一部有关宗教巫术的准记录片，年中世界前50名纪录片第39位。简介：年中《女巫们》也叫《历代的巫术》，可以看作是一部有关宗教巫术的准记录片。1919 到1921间丹麦导演创作了这部瑞典与丹麦合拍的超越时代杰作，并在该片中扮演魔鬼一角。这部影片构思新奇、造型技巧高超、画面结构严谨，运用富于表现力的特写镜头和动作感强的蒙太奇均很恰当。但是由于宗教原因，这部电影当时被瑞典和其他欧洲国家列为禁片，直到1929年，经过严格删剪的版本才在美国出现。导演也因为当时Hollywood的纳贤口号而移居美国，但也并未得志，郁郁而终。这部作品的意义不仅在于题材的敏感和手法的前卫，在视觉成就方面，本片无疑更是电影史上的翘楚之一。
回复 :这是一部精美奇妙的旅行片、新闻片和家庭电影合集，带你重回20世纪上半叶的中国。影片中的所有资料均来自英国电影协会国家档案馆，由一大批英法电影制片人，或专业或业余的旅行家，殖民时代的外籍人士以及基督教传教士们共同摄制而成。影片再现了1900年上海繁华时尚的南京路、1929年的大世界游乐场、1937年的上海马赛、1910年的北京前门大街、1925年杭州的运河美景等极具中国特色和时代印记的场景。在这里你可以漫游香港、重庆、广州、昆明等中国各大城市，探秘湖南和云南的偏远乡村。影片中那些具象但一闪而过的画面可能是现存的在中国取景的影片中最为古老的画面了。2015年上海国际电影节，英国著名默片钢琴家约翰•斯威尼还为该片进行现场伴奏。
回复 :New York private detective Duncan "Mac" MacLain is blind but has keenly developed all his other senses. He pursues his work assisted by his faithful guide dog Friday, his butler, Alistair, and his assistant, Marty. Retired actress Norma Lawry, an old friend, comes to Mac seeking advice. Her headstrong 17-year-old step-daughter Barbara, herself a promising actress, is enamored with her leading man in a small theater production, the much older Lothario Paul Gerente. Paul, who had once been Norma's lover, has convinced Barbara that Norma actually wants Paul for herself and has only married her father Stephen for his money. At Mac's urging, Norma tried to reason with Paul, but he insists that he loves Barbara and laughs her off. Barbara is equally disdainful of her and agrees to meet Paul for dinner that night at his apartment.Norma's husband Stephen Lawry is a scientist leaving that night on a trip to test a secret invention on which he has been working for the government and the war effort. Worried about Barbara, she uses a pretext not to accompany Stephen and goes to the apartment. When Barbara arrives, she finds Paul's dead body and thinks that Norma has killed him, even though Norma insists that he was dead when she arrived. Barbara threatens to call the police unless she leaves Stephen. Fearing that a scandal will hurt him, Norma agrees. Norma then turns to Mac, who goes to Paul's apartment with Friday and Marty, only to find the body and the rug under it missing. A man arrives to replace the rug and Mac hides in a closet, overhearing a telephone call to Norma's number from "Gabriel" to "Vera." Mac accidentally gives himself away, but with Friday's help overpowers Gabriel, who refuses to talk. Mac has Marty hide him to keep him under wraps.Norma returns to her country home unexpectedly, which discourages an espionage ring that includes her butler, Hansen, from breaking into Stephen's safe and stealing his plans. They have killed Gerente, who was also an agent, and hidden the body. Mac arrives with Friday at Norma's house and pretends to be her curmudgeonly "Uncle Mac" who has come for a visit. His blindness lulls any suspicions Hansen might have about him. Shortly thereafter, Barbara comes home from an "emergency rehearsal", called to get her out of the house by her director, Cheli Scott, who inveigles an invitation to spend the night at the Lawry home. Unknown to Barbara and Norma, Cheli is the ringleader of the spies. Cheli ordered Paul killed because his affection for Barbara was beginning to limit his effectiveness, and she immediately suspects Mac is not what he seems.Gabriel's wife Vera, the Lawrys' maid, is also a part of the plot. When Gabriel does not return home, Vera becomes hysterical with worry. Mac secretly asks Vera to meet him in the greenhouse, using her worry about Gabriel as a lure. She is observed by the others, however, and is killed by Hansen before she can reach Mac. The spies cut the house's telephone wires so that Mac and Norma cannot call the police, and Cheli has Mac locked up under guard. Using his blindness as a distraction, Mac overpowers his guard and releases Friday out a window with instructions to "go home and get Marty." Stephen arrives home and Cheli threatens his family if he does not give her the final step in creating his invention, which was not in the safe. Barbara finally realizes how much Norma actually cares for her. Mac tries to stall for time, but is locked in the cellar. When Hansen goes to kill him, Mac has broken the light bulb and his advantage of total darkness helps him overcome the spy. Marty and Friday return with the police. When Friday is spotted by a lookout, Mac overpowers him and is saved from being shot by another lookout by Friday. After the spies are captured, Stephen and Norma are off to Washington, D.C., with Barbara remaining behind to care for her new "Uncle Mac."
回复 :100年前的北加利福尼亚的安东尼奥海滩，患有麻风病的富豪布雷克希望在此建立一个小镇，将同样患有麻风病的患者集中起来治疗。然而他的爱心并未得到应有的回报，许多觊觎布雷克财富的贪婪之徒来到这里，伺机杀害了布雷克。100年后，当小镇人民举行百年庆典时，一团神秘雾气降临小镇，布雷克及其随从的冤魂从大海深处归来，所到之处人们尽皆死亡。神父罗伯特（Hal HolbrooK 饰）无意中发现其祖父藏在教堂墙壁中的日记，终于得知曾发生在100年前的惨剧……
