From UFA to Hollywood: Douglas Sirk Remembers (1991)

A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film industry, a pioneer of independent filmmaking and discoverer of new talent.

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.

リック・ダルトンはピークを過ぎたTV俳優。映画スターへの道がなかなか拓けず焦る日々が続いていた。そんなリックを支えるクリフ・ブースは彼に雇われた付き人でスタントマン、そして親友でもある。目まぐるしく変化するエンタテインメント業界で生き抜くことに精神をすり減らし情緒不安定なリックとは対照的に、いつも自分らしさを失わないクリフ。この二人の関係は、ビジネスでもプライベートでもまさにパーフェクト。しかし、時代は徐々に彼らを必要とはしなくなっていた。そんなある日、リックの隣に時代の寵児ロマン・ポランスキー監督と女優のシャロン・テート夫妻が越してくる。落ちぶれつつある二人とは対照的な輝きを放つ二人。この明暗こそハリウッド。リックは再び俳優としての光明を求め、イタリアでマカロニ・ウエスタン映画に出演する決意をするがー。そして、1969年8月9日ーそれぞれの人生を巻き込み映画史を塗り替える【事件】は起こる。

Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife, for one last wish: to be the protagonist of his own death.

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

All the major DC superheroes are starring in their own films, all but the Teen Titans, so Robin is determined to remedy this situation by getting over his role as a sidekick and becoming a movie star. Thus, with a few madcap ideas and an inspirational song in their hearts, the Teen Titans head to Hollywood to fulfill their dreams.

Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys, Eric, Turtle and Johnny, are back…and back in business with super agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold. Some of their ambitions have changed, but the bond between them remains strong as they navigate the capricious and often cutthroat world of Hollywood.

After one of his class papers is stolen and turned into a movie, a young student and his best friend exact a hilarious, slapstick revenge on the Hollywood hot shot who has taken credit!

落ち目のアクション俳優スピードマンは、戦争大作『トロピック・サンダー』での返り咲きを目指すことに。コメディー役者のジェフや演技派のラザラスとともに撮影に臨むが、クランクイン5日目で予算オーバーに陥ってしまう。あきらめ切れない監督は東南アジアのジャングルで撮影を強行しようとする。

ハリウッドでウッズボロー連続殺人事件のその後を描く映画「スタブ3」の撮影が行われていた。しかし、ある日、同作に出演する女優が何者かに惨殺される事件が発生。それを皮切りに次々と撮影現場で殺人事件が起こる。

アニメーション映画スターであるロジャー・ラビットは今日もベビー・ハーマンと共に映画撮影の真っ只中。しかし、いつもの調子が出ずNGばかり出してしまう。ロジャーの妻ジェシカが浮気をしてるのではとの噂があるからだ。スランプに陥ったロジャーを心配したマルーンは私立探偵を雇う事にした。一方、探偵のエディ・バリアントは、かつてトゥーンに関わる仕事が大好きだったが、一緒に探偵をやっていた弟をトゥーンに殺害されて以来、トゥーンを憎んでいた。

冴えないバツイチ男ウィリアム・タッカーは、ロンドン西部の町ノッティングヒルで本屋を営んでいる。そんな彼はある日、ハリウッドのスター女優アナ・スコットが自分の店を訪れたことに驚くが、その直後、偶然にも彼女と街角でぶつかった際にオレンジジュースをこぼしてしまい、着替え場所を提供するため自宅に招くことに。彼女の去り際、初対面にも関わらず交わした“シュールだがステキなキス”から、ノッティングヒルの本屋とビバリーヒルズのスターの恋が始まった…

A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?

映画史に残る名作として知られる『市民ケーン』の共同脚本家であるハーマン・J・マンキーウィッツの伝記映画。女優のマリオン・デイヴィス、プロデューサーのアーヴィング・タルバーグなど、数多くの映画人が登場する。監督のフィンチャーは、『市民ケーン』の撮影監督グレッグ・トーランドの表現主義的な技法を再現するために、白黒で撮影をおこなった

A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.

心身ともに疲弊した映画監督が昔を回想し、記憶の旅を繰り広げていく。スペインの世界的名匠、ペドロ・アルモドバル監督がアントニオ・バンデラス主演で放った自伝的作品。ペネロペ・クルスが特別出演している。

A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.

'THE BAD DAD' is an upcoming Hollywood Action/Thriller movie; Other details about movie will be announced soon

Jessica is one of the most famous actresses in the world, leading a glamorous – if tabloid worthy – life. But all that is thrown for a loop when she goes on location to shoot a holiday themed film in the Christmas-obsessed town of Homestead, Iowa. While a romance brews between her and Matt, a local inn keeper who is a single dad, she also gets a taste of small-town life and rediscovers the true meaning of Christmas.

A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a single 8th Air Force B-17 crew from training through a series of missions over Europe.

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

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.

A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner.

Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.

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.

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.

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.

On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.

While Douglas Coupland works on a grand art project about Canada, the writer recounts his life and his musings about the various aspects of Canadian identity.

I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.

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.

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").

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.

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.