# The Sorcerer and the White Snake
In the epilogue, Xu Xian picks herbs around the pagoda, while Susu has returned to her snake form trapped inside the temple. Fahai is seen walking around the mountainside when suddenly Neng Ren (now a complete bat demon) appears alongside him. Throwing him an apple, Fahai tells him that he has grown used to his new look, and they journey together again.
- Jet Li as Abbot Fahai (法海)
- Raymond Lam as Xu Xian (许仙)
- Eva Huang as the White Snake/Susu (素素)
- Charlene Choi as the Green Snake/Qingqing (小青)
- Wen Zhang as Neng Ren (能忍)
- Jiang Wu as Turtle Devil (龜妖)
- Vivian Hsu as Ice Harpy (雪妖)
- Miriam Yeung as Rabbit Devil (兔)
- Chapman To as Toad Monster/Gugu (蛤蟆怪)
- Law Kar-ying as Mysterious Herbalist (神秘藥師)
- Lam Suet as Chicken Devil (雞妖)
- Sonija Kwok as Bu Ming (不明)
- Angela Tong as Cat Devil (貓妖)
- Michelle Wai as Bat Devil (蝙蝠妖女)
Leading actors Ethan Juan, Peter Ho, Mark Chao and Raymond Lam auditioned for the lead role in the film. In the end, Lam got the role. It was reported that Juan and Chao were dropped as they were deemed to be not well known enough in China and Ho\'s image did not suit the male lead.
Jet Li was announced to be part of the cast during early pre-production. However, his role was not revealed until September 2010, when some actors\' roles were announced, including Jet Li as Fa Hai, Eva Huang as White Snake, Raymond Lam as Xu Xian, Charlene Choi as Green Snake and Wen Zhang, whom Li invited to play his disciple Neng Ren.
Regarding the action scenes, Jet Li said he had never been this exhausted before. Li said,
Raymond Lam said he was always being hit by others,


# The Sorcerer and the White Snake
Filming wrapped on January 16, 2011. Originally titled *Madame White Snake* in English, the film logo was unveiled during the production wrap press conference with the new official English title, *It\'s Love*. However, the English title was changed to *The Sorcerer and the White Snake* when the distributor was announced. The actual title used has been *The Emperor and the White Snake*, both on DVD and at IMDb.
- *Green Snake*
- Hong Kong films of 2011
- Jet Li filmography
- *The Legend of the White Serpent* (1956 film)
- *Legend of the White Snake*
- *Madam White Snake* (TV series)
- *The Tale of the White Serpent*


# Ravex in Tezuka World
***Ravex in Tezuka World*** is a 2009 18-minute anime short film by Japanese band Ravex. It was featured in the album *Trax*, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Avex as well as the 80th birthday of Osamu Tezuka.
As \"another story\" set after the end of the original manga, the plot starts after Astro is found on an asteroid after his final act to save Earth (shown in the 1960s anime). The robot boy is rescued by the three members of Ravex, and he is miraculously revived by \"Space Jack\". The newly revived robot is named \"Ratom\" - built by combining Rock with Astro, and equipped with the power of music.
Professor Ochanomizu works with Space Jack to create the newly evolved Ratom.
A number of Tezuka characters appeared in the anime short.
Main:
- Astro Boy
- Rock Holmes
- Princess Sapphire
- Ravex members (Shinichi Osawa, Taku Takahashi, Tanaka Tomoyuki)
Supporting:
- Pinoko
- Tink
- Hyakkimaru
- Unico
- Melmo
- Black Jack (known as \"Space Jack\")
**-Inserted Songs-**
1.  \"Dark Silence\"
2.  \"House Nation feat. Lisa\"
3.  \"Believe in Love feat. BoA\"
4.  \"Just the Two of Us feat. Tohoshinki\"
5.  \"Golden Luv feat. Maki Goto\"
6.  \"1 More Night feat. Monkey Majik\"
7.  \"Bangalicious feat. Anna Tsuchiya\"
8.  \"V.I.P.P. (Very Important Party People) feat. TRF & Verbal (M-Flo)\"
9.  \"I Rave U feat. DJ Ozma\"
10. \" feat. Yūko Andō\"


# Swann in Love (film)
***Swann in Love*** (, ), is a 1984 Franco-German film directed by Volker Schlöndorff. It is based on Marcel Proust\'s seven-volume novel sequence*In Search of Lost Time*, specifically a self-contained section of the first volume, the title of which typically translates as *Swann\'s Way* (1913). It was nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards.
The film\'s story follows an original treatment of Proust\'s story by theater and film director Peter Brook, who was originally going to make the movie, setting it as a day in the life of the aging and ill Charles Swann (Jeremy Irons), who looks back on his past life in flashbacks.
The young Swann is an idly wealthy eligible bachelor in the best circles of *Belle Époque* Paris, although he is still regarded as something of a social outsider because of his Jewish background. He has been having an affair with the Duchess de Guermantes (Fanny Ardant), but he soon becomes intrigued and then obsessed by the young courtesan Odette de Crecy (Ornella Muti).
Swann\'s interest in Odette is at first encouraged by Madame Verdurin (Marie-Christine Barrault), a hostess who oversees a tightly-knit, exclusive, and decadent social circle. His friend, the overtly gay Baron de Charlus (Alain Delon), helps to arrange for Swann and Odette to meet. Swann\'s obsessive love for Odette, however, threatens Madame Verdurin\'s control, so she arranges other assignations for the courtesan, inflaming Swann\'s jealousy. Even though Swann declares himself to believe in a kind of spiritual egalitarianism, his interest in Odette is also aesthetic, as shown in references to a copy he owns of a fresco by Botticelli and his comparisons of Odette to the painting\'s figure, the Biblical character Zipporah. Odette, on the other hand, considers herself free to socialise and sleep where she pleases, leading Swann to visit a prostitute who might have information about whether Odette sleeps with other women as well as men.


# Swann in Love (film)
Odette does come to contemplate and then suggest marriage to Swann, not so much to \"save\" her from present life as to insure her future. The Duchess de Guermantes and her husband warn Swann that he and Odette can never be received in upper-class society again if he goes through with the marriage, but as the scene returns to the present, now a mechanized and modernized scene unlike the dreamlike milieu of the past. We see Swann again as an older man and Odette as his wife. Swann\'s passion has cooled, but he does not seem to reject his choices, even as he faces death soon.
Director Volker Schlöndorff commented later about Proust\'s *Swann in Love* as follows: \"I must have been sixteen or seventeen,\... I devoured \"Un amour de Swann\" in one weekend, lying appropriately under the apple trees in the garden of my boarding school. \... Proust revealed three worlds to me: the French language, the corresponding society and the unknown regions of love and jealousy. \...
At the time, I, like Charles Swann, had only one desire: to become assimilated in France. \...
When I was offered \"Un amour de Swann\", I didn\'t hesitate for a second. I accepted without reading the book again. \... I saw images in my mind\'s eye: a man wandering at night across the boulevards, from one bar to the next, in a feverish state of euphoria, searching for a woman who constantly eludes him. He knocks late at night on a window which is not hers. One afternoon, he subjects her to a long session of questioning, he tortures her with his jealousy and takes enjoyment in his own suffering.
Odette and Paris: a woman, larger than life, and a city, the epitome of all cities, as well as the man who tries to possess them both - that for me is \"Un amour de Swann\".


# Swann in Love (film)
- Jeremy Irons as Charles Swann
- Ornella Muti as Odette de Crecy
- Alain Delon as Palamède de Guermantes, Baron de Charlus
- Fanny Ardant as Duchesse de Guermantes
- Marie-Christine Barrault as Madame Verdurin
- Anne Bennent as Chloé
- Nathalie Juvet as Madame Cottard
- Philippine Pascal as Madame Gallardon
- Charlotte de Turckheim as Madame de Cambremer
- Jean-François Balmer as Dr. Cottard
- Jacques Boudet as Duke de Guermantes
- Nicolas Baby as the young Jew
- Charlotte Kerr as sous-maîtresse
- Catherine Lachens as la tante
- Jean-Pierre Coffe as Aimé
- Jean-Louis Richard as Monsieur Verdurin
- Bruno Thost as Saniette
- Geoffroy Tory as Forcheville
- Roland Topor as Biche
- Vincent Martin as Remi
- Arc Adrian as Swann\'s Valet
- Pierre Celeyron as Valet Pif
- Romain Brémond as Protocole Guermantes
- Véronique Dietschy as Madame Vinteuil
- Ivry Gitlis violinist
- François Weigel pianist
- Catherine Jacob

### Critical reception
Roger Ebert gave the film a positive review and wrote that \"Jeremy Irons is perfect as Charles Swann, pale, deep-eyed, feverish with passion.\" Other critics tended to praise the film\'s period detail and other technical aspects, but complained that the film did not\--and possibly could not\--do justice to Proust\'s literary work. Vincent Canby in the New York Times, for example, remarked that \"I suspect that itt make enough.\"

### Awards
- **Nominee** Best Costume Design - BAFTA (Yvonne Sassinot de Nesle)
- **Nominee** Best Foreign Language Film - BAFTA (Volker Schlöndorff, Magaret Menegoz)
- **Winner** Best Production Design - Cesar Awards (Jacques Saulnier)
- **Winner** Best Costume Design - Cesar Awards (Yvonne Sassinot de Nesle)


# Night of the Lepus
***Night of the Lepus*** (also known as ***Rabbits***) is a 1972 American science fiction horror film directed by William F. Claxton and produced by A. C. Lyles. Based upon Russell Braddon\'s 1964 science fiction novel *The Year of the Angry Rabbit*, the plot concerns an infestation of mutated rabbits.
The film was the first science fiction work for producer Lyles and for director Claxton, both of whom came from Western film backgrounds. Character actors from Westerns the pair had worked on were brought in to star, including Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun and DeForest Kelley. Shot in Arizona, *Night* used domestic rabbits filmed against miniature models and actors dressed in rabbit costumes for the attack scenes.
Widely panned by critics for its silly premise, poor direction, stilted acting and bad special effects, the film\'s biggest failure is considered to be the inability to make the rabbits seem scary. *Night of the Lepus* has since gained cult status for its laughably poor quality.
Rancher Cole Hillman seeks the help of college president Elgin Clark to combat thousands of rabbits that have invaded the area after their natural predators, coyotes, were killed off. Elgin asks for the assistance of researchers Roy and Gerry Bennett because they respect Cole\'s wish to avoid using cyanide to poison the rabbits. Roy proposes using hormones to disrupt the rabbits\' breeding cycle and takes some rabbits for experimentation. One is injected with a new serum believed to cause birth defects. However, the Bennetts\' daughter Amanda loves the injected rabbit, so she switches it with one from the control group. Amanda is then given the injected rabbit as a pet, but it soon escapes.
While inspecting the rabbits\' old burrowing areas, Cole and the Bennetts find a large, unusual animal track. Meanwhile, Cole\'s son Jackie and Amanda go to a gold mine to visit Jackie\'s friend Billy, but find him missing. Jackie finds more of the animal tracks in Billy\'s shed, while Amanda goes into the mine and runs into an enormous rabbit with blood on its face. Screaming in terror, she runs from the mine.


