The Guns (1964)
ジャンル : ドラマ
上映時間 : 1時間 25分
演出 : Ruy Guerra
脚本 : Ruy Guerra, Miguel Torres
シノプシス
A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.
Wanted for killing his boss, Manuel flees with his wife Rosa to the sertão, the barren landscape of Northern Brazil. Thrust into a primordial violent region, Manuel and Rosa come under the influence and control of a series of frightening figures.
Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.
In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search of new hope and destiny.
Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.
A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old nemesis. Yet after besting Coirana and accompanying the dying man to his mountain hideout, Antônio is moved by the plight of the Cangaceiro’s followers. The troubled hitman turns revolutionary, his gun and machete aimed towards his former masters.
A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.
A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.
Brazil, 1594. The Tupinambás natives are friends of the French and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portuguese. A Frenchman is captured by the Tupinambás, and in spite of his trial to convince them that he is French, they believe he is Portuguese. The Frenchman becomes their slave, and maritally lives with Seboipepe.
Men work in a quarry on the edge of a hill where a slum is located, of which they are residents. The slope is blown up, advancing to the land near the shacks. Slum dwellers are warned that new explosions can cause damage. The community decides to place itself on the slope, preventing another explosion; without attitude, the foreman gives up on blowing up the hill.
Feature documentary about ex-maverick filmmaker António de Macedo.
Gabriel decides to go back to his home town. In the way, he meets "El Signo del Caos".
A retrospective on the life and work of Portuguese director António-Pedro Vasconcelos.
Somewhere in Rio Grande do Norte's countryside, Brazil, the wealthy farmer Elói Dantas (Álvaro Guimarães) decides to increase his patrimony even further by exploiting ores. To do this, he tries to appropriate the small site of Antônio Vaqueiro (José Marinho). Desperate, Antônio rushes to the aid of the gypsy healer Maria dos Remédios (Luiza Maranhão) and the poet and dreamer Tião Poeta (Lenicio Queirogo) to face the greed of Elói.
ヘンリー・ヒル、1943年ブルックリン生まれ。大物ギャング、ポーリーのアジトで育った彼は、物心ついた頃からマフィアに憧れていた。やがて念願の"グッドフェローズ"の仲間となり、"強奪"専門のジミー、野心旺盛なチンピラ、トミーと共に犯罪に犯罪を重ねていく。が、麻薬に手を出したことから育ての親、ポーリーに見放され、さらにジミーたちが起こした600万ドル強奪事件を追うCIAの捜査の手もヘンリーに迫る。
1860年、南北戦争に揺らぐジョージア州タラの地に生きる美しいヒロイン、スカーレット・オハラ。激情に突き動かされ愛に生きた彼女の半生を描いた、マーガレット・ミッチェルのベストセラー小説を映画化。
「セイ・エニシング」「ザ・エージェント」のキャメロン・クロウ監督が自身の体験を基に、ブレイク寸前のロックバンドのツアーの同行取材を任された15歳の少年の姿を描いた青春音楽ムービー。15歳の少年ウィリアムは伝説的なロック・ライターに自分の記事が気に入られ、ローリングストーン誌の仕事をもらう。さっそく取材で楽屋を訪れた彼は、グルーピーの中にいたペニー・レインに一目惚れする。
一見ゴージャスなカップルだが、実は敵対する国際的組織の殺し屋同士。といえば殺伐とした話のようだが、愛し合う者同士だからこそ楽しい、究極の夫婦ゲンカといえそうなのが本作。「ボーン・アイデンティティー」「フェア・ゲーム」のD・リーマン監督は速いテンポでアクションを畳みかけながら、ブラピとジョリーという2大美男美女スターの顔合わせをコミカルかつオシャレに盛り上げている。
サンフランシスコのとある街、失業した俳優、ダニエル・ヒラードは、3人の子どもが自分の全てというほどの、子煩悩な父親。しかし収入のない夫に代わって一家の家計を担っているやり手デザイナーの妻ミランダは、自分が連日疲れきって帰宅しても家事に全く協力せず子供達との遊びにかまけている夫や、自分だけが仕事に家事にと追われている事に強いストレスを感じていた。 長男クリスの誕生日、ミランダの留守中に自宅でパーティを開き、大騒ぎを起こしたダニエルは、堪忍袋の緒が切れたミランダからとうとう離婚の意思を告げられる。生活能力のないダニエルは養育権を奪われ、週一度限られた時間にしか子どもたちに会えなくなった。やがてミランダが仕事の忙しさで家政婦を募集していることを知ったダニエルは一計を案じ、メイクアップアーティストの兄の手を借りて、イギリスの老婦人ミセス・ダウトファイアにすっかり変身する。持ち前の演技力と女装で見事にミランダを騙し、家政婦として最愛の子供たちのそばにいられることになるが、それは同時にこれまで家事全般を省みた事のないダニエルの、抱腹絶倒の奮闘記の幕開けであった。
実体験を基に描かれた、O・ストーン監督によるベトナム映画。クリス・テイラーがベトナムにやって来たのは1967年。大学を中退してまでベトナムに志願したのは、次々と徴兵されてゆく彼と同年代の若者たちのほとんどが、少数民族や貧しい者たちだった事に対する義憤からであった。だが、いきなり最前線の戦闘小隊に配属されたテイラーにとって、戦争の現実は彼の想像をはるかに超えた過酷なものだった。
