春宫图

　　An orphaned teenager forms an unlikely friendship with a detective. Together they investigate her mother's murder, and uncover the supernatural force that proves to be a threat to her family.

　　克拉克（马修柏德利，「酷斯拉」）是纽约电影学院的新鲜人，但他还没开始享受大学生涯就被人骗走了行李和所有财物，正当他走投无路之时，竟意外遇上偷走他财物的混混。为弥补克拉克的损失，那混混为克拉克引荐其叔父萨巴提尼（奥斯卡影帝马龙白兰度，「现代启示录」），希望他能帮克拉克安插个工作。虽然萨巴提尼所从事的〃进口生意〃颇受人质疑，他后来却成了克拉克的良师，教了他许多待人处事的经验。马龙白兰度在本片一反以往的作风改走喜剧路线，和他在其代表作「教父」中柯里昂家族的教父形象大相迳庭。

　　A film version of a play Fassbinder directed in Hamburg, Clare Booth Luce's "The Women". It gave Fassbinder an opportunity to indulge his passion for working with women - there are forty women in the play and no men.　　The play dates from the 1930s, and Fassbinder was accused by the critics of being anti-women (a frequent criticism of late). As usual, he chose to work "against" the text, and from this has constructed an entertaining and engaging play about love between upper-class women with nothing better to do than sneer at others when things go wrong with their lives and loves.

　　Sheila Hood is an ex-cop whose marriage is on the rocks. Rather than confronting her husband about an affair, she hides surveillance cameras in her home and watches his transgressions, becoming a voyeur of her own life. Her husband, Tom Kale, is an ornithologist who begins an affair with an ex-girlfriend, Merle James, whose beauty and fragility echoes that of the birds he studies. Ray Starling, the charismatic owner of a boutique hotel, is Merle’s lover, and has dealings with her father, Mr James, a powerful oil baron who operates in the shadows but whose influence touches the whole city. Merle’s younger sister, Hazel, is also drawn to Tom, but trapped in Starling’s web of power. Calvin is an cop whose loyalty to his ex partner, Hood, is tested when mounting evidence from her own surveillance tapes connects her and Tom to Starling’s murder, and perhaps even Merle’s mysterious death.