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With this new series Andrew Graham-Dixon returns to Europe taking us on a journey into the captivating watery world of the Low Countries and its art. This small myriad of regions we now know as Holland and Belgium produced some of the most celebrated names in art: Van Eyck, Bosch, Rembrandt, Rubens, Vermeer, Van Gogh, Mondrian and Magritte. As he travels by canal boat and of course by bicycle Andrew reveals just how important the Low Countries were in key moments in the development of western culture - the birth of oil painting in the late medieval ages, the triumph of the Dutch golden age, and the onset of polarizing modern art movements surrealism and abstraction. This is not the story of one nation, but of fluid, ever-shifting boundaries and the search for identity in an area that has always been politically contested. EPISODE ONE: The first episode will be about how the art of Renaissance Flanders e册ved from the craft of precious tapestries within the Duchy of Burgundy into a leading painting school in its own right. Starting his journey at the magnificent altarpiece of Ghent Cathedral created by the Van Eyck brothers Andrew explains their ground breaking innovation in oil painting and marvels how the colours they obtained can still remain so vibrant today. Andrew will describe how in the early Renaissance the most urgent preoccupation was not the advancement of learning, humanist or otherwise, but the Last Judgment. People believed they were living in the end of days; a subject popular with preachers and artists and intensely realized in swarming microscopic detail by Hieronymus Bosch. EPISODE TWO: In the second episode Andrew explores how the seemingly peaceful countries of Holland and Belgium – famous for their tulips and windmills, mussels and chips - were in fact forged in a crucible of conflict and division. He will examine how a period of economic boom driven for the first time by a burgeoning and secular middle class led to the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th Century. Andrew travels to Delft and Amsterdam to demonstrate the striking contrast between two of its greatest proponents, Rembrandt and Vermeer (one famed for his breathtakingly realistic domestic street scenes, the other for explosive rapid brushstrokes and raw colours, best exemplified in his contentious magnum opus – The Nightwatch.) Radically different in style, both men were united by the realization that they must become innovators in business as well as masters of their craft. Yet boom also meant bust - and in a story with very modern echoes they ultimately shared the same fate, financial destitution. EPISODE THREE: Following a brief period of decline, the third episode will look at how the entrepreneurial and industrious region of the Low Countries rose again to become a cultural leader in the modern age; how despite its small and apparent insignificance when stood up against the powerhouses of Europe it produced important forward thinking artists like Van Gogh, Mondrian, Magritte and Delvaux who changed the face of art forever. In this episode Andrew’s exhilarating journey takes us to a remote beach in North West Holland which inspired Mondrian’s transition to his now renowned abstract grid paintings.

这是一部以动作冒险为主题的太空歌剧，主人公是三个星际赏金猎人。他们一方面要穿越政治漩涡，一方面要面对道德观的挑战，还要随时处理复杂的「内部关系」。在遥远的银河系深处，Qresh星球上的人们在三颗卫星上进行殖民，建立起四个分层的世界（主行星和三颗卫星各为一层）。每一个世界都有独特的社会经济结构，但每一个世界都动荡不安。在被称作Quad的这个行星体中，赏金猎人获得政府许可在整个银河系范围内完成各种各样的委托命令，他们被称作「扫兴者」（Killjoys）。「扫兴者」必须严格服从既定的规矩，并且他们一旦接到命令就不能反悔，如果反悔必然带来严重后果。「扫兴者」不允许参与政治，不允许在任务中带有私人感情——女「扫兴者」Dutch就面临这样的考验。Dutch美艳、性感、身手不凡，但是背景极为复杂，她在这个行业中是数一数二的人物。Dutch的搭档John绰号「混蛋...

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　Michael, a Danish gangster, takes his girlfriend, Sascha, and his extended criminal family on a luxury vacation in a fancy villa in gorgeous Bodrum, Turkey. Shopping, waterparks, barbecuing, and hardcore partying fill their days and nights. Having little regard for anything or anybody outside their world, they exist in a bubble of excess that is governed by Michael’s rules—and if the code is broken, they all know that violence will follow. But when Sascha befriends a Dutchman with romantic designs on her, she toys with Michael’s authority and creates a situation that cannot end well.　　In a breakthrough performance, Victoria Carmen Sonne fully commits as Sascha, the complex young moll that eludes assumptions and expectations. First-time writer/director Isabella Eklöf has a dynamic visual touch and a flair for dark comedy and creates a destabilizing discord as she elaborately fills the frame with colorful, seductive images while telling a disturbing, graphic tale of brutality and power. Holiday provokes, challenges—and even implicates—the viewer in its unsettling reflection of our times.

PlotSummaryforSoldaatvanOranje(1977)ThisfilmdepictsWorldWarIIthroughtheeyesofseveralDutchmen.Itcoversthebeginningofthewar,theNazioccupationandtheliberation.Ithasresistancefighters,Nazicollaborators,torturebytheGestapoandnekkidboobs.ThefilmmanagestobebothentertainmentandaveryseriousandpatrioticportrayaloftheroleofHollandinWWII.SummarywrittenbyMarkLogan?

