The Comic (1969)
A funny new motion picture that tells Hollywood like it was!
ジャンル : コメディ, ドラマ
上映時間 : 1時間 34分
演出 : Carl Reiner
脚本 : Carl Reiner
シノプシス
An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a bitter tone about his fate, and takes us through his fame, as he ruins it with womanizing and drink, and his fall, as a lonely, bitter old man unable to reconcile his life's disappointments. The movie is based loosely on the life of Buster Keaton.
サイレントからトーキーへと移り変わるころのハリウッドを舞台に、スター俳優の葛藤と愛を美しいモノクロ映像でつづるサイレント映画。アカデミー作品賞、監督賞、主演男優賞など5部門を受賞。
1927年のハリウッドで、サイレント映画のスターとして君臨していたジョージ・ヴァレンティン(ジャン・デュジャルダン)は、新作の舞台あいさつで新人女優ペピー(ベレニス・ベジョ)と出会う。その後オーディションを経て、ジョージの何げないアドバイスをきっかけにヒロインを務めるほどになったペピーは、トーキー映画のスターへと駆け上がる。一方ジョージは、かたくなにサイレントにこだわっていたが、自身の監督・主演作がヒットせず……。
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
A celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians—Buster Keaton—whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary.
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
Actor and writer Mark Gatiss embarks on a chilling journey through European horror cinema, from the silent nightmares of German Expressionism in the 1920s to the Belgian lesbian vampires in the 1970s, from the black-gloved killers of Italian bloody giallo cinema to the ghosts of the Spanish Civil War, and finally reveals how Europe's turbulent 20th century forged its ground-breaking horror tradition.
チャールズ・チャップリンは如何にして“放浪紳士”のイメージを創り上げたのか?その過程を秘蔵映像と共に描くドキュメンタリー。
An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a bitter tone about his fate, and takes us through his fame, as he ruins it with womanizing and drink, and his fall, as a lonely, bitter old man unable to reconcile his life's disappointments. The movie is based loosely on the life of Buster Keaton.
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.
A breakthrough opportunity comes when internationally - renowned director Park announces an open call for his new film, and Jang begins intense preparation for the role of his life.
Documentary about an extraordinary lady, Diana Serra Cary (born Peggy-Jean Montgomery). In the early 1920s she was one of Hollywood's first major child stars, Baby Peggy.
A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.
In this short film, an elderly cameraman and his camera reminisce about their days shooting silent films and news stories.
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks
Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions." For each we see him applying makeup and changing the combing of his hair or putting on a wig. When he tilts his head down during each supposed makeover, up pops the actual celebrity (Keaton, Lloyd, Arbuckle, Valentino, Fairbanks, Coogan) he appears to have been making himself up as.
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.
南極。皇帝ペンギンのマンブルは《ハッピーフィート》の異名を取るタップダンスの達人として知られていたが、彼の幼い息子エリックはダンスが大の苦手。あるとき、とうとう家出したエリックは、アデリーペンギンの集落で空を飛べる不思議なペンギン、スヴェンと出会う。不可能を可能にしたスヴェンに魅了されるエリック。そんな矢先、氷山の衝突によって皇帝ペンギンの国が陥没し、仲間たちが閉じ込められる大事件が発生する。
戦争で両親を亡くした14歳と4歳の幼い兄妹が、悲惨な戦争の中を生き抜いてゆこうとする姿を描いた野坂昭如原作の小説を、終戦60年を記念して実写映像化し、日本テレビ系列にて放送された戦争ドラマ作品。