Melinda and Melinda (2004)
Life can be a comedy or a tragedy, it all depends on how you look at it.
ジャンル : コメディ, ドラマ, ロマンス
上映時間 : 1時間 40分
演出 : Woody Allen
シノプシス
While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning a romantic relationship with a close friend's husband.
A tourist guide meets an unhappy married woman who wants to take up dancing. With his motivation, she becomes a successful dancer but success corrupts the man's mind.
Tina and Lea are best friends who are also avid fans of Vilma Santos. They were inseparable until Lea decides to leave the country and go to Korea. They promise that someday they will really become one big happy family when their children get married. Years after, by virtue of an old vow, Lucky Girl and Lucky Boy are forced to be together by their mothers. Problem is, they hate each other's guts. But, just when they're falling for each other, love plays a trick on the meddling moms which threatens to bring the young lovers apart.
Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.
When Danielle is banished to special education because of her misbehavior, she joins Clarke on a road trip to discover themselves.
Harvey Cheyne, Jr., second richest person in the world, orphaned and spoiled rotten, encounters a cigar and the sea on his way to England for boarding school. Seasick, over the rail for real, rescued by Dan Troop of a Gloucester fishing sailboat. Three months at sea, under a firm but fair Captain Troop (fair wages of $10.50 a month, if you don't work you don't eat). A hard life and a dangerous one, and a lot of growing up to do through hardship and tragedy.
Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband's best friend, noted psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. While both Palmer and Antonia would like to remain in Martin's life, he has some secrets of his own — namely, a mistress called Georgie, whom his womanizing brother also desires. All the while, Palmer's sister Honor seems to know everyone's business.
オクラホマ・シティ。ウェイン・ロジャースと妻のディーディーとの間には長女エミリア、長男イーサン、二女ジャニナがある。この２人は元アメリカン・バレエ団のダンサーであったが、ディーディーがウェインとの恋愛中に妊娠したために正式に結婚し、バレエ団から身を退いたのだった。エミリアは容姿も美しく、父母の血をひき、バレリーナになる素質が十分であった。アメリカン・バレエ団が公演のためやってくることになり、ロジャース一家は、この公演をこぞって見に行き、ディーディーは久方ぶりの親友エマの舞台姿に感激するが、内心には複雑な思いが交錯していた。
After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and unofficial leader of the group. A court case hangs over him relating to a shipyard lamp he smashed during a protest against the closure. José is bitter that his wife, Ana, is employed when he is not.
Director/screenwriter Gabriel Fleming (One Thousand Years) explores the subtleties of loneliness, friendship, and sexuality with this tale of two high school friends who are forced to face their unspoken sexual history while wandering the streets of San Francisco on Halloween night.
Sex, drugs and suicidal tendencies... HAPPY NEW YEAR! This ensemble driven dramedy revolves around an eccentric New Years Eve Party, where the Party-Goers are oblivious to the true atmosphere of pain amid the celebration of "life".
Nate moves to L.A. to track down Cristabel, the woman he's been in love with since childhood, only to discover that his plan to woo her only has one hurdle to overcome: what to do with June, Cristabel's ever-present, not-so-hot best friend? What's even more complicating is Nate's growing feelings for June, whose true beauty starts to emerge.
In 'Wretches & Jabberers and Stories from the Road', two men with autism embark on a global quest to change prevailing attitudes about disability and intelligence. With limited speech, Tracy Thresher, 42, and Larry Bissonnette, 52, both faced lives of mute isolation in mental institutions or adult disability centers. When they learned as adults to communicate by typing, their lives changed dramatically. Their world tour message is that the same possibility exists for others like themselves. At each stop, they dissect public attitudes about autism and issue a hopeful challenge to reconsider competency and the future. Along the way, they reunite with old friends from the USA, expand the isolated world of a talented young painter and make new allies in their cause.
"Old Boys" talks the story of two high school friends who formed a band to participate in "Happy Boys" talent show at their middle age as a song could get them back to their youth and back to the past. This touching "Old Boys" theme song also moved all the audience.
Ahoy Maties! There's a treasure chest of gold buried on Pirate's Point. When the living descendant of legendary pirate Captain Vane lets Ray in on the secret, there's mutiny in the town. Now, Ray and his friends are on a mission to recover the loot and foil an evil plan. In the meantime they learn that friendship is the most precious treasure of all.
