崭新的“历史意义”。
一家即将倒闭的加密货币交易所的年轻创始人意外去世,愤怒的投资者们怀疑他的死亡并非看上去那样简单