# Night of the Lepus
Mutilated bodies begin to crop up around town, including those of Billy, a truck driver, and a family of four. Elgin, the Bennetts, Cole, and Cole\'s two ranch hands Frank and Jud go to the mine to try to kill the rabbits with explosives. As Elgin and Frank set charges on top of the mine, Roy and Cole enter the shaft to get pictorial evidence. Outside, a rabbit surfaces and attacks Jud before Gerry can shoot it. Roy and Cole escape the rabbits in the mine and run outside as the explosives are detonated.
The explosives fail to kill the rabbits, and that night they attack Cole\'s ranch, killing Jud while Cole, Frank, Jackie, and Cole\'s housekeeper Dorothy escape into the storm shelter. The rabbits make their way to the general store, killing shopkeeper Mildred and eating and killing everyone else they find in the small town of Galanos before taking refuge in the buildings for the day. In the morning, Gerry and Amanda leave to avoid the coming press, but get stuck along a sandy stretch of road. Roy and Elgin update Sheriff Cody on the situation and, after realizing the rabbits have escaped the mine, call in the National Guard. As night falls, the rabbits leave Galanos to continue their rampage, making their way to the main town of Ajo and eating and killing everyone in their path. Cole proposes using a half-mile wide stretch of electrified railroad track as a fence to contain and kill the rabbits. They recruit a large group of people at a drive-in theater to help herd the rabbits with their car lights, with assistance from the machine gun fire of the National Guard.
Thousands of rabbits make their way into the trap, where they are shot and electrocuted. At the film\'s ending, Cole tells Roy that normal rabbits, as well as coyotes, have returned to the ranch.
- Stuart Whitman as Roy Bennett
- Janet Leigh as Gerry Bennett
- Rory Calhoun as Cole Hillman
- DeForest Kelley as Elgin Clark
- Paul Fix as Sheriff Cody
- Melanie Fullerton as Amanda Bennett
- Chris Morrell as Jackie Hillman
- Chuck Hayward as Jud
- Henry Wills as Frank
- Francesca Jarvis as Mildred
- William Elliott as Dr. Leopold
- Robert Hardy as Professor Dirkson
- Richard Jacome as Deputy Jason
- Evans Thornton as Major White
- Robert Gooden as Leslie
- Don Starr as Cutler
- David McCallum as Police Officer


# Night of the Lepus
Isaac Stanford Jolley makes an appearance as a dispatcher, while Jerry Dunphy has a cameo as a television newscaster. DeForest Kelley and Paul Fix had both played the same role of Chief Medical Officer (although different characters) of the USS *Enterprise* on *Star Trek*.

### Development
The script for *Night of the Lepus* was based upon Australian author Russell Braddon\'s science fiction novel *The Year of the Angry Rabbit* (1964).
A. C. Lyles, known primarily for producing western films, would make *Night of the Lepus* his first and only science fiction production. To craft the film, he pulled together people he had worked with on other Westerns. Gene R. Kearney and Don Holliday were tasked with converting the novel to a screenplay. In doing so, they removed many aspects of the novel (the plot of which focused on Australia dominating the world with a superweapon inadvertently created through the rabbits), and moved its setting from Australia to Arizona.

### Filming
Principal photography took place at the Old Tucson Studios in Tucson, Arizona, a site well known for its use in Western pictures. Filming commenced at the end of January 1972 and concluded in early March.
According to Turner Classic Movies\' David Kalat, director Claxton also came from a Western film background. In directing *Night of the Lepus*, he applied the same techniques used in his other films and declined the use of \"standard\" horror effects that would have enhanced the atmosphere, such as \"canted camera angles, dark shadows, and eerie music.\"
Rory Calhoun was cast as rancher Cole Hilman, whose ranch would be the start of the rabbit explosion. Well known for his western work, *Lepus* put him in unfamiliar territory as it was his first science fiction role, however, he found familiarity in the Western film trappings and his role as a rancher.


# Night of the Lepus
### Filming
Janet Leigh, who played Gerry Bennett, accepted the role because filming was close to home, allowing her to travel on weekends and allowing her family to visit her on set. Though she felt the script \"read well\", she declined to allow her two children play minor roles as she did not want them to see or be part of any type of horror film. She would later state the film lacked an \"ideal director\" to bring the script to life, and the film failed, in part, because it was impossible to make a \"bunny rabbit menacing\".
She later reflected \"No one put a gun to my head and said I had to do it. What no one realized was that, no matter what you do, a bunny rabbit is a bunny rabbit laughs. A rat, that can be menacing--- so can a frog. Spiders or scorpions or alligators, they could all work in that situation, and they have. But a bunny rabbit?! How can you make a bunny rabbit menacing?\"
Fellow *The Rifleman* actor Paul Fix was given the role of the sheriff of the town under siege, while DeForest Kelley, who frequently guest starred in Westerns, was cast as Elgin Clark, the college president who asked researchers to try to stop the rabbits.
The domesticated rabbits used differed greatly in appearance from the wild rabbits that were plaguing the southwest at the time. In *Night*, this was explained by stating that they were descended from recent rabbit farm escapees. To depict the rabbit attacks, a combination of techniques were used. For some scenes, the rabbits were filmed in close-up stomping on miniature structures in slow motion. For attack scenes, they had ketchup smeared on their faces. For others, human actors were shown wearing rabbit costumes.
*Night of the Lepus* was theatrically released on July 26, 1972.
Originally titled *Rabbits*, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer changed the title and avoided including any rabbits in most promotional materials to try to keep the featured mutant creatures a secret. However, the studio itself broke the secret by issuing rabbit\'s foot-themed promotional materials prior to release.


# Night of the Lepus
### Contemporary
In a July 1972 issue of *The New York Times*, Vincent Canby wrote it was not an \"especially memorable movie\", that it was typical for the genre of science fiction horror, and that it failed because the rabbits, despite attempts to make them \"appear huge and scary, still look like Easter bunnies\". In an October 1972 issue, fellow critic Roger Greenspun panned it for not \"even reasonably trying\" to make the rabbits scary, its reliance on \"tired clichés of monsterdom\", \"technical laziness\" in its special effects, \"stupid story\", and \"dumb direction that leaves the film in limbo\" between a horror film and a fairy tale. In the *Monthly Film Bulletin*, Tom Milne felt *Night of the Lepus* had a promising beginning before moving into a \"well-worn horror groove\", such as the effort to trap Gerry and Amanda alone in a deserted area for a last-minute rescue. Noting that the film had \"a certain overall charm and several striking sequences\", he felt the film would have been more successful if it \"had the courage of its convictions -- and its realism\". As an example, he points to the scene following the attack on the Calhoun ranch, in which Cole is walking into town, and tourists refuse to stop and pick him up because he has a gun. The tourists then go to the small town where the rabbits have killed Mildred and are hiding in the general store building. Rather than becoming the next victims, the family call it a ghost town and leave. In the 1977 piece *Dark Dreams 2.0: A Psychological History of the Modern Horror Film*, Charles Derry compared it to the earlier successful works *The Birds* and *Willard*, particularly the former, noting that both featured a \"loveable creature\". Though he felt the special effects were poor, he felt *Night of the Lepus* successfully tied into ongoing fears of throwing ecology out of balance, with the rabbits serving as an appropriate metaphor for human fears about overpopulation.


# Night of the Lepus
### Retrospective
AllMovie\'s Jeremy Wheeler felt the film was \"all good, unintentionally campy fun\" and \"silly to its core\". Noting that the special effects were \"obvious\", he criticized the \"truly heinous dialogue\" and remarked that Leigh \"slums it\" by appearing in the film. In *Stories Rabbits Tell: A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Creature*, Susan E. Davis and Margo DeMello considered the film an \"entertaining romp\", praising the \"alarmingly realistic\" circumstances behind the rabbit mutations, while criticizing the \"notoriously badly done\" special effects and the rabbits being made to \"roar\" during their attacks. Calling it \"one of the worse career moves\" for Kelley and Leigh, they criticized the ending in which all the rabbits were killed, calling them \"unwitting victims\...of human attempts to control nature\". In his book *Videohound\'s Horror Show: 999 Hair-Raising, Hellish, and Humorous Movies*, critic Mike Mayo panned the film, calling the script \"lame\", the scenes of the rabbits \"hopping around H0 scale sets in slow motion\" humorous, and the rabbits just not scary. He also criticized the principal performers, stating that the film featured a \"group of so-so character actors\", except Leigh who he considered a \"star\", and that all gave \"wooden performances\".


# Night of the Lepus
### Retrospective
John J. Puccio of DVDTown.com felt *Lepus* would have been better had it been an intentionally humorous horror spoof, rather than a legitimate attempt at making a horror film with killer rabbits. Stating that it was in the \"so-bad-it\'s-good\" category for only two minutes, he found the actors to be \"stiff and uninvolved\" in delivering their lines, and that it seemed more like an \"old television horse opera\" than a horror film with more slow-paced filler than action sequences, and the few bits of action ruined by the \"corniest possible \'action\' music\". AMC Film Critic\'s Christopher Null states that it is famous as \"one of the worst films ever made\". He heavily criticizes Claxton, feeling that he \"just seems wholly incapable of making the movie remotely frightening, or even of making much sense\" and that the bad special effects \"make the entire film a huge joke\". Reviewing the title for Classic-Horror.com, Julia Merriam gave *Night of the Lepus* credit for attempting to be a \"socially-conscious eco-horror\", but criticized the slow pacing, bad dialog, poor editing with a heavy reliance on stock footage that did not appear to be from the same film, and senseless character actions such as entering a rabbit-filled cave just to photograph them. She also criticized the film\'s obvious use of people in rabbit suits, but concluded its biggest flaw was that \"fluffy bunnies just aren\'t scary\".


# Night of the Lepus
### Retrospective
In *Horror Films of the 1970s*, John Kenneth Muir felt it one of the \"most ridiculous horror films ever conceived\", with a poor blend of horror and environmentalism that resulted in it being more of a comedy. He criticized the \"primitive special effects\", badly done editing and laughable dialogue, and noted that while the rabbits and actors are rarely seen on screen together, the filmmakers used obviously fake rabbit paws and people in rabbit suits for the few scenes calling for human/rabbit interactions. Like most critics, he pointed out that the rabbits were \"cute bunnies\" rather than \"fanged, disease-ridden mutated creatures\", but he felt the actors did the best they could with the material, and praised them for \"keeping straight faces as they heroically stand against the onslaught of the bunnies\".
The film did not see a home video release until October 4, 2005 when Warner Home Video brought it out on DVD, with the only special features being the film\'s trailer and different language and subtitle options. After this went out of print, it was rereleased on DVD-R by the Warner Archive Collection on November 10, 2011.
Scream Factory later released a Blu-ray on June 19, 2018.
A VOD featuring comedic commentary by Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy of RiffTrax (an offshoot of *Mystery Science Theater 3000*) was released on February 7, 2014.
- List of natural horror films
- List of American films of 1972
- *Squirm*
- *Frogs*
- *Attack of the Killer Tomatoes*
- *Kingdom of the Spiders*


# Gong Tau: An Oriental Black Magic
***Gong Tau: An Oriental Black Magic**\'\' (Cantonese: 降頭***Gong Tau**\'\') is a 2007 Hong Kong horror film directed by Herman Yau.
CID detective Rockman was sent to Thailand to investigate a case involving the Hong Kong and Thai underground syndicate. During his visit, he meets a sexy table dancer called Elli, and they had a brief but hot, steamy affair. Unexpectedly, Rockman is ordered to return to Hong Kong. Before leaving, he promised Elli he would return, but he never does. Heart broken, Elli felt she was deceived. Rockman never expect his affair would bring the worst luck for him and his family.
Three years later, in Hong Kong, when Rockman was busily investigating a murder case one stormy night, a senior policeman was murdered by a most wanted fugitive Lam Chiu. On the other hand, Rockman\'s wife broke down after their son died mysteriously. All the major newspapers headlined the two cases, saying the murder and the baby\'s death were related. Frustrated, Rockman worked closely with Brother Sum well seasoned detective\...


