The Cats of Mirikitani (2006)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 1時間 14分
演出 : Linda Hattendorf
シノプシス
Documentary about red-bereted Jimmy Mirikitani, a feisty painter working and living on the street, near the World Trade Center, when 9/11 devastates the neighborhood. A nearby film editor, Linda Hattendorf, persuades elderly Jimmy to move in with her, while seeking a permanent home for him. The young woman delves into the California-born, Japan-raised artist's unique life which developed his resilient personality, and fuel his 2 main subjects, cats and internment camps. The editor films Jimmy's remarkable journey.
クリスマスに恋人ハーパーの実家に招待され、そこで彼女にプロポーズするつもりでいたアビー。だが実はハーパーは家族にカミングアウトしておらず、2人の関係も隠していることが判明し...。
女子高生のジュリーとカイラ、そしてサムの仲良し3人組は、卒業パーティーのプロムが開催される夜にヴァージンを捨てようと計画する。そんな娘たちの計画を知ってしまった親たち、ジュリーのお母さんリサと、カイラのお父さんミッチェル、そしてサムのお父さんであるハンターの3人組が一致団結、娘たちの処女喪失を阻止し貞操を守るため奮闘する。
An unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.
The star of a team of teenage crime fighters falls for the alluring villainess she must bring to justice.
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
1952年の歳末、NYの高級百貨店でアルバイトをするテレーズは、クリスマスプレゼントを探しに店を訪れた優雅で上品な人妻キャロルと出会い、彼女に魅せられる。店に置き忘れた手袋をキャロルに送り届けたことから、彼女の知己を得たテレーズは、キャロルが夫ハージとの愛のない結婚生活に疲れ果て、いまや離婚協議中であること、そして娘の親権を彼に奪われそうになって苦しんでいることを知る。2人の距離は次第に縮まる。
Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected. Her mother decides to act as if everything were normal so as to spend their best summer ever. Ava confronts the problem in her own way. She steals a big black dog that belongs to a young man on the run...
College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.
Feeling pressured to become more sexually experienced before she goes to college, Brandy Klark makes a list of things to accomplish before hitting campus in the fall.
ニューヨーク。現在17歳のダフネは、自由で愛を尊重する母リビーと2人暮らし。彼女は今まで明るく幸せな生活を送ってきたが、ただ1つ満たされない気持ちをずっと抱えている。それは、まだダフネが生まれる前に母と別れてしまった実の父親に会いたい、という切実な想いだった。彼の家族が上流階級に属しているせいで離ればなれになった父は今、ロンドンにいる。ある時、ダフネはとうとう意を決し、父のもとへ旅立った。そして、今では爵位を持ち、政治家として活躍する父ヘンリーと念願の対面を果たすダフネだったが…。
A feisty young woman returns to Glasgow to run her deceased father's curry house.
Georgia Rule follows a rebellious, uncontrollable teenager who is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her grandmother. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an understanding that - regardless what happens - the ties that bind can never be broken.
When her nation is invaded, a young princess is taken into the Princess Protection Program. She is relocated to Louisiana, where she stays with a covert agent and his tomboyish daughter, and must learn how to behave like an ordinary teenager.
シカゴに住む建築家のサムは癌で妻を亡くし一人息子のジョナと共にシアトルに越してきたが、ジョナは、父親のために新しい奥さんが必要だと思いラジオ局の相談番組に電話をする。同じ頃、ボルチモアに住む新聞記者のアニーは、婚約者ウォルターを伴って実家のクリスマス・パーティに出席した帰途に偶然聞いた、そのラジオ番組で、サムが切々と語る亡き妻の思い出にアニーは思わず涙する。
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.
A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.
Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling “same sex attraction.” Cameron befriends fellow sinners Jane and Adam, thus creating a new family to deal with the surrounding intolerance.
夫を悲惨な事故で失ったシングルマザーのアメリアは、一人息子のサミュエルと共に暮らしていた。サミュエルは学校でしばしば暴力的な行動を起こす問題児。言うことを聞かない息子に手を焼き、アメリアは疲れ果てていた。一方、サミュエルは、母親の読み聞かせで眠りにつくのが習慣で、その日はアメリアの知らない一冊の本を取り出し、彼女に読んで欲しいとせがむ。どこか薄気味の悪いその絵本は「ババドック」というキャラクターが登場する不思議な本だった。
Maggie Peyton, the new owner of Number 53 - the free-wheelin' Volkswagen bug with a mind of its own - puts the car through its paces on the road to becoming a NASCAR competitor.
Documentary about Tomas Young, a 25 year old veteran who got paralyzed in Iraq and became an peace activist.
Intent on shaking up the ultimate 'sacred cow' for Jews, Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative - and at times irreverent - quest to answer the question, "What is anti-Semitism today?"
A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian causalities as well as footage of American POWs, the station has revealed (and continues to show the world) everything about the Iraq War that the Bush administration did not want it to see.
Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mexican version of the famous novel by Fannie Hurst "Imitation of Life"
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.
West and soda is a 1965 traditionally-animated Italian feature film directed by Bruno Bozzetto. It is a parody of the traditional American Western.
Antoine works in a bar in Paris. One evening on his way home from work, he intervenes when a man tries to commit suicide. He feels strangely guilty about having saved the man's life and constantly tries to help him, make things better. No matter what Antoine does, he can't get Louis's mind off Blanche, the woman of his dreams, his sole obsession, the reason why he wanted to die... Antoine decides to look for her, but doesn't let Louis know.
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).
The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.
『ゴーストワールド』に続き、全米の賞レースを席巻したインディーズ映画。米国独立系映画の良心とも言えるテッド・ホープが制作だから、つまらないはずがないのだが、これがデビューとなる夫婦監督も記憶にとどめたい。
Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel, an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discover that Marie-Christine Vercel, Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is the prime suspect. But his secretary, Barbara Becker, while not quite convinced he is innocent, defends him and leads her private investigations.
When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself in an completely different environment where students rigidly divide themselves in subcultures based on social class and their parents' political affiliation.
ライ・クーダーとキューバの老ミュージシャン達（ブエナ・ビスタ・ソシアル・クラブ）との演奏を中心に、彼らの来歴、キューバの日常を描いたキューバ音楽ドキュメンタリー映画。
監督・主演ウディ・アレン、撮影ゴードン・ウィリスのコンビによる珠玉の人情喜劇。ラウンジ芸人専門のエージェントが、大物気取りのお抱え歌手の恋を叶えるために一役買おうとするのだが……。
若き劇作家デヴィッドはギャングのボスの愛人を出演させることを条件にデビュー。しかし、彼女は大根役者で……。ブロードウェイを舞台に大騒動が繰り広げられる、ウディ・アレン監督のコメディ。
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
