谢尔盖·帕拉杰诺夫，1924年生于前苏联格鲁吉亚的第比利斯，父母都是亚美尼亚人。从小就显示出他对色彩的敏感和天神一般的绘画天赋。除了绘画，从小他就对电影和音乐有着浓厚的兴趣。1945年，他21岁，求学莫斯科是他一生的转折点。他进入俄罗斯电影学院（VGIK）导演系学习拍片。这是一个历史悠久的著名电影学校，为欧洲大陆贡献了大批电影大师。之后成为老师杜甫仁科的助手，杜甫仁科是苏联诗电影的祖先，塔尔科夫斯基和帕拉杰诺夫都得益于他的教诲。
根据俄罗斯作家莱蒙托夫的故事改编。一个游吟诗人在路途上花了一千个白天和黑夜，随时随地尽其所能为人们带来快乐。他的流动的生活方式看似毫无目的，其实不然。他希望在一千个日日夜夜之后，能够挣到足够的钱举办婚礼......如果新娘还在等他的话。
Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights - but not before he's got the daughter to promise not to marry till his return. It's told in typical Paradjanov style, in a series of visually ravishing 'tableaux vivants' overlaid with Turkish and Azerbaijani folksongs.
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge. They make him wear a uniform complete with medals and is pushed by his new friends into accepting a Hero's welcome when he gets home where he is to be immortalized by a statue that he doesn't want, has songs written about his heroic battle stories, and ends up unwillingly running for mayor. Despite his best efforts to explain the truth, no one will listen.
Evelyn Prentice is the respected wife of a high-profile New York attorney. Despite the prestige and status she enjoys, she feels neglected and out of boredom becomes involved with an unscrupulous womanizing poet, who gives her the attention she craves. She eventually finds herself a victim of blackmail and becomes involved in his murder. When another woman is accused of the crime, she begs her husband to defend her.
Cette histoire sordide d'un flic de Chicago empêtré dans le vice est racontée par la ville elle-même (s'appuyant sur le fameux poème de Carl Sandburg !) durant 24 heures bien remplies. Remerciements à Martin Scorsese pour la copie.
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Born in a small town in the countryside surrounding Pistoia, Adriana is an attractive young girl who counts on using her looks to go places in the entertainment business in Rome. Moving to the capital, she works first of all in a hairdressing salon, then in a small cinema where she manages to get a job working in fancy dress. Meantime, she socializes with young men of the upper middle classes, who take her to parties and out on the town with the sole aim of taking advantage of her. Adriana knows their game, but plays along. In the meantime, she meets an agent called Cianfanna, a modest money-grubber who introduces her to a journalist friend of his so he can write an article on her. Having thus launched her career in advertising, Adriana decides to go home to visit her parents. Once home, however, she is distraught to learn of the death of her sister. Returning to Rome, she takes acting lessons, but during one lesson she suddenly faints: she is pregnant, with no idea of who the father of her child is. The days go by and Adriana tries to forget about her pregnancy, while sleeping with an increasingly long list of lovers. And yet, despite the fact these encounters are often less than enjoyable, at one point she actually falls in love: his name is Antonio and he's a decent young man from a respectable family, but still in love with a former girlfriend he is unable to forget…
1951年10月2日，在英国英格兰Northumberland郡的Wallsend市的Sumner家出生了一名男婴，他被取名叫做Gordon，Gordon Matthew Sumner，他就是后来大名鼎鼎的流行乐巨星Sting。自从1977年在英国伦敦，Sting和Stewart Copeland一起组建了成就辉煌的警察乐队(The Police)以来，他们迅速成为了英国最成功的乐队之一，Sting本人也成为了英国最受欢迎的男歌手之一，同时他的创作才能也被同行们所称道。在新浪潮音乐时期，Sting和警察乐队不仅在英国取得了成功而且还在大西洋彼岸的美国取得了同样伟大的成就。
