Modern Life (2008)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 1時間 28分
演出 : Raymond Depardon
シノプシス
For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding naturalness. This moving film speaks, with great serenity, of our roots and of the future of the people who work on the land. This the last part of Depardon's triptych "Profils paysans" about what it is like to be a farmer today in an isolated highland area in France. "La vie moderne" examines what has become of the persons he has followed for ten years, while featuring younger people who try to farm or raise cattle or poultry, come hell or high water.
海辺の別荘に2年前に投函された手紙が届く。手紙のやり取りを始めると、男は時間軸が違うと気づく。そして未来では男が死んでしまい、女はそれを回避するために行動する。男の死は免れ、2人は出会うことができた。
1870年代のテキサスを舞台にした、グレゴリー・ペック製作、主演の正統派ウエスタン大作。水源地を巡って2大牧場主が争う地に、東部から青年・マッケイがやって来た。中立の立場で誰にでも水を分け与えるという条件で、彼はその水源地を手に入れる。
Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860s. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog.
南北戦争前後を舞台に、広大な牧場を持った開拓者とその養子が、新たな商機への道行きの中で様々な局面に遭遇し、衝突しながら苦難を乗り越えていく姿を描いた西部劇。南部に広大な牧場を持つダンスンは、養子のマシュウらと共に、東部へのビッグ・トレイルを敢行した。だが、道は険しく、ダンスンのいらだちは次第に募っていく。やがて、レッド・リバーのほとりにさしかかったとき、牧童の三人が逃亡するという事件が起こった。厳しい処置をとろうとするダンスンに対して、マシュウは牧童の味方をし、ダンスンを脅してその場に置き去りにする。怒りに燃えたダンスンは、マシュウを殺すことを誓うが……。
ハリウッド版「ゴジラ」の監督を務めたギャレス・エドワーズが、その監督に抜擢される契機となったSF映画。太陽系に地球外生命体の存在を確認したNASAは、探査機でサンプルを採取したが、大気圏突入時にメキシコ上空で大破してしまう。それから6年後、モンスターたちの襲撃で大きな被害を受け、国境を閉鎖されたメキシコでスクープを狙うカメラマンのコールダーは、ケガをした社長令嬢サマンサをアメリカ国境付近まで送り届ける命令を受けていた。
牧場主のウィルはあまりの人手不足にやむを得ず11人の幼い少年たちを雇って、牛追いの旅に出る。だが途中で牛泥棒の手が忍び寄り……。西部劇としては異色の展開を見せる、ジョン・ウェイン主演作。
ジョン・ウェイン主演で、西部開拓時代の英雄ジョン・シンプソン・チザムの活躍を描く西部劇。監督は「シェナンドー河」「大いなる男たち」のアンドリュー・V・マクラグレン。1878年。ニューメキシコ。広大な牧畜王国を築き、“ペコスの王者”の異名を持つジョン・シンプソン・チザム。一方、町で急速に台頭していたローレンス・マーフィーは、数々の悪質な手口でその勢力を拡大していく。やがて、両者は激しい抗争を繰り広げるのだった。
A young cattle farmer is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious beef trader.
In 1896, Jeff Webster sees the start of the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity to make a fortune in beef...and woe betide anyone standing in his way! He drives a cattle herd from Wyoming to Seattle, by ship to Skagway, and (after a delay caused by larcenous town boss Gannon) through the mountains to Dawson. There, he and his partner Ben Tatum get into the gold business themselves. Two lovely women fall for misanthropic Jeff, but he believes in every-man-for-himself, turning his back on growing lawlessness...until it finally strikes home.
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed. A look at the brief occupation of Timbuktu by militant Islamic rebels.
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter makes him a perfect candidate for Marshal, but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town.
英国から来た未亡人とその娘をともない、彼女たちの牛をテキサスまで届けることになったカウボーイ。しかし、困難が次々と彼を襲い……。豪華キャストによるユーモラスな名作西部劇。
1880年代アメリカ南西部。大農場主マットには、先妻との間に生まれた3人の息子と、現在の妻と間に生まれた子がいた。そんな彼らが骨肉の争いを繰り広げる。社会派エドワード・ドミトリク監督によるヒューマン・ドラマ。
A cowherd with a skull-mounted motorcycle and a university student meet in Dakar; put off by life in Senegal, they plan to make money in Paris.
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.
Two lovers break up after they realize that their career goals are pulling them in different directions.
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over the man's choice for a new bride. Things get worse when the elder man has his daughter's lover hanged. With the help of an old flame, a gambler, the daughter puts into motion a plan to drive her father from his estate.
In 1864, during the American Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until unexpected circumstances force him to change his customers.
An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
Marshall Dan Mitchell, who is the law in Abilene, has the job of keeping peace between two groups. For a long time, the town had been divided, with the cattlemen and cowboys having one end of town to themselves, while townspeople occupied the other end. Mitchell liked it this way, it made things easier for him, and kept problems from arising between the two factions. However…
