Let Each One Go Where He May (2009)

1841年、ニューヨーク州サラトガのソロモン・ノーサップは自由黒人のヴァイオリニストだった。彼は妻と子供2人と順風満帆な生活を送っていた。ある日、彼は二人組の男たちから金儲けができる周遊公演に参加しないかと誘いを受けた。ある晩、二人組の男たちにノーサップは薬漬けにされ、昏睡したまま奴隷商に売られることとなった。彼は自分は北部の自由黒人だと主張するが、材木商のウィリアム・フォードに購入される。

奴隷のスパルタカスは奴隷商人バタイアタスに買われ、剣闘士となり、剣闘士としての訓練を受けていた。ある日、ローマの偉大な将軍クラサスが訪れ、剣闘士の真剣勝負を要請した。スパルタカスを含め4人の奴隷が選ばれた。スパルタカスと黒人のドラバが戦い、スパルタカスを仕留める寸前にトラバはクラサスに向かって槍を投げつけたためその場で処刑される……。

Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.

２１世紀末、地球人は宇宙への進出を果たす。やがて激しい星間戦争が勃発し、地球人はドラコ星人と一進一退の攻防戦を繰り広げていた。ある日、ドラコ星人の戦闘機を深追いした地球人パイロットのダビッジは、相手を撃墜しながらも未知の惑星に不時着してしまう。その不時着した惑星の環境は想像を絶する厳しさだった。やがて彼は、同じく不時着したドラコ星人のジェリーと遭遇。敵同士として対立する２人だったが、生き延びるためには協力していくしかない。こうして力を合わせてサバイバル生活を共にするうち、２人の間には友情が芽生えていく。

はるか昔、吸血鬼族であるヴァンパイアは狼男族であるライカンを奴隷としていた。その時代には、女処刑人セリーンとうり二つの女性戦士ソーニャの姿があった。彼女はヴァンパイア一族の長老の娘だったが、ライカンのルシアンと道ならぬ恋に落ちる。

19世紀半ば、売りに出されることになった奴隷の女性が、家族に二度と会えなくなると思い、脱走を決意。奴隷制が廃止されたペンシルバニア州を目指すが……。シンシア・エリヴォ主演で実話を映画化した感動作。

The story, set in 1885, follows a British officer (Heath Ledger) who resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers which symbolize cowardice. To redeem his honor he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves the lives of those who branded him a coward.

Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the obese owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an Ethiopian warrior, Draba, Spartacus leads a slave uprising which threatens Rome's status quo. As Spartacus gains sympathy within the Roman Senate, he also makes a powerful enemy in form of Marcus Lucinius Crassus, who makes it a matter of personal honor to crush the rebellion.

Scandinavia, 1,000 AD. For years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.

舞台はマヤ文明の栄える中央アメリカの密林地帯。平穏な生活を営む狩猟民族の集落を、マヤ帝国の傭兵部隊が襲撃する。そして拉致連行された村民たちを待っていたのは、見たことのないような先進的な文明を持つマヤの都だった。そして彼らは、何故自分たちがここに連れてこられたのか、《衝撃の真実》を目の当たりにすることになる･･･！セリフは全編マヤ語を用い、キャストも映画未経験の現地人を採用するなど、徹底的にリアリティを追求。また、今なお謎の多いマヤ文明の都市や風俗、そして想像を絶する残酷な祭祀の一部始終を、徹底した調査を元に造営された巨大な都市のセットと最新のＣＧ技術を駆使し見事に再現。その圧倒的スケールの映像世界は全米の批評家たちにも絶賛され、アカデミー賞、ゴールデン・グローブ賞などで数々のノミネーションを獲得した。そして、縦横無尽にジャングルを駆け巡り繰り広げられる迫真のサバイバル・アクション・シーンは、息をも付かせぬスピード感と臨場感で観る者の心拍数を極限まで上昇させる！

同僚からあるコツを伝授され、電話セールスの成績が一気に上がったカシアス。昇進した彼は、倫理観もへったくれもないぶっ飛んだビジネスに取り込まれていく。

During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island 'Hashima Island' to mine for coal, attempt to escape.

In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history.

