Sesame Street: Bert & Ernie's Word Play (2002)

イギリス。バクスター夫妻は、突如として愛娘クリスティン（シャロン・ウィリアムズ）を水難事故で失ってしまう。 数ヶ月後、ジョン（ドナルド・サザーランド）は妻ローラ（ジュリー・クリスティ）を連れ、教会修復の仕事でイタリアのベニス（ヴェネツィア）へと赴いていた。ある日、夫妻は年老いた姉妹と邂逅する。姉ウェンディ（クレリア・マタニア）曰く、盲目の妹ヘザー（ヒラリー・メイソン）には霊感があり、赤いレインコートを着た亡き娘さんの姿が視えるというのだ。その後、姉妹と再会したローラは、亡き娘の言葉を借りたヘザーから「ベニスを去らなければ、ジョンの身に危険が降りかかる」と忠告される。ジョンはその警告に取り合わず、ローラは不安になるのだった。

ミヒャエル・エンデの名作ファンタジー小説を映画化。いじめっ子たちに追いかけられた少年バスチアンが、逃げ込んだ古本屋で手にした『はてしない物語』。読み進めるうちに、彼は不思議な小説の世界に引き込まれていく……。

人間の夢で作られた不思議な世界ファンタージェン。だが、今やそこは"無"を操る悪の女王ザイーダの侵略の危機にさらされていた。本の中から発せられる幼ごころの君の悲鳴!その助けを求める声に導かれるようにファンタージェンへ戻った少年バスチアンは、戦士アトレーユと再会。ファンタージェンを救うべく彼は今、新たな冒険の旅へ出る!"思い出マシン"により、願いごとをするたびに思い出を失っていくバスチアン。その彼が悪との戦いの最後に願ったものは?

……大切なものを守るのと引き換えに僕は、僕の未来を売り払ったんだ。良家の子女のみが通うことを許される女学校。父親と「契約」を交わしたイザベラ・ヨークにとって、白椿が咲き誇る美しいこの場所は牢獄そのもので……。未来への希望や期待を失っていたイザベラの前に現れたのは、教育係として雇われたヴァイオレット・エヴァーガーデンだった。

Jack and his buddy Ben check in at a posh Florida resort, planning to spend every hour in hot pursuit of gorgeous babes. But their plans hit a major detour when they try to bed the wife of a conniving jewel thief. They'll have to outsmart him, a nasty security guard and an obnoxious jock if they're ever going to get a moment alone with the girls of their dreams!

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.

Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez. The film won Best Documentary at the 85th Academy Awards.

Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.

37歳の僕は、ハンブルク空港に到着した飛行機のBGMでビートルズの「ノルウェーの森」を聴き、激しい混乱を覚えた。そして学生時代のことを回想した。 直子とはじめて会ったのは神戸にいた高校2年のときで、直子は僕の友人キズキの恋人だった。3人でよく遊んだが、キズキは高校3年の5月に自殺してしまった。その後、僕はある女の子と付き合ったが、彼女を置いて東京の私立大学に入学し、右翼的な団体が運営する学生寮に入った。僕のやるべきことは、あらゆる物事と自分の間にしかるべき距離を置くことだった。

During the Japanese occupation of Korea, the Japanese Empire seeks to eradicate the Korean language and identity. In retaliation, a small group of Korean patriots try to protect their language by compiling the first Korean language dictionary.

　26歳の春――。須和弘人は、高校の同級生の茅野貴子、萩田朔、村坂あずさ、卒業後に結婚した高宮菜穂、そして、二人の間に生まれた子供と共に、桜の舞う弘法山を訪れた。彼らはそこから沈みゆく夕日を眺めながら、10年前に亡くなった成瀬翔のことを考えていた。成瀬翔は高校二年生の始業式の日に、東京から松本市に引っ越してきた転校生。すぐに翔と親しくなった須和は、彼と菜穂が互いに思いを寄せ合っていることを知るが、それに気付かないフリをしてしまっていた。そして、17歳の冬に突然、翔は全てを置いて亡くなってしまう。

When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder or anything about the first 22 years of her life as Victoria Remington. Then at her second wedding she wonders why she said "I take you, Roger," instead of "I take you, Allen."

Documentary following a group of primary schoolchildren over the course of a year as they learn to read. Some of them make a flying start, but others struggle even with the alphabet. The film takes us into their home lives, where we find that some parents are strongly aspirational, tutoring children late into the night, while others speak English as a foreign language, if at all. As the children master the basics, they discover the magical world of stories and look with fresh eyes at the world around them. The film gives us privileged access to a profound process that all of us only ever do once in our lives.

John is a man of many talents, including one forbidden skill: he can read. When he teaches a young slave girl named Sarny to read and write, she learns an unforgettable lesson about the power of words and the true meaning of freedom.

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.

It's time to learn to read, Sesame Street style! Bert, Ernie, and friends are putting on a new play and some of your favorite words are the stars!

A young girl learns the importance of reading, when she ends up in a dystopian future where reading is banned.

"Letters from Europe" brings to light the words of men and women who gave their lives resisting the Nazi and fascist conquest from 1939 to '45 across the European continent. The moving goodbyes penned by a few of those sentenced to death are sometimes true spiritual testaments that explore the meaning of civic responsibility, human existence, fraternity, and life and death. Their words, which the film mingles with footage of the present day, can perhaps restore meaning to a humanist ideal and to the ever-changing idea of a united Europe.

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A romantic story about a guy, a girl and the mailbox that brings them together.