King Lear (1982)

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

A Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to a pair of crowns.

英国王である父の死後、王位を継承したハル。自由気ままな王子が、宮廷の問題や戦争、混乱の時代を経験しながら、国王としてたくましく成長していく姿を描く。

12世紀末、ロビンは十字軍の兵士としてフランスでの戦闘に加わっていた。ある日、イングランドの騎士ロバートの暗殺現場に居合わせた彼はその遺言を受け、ロバートの父に遺品の剣を届けると約束する。やがてノッティンガムの地を踏んだロビンは、ロバートの身代わり役を頼まれる。

On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister Kat goes out, too. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad boy with a nasty reputation of his own.

これまでにもシャイクスピア作品の映画化を手掛けているケネス・ブラナーが、長年熱望してきた『ハムレット』に挑んだ歴史ドラマ。自ら監督、脚本、主演の３役をこなし、すべてのセリフをカットすることなく４時間を超える長尺で絢爛豪華に描ききる。オフィーリア役は「日蔭のふたり」のケイト・ウィンスレット。デンマーク国王が急死し、国王の弟クローディアスが即位する。しかしある晩、王子ハムレットの前に国王の亡霊が現われ、すべてはクローディアスの陰謀だと告げる。復讐を誓ったハムレットは愛するオフィーリアにさえ心を閉ざしてしまう。

中年男に体を売って生活するマイクは、緊張すると昏睡状態に陥るナルコレプシー病を持つ。一方スコットは良家のボンボンながら、家出をしていた。そんな二人がマイクの母親探しの旅に出る。

In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.

Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides to his friend -- who had hoped to marry Desdemona -- that he serves Othello to further his own ends. Venice needs Othello to protect its commercial interests in Cyprus where the Turkish fleet is headed. Desdemona insists on going to Cyprus, too. In Cyprus, Iago plots to convince Othello that Desdemona has betrayed him with Cassio. A lot more than political ambition seems to be motivating Iago.

シェイクスピア史劇を、ローレンス・オリヴィエの再来ともいわれるケネス・ブラナーが監督・主演で映像化した作品。15世紀前半、百年戦争の最中にあったイギリス・ヘンリー5世の活躍を描く。

16世紀末のロンドン。スランプに陥っていた劇作家シェイクスピアはオーディションにやって来た一人の若者トマス・ケントを追ってとある屋敷へたどり着く。そこには以前、芝居の最中に目を留めた美しい女性ヴァイオラの姿があった。シェイクスピアと彼を信奉するヴァイオラはたちまち恋におちてしまう。燃え上がる恋心が創作意欲をかき立てたのか、シェイクスピアの台本は急ピッチで仕上がって行き、トマス・ケントを主役とした芝居の稽古も順調に進んでいた。ヴォイオラの別れの手紙をトマスから受け取ったシェイクスピアは納得できず再びトマスの後を追うのだが、そこで彼はトマスこそヴァイオラの男装した姿だった事を知るのだった。

シェイクスピアの同名戯曲を「SHAME -シェイム-」「スティーブ・ジョブズ」のマイケル・ファスベンダーと「エディット・ピアフ～愛の讃歌～」「サンドラの週末」のマリオン・コティヤール主演で映画化した歴史ドラマ。監督はオーストラリア出身で、デビュー作「スノータウン」に続いてこれが長編２作目の新鋭、ジャスティン・カーゼル。 　激しい内戦で荒廃したスコットランド。ダンカン王に忠誠を誓うグラミスの領主マクベスは獅子奮迅の活躍で反乱軍を撃退、戦友バンクォーとともに戦場を後にしようとした時、彼の前に３人の魔女が現われ、マクベスがスコットランド王になると予言する。やがてマクベスは、夫の王位獲得に執着する夫人からダンカン王暗殺の計画を吹き込まれる。一度は覚悟を決めるも、やはり罪悪感から決行をためらってしまうマクベスだったが…。

エリザベス1世の統治する16世紀末のロンドン。女王の側近であるセシル卿は、大衆を扇動するとして当時隆盛を誇った演劇に対する弾圧を強めていた。一方、女王の後継問題でセシル卿と対立するオックスフォード伯は、まさにその演劇の力で政敵を失脚させようと考えていた。文才に長けた伯爵は、セシル卿に投獄された気鋭の劇作家ベン・ジョンソンを解放し、自らが記した戯曲をベンの名で上演するよう命じるのだが……。

A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy about lovers whose romantic affections are manipulated by fairy magic. The setting is updated to a Tuscan hill town in the late 19th century.