地球を飛び立った宇宙船は１年余りの宇宙航行の末、とある惑星に不時着した。乗組員のテイラーたちは沈没してしまった宇宙船をあとにし、その陸地を彷徨い歩くと猿人たちが人間狩りをしている驚愕の光景を目にする。この星では高等動物の猿が、口の聞けない下等動物の人間を支配していたのだ。テイラーたちも捕まり、奴隷のように理不尽な扱いを受ける。しかし、テイラーはチンパンジーのジーラ博士とコーネリアス博士の理解と協力を得て、同じ人間の女性ノヴァと共に逃亡、新天地を探し求めていく。

1858年、南北戦争前夜のアメリカ南部。鎖につながれ、馬車で運ばれる途中だった黒人奴隷のジャンゴは、賞金稼ぎのシュルツの手によって自由の身となり、お尋ね者たちを追う彼と行動をともにすることに。やがて2人は奴隷市場で互いに生き別れとなったジャンゴの愛妻ブルームヒルダを救出すべく、極悪非道な白人農園領主のキャンディと、彼にかしずく老獪な奴隷頭のスティーヴンのもとへ奴隷商人を装っていざ乗り込むの。

西暦79年の古代都市ポンペイ。奴隷戦士マイロは、富裕層の商人の令嬢カッシアと恋仲になるが、彼女にはすでに婚約者がいた。身分違いの恋に悩んだ彼は、自由を得るために街を去ろうとする。ちょうどその時ベズビオ火山が噴火を始め、マイロは愛する女性を救うために街に舞い戻る。

西暦2029年。土星付近で調査活動中の米空軍宇宙船オベロンには乗組員と遺伝子操作を受けて高い知能を持つ多数の類人猿も実験動物として搭乗していた。宇宙空間で磁気嵐を発見しチンパンジーが操縦するポッドを調査に向かわせるが通信途絶してしまう。宇宙飛行士のレオもポッドで捜索に向かうが嵐に吸い込まれ惑星に不時着する。そこは高い知能を持つ猿が人間を支配しており、レオは捕まってセード将軍に危険人物としてマークされるが人間に好意的なアリの助けで身近な人々と共に町を脱走する。

紀元前1300年。最強の王国として名をはせるエジプトの王家に養子として迎えられて育ったモーゼは、兄弟同然のような固い絆で結ばれていたはずのエジプト王ラムセスとたもとを分かつ。その裏には、苦境に立たされている40万にも及ぶヘブライの人々を救わねばならないというモーゼの信念があった。そして、彼らのための新天地「約束の地」を探し求めることに。過酷な旅を続ける一方で、彼はエジプトを相手にした戦いを余儀なくされていく。

人気作家でもあるヴェロニカは、博士号を持つ社会学者としての顔も持ち、やさしい夫と幼い娘と幸せな毎日を送っていた。しかし、ある日、ニューオーリンズでの講演会を成功させ、友人たちとのディナーを楽しんだ直後、彼女の輝かしい日常は、矛盾をはらんだ悪夢の世界へと反転する。一方、アメリカ南部の広大なプランテーションの綿花畑で過酷な重労働を強いられている女性エデンは、ある悲劇をきっかけに仲間とともに脱走計画を実行するが……。ヴェロニカとエデンの2役をモネイが演じている。

ダイヤの密売人であるダニー・アーチャー（レオナルド・ディカプリオ）は、巨大なピンク・ダイヤを隠し持つソロモン（ジャイモン・フンスー）という男の存在を知る。一方、ジャーナリストのマディー（ジェニファー・コネリ）は、反政府組織“RUF”の資金源となっている“ブラッド・ダイヤモンド”の真相を探っていた……。

“I could do wonders if I didn't have a body. But the body grabs me, it slows me, it enslaves me.” -- Ponce de Léon Our PONCE DE LEÓN discovered the fountain of youth and drank of immortality in the waning moments of his life. In an instant, he became old forever – an 80-year old Spaniard who would continue to walk the earth for century after century after century, watching as coral foundations gave way to mangrove swamps, as swamps were drained and buildings were erected, as buildings decayed and swamps returned. Our PONCE DE LEÓN is an immortal for whom time poses the greatest dilemma – it is a constant, a given, and his personal battle lies in trying to either arrest time entirely or to make the hands on his clock move ever faster. For Ponce de Léon, time is a problem of body, and only by escaping his container can he escape time itself.

The third part in a series of films dealing with naturally-derived psychedelia. Shot during a performance by Rhode Island noise band Lightning Bolt, this film documents the transformation of a rock audience’s collective freak-out into a trance ritual of the highest spiritual order.

