「削瘦的灵魂」以多本七等生的作品为座标，解密这名台湾当代小说家的童年成长、挫折穷困、爱人子女和写就的时代意义。本片由朱贤哲执导，多次实地采访多年从不公开露面的七等生本人，突破拍摄困难与传主心防，并藉由访谈作家身边不同身份、面向的重要他人，让观众得以一窥其隐世多年的生活面貌。
Alive and Kicking gives the audience an intimate, insider's view into the culture of the current swing dance world while shedding light on issues facing modern society.
在T型台上用猫步征服世界，是多少人羡慕的职业。可是魅力四射的模特们从业生涯中，这些美丽女孩在幕后的辛酸，在绝大多数时候，只有她们自己知道。美国顶尖名模茜拉·齐芙在日前推出了自己制作的纪录片《Picture Me》，《请拍摄我》，不仅展示了模特界的压力，更揭露了在风光背后的阴暗。据英国《观察家报》报道，这位现年27岁的模特，曾为Prada等多个时装名牌代言，她男友的初衷本想是用摄影机记录她不平凡的经历。可是随着她在行内的深入，她就越痛恨那些无时不在的“潜规则”，越想把它们晒在阳光下，给世人看一看。采访百位年轻模特她的纪录片就是在这样的想法下，经历了五年的时间才拍摄完成的。其间她和男友多次在时装展上偷拍，还访问了数百位年轻模特们。茜拉的影片揭露说，模特这一行是色狼横行的地方，那些无耻的经纪人、制片人、广告商和摄影师们，像鲨鱼一样虎视眈眈地盘算怎么打未成年少女主意，而拍内衣广告的女孩，更像是夜总会里的脱衣舞女，毫无尊严可言。现在茜拉已经进入哥伦比亚大学学习，她还在课余继续自己的模特工作，但是以决不影响学习为限。她在纽约租一个简单的公寓房子，平日里一洗铅华，别人很难看出她曾是拿高薪的超级模特。令她欣慰的是，她的影片受到了各大电影节的欢迎。该片的前半部分，是她本人的成长，后半部分充满了思考和压力。因为茜拉是个有经验的大姐姐，因而她的采访，往往比任何专业媒体更能让模特们说出真话。潜规则是常事一位美丽的女孩出现在摄影机前，这是一个名叫希娜·切何的模特在一个著名摄影师工作室里试镜。在试镜中途她被要求脱衣，希娜照做之后，那个摄影师也开始脱衣。原本的高档时装广告试镜，一下子变成了为色情杂志拍摄图片。希娜被要求必须做“性感”动作，并要求与摄影师有身体接触。当时希娜别无选择。到了第二天，希娜收到通知说，她被录取了。可希娜说：“我觉得难堪极了，所以我最终拒绝了这份工作。” 另一位16岁的女模特告诉茜拉·齐芙，她在拍照片的时候，曾被一个世界顶级摄影师性侵犯。那个男人在洗手间门口堵到了她，把她推回洗手间里。她当时吓得不敢动，也不敢出声，忍受了一切。可惜这个女孩在该纪录片即将在纽约首映的前夕，要求删去关于她接受采访的片段，也没有透露摄影师姓名，因为她说，她担心自己未来事业受阻。其实，茜拉·齐芙本人也是这样。她回忆说，她开始当模特时，只有14岁。天生丽质的她，小时候曾多次在街头遇到“星探”，试图招聘她当儿童模特，连她的父母都为她惊讶。后来，她接受了一位已经身为母亲的女经纪人的劝说，正式开始模特事业。可是就在她第三次试镜时，摄影师先要求她脱了上衣，又要她褪掉裤子。她说，那时候她还没有发育完全，还穿着印了卡通图片的内衣呢。可是摄影师根本无视她的年龄，继续要求她连内衣都脱掉。茜拉·齐芙说，差不多所有她接触过的女模都有过类似的经历。有些女孩只有14岁，原本天真无瑕，可是那些比她们大几十岁的男人们，以“让你变得更性感”为借口，剥夺了她们的纯洁。而茜拉表示，她向世人曝出内幕，并不是要报复谁，但是要提请自己和同行们的反思：“拍摄内衣照是为了什么？我们的底线在哪里？你分明是在伤害自己，与脱衣舞女有何区别？难到为了丰厚的报酬，我们就要牺牲一切吗？我们付出的代价值不值得？” 高负荷工作摧残身心茜拉·齐芙告诉观众们，模特的生活表面光鲜，可是实际上，除了上镜的时候，其他时候并没有人管你是不是舒适和快乐。时装季里，模特们一天要疯狂工作20个小时，忙得连吃饭的时间都没有，弄得模特们变得越来越瘦，也越来越羸弱。 20岁时，茜拉已经是一名高级模特，收入也超过了在大学当微生物教授的父亲。可是她觉得自己的辛苦并没有换来人们的尊重，失去的不仅是健康，而且没有了自主和自我，在别人眼里，不过是一个会走路的衣架。她觉得自己日渐从一个健康自信的少女，变成了疲惫不堪，满脸雀斑的木头人。于是她对制作自己的纪录片，投入了很多的精力，甚至因为偷拍别人不能看到的角落而被扣留和罚款，也在所不惜。
This beautiful film invites viewers to discover the universe through technologies behind the world’s most powerful telescopes. The film focuses on giant telescopes of the European Southern Observatory, located in Chile's vast Atacama Desert. Leading scientists tell us how these instruments, four billion times more sensitive than the human eye, are revolutionizing our understand...
