Wonderful Losers: A Different World (2017)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 1時間 11分
演出 : Arūnas Matelis
シノプシス
They're called water carriers, domestics, 'gregarios', 'Sancho Panzas' of professional cycling. Always at the back of the group, with no right for a personal victory. These wonderful losers are the true warriors of professional cycling.
Filmed over 14 months with unprecedented access into the inner circle of the man and the sport, this is the first official and fully authorised film of one of the most celebrated figures in football. For the first time ever, the world gets vividly candid and un-paralleled, behind-closed-doors access to the footballer, father, family-man and friend in this moving & fascinating documentary. Through in-depth conversations, state of the art football footage and never before seen archival footage, the film gives an astonishing insight into the sporting and personal life of triple Ballon D'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo at the peak of his career. From the makers of ‘Senna’ and ‘Amy’, Ronaldo takes audiences on an intimate and revealing journey of what it’s like to live as an iconic athlete in the eye of the storm.
ロシア人科学者が暴露した国家ぐるみのドーピング。プーチンにとって最悪の内部告発者となった男の証言に米国人自転車選手が迫り、アカデミー賞を獲得した作品。
Chelsea finished third in the Premier League last season, albeit a staggering 25 points behind second-placed Liverpool, and started life under a new manager with club legend Frank Lampard taking the reins. With a transfer ban impacting the west Londoners' business, and the Covid-19 pandemic causing unprecedented disruption mid-season, Chelsea finished the domestic season narrowly losing the FA Cup final to Arsenal. Despite the disappointment, a 4th place finish secured on the final day of the Premier League campaign guarantees the Blues will be playing Champions League football in the 2020/21 season.
The story is set at the 1972 Munich Olympics where the U.S. team lost the basketball championship for the first time in 36 years. The final moments of the final game have become one of the most controversial events in Olympic history. With play tied, the score table horn sounded during a second free throw attempt that put the U.S. ahead by one. But the Soviets claimed they had called for a time out before the basket and confusion ensued. The clock was set back by three seconds twice in a row and the Russians finally prevailed at the very last. The U.S. protested, but a jury decided in the USSR’s favor and Team USA voted unanimously to refuse its silver medals. The Soviet players have been treated as heroes at home.
The world had rarely seen a frenzy as the one the Dream Team created when it arrived in Barcelona, Spain, in July 1992. The Dream Team featured 11 future Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame players and three future Hall of Famers on the coaching staff, including head coach Chuck Daly.
During a summer of friendship and adventure, one boy becomes a part of the gang, nine boys become a team and their leader becomes a legend by confronting the terrifying mystery beyond the right field wall.
アポロとの死闘で判定負けしたロッキーは、危険なボクシングから足を洗い、恋人エイドリアンと結婚。正業に就いて家庭を築こうとするが、ボクシング一筋に生きてきた彼はどんな仕事をしてもうまくいかない。一方、無名のロッキーをKOできなかったアポロはチャンピオンとしてのプライドを打ち砕かれ、評価も人気も失っていた。復讐に燃えるアポロはマスコミを使ってロッキーを挑発、再戦のリングに引きずり上げようと画策する。
常夏の地・ジャマイカから無謀にもボブスレーチームを組んで、88年カルガリー冬季オリンピックに参戦した男たちの実話を描いたスポ根コメディ。幼い頃から100m走でオリンピックを目指していた主人公が選考会で転倒の巻き添えを食い、出場不可能になってしまう。それでもオリンピック出場の夢を見る彼は冬季五輪のボブスレー競技のことを知り、幼なじみのお調子者や転倒事故で同じく夢破れた2人を巻き込んで、過去に2度金メダルを取ったアメリカ人選手をコーチに招いて練習を開始するのだった……。
激戦を続けてきた影響で脳に損傷が見つかり、ボクシングからの引退を余儀なくされたロッキー。その上税理士の財産使い込みが発覚、破産したロッキーはかつて暮らした下町で無一文から再出発することになる。そんなある日、彼の前に若いボクサー、トミーが現われる。粗削りながらその才能に気付いたロッキーはトレーナーを引き受け、トミーは気鋭のボクサーに成長。だがマスコミはトミーを「ロッキーの操り人形」と書き立てる。
A losing coach with an underdog football team faces their giants of fear and failure on and off the field to surprising results.
