【正文】 one better work, has shed his cocky , he39。s likable and energetic in this parttwo characteristics vital to establishing Jack as a , Kate Winslet, whose impressive resume includes Sense and Sensibility, Hamlet, and Jude, dons a flawless American accent along with her 1912 garb, and essays an appealing, vulnerable Zane es across as the perfect villaincallous, arrogant, yet displaying true affection for his prized fianc? The supporting cast, which includes Kathy Bates, Bill Paxton, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill(as Titanic39。s captain), and David Warner(as Cal39。s nononsense manservant), is Titanic is easily the most subdued and dramatic of Cameron39。s films, fans of more frantic pictures like Aliens and The Abyss will not be has all of the thrills and intensity that moviegoers have e to expect from the dazzling mix of style and substance, of the sublime and the spectacular, Titanic represents Cameron39。s most acplished work to 39。s important not to let the running time hold you backthese threeplus hour pass very this telling of the Titanic story is far from the first, it is the most memorable, and is deserving of Oscar nominations not only in the technical categories, but in the more substantive ones of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress.169。 1997 James Berardinelli第二篇：經(jīng)典英文電影影評China: A Century of Revolution（中國，革命的世紀(jì)）DISC ONE Part One: China in Revolution 1911–1949(1989)DISC TWO Part Two: The Mao Years 1949–1976(1994)DISC THREE Part Three: Born Under the Red Flag 1976–1997(1997)A film by Sue Williams coproduced by Kathryn DietzChina: A Century of Revolution is a sixhour tour de force journey through the country’s most tumultuous televised on PBS, this awardwinning documentary series presents an astonishingly candid view of a oncesecret nation with rare archival footage, insightful historical mentary and stunning eyewitness accounts from citizens who struggled through China’s most decisive in Revolution charts the pivotal years from the birth of the new republic to the establishment of the PRC, through foreign invasions, civil war and a bloody battle for power between Mao Zedong and Chiang Mao Years examines the turbulent era of Mao’s attempts to forge a “new China” from the warravaged and exhausted Under the Red Flag showcases China’s unlikely transformation into an extraordinary hybrid of munistcentralized politics with an everexpanding free market in scope, China: A Century of Revolution is critical viewing for anyone interested in this increasingly powerful and globally influential Millionaire（貧民窟的百萬富翁）2008 A gaudy, gorgeous rush of color, sound and motion, “Slumdog Millionaire,” the latest from the British shapeshifter Danny Boyle, doesn’t travel through the lower depths, it giddily bounces from one horror to the modern fairy tale about a pauper angling to bee a prince, this sensory blowout largely takes place amid the squalor of Mumbai, India, where lost children and dogs sift through trash so fetid you swear you can smell the discarded mango as well as its peel, or could if the film weren’t already hurtling through another picturesque , who first stormed the British movie scene in the mid1990s with flashy entertainments like “Shallow Grave” and “Transporting,” has a flair for the other directors could turn a heroin addict rummaging inside a rank toilet bowl into a surrealistic underwater reverie, as he does in “Transporting,” and fewer still could do so while holding onto the character’s basic addict, played by Ewan McGregor, emerges from his repulsive splishsplashing with a nearbeatific smile(having successfully retrieved some pills), a terrible if darkly funny image that turns out to have been representative not just of ’s bent humor but also of his worldview: better to swim than to es naturally to Jamal(the British actor Dev Patel in his featurefilm debut), who earns a living as a chaiwallah serving fragrant tea to callcenter workers in Mumbai and who, after a series of alternating exhilarating and unnerving adventures, has landed in the hot seat on the television game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” Yet while the story opens with Jamal on the verge of grabbing the big prize, Simon Beaufoy’s cleverly kinked screenplay, adapted from a novel by Vikas Swarup, embraces a fluid view of time and space, effortlessly shuttling between the young contestant’s past and his present, his childhood spaces and grownup , narrative doesn’t begin and end: it flows and eddies — just like all rights the texture of Jamal’s life should have been brutally coarsened by tragedy and poverty by the time he makes a grab for the television because “Slumdog Millionaire” is selfconsciously(perhaps mercially)framed as a contemporary fairy tale cum love story, or because leans toward the sanguine, this proves to be one of the most upbeat stories about living in hell ’s a life that begins in a vast, vibrant, sunsoaked, jampacked ghetto, a kaleidoscopic city of flimsy shacks and struggling humanity and takes an abrupt, cruel turn when Jamal(Ayush Mahesh Khedekar), then an exuberant 7, and his cagier brother, Salim(Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail), witness the murder of their mother(Sanchita Choudhary)by marauding fanatics armed with antiMuslim epithets and into the larger, uncaring world along with another new orphan, a shy beauty named Latika(Rubina Ali plays the child, Freida Pinto the teenager), the three children make their way from one refuge to another before falling prey to a villain whose exploitation pushes the story to the edge of the there’s something undeniably fascinating, or at least watchable, about this ghastly interlude — the young actors are very appealing and sympathetic, and the images are invariably pleasing even when they should not be — it’s unsettling to watch these young characters and, by extension, the young nonprofessionals playing them enact such a doesn’t help even if you remember that Jamal makes it out alive long enough to have his 15 televised ’s hard to hold onto any reserv