Episode 1 - Ark of the Covenant The hunt for the truth about the most famous lost treasure of them all. Did the Ark of the Covenant really exist? What it did look like? What was the power that it was said to hold? And what happened to it? Where is it now? Episode 2 - Bust of Nefertiti The extraordinary story behind one of the most famous images from the ancient world. Who was Queen Nefertiti? Who made the blue-crowned bust which turned her into a modern icon? Could the Nefertiti bust be a fake? Episode 3 - Great Pyramid Armed with a four and a half thousand year old diary, and a radical new approach. Engineer Peter James and leading archaeologist Mark Lehner set out to solve Ancient Egypt’s greatest mystery. How was the Great Pyramid built? Episode 4 - Easter Island Heads Unlocking the mysteries of the most recognizable statues on earth. How were the thousand giant stone heads of Easter Island made, and why? Why did the Islanders topple all of them, except one? Episode 5 - Blackbeard's Ship Off the coast of North Carolina, nautical archaeologists, historians and scientists study the artifacts of a 300 year old shipwreck. Positively identified as Blackbeard’s flagship, our investigators set about to uncover what the ship’s remains can tell us about history’s most notorious pirate. Episode 6 - Spear of Destiny In a search that spans four countries and 20 centuries, we investigate the legend of the Spear of Destiny. First mentioned in the New Testament, the spear is said to have pierced the side of Jesus. Believed to have special powers, kings and conquerors from Charlemagne to Hitler tried to possess it.
印度丛林深处，揭开一位母亲的踪迹。
The Balkan Peninsula is notorious for being one of the great battlegrounds of history. And yet, it possesses another side unknown to many, where ancient forests and vast wetlands harbor pristine wilderness, and sheer cliff walls and desolate plateaus preserve a seemingly unchanged past. Surveying these striking and stark landscapes, one might think they’ve ventured into the Middle-earth of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Indeed the Balkan Peninsula is home to a variety of regions that border on mythical. In Croatia’s Kopacki Rit Wetlands, land mines keep people away, but enable native wildlife to thrive. Further south, Montenegro’s Tara River carves through Europe’s longest and deepest canyon, and neighboring forests provide refuge to rare animals such as the Balkan Lynx. To the east, millions of birds flock to the Danube Delta to feast on swarms of mosquitoes. And at the west of the Balkans is Skadar Lake, a remarkable landscape of peaks and water. This is a journey to a world seemingly forgotten by time. This is the wild Balkans.