# The Floating Lives
***The Floating Lives*** (, ) is a 2010 Vietnamese film based on a short story of the same name by Nguyen Ngoc Tu. It generated revenues of 17 billion VND in 2010 (around US\$0.8 million).
\"The Endless Field\" was written in 2006 by Nguyen Ngoc Tu and became a controversial short story at once. BHD (Hãng phim Việt) bought its copyright at a reasonable price. \"The Endless Field\" was made into the Vietnamese feature film *Floating Lives* in 2010.
The English translation appears in a collection of NNT short stories titled *Floating Lives*. The translator is Luu ThanhThuy and the publisher is ASEAN (2013).
*The Floating Lives* is an co-operational movie of BHD, Vietnam Studio and Mega Media.
- Director: Nguyen Phan Quang Binh
- Producer: Jonathan Foo, Ngo Thi Bich Hanh, Ngo Thi Bich Hien.
- Script writer: Nguyen Ho
- Director of photography: Nguyen Tranh
- Editor: Nguy Ngu
- Cast:
  - Dustin Nguyen\-\-- Ut Vo (in the original novel is Ut Vu)
  - Do Thi Hai Yen\-\-- Suong.
  - Ninh Duong Lan Ngoc\-\-- Nuong (Ut Vo\'s daughter)
  - Vo Thanh Hoa\-\--Dien (Ut Vo\'s son)
  - Tang Thanh Ha\-\-- Ut Vo\'s wife.


# Casta Diva (1935 film)
***Casta Diva*** is a 1935 Italian musical drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Mártha Eggerth, Lamberto Picasso and Gualtiero Tumiati. The film won Best Italian Film at the 1935 Venice International Film Festival. An English-language version *The Divine Spark* was made at the same time, also directed by Gallone and starring Eggerth. Gallone remade the film in 1954 in Technicolor.
The film\'s sets were designed by the art directors Werner Schlichting and Enrico Verdozzi. Location shooting took place around Catania in Sicily.
In Bellini\'s opera, *Norma*, the soprano\'s plea to the moon goddess in Act I begins *Casta diva*, and the aria is well known by that name.
The film concerns Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini and his problems with his opera *Norma* (1831), which itself tells the passionate love story of a Gallican priestess of the local Celtic religion and a Roman proconsul (governor of a province). The film is unique because it uses abstract paintings-in-motion to express the passion between the two main characters.
- Mártha Eggerth as Maddelena Fumarol
- Sandro Palmieri as Vincenzo Bellini
- Gualtiero Tumiati as Niccolò Paganini
- Lamberto Picasso as Fumaroli
- Achille Majeroni as Gioacchino Rossini
- Lina Marengo as a guest
- Giulio Donadio as Felice Romani
- Ennio Cerlesi as Ernesto Tosi
- Vasco Creti as Rettore del Conservatorio
- Bruna Dragoni as Giuditta Pasta
- Maurizio D\'Ancora as Saverio Mercadante
- Cesare Bettarini as Francesco Fiorino
- Alfredo Robert as Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
- Gino Viotti as Maestro Zingarelli


# The Guillotines
***The Guillotines**\'\' is a 2012 Chinese-Hong Kong wuxia film directed by Andrew Lau, starring Huang Xiaoming, Ethan Juan, Shawn Yue, Li Yuchun and Jing Boran. It is a remake of the 1975 Shaw Brothers film***Flying Guillotine**\'\'.
During the Manchu-ruled Qing Dynasty, the Yongzheng Emperor established a secret assassination squad known as the \'Guillotines\' to eliminate all who posed a threat to him. Once heavily favored by the emperor, the Guillotines are deemed expendable once the Qianlong Emperor ascends to the throne and adopts Western ideas and technology. To consolidate his power under a new regime, the Qianlong Emperor continues to use the Guillotines to persecute the conquered Han Chinese in a reign of terror and oppression. The current guillotine squad is led by master fighter Leng and it consists of six young warriors: Musen, Houjia Shisan, Chen Tai, Hutu, Su and Buka. Serving the Qing court unquestioningly, they have never failed in 348 missions to eliminate their targets. However, their most recent mission would make it their last.
The Hans have been oppressed by their Manchurian-ruled government, causing social unrest and internal conflicts. Tian-Lang (Wolf), is the charismatic prophetic Han rebel leader of a group known as the Herders. Wolf was captured alive by Leng and Wolf tells him that Leng is destined to kill him, but not at this place and time. Wolf was scheduled for execution the following day, however, Wolf\'s gang ambushes the execution parade and fends off both the Guillotines and the Green Army; it allowed Wolf to escape, but Bai-Lan (Herders member) was captured. In the chaos of fighting, Wolf takes Musen (the only female member of the Guillotines) hostage in hopes to exchange back Bai-Lan. However, the Guillotines were dispatched to recover both Musen and finish off Wolf.


# The Guillotines
With reports that Wolf has fled to the outer frontiers, the squad tracks the Herders to a remote village outpost, heavily occupied by Han and smallpox-diseased inhabitants. Added to the mission, the Qianlong Emperor (who favors advanced weaponry over antiquated assassins) has sent his most trusted agent, Haidu (secret sworn brother to Leng and right-hand man to the emperor) for the same mission. Unknown to the Guillotines, the emperor wants to absolve his legacy and the Guillotines is a living taint to his rule; they must be erased. Although Leng knew of the emperor\'s intentions and also wanted to help end the Guillotines, the group has become a family to him and he couldn\'t eliminate them. Therefore, Haidu was also sent there to finish a job Leng didn\'t have the heart to do; the definitive moment would help during their exchange.
At the exchange site, the Han and the Herders appeared in a display of unity and force, there to complete the exchange of prisoners when Haidu dispatched his rifle attack squadron on both the Guillotines and the Herders; Bai-Lan was killed in the attack. Shocked at the attack on his own teammates, Leng resisted Haidu in open defiance to the emperor\'s will, making him an enemy target as well; both the Guillotines and Herders survived the attack and escaped to safety. Confused as to what has happened, it was then Leng revealed his real identity to the Guillotines. The team was furious and wanted to know is Leng here to finish them off, however, he told his team to scatter and survive. Unfortunately, the Guillotines wouldn\'t live long.


# The Guillotines
The government had officially decreed the Guillotines as wanted criminals in league with the Herders. Publicly forsaken by their own emperor and given a huge bounty upon their heads, the Guillotines were cruelly killed off one by one. Saddened and enraged, Leng confronted Haidu and called Haidu a \"lap dog,\" infuriating him to shove Leng down a cliff; Leng survived and was nursed back to health by Wolf in a peaceful secluded village. Confused as to why he was saved, Wolf did it out of mercy; to Leng\'s surprise, he found Musen as part of the village. Musen no longer wanted to be a Guillotine (after learning the cruelty the Guillotines had caused to Wolf\'s family) and only lived there as a villager. After talking with Wolf, Leng finally admits he\'s secretly Han Chinese. Leng tells Wolf that it was the former emperor that chose him to be the right-hand man for Qianlong and his Han identity was replaced with a Manchurian one. Although Leng is now on Wolf\'s side, Wolf prophesied that Leng will kill him very soon.
The final battle is near ready. It was anticipated that Haidu would find them with a large attack force to destroy them and the village was evacuated ahead of time; only volunteers chose to remain to defend the village. Unfortunately, the attack force used mainly guns and cannons; the village defenses were useless against the might of ballistics. Musen volunteered to defend the escaping villagers, unfortunately, she was gunned down before she could even use her weapon to stop anyone. Leng sadly found Musen dying and mourned for her passing. Haidu had completely decimated the Han village and finds Leng on a mountain edge with Wolf. Believing his time had come, Wolf asked Leng to relay a message of peace to the emperor and welcomed Leng to end his life. With the death of Wolf by Leng\'s hands, Haidu could now return Leng to the palace with honor.


# The Guillotines
Back at the palace, Wolf\'s head was displayed as proof of the rebellion\'s defeat; both Leng and Haidu received praises from their emperor, believing his golden age shall come. However, Leng uncharacteristically spoke up and told his lord that the reason there is rebellion is because there\'s neither prosperity nor happiness with the public; the emperor\'s vision of a golden age would be hindered. Heeding the emperor, Leng told his lord must make peace and relieve the suffering of the people to sustain his vision. When asked would Leng be there when it arrives, Leng pointed out the emperor wishes to erase the shameful past legacies and that would mean his life as well, since he\'s the last Guillotine. Despite his earlier actions, Haidu immediately tried to stop Leng from choosing death, but Leng remains insistent. With a sad reluctance, the emperor had Leng executed; the epilogue reveals that Qianlong was one of the longest running rulers and held peace between the Manchurian and Han, but there was no historic mention of the Guillotines during his reign.
- Huang Xiaoming as Tianlang (Wolf)
- Ethan Juan as Leng
- Shawn Yue as Haidu
- Li Yuchun as Musen
- Jing Boran as Houjia Shisan
- Wen Zhang as Qianlong Emperor
- Purba Rygal as Chen Tai
- Andrew Lau as Yongzheng Emperor
- Jimmy Wang as Gong E
- Li Meng as Bai Lan
- Gao Tian as Hutu
- Zhou Yiwei as Buka
- Stephy Tang as Bai Lan
- Guan Xiaotong


# Legendary Amazons
***Legendary Amazons*** is a 2011 Chinese film based on the stories of the Yang Clan Generals. The film was directed by Frankie Chan and starred Richie Jen, Cecilia Cheung, Cheng Pei-pei, Liu Xiaoqing and Kathy Chow. The film is based on the same source material as the 1972 Hong Kong film *The 14 Amazons*.
The film is set in early 11th century China during the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song dynasty. The emperor neglects state affairs and indulges in personal pleasures, while the government sinks into corruption and war continues to rage on at the borders of the Song dynasty. The Song dynasty is being invaded by the armies of the rival state of Western Xia.
Yang Zongbao is the last man standing in the Yang clan, a family of generals who have dedicated their lives to defending the Song dynasty from foreign invaders. He apparently dies in battle tragically when the treacherous Imperial Grand Tutor (minister) Pang refuses to send reinforcements to aid him. Yang Zongbao\'s widowed wife, Mu Guiying, leads the other widows of the Yang clan into battle to continue the legacy of their husbands.
- Richie Jen as Yang Zongbao
- Cecilia Cheung as Mu Guiying
- Cheng Pei-pei as She Saihua
- Liu Xiaoqing as Chai Qingyun
- Ge Chunyan as Zhou Yunjing
- Oshima Yukari as Zou Lanxiu
- Li Jing as Geng Jinhua
- Jin Qiaoqiao as Dong Yue\'e
- Yang Zitong as Meng Jinbang
- Kathy Chow as Ma Saiying
- Yu Na as Huyan Chijin
- Chen Zihan as Yang Yanqi
- Liu Dong as Yang Yanying
- Xiao Mingyu as Yang Wenguang
- Zhou Xiaofei as Yang Paifeng
- Wang Ti as Yang Jinhua
- Zhao Qianyu as Little Bean
- Tang Yaolin as Little Sparrow
- Shi Fanxi as Yin Qi
- Wu Ma as Pang Ji
- Lin Wei as Wang Qiang
- Zhong Chao as Liu Fu
- Li Boyu as Jiao Tinggui
- Luo Yingyuan as Meng Huaiyuan
- Han Yu as Meng Liang
- Hu Biao as Jiao Zan
- Ren Xuehai as Fan Zhongyan
- Xiao Rongsheng as Yang Yanzhao
- Xu Xiao as Di Qing
- Feng Ke\'an as Little Bean\'s grandfather
- Jackie Chan filmography


