In 1848, a young Frenchwoman, Madeline Minot, goes to New York City to see Thevenet, the grandfather of her fiance. Thevenet had been with Napoleon and may be sympathetic to the political aims of his grandson. She finds the old man in very bad spirits, living in a large house with a housekeeper and a butler who are just waiting for him to die (and perhaps helping him along a bit) so they can inherit his fortune. They see Madeline as a threat to their plans. She is aided in her dealings with these strange people by a mysterious man in a cloak.
青年警官尼克·克鲁兹(瑞安·雷诺兹 Ryan Reynolds 饰)思索再三,不愿和搭档巴比·海耶斯(凯文·贝肯 Kevin Bacon 饰)私吞毒贩的赃物黄金,结果在一次行动中被对方趁乱杀害。死后的尼克来到另一个世界,并受雇于冥界警局(R.I.P.D),其主要任务就是 追捕那些不愿接受死后审判而依靠伪装盘桓人间的死鬼。他的搭档是死于19世纪末的老头罗伊·鲍威尔(杰夫·布里吉斯 Jeff Bridges 饰)。罗伊作风粗犷,特立独行,这两个性格与风格上有着巨大差异的搭档跌跌撞撞展开行动。尼克在行动中发现死鬼们和海耶斯有着千丝万缕的关系,而在种种谜团背后隐藏着攸关世界命运的大阴谋。
时间紧迫,尼克和罗伊必须尽最大可能阻止那个通天阴谋……
Based on an unknown Schönberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a not-quite loveless marriage. A husband and wife return from a party where she has flirted with another man, while he has cast an appraising eye toward an attractive, fashionably dressed acquaintance of his wife’s. Though each dreams, briefly, of leaving the marriage for the excitement and mystery of a new lover, in the end they decide stability and comfort are more important than the fleeting thrill of new romance. Directors Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, who previously collaborated on two other films about music (The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, 1968, and Moses and Aaron, 1975), rely on long fixed shots in austere black-and-white so that the focus remains on the musical brilliance of Schönberg’s atonal score, performed here by 70 musicians. That Schönberg would choose such a relatively lighthearted message for his newly discovered musical language remains a mystery, especially since the conclusion reached by the husband and wife—to stick with the tried and true—seems directly at odds with Schönberg’s own philosophy of composing. It is just this juxtaposition, however, coupled with Straub and Huillet’s faithful presentation, that makes the opera a compelling addition to the Schönberg canon—and the film such a challenging and intriguing experience.
In a dilapidated cyberpunk city plagued by crime and corruption, an unscrupulous District Attorney is savagely murdered and tossed out of a building onto his brand new car.
Mysteriously, the District Attorney and his car come back to life as a single being with a thirst for vengeance. The eerie driverless car embarks on a vicious rampage exacting revenge on the criminals who mu...