Extraordinary Illusions (1903)
ジャンル : コメディ
上映時間 : 2分
演出 : Georges Méliès
シノプシス
Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.
超一流の詐欺師ニッキーは同業者たちを束ねる集団のボス。ある日、彼は高級ホテルのレストランで女性詐欺師のジェスと出会う。彼女はニッキーを騙そうとするが、逆に彼の詐欺のテクニックに魅了されてしまう。結果、ニッキーの詐欺一味に加わったジェスはめきめきと頭角を現わし、やがて彼の信頼を得るように。だが、最後の大きなヤマに勝った後、ニッキーは姿を消してしまう。数年後、2人は思わぬ形で再会する。
姿をくらましたアトラスら“フォー・ホースメン”のイリュージョニストたちは1年後、再集結する。目的は巨大IT企業、オクタ社が個人情報売買の不正を行なっている事実を暴露すること。しかし、天才エンジニアのウォルターに阻止され、彼らは逃亡を余儀なくされる。ウォルターによってマカオに連れてこられたアトラスたちは、世界中のあらゆるシステムにアクセス可能となるチップの強奪を強要されてしまうが……。
ライバルとして競い合う2人の天才マジシャン、アンジャーとボーデン。ある日、水槽脱出に失敗したアンジャーが溺死し、ボーデンは殺人罪で逮捕されて……。伏線だらけの衝撃サスペンス。
カンザスのサーカス一座のしがない奇術師オズ。ある日彼は竜巻に巻き込まれ、不思議な魔法の国にたどり着く。そこでは邪悪な魔女の圧政に苦しむ領民たちが、いつか偉大な魔法使いのオズが現われると救世主の登場を待ち望んでいて、名前の偶然の一致から、到着したオズのことをすっかり当の救世主と思い込んでしまう。オズは美しい魔女の姉妹、エヴァノラとセオドラに言われるがまま、悪い魔女のグリンダを倒す旅に出かける。
マンハッタンの豪邸に住み、高級車を乗り回し、おまけにハンサム。完璧な人生を謳歌する出版界の若き実力者デヴィッド・エイムス。ジュリーという美しい恋人もいて、何不自由ないはずが、どこか物足りなさを感じていた。そんなある日、デヴィッドは親友の恋人ソフィアに一目惚れしてしまう。しかし、デヴィッドの心変わりを敏感に察したジュリーは、嫉妬に駆られて自ら運転する車でデヴィッドとともに崖に突っ込んでしまう。奇跡的に一命を取りとめたデヴィッドだったが、その顔は怪我のために見るも無惨に変わり果ててしまう。
高校生のピーター・パーカー(トム・ホランド)は夏休みを迎え、親友のネッド(ジェイコブ・バタロン)やMJ(ゼンデイヤ)たちとヨーロッパへ旅行に行く。ところが、ピーターの前にS.H.I.E.L.D.の長官ニック・フューリー(サミュエル・L・ジャクソン)が現れ、彼にある任務を与える。
米軍の海兵隊員ガブリエルは、アフガニスタンでの任務を終えアメリカへと帰還する。しかし、辿り着いた故郷の街は、建物や橋が崩壊し住人たちの姿も消えていた。まるで異世界に迷い込んだかのように、懐かしき面影は失われていた。この街に一体何が起こったのか?ガブリエルは、荒廃した街で妻子の行方を探すが―。シャイア・ラブーフ、ジェイ・コートニー、ケイト・マーラ、ゲイリー・オールドマン他豪華キャストが集結。「裏切りのサーカス」のプロデューサーが放つ、戦争がもたらす傷跡と不条理な世界。衝撃のラスト7分46秒、あなたの心は“えぐられる”。
深夜の公園でカップルを盗み撮りした売れっ子カメラマンのトーマス(デヴィッド・ヘミングス)。そのことに気づいたカップルの女性(ヴァネッサ・レッドグレーヴ)は、彼にネガを出せと迫る。しかし、彼女に別のネガを渡したトーマスが本物を現像してみると、そこに映されていたものは…。
Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.
Jake's Closet takes you back through childhood in a suspenseful and deeply moving story that dives deep into the mind of a little boy under the stress of a fractured family.
Multi award-winning psychological illusionist Derren Brown returns in the recording of his acclaimed live show ‘Infamous’. Featuring Derren at his baffling best with the excitement of a live theatre audience, Infamous includes amazing, provocative, jaw dropping demonstrations of his incredible skills of magic, suggestion, showmanship and misdirection in a must-watch roller coaster of emotions.
A young amateur illusionist has an encounter with his Bully, both face each other in an old-fashion duel.