# Nymphomaniac (film)
***Nymphomaniac*** (stylised as ***NYMPH()MANIAC*** onscreen and in advertising) is a 2013 European two-part erotic art film written and directed by Lars von Trier. The film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Jean-Marc Barr, Willem Dafoe and Connie Nielsen. The plot follows Joe (played by Gainsbourg and Martin), a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, who recounts her erotic experiences to a bachelor who helps her recover from an assault. The narrative chronicles Joe\'s promiscuous life from adolescence to adulthood and is split into eight chapters told across two volumes. The film was originally supposed to be only one complete entry, but, because of its length, von Trier made the decision to split the project into two separate films. *Nymphomaniac* was an international co-production of Denmark, Belgium, France, and Germany.
The world premiere of the uncut *Volume I* occurred on 16 February 2014 at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, while the uncut *Volume II* premiered at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. The world premiere of the Director\'s Cut took place in Copenhagen on 10 September 2014. It was nominated for the 2014 Nordic Council Film Prize.
*Nymphomaniac* is the third and final installment in von Trier\'s unofficially titled *Depression Trilogy*, following *Antichrist* and *Melancholia*.
`Narrative acts`
`    `**`Volume I`**
`1. The Compleat Angler`
`2. Jerôme`
`3. Mrs. H`
`4. Delirium`
`5. The Little Organ School`
`    `**`Volume II`**
`6. The Eastern and the Western Church (The Silent Duck)`
`7. The Mirror`
`8. The Gun`


# Nymphomaniac (film)
On a snowy evening, middle-aged bachelor Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård) finds self-diagnosed nymphomaniac Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) beaten up and lying in the alleyway behind his apartment. He takes her back to his home and, over tea, listens intently as Joe recounts the story of her libidinous life. Seligman, a highly educated but cloistered man, connects and analyzes Joe\'s stories with what he has read about. Seligman\'s favourite hobby to read about is fly fishing, which is why he has a fly fishing lure on his wall and this is how their conversation begins. Throughout the story he parallels much of what she has experienced with various methods of the sport.

### Volume I
Inspired by a fly fishing lure on the wall behind her and Seligman\'s love of Izaak Walton\'s book *The Compleat Angler*, Joe opens her story by talking about her precocious sexual fascination during her early childhood. Her father (Christian Slater) is a tree-loving doctor whom she adores while her mother (Connie Nielsen) is, as Joe describes her, a \"cold bitch\". In adolescence, Joe (Stacy Martin) loses her virginity to an arbitrary young man named Jerôme (Shia LaBeouf). This first encounter, which ends with Jerôme casually leaving her to fix his moped, leaves her disappointed, while Seligman observes that the combination of the number of times Jerôme penetrated her, three times vaginally and five times anally, resembles the Fibonacci sequence.
Several years later, Joe engages in a contest with her friend B (Sophie Kennedy Clark) during a train journey; whichever of the two women has sex with the most passengers by the train\'s arrival at the station wins a bag of chocolate sweets. After having sex in the toilet with several of the men she comes across, Joe wins by performing a blowjob on a passenger in a first class car, S (Jens Albinus). S is a married man who resists both her and B\'s advances, but ultimately Joe forces herself on him. Joe tells Seligman her encounter with S is the first of many terrible things she\'s done, but he waves off her accusation.


# Nymphomaniac (film)
### Volume I
Over rugelach and a discussion over the lack of masculinity in men using cake forks to eat pastry, Joe talks about her first experiences with actual love, something she dismisses as \"lust with jealousy added.\" Joe takes on more lovers as she, B, and several friends create a club, \"The Little Flock\", dedicated to liberating themselves from society\'s fixation on love. Joe eventually leaves after all the other members end up developing serious attachments to their conquests. As a young adult, Joe drops out of medical school and finds work as a secretary at a printing company. Her first employer is none other than Jerôme. While sexual intentions are clearly on his mind, she finds herself avoiding his advances and sleeping with other co-workers, frustrating him. When Joe finally realizes she has developed feelings for Jerôme, she writes him a letter. However, she is too late as he has left with his uncle\'s jealous secretary Liz (Felicity Gilbert), who was fully aware of Joe\'s feelings. She is immediately fired by his uncle (Jesper Christensen), the actual owner of the company, for her lack of experience and goes back to indulging her nymphomania, despite a yearning for Jerôme.
On one occasion with one of her lovers, H (Hugo Speer), Joe inadvertently causes conflict that makes him leave his wife for her. The distressed Mrs. H (Uma Thurman) arrives and demonizes both of them in front of her children, though Joe states in the present that this barely affected her. The situation then becomes more awkward as Joe\'s next lover, A (Cyron Melville), arrives at the house and finds himself in the middle of Mrs. H\'s mental breakdown. The family finally leaves, but not before Mrs. H verbally lacerates Joe, slaps her now ex-husband and leaves the apartment wailing.


# Nymphomaniac (film)
### Volume I
A conversation about Edgar Allan Poe and his death from delirium tremens reminds Joe of the last time she saw her father. She is the only one to visit him in the hospital as he dies of cancer. Joe\'s father asks her not to slander her mother, who is afraid of hospitals, for not being by his side, explaining they said their goodbyes. Joe is a firsthand witness as her father deteriorates from a unnamed illness, into fits of violent spasms, paranoid delusions and screams for his wife. To take her mind off her father\'s suffering, the cause of which she remains naive to, Joe has sexual intercourse with several people at the hospital. When he finally dies, Joe becomes sexually aroused, with a drop of vaginal fluid running down her thigh as she stands in front of the body, and becomes numb with depression.
After Seligman explains how he feels Bach perfected polyphony, Joe uses his example to talk about three lovers leading up to her \"cantus firmus.\" The \"bass voice\", F (Nicolas Bro) is a tender but predictable man who puts her sexual needs above his own. The \"second voice\", G (Christian Gade Bjerrum), thrills Joe because of his animalistic control of her in bed. During one of Joe\'s regular walks in the local park, Jerôme finds her after separating from Liz, a coincidence Seligman finds preposterous, and they embrace. As the two engage in authentically passionate sex -- set alongside Joe\'s experiences with F and G -- Joe becomes emotionally distraught when discovering she can no longer \"feel anything\".

### Volume II
Joe becomes annoyed with Seligman, accusing him of overlooking the severity of her lost sexuality to focus on the allegorical before realizing he can\'t relate to her stories. He goes on to confirm his asexuality and virginity, but assures her his \"innocence\" and lack of bias makes him the best man to listen to her story. She becomes inspired to tell him another portion of her life after noticing a Rublev-styled icon of the Virgin Mary and a discussion about the differences between the Eastern Church (\"the church of happiness\") and the Western Church (\"the church of suffering\").


# Nymphomaniac (film)
### Volume II
Joe reminisces about a field trip as a young girl that suggests she had a vision of Valeria Messalina and the Whore of Babylon looking over her as she levitates and spontaneously has her first orgasm, which shocks Seligman as he explains her orgasm is a mockery of the Transfiguration of Jesus on the Mount. Returning to where she left off in her story, Joe falls into a crisis upon losing her ability to achieve sexual pleasure, though she does find a different sort of pleasure in her time with Jerôme. When the two conceive a baby together, Marcel, Jerôme struggles to keep up with her sexual needs and allows her to see other men. This is shown to be detrimental later, as he becomes jealous of her endeavors.
Several years later to no success, Joe\'s sexual endeavors become increasingly adventurous by engaging in a tryst with a pair of African brothers that turns into a botched threesome; the frustration to reclaim her orgasm culminates in visits to K (Jamie Bell), a sadist who violently assaults women seeking his company. The more she visits him, the more neglectful she becomes in her domestic duties. At Christmas, after stopping an unattended Marcel who has wandered out an opened door onto a snowy balcony from coming into any harm, Jerôme forces her to choose between the family and K. She picks the latter and, after receiving an especially brutal beating from K with a cat o\' nine tails that allows her to climax again, takes a path of loneliness away from her one and only possibility of a normal life. Marcel is sent to live in a foster home because Jerôme has no room in his life for him.
To keep the story from ending on an unhappy note, Joe concludes it with the first time K introduced her to \"the Silent Duck\", which leaves Seligman surprised and impressed at K\'s talents.
Looking at the mirror facing Seligman\'s bed, Joe jumps ahead in time. Several years later, Joe has regained pleasure, but her genitalia are left with some irreversible damage due to a lifetime of sexual activity mixed with K\'s brutality. Her habits are known around her new office, prompting the boss to demand she attend sex addiction therapy under the threat of losing her job and any future job she takes.


# Nymphomaniac (film)
### Volume II
When asked why she refused to attend therapy, Joe talks about becoming pregnant after leaving Jerôme and Marcel and demanding her doctor abort the 11-week pregnancy, but he insists she speak to a counselor first. The visit to the psychologist (Caroline Goodall) ends disastrously due to Joe\'s attitude towards the situation. She decides to take matters into her own hands and perform the abortion herself. Using the knowledge she had retained from medical school, Joe aborts the fetus with the use of several household implements and a wire hanger. Back in the present, Joe and Seligman get into a very heated argument regarding Joe\'s actions, abortion rights in general and Seligman\'s potential hypocrisy in supporting them while wanting to know nothing about how the actual procedure is performed.
Joe reluctantly attends the meetings and, after ridding her apartment of almost everything in it, attempts sobriety. During one meeting three weeks later, she sees a reflection of her younger self in the mirror, harshly insults every member of the group, including the therapist, and proclaims pride in her nymphomania before walking out.
Joe tells Seligman she isn\'t sure where to conclude her story as she\'s used every item from around his room to help inspire each \"chapter\". After a suggestion from him, she notices how the stain from a cup of tea she had earlier thrown in anger looks like a Walther PPK, the same kind of gun her favorite literary character James Bond uses, and knows exactly how and where to end things.
Realizing she has no place in \"normal\" society, Joe turns to organized crime and becomes a debt collector, utilizing her extensive knowledge of men, sex, and sadomasochism. She reminisces about a memorable housecall to a man (Jean-Marc Barr) who she initially finds sexually unreadable. She ties him to a chair, strips him and attempts to provoke him with every sexual scenario she can think of. Upon further interrogation, Joe gleans that he is a repressed pedophile. She takes pity on him and fellates him. Joe explains to Seligman how she feels deep compassion for people born with a forbidden sexuality. She strongly identifies with the man\'s loneliness and status as a sexual outcast, and laud him for going through life without acting on his aberrant desires.


# Nymphomaniac (film)
### Volume II
Joe\'s superior, L (Willem Dafoe), recommends that she groom an apprentice and suggests P (Mia Goth), the 15-year-old daughter of criminals. Joe is initially repulsed by the idea, but ends up sympathizing with the girl in question. P is a vulnerable, lonely, emotionally damaged young girl who quickly latches herself onto Joe. The two of them click and form a special connection. Joe opens her heart to P and eventually invites her to move into her home. Over time, Joe and P\'s relationship develops a sexual dimension, leading to romance. As P seems to mature, Joe hesitantly decides to teach her young female lover the ropes of her trade.
During one round of debt collection, Joe notices that they are at a house belonging to Jerôme (now played by Michaël Pas) and, to make sure she is not seen, tells P to perform her first solo job. This proves to be a mistake as Joe eventually discovers P is having an affair with Jerôme. After finding her \"soul tree\" in a failed attempt to leave town, Joe waits for Jerôme and P in the alley between his home and her apartment and pulls a gun she confiscated from P earlier on him. When she pulls the trigger, she forgets to rack the pistol. Jerôme viciously beats Joe and then has sex with P right in front of her, thrusting into P in exactly the same way he once took her virginity. P urinates on her before leaving her as she was at the beginning of the film.
In the present, Seligman suggests how the circumstances of Joe\'s life might have been due to differences in gender representation; all of the stigma, guilt and shame she felt for her actions made her fight back aggressively \"like a man\", ultimately \"forgetting\" to rack the gun because her human worth wouldn\'t allow her to kill someone, even Jerôme. Joe, who has until this moment been playing devil\'s advocate to Seligman\'s assumptions, finally feels at peace, having unburdened her story to someone with she truly considers a friend. She says she is too tired to go on and asks to go to sleep.


