The Hands of God (2005)

ボルティモアの労働者の街から、ジム・ヘンソンの作り出すセサミ・ストリートの世界へ。エルモを操るケヴィンの夢物語とは? 語りはウーピー・ゴールドバーグ。

Trace the life and career of visionary puppeteer Jim Henson through this fascinating documentary, which profiles the creative genius's early endeavors in college, his incredible contributions to "Sesame Street" and the creation of "The Muppet Show." In addition to interviews with Henson, his wife, Jane, and close collaborator Frank Oz, this in-depth special also offers viewers a peek inside the magical Henson Workshop.

When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. Of course, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy won't take no for an answer, launching a search for someone to take them to Broadway.

チャイナタウンの骨董屋で発明家ペルツァーが手に入れた不思議な動物モグワイ。彼はそれを息子ビリーへクリスマス・プレゼントとして贈るが、モグワイには、水に濡らさないこと、太陽光線に当てないこと、真夜中すぎにエサを与えないことの三つの誓いが必要だった。だが、この誓いが破られた時、可愛いモグワイは恐るべき凶悪な怪物グレムリンへと増殖していく。かくして平和な田舎町キングストン・フォールズは悪夢のクリスマスを迎えることになるのだ。

A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

一人暮らしのゼペットじぃさんは、木でつくった人形に【ピノキオ】と名づけ、星に「自分の子どもになりますように…」と願いをかける。するとブルーフェアリーが現れ、魔法でピノキオに命を授け「勇気を持って生き、正直で優しければいつか本当の人間になれる」と言い残して去って行く。 学校へ通うようになったピノキオだが、いろいろな誘惑に惑わされてしまい…。

In a world where human beings and puppets live together, when the members of the cast of a children's television show aired during the 1990s begin to get murdered one by one, puppet Phil Philips, a former LAPD detective who fell in disgrace and turned into a private eye, takes on the case at the request of his old boss in order to assist detective Edwards, who was his partner in the past.

マペットの少年ウォルターは、地方で人間の兄ゲイリーと暮らしている。大人になったゲイリーは恋人メアリーと旅行でLAに行くことになり、同行することになったウォルターは大ファンであるTV番組「マペット・ショー」のスタジオを見られると大興奮。しかしスタジオはもう使われていなくて荒れ果て、石油王の陰謀で解体の危機に直面していた。ウォルターたちはスタジオを守ろうと、引退したマペットのカーミットを訪ねる。

空想好きのサラは、女優を夢見る15歳の少女。ある土曜、両親が連れ立って外出し、彼女はまだ赤ん坊の弟トビーの世話を頼まれる。ぐずるトビーに、サラが愛読書の「ザ・ラビリンス〈迷宮〉」を読んで聞かせると、なんとトビーの部屋の片隅から突然黒い影が動き出し、“迷宮”の魔王ジャレスが現われる。ジャレスはトビーをさらうと姿を消してしまい、サラは後を追って数々の罠が待ち受ける迷宮へと足を踏み入れる。

マペットハウスに住むゴンゾは自分が誰にも似ていないことに気づく。そんな時、シリアルからのお告げで空を見上げているとゴンゾの家族は宇宙にいると教えられる。ところが、家族に会うことを心待ちにするゴンゾの前に突然、政府の秘密組織CONVETが現れ、彼を連れ去ってしまう。

After telling the story of Flint's last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack and dies just as Jim and his friends are attacked by pirates. The gang escapes into the town where they hire out a boat and crew to find the hidden treasure, which was revealed by Bones before he died. On their voyage across the seas, they soon find out that not everyone on board can be trusted.

The Muppets' Wizard of Oz follows a young woman named Dorothy Gale who dreams of becoming a singer but is unable to pursue her dreams. After being swept up by a tornado with her pet prawn Toto, Dorothy embarks on a journey to meet the Wizard of Oz, the person who both Dorothy and the citizens of Oz believe can help make her dream come true.

While the Muppets prepare a tribute to the late Jim Henson, they learn about the life and career of the renowned puppeteer/film maker.

Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite television hero for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man. Now, Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else to find a Turbo Man action figure.

前作の主人公ビリーと恋人ケイトは二人そろってニューヨークで新生活を送っていた。大富豪クランプの所有するクランプ・センターがその働き口だったが、ビリーはそこで、チャイナタウン再開発のために発見されたモグワイと再会する。しかしまたしても偶然と失敗が折り重なってモグワイの体からグレムリンが発生、しかも今度はセンターの研究所で開発中のバイオ・テクノロジーと融合、新種のグレムリンが大量発生してしまうのだ。

Get ready to experience the world-famous Scooby-Doo! and Crew like never before in this all-new, original puppet movie! What begins as a routine night for the Gang - which includes the slobbering sleuth and Shaggy eating a triple-extra-large Scooby snack pizza - becomes a mad dash to find the frightening Phantom Parrot, who has a map to pirate Gnarlybeard's hidden treasure. Scooby sniffs out the map's clues, which lead him right to a spooky pirate ship. Ruh-roh! What will Gnarlybeard be willing to do to protect his booty? The whole family will love casting off on this mysterious, fun-filled voyage again and again.

人形師のクレイグと、ペットショップ店員の妻ロッテは倦怠期の夫婦。クレイグは定職に就こうと、天井が低くて立つことのできない7階と8階の間＝7と1/2階にある "LesterCorp" に事務員として就職する。ある日、クレイグはオフィスの壁に穴を発見する。それは15分間だけ俳優ジョン・ホレイショ・マルコヴィッチの頭の中に繋がるという不思議な穴だった。これを使い、上司の美女マキシンと共に商売を始めるが、マルコヴィッチの穴は、彼と妻ロッテの人生を大きく狂わせていくことになる。

地球温暖化が進んで一部の海に近い土地が沈み、妊娠・出産に厳しい許可制度がしかれ、人間の代わりに多くの資源を必要としないロボットが活躍する未来。その時代に人間と同じ愛情を持つ少年型ロボットとして開発されたデイビッドは、彼を製作したロボット製造会社の社員、ヘンリーとその妻モニカの元へ試験的に送られる。夫妻には不治の病を持つ息子のマーティンが居たが、現在は冷凍保存で眠っていて目覚める保証はなく、実質的に子供がいないのと同じだった。

極悪ガエルのゴンゾがロシアの刑務所から逃げ出し、世間を恐怖に陥れていた。一方、ザ・マペッツの面々は敏腕プロモーターのドミニク・バジーの提案でワールドツアーを行うが、ある日座長のカーミットは自分とうり二つのゴンゾにはめられ、逮捕されてしまう。カーミットに成り済ましザ・マペッツに潜入したゴンゾは、世界を股に掛けた陰謀をたくらむ。

重度のうつ病を患う玩具メーカーのCEOウォルター・ブラックは、ビーバーのハンドパペットを使って家族に心を開くようになる。思春期の息子ポーターは、父親が発狂したかのようになったため、両親に離婚を迫る。

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.

KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS follows uber myco visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans (two of the more expert and unforgettably mercurial characters in the community) as they lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences attached to the mysterious fungi.