ケヴィン・コスナー主演による痛快エンタテインメント。全米に生中継される大注目のNFLドラフト会議で、選手獲得のために頭脳戦を繰り広げるクリーブランド・ブラウンズのマネージャーの奮闘を描く。
怒りを力に変える過激な戦闘スタイルのボクサー、ビリー・ホープは、試合にまつわるいざこざが原因で妻を亡くす。生きる気力をなくした彼は世界チャンピオンの座から転落し、まな娘とも離れ離れになってしまう。全てをなくしたビリーはアマチュアボクサーのトレーナーを務めるティックの協力を得て、栄光と娘の信頼を取り返すため再起を図る。
Phil Weston has been unathletic his entire life. In college he failed at every sport that he tried out for. It looks like his 10-year old son, Sam, is following in his footsteps. But when Phil's hyper-competitive dad benches Sam, Phil decides to transfer his son to a new team which needs a coach. Phil steps in to be the temporary coach and immediately begins to butt heads with this dad over this new competition in their lives.
Pro quarter-back, Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach, Nate Scarboro are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game 'fixed' to turn out quite another way.
貧しい家庭にて、幼いころから厳しく育てられたトーニャ・ハーディン。その才能と努力でアメリカ人初のトリプルアクセルを成功させ、92年アルベールビル、94年リレハンメルと二度のオリンピック代表選手となった。しかし、彼女の夫であったジェフ・ギルーリーの友人がトーニャのライバルであるナンシー・ケリガンを襲撃したことで、彼女のスケート人生の転落が始まる。
スラムで育った少年がサッカーに目覚め、ブラジルをW杯で優勝させることを決意し、“サッカーの王様”と呼ばれるまでになるまでを描いたスポーツ・ドラマ。20世紀最高のサッカー選手と称される、ペレの人生を家族愛とともに綴っている。
高校のバスケット・チームを舞台に教師の苦悩と葛藤を描く感動の人間ドラマ。監督は『ネゴシエーター』のトーマス・カーター。R&B界の歌姫・アシャンティが本作で映画デビューを飾っている。サミュエル・L・ジャクソン演じるコーチ・カーターの人間らしいキャラクターはハマリ役。
Rosetta and new arrival Chloe band together to try to break the garden fairies' legendary losing streak in the Pixie Hollow Games, a sports spectacle filled with pixie pageantry, fantastic fairy events and hilarious surprises.
大恐慌時代に活躍した実在のボクサー、ジム・ブラドックの伝説を映画化した感動の物語。貧困のなか、家族を養うためだけに戦い、ヘヴィ級チャンピオンとなった小市民を、巨匠ロン・ハワード監督が情感たっぷりに描く。迫力満点のファイト・シーンの撮影も見事。
Viola Hastings is in a real jam. Complications threaten her scheme to pose as her twin brother, Sebastian, and take his place at a new boarding school. She falls in love with her handsome roommate, Duke, who loves beautiful Olivia, who has fallen for Sebastian! As if that were not enough, Viola's twin returns from London ahead of schedule but has no idea that his sister has already replaced him on campus.
November 1999. 67-year-old Trond lives in new-found solitude and looks forward to spending New Year's Eve 2000 alone. As winter arrives he discovers he has a neighbor, a man Trond knew back in 1948, the summer he turned 15 and the summer Trond's father prepared him to carry the burden of his forthcoming betrayal and disappearance.
A mother of two gathers her loved ones to celebrate her birthday in her big house near the Loire Valley. The festivities are disrupted by the arrival of her daughter, who is known for her unpredictable outbursts.
Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged teenage stepson, Gustav, moves in with them, Anne’s escalating desire leads her down a dangerous rabbit hole which, once exposed, unleashes a sequence of events destined to destroy her world.
Merab has been training since a young age at the National Georgian Ensemble with his dance partner Mary. His world is suddenly turned upside down when the charismatic and carefree Irakli arrives and becomes both his strongest rival and desire. In this conservative setting Merab finds himself having to break free and risk it all.
Set in post-WWII Leningrad as two female soldiers return from war and attempt to rebuild their lives in the ravaged city.
Sarah is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, her seven year old daughter. Sarah feels guilty that she cannot spend more time with her child. Her love is overpowering, unsettling. When Sarah is chosen to join the crew of a year-long space mission called Proxima, it creates chaos in the mother-daughter relationship.
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.
When architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter Bee goes on a quest with Bernadette's husband to find her.
