《黑神锅传奇》The Black Cauldron (Disney Gold Classic Collection) (1985)是迪斯尼经典动画里最另类的一部作品。剧情叙述一位名叫塔兰(Taran)的少年,为了维护家乡和平,而与魔王The Horned King对抗,阻止其利用黑神锅的魔力危害世人。本片也是迪士尼动画第一次利用计算机来辅助拍摄,不过只有短短几个画面而已。
本片在某些地区上映时采用另一片名“Taran and the Magic Cauldron”,而且片中有一些迪士尼动画里少见的血腥画面,与以往迪士尼动画风格似乎有些不同,因此本片被定位为只针对青少年观众,迥异于其他适合阖家观赏的迪士尼电影。本片也是迪士尼动画第一次藉由电脑来辅助拍摄,不过只有短短几个画面而已,到了隔年的《妙妙探》,迪士尼才第一次用电脑制作出一个独立的场景。本片是迪士尼经典动画里最另类的一部作品,因为走的不是传统家庭路线,故迪士尼对本片是否要推出录影带一直心存观望,况且还有一些版权等的争议…不过经过内部几番沟通后,本片终于在1997年底首度在英国发行录影带,但是心细的影迷立刻发现有几幕被删掉了!为此还向迪士尼提出抗议…至于美国则在1998年首度发行录影带,发行的则是当初完整的版本。
Fleeing from their violent father, siblings Lucía and Adrián take refuge in a remote mansion. With the help of a hidden micro-camera on a cat, Lucía uncovers a terrifying secret: their neighbors are part of a criminal network that kidnaps teenage girls to make snuff films, and they intend to get rid of the siblings. As Lucía fights to protect her brother, she must face a dark family curse that follows them into their newfound sanctuary.
In 2013, an Australian man a few months shy of turning 60 decided to walk the Camino de Santiago – an 800km pilgrimage trail across the top of Spain. He had no known religion, and absolutely no idea why he felt so deeply compelled to do this torturous walk. But compelled, he was. He completed the walk, battling a “triumvirate of pain” - a knee that he later discovered lacked an...
Calvin Trask lives in a dead end Arctic town on the fringes of society, until mysterious stranger Lucas Wade arrives, turning his solitary life upside down. Calvin's curiosity gets the better of him and is quickly pulled into Lucas' dangerous world. As secrets slowly unravel, Calvin realises just what kind of jeopardy he's put himself in, a place where murder and betrayal are a...
In 2013, an Australian man a few months shy of turning 60 decided to walk the Camino de Santiago – an 800km pilgrimage trail across the top of Spain. He had no known religion, and absolutely no idea why he felt so deeply compelled to do this torturous walk.
But compelled, he was.
He completed the walk, battling a “triumvirate of pain” - a knee that he later discovered lacked any meaningful cartilage, a blister the sight of which would make a grown man weep, and shin-soreness that felt like his lower limb had been split with a mountain axe wielded by a demented troll.
Arriving at the end of the Camino, the majestic cathedral in Santiago de Compostela, he expected an epiphany – an answer to the question he’d been asking himself every day: Why am I doing this?
But no answer came.
So when he got home he wrote a book, hoping the answer would reveal itself in his scribblings. The result was The Way, My Way, a humourous and self-deprecating book that many consider the best memoir ever written on walking the Camino.
The book has now been made into a film, and it’s an extraordinary account of a man at a pivotal point in his life, searching for meaning and finding himself undergoing a fundamental transformation so profound that he now divides his life into “Before the Camino” and “After the Camino.”
It’s a story particular to one man, yet of appeal to anyone seeking a greater meaning from life.