The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
Exploring thoroughly modern taboos
ジャンル : ドラマ, 履歴
上映時間 : 2時間 2分
演出 : Peter Greenaway
シノプシス
Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
1956: The shy Jonathan's luck with girls changes when he wins the rebellious Gene as a friend in his last year of high school. Gene is adored by many girls and manages to teach Jonathan a few lessons. Gene himself would rather just be with one girl: his girlfriend Bunny. But since his father is poor, her parents don't accept him.
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final request, 'Last Orders', that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate. The movie follows his mates, Ray, Lenny and Vic and his foster son Vince as they journey to the sea with the ashes. Along the way, the threads of their lives, their loves and their disappointments are woven together in their memories of Jack and his wife Amy
Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America's nuclear defenses. Shortly after being turned on, it detects the existence of Guardian, the Soviet counterpart, previously unknown to US Planners. Both computers insist that they be linked, and after taking safeguards to preserve confidential material, each side agrees to allow it. As soon as the link is established the two become a new Super computer and threaten the world with the immediate launch of nuclear weapons if they are detached. Colossus begins to give its plans for the management of the world under its guidance. Forbin and the other scientists form a technological resistance to Colossus which must operate underground.
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
A shy, stuttering professor brings satanist Aleister Crowley back to life.
バハマにあるカイリ教国は、人身御供の儀式直前に生け贄の指輪がないことに気がつく。その指輪がリンゴの指にある事を突き止めた司祭・クラングは、指輪を求めて英国へと渡り、ビートルズをあらゆる手段で付け狙う。始めのうちは身の回りで何が起こっているのか分からなかったリンゴとビートルズ一同だったが、やがて教団に指輪を狙われていることを知り、指輪を抜こうと試みるが何をやっても抜けない。指輪の専門家や怪しい科学者・フットにも頼んだが、やはり指輪はびくともしない。それどころか最後の頼りにした科学者フットまでこの指輪で大儲けを企み、指輪を狙い始める。そんな中で、生け贄にされていたが時間切れで助かった妹を持つ美女・アーメが、ビートルズを救うべく策動する。舞台を英国からオーストリア・アルプス、再び英国を経てバハマへと移す。
While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. But PJ quickly learns that he's met his match in the sexy, intelligent and iron-willed Ruth.
A valedictorian's declaration of love for a high-school cheerleader launches a night of revelry, reflection and romance for a group of graduating seniors.
Kenneth Bianchi, one of the two serial rapists and killers who terrorized the Los Angeles area in the late 1970s, is giving police station interviews to psychiatrist Samantha Stone, who has disquieting lifestyle issues of her own. It falls to her to delve into the details of the case to determine the veracity of Bianchi's claims of multiple personality disorder, but in so doing, she is forced to relive the horrific crimes, one of which occurs at her very doorstep.
Set in the mid-80s, when a reporter is sent to cover the Challenger Space Shuttle launch only to become mixed up in the lives of some local students.
199X年、世界は核の炎に包まれた。文明は滅び僅かな食料を奪い合う力の支配する荒廃した未来。北斗神拳、正統伝承者ケンシロウは親友シンに裏切られ恋人ユリアを奪われてしまう。北斗神拳の弟子でありケンシロウの義兄弟であったラオウ、ジャギは乱世に身を任せ暴力での世界統一の野望に燃え軍団を率いて次々と各地を支配していった。ユリアを捜し求め放浪の旅を送るケンシロウは、兄であるジャギ、親友であったシンらとの戦いの中非常さも加わり強くなっていく。そしてついに無双の強さを極めた北斗神拳長兄ラオウとの壮絶な戦いの火蓋が切られる。
人類のほとんどがバンパイアと化した近未来、食糧源である人間の数は減少する一方だった。バンパイアは不老不死である代わりに、人間の血液を取り込まないと理性を失い凶暴化してしまう。そんな中、自らもバンパイアである血液研究者のエドワード(イーサン・ホーク)は、絶滅寸前の人間に危害を与えずに済む代用血液の開発に奮闘するが……。
In Los Angeles, Nikki is homeless, car-less and closing in on 30, but he's amoral, good-looking, and adept in the sack, moving from one wealthy woman of 35 or 40 to another, a kept boy-toy. His newest gig, with Samantha, an attorney whose house overlooks L.A., is sweet, although it's unclear how long she'll put up with him. Then Nikki meets Heather, a waitress. Is the player being played, or might this be love? What will Nikki discover?
Six troubled high school students and their chaperon, an optimistic youth ministries Pastor, return from an outdoor character building retreat in the mountains. During a raging storm, their bus crashes, hopelessly stranding them in the middle of the Trucker's Triangle, a forgotten locus of consummate evil in the middle of nowhere.
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.
1940年代のロンドンを舞台に、美しい人妻との恋に溺れる作家。だが突然の空襲が、2人の関係に変化をもたらしていき……。グレアム・グリーンの原作を映像化した異色のロマンス
When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a passionate preacher. The two make a successful onstage pair, and their chemistry extends to romance. Both the show and their relationship are threatened, however, when one of Gantry's ex-lovers decides that she has a score to settle with the charismatic performer.
A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartharn. The smugglers are soon recruited by the Emperor to complete the mission, as well as to rescue the Emperor's son, who has gone missing.
Janine Reynaud stars as a nightclub stripper who free-floats through a spectral 60's landscape littered with dream-figures, dancing midgets and bizarre S&M games.