愛の無いセックスで感染する奇病STBOが蔓延するパリ。幼少の頃から虚無感や孤独感に生きてきた青年アレックスは、恋人リーズと居る時も虚しさは同じだった。原因不明の腹痛にも襲われ生活に嫌気がさしたアレックスは、人生を何とかして変えなければと考え続けていた。そんな矢先、行方知れずの父親が電車に轢かれ死んでしまう。アレックスの父親の友人マルクは彼の多大なる借金を背負うこととなり、STBOの血清を盗み密売する作戦を考え出す。そしてその作戦に必要な人材としてアレックスを見つけ出す。アレックスは作戦に乗るが、そこでマルクの恋人であるアンナにかつてない運命を感じ、物語は動き始める。
After losing her parents, young flower selling Midori is put up by a fairground group. She is abused and forced to slavery, until the arrival of an enigmatic magician of short stature, who gives her hope for a better future.
A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician whom has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending.
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair, then rises and sits in the next chair. As the cymbal player sits down, a drummer appears in the second chair, and then likewise moves on to the third chair. In this way, an entire band is soon formed, and is then ready to perform.
The world renowned “Invincible Hand” Ken could identify not only mahjong tiles, but also cards with his fingers which had made him a legend. Upon his retirement as the Chief Security Consultant in Las Vegas, Ken returned to his hometown Macau, where he met his old friend Benz, and Benz’s son Cool and nephew Karl. Both Cool and Karl wanted to follow Ken. Ken claimed that if Cool could successfully cheat him once or win over him, he would then accept Cool as his protégé. Cool’s step brother Lionel, an undercover agent, had disguised his identity in an international gambling mafia which had planned to form an alliance with mafias in illegal gambling from all over the world to control the result of soccer matches. Lionel had recorded the entire conference, with the criminal evidence kept in an imitated eye. The eye was coincidentally given to Rainbow, Ken’s only daughter, which put her in danger. The retired Ken was forced to use his “Magic Hand” once again to uncover the evil plan…
A detective teams with a tabloid psychic to track down a missing child.
A young government official, named Dondup, who is smitten with America (he even has a denim gho) dreams of escaping there while stuck in a beautiful but isolated village. He hopes to connect in the U.S. with a visa out of the country. He misses the one bus out of town to Thimphu, however, and is forced to hitchhike and walk along the Lateral Road to the west, accompanied by an apple seller, a Buddhist monk with his ornate, dragon-headed dramyin, a drunk, a widowed rice paper maker, and his beautiful daughter, Sonam.
A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.
The scene is similar to that seen at Coney Island, where a number of shows are constantly going on.
Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.
A witch curses a town's well.
A magic show.
Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends, they open up the lantern to reveal a group of dancing girls inside - and this is only the first of the indications that this lantern really is magical.
John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the site of a ruin where he starts having hallucinations.
A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an unsophisticated (and stereotypical) country yokel is alternately baffled and terrified, in the latter case by the apparent approach of a steam train.
A marriage procession following the bride and her father enter a church.
Doctors blow to pieces a patient in a hydrotherapy machine and re-assemble him.
A stationary camera looks on as two dapper gents play a game of chess. One drinks and smokes, and when he looks away, his opponent moves two pieces. A fight ensues, first with the squirting of a seltzer bottle, then with fisticuffs. The combatants wrestle each other to the floor and continue the fight out of the camera's view, hidden by the table. The waiter arrives to haul both of them out.
A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.
Film about politically motivated violence in the Kingdom of Prussia.
This film from 1907 is sadly incomplete as it's only available in a two-minute fragment. The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish. The film then picks up as the painter goes haywire and sends the assistant into the painting.
A group of people exiting an enormous carriage.
A very heavy turret is transported on a truck drawn by a long line of horses. The inscription “Charlemagne 53790K” readable on the turret suggests that this view was shot in the vicinity of Saint-Chamond, a town where there are factories specializing in the construction of heavy steel. It is certainly a turret intended for the battleship “Charlemagne”. In addition, a view projected by the Aléthorama on January 20, 1898 in Saint-Étienne, and entitled “Transportation of the armored turret of Saint-Chamond by a team of 80 horses”, could represent the same event.
Small glimpse of Paris city life.
An engaged couple, dressed in white, meet each other at a train station. When the train arrives, they get on board, and they enjoy the sights from the platform on the last car. The workers on the train are eager to help, and they make some special arrangements for the couple.
Director Joseph Cornell evokes the nostalgia of childhood by filming a children's party.
A day at the carnival — sensational tent shows where miracles can be seen for the price of admission, boisterous noise of crowds and barkers, shrill and gaudy circus music, the violence of the street ten-fold. This is the substance of Everything Turns, Richter’s first sound film. At its premier at Baden-Baden Richter got into a fight with two Nazi officials who disliked the film's ‘modernism.’ Yet in 1936 it was awarded first prize for artistic merit by the Nazis, with Richter’s name suppressed from the credits. He had long since left Germany.