# Nymphomaniac (film)
### Volume II
As Joe begins to drift off, Seligman silently returns with his pants off and attempts to have intercourse with her. Joe wakes up and, realizing what Seligman is doing, reaches for and racks the gun. Seligman protests and attempts to justify his behavior, but Joe shoots him, grabs her things, and flees the apartment.
**Main cast**
- Charlotte Gainsbourg as Joe (ages 35--50)
  - Stacy Martin as young Joe (ages 15--31)
- Stellan Skarsgård as Seligman
- Shia LaBeouf as Jerôme Morris
- Christian Slater as Joe\'s father
- Jamie Bell as K
- Uma Thurman as Mrs. H
- Willem Dafoe as L
- Mia Goth as P
- Sophie Kennedy Clark as B
- Connie Nielsen as Katherine (Joe\'s mother)
- Michaël Pas as Older Jerôme
- Jean-Marc Barr as the Debtor Gentleman
- Udo Kier as The Waiter
**Vol. I cast**
- Maja Arsovic as Joe (7 years)
- Sofie Kasten as B (10 years)
- Ananya Berg as Joe (10 years)
- James Northcote as Young Lad 1 on Train
- Charlie G. Hawkins as Young Lad 2 on Train
- Jens Albinus as S
- Felicity Gilbert as Liz (Secretary)
- Jesper Christensen as Jerôme\'s Uncle
- Hugo Speer as Mr. H
- Cyron Melville as Andy (A)
- Saskia Reeves as Nurse
- Nicolas Bro as F
- Christian Gade Bjerrum as G
**Vol. II cast**
- Shanti Roney as Tobias (Interpreter)
- Laura Christensen as Babysitter
- Caroline Goodall as Psychologist
- Kate Ashfield as Therapist
- Tania Carlin as Renée
- Daniela Lebang as Brunelda
- Omar Shargawi as Thug 1
- Marcus Jakovljevic as Thug 2
- Severin von Hoensbroech as Debtor in greenhouse


# Nymphomaniac (film)
### Pre-production
Executive producer and Zentropa co-founder Peter Aalbæk Jensen revealed that the film is to be two parts. \"We are making two films. It is a big operation. I personally hope that we should be ready for Cannes next year. We will shoot both and edit both -- and we want to finish both at the same time.\" He explained there will be two versions of each film: an explicit cut and a softer cut.
LaBeouf got his role in *Nymphomaniac* by sending a tape of himself having intercourse with his girlfriend Karolyn Pho to von Trier. Slater got connected to von Trier via his agent being in Denmark and used makeup under his eyes to make himself look old enough to be Joe\'s father.
LaBeouf said in August 2012, \"The movie is what you think it is. It is Lars von Trier, making a movie about what he\'s making. For instance, there\'s a disclaimer at the top of the script that basically says we\'re doing it for real. Everything that is illegal, we\'ll shoot in blurred images. Other than that, everything is happening. \... Von Trier\'s dangerous. He scares me. And I\'m only going to work now when I\'m terrified.\"

### Filming
Principal photography occurred between 28 August--9 November 2012 in Cologne and Hilden, Germany, and in Ghent, Belgium.
To produce scenes of simulated sex, von Trier used digital compositing to superimpose the genitals of pornographic film actors onto the bodies of the film\'s actors. Producer Louise Vesth explained during the Cannes Film Festival:
We shot the actors pretending to have sex and then had the body doubles, who really did have sex, and in post we will digital impose the two. So above the waist it will be the star and the below the waist it will be the doubles.
Gainsbourg and Martin further revealed that prosthetic vaginas and closed sets were used during filming. Martin stated that her acting experience for the film was enjoyable and, after explaining that the film\'s characters are a reflection of the director himself, referred to the process as an \"honour.\" Martin also stated that shooting the sex scenes was a bit boring due to their technical nature.


# Nymphomaniac (film)
### Filming
The film makes several references to the other films in the trilogy. For example, the scene showing Marcel approaching an open upper floor window references the similar sequence during the beginning of *Antichrist* and even uses the same background music from that aforementioned scene. Furthermore, Joe\'s monologue about loneliness is edited to shots of the universe from *Melancholia*. As a reference to von Trier\'s comments at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, during a scene available in the director\'s cut only, \"Joe says she could understand dictators such as Hitler. Seligman shakes his head in disbelief. After she showed sympathy for racists and pedophiles, it is quite obvious that she also has to sympathize with the biggest mass murderer in history.\" Joe has been referred to as a \"proto-fascist heroine.\"

### Music
A seven-track soundtrack was released digitally by Zentropa on 27 June 2014, containing a mix of classical and modern rock music, along with two sound clips from the prologue of the film.
In early 2013, the first teaser poster was released from the film\'s official website. Shortly thereafter, Zentropa released a promotional photo shoot featuring the film\'s main characters posing in suggestive positions and a list of the film\'s chapters. This was followed by the release of a picture of Trier himself with duct tape covering his mouth, accompanied by a press release explaining the official launch of the film\'s campaign.


# Nymphomaniac (film)
### Music
An incremental marketing campaign was used to promote the film, as brief video segments, each described as an \"appetizer\" by the film\'s production company, were released online leading up to the film\'s release date. Each appetizer represented each of the eight chapters of *Nymphomaniac* and the first one, entitled \"The Compleat Angler\", appeared on 28 June 2013, the last Friday of the month---this pattern would be followed for the monthly release of the subsequent clips. Following \"The Compleat Angler\", \"Jerôme\" featuring Martin and LaBeouf, was released in August; \"Mrs. H\" in September; the predominantly black-and-white \"Delirium\" (containing a voice-over by Skarsgård) was released in October; in November, the appetizer for \"The Little Organ School\" was uploaded to YouTube, but was quickly removed due to its explicit content; \"The Eastern and the Western Church\" was released exclusively for Vimeo on 29 November; in December, the appetizer for \"The Mirror\" was released, again on Vimeo; and on 25 December, leading into the European release of the film, \"The Gun\" was released on the film\'s official website.
In October 2013, a series of posters were released, each depicting the film\'s characters during the moment of orgasm. Along with the appetizers and the character posters, five theatrical posters (three for the complete feature and one for each volume) and an international trailer featuring some of the explicit sexual scenes, were released.
In July 2014, Zentropa revealed the poster for the Director\'s Cut when announcing its premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The poster combined the original teaser with Lars von Trier standing in between the two parentheses.


# Nymphomaniac (film)
### Rating
*Nymphomaniac* initially received an NC-17 from the Motion Picture Association of America in early 2014. The film, however, surrendered the rating and was released without any MPAA rating.
Cast and crew of the film at the right
Von Trier\'s complete five-and-a-half-hour version was released in few territories and only long after the original premiere. Instead, a four-hour version was edited without the director\'s involvement and has been used for the film\'s international release, divided into two volumes -- *Volume I* and *Volume II* -- with ninety minutes removed.
A \"secret\" advance screening of *Volume I* occurred at the Sundance Film Festival on 21 January 2014, at the Egyptian Theater with tickets distributed bearing the film title \"Film X\" amidst rumors the film could either be von Trier\'s film, or Wes Anderson\'s *The Grand Budapest Hotel*. The film\'s UK premiere took place on 22 February 2014. In the United States, the film was also released in two parts, billed as *Nymphomaniac: Volume I* and *Nymphomaniac: Volume II*, but on separate dates: 21 March 2014 and 4 April 2014.
In Australia and New Zealand, the four-hour version of the film was distributed by the Transmission Films company. Released on 20 March 2014, the two volumes were shown back-to-back with an interval.


# Nymphomaniac (film)
### Rating
In February 2014, the uncut *Volume I* was screened at the Berlin Film Festival. In September 2014, the uncut version of *Volume I* and *Volume II* was screened at the Venice Film Festival. The complete Director\'s Cut, including both volumes, was finally released to a general audience in Copenhagen, Denmark, premiering on 10 September 2014, where it was shown with a half-hour intermission at a red carpet gala screening with von Trier present in the audience; at this premiere, during the film\'s restored abortion sequence, where Joe performs an abortion on herself, three male audience members fainted and had to be carried out of the cinema.
On Rotten Tomatoes, *Volume I* achieved a 76% approval rating and an average rating of 6.9/10, based on 202 reviews; the website\'s critical consensus states: \"Darkly funny, fearlessly bold, and thoroughly indulgent, *Nymphomaniac* finds Lars von Trier provoking viewers with customary abandon.\" *Volume II* received a 60% rating with an average of 6.4/10, based on 126 reviews; the consensus states: \"It doesn\'t quite live up to the promise of the first installment, but *Nymphomaniac: Volume II* still benefits from Lars von Trier\'s singular craft and vision, as well as a bravura performance from Charlotte Gainsbourg.\" On Metacritic, the first volume holds a 64/100 rating based on 41 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". The second volume gained a 60/100 rating based on 34 critics, indicating \"mixed or average reviews\".
In the UK, Martin Solibakke of *Mancunion* praised Stacy Martin\'s performance, saying he had \"never felt so sure about an actress\'s future success since I saw Jennifer Lawrence in *Winter\'s Bone* four years ago\". He ended his review with hailing the film, saying \"Lars von Trier ends up hitting the G-spot of avant-garde filmmaking with a movie only he could ever make, and gives the open-minded members of the audience one of the most powerful and sensational experiences ever seen in arts.\"


# Nymphomaniac (film)
### Rating
Michelle Orange of *The Village Voice* called it a \"jigsaw opus, an extended and generally exquisitely crafted riff.\" In *The Australian*, David Stratton said that he \"detested\" some of Trier\'s films, and states that *Nymphomaniac* \"seems designed to be his magnum opus, the film in which he gets to rail against everything he loathes about contemporary life and contemporary cinema.\" The modified version is screening in Australia, officially referred to as the \"international\" version. Stratton further stated on the television review program *At the Movies* that he found the four-hour runtime of the film to be \"daunting\", but praised some of the performances, particularly those of Stacy Martin and Jamie Bell. Stratton\'s co-host Margaret Pomeranz meanwhile, while also praising the boldness of the performances, felt the film\'s unsimulated depictions of sex didn\'t add to the narrative and as such had, \"such an undercurrent of sadism that I was, not repelled, but distanced\". *Thought Catalog* remarked on how the plot failed to be consistent or plausible.
Keith Uhlich of *The A.V. Club* named *Nymphomaniac* the third-best film of 2014.
On the Melbourne community radio station, 3RRR, film criticism program \"Plato\'s Cave\" praised von Trier\'s work on *Nymphomaniac* and presenters, Thomas Caldwell and Josh Nelson, defended the director against accusations of misogyny. Both presenters agreed that actresses who von Trier has worked with, such as Nicole Kidman and Björk, have delivered excellent performances in his films, while Nelson referred to *Antichrist* and *Melancholia*, the first two installments of the *Depression Trilogy*, as \"masterpieces\". Caldwell concludes the review by stating, \"\... if you\'re coming new to him Von Trier, I think this is a real crash course in all his preoccupations.\"


# Nymphomaniac (film)
### Rating
When the complete Director\'s Cut had its general release world premiere in Copenhagen on 10 September 2014, major Danish critics gave it high ratings. In spite of this, the Director\'s Cut sold only 3,494 tickets in Danish cinemas.

