Sea of Blood (1969)

A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentrical detective Simon Brenner keeps silent and believes that the man killed himself.

Farinelli is a 1994 biopic film about the life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.

Navy SEALS, headed by Lt. Bobby James, are dispatched to North Korea on a covert mission, all in an effort to take out a missile site...

韓国の情報部員ジュンウォンは最近多発する暗殺事件の裏に、以前から追っている謎の女スナイパーの影を感じていた。そして遂に自分の命が狙われ、恋人の身を案じた彼は、彼女をホテルにかくまう。いつもと様子が違う恋人に、何が彼女を苦しめているのか分からず戸惑うジュンウォン。そんな中、驚異的な破壊力を誇る液体爆弾CTXが強奪される。同じ頃ソウルでは、韓国と北朝鮮両首脳が列席するサッカー南北交流試合の華やかな舞台の準備が進んでいた…。

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time. (Silent short, voiced in 1937 and 1996.)

Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.

シュタージ（国家保安省）の局員ヴィースラー（ウルリッヒ・ミューエ）は、劇作家のドライマン（セバスチャン・コッホ）と恋人で舞台女優のクリスタ（マルティナ・ゲデック）が反体制的であるという証拠をつかむよう命じられる。ヴィースラーは盗聴器を通して彼らの監視を始めるが、自由な思想を持つ彼らに次第に魅せられ……。

スタンリー・キューブリック監督が、G・ハスフォードの原作を基にベトナム戦争の狂気を描く。徴兵された若者が、次第に戦闘マシーンとして人間性を失っていく様を二部構成で描く。 ベトナム戦争の時代、ジェイムズ（愛称ジョーカー）は、サウスカロライナの海兵新兵訓練キャンプ（ブートキャンプ）で、ハートマン軍曹による厳しい訓練を受ける。新兵たちの中で落ちこぼれの「ほほえみデブ」ことレナードは、徹底的なしごきの中で徐々に正気を失っていく…。 新兵訓練を卒業し海兵隊員となったジョーカーは、テト攻勢が始まる中、軍の報道部員としてフエ市街の前線取材を命じられる。だが、交戦の中で小隊長が戦死、分隊長をブービートラップで失う。下士官が指揮を引き継ぎ転進を図るも進路を誤り、今度は狙撃兵の襲撃を受ける。残されたジョーカーは狙撃兵への復讐を図るのだが…。

Girls in my Hometown, released in 1991, is a melodrama dealing with individualism and sacrifice. A young girl has a friend who has just come back from abroad, bringing with her foreign fashions and foreign ideas. When the solider to whom the friend was engaged becomes blinded in an accident, she decides to put herself first, neglecting her duties to her fiancé and the community she lives in.

トーク番組の司会者デイブとアーロンは、朝鮮労働党第一書記・金正恩へのインタビューを許されたことから、中央情報局（CIA）に雇われて彼の暗殺を試みる。二人は金の怒りを買い、金は怒りに任せ、大陸間弾道ミサイルの発射を命じる。だが命令が発せられる前にデイブは戦車でヘリコプターを撃墜して金を殺害し、ミサイル発射を食い止める。二人は北朝鮮軍に偽装した米海軍特殊部隊に救出され、デイブは自分の経験を本に著す。そして北朝鮮はスークの助勢を受けて民主主義国家になる。

An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.

Robert Lepage’s remarkable Met Opera production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 2013 Grammy Award Winner for Best Opera Recording, is now available as individual DVDs. Siegfried features Bryn Terfel, Jay Hunter Morris, and Deborah Voigt, with Fabio Luisi conducting.

Ring Cycle, pt 4. Siegfried is drugged and tricked into kidnapping his wife, since she has the Ring now. More double-crossings, Siegfried ends up dead. Brunnhilde has had enough of this, tosses the Ring into the river and torches the place.

This 3D animated opera deals in a socially critical manner with the topic of illegal immigrants fleeing from Africa to Europe and it is also a story of impossible love between orange boy Maroc, a singing boat refugee, and lemon girl Lisa, who collects singing seashells and dreams about love. Maroc is the brave hero-type, bound by prejudice and poverty. Lisa is the daughter of a rich businessman and tomato ketchup plantation owner. Here we have the fruitier version of Romeo and Juliet - a 3D animated operatic extravaganza!

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.

The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this second opera in Wagner’s Ring cycle. Hildegard Behrens brings deep empathy to Brünnhilde, the favorite daughter of the god Wotan (James Morris) who nevertheless defies him. Morris’s portrayal of Wotan is deservedly legendary, as is Christa Ludwig, as Fricka. Jessye Norman and Gary Lakes are Sieglinde and Siegmund, and Kurt Moll is the threatening Hunding. James Levine and the Met orchestra provide astonishing color and drama. (Performed April 8, 1989)

Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner.

Verdi’s grand opera “Aida” is given an intimate treatment in Busetto, Italy, in 2001, in a staging with young singers, all coached by the legendary tenor Carlo Bergonzi and staged by Franco Zeffirelli. The result is an astonishing musical and dramatic piece of theater, proving that with the right mix of ingredients, an opera can be staged in a small theater and still achieve a thrilling and moving effect.

A womanizing opera star is smitten by a young music student.