The Past Is a Grotesque Animal (2014)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー, 音楽
上映時間 : 1時間 17分
演出 : Jason Miller
シノプシス
A personal, accessible look at an artist - Kevin Barnes, frontman of the endlessly versatile indie pop band of Montreal - whose pursuit to make transcendent music at all costs drives him to value art over human relationships. As he struggles with all of those around him, family and bandmates alike, he's forced to reconsider the future of the band, begging the question - is this really worth it?
風景画家・アイナーは肖像画家である妻に頼まれ、女性モデルの代役を務めたことで、自分の内側に潜む女性らしさに気づく。トム・フーパー監督、エディ・レッドメイン主演によるラヴ・ストーリー。
An intimate journey through the formative years of David Lynch's life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he traces the events that have helped to shape one of cinema's most enigmatic directors.
ストリート・アートについてのドキュメンタリーを制作し始めたロサンゼルス在住のフランス人映像作家ティエリー・グエッタ。ティエリーは覆面アーティスト、バンクシーの存在にたどり着き、取材を始めるが、ティエリーに映像の才能がないことに気付いたバンクシーは、逆にティエリーのドキュメンタリーを自分が監督し始める。
NYの美術館で絵画を観賞中、思いも寄らぬ爆破テロ事件に巻き込まれ、最愛の母を失ってしまった13歳の少年テオ。その後彼は、裕福なバーバー一家のもとに引き取られて新生活を始める一方、爆破テロ事件の際、間近に居合わせた老紳士から託された指輪を届けに行って、骨董商のホービーと知り合う。長らく行方不明だった父親のラリーが不意に姿を見せたことから、テオは、彼やその恋人とともにラスベガスへと移り住むこととなる。
1665年オランダ。失明した父の代わりに家計を支えるため、画家フェルメール(コリン・ファース)の家で使用人として働くことになった17歳の少女グリート(スカーレット・ヨハンソン)。やがて、その美的センスをフェルメールに認められた彼女は、彼の手伝いをし始める。
舞台は歴史的な建造物や美術品、最先端のファッション、現代アートが混在するローマ。筆を折った作家ジェップの元に忘れられない初恋の女性の訃報が届いて……。パオロ・ソレンティーノ監督による巨大なる映像モニュメント。
美大に通っているベンはガールフレンドのスージーと別れてはみたものの、未練がましく「やり直したい」と申し出る。しかし、スージーにすでに新しい恋人がいるという事実を告げられベンはショックで不眠症になってしまう。<一流のファッション雑誌のフォトグラファーとして活躍していたショーン・エリス監督が、まるでファッション写真が動き出したかのような美しい映像で見せるラブストーリー。主演に『ハリー・ポッター』シリーズでクィディッチのキャプテンを演じ注目を集めた、ショーン・ビガースタッフ。ヒロインに『戦場のピアニスト』でその存在感を見せつけたエミリア・フォックス。“時間は意識の中で延びたり、縮んだりする”という主人公の回りの時間をフリーズさせて撮った映像は、リアルでありながら幻想的。>
名画『ホイッスラーの母』がロスに買い戻されることになったため、ロンドンの美術館は厄介払いも兼ねてビーンを派遣する。ロスで画商のデビッドに会ったビーンは、彼の家に居候することになる。だが、名画の前でくしゃみをしたため、鼻水で画は台無し。名画の披露パーティが刻々と迫るなか、ビーンは奇想天外な方法で名画の復元を行う。
George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred spirit.
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Space and time is intertwined into a surreal dream-like journey beyond places and is an abstract nonlinear narrative summary of artist Anders Weberg's time spent with the moving image.
Mitchie can't wait to go back to Camp Rock and spend the summer making new music with her friends and superstar Shane Gray. But the slick new camp across the lake, Camp Star, has drummed up some serious competition – featuring newcomers Luke and Dana. In a sensational battle of the bands, with Camp Rock's future at stake, will Camp Star's flashy production and over-the-top antics win out, or will Camp Rockers prove that music, teamwork, and spirit are what truly matter?
1980年代のダブリンで育った少年は、好きな女性に好印象を与えるためにバンドを結成し、ぎくしゃくした家庭生活から抜け出します。
禁酒法時代のシカゴ。失業中のミュージシャン、ジェリーとジョーは偶然、殺人現場を目撃してしまい、ギャングのボス、スパッツから命を狙われるはめに。やむなく2人は女性だけの楽団に女装してもぐりこみ、寝台列車でマイアミに向かう。魅力的なウクレレ奏者シュガーにすっかり惚れ込んだ彼らだが、ジョーは、マイアミで富豪に変身して彼女に再接近を図る。一方のジェリーは、初老の富豪オズグッド三世から求愛を受けてしまう。
A young rock band, half from England and half from the US, drop out of college and move to the Sunset Strip to chase their dreams.
Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
卓越したギターの腕前を持つ高校生の上ノ山立夏は、ある日、同級生の佐藤真冬の歌声に衝撃を受ける。やがて、ベース担当の大学院生・中山春樹、ドラム担当の大学生・梶秋彦と共に活動しているバンドに、立夏は真冬をボーカルとして加入させるのだった。真冬加入後の初ライブを成功させ、バンド「ギヴン」が始動するなか、立夏は真冬への想いを自覚し、ふたりは付き合い始める。一方、密かに秋彦に想いを寄せている春樹だったが、秋彦は同居人の天才ヴァイオリニスト・村田雨月との関係を続けていた…。
A young woman dreams of making it big in the world of hip hop, but her parents demand that she finish her university degree. She dutifully agrees to complete her education, but her spoken word proves to have a powerful impact in the classroom.
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.
家族を大事にし、幸せな日々を過ごしてきたエヴァン。週末の夜、仕事の都合で妻子のいない家で留守番をしていると、ドアをノックする音が聞こえる。ドアを開けた彼の目に飛び込んだのは、雨に濡れたジェネシス、ベルという二人の美女。道に迷ってしまったという彼女たちを家に入れたエヴァンだが、そのなまめかしい魅力に惑わされていく。ついに誘惑に負けて快楽に浸るものの、突如として二人は凶暴な本性をあらわにする。
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner.
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.
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