The Liar (1981)
ジャンル : コメディ, ドラマ
上映時間 : 53分
演出 : Mika Kaurismäki
シノプシス
Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses.
「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。
ハロウィンの夜。町外れの幽霊屋敷に入った高校生たちが見つけた本には、数々の怖い話がつづられていた。翌日から本を見つけた仲間が一人ずつ姿を消し、さらに本には毎夜新たな物語が書き加えられていった。主人公は消息不明の高校生たちで、そこには彼らが最も怖いものに襲われる物語が書かれていた。
ハリウッドの2大コメディアン、ビリー・クリスタルとダニー・デヴィートが妙演を繰り広げるドタバタのサスペンス・コメディ映画。大学で創作を教えるある男が、自身の傑作小説を妻に持ち逃げされ……。
After a publisher changes a writer's debut novel about a deadly assassin from fiction to nonfiction, the author finds himself thrust into the world of his lead character, and must take on the role of his character for his own survival.
The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words.
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
作家志望の男ビルは、創作のヒントを得るため、通りすがりの人々のあとをつける行為を繰り返していた。ある日、ビルがいつものように男をつけていると、尾行していることがその男、コッブにバレてしまう。だが、コッブもまた、他人のアパートに不法に侵入し、私生活を覗き見る行為に取りつかれていた。ビルは次第にコッブに感化されていく。数日後、ビルはコッブと二人で侵入したアパートで見た写真の女性に興味を抱く。やがて、彼女の尾行を始めるビルだったが、その日を境に、彼は思わぬ事件に巻き込まれていく……。
Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel's life... and things take a sinister turn.
A struggling young comedian takes a menial job on a cruise ship where he hopes for his big chance to make it in the world of cruise ship comedy.
A comedian finds new meaning in his life when his best friend asks him to be her sperm donor, and he meets a girl who connects with the cosmos.
Álvaro, a man obsessed with the idea of writing what he brands as “high literature,” manipulates the lives and feelings of the people around him to write about the consequences caused by his devious acts.
A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
When a teenager suddenly disappears without a trace, the case is assigned to an alcoholic police officer who maintains a complicated relationship with his own troubled teenage son, suspected of drug trafficking.
After two failed marriages a science fiction writer decides that coming to terms with his mother will improve his chances for a successful relationship, so he moves in with her.
物語や文学を愛するあまり、本当に本を食べてしまう文学少女、遠子。そんな彼女の秘密を知ってしまった新入生・心葉は、文学部に無理やり入部させられ、遠子のためにおやつを書く日々を送ることになる。ある日、遠子のおやつのために設置した“恋愛相談ポスト”に1通の手紙が……。
Sparks fly when Anna Penn and Charlie Hudson meet. Unfortunately, they're both engaged to other people. In fact, they're staying at the same New York City hotel in order to work on wrapping up the last details of their nuptials. Over days and evenings of joint wedding planning, the two grow closer -- and start to wonder if they're getting married to the right people after all.
As novelist Jovana Fey attempts to check into the first hotel of her 3-week European book tour, she learns that her publisher has gone bankrupt. Penniless and stranded, she decides to continue the tour regardless.
When middle-aged Kata realises that her life will only be complete if she has a baby of her own, her longstanding-but-married boyfriend Joska refuses to comply. But by developing an unlikely friendship with the angst-ridden teenage orphan Anna, who is also involved in a controversial relationship, Kata discovers aspects of herself, and her role as a woman, that have gone unexamined throughout her entire, lonely life.
An aging Southern belle's preoccupation with her past and her dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter and her aspiring writer son.
子持ちで離婚歴がある42歳、大黒シズオ(堤真一)。ある日、彼は「本当の自分を探す」と何も考えずに会社を辞めてしまう。だが、ゲームばかりの毎日を送り、同居する父親の志郎(石橋蓮司)から怒鳴られてばかり。そんな中、本屋で立ち読みをしていたシズオは漫画家になろうと決意し、志郎と娘の鈴子(橋本愛)に熱く夢を語る。しかし、出版社に原稿も持ち込むも不採用。さらに、生計を立てようとファストフード店でバイトするが、ミスを繰り返し、さらにはバイト仲間から店長というあだ名を付けられてしまう。