Nola Devlin is an unassuming, frumpy magazine editor who is overlooked and teased by her coworkers. Though, when she is behind the glow and anonymity of her computer screen, she becomes the famous advice columnist Belinda Apple. Nola’s friends, tired of being overworked and overweight, band together to create the Cinderella Pact, vowing to lose pounds by following the advice of Belinda Apple. When her secret identity is threatened, Nola is forced to take her own alter ego’s advice. But, as the group of friends drops dress sizes, their real issues are exposed, and better-than-expected life changes begin to blossom.
Salvador accompanied by two friends of his father whom he calls uncles, they arrive at a fair in the village, there he meets Ana. When he wins a bet he is paid with a mortgaged house, to his surprise upon entering the hom he realizes that Ana and her mother live in it, provoking a funny entanglement with an explosive final.
An irate groom-to-be abducts a recently married bickering couple and asks them to take him to his wedding: Tere Mere Phere is a story about a newly married couple, Pooja and Rahul, who have a perfect love affair and a perfect marriage and set out on a perfect dream honeymoon in a motor home, driving through the breath taking Himalayas … but then can life ever be perfect?! If “distance makes the heart grow fonder” then too much proximity should have the reverse effect! And it does ... As Pooja and Rahul get too close for comfort, the gilt of romance begins to rub off, a series of absurd fights follow and soon they get embroiled with a local Himachali small town guy ( Vinay Pathak) and his girl Muskaan, the “Pahadi Mirch” (Riya Sen).
Mario, a tram-driver, and Silvio, a banker, make friends in the group of participants in a survival training course.
If they missed Beatles' first appearance in the U.S.A. they would hate themselves for the rest of their lives! So four young girls from New Jersey set off even though they don't have tickets for the show! The journey is full of surprises and misfortunes but the young ladies are determined to reach their idols.
Also known as The Sinner on UK VHS, this one could almost be mistaken for a D'Amato Black Emanuelle film (as well as Jess Franco who also had a film with the same video title). The Italian title translates as The Moon-Skinned Girl, a reference to the amazingly attractive Zeudi Araya, who made two other films with the same director. As a film it really typifies the 'eurotika' of the 1970s - the story concerns a couple with marital problems who escape to the Seychelles and the husband meets - and has an affair with - the title character. The wife meanwhile meets an ex-pat living there (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart!) with whom she has a fling. The couple realise their love for each other and return home stronger for it.
Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val blinded by love when he opts for the reconnect? Is love blind when it comes to Ellie's staunch support? Literally and figuratively, the proof is the picture.
オチコボレ犯罪者と天才的に口の悪い妻は、人生最後の賭けに銀行強盗を企てるが、ひょんなことでアッという間に大金持ちに……。ウッディ・アレン監督が贈る“ニューヨーク式夫婦漫才”。
Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda. He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.
犬猿の仲の男女が恋の催眠術にかかってしまったら……？ という設定のロマンティック・ラブ・コメディ。ミステリー風味も効いたおしゃれな作品だ。ウディ・アレン監督・主演作。
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……。
誰もがうらやむセレブリティ（有名人）との一筋縄ではいかない複雑な人間模様を、豪華スターとともに描き出したウディ・アレン監督作品。ケネス・ブラナーやレオナルド・ディカプリオら豪華なキャストにも注目。
妻と不仲のレニーは、自慢の養子の実母を理想化して探しに行くと、実母リンダはポルノ女優だった…。オスカー受賞のロマンティック・コメディ！
1930年代、ジャズ全盛期のシカゴ。ジプシージャズの天才ギタリストのエメット・レイは、崇拝するギタリストジャンゴ・ラインハルトの演奏が世界一で、自分は2番目に天才だと信じている。そんな彼は音楽に生きる反面、裏社会でも顔が通じ、娼婦の元締め、女遊び好きと自堕落な人生を送ってきた。 彼はニュージャージー州の海辺で友人ビルとの賭けに負け、仕方なくナンパした小柄で口のきけない女性ハッティと付き合うようになる。エメットの弾くギターに心惹かれたハッティは彼を愛すようになり、はじめは遊びのつもりだったエメットも辛くあたりつつも、素朴で優しい彼女に惹かれていく。 しかし、上流階級の女性ブランチに出会い惹かれた彼はハッティと別れ突然結婚するが、2人の共通点は派手好きなところ位で愛には乏しく、ブランチはいつしかジャズクラブの用心棒アルと不倫するようになっていった。
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
第二次大戦中のアメリカ。ある家族にとって、ラジオは限りない夢を与えてくれる魔法の箱だった……。ユダヤ人少年とその家族、