故事发生在纽约，一个专业棒球队里两个球员的故事。Henry是明星投手，Bruce Pearson是普通投手，Bruce和其他球员十分友好，但与Henry投手却十分隔漠，这甚至开始影响球队的命运……　　◎简　　介　　Henry Wiggen是纽约长毛象队( New York Mammoths based on NYY)的明星投手。　　(那是自由球员制还未施行的年代，球员的薪水并不高，即使像Henry Wiggen这种明星球员，还得兼营一些副业。在电影中，可看出他还是保险经纪人，而且对理财颇有一套，另外，他还是曾出过书的作家——这就是他 Author 这个绰号的由来。)　　而他的室友——也是他保险的客户—— Bruce Pearson，则和他刚好相反。他球技普通，生活习惯又差，平时一副蠢样，在队上根本没人理他。(Henry 本身也很讨厌他，有一次，Henry 逮到Bruce在洗手檯便溺，气得向总教练Dutch投诉。)　　但，就在这一年春训之前，一切都改变了。　　因不幸而变成好友　　Bruce感到身体不适，经医师诊断是何杰金氏淋巴瘤(Hodgkin's disease, or Hodgkin's lymphoma)，这在当时是绝症。Bruce的保险是向Henry投保的，在Henry 的陪伴之下，他们一起到专门的医院做进一步诊疗，并得到医院的确认。　　Henry听从Bruce的要求，保守著这个秘密。两人回到春训集训地，当时 Henry 和球团的谈薪陷入僵局，Henry 正在「罢训」。但不久他得到消息，球团打算要释出Bruce，於是他接受球团提议的薪资，只不过要加入一条附加条款——他的命运必须和Bruce绑在一起，球团不管要交易还是释出Bruce，都得连他一块送走。　　球团答应这个条件。但总教练觉得事有蹊蹺，如之前所述，Henry曾向他抱怨Bruce的不良生活习惯，但怎么突然间，又像是情人一样不可分离呢？总教练私下想尽办法要查个水落石出。　　总教练一直找线索，想要知道之前Henry和Bruce到了什么地方、做了什么事，而 Henry就不断扯谎，想出各种理由来掩饰他和Bruce去过医院。　　脱胎换骨的表现　　Henry还以他的理财知识当条件，和一位老爱奚落Bruce的队友达成协议，希望他不要对Bruce那么刻薄。Henry告诉这位队友Bruce罹患绝症的秘密，并要他守口如瓶。　　但这种「秘密」，很快就在队友之间秘密流传，没多久，大多数球员都知道了。忽然间，大家对 Bruce 都特别包容，人人都愿意与他交友。原本这支球队，充满了球技一流的球星，但人人各自为政，谁也不服谁，现在因为Bruce的不幸，球队的向心力竟因而凝聚了起来，此后球队连战连胜。　　Bruce原本只是替补捕手，上场机会不多，表现也不理想；因为队友的接纳，他开始有了自信，各项表现都创下生涯新高，到了七月，他已是主战捕手了。　　球队最终拿下第一，季后赛一路横扫，夺得世界大赛冠军。而Bruce在球季结束前，就因病重离队，於不久后便病逝了。　　电影在Henry的旁白中结束。Bruce的丧礼，球队只有送花，没有代表到场。　　◎幕　　后　　Bang the Drum Slowly ，中译名为「战鼓轻敲」。不过首先要说明的，这个Drum，并不是战鼓，而是送丧时的哀鼓；Slowly，也非「轻」敲，而是「慢」敲。这个鼓声，就像是丧鐘，沉重地、缓慢地敲击著，像是死神逐渐走近的脚步……　　本片改编自 Mark Harris 的同名小说 Bang the Drum Slowly 。Mark Harris 总共写了四本棒球小说，这「四部曲」分别是：The Southpaw (1953)、 Bang the Drum Slowly (1956)、A Ticket for a Seamstitch (1957)，和 It Looked Like For Ever (1979)，书中的主角，都是投手 Henry Author Wiggen。　　Bang the Drum Slowly 这个书名，是从一首美国的传统牛仔歌曲 Streets of Laredo （或称为「牛仔悲歌」 Cowboy's Lament ）中的歌词改编而来，这首歌，唱的是一位垂死牛仔的临终遗言，原先的歌词，有些用语比较古老一点，而在电影里，歌词有小小的更动，以下是和书名有关的副歌部分：　　O bang the drum slowly and play the fife lowly,　　Play the dead march as they carry me on,　　Put bunches of roses all over my coffin,　　Roses to deaden the clods as they fall　　啊，哀鼓慢慢击，横笛低声奏，　　当他们抬我灵柩时，演奏那送丧曲，　　在我棺木上，覆满成束玫瑰，　　让那玫瑰，舒缓落下的土块。

Inhernewdocumentary,OekeHoogendijk(TheNewRijksmuseum)delvesintotheworldoftheoldmasters.MyRembrandt,inherownwords,hasbecomean'epicartthriller',inwhichthefilmmakergivesafascinatinginsightintowhatmakestheworkoftheDutchmastersospecialandwhyhisarttouchespeoplesodeeply.

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Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and Spanish. A tiny village in Flanders is invaded by Spanish troops. The townsfolk have heard of Spanish cruelties in other towns, and decide to deflect the vanquishers by playing dead. This isn't terribly effective (you have to take a breath once in a while), so the wife of the burgomaster tries to soften up the invaders with a lavish carnival. So successful is this venture that the Spaniards allow the village to escape being decimated, or even taxed. An award-winner many times over, Carnival in Flanders was banned in Germany; evidently, Goebbels caught on that director Jacques Feyder and scenarists Bernard Zimmer and Charles Spaak were drawing deliberate parallels between the Spanish and the then-burgeoning Nazis.