李文世
发表于9分钟前回复 :Florence Foster Jenkins,为20世纪早期美国女高音歌唱家,以糟糕的唱功,然而绝佳的娱乐才能,得到了观众的欢迎。Jenkins非常自信,将自己与当时著名的女高音家Frieda Hempel和Luisa Tetrazzini相媲美,毫不介意表演时台下观众传出的阵阵嘲笑。她对自己的表演场地有严格的选择,通常是在纽约市的丽嘉宴会厅。演唱会的听众也仅限于自己忠诚的会员和一些邀请嘉宾,甚至自己决定门票的所有人。76岁时,Jenkins要求在卡内基音乐厅进行一次公演,人们很期待这次表演,因此门票早早地售完,然而,Florence Foster Jenkins却在一个月后去世了。
林美
发表于3分钟前回复 :Salomé (1923), a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name. The play itself is a loose retelling of the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the Baptist (here, as in Wilde's play, called Jokaanan) at the request of his stepdaughter, Salomé, whom he lusts after.Salomé is often called one of the first art films to be made in the U.S.[citation needed] The highly stylized costumes, exaggerated acting (even for the period), minimal sets, and absence of all but the most necessary props make for a screen image much more focused on atmosphere and on conveying a sense of the characters' individual heightened desires than on conventional plot development.Despite the film being only a little over an hour in length and having no real action to speak of, it cost over $350,000 to make. All the sets were constructed indoors to be able to have complete control over the lighting. The film was shot completely in black and white, matching the illustrations done by Aubrey Beardsley in the printed edition of Wilde's play. The costumes, designed by Natacha Rambova, used material only from Maison Lewis of Paris, such as the real silver lamé loincloths worn by the guards.No major studio would be associated with the film, and it was years after its completion before it was released, by a minor independent distributor. It was a complete failure at the time and marked the end of Nazimova's producing career.A longstanding rumor, which seems to have started while the film was still in production, suggests that its cast is comprised entirely of gay and bisexual actors in an homage to Oscar Wilde, as per star and producer Nazimova's demand. It is, of course, impossible to say, but one of the extras in Salomé reported that a number of the cast members—both featured and extras—were indeed gay, but not an unusual percentage of them, and certainly not all of them. What can be said is that Nazimova herself was a lesbian, the two guard characters (who, next to Salomé, have the most screen time) are at least played very stereotypically gay, and several of the female courtiers are men in drag.Salomé was screened in 1989 at the New York International Festival of Lesbian and Gay films and in 1990 at the New York Gay Experimental Film Festival.In 2000, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
郑琇月
发表于1分钟前回复 :星期五的夜晚降临,整座城市已经提前陷入了周末的狂欢气氛之中。劳拉(瓦莱丽·勒梅西埃 Valérie Lemercier 饰)收拾好行李准备去找她的男友共度一个浪漫的周末。哪知道途中,劳拉竟然遇见了交通大堵塞,原来,巴黎的公交车司机们正在进行一场大罢工,劳拉不巧受到了波及,看着堵得水泄不通的马路,劳拉并不觉得着急,生性乐天的她懂得享受生命里的每一个时刻,哪怕这一时刻并不是那么令人愉快。命运的齿轮开始转动,这场堵车让劳拉认识了一个名叫简(文森特·林顿 Vincent Lindon 饰)的男人。此时的劳拉并不知道,自己和眼前的这个男人并非只有一面之缘,在日后漫长的人生里,他们的命运都被紧紧地维系在一起。