シェイクスピアの『マクベス』を日本の戦国時代に置き換え様式美に拘り描いた戦国武将の一大悲劇。鷲津武時は謀反を起こした敵を討ち、その帰途の森で出会った老婆から不思議な予言を聞く。やがて予言通り事が運び始めると、欲望に取り憑かれた妻にそそのかされて主を殺し、自ら城主の地位につくのだったが……。

Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City.

The culmination of Orson Welles’s lifelong obsession with Shakespeare’s robustly funny and ultimately tragic antihero, Sir John Falstaff; the often soused friend of King Henry IV’s wayward son Prince Hal. Integrating elements from both Henry IV plays as well as Richard II, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.

マンハッタンのウエスト・サイド。イタリア系の若者からなるジェット団と、プエルトリコ系の若者からなるシャーク団は不良グループ同士、町で顔を合わせればにらみあうという一触即発の関係だ。しかし、ジェット団のリーダー、リフの親友であるトニーは、シャーク団のリーダーであるベルナルドの妹、マリアと出会って、互いに一目惚れしてしまう。やがてリフとベルナルドがけんかした末、ひとりが命を落としてしまう事件がおこる。

日本未利用土地開発公団の副総裁、岩淵の娘佳子と、秘書の西幸一の披露宴が執り行なわれようとしていた。しかし、この西という男、実は5年前、新庁舎の建設に絡む不正入札疑惑で自ら命を絶ち事件の幕引きを図った課長補佐・古谷の一人息子だった……

Two friends walk and draw circles. It is what it is, idizwadidiz, c’est ce que c’est, seskecé. Nice weather.

Ostia is a fascinating short film directed by Julian Cole and produced for the Royal College of Art, which reconstructs the events leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Ostia relocates the proceedings to London and stars Derek Jarman as Pasolini. The film features an evocative dream sequence which is accompanied by poignant excerpts from Pasolini’s own poetry, as read by Jarman.

In this short film of Cowan Court, which was completed by 6a architects in late 2016, Rivers has turned his camera onto the interactions between architecture and landscape within which the students of Churchill College, University of Cambridge live and work.

Dan's ham-fisted attempts to get 'new' mother Mia into bed with hilarious, emotional and musical consequences.

Short film made for the SCI-FI-LONDON 48 hour film challenge 2008 in association with the SciFi Channel.

Years ago, Kevin Jerome Everson asked his aunt where their old family photos had gone. Her answer - ‘they were all lost in the flood’ - sparked this trip to meet the inhabitants of Westport, a small town just to the west of Columbus, Mississippi. They reminisce about the great flood of the Tombigbee River in 1973, when some people lost everything. Many heirlooms and photos of the Eversons were swallowed up, and part of the family history disappeared.

Iskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the information she had access to in the capacity of her position as interpreter and secretary, she frequently fed the KGB secret information.

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

In Kevin Jerome Everson’s deeply affecting Ears, Nose and Throat, a woman’s testimonial faculties are confirmed through medical examinations before she recites a tragic story, whose horrors we don't see, hear, or smell, but can imagine far too easily.

The same day of their marriage, Jean's wife dies of a strange ailment in the middle of surgery. Afflicted by the loss, the young man abandons his medical studies and takes refuge in the memories of his time of courtship. At the same time that this happens, a wave of murders shakes the city with the same pattern of behavior: the victims are surgery students whose bodies have had both hands amputated.

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

The story of the Dassau family, a family of artists: Frau Dassau is a composer, her husband is a writer, and their children are equally gifted as painters, poets and musicians. But unfortunately, no one wants to invest money in their art. The family is about to starve when Nicole comes up with a marvelous idea: She is going to write the "most scandalous book", the sex memoirs of a teenager. For this, she hides under the pseudonym of Eva. The book becomes an enormous success indeed, but Nicole's parents are decent people, and the public interest in their sluttish daughter begins to bother them. Things begin to get even more unpleasant when Nicole falls in love with an American publisher who'd prefer a virgin…

Four nights in Caracas. A documentary essay about chaos and civilization.

A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide and tries to find the actors who worked on the project.

A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" – "State Owned Holdings").

A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and out, the other a lonely but hardworking secretary. Eventually, as cracks form in their passionate relationship, they resort to robbing an aging actress for money.

Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command.

On August 13th, 1961 - the night that the Berlin Wall goes up - three people must make a decision that will change their lives forever.

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.