在1985年警察乐队正式宣布解散以后，Sting就开始了令他更为辉煌的单飞生涯，此时，他的音乐风格也从后朋克时代的新浪潮风格开始发生转变。其实早在警察乐队正式解散前的1982年，他就曾经自己主创过一张电影原声《Brimstone And Treacle》，并且从1984年开始他就开始筹划录制自己的第一张个人专辑《The Dream of the Blue Turtles》，随后这张专辑在1985年正式发行。在这张专辑中，他邀请了大批爵士乐艺人参与录制，在当时看来，Sting的这份基于爵士乐的流行音乐转变似乎有些突然，但是这却成为了一张非常畅销的专辑，并且在美国也取得了非常出色的成绩，专辑成为Billboard 200排行榜亚军，并且共有三首单曲成为了排行榜的前十名。
随后的Sting开始了大范围的巡回演唱会，并且录制成为了电影和一张双CD的现场专辑，并且在1986年的时候发行，名字都叫做《Bring On The Night》。随后警察乐队重新回到了一起，但是这次重聚显然是非常短暂和失败的。在这之后，更激励了Sting的工作热情，他开始了献给他已故母亲的专辑《Nothing Like the Sun》的制作，在这张专辑中他又和前警察乐队吉他手Andy Summers进行了合作，并于1987年发行了这张同样成功的专辑。之后的日子，Sting并没有立即展开大规模的演唱会，而是转而投身公益事业，他为拯救埃塞俄比亚饥饿人口而多次举行义演，以及为许多公益组织做宣传，并且亲自创立了一个关于保护巴西热带雨林的基金会。1988年，Sting发行了西班牙语专辑《Nada Como el Sol》，这是在《Nothing Like the Sun》的基础上编辑而成的。
后来，父亲的去世再次刺激了Sting，他获取灵感，并创作了于1991年发行的专辑《The Soul Cages》，这张略带沉重和阴暗的专辑在美国依然获得了成功，同样排名Billboard排行榜亚军。1993年，Sting发行了最成功的流行乐专辑《Ten Summoner's Tales》，这时的他已经完全从新浪潮摇滚歌星转变为成人流行乐歌手，1993年末，他和Rod Stewart以及Bryan Adams合唱的单曲《All for Love》 成为了冠军，这被认为是他转型成功的标志。此后，他又于1996年发行了专辑《Mercury Falling》，1999年的《Brand New Day》，虽然在英国和世界其他地区都受到了很大的欢迎，但是在美国本土都没有取得像过去那样的辉煌，但是这丝毫没有影响Sting在世界上的受欢迎程度。2003年9月30日，Sting发行了新专辑《Sacred Love》。
在Sting所有的的作品中，他的歌词不仅优美，而且富有思想和深度，并且从来都是敢怒敢言，毫无忌讳。在离开警察乐队和结束了新浪潮风格以后，原本是贝斯手的Sting拿起了吉他，他的音乐也逐渐转变得更为流行。他的音乐风格受到了爵士乐很大的影响，他年轻的时候就经常演奏爵士乐，不同的是他敢于大胆的实验融合，在Sting的音乐中融合了古典和其他许多不同风格音乐的特点，他把这些音乐元素流行化，并且融合表现在自己的音乐中，从而自成一派。事实上，在他准备离开事业辉煌的警察乐队进一步寻求发展属于自己的音乐的时候，Sting是冒了相当大的风险的。
作为一名伟大的艺术家，Sting个人迄今为止一共获得过九尊格莱美奖杯。第一次获奖是在1984年，在1983年度的第26届格莱美颁奖典礼上，Sting凭借《Brimstone And Treacle》获得了最佳摇滚乐器表演奖(Best Rock Instrumental Performance)。三年后的1987年，第29届格莱美颁奖中，Sting又凭借录影带《Bring On The Night》获得了最佳音乐录影带长片奖(Best Music Video，Long Form)。1988年初，在第30届格莱美颁奖中，Sting凭借《Bring On The Night》第一次获得了最佳流行男歌手奖(Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male)。1991年度的34届格莱美颁奖中，Sting凭借单曲《Soul Cages》获得了最佳摇滚歌曲奖(Best Rock Song)。1993年度第36届格莱美颁奖中，Sting凭借《Ten Summoner's Tales》和《If I Ever Lose My Faith In You》分别获得了最佳音乐录影带长片奖和最佳流行男歌手奖，而且，凭借《Ten Summoner's Tales》，工程师Hugh Padgham还获得了最佳非古典录音工程专辑奖(Best Engineered Album - Non-Classical)。1999年度的第42届格莱美颁奖中，Sting凭借专辑《Brand New Day》获得了最佳流行专辑奖(Best Pop Album)，专辑的同名单曲《Brand New Day》还使他获得了最佳流行男歌手奖。最近一次获奖是在2001年，在2000年度的第43届格莱美颁奖中，凭借单曲《She Walks This Earth (Soberana Rosa)》，Sting第四次获得了最佳流行男歌手奖。此外，他和他所在的The Police乐队，还曾经获得过六次格莱美奖，包括三次最佳摇滚乐队奖(Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal)，两次最佳摇滚乐器表演奖，以及一次年度最佳单曲奖(Song Of The Year)，而这首获奖单曲《Every Breath You Take》的词曲作者都是Sting一个人。
Tracklist:
1.A Thousand Years
2.Every Little Thing She Does is MagicЃЁ Preview
3.Englishman in New York
4.Roxanne
5.When We Dance
6.Russians
7.I Hung My Head
8.Why Should I Cry For You?
9.Whenever I Say Your Name
10.This Cowboy Song
11.Tomorrow We'll See
12.Moon Over Bourbon Street
13.The End of the Game
14.You Will Be My Ain True Love
15.All Would Envy
16.Mad About You
17.King of Pain18.Every Breath You Take
18.Desert Rose
19.She's Too Good For Me
20.Fragile
21.I Was Brought to my Senses (Intro)
A history of Scotland is, like as the name says, about Scotland's history. The first episode takes us through how Scotland was created and why its role in one of the greatest wars helped define Britain in the modern era. The second episode revolves around two front figures in Scottish history, Alexander II and William Wallace, and how they shaped Scotland. Episode three takes us to Robert The Bruce and his fight for Scottish independence and how the church promoted his cause. Episode four takes us to how the Stewart's caused a divide in Scotland between the Highlands and the Lowlands. And episode five revolves around the unification of Scotland and Britain during the reign of Mary Queen Of Scots.
