Comrade Pedersen (2006)

第37代合衆国大統領リチャード・ニクソンが1972年に起こしたウォーターゲート事件。その全容に迫るオリヴァー・ストーン監督の衝撃作。実在の人物を通じて、アメリカの光と影を世界に問う。

貧しいユダヤ人家庭に生まれたルース・ギンズバーグは、「すべてに疑問を持て」という亡き母の言葉を胸に努力を重ね、名門ハーバード法科大学院に入学する。1956年当時、500人の生徒のうち女性は9人で、女子トイレすらなかった。家事も育児も分担する夫のマーティの協力のもと首席で卒業するが、女だからというだけで雇ってくれる法律事務所はなかった。やむなく大学教授になったルースは、70年代になってさらに男女平等の講義に力を入れる。それでも弁護士の夢を捨てられないルースに、マーティがある訴訟の記録を見せる。ルースはその訴訟が、歴史を変える裁判になることを信じ、自ら弁護を買って出るのだが──。

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987.

「ウォーターゲート事件」の全容と事件を内部告発したFBI副長官の姿を、リーアム・ニーソン主演で実話をもとに映画化したサスペンスドラマ。アメリカ合衆国史上初めて任期半ばで辞任に追い込まれたリチャード・ニクソン大統領。その引き金となったウォーターゲート事件の捜査の指揮にあたったFBI副長官マーク・フェルトは、なかなか進展しない捜査の裏にホワイトハウスが捜査妨害をしていることを察知し、事件自体がホワイトハウスの陰謀によるものであることを悟る。大統領に忠実なL・パトリック・グレイFBI長官に捜査協力が期待できない中、フェルトは事件の真相を明るみにするため、大胆な決断をする。フェルト役を「96時間」「シンドラーのリスト」のニーソン、妻オードリー役を「トスカーナの休日」のダイアン・レインが演じる。監督は「コンカッション」「パークランド　ケネディ暗殺、真実の4日間」のピーター・ランデスマン。「オデッセイ」「ブレードランナー」のリドリー・スコットが製作。

A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama reveals how Crane's double life takes its toll on him and his family, and ultimately contributes to his death.

記録的な猛暑を迎えたニューヨーク。治安の悪化により暴徒と化した市民が至るところで略奪を繰り返し、さらに女性ばかりを狙う連続殺人鬼の出現が街に暗い影を落としていた。ブロンクスに暮らす女流作家のジューンは、カウンターカルチャーの旗手として輝かしいキャリアを築いてきたが、ある事件をきっかけで筆を断ち、それ以来外界と隔絶し、自宅に閉じこもっていた。ある日、ジューンの暮らすアパートのブザーがけたたましく鳴り響く。一体、誰が彼女を訪ねてきたのか？そのブザーは、彼女を待ち受ける地獄の始まりにすぎなかった…。

殺人罪に問われた天才ボクサー、ルービン・ハリケーン・カーターは、人種偏見に満ちた裁判で終身刑を宣告される。無罪を主張する彼は獄中で自伝を執筆。その自伝に感銘を受けた少年との出会いを機に、カーターは連邦裁判所で最後の戦いに挑む決意をする。

Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.

シングルとアルバムの総売上は全世界で３億枚を越える伝説的ミュージシャン、シンガーソングライター“エルトン・ジョン”の半生を描いた話題のミュージカル超大作。

Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

ベトナム戦争が泥沼化し、アメリカ国民の間に戦争に対する疑問や反戦の気運が高まっていた1971年、ニューヨーク・タイムズがベトナム戦争を分析・記録した国防総省の最高機密文書＝「ペンタゴン・ペーパーズ」の存在をスクープする。ワシントン・ポストの発行人キャサリン・グラハムと部下で編集主幹のベン・ブラッドリーは、ニューヨーク・タイムズと時に争いながらも連携し、報道の自由を統制し、記事を差し止めようとする政府と闘うのだった。

ロサンゼルスに住む、私立探偵のドックの前に、今も忘れられない元カノのシャスタが現れる。不動産王で大富豪の愛人になったシャスタはドックに、カレの妻とその恋人の悪だくみを暴いてほしいと依頼する。だが、捜査に踏み出したドックは殺人の濡れ衣を着せられ、大富豪もシャスタも失踪してしまう。ドックは巨額が動く土地開発に絡む、国際麻薬組織のきな臭い陰謀に引き寄せられていく。果たして、シャスタの行方は？この事件の先に“愛”はあるのか！？

Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.

1969年、自らを“ゾディアック”と名乗る男による殺人が頻発し、ゾディアックは事件の詳細を書いた手紙を新聞社に送りつけてくる。手紙を受け取ったサンフランシスコ・クロニクル紙の記者ポール（ロバート・ダウニーJr）、同僚の風刺漫画家ロバート（ジェイク・ギレンホール）は事件に並々ならぬ関心を寄せるが……。＜アメリカ犯罪史上最も危うい連続殺人鬼と言われる“ゾディアック・キラー”を題材にした話題作。ゾディアックに関わり、人生を狂わされた4人の男たちの姿を描く。監督は『セブン』のデビッド・フィンチャー。『ブロークバック・マウンテン』のジェイク・ギレンホールが、事件の謎を追い続ける風刺漫画家を演じる。徹底したリサーチを基に練り上げられたサスペンスとしても、4人の男たちの生き様をリアルにつづった人間ドラマとしても楽しめる。＞

南アフリカ人のティム・ジェンキンは、白人でありながら反アパルトヘイト組織「アフリカ民族会議」の隠密作戦をおこなった罪のより、同胞のスティーブン・リーとともにプレトリア刑務所に投獄される。ティム、スティーブンたちは、自由と平等を手にするため、最高警備を誇る刑務所からの脱獄を決意する。さまざまな脱獄方法を模索した結果、ティムたちが最後に選んだ手段は木片を集めた鍵を使った脱獄だった。鍵を作っては解錠を繰り返し、徐々に出口までの鍵が完成していった。投獄から18カ月、彼らは木鍵による鉄製扉の突破を試みる。

「ライトスタッフ」で一躍有名になったP・カウフマンが68年のチェコ動乱、いわゆる“プラハの春”を題材にして描いた超大作。若者の間に芽生えた民主化要求の波がソ連軍の軍事介入で圧殺されていく中、プレイボーイの医師と二人の女の青春が鮮烈に描かれる。古いニュース・フィルムと本編の画調を完璧に合わせるという離れ技を、ベルイマン作品で鳴らした名カメラマン、スヴェン・ニクヴィストが見事にやってのけている。

ウォーターゲート事件で辞任に追い込まれたニクソン元米国大統領。彼が77年に行なった、イギリスの司会者デヴィッド・フロストとの伝説的な単独インタビューをもとにした実録ドラマ。舞台裏で繰り広げられた熾烈な駆け引きと緊迫のトーク・バトルを描く。

ホワイトハウスで7人の大統領に仕えた黒人執事の実話をもとに描かれた感動作。フォレスト・ウィティカー演じるセシル・ゲインズ執事の視点で映し出される動乱期のアメリカと翻弄される家族の物語を描く。

1930年代、大不況のアメリカ。長距離トラックの運転手ジミー・ホッファは、低賃金で過度の労働を強いられる長距離トラック運転手たちの組合“チームスター”を組織した。彼は経営者側との対立や抗争に備えマフィアに接近し力を借りるようになる。やがて第二次大戦が終わるとアメリカ経済は繁栄期を迎え、ホッファはますます組合の中での地位を固め、更に彼はマフィアへ資金援助をするなど関係を深めていく。

Pia is coming home for Christmas after traveling in England for about 6 months. She wants to catch up with her boyfriend, Kristoffer, who was supposed to have joined her on the trip, but backed out at the last minute. Finding him, however, is turning out to be quite a task. While searching, she meets several more or less disgruntled and dissatisfied people. And when Santa turns up things start happening...

Adapted from a novel by Norway's justice minister Anne Holt. Lesbian policewoman Hanne Wilhelmsen (Kjersti Elvik), who has a live-in lover, tools about Oslo on her Harley-Davidson. After a number of women vanish, police find blood but no bodies, and Wilhelmsen begins a search for the suspected serial killer.

Charming desperado Ossy, carrying a deadly secret, tracks down his childhood pal Jimmy in Iceland. But Jimmy, now with a family and a regular job, will do anything to hide his past.

The movie takes place on Oslo's east side sometime during the twenties. It depicts the workers' environment by traditional elements like unemployment, strike, poverty, alcoholism, absent fathers, wise and tired mothers, the dream of a better life and the friendship between the boys in the street.

Frida, aged 13, has discovered a book by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm called "The art of loving". Using it as a reference she sets out to better the love lives of her family and friends. But love works in mysterious ways...

The Master and His Servants (Norwegian: Herren og hans tjenere) is a 1959 Norwegian drama film directed by Arne Skouen. The film is based on a 1955 play by Axel Kielland, who also plays a minor character in the film. The play and the film is based on a true story from Sweden. The Master and his Servants was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.

Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined house that he enters reminds Lemuel of his childhood and brings up a painful memory of a dearly loved girl Markéta who was drowned years ago. Gulliver finds himself in Balnibarbi, a country where he doesn't understand the laws and habits and so continually offends against public decency. It is a day when people are ordered to keep their mouths shut and they force their visitor to follow suit. He faces harsh interrogation and finds it difficult to explain that he is not the rabbit Oscar whose watch has been found in his possession.

Little Oddemann uses every means available to find Jesus, including his slingshot. The film takes us to Norway in the late '30s, where we meet a series of burlesque and humorous characters, whose antics convince Oddemann that growing up may be a bad idea. Yet Oddemann finds there are certain rewards to being grown-up, such as partying and chasing women, that merit closer examination.

In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into the three sections: The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera. The first segment covers Fuller's past as a newsman where he began as a copy boy and ended as a reporter. Part two describes Fuller's experiences in World War II, in which he participated as a soldier. The last section focuses on Fuller as director. Tim Robbins interviews Samuel Fuller revealing the director's own memories and impressions. Beside the interview, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino accompany the documentary with their comments.

Cowboys trade lewd stories in the spirit of one-upmanship. Beer guzzling, bestiality and hellfire: it must be a Phil Mulloy cartoon.

The Other Side of Sunday, also known in Norwegian as "Søndagsengler", is a movie that criticizes the small, and often tight, church community. We follow the Preacher's Daughter, Maria, on her journey to liberate herself from the stiff church community and her father.

The adventures of lesbian space aliens on the planet Earth, and the story of the romance between Jane, a shy greeting card store employee, and Zoinx, the woman Jane does not realize is from outer-space. Meanwhile, two government agents, or 'Men In Black,' are closely tracking Jane and the aliens while harboring their own secrets.

A man and a woman meet in 1960. They marry because that's what you are supposed to do. But something goes wrong on their wedding night. They have no idea what to do with each other. Sexually. Emotionally. The husband meets a man who knows what to do with his sexuality. Suddenly a hand can do something no hand has done before and lips something no lips have ever done. The two men have a secret love affair. But there is a problem: The woman. And she has something up her sleeve. Will she act? Yes, she will. What happens? Nobody knows. Until now.

Following her son's death, Victoria moves to a small community to work as a doctor at the local clinic. She attempts to forget and move on with her life but finds it impossible when a local boy is found dead in the snow and Victoria must tell the boy's parents. Police quickly explains it as an accident but Victoria finds that there is something strange about the whole affair.

Ocean, ice and bitter cold in a seemingly untouched corner of the world. A crew who can only trust each other in the kingdom of polar bears and sudden storms. Until now this has been an annual ritual for the obstinate, ageing skipper Bjørne and his first mate Espen. In the beginning of the 20th century, more than 200 Norwegian sealing vessels were active, now there’s only one ship left. Massive international condemnation and the EU ban on all imports of seal products has almost wiped out the industry. But the skipper and his first mate refuse to give in. With a motley crew of greenhorns and old-timers, they set out on the dangerous journey into the polar ice. They are the last seal hunters of Norway. Sealers is a chilling feelgood roadtrip story of blood, sweat and frosted cream cakes.

Petter and Kari meet, fall in love, and get married. But it's not easy for a young couple of limited means to find a place to live. Moving in with Petter's parents proves impossible, Kari can't endure her mother-in-law's constant interference. Trying to build a house of their own is halted by so much red tape, and affordable rentals is hard to come by. When Kari gets pregnant things doesn't get any easier.

Stavanger is no longer a small fishing town on the West Coast of Norway. People are wealthier, the cars more expensive and the houses more luxurious. In the middle of this materialistic everyday reality is Jonny Kristiansen, an up and coming 25 year old broker. Hungry for money and success, he is pulled into an unscrupulous financial world. Jonny takes off and aims at becoming the richest and most powerful at whatever cost.

Storm is 10 years old. When her father disappears and her mother starts making instructional videos with an Eastern European self-help guru, Storm must decide which rules life to adhere to lest the world should fall apart.

Margreth Olin has filmed 22 persons i their meeting with the well known voluntary healer Joralf Gjerstad. For 65 years more than 50.000 has gone to him to be healed from illnesses and ill-doings. He has never asked for a penny for this

The wife of an alcoholic and mother of four (Toula Stathopoulou) is a factory worker in Corfu at the beginning of the 20th century. A fallen noble man who has fallen on hard times (Stratis Tsopanellis) wants to marry her eldest daughter (Anny Loulou) and take advantage of the family's meager earnings. He kidnaps the not-unwilling girl, and argues with her mother about the dowry. But the girl refuses to marry him when she wakes up to the fact that he is only looking out for his own interests. She then decides to start working in order to earn money to raise the child she is expecting. The film is an adaptation of the novel 'For Honor and Money' by Konstantinos Theotokis.