"A night sky fills with light shimmers and flecks, surface markings, heavenly bodies. It’s an ocean, a well, a screen, a mirror, a portal. Blackness/void cluttered by growing ephemera. Dark reaches of outer and inner space gradually sifts through shards of granite and diamonds. The mind races as the material becomes greater and more frenetic, reaching a nearly audibly grinding pitch of excitement, flurry, and instantaneous infinity that ebbs at first and then maintains. Flashes of color emerge or are imagined. Chaotic flickering of dancing peasant girls and violently twisting astronaut helmets. Layers of sea slime over undulating life forms. Bonfires and celebration. Explosions, construction. Holocausts. Primordial ooze, modern civilization. Ages and seconds. Floating heads circle kaleidoscopic bursts of shiny beads. Everything everywhere twists, forces through, transforms into, overlaps everything else." - JT Rogstad, The International Exposition (TIE)

Culled from four rolls of Super-8 film shot while the maker was a development worker in a small South American village, Daumë is at its center a film about ritual, power, and play. Daumë is both ethnography and critique; it is an interrogation into how to represent a place that can't be represented.

Using a 35mm strip of motion picture slug featuring the recently deceased American comedian Richard Pryor, this extended Rorschach assault on the eyes moves out of a flickering chaos created by incompatible film gauges into a punchline involving historically incompatible racial stereotypes.

A cheerful take on the lives of school children in a Swiss rural environment. Young pupils recite short essays they have written on subjects such as the long walk to school, the distribution of milk during breaks, and a brawl in the courtyard.

In Titan's Goblet refers to a landscape painting by Thomas Cole circa 1833. The film is intended as a homage to Cole, who is regarded as the father of the Hudson River School of painting.

Short poetic documentary about the southern sea in the Netherlands.

Documentary about men who are fighting one of the elements in the 21st century: mine workers in Germany, king crab fishers of the Bering Sea, Russian "Smokejumpers" and astronaut training.

Six men. The forest. The menace is there somewhere. Armed, ready, looking for action, they wander, day and night, striving for a confrontation.

Hell on Earth is an hour-long documentary presented by Mark Kermode. It's about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils which is one of the most controversial films ever made. Kermode chats to Russell as well as two of the films stars Georgina Hale and Murray Melvin. Also included are scenes that were cut from the released film for being too controversial.

Love is everything with a young man journey's from the north to south of Chile to fulfill a promise. A wistful road trip through the grieving process of a recently bereaved gay young man. Love is everything when a young man journeys from the north to the south of Chile to fulfil a promise. Being the film takes place in Chile and the partner was not only a foreigner (Canadian) and gay it echoes the past history of Chile’s many ‘disappeared’ and how ,as a person or country, one can deal with loss when no one really seems to know or want to admit what happened.

Florence is a contemplative study of light and shadows, textures and planes, that makes beautiful use of the tonal qualities of black and white film. (mubi.com)

Peter Hutton’s meditation on the Hudson River.

A color-separation portrait of the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens, Greece, made during the Anti-Austerity protests in late 2011. In a place thick with stray cats and scooters, cops and Molotovs, ancient myths and new ruins; where fists are raised like so many columns in the Parthenon, this is a film of surfaces - of grafitti'd marble streets and wheat-pasted city walls - hand-processed in red, green, and blue.

An investigation of the emotional and economic value of Africa's most lucrative export: filmed poverty. Deep in the interiors of the Congo, Dutch artist Renzo Martens single-handedly undertakes an epic journey and launches an emancipatory program that helps the poor become aware of what is their primary capital resource: Poverty. After three years of traveling through the Democratic Republic of the Congo he asks the question: "Who owns poverty?

Migration is an analysis of an image, a metaphorical exercise in perception and representation, illusion and reality, microcosm and macrocosm, nature and consciousness.

BOSTON FIRE finds grandeur in smoke rising eloquently from a city blaze. Billowing puffs of darkness blend with fountains of water streaming in from offscreen to orchestrate a play of primal elements. The beautiful texture of the smoke coupled with the isolation from the source of the fire erases the destructive impact of the event. The camera, lost in the immense dark clouds, produces images for meditation removed from the causes or consequences of the scene. The tiny firemen, seen as distant silhouettes, gaze in awe, helpless before nature’s power.

July ’71 is as much a record of the daily experiences of light and shadow as it is a catalogue of domestic life. More involved with “straight photography” than Brakhage, but far more engaged with tactility and the plastics of the image than Jonas Mekas, this early work embraces the mundane—making bread in the kitchen, riding bikes by the San Francisco Bay, hanging out in a cheap-looking flat with friends, plucking a game fowl for supper—while also paying attention to the wind, water, and trees that surround these fleeting moments.

A short treatise on the semiotics of capital, happiness, and phenomenology under the flickering neon of global capitalism.