優等生でスポーツ万能な学生ニック。父デヴィッドにとっては自慢の息子であり、父と再婚相手カレンの間に生まれた幼い弟と妹にとっても良き兄だった彼は、ふとしたはずみでドラッグに手を出してしまう。最初は軽い気持ちだったが、気づいたときには底なしの泥沼から抜け出せなくなっていた。そんなニックの深刻な薬物依存を知ったデヴィッドは、息子の更正を信じて彼のリハビリを懸命にサポートするのだったが…。
Jonas (Dainius Kazlauskas) pretends to be blind and enters a TV dance contest, where he meets his attractive dance partner Saule (Paulina Taujanskaite). Soon they become the show's most popular contestants. While the whole nation thinks that Jonas is blind, Vytas (Darius Bagdziunas), an old acquaintance of Jonas, is released from prison. As reminders of the past keep creeping up on them, Vytas is suppressing contradictory feelings - to seek revenge or forgiveness in such a manipulative world - for sins that were and for sins to be made.
Marianne leaves Abel for Paul, his best friend and the father of her unborn child. Eight years later, Paul dies and Marianne returns to Abel. However, things have changed for the both of them and feelings of jealousy surround their new relationship.
Human beings are the kings of all animals, at least if you ask us humans. Our vanity is given something to mirror itself in, but does not escape without a scratch or two in this documentary, which observes a taxidermist, a deer farmer and a museum curator at work. Three jobs that have one thing in common: turning animals into aesthetic objects, alive as well as dead. When the work is done properly, it is impossible to tell the difference. Dead pets are mummified. At the zoological museum, the animals' glassy eyes stare back at us from the showcases. Even a plastic alligator has its natural place in the human master plan.
Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the imminent closure of the maternity clinic where she works, her life is further turned upside down when Béatrice, her father's former mistress, turns up on the scene. Béatrice is a capricious and selfish woman, Claire's exact opposite.
ギリシャの北に位置する北マケドニアで製作された傑作ドキュメンタリー。電気も水道もない谷で、寝たきりの盲目の老母と暮らすヨーロッパ最後の自然養蜂家の女性のユニークな日常を、3年にわたってとらえていく。
ウィレム・デフォーがゴッホ役を演じ、その死の謎に迫った伝記映画。画家としてパリでまったく評価されなかったゴッホは出会ったばかりの画家ゴーギャンの助言に従い、南仏のアルルにやって来たのだが……。監督は名匠ジュリアン・シュナーベル。
とある都会の片隅。小さな庭に小さな木の生えた、小さな家に暮らす4歳のくんちゃんは、生まれたばかりの妹に両親の愛情を奪われ、戸惑いの日々を過ごしていた。そんな彼の前にある時、学生の姿をした少女が現れる。彼女は、未来からやってきた妹ミライだった。ミライに導かれ、時を越えた冒険に出たくんちゃんは、かつて王子だったという謎の男や幼い頃の母、青年時代の曽祖父など、不思議な出会いを果たしていく。
アメリカを操り、世界をメチャクチャにした悪名高き副大統領ディック・チェイニーをクリスチャン・ベールが演じた伝記コメディ。酒癖の悪い青年がいかに副大統領となり、国をイラク戦争へ導いたかを描いていく。
1950年代のロンドン。唯一無二のデザインと職人技術で、英国の高級婦人ファッション界の中心に君臨する仕立て屋のレイノルズ。彼は郊外にある「ハウス・オブ・ウッドコック」で姉のシリルと共に、毎日完璧に仕事をこなしていた。ある日、レイノルズは立ち寄ったレストランで、若きウェイトレス アルマと出会う。会った瞬間に一目惚れをして、彼女を新たなミューズに迎えることになる。アルマの体に触れ、採寸をしていくレイノルズは、とても美しいと彼女の“完璧な身体”を愛した。しかし、若く情熱的なアルマの出現により、完璧で規律的だったレイノルズの日常は思わぬ方向へと進んでいく。
18世紀初頭、フランスとの戦争状態にあるイングランド。 虚弱な女王、アン が王位にあり、彼女 の幼馴染、レディ・サラ が病身で気まぐれな女王を動かし、絶大な権力を振るっ ていた。 そんな中、没落したサラの従妹アビゲイル が召 使いとして参内し、その魅力がレディ・サラとアン女王を引きつけ る。 レディ・サラはアビゲイルを支配下に置くが、一方でアビゲイルは 再び貴族の地位に返り咲く機会を伺っていた。 戦争の継続をめぐる政治的駆け引きが続く中、急速に育まれるサラ との友情がアビゲイルにチャンスをもたらすが、 その行く手には数々の試練が待ち受けていた。