### Accolades
`Award ceremony`
`Category`
`Nominee(s)`
`Result`
`67th Bodil Awards`
`Best Danish Film`
`Lars von Trier`
`Best Actress`
`Charlotte Gainsbourg`
`Best Actress`
`Stacy Martin`
`Best Actor`
`Stellan Skarsgård`
`Best Supporting Actress`
`Uma Thurman`
`Best Supporting Actor`
`Jamie Bell`
`27th European Film Awards`
`Best Film`
`Lars von Trier`
`Best Actress`
`Charlotte Gainsbourg`
`Best Actor`
`Stellan Skarsgård`
`Audience Award for Best Film`
`Lars von Trier`
`2015 Gopo Awards`
`Best European Film`
`Lars von Trier`
`2015 Jupiter Awards`
`Best International Actress`
`Uma Thurman`
`2014 Nordic Council`
`Nordic Council Film Prize`
`Lars von Trier`
`2015 Polish Film Awards`
`Best European Film`
`Lars von Trier`
`32nd Robert Awards`
`Best Danish Film`
`Lars von Trier`
`Best Director`
`Lars von Trier`
`Best Original Screenplay`
`Lars von Trier`
`Best Actress`
`Charlotte Gainsbourg`
`Best Actor`
`Stellan Skarsgård`
`Best Supporting Actress`
`Stacy Martin`
`Best Supporting Actress`
`Uma Thurman`
`Best Supporting Actor`
`Jamie Bell`
`Best Cinematography`
`Manuel Alberto Claro`
`Best Costume Design`
`Manon Rasmussen`
`Best Makeup`
`Dennis Knudsen, Morten Jacobsen and Thomas Foldberg`
`Best Visual Effects`
`Peter Hjorth`
`Best Sound Design`
`Kristian Eidnes Andersen`
`Best Editing`
`Molly Malene Stensgaard and Morten Højbjerg`
`Best Production Design`
`Simone Grau Roney`
`Audience Award`
`Louise Vesth and Lars von Trier`


# Nymphomaniac (film)
### Accolades
*Nymphomaniac* was released both together (in a two-disc set) and separately via DVD and Blu-ray in the United States on 8 July 2014. Director\'s Cut was made available in the US on both home media formats on 25 November 2014. In December 2014, the Director\'s Cut was released on Netflix, where the theatrical versions were already streaming.
- List of longest films
- Unsimulated sex in film


# Salon Kitty (film)
***Salon Kitty*** is a 1976 erotic-war-drama film directed by Tinto Brass. The film was coproduced by Italy, France and West Germany. It is based on the novel of the same name by Peter Norden, covering the real life events of the Salon Kitty operation, under which the *Sicherheitsdienst* took over an expensive brothel in Berlin, had the place wire tapped, and replaced all the prostitutes with trained spies, in order to gather information on various members of the Nazi party and foreign dignitaries.
It is considered among the progenitors of Nazisploitation genre.
In the U.S., the film was edited to lighten the political overtones for an easier marketing as a sexploitation film and released under the title *Madam Kitty* with an X rating. Blue Underground Video, for the uncut version, has surrendered the X rating for an unrated DVD and Blu-ray release.
Wallenberg (Helmut Berger), an ambitious Nazi SS commandant, devises a plan to select a special group of female informants in order to plant them as prostitutes in a high class brothel on the eve of World War II in order to collect intelligence on various important members of the Nazi party and foreign dignitaries who frequent the establishment. The selected SS auxiliaries are then group tested with SS men to assess their suitability. The brothel is then purged of its regular girls and Kitty (Ingrid Thulin), the owner and Madam of the brothel, is forced to comply and allows her original girls to be deported as the building gets wiretapped with listening devices and other surveillance equipment, after which the new girls proceed to spy on their illustrious clients. However, when one of the informants named Margherita (Teresa Ann Savoy) discovers that the surveillance project resulted in the execution of her lover, Luftwaffe pilot, Hans Reiter (Bekim Fehmiu), she enlists Kitty to help her take down Wallenberg. Margherita entraps Wallenberg via a recording where he tells her that he has the dirt on all the top Nazi hierarchy and intends to bring them all down. As a consequence, Wallenberg is executed for treason.


# Salon Kitty (film)
The film also includes a large number of uncredited actors.
*Salon Kitty* was filmed mostly at Dear Studios in Rome, with some additional location filming in Germany. Production designer Ken Adam had recently suffered a nervous breakdown while working on *Barry Lyndon*, and he described his participation in this film as creatively regenerative. He has stated that the production was enjoyable, and that he feels *Salon Kitty* is \"underrated.\" Adam based his design of Wallenberg\'s apartment on his own memories of his family\'s apartment in World War II-era Berlin. Wallenberg\'s enormous office, though a set, allegedly features a real marble floor, as it was cheaper to use real marble than create a mock-up version.
Costumes and uniforms for the film were designed by Ugo Pericoli and Jost Jacob, and were constructed by Tirelli Costumi of Rome. Adam credited Jacob with the design of the \'kinky\' uniforms that Wallenberg wears throughout the film.
*Salon Kitty* was released in Italy on March 2, 1976.
In a review at the time of the UK release, the *Monthly Film Bulletin* found the film to contain \"a script that does nothing more than pile up the perversions as fast as possible (the characterisation hardly rises above the stock Nazi heavy while the motivation is consistently, and laughably, crude)\" and hoped that \"Italian directors will soon examine their recent track record of the atrocities of Nazi Germany (*The Damned*, *The Night Porter*, and now *Salon Kitty*) and abandon the subject for a long while to come.\"
- List of Italian films of 1976


# The Lion Roars
***The Lion Roars*** is a 2002 Hong Kong comedy film produced and directed by Joe Ma. The film starred Louis Koo and Cecilia Cheung
During the Soong Dynasty, a beautiful woman named Moth Liu is searching for a husband, but is unable to find one until she hears the avant-garde poetry of Seasonal Chan. Soon the two are married and Chan discovers that his new bride is violently temperamental and insanely jealous, who limits his activities and lifestyle. When a princess falls in love with the poet and the Emperor decrees that Chan must take the princess in as a second-wife. The love between Liu and Chan is put to the test.
- Louis Koo as Seasonal Chan
- Cecilia Cheung as Moth Liu
- Benz Hui as So Tung-po
- Wyman Wong as Super Double Baldes Liu
- Fan Bingbing as Princess Ping\'an
- Raymond Wong Ho-yin as Long
- Mou Jian as Emperor
- Emotion Cheung as Wong Choy
- Joe Lee as Yau


# Swarg Jaisaa Ghar
***Swarg Jaisaa Ghar*** is a 1991 family based film directed by Swaroop Kumar and produced by Mehmood Nazir.
- Raj Babbar
- Aasif Sheikh
- Sumeet Saigal as Kiran
- Sonu Walia
- Sonam as Devaki
- Anita Raj
- Sadashiv Amrapurkar as Sharmaji
- Gulshan Grover as Raka
- Navin Nischol as Diwan Dinanath
- Rakesh Bedi as Dulare
- Shiva Rindani as Chaman
Lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri and music by Bappi Lahiri.
1.  \"Deewana Hoon Main\" - Alka Yagnik, Kumar Sanu
2.  \"Aao Khele Sanam Sanam\" - Mohammad Aziz, Anuradha Paudwal
3.  \"Dil Bechoge Haan Lelo Jee\" - Kumar Sanu, Sadhna Sargam
4.  \"Jai Ganesh Jai Ganesh\" - Mohammed Aziz, Suresh Wadkar, Sapna Mukherjee
5.  \"Kitna Pyara Hai (version 1)\" - Mohammad Aziz, Sapna Mukherjee, Sudesh Bhosle
6.  \"Kitna Pyara Hai (version 2)\" - Mohammed Aziz
7.  \"Jalta Hai Badan\" - Kavita Krishnamurthy
8.  \"Zara Dekho Sajan\" - Shabbir Kumar, Sapna Mukherjee
9.  \"Swarg Jaisa Ghar\" - Bappi Lahiri
10. \"Madhuhan (version 1)\" - Bappi Lahiri
11. \"Madhuhan (version 2)\" - Bappi Lahiri
12. \"Madhuhan (version 3)\" - Bappi Lahiri


# The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
***The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones*** is a 2013 urban fantasy film based on the first book of *The Mortal Instruments* series by Cassandra Clare. It was directed by Harald Zwart, with a script written by Jessica Postigo. The film stars Lily Collins as Clary Fray, a teenager from New York City who meets a group of Nephilim known as the Shadowhunters while also discovering her own heritage and her family history. The cast also include Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan, Kevin Zegers, Lena Headey, Kevin Durand, Aidan Turner, Jemima West, Godfrey Gao, C. C. H. Pounder, Jared Harris, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
The film\'s development began when Constantin Film optioned the film rights to the book series. Casting announcements started in 2010, with Collins being the first actress attached to the project. Principal photography took place in Ontario between August and November 2012. It is an international co-production between Germany and Canada.
*The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones* premiered in Los Angeles on August 12, and was released in August 21, 2013 by Entertainment One in Canada and by Constantin Film in Germany. It was released in the United States on the same day by Screen Gems. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed \$95.3 million worldwide against a production budget of \$60 million, failing to break even.


# The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
The film was originally intended to launch a film series and to continue with a sequel based on the second book, *City of Ashes*, that was in development with Sigourney Weaver set to join the cast. However, it was postponed indefinitely and ultimately cancelled due to the film\'s poor performance. A reboot television series, titled *Shadowhunters*, premiered in 2016 on Freeform and ran for three seasons.
New York City teenager Clary Fray begins seeing and drawing a strange symbol, worrying her mother Jocelyn Fray and family friend, Luke Garroway. At a crowded nightclub with friend, Simon Lewis, only Clary can see Jace Wayland and his accomplices killing a man. The next day, two men, Emil Pangborn and Samuel Blackwell, arrive at the Fray apartment searching for a cup. Jocelyn calls Clary, frantically telling her to stay away and to warn Luke about someone named Valentine; she then drinks a potion putting her in a deep sleep. Returning home, Clary finds her mother missing and is attacked by a dog-like creature. Jace, a \"Shadowhunter\", appears and kills it, explaining that it, like the \"man\" killed at the nightclub, was a demon in another form.


