这部传记电影的一开场,主人公安迪·考夫曼(金·凯瑞 Jim Carrey 饰)却向观众开了一个谢幕的玩笑。安迪自幼喜爱表演,成年后顺理成章成为饭店驻场演员,但事业并不顺利,一次他模仿猫王的表演引起好莱坞经纪人乔治注意,后者将他引荐到电视界。上镜前安迪从东方修行课上得到幽默的秘诀:沉默。安迪凭独特的表演风格得到观众青睐,进入了他颇为鄙视的情景喜剧领域。他创造出了一个不存在的人物托尼·克里夫,然后借克里夫的身份实现他和搭档的疯狂点子,和女人们进行的摔跤比赛更把他的疯狂推向了巅峰,安迪不断的戏弄、激怒观众,直至他患上癌症却没人相信,但安迪不在乎,因为生活本身就是一场无止尽的玩笑……
本片获2000年柏林国际电影节最佳导演银熊奖,金球奖最佳男演员奖。
A moving and timely documentary following the unsolved murder of Venus Xtravaganza, star of the legendary Paris Is Burning as Venus’ two families — biological and ballroom — come together to seek answers and celebrate her legacy.
Set in a geriatric extended care wing of a down-at-the-heels hospital, Getting On follows put-upon nurses, anxious doctors and administrators as they struggle with the darkly comic, brutally honest and quietly compassionate realities of caring for the elderly.
本片深入挖掘了一系列难以解释的古代奥秘,试图为人们揭示真相。人们耳熟能详的圣经故事“巴别塔”可能来源于古老的巴比伦建筑吗?埃及十大灾难是不是由一场灾难性的火山爆发引起的? 一个由考古学家和专家组成的团队他们将充分利用法医研究、DNA分析、无人机技术和研究者固有的灵感来寻求答案。
Episodes include…
1.Jonah and the Whale(约拿与鲸鱼)
2.Egypt's Lost Princess(被遗弃的埃及公主)
3.The Viking Tomb Mystery(维京墓穴之谜)
4.The Pharoah in the Suburbs(郊区的法老)
5.The Mystery of King Solomon's Mines(所罗门王的神秘矿井)
6.The Animals of Egypt's Underworld(埃及地下的动物)
Episode 1 - Ark of the Covenant
The hunt for the truth about the most famous lost treasure of them all. Did the Ark of the Covenant really exist? What it did look like? What was the power that it was said to hold? And what happened to it? Where is it now?
Episode 2 - Bust of Nefertiti
The extraordinary story behind one of the most famous images from the ancient world. Who was Queen Nefertiti? Who made the blue-crowned bust which turned her into a modern icon? Could the Nefertiti bust be a fake?
Episode 3 - Great Pyramid
Armed with a four and a half thousand year old diary, and a radical new approach. Engineer Peter James and leading archaeologist Mark Lehner set out to solve Ancient Egypt’s greatest mystery. How was the Great Pyramid built?
Episode 4 - Easter Island Heads
Unlocking the mysteries of the most recognizable statues on earth. How were the thousand giant stone heads of Easter Island made, and why? Why did the Islanders topple all of them, except one?
Episode 5 - Blackbeard's Ship
Off the coast of North Carolina, nautical archaeologists, historians and scientists study the artifacts of a 300 year old shipwreck. Positively identified as Blackbeard’s flagship, our investigators set about to uncover what the ship’s remains can tell us about history’s most notorious pirate.
Episode 6 - Spear of Destiny
In a search that spans four countries and 20 centuries, we investigate the legend of the Spear of Destiny. First mentioned in the New Testament, the spear is said to have pierced the side of Jesus. Believed to have special powers, kings and conquerors from Charlemagne to Hitler tried to possess it.