81-year-old master, Jean-Marie Straub, once again invents and surprises with his latest film. Kommunisten consists of six parts, five of which have been taken from his earlier works. Straub does not aim to be self-reverential, but instead wants to make different blocks (of text, time, and languages) clash so as to highlight invisible elements of feelings and politics. It is a film about human adventure, from the past century to the one ahead. In this project, all the things that the films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet have been based on for the past fifty years, find their most raw and recent form.

改编自卡夫卡未完成的长篇小说《美国》，但其关注的并非真实的美国，更像是没有详细年代的关于美国的寓言。卡尔•罗斯曼由于丑闻而接受其舅舅的邀请搬去美国，然而他无法摆脱欧洲大陆旧式习惯，更糟的是，欧洲的阶级结构无法让他通过自己的双手谋生。这一电影版关注资本主义社会创造的残酷而变幻莫测的阶级关系。同时忠于原著而未添加影片的结局。施特劳布夫妇风格的一贯操作与卡夫卡氛围的完美结合：中景固定机位，面无表情的演员，人物肢体和语言刻意僵硬，强调侧面特写，镜头推进及平移刻意突兀。由此我们可以寻求到改编卡夫卡作品的带实验性的可能。

RFA/1972/15‘/VOSTF/16mm d'après « I cani del Sinaï » de Franco Fortini.

The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements: water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive: Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna. The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator, the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination. Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.

法国导演情侣组合斯特劳布-于伊耶与1991年将索福克勒斯的希腊悲剧《安提戈涅》搬上银幕，文本上采用了德国浪漫主义诗人荷尔德林的著名翻译，版本上则依照布莱希特40年代的改编，拍摄地点是西西里岛上塞杰斯塔的一座古罗马剧院遗址，拍摄时阳光明媚。影片背后文本的多层厚度赋予了本片以极强的现时性：就在拍摄当年的夏天，美军对伊拉克发起了第一轮进攻。这是一部关于教育公民不服从的作品。

一如他曾把卡夫卡小說幾乎「抽象」化，也把巴哈女士日記拍得如此地貼近音樂而非文字，Straub的這種風格，除了執拗地延續像MoulletGarrel這些新浪潮好友的「極簡」手法之外，也算是為自己的「藝術」捍衛的極高體現。 看來，我還得回頭去看一下Pedro Costa為「我們時代的電影」系列，為這兩夫妻拍的那一集吧，或許，我才真正能向他們更靠近一些（到底是Costa像他們而找他拍，還是Costa本身確實受到兩夫妻的影響，而得到真髓，所以找來對他們最有研究的創作者來拍呢？這我們就不得而知了）？

影片拍摄于1967年，是至今为止关于伟大的音乐家巴赫最优秀的影片，片名来源于英国作家同名小说，片中引用的对话、信件都取自巴赫生前的真实文件档案。影片几乎汇集了当时音乐演奏界的精英，如哈侬考特、奥古斯特·温钦格等，具有非常高的史料价值。与我们平日看到肖像画上胖而结实的巴赫完全不同，由著名钢琴演奏家和指挥家古斯塔夫·莱昂哈扮演的巴赫显得瘦小文弱。影片问世后得到了当时影评界的激赏。

For Le Genou d'Artemide Jean-Marie Straub once again chose a dialogue by Cesare Pavese. And not just any dialogue, but one that tears open a painful, mystical abyss between love and the one left behind. The film is one single exhilaration and one single rush, a spell and dispersion into nature. It rises from a dark screen and chant to disappear in the woods with the whisper of the wind. It has little to do with what is generally called «cinema». It has one foot in the world beyond. Nature has ten million times the imagination of the most imaginative of artists. (Jean-Marie Straub)

故事发生在东德刚刚解体的这个节骨眼上。里科（朱利斯•尼兹舒寇夫 Julius Nitschkoff 饰）、丹尼尔（梅林•罗斯 Merlin Rose 饰）、保罗（Frederic Haselon 饰）和马克（乔尔•巴斯曼Joel Basman 饰）是成长在这个动荡的特殊时刻的四位青年。他们用他们各自特殊的方式来疯狂的挥霍青春。 在经历的一系列疯狂的体验之后，四人合伙开了一家迪斯科舞厅，哪知道没开多久便被新纳粹青少年给霸占了。与此同时，里科依然保留着他想要成为拳击手的梦想，丹尼尔则对漂亮的莱比锡（露比•欧菲Ruby O. Fee 饰）一往情深。当他们的命运被时代车轮裹挟前进时，每个人会走上一条怎样的道路呢？

电视台制作人杰瑞•哈尔福德与信心满满的青年兰斯•普雷斯顿（辛恩·罗格斯 Sean Rogerson 饰）合作，制作了一档名为《墓地邂逅》的灵异纪实节目，他自称年少时曾遭遇超自然现象，所以长久以来一直致力于揭示灵魂的真面目。此次，他和他的团队来到了一家始建于1893年的医院——科林伍德精神病院，该医院曾受纳上千名病患，1963年因闹鬼被迫关闭。兰斯团队决定将自己反锁在医院8小时，通过摄像机以及其他高精仪器寻找鬼魂的蛛丝马迹。 为了制造恐怖氛围，兰斯不惜弄虚作假，可是他很快发现这座医院真的有什么东西存在，他们将面临最为恐怖与难熬的不眠之夜……

In this notorious Nazi propaganda historical costume melodrama, a conniving, ambitious Jewish businessman, Suess Oppenheimer, snares a post as treasurer to the Duke of Wurttemburg by showering the corrupt duke with treasure and promises of even greater riches. As the Jew's schemes grow more elaborate and his actions more brazen, the dukedom nearly erupts into civil war. Persuaded by the Jew, the Duke all but scuttles the constitution and alienates the assembly by lifting the local ban on Jews in Stuttgart. In a final outrage, the Jew rapes a wholesome German girl and tortures her father and fiancee. When the Duke succumbs to a sudden heart attack, the assembly of Elders try the Jew and sentence him to death for having "carnal knowledge of a Christian woman." Summary written by Kevin Rayburn

Indio（吉昂·马利亚·沃隆特 Gian Maria Volonté 饰）是一个穷凶极恶的通缉犯，他伙同他的团伙屡次作案，他有一个怀表，每次大开杀戒之前都会看一看表，表上有一个女人的照片。赏金猎人Manco（克林特·伊斯特伍德 Clint Eastwood 饰）正在追捕Indio，而另外一个赏金猎人Colonel Douglas Mortimer（李·范·克里夫 Lee Van Cleef 饰）也在追捕同样的目标。两人一开始都看对方不顺眼，后来才决定一起追捕Indio。两人得知Indio准备去抢劫银行，于是定下计谋，让Monco加入Indio的团队，之后再和Mortimer来个里应外合。后来两人不慎被Indio所抓获。到底Manco和Mortimer能否除掉Indio，而Indio怀表里那个女人又和Mortimer有何联系？ 本片为意大利导演赛尔乔·莱翁内 Sergio Leone执导的“通心粉”西部片。