# The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
With help from the Frays\' neighbor, Madame Dorothea, a witch, Jace deduces that Pangborn and Blackwell seek a lost artifact called the Mortal Cup. Jace and Clary, along with Simon, go to Luke\'s antique store. Pangborn and Blackwell are forcibly interrogating Luke who, to protect Clary and Jocelyn, falsely claims he cares nothing about the Frays and only wants the Mortal Cup. The trio escapes to the Shadowhunter Institute, a hidden cathedral-like building, where Jace treats Clary, who was stung by the demon. She and Simon meet two other Shadowhunters, siblings Alec and Isabelle Lightwood, and Shadowhunter leader, Hodge. Clary learns that Shadowhunters, invisible to mortals, are half-human, half-angel demon slayers. Clary has inherited her Shadowhunter mother\'s powers, including drawing temporary magical runes on the skin. The Mortal Cup is one of three Mortal Instruments given to the first Shadowhunter by the Angel Raziel. Shadowhunters are either descended from other Shadowhunters or made by drinking from the cup. Hodge explains that Valentine Morgenstern, an ex-Shadowhunter who betrayed the order, now seeks the Cup to control both Shadowhunters and demons.
Hodge instructs Jace to take Clary to the City of Bones, a sanctuary beneath a cemetery. When the Silent Brothers attempt to unlock Clary\'s blocked memories, they uncover a connection to Magnus Bane, the High Warlock of Brooklyn. At Bane\'s club, he tells Clary that Jocelyn had him block knowledge of the Shadowhunter world from Clary\'s mind. When Vampires kidnap Simon, Jace, Alec, Isabelle, and Clary trail them to their hideout. They find Simon, but vampires outnumber them. Werewolves intervene and save them.
As Simon recovers at the Institute, Clary notices two puncture marks on his shoulder, while he discovers he suddenly no longer needs eyeglasses. Clary shares a romantic evening with Jace, ending in a kiss. When Simon jealously confronts Clary about it, she downplays the incident, angering Jace. Simon confesses he loves Clary, though she does not reciprocate his feelings.


# The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Clary realizes the Mortal Cup is hidden inside one of Madame Dorothea\'s tarot cards that her mother painted as a gift. The group goes to Dorothea\'s apartment, but a demon has replaced her. Simon and Jace kill it, but Alec is lethally stung. Clary retrieves the Mortal Cup card, and they return to the institute. Hodge summons Magnus Bane to heal Alec.
Clary removes the Mortal Cup from the card and gives it to Hodge, who betrays them by summoning Valentine Morgenstern through a portal and giving him the Cup. When Valentine reveals he is Clary\'s father, she refuses to join him. She puts the cup back into the card, then escapes through the portal that transports her to Luke\'s store. Luke, revealed to be the werewolf who helped fight the vampires, confirms that Valentine is her father and says Clary had an older brother named Jonathan, who died as a toddler. Luke and his werewolf pack go to the Institute with Clary to battle Valentine after he summons demons through a roof opening. Simon finds Jocelyn, still unconscious, at the Institute, and he and Isabelle close the roof opening with help from a repentant Hodge.
Clary and Jace fight Valentine, who lies by claiming Jace is his son. Clary tricks Valentine by giving him a replica Mortal Cup, then pushes him into the portal, destroying it. Jocelyn is rescued but remains unresponsive at the hospital. Clary uses her new-found powers to repair the apartment. Jace arrives, confessing he needs her and disbelieves they are siblings and will uncover the truth. Realizing she belongs in the Shadowhunter world, Clary returns to the Institute with Jace.
`Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower`
`Robert Sheehan `
`Kevin Zegers `
`Godfrey Gao`
`Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan,Kevin Zegers and Godfrey Gao promoting the film`
- Lily Collins as Clary
- Jamie Campbell Bower as Jace
- Robert Sheehan as Simon
- Kevin Zegers as Alec
- Lena Headey as Jocelyn
- Kevin Durand as Pangborn
- Aidan Turner as Luke
- Jemima West as Isabelle
- Godfrey Gao as Magnus Bane
- C. C. H. Pounder as Dorothea
- Jared Harris as Hodge
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Valentine


# The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
### Pre-production
Director Harald Zwart at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International promoting the film
While shopping the film prospect around, author Cassandra Clare had difficulty finding a studio interested in making a film with a female in the lead role. Studios asked her to switch the lead to a male character, which she refused.
On December 9, 2010, it was announced that Lily Collins had been cast in the role of Clary Fray.
Alex Pettyfer was originally offered the role of Jace Wayland, but turned it down. Alexander Ludwig, Ed Speleers and Leebo Freeman tested for the role but it went to Jamie Campbell Bower. Xavier Samuel, Nico Tortorella, Max Irons, and Douglas Booth were also in consideration.
The film is a co-production of the Germany company Constantin Film Produktion GmbH and Canadian company Don Carmody Productions and a co-production with Unique Features.
Scott Stewart had initially been attached to direct the film, but he left to produce a television series based on *Legion*. Harald Zwart replaced him shortly after.

### Filming
Principal photography took place between August 20 and November 7, 2012, on location in Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario, and New York City.

## Music
### Soundtrack
*The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)* was released by Republic Records in stores and digital retailers on August 20, 2013. It is headlined by Demi Lovato, Zedd, Colbie Caillat, AFI remixed by LA Riots, and Jessie J among others. The soundtrack is a collaboration between trance DJs Myon & Shane 54 with Seven Lions, as well as a song by Bryan Ellis, produced by Brian West. Some songs, including Lovato\'s \"Heart by Heart\" and Caillat\'s \"When the Darkness Comes\", were recorded specifically for *City of Bones*. Zedd \"scored for a key scene in the film\".
\"Almost Is Never Enough\", performed by Ariana Grande and Nathan Sykes was released as promotional single from the album on August 19, 2013. The album peaked at #32 on the US *Billboard* 200. \"Almost is Never Enough\", performed by Ariana Grande and The Wanted\'s Nathan Sykes, debuted on the *Billboard* Hot 100 at number 84.


# The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
## Music
### Soundtrack
Beth Crowley had also written a song inspired by the movie called \"Warrior\". \"All I Need\" by Radiohead was the song used in the trailer for the film.

### Score
The official score was composed by Atli Örvarsson, and was released on August 20, 2013 for physical purchase and digital download.
A teaser trailer was released in November 2012, and a second trailer was released March 2013. The film was originally due for release on August 23, 2013, but was pushed back two days earlier, on August 21, 2013. The film secured broad European distribution deals at Cannes.
The film premiered on August 12, 2013, at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood.

### Marketing
According to the *Los Angeles Times*, \$60 million was spent on marketing. Kulzer, Constantin\'s co-president, stated \"\$60 million has been spent worldwide on prints and advertising....\" and went on to explain the importance of managing expectations.

### Home media
*The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones* was released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 3, 2013, by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

### Critical response
Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 14% based on 125 reviews and a rating average of 3.93/10. The site commented that \"*The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones* borrows ingredients from seemingly every fantasy franchise of the last 30 years---but can\'t seem to figure out what to do with them.\" At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100, the film has a score of 33% based on reviews from 35 critics, indicating \"generally unfavorable reviews.\"


# The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
## Music
### Critical response
*The Telegraph*\'s Robbie Collin gave the film one out of five stars, saying, \"This gothic teen fantasy is one of the most disastrous page-to-screen adaptations in memory\". Collin added \"the plot is an incomprehensible tangle of dead ends and recaps, and afterwards you realise only two things have stuck: the story\'s countless unsubtle borrowings from very recent pop culture\... and a brief aside in which we learn one of the earliest demon-hunters was Johann Sebastian Bach.\" Michael Rechtshaffen from *The Hollywood Reporter* also gave it a negative review, saying, \"Certainly not the first and very unlikely the last studio attempt at launching a *Twilight*/*Hunger Games* franchise of their very own, *The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones* is a bona fide saga all right---just not in a good way\" adding \"Despite the overstuffed assortment of vampires, werewolves, warlocks and demons of all shapes and sizes, *The Mortal Instruments* seldom feels like anything more than a shameless, soulless knockoff.\" *New York Daily News* also gave it a negative rating of 1 star out of 5; critic Jordan Hoffman wrote, \"This one is by far the worst of the *Twilight* copies. And when that bunch includes *The Host* and *I Am Number Four*, that\'s saying something.\" Hoffman added, \"Despite an avalanche of back story, the film is merely an excuse to hop from one spookily dressed set to another. Alas, the titular City of Bones is more of a basement. Other than a gag about a cache of weapons beneath every church altar, there\'s hardly a moment of levity or imagination. For a film that is wall-to-wall fantasy, you\'ve seen all of this before, in much better movies.\"


# The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
## Music
### Critical response
Tom Keogh of *The Seattle Times* also gave it a negative review, stating, \"*City of Bones* is so overwhelmed by CGI effects that it amounts to white noise for the eyes. Far worse is the way director Harald Zwart can\'t establish a mature tone to support some of the story\'s genuinely bold and challenging elements, especially a forbidden-love theme that deserves a more serious context\". A more average review came from film critic Stephanie Merry of *The Washington Post*, who said, \"To be fair, there are elements worth celebrating. The film is thankfully less self-serious than the mopey *Twilight* films. *The Mortal Instruments* revels in its own camp.\" She added, \"But there is plenty of room for improvement. The action flick is overly long, complicated and, even by teen romance standards, cringe-worthy in its cheesiness.\"
David Blaustein from ABC News also gave the film an average review of two-and-a-half out of five stars, saying, \"Director Harald Zwart unsuccessfully tries to compress teen angst, love, passion, unfulfilled dreams and action into an overzealous, over-the-top, never-ending finale which seems about as well planned as throwing rocks and sand into a blender in the hope that if you blend it long enough at high-enough speed, you might wind up with a delicious milkshake.\" He then added, \"*The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones* is not a very good film by any stretch of the imagination. However, it does possess a slick, beautiful, young-adult aesthetic and a supernatural, emotional yet nonsensical love triangle that the film\'s target demographic goes crazy for.\"
Venetia Falconer of MTV News gave the film a positive review, with a score of 4 out of 5 stars, posting, \"*The Mortal Instruments* more than lives up to its hype of \'The New Twilight\'. The special effects are impressive, the battle scenes enthralling and there is solid acting from all members of the cast. The film\'s main strength is that it perfectly hits the right balance between drama and comedy.\"


# The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
## Music
### Critical response
Cinema audiences responded more positively than critics. Viewers who saw the film on the opening Wednesday, gave an average grade of B+, according to market research firm CinemaScore. The audience was 68% female and 46% under the age of 21.

### Box office
*City of Bones* grossed \$9.3 million for the three-day weekend in the U.S. and \$18.2 million worldwide, debuting in #3 place as the highest ranked new release, although losing out on the top two spots to holdovers from previous weeks (*Lee Daniels\' The Butler* and *We\'re the Millers*). For the five-day cumulative total, it grossed \$14,088,359 in the U.S. and \$23,188,359 worldwide, placing it below estimates of *Variety* at \$18 million, *The Hollywood Reporter* at \$15 million, and Sony itself who predicted \$15 million. According to *The Wrap*, the film \"failed to connect\" and is on the same course as other misfires *Beautiful Creatures* and *The Host*. *Forbes* also made comparisons with *Beautiful Creatures* and *The Host*, and called the five-day weekend gross \"a full-blown disaster\" as well as \"the biggest bomb of the weekend\".
Executive producer Martin Moszkowicz blamed the weak opening in the United States on \"a strongly competitive environment\", including competition from *You\'re Next* and *The World\'s End*, as well as strong holdovers *The Butler* and *We\'re the Millers*. Moszkowicz was confident, saying it was still too early to call, with the film still rolling out release in more territories worldwide.
As of October 10, 2013, it grossed \$31,165,421 at North American box offices and \$59,400,000 internationally, bringing the worldwide gross to \$90,565,421.
*The Hollywood Reporter* described the film as a \"major in-house flop\" and contributing to studio Constantin\'s losses for the 2013 year.


# The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
## Music
### Awards
*The Mortal Instruments* won four Canadian Screen Awards: Achievement in Make-Up, Achievement in Overall Sound, Achievement in Sound Editing and Achievement in Visual Effects. It was also nominated for Achievement in Costume Design and Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design.
The film was nominated at the 2014 Teen Choice Awards for Choice Movie: Action, Choice Movie: Actor Action, and Choice Movie: Actress Action, but lost to *Divergent* in all categories.

