Metropolis Refound (2010)

In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.

科学の飛躍的な発展の結果、労働者たちは地下に押しやられ、巨大な工場で家畜同然に管理されている一方、資本家たちは地上で享楽的生活を送っている。社長の息子は地下に降りて、彼らの悲惨な生活を知る。労働者の娘マリアは、労使間に人間的な絆が皆無であることを仲間に訴え、これがストライキの気運を生む。そこで社長はマリアを監禁、彼女そっくりの人造人間を作って事態収拾にあたるが、人造人間は狂い始める。

地球という星の、ロサンゼルス、ニューヨーク、パリ、ローマ、ヘルシンキという5つの都市で、5人のタクシー・ドライバーが乗客を乗せた。同じ夜にそれぞれに繰り広げられる5つの物語。本作はジャームッシュの作品に共通して見られる奇妙な可笑しさ、卓越したセンスが冴える会話に加え、背景に広がる空しさに満ちた荒涼感は健在であり、その独自の雰囲気で好き嫌いがハッキリと二分される彼の作品にしては割りと門戸が広く、様々な人が楽しめる作品に仕上がっている。特に、ニューヨークが舞台の話と、ロベルト・ベニーニ主演によるパリの話がお勧め。

NYのラジオの人気DJ・エリカは、ある晩、挙式間近の婚約者デヴィッドと公園を散歩中、3人組の暴漢に襲われ、デヴィッドは亡くなり、彼女自身も瀕死の重傷を負う。絶望の底に沈んだエリカは、ふと衝動に駆られて1丁の銃を手に入れるが、そんなある日、コンビニで偶然、強盗の現場に遭遇する。再び命の危険にさらされた彼女は、とっさに相手を撃ち殺してしまうが、以来、彼女の中でもうひとりの新たな自分が目覚めていき…

近未来。人間とロボットが共存する巨大都市国家メトロポリスは、有力者・レッド公の超高層ビル“ジグラット”のオープンにわきたっていた。ところが、そのビルこそ世界征服を企むレッド公の野望の拠点となるべき城砦でもあったのだ。そして、その最上階に座るロボット守護神・ティマが、臓器売買、生体実験の罪で国際手配されているロートン博士の手によって今まさに完成されようとしていた。しかしその直前、ロートン博士はレッド公の養子で、世界の支配権をロボットに委ねることをよしとしないロックによって殺害され、研究所も破壊されてしまう。ただティマだけは、ロートン博士を追って日本からやって来た私立探偵・伴俊作の甥・ケンイチによって炎の中から助け出され、メトロポリスの地下へと逃げ延び、そして地下生活の中で、ティマとケンイチは人間として心を通わせるようになるのであった。しかし、レッド公の陰謀によって勃発した反ロボット革命派のクーデターに巻き込まれたふたりはレッド公の手に落ち、更にレッド公によって自分がロボットだと知らされショックを受けたティマは、全世界のコンピュータを支配する超コンピュータに変身すべく、自ら進んで超人の椅子に座した。だがその時、ティマを破壊しようとしたことを咎められ、レッド公によってジグラットを追放されていたロックがビルを爆破。全てが崩れ去る中、ティマも瓦礫の下敷きとなってしまう。ティマを失い愕然とビル崩壊現場を彷徨うケンイチ。そんな彼に、ロボットたちがティマの部品を集めてくれる。

世界大戦後の廃墟で生き延びていた女性兵士デュナンは、人類への奉仕者として肉体・感情を制御されたクローン人間バイオロイドの管理する理想都市オリュンポスに連行され、そこで全身サイボーグ化していた恋人ブリアレオスと再会する。彼の所属する元老院ESWATの一員となったデュナンは、やがてバイオロイドの開発とオリュンポス計画に自分の両親が関わっていた事実を知り、自身もバイオロイドの軛を解き放つ鍵「アップルシード」をめぐる陰謀に巻き込まれていく。

A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle. He and the viewer get more than they bargained for, however, in this anarchic comedy that rides roughshod over the City of Light. Based on a popular novel by Raymond Queneau that had been considered unadaptable, the audacious Zazie dans le Métro, made with flair on the cusp of the French New Wave, is a bit of stream-of-consciousness slapstick, wall-to-wall with visual gags, editing tricks, and effects.

ある企業から重要書類を盗み出した男。彼は追っ手を逃れ、パリの地下に網の目のように拡がる地下道に紛れ込む。そこには地上とは異なる、別の世界があった……。近未来を舞台に、パリ地下水道をエキセントリックに描き出したＳＦアドヴェンチャー。ランベールとアジャーニの無機質な表情と作品世界が実にマッチしているＬ・ベッソン監督作品。

In 1928, as the talkies threw the film industry and film language into turmoil, Chaplin decided that his Tramp character would not be heard. City Lights would not be a talking picture, but it would have a soundtrack. Chaplin personally composed a musical score and sound effects for the picture. With Peter Lord, the famous co-creator of Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit, we see how Chaplin became the king of slapstick comedy and the superstar of the movies.

Two cops, R and Noma, hunt down renegade cyborgs. Cyborgs are used as commandos by the military, as lust objects and for companionship. Normaly they have a limited lifespan of three years but black market technology is being developed to be able to transfer a cyborg's artificial intelligence into human host. This drives R to find a suitable host for his expiring cyborg Ria.

Detective Jon Louroy Chance investigates a string of murders in Los Angeles and uncovers a ruthless kidnapping scheme.

When it comes to crime, Belgrade is same as any other modern metropolis, except for having its own serial killers. That blank is filled when a flower salesman begins strangling women. A popular, but very disturbed rock star soon becomes telepathically connected with the killer.

Sultana, a small town prostitute and her pimp Khudabaksh migrate to the metropolis, bringing with them their dreams and meagre belongings. Sultana goes about her bright and artful seductions but somehow misses her targets. Her business collapses. Desperately, Khudabaksh too tries his hand at many jobs but is unsuccessful. Sultana's loneliness and despair get objectified in her desire for a 'salwaar' that she needs to complete her black ensemble for the observance of mourning for Moharram.

A young man and woman discover the beauty of Tokyo at night as they wander around the streets of the capital after the last train leaves. Winner of multiple Moosic Lab 2018 awards in the Short Movie category.

A prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis: rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia. Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her hometown of Calgary in this critique of the bacteria-like spread of suburbia and exurbia. This film was made as part of the third edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

August Strindberg's "The Red Room" recreated to a science fiction world in Stockholm, a brutal, guarded and controlled existence under a total supremacy. Like in Metropolis or Airstrip One the citizens are directed to align themselves in the direction of what the higher power thinks is to their advantage. The government offices takes care of your every need.

The taboo relationship between young Nadav and his Aunt Nina transcends definition on its way to odd highs and lows.

An aging soccer player has a part-time girlfriend, a young fan, and doubts about throwing a game.

On August 13th, 1961 - the night that the Berlin Wall goes up - three people must make a decision that will change their lives forever.

A Texas oil driller schemes to steal millions of dollars in oil.

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.

Santos, a failed comic book artist, lives in a parallel universe where he's a superhero who has to save the world.

Ukrainian folk tale. The hero of the story, Kotigoroschko sets off on an arduous journey to find his sister Olenka, who has been kidnapped by an evil dragon. Dangers lurk everywhere. Everywhere the submissive servants of the dragon fight him, but again and again, good-hearted people help the brave young knight survive the adventurous journey: they give him a sword, life-giving water and a flying ship. Finally Kotigoroschko enters the realm of the dragon...

This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

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.

A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.

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…

A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner.

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.

A 25-year-old real estate agent allows some salacious rumours about his past to run rife to attract the attentions of two women.

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."

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.

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.