The Rat Race (1960)
CAUGHT...in the wild, frantic, furious...rat race!
ジャンル : コメディ, ドラマ, ロマンス
上映時間 : 1時間 45分
演出 : Robert Mulligan
脚本 : Garson Kanin
シノプシス
An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.
Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from different perspectives.
1909年、人種差別が色濃く残るジョージア州。幼くして出産経験がある少女セリーにとって心の支えは、美人で頭がいい妹ネティだった。そんなセリーは“ミスター”と呼ばれる男性に嫁ぐことに。奴隷も同然の毎日を過ごす中、家出をしたネティがセリーの家に訪ねてくるが、ミスターは彼女を追い払ってしまう。やがてミスターは昔の恋人で歌手のシャグを家に住まわせるように。セリーはシャグとの出会いを機に自立を意識しだす。
A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.
18-year-old school boy Helmut falls in love with fellow pupil Britta. He starts working for a Peace movement to get to know Britta. Britta, however, suddenly moves to San Francisco to live with her father and whilst there, finds a new boyfriend. Helmut studies, literature and politics in his home town and have a relationship with another girl from his former school, now studying medicine at the same university but they break up after having an affair with her roommate. Helmut begins a lot of short affairs with different women but still searches for his first girl.
大人たちが夏のバカンスに出て留守の家に5人の若者--女子大生ヴェロニク、画家キリロフ、経済学者アンリ、元売春婦イヴォンヌ、俳優ギョーム--が集い、ディスカッションを繰り広げ、それぞれ熱烈なマオイストとなる。そして、思想を行動に移そうと、反動的な文化相の暗殺を企てるが……。
NYのJFK空港。航空機で東欧の小国クラコウジアからやって来た男性ビクターだが、祖国でクーデターが発生し、パスポートが無効になってしまう。しかたなくビクターは入国許可が下りるまで、空港の構内で暮らすことに。英語ができないビクターだったが独学で英語を学び、空港内で仕事を見つけることにも成功。また、偶然知り合ったフライトアテンダントのアメリアと親しくなる。
Lukas, a young schizophrenic man, has to deal with a new town, a new relationship, and the paranoia in his head.
Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of music and race - a forecast of what he called "the death of jazz." A landmark moment in black film, foreseeing the civil unrest of subsequent decades, it also features the only known footage of visionary pianist Sun Ra from his beloved Chicago period. Featured are ample images of tenor saxophonist John Gilmore and the rest of Ra's Arkestra in Windy City nightclubs, all shot in glorious black & white.
In this short film, prominent jazz musicians of the 1940s gather for a rare filming of a jam session. This highly stylized chronicle features tenor sax legend Lester Young.
頑固で気難しい75歳のパン職人ロッキーは、孤児となった幼い孫のマイケルを引き取り育てた。立派に成人してからも生き方に口を出す祖父に反発するマイケル……。衝突しながらも分かり合う、家族の絆を描いた感動のドラマ。
With this project Pat Metheny has created a whole new way to make music. Based on a childhood fascination with his grandfather's player piano, Metheny commissioned new inventors to build an exciting array of acoustic mechanical musical instruments capable of responding to his touch on the guitar, resulting in a completely unique approach to solo performance.
A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.
会社を経営するリチャード(ピアース・ブロスナン)は、ある企業の誘いで会社をバイアウトしていたが、定年を迎える日にそれが詐欺だったことが判明。会社は倒産に見舞われ、退職金や年金も手にできないことに。一文無しになったリチャードは元妻ケイト(エマ・トンプソン)と共に、悪徳企業の存在を突き止め、お金を取り戻そうとするが……。
Will is a 30-something website manager who uses local café, Coffee Town, as his office. When the owners of the shop discuss plans to convert Coffee Town into a bar, Will enlists the help of his two best friends Chad and Gino to save his freeloading existence. In order to thwart the plans of Coffee Town's owners, the trio stages a robbery to create the illusion of an unsafe neighborhood not suitable for the proposed venue. Also standing in their way is Sam, a disgruntled barista with delusions of grandeur and Will's heartache over unrequited love for Becca.
Jonah is proud to be the loner at the teenage mental health clinic, taking pleasure in making the other patients uncomfortable. But when he is forced to share a room with the newly admitted Richard, the boys become locked in a battle of wills.
Rose Marie, aged five or six, sings three numbers, "Heigh Ho, Everybody, Heigh Ho", "Who Wouldn't Be Jealous of You", and "Don't Be Like That". She's animated throughout, acting as well as singing.
Sarah Vaughan features the "Divine One" in her prime, wrapping her sultry voice around jazz standards such as "Lover Man", "Misty" and "I Got Rhythm and soaring on popular showtunes such as "Over The Rainbow" and "Maria". One of the greatest voices of the 20th Century, her renditions of songs by Harold Arlen, Leonard Bernstein, Johnny Burke, the Gershwins and Stephen Sondheim are pure diva magic. These three performances demonstrate why Sarah Vaughan is invariably mentioned in the same breath as Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.
As Jerry Golding scales the heights of show business, he breaks the heart of his father, who'd hoped that Jerry would follow in his footsteps. Sorrowfully, Cantor Golding reads the Kaddish service, indicating that, so far as he is concerned, his son is dead. A tearful reconciliation occurs when Jerry dutifully returns to sing the "Kol Nidre" in his ailing father's absence.
A series of "vampire" style murders on campus has Sarah scared of her own shadow - It doesn't help that her new dorm mate Lilith wears only gothic clothing, is afraid of crosses, avoids daylight and resembles a member of the undead. Sarah becomes convinced that Lilith has something to do with the horrendous murders. When Sarah can't convince others of her outlandish theory...she becomes the next target.
Anil and Swathi live in the same room without invading each other's personal space. Things get interesting when they exchange letters and gradually fall in love.