### Canceled sequels
On May 8, 2013, before the film was released, it was announced that a film adaptation of the second book *City of Ashes*, would start production on September 23, 2013 with a 2014 release date. In August 2013, after the film opened below expectations, Kulzer, Constantin\'s co-president, explained that a sequel was still warranted given increasing book sales and soundtrack revenues. Sigourney Weaver was set to join the cast while Lily Collins, Lena Headey, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jemima West, and Jamie Campbell Bower were set to reprise their roles.
On September 10, 2013, *The Hollywood Reporter* claimed that the sequel \"had been pushed in the wake of a lackluster box-office opening\" and *The Wrap* claimed the film had been postponed indefinitely. Moszkowicz responded \"\... Constantin is committed to making the sequel, the company did not want to rush into production with an unfinished screenplay, preferring to take the time to get right\".
Cassandra Clare responded, saying the draft screenplay she saw was \"very far from the book\" and that the original schedule would not have allowed time for changes, and she thought the delay could therefore be a good thing.


# The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
## Music
### Canceled sequels
On October 23, 2013, Moszkowicz told *The Hollywood Reporter* that production on the sequel would resume in 2014, explaining that Constantin was determined to continue the franchise due to the positive response from fans to the adaptation, though noted that the marketing campaign for *City of Bones* was too narrowly focused on teenage fans, proving to be a detriment of Clare\'s older readers. Moszkowicz also admitted that nothing had been finalized nor confirmed, saying \"It is an ongoing discussion that we are having, and it is not done. We haven\'t made a final decision. But we will only move forward---and we plan to move forward---when we feel we are going to get it right\". Moszkowicz later revealed the intention to shoot the film at some time in 2014. On May 20, 2014, Harald Zwart revealed that the studio still had intentions to make the sequel, but explained that he would not direct it, so that he could focus on other projects, although he complimented the first film as \"a good window for him to show off\".
Scott Mendelson of *Forbes* magazine expressed surprise that a sequel was in production: \"*The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones* received neither positive reviews nor box office large enough to justify its production and marketing expenses. Yet, against all odds and arguably against all logic, \... it\'s getting a sequel!\"

### Television series
On October 12, 2014, at Mipcom, Constantin confirmed that *The Mortal Instruments* would return as a television series, abandoning previous plans for a film sequel, with Ed Decter as showrunner to start production for next year on at least two or three international shows. Constantin Film and TV head Martin Moszkowicz told *The Hollywood Reporter* that \"It actually makes sense to do (the novels) as a TV series. There was so much from the book that we had to leave out of the *Mortal Instruments* film. In the series we\'ll be able to go deeper and explore this world in greater detail and depth.\"


# The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
## Music
### Television series
The television series ran for three seasons, from January 2016 to May 2019.
To tie in with the film, Sony Pictures worked with developers PlayFirst to release a game on August 15, 2013. The game, available free for Android and iOS, allows players to hunt demons and supernatural monsters like the Shadowhunters of the story. That includes cross-platform features, allowing users to sign in on Facebook and save their progress across Android and iOS devices.


# Blood Letter
***Thiên mệnh anh hùng*** (天命英雄), known as ***Blood Letter*** and ***Sword of the Assassin*** in English, is a 2012 Vietnamese martial arts action fantasy directed by Victor Vu, produced by Phuong Nam Films and Saiga Films, in association with BHD. One of the most expensive Vietnamese films ever made, *Blood Letter* is considered the first film of its kind, Kiem Hiep (Sword fighter Adventures) in Vietnam. It was released theatrically in Vietnam on January 20, 2012 by Megastar Media. The film was going to be the official submission for Vietnam to the 86th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. However, on 19 September 2013, the National Cinema Department announced that the film did not meet the AMPAS criteria for distribution.
Adapted from a popular novel *Bức Huyết Thư* by Bùi Anh Tấn, based on the life of Nguyễn Anh Vũ, a Royal court officer during the era of Emperor Lê Thánh Tông. The film begins with a young boy arriving at the shore of a remote monastery. The boy grows up under the care and martial arts tutelage of the lone monk who cares for the temple. Twelve years later, Nguyen Vu discovers his true identity, that he is the lone descendant of the nobleman Nguyễn Trãi, who was beheaded, along with the rest of his family, when he was implicated in the death of the King. Two eunuchs from the Royal Court learn the truth and when they try to escape are hunted down. One of the eunuchs writes his testimony in blood before he dies and this Blood Letter disappears. Nguyen Vu then embarks on a quest to find this letter so that he may clear his grandfather\'s name. Along the way he meets two sisters who are also on a quest to carry out vengeance against the Royal Court.
- Huynh Dong as Nguyen Vu
- Midu as Hoa Xuan
- Van Trang as Empress Dowager Tuyên Từ
- Khuong Ngoc as Tran Tuong Quan
- Van Anh as Lê Nghi Dân, Prince of Lạng Sơn
- Minh Thuan as Su Phu
- Jaivee Mai The Hiep as Le Dai Nhan


# Black Magic (1975 film)
***Black Magic*** is a 1975 Hong Kong horror film directed by Ho Meng Hua and starring Ti Lung, Lo Lieh, , Lily Li and Ku Feng. A sequel to the film was released in 1976.
There is an evil magician named Shan Chien-mi. He lives in a forest and anyone who wants to wreak vengeance on their enemy comes here and asks him to kill their enemy. Then, Shan Chien-mi will get a great amount of gold from them as payment. At the same time, Master Fu Yong, a kind magician, notices that Shan Chien-mi is doing something immoral so he plans to destroy the evil magician.
Xu Nuo and his fiancée Chu-ying are deeply in love with each other and finally decide to get married. However, on the wedding day, Xu Nuo breaks up with his fiancée unexpectedly and starts a new relationship with a rich widow named Luo Yin.
In fact, Luo Yin has always been attracted to Xu Nuo so she asks Shan Chien-mi to use the Tame Head of Love to make Xu Nuo unconsciously fall in love with her. Luo Yin\'s goal is attained, but she is still not satisfied. She wants Xu Nuo's former fiancée to die. Shan Chien-mi uses the Tame Head of Death to make Chu-ying suffer from an incurable disease.
Fortunately, a friend of Chu-ying's asks Master Fu Yong for help. The magician successfully saves Chu-ying.
Master Fu Yong finds Xu Nuo in the widow\'s house and breaks the Tame Head of Love. After that, he fights with Shan Chien-mi and finally kills him and the widow.


# Black Magic (1975 film)
- Ti Lung as Xu Nuo
- Lo Lieh as Liang Chia-chieh
- as Mrs. Zhou / Luo Yin
- Lily Li as Wang Chu-ying
- Ku Feng as Shan Chien-mi
- Ku Wen-chung as Master Fu Yong
- Lee Sau-kei as Uncle Feng
- Elliot Ngok as Mr. Wang
- Chen Ping as Mrs. Wang
- Lam Wai-tiu as Wei Te-chin
- Lam Fung as Nuo\'s colleague
- Norman Chu as Nuo\'s colleague
- Ng Hong-sang as Nuo\'s colleague
- Helen Ko as Shan\'s patron #1
- Shum Shuk-yee as Mistress cured by Shan\'s patron #1
- Ofelia Yau as Bridesmaid
- Lam Siu as Doctor
- Koo Chim-hung as Doctor
- Chin Chun as Party guest
- Fung King-man as Wedding guest
- Tam Ying as Wedding guest
- Cheung Siu-lun as Party guest


# King Cat
***King Cat*** is a 1967 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Hsu Tseng Hung and produced by Shaw Brothers Studio. The story is loosely based on the 19th-century Chinese novel *The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants*. The title refers to a nickname of the protagonist Zhan Zhao (the nickname can also be translated as \"Imperial Cat\").
During the Song dynasty, after the upright prefect Bao Zheng executed Pang Yu for embezzlement, the grand tutor Pang Ji sent assassins to avenge his son\'s death. A chivalrous man, Zhan Zhao the \"Southern Hero\", saved Bao and was conferred the title \"King Cat\" by the emperor. This title invoked the jealousy and anger of Bai Yutang the \"Brocade-Coated Rat\" --- as rats were considered cat food --- who went to the capital Kaifeng (also known as Bianjing) to challenge Zhan. He was later joined by his 3 elder sworn brothers --- Han Zhang the \"Earth-Piercing Rat\", Xu Qing the \"Mountain-Boring Rat\" and Jiang Ping the \"River-Overturning Rat\", and together they stole a treasure from the imperial palace, knowing that Bao would send Zhan to retrieve it.


# King Cat
On their way home, the four brothers were confronted by Bai\'s girlfriend Ding Yuehua the \"Nine-Tailed Phoenix\", who accused them of raping and killing 3 imperial maids whose corpses were discovered right after their theft. Infuriated by her lack of trust, Bai admitted to the crimes, and Ding broke up with him. The real criminal, however, was Hua Chong the \"Flowery Butterfly\", who had been involved with the treacherous grand tutor and his daughter Consort Pang, as well as a few Taoist priests in a plot to overthrow the dynasty. Hua tried to rape Ding, but fled after Zhan stopped him. Ding informed Zhan of Bai\'s guilt, so Zhan went to the island occupied by Lu Fang the \"Sky-Penetrating Rat\" and his four sworn brothers to arrest Bai, but was trapped under a fish pond. Ding Yuehua and his two brothers Ding Zhaolan and Ding Zhaohui arrived later looking for Zhan, and Zhan escaped from the trap. Finally Zhan discovered that Bai was not the rapist, and Jiang remembered overhearing a plot by Hua to rape Princess Yong\'an during her visit to a monastery.
The heroes and gallants arrived in the monastery to rescue the princess, only to discover it was filled with rebellious priests. Helped by an army led by Bao, they eventually subdued the rebels and killed Hua. The \"Five Rats\" returned the treasure, and Zhan became romantically involved with Ding Yuehua.
- Chang Yi as Zhan Zhao
- Chiao Chuang as Bai Yutang
- Pat Ting Hung as Ding Yuehua
- Ching Li as Jinhua
- Ching Miao as Bao Zheng
- Chin Feng as Emperor Renzong of Song
- Carrie Ku Mei as Princess Yong\'an
- Ku Wen-chung as Han Zhang
- Huang Tsung Hsing as Xu Qing
- Paul Wei Ping-ao as Jiang Ping
- Yang Chih-ching as Lu Fang
- Fang Mian as Gongsun Ce
- Cliff Lok as Bao Xing
- Lo Lieh as Hua Chong
- Helen Ma Hoi-lun as Consort Pang
- Tin Sam as Imperial Tutor Pang
- Fan Dan as Pang Yu
- Cheng Lei as Ding Zhaohui
- Chao Hsiung as Ding Zhaolan
- Wu Ma as Little Sun


# The Fortress (1979 film)
***The Fortress*** () is a 1979 Hungarian science fiction film directed by Miklós Szinetár. It was entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival.
- Bella Tanay as Edit Nicharchos
- Sándor Oszter as Gregor
- József Madaras as Murketa
- Ádám Rajhona as Sorensen
- Ferenc Bács as Dobrowski
- Gyula Benkő as Bondy Sr.
- Péter Benkő as Bondy Jr. (as Péter Benkő)
- Georgiana Tarjan as Éva (as Györgyi Tarján)
- Nóra Németh as Jane
- Judit Hernádi as Klotild
- Péter Haumann as Steko
- Endre Harkányi as Steiner
- Péter Trokán as Public Prosecutor