Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson　　If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.　　[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.　　To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.　　More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.　　(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)　　In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.　　(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)　　I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line "The Weirdest Love Story ever told!" (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.　　(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)　　See also the remake: Death Takes A Holiday (1971)

　　《青春期》是從兩個女孩的視角，講述了一個關于青春、關于夢、關于人生的必然和偶然的故事。安靜內斂的女孩喜兒和宋甯演繹一段糾纏十幾年的愛情。熱情，慷慨、幻想，絕望，所有這些青春的傳統品性──除了青春以外的所有品性──都是與我們生命同生同滅的。這些感情就是生命的一個組成部分。可是青春的柔情呢──那種精力充沛的懶散，那種孤芳自賞的情懷──這些只屬于青春，並且與青春一起消逝。

　　这样一座小镇，非常的小。小到一个望远镜就能看到所有事情；小到邮差可以悠闲的翻看每一封信，然后再把他们封好；小到人们不需要打招呼，因为他们总是碰到。　　镇上有一个男人，每天早上做同样的事，换鞋，出门，工作。表面上，他的工作是工地里的焊接工，实际上，他真正的工作是做画家梦。他用廉价水彩颜料做画，在天空中大量留白。他和镇子里的同龄人一样，感到单调，琐碎，平淡。他又有点像年轻人，为了理想蠢蠢欲动。　　男人有一位妻子，肥胖的身体证明了她是一位尽职的家庭主妇。男人赚钱养家，妻子把赚来的钱变成食物养活他。他们懂得墨守契约的道理，所以很少说话。　　男人的父亲是一位落寞贵族，他的前半生也许并不传奇，但他还是把优雅和感性留给了下一代。　　小镇的爱情是平淡的，之所以称为平淡，是因为这样的爱情里面没有贫富距离，也没有肤色差异，好像所有爱情之外的事情都和爱情无关。只是寥寥几笔，直到结婚那一刻，还是没有让人感到坟墓的存在。　　酒馆里的厕所管理员原来是男扮女装。他不喜欢的不光是女人，而是人。所以他看到动物很开心。但他决非是真正意义上的异服癖，因为很难想象他会喜欢自己穿上女装后臃肿老迈的样子。　　小镇邮递员喜欢一封封的把信拆开，略略一阅，完后再放回去封好。也许寄信的人压根就没封，也许世界上的邮差都惦记着信里的内容。　　星期一的早上，男人离家出走。　　于是，他到了威尼斯。威尼斯的自由几乎可以包容一切，条件是你必须也是自由的。人们做着想做的任何的事，甚至是做一个小偷，也一样被允许。装腔作势与这里格格不入，他们太真实了，真实得藏不住丑和美，只要你有一丝恻隐之心都会暴露无遗。　　偶然遇到他，火车上的陌生人。自由的共性让男人辞别了父亲的那位虚伪得可笑的老友，与第二次撞面就一见如故的他成为了朋友。他登上了朋友的小舟，带着不期而遇的好奇，离开了生活中刻意的无奈。　　他还有过一次邂逅，之后才发现，艳遇注定不是此次旅行的主题。更多的邂逅都不会有下文，只是短暂的擦肩而已。即使再重复一次，重复同样的人，结果也是一样的。　　他寄了一张明信片给妻子，正面画上威尼斯风景。这次邮差不用拆就能看到他对给妻子说的话，可妻子连看都不看就把他撕得粉碎。邮差猜到会这样，有时候男人喜欢的浪漫代表了女人痛恨的离别。　　于是，男人回来了。　　有时候，习惯让人产生想失去的冲动，转一圈之后回到原处，看看还是一样，男人，女人，老人，孩子，牧师。男人像往常一样换鞋，出门，工作。只是出门前多了一个妻子的吻。于是，他知道了，有些东西不用跑太远也能得到。

　　因为母亲外出打工，旺旺（林浩 饰）自幼就与爷爷（陶泽如 饰）在断桥镇上相依为命。每当油菜花开的时候，旺爷都要带着旺旺接妈妈，但始终没有接到。这一年，一个临产的女人（余男 饰）意想不到地上了旺爷的船。看着女人给婴儿哺乳，从来没吃过母乳的旺旺萌发出对母爱深深的渴望，他狠狠咬了女人的乳房，而这在民风淳朴的小镇上引起了轩然大波……　　三个处于特殊生理周期的人，因此演绎出一段旷世真情。　　电影改编自作家毕飞宇的同名短篇小说。

　　For the Goodman family, Friday Night meijubar.net Dinner is just like Sunday lunch: just take two days away, add an extra course and you've pretty much got it.　　Adam and his brother Jonny view Friday night dinner as a necessary annoyance - necessary because they get fed, and annoying because, well, they have to spend the evening with Mum and Dad. It's not that Mum and Dad aren't wonderful. But Dad slugs ketchup straight from the bottle, Mum is obsessed with Masterchef, and Grandma likes to wear her new bikini around the house.

　　Depuis deux ans, Gilles (homme-parfait-non-fumeur-bon-cuisinier-qui aime-les-chats) et Joséphine (fille-attachiante-bordélique-mais-sympathique) s’aiment. Tout est parfait. Jusqu'à une nouvelle inattendue : ils seront bientôt trois. Ne pas devenir comme sa mère, garder son mec et devenir une adulte responsable, tout un tas d'épreuves que Joséphine va devoir affronter, avec Gilles... à leur manière.

　　在这部由屡获殊荣的编剧兼导演山姆·艾斯梅尔（《黑客军团》）执导的末世惊悚片中，阿曼达（奥斯卡金像奖得主朱莉娅·罗伯茨饰）和她的丈夫克莱（荣获奥斯卡金像奖提名的伊桑·霍克饰）租了一套豪华住宅，与孩子阿奇（查利·埃文斯）和罗丝（法拉·麦肯齐饰）共度周末。他们的假期很快就被两个陌生人 — G.H.（奥斯卡金像奖得主马赫沙拉·阿里饰）和他的女儿露丝（米哈拉饰）— 的到来所颠覆，这两个人得知发生了神秘的网络攻击，并在声称属于他们的房子里寻求庇护。两个家庭都面临着一场迫在眉睫的灾难，这场灾难越来越可怕，迫使每个人都不得不努力在这个崩溃的世界中找到自己的位置。《断讯》改编自鲁曼·阿拉姆荣获国家图书奖提名的小说，由 Esmail Corp、Red Om Films 制作，Higher Ground Productions 负责监制。

　　犯罪学学生克洛伊假死闯入停尸房，以找回一份证据，证明她弟弟与一起犯罪有关。一旦进入，她很快就知道，可怕的验尸官利用停尸房作为病态和扭曲业务的掩护。随着一场可怕的猫捉老鼠游戏的进行，伊莎贝尔会发现停尸房最可怕的不是死人，而是活人。

　　抗議傢俬廠無理裁員，中年漢五年來靜坐示威要求賠償，在終審敗訴裁決下一 切努力化為烏有。未知何去何從，決定來個短暫休假，迎接他回家的是兩個把 父親當作透明的女兒。到舊友傢俬工房打工為女兒籌學費、買大衣，遇上共事 青年因工受傷，令他重新思考社運份子與父親的雙重角色。演而優則導的李蘭 姬首作，以沉樸寫實筆觸在社會暗晦畫布上繪出一幅輪廓鮮明的人物素描，為 身邊人煮的一頓頓家常飯菜中，炊煙裊裊散透着堅持公義與人性尊嚴的暖香。