Tulips Shall Grow (1942)

ガラス窓を破るほどの嵐の翌日、スーパーへ買い出しに出掛けたデヴィッド。軍人やパトカーが慌ただしく街を往来し、あっという間に店の外は濃い霧に覆われた。設備点検のために外に出た店員のジムが不気味な物体に襲われると、店内の人々は次第に理性を失いはじめる。

In this entertaining Puppetoon animated short film, a young boy, Jasper, gets trapped inside a pawnshop at midnight. All the musical instruments come to life and play jazz. A whooping wooden Indian chief self-animates as well, and goes on the warpath.

Animated characters introduce a compilation of George Pal replacement animation Puppetoon short films from the 1930s and 1940s. Originally released in 80 minutes length, The Puppetoon Movie also exists in a subsequently expanded ten minutes longer version.

In Holland, Pluto acts as a milkman (dog?) leaving canisters of milk on the town's doorsteps. While going about his job, he falls head over heels in love with Dinah the dachshund. In his enthusiasm, he accidentally rings the dike bell causing the town to think the dike is leaking. When the fraud is exposed, Pluto and Dinah are kicked out of the town. Upon leaving, they both notice the dike actually has sprung a leak. While Dinah plugs the leak, Pluto must return to the town and find a way to get the residents to follow him to the dike leak.

In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), Tubby the Tuba is disappointed that his sound limits what he's permitted to do in an orchestra of self-playing instruments that, unlike him, get to play pretty melodies. A chance meeting with a bullfrog changes everything.

Puppet animation of Bert Ambrose and His Orchestra performing. A Puppetoon animated short film.

In this Puppetoon animated short film, a variety of music styles are heard as, in various locations, characters dance or sing.

In this Puppetoon animated short film, Judy, an enticing blonde, lives across the way from Punchy and uses all her feminine wiles to try to snare him.

Jim Dandy lands on a tropical island and falls in love with a beautiful maiden. Soon a tribe of cannibals kidnap him. A Puppetoon animated short film.

Centuries ago in the past, the witch, who doesn't like Beauty, puts her to sleep, then flies throughout the castle spreading sleep powder, placing all into slumber. Eventually we flash forward to present time: A young hepcat in a convertible tries awakening Sleeping Beauty, and everyone in the castle, with some Big Band music. Will it work? A Puppetoon animated short film.

In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), legendary American folklore figure John Henry (voice of Rex Ingram) goes to work for the C&O Railroad, which shortly thereafter buys an automatic steel-driving engine, The Inky-Poo. John Henry matches his strength against the engine, saying that any man can beat a machine because a man has a mind. Can he prevail? In 2015 this film, deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

The Great Maestro gets to conduct more than he can compose himself to. A Puppetoon animated short film.

This Traveltalk short concentrates on Holland's historical relationship with its main industry: growing tulips. The country's windmills are also highlighted.

An ordinary looking chair refuses to be sat upon.

A stranger comes to a peaceful village bearing gifts that bear a terrible price.

The slow construction of an image, to the rhythm of steps, ends when the monster meets his Bride.

An unknowing man rescues a rather aggressive and demanding harpy.

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

A short film about a little black riding hood.

The Flicker Alley DVD "Georges Méliès: Encore New Discoveries (1896-1911)" misidentified a partial hand-colored print of the 1906 film "Alchimiste Parafaragaramus ou La cornue infernale" (The Mysterious Retort) as this film, "L'hallucination de l'alchimiste" (An Hallucinated Alchemist) from 1897, which continues to be considered a lost film.

The heroes of the film: ordinary matches. A quarrel that breaks out over nothing turns into a real battle in which both warring sides are burned.

A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, as they move in loops through an absurd dance of social disconnection.

Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.

貧しい大学生ミシェルは、ふとしたきっかけで、自分にスリの才能があることを発見する。一度は刑事に捕まったものの、証拠不十分で釈放されるや、再び他人の財布を狙い出す。やがてその手口は、仲間を引き込んだ組織的なものになっていった……。「抵抗」では“脱獄”をリアルにスリリングに描いたＲ・ブレッソンが、今度はその焦点を“スリ”に当てた作品で、実際の手口を紹介しながら、人間不信の孤独な青年の姿を描く。素人ばかりの出演者から生まれるリアリティと、様々なスリの描写によって生み出されるサスペンスが混然となった迫真の傑作だ。

When a powerful criminal, who is connected to Bruce Wayne's ex-girlfriend, blames the Dark Knight for killing a crime lord, Batman decides to fight against him.

第二次世界大戦後のイタリア、ローマ。 2年間職に就けなかったアントニオ・リッチは、職業安定所の紹介で役所のポスター貼りの仕事を得る。仕事に就くためには自転車が必要だと言われるが、生活の厳しいアントニオは自転車を質に入れていた。妻のマリアが家のベッドのシーツを質に入れ、その金で自転車を取り戻す。新しい職に浮かれるアントニオを見て、6歳になる息子のブルーノも心を躍らせる。 ブルーノを自転車に乗せ、意気揚々と出勤するアントニオ。しかし仕事の初日、ポスターを貼っている最中に自転車を盗まれてしまう。警察に届けるも「自分で探せ」と言われる始末。自転車がなければ職を失う。新しい自転車を買う金もない。アントニオは自力で自転車を探し始める。

A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious zeal and voracious appetite for popular culture, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek analyzes several of the most important films in the history of cinema to explain how cinematic narrative helps to reinforce prevailing ethics and political ideas.

1962年、ボルチモア。ぽっちゃり体型だが前向きな16歳の女子高校生トレーシーは人気TV番組「コーニー・コリンズ・ショー」の憧れのキャスト、リンクと踊る日を夢見る。そんな時トレーシーは母エドナの反対を押し切って番組のオーディションに参加して一度は落選するが番組を司会するコリンズの目に留まり、レギュラー出演者の座を獲得。やがてトレーシーには黒人の友人が増えるが、番組が黒人を差別していると気付く。

何世紀にもわたる環境破壊の末、地球の温暖化が進み、北極・南極の氷はおろか、シベリアの広大な凍土までが全て溶け、地球に大洪水が起こった。海面は上昇し、地表を覆い、やかて陸地は消えて世界はついに海の底に沈んでしまう。それから数世紀。かつて地球と呼ばれたこの惑星にはわずかな人間だけが残されていた。文明と共に漂流を余儀なくされた彼らは海中から引き上げられた既に消滅した世界の残骸から、巨大な人工の浮遊都市を築いていた。

全米の若者の間でカリスマ的人気を誇るダニエル・クロウズの新感覚コミックを「アメリカン・ビューティー」のゾーラ・バーチ主演で映画化したおしゃれでキッチュでとびきり切ない青春ストーリー。イーニドとレベッカは高校を卒業した今も進路も決めないまま好きなことだけしてフラフラする毎日。ある日、二人は新聞の出会い系の広告に載っていた中年男をダイナーに呼び出し、待ちぼうけを食っている惨めな姿を見て暇を潰すのだったが……。

エディ・マーフィ主演のコメディ映画。超肥満体の鬼嫁から日々暴力を受けているダメ男が、初恋の相手に再会したことからドタバタ騒動が巻き起こる。独特のユーモアをもって三役を演じきった、エディのコミカルな演技が見どころだ。

19世紀末、アフリカで隠遁生活を送っていたアラン・クォーターメインは英国からの要請を受けて帰国を果たす。ロンドンでは“M”を名乗る人物によって、国際的な武器密輸組織を率いる仮面の男ファントムを逮捕するため「超人同盟」の会合が開かれていた。ファントムの組織に襲撃を受けた超人同盟は、米国スパイのトム・ソーヤーを加えてこれを撃退しファントムを追跡する。

Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing. In Buster's film debut he buys a pail of molasses.