Tops (1969)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 7分
演出 : Charles Eames, Ray Eames
シノプシス
Various kinds of tops are shown spinning.
Unearthly terror stalks the creatures of The Dark Planet. An anthology, including tentacled horror from the Tower of Blood, a primitive challenges a beast to avenge a murdered mate and a space jockey confronts a master computer. Mostly wordless sci-fi anthology directed by fantasy and comic book artist Richard Corben (Heavy Metal).
Tater Tomater is the story of a cafeteria worker, Doris, who, over the course of a hectic day, begins to lose control. Being forced to say the same thing over and over again, she begins rhyming words and her co-workers don't quite know how to react.
Crumb director Terry Zwigoff’s first film is a true treat: a documentary about the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America. As beguiling a raconteur as he is a performer, Louie makes for a wildly entertaining movie subject, and Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tribute. Full of infectious music and comedy, Louie Bluie is a humane evocation of the kind of pop-cultural marginalia that Zwigoff would continue to excavate in the coming years.
A documentary on the life and music of manic-depressive, paranoid-schizophrenic cult music icon Wild Man Fischer.
The Fruit Hunters explores the little known subculture and history of rare fruit hunters who travel the globe in an obsessive search for the exotic, in this stylish and sometimes erotic documentary.
Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.
Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker, who falls in love with Murray and a bit in love with Nick. As the child welfare people try to force Murray to become a conventional man (as the price they demand for allowing him to keep Nick), the nephew, who until now has gloried in his Uncle's iconoclastic approach to life, tries to play mediator. But when he succeeds, he is alarmed by the uncle's willingness to cave in to society in order to save the relationship.
SYMBOLIC REMIX OF THE WORLD’S MODERN TRAVESTIES RENDERED WITH AN INCREDIBLE LEVEL OF POLISH BY A NEW CANADIAN ANIMATION STUDIO.
Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal after-image visuals.
南北戦争中のアラバマ州のアウル・クリーク鉄橋で、農場主ペイトン・ファーカーが、南軍に味方して鉄橋を破壊しようとしたスパイ容疑で絞首刑にされようとしていた。彼は残してきた農場や妻子のことを思いながら、もう一度家に戻れたらと思いを巡らせる。絞首刑が執行されたが、首を吊るす縄が途中で切れたためファーカーは川に落ち、そのまま逃げ出した。銃弾をかいくぐって川を泳ぎ、野山を走り、かろうじて逃げおおせたファーカーは、死に直面する前には思いもしなかったほど樹にも草にも鮮烈な印象を受ける。森の道をたどったファーカーはやがて一軒の家にたどり着く。そこは妻と子供が暮らす自分の家であった。<1961年制作のフランスの映画。日本では1963年に公開された。1963年アカデミー賞短編実写賞、1962年カンヌ国際映画祭パルム・ドール(短編)を受賞。オリジナルは3部作で構成されているが、『ふくろうの河』は3部(白黒、28分)。ロベール・アンリコは、アメリカ合衆国の作家アンブローズ・ビアスの、南北戦争下の兵士と市民を描いた短編小説集『生のさなかにも』から3つの短編を選んでそれぞれ短編映画とした。第3部である『ふくろうの河』は「アウル・クリーク橋の一事件」を映画化したものである。1964年にはアメリカのテレビドラマシリーズ『トワイライト・ゾーン』の第5シーズンで142話「アウル・クリーク橋の一事件」としても放送された。>
A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads. Lost for nearly 50 years, the movie was found in 2006 by the son of Ruth Michelly and Saul Gilbert when he found it in his mom's attic in Munich.
Frost is arrested and committed for murder after he is apprehended burying his victims in the garden. However, even while under psychiatric care and tight hospital security, it becomes obvious that Mr. Frost is not all he seems to be.
A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
Billy Bigelow has been dead for 15 years. Now outside the pearly gates, he long ago waived his right to go back to Earth for a day. He has heard that there is a problem with his family: namely with his wife Julie Bigelow, née Jordan, and his child he hasn't met. He would now like to head back to Earth to assist in rectifying the problem; but before he may go, he has to get permission from the gatekeeper by telling him his story. Adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein hit Broadway musical.
Vitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for him.
The film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than parody status would imply. In the context of this film, "Allegro non Troppo" means Not So Fast!, an interjection meaning "slow down" or "think before you act" and refers to the film's pessimistic view of Western progress (as opposed to the optimism of Disney's original).
A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.
1960年代にフォーク・ブームの潮流を作った伝説のマネージャーがこの世を去った。彼の長男は追悼コンサートを画策するが……。“アメリカン・パイ”シリーズのユージーン・レビーが出演するコメディ作品。