The Postman (1972)

イタリア、ナポリに浮かぶ小さな島に、チリ政府に追われた世界的詩人パブロ・ネルーダが亡命し、滞在することとなった。彼だけに郵便を届ける配達人となった村の貧しい青年マリオは、ネルーダとの交流の中で、少しずつ詩の世界に触れ、恋を知るのだった。美しい風景の中で切ない愛と友情を描く感動作。

A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsuspecting substitute postman, with a troubled life of his own, becomes entangled in the boy's journey and his family by reading the letters. They inspire him to seek a better life for himself and his own son he's lost through his alcohol addiction.

A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.

A First World War veteran reaches a backwater village in Kuttanand, India as a Postman. He delivers money orders and letters to the family of soldiers, becoming a symbol of happiness. But everything turns upside down, as the Second World War begins.

1930年代、戦火が忍び寄るイギリス。政府官僚の長女セシーリアは、兄妹のように育てられた使用人の息子、ロビーと思いを通わせ合うようになる。しかし、小説家を目指す多感な妹ブライオニーのついたうそが、ロビーに無実の罪を着せ、刑務所送りにしてしまう。

情熱的なアイルランド人のジェリーと相思相愛の仲で結ばれ、NYで幸せな日々を送っていたホリー。ところが、脳腫瘍に冒されたジェリーは、ある日あっけなくこの世を去り、悲しみに暮れたホリーは、以後すっかり引きこもりの状態に陥ることに。ところが、彼女の30歳の誕生日に、意外な品がホリーのもとに届く。それはなんと、亡き夫からの贈り物だった。その後も、彼からのラブレターが定期的に届いて、ホリーは励まされる。

火遊びが過ぎて仕事をクビになったジェイミーは、医薬品大手のファイザー製薬(Pfizer)で営業マンの職を得た。得意の話術で大病院に攻勢をかける彼だったが、強力なライバルのせいでなかなか結果を出せない。そんなとき、彼は若年性パーキンソン病を患う女性マギーと知り合う。持病のため恋愛関係を避ける彼女と、体だけという約束で交際を始めるジェイミー。やがて新薬バイアグラを扱い始めた彼はトップセールスマンとなっていくが･･･。

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.

ニューヨークで雑誌の調査員として働くソフィは、婚約者のヴィクターとイタリアのヴェローナに婚前旅行でやって来る。ところが、レストランの開店を予定しているヴィクターはソフィそっちのけで食材探しに夢中。仕方なく、一人で“ジュリエットの家”を訪れたソフィ。偶然にも、壁の中にあった一通の“ジュリエット・レター”を見つける。それは、50年前にイタリアを訪れ、そこで出会った青年ロレンツォと恋に落ちた英国人女性クレアが書いたものだった。その手紙にソフィが返事を書いたところ、それを受け取ったクレアが孫のチャーリーを伴ってはるばるイタリアまでやって来た。ソフィはクレアの話を聞くと、ロレンツォを捜し出そうと提案、こうして３人で50年前の初恋の相手を捜す旅が始まるのだが…。

実在するオーストラリア出身の天才ピアニスト、デビッド・ヘルフゴットが、さまざまな苦難を乗り越え演奏家として再起するまでを描いた感動ドラマ。主演のジェフリー・ラッシュは、今作でアカデミー主演男優賞を受賞。

1930年代のハリウッドで、映画業界きっての大物エージェントとして多忙な日々を送るフィル。ある日、そんな彼を頼って、NYのブロンクスから甥のボビーがハリウッドにやって来る。フィルは、愛称ヴォニーこと秘書のヴェロニカに、ボビーの世話係を押しつけるが、若くて美しいヴォニーにボビーはぞっこん惚れ込んでしまう。ヴォニーには既にワケありの恋人がいたが、実はその彼こそフィルだった。

妻が浮気したことで心のバランスを保てなくなり、仕事も家庭も全て失ってしまったパットは、近くに住んでいるティファニーと出会う。その型破りな行動と発言に戸惑うパットだったが、彼女も事故によって夫を亡くしており、その傷を癒やせないでいた。人生の希望を取り戻すためダンスコンテストに出ることを決めたティファニーは、半ば強制的にパットをパートナーに指名する。＜それぞれに愛する人を失い心に傷を負った男女が再生していく姿を、涙と笑いでつづるヒューマン・コメディー。デヴィッド・O・ラッセル監督が、人生の再起に懸ける男女をハートフルに描く。主演は、ブラッドリー・クーパーとジェニファー・ローレンス。さらにロバート・デ・ニーロ、ジャッキー・ウィーヴァーらベテランが脇を固める。＞

A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him re-think his current situation in life.

1909年、人種差別が色濃く残るジョージア州。幼くして出産経験がある少女セリーにとって心の支えは、美人で頭がいい妹ネティだった。そんなセリーは“ミスター”と呼ばれる男性に嫁ぐことに。奴隷も同然の毎日を過ごす中、家出をしたネティがセリーの家に訪ねてくるが、ミスターは彼女を追い払ってしまう。やがてミスターは昔の恋人で歌手のシャグを家に住まわせるように。セリーはシャグとの出会いを機に自立を意識しだす。

Lora May Hollingsway, who grew up next to the wrong side of the tracks, married her boss who thinks she is just a gold digger. Rita Phipps makes as much money writing radio scripts at night as her school teacher husband does. Deborah Bishop looked great in a Navy uniform in WWII but fears she'll never be dressed just right for the Country Club set. These three wives are boarding a boat filled with children going on a picnic when a messenger on a bicycle hands them a letter addressed to all three from Addie who has just left town with one of their husbands. They won't know which one until that night.

Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.

1952年のイギリス、ロンドン。法曹界の重鎮としてその名を知られる老弁護士ウィルフリッド卿は、生死を彷徨う重病の床から、口うるさい付き添い看護婦ミス・プリムソル随行で退院を果たした。ウィルフリッドは事務所に落ち着く間もなく、事務弁護士メイヒューに連れられた未亡人殺しの容疑者レナード・ヴォールの弁護依頼を受ける。アリバイの証明者は夫人しかおらず、状況は極めて不利。まもなく彼らの元を警察が訪れ、レナードは殺人容疑で逮捕されてしまう。

Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...

Newly single, 35, and uninspired by his job, Jesse Fisher worries that his best days are behind him. But no matter how much he buries his head in a book, life keeps pulling Jesse back. When his favorite college professor invites him to campus to speak at his retirement dinner, Jesse jumps at the chance. He is prepared for the nostalgia of the dining halls and dorm rooms, the parties and poetry seminars; what he doesn’t see coming is Zibby – a beautiful, precocious, classical-music-loving sophomore. Zibby awakens scary, exciting, long-dormant feelings of possibility and connection that Jesse thought he had buried forever.

Reviewers found this somewhat surreal film so visually stunning as to be worth watching even when it was not clear to them what was going on. In the story, Jozef Schrevek is a man with unusual powers which he wishes to pass on to his son before his death, which is coming soon. Unfortunately, his son is much more interested in boozing and womanizing and being a well-known habitué of nightclubs, than in taking his father seriously and receiving his powers and the responsibilities which come along with them. The tension between the two escalates when a young woman enters their lives.

While a woman is in the hospital preparing to deliver her child, her husband has all day to reflect upon his wife and their relationship. As he tends to his job as a television repairman, Slavek fondly remembers how he first met Ivana and the days they spent getting to know one another. Slavek also grows increasingly aware of the environment that surrounds him and questions the society his new child will be entering. Loaded with a repeated plea for social change, this is the first feature from Czech writer/director Jaromil Jires.

Sweden, 1782. Jacob, a young noble, somewhat wild and vehement, returns from his studies in France. After his absence, he returns home happy, but is even happier of meeting his beloved sister Charlotte again. However, she has been promised to the Baron Alsmeden, a man of great influence at court, and this fact will awake a feeling like jealousy in Jacob.

A portrait of Sigmund Freud as a young man.

OSTKREUZ tells the episodic story of 15-year-old Elfie, who literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany.

Experimental Yugoslav short film.

A candid, fly-on-the-wall BBC television documentary portrait of Russian Nationalist politician, Vladimir Zhirinovsky. The film shows the leader on a cruise surrounded by two hundred supporters getting plenty of media attention in New York. We are left with the nagging question: to what extent is Zhirinovsky really dangerous? To take that further, to what extent are populist politicians truly dangerous?

Neurosia is the autobiography of the director Rosa von Praunheim. The movie begins with Rosa presenting his autobiography in a movie theater. Before the film begins, he is shot. But - his body gets lost. A female journalist from a TV station begins researching the life of Rosa. In the course of the movie she speaks to lots of aquaintances, shows short clips from Rosas old movies. Her main aim is to provide sensational and shocking details from Rosas life. It turns out that nearly everybody had some reason to kill Rosa. At the end of the movie, she discovers Rosa at a boat where he is kept prisoner by some of his old enemies. She frees him, and the movie ends.

L’art d’aimer / The Art of Loving (1985), another colour short, is probably the weakest of the ten films, mostly because it’s a blurry monologue (read by Smolders) from the perspective of a man confused about past events from his youth, and the fate of his mother. Smolder’s voice is deadly monotone, and the short drones on towards a climax set in an old age home, and a room filled with men and women suffering from diverse ailments, or seniors trapped in some darkened mental gloom. - kqek.com

Experimental short film from Yugoslavia.

Colorfully edited vignettes of young characters having fun in the town of Onomichi.

Told from the point of view of a rescued buffalo, this is the story of a small town trying to find itself after the Armenian-Azeri conflict. The buffalo's reception by the other farm animals reflects the distrust rife in the countries of the post-Soviet world.

Two years after making his film BLIND KIND, Van der Keuken contacted the blind boy that had impressed him most at the time.

A documentary charting the rigors of the Russian space program, where the symbol of national pride would justify the most demanding training conditions.

A series of three episodes which explore the relationship between men, women and the physical and mental spaces they inhabit.

The Monarchy leads a repressive campaign against a Serb village, where an Austrian officer was killed.

Deals with filmic reality and conformity in East and West. Won acclaim at 1976 Edinburgh Festival.

Life on the Danube is essentially determined by two factors: the river itself and the often strange idiosyncrasies of the people who live along its banks. And they are multifarious: fishermen and graveyard wardens, Buddhist monks, allotment holders on Danube Island, stranded shippers, tramps and soldiers. All linked by the great current against which they swim.

Algimantas Puipa directed this 1997 drama about a painter wrestling with childhood memories of his father being exiled to Siberia.

Set in the second decade of the 20th century, this is a story of cinema entering villages of Kerala. The protagonist Diwakaran gets attracted to the new machine, bioscope, at an exhibition by Frenchman DuPont, who does bioscope shows on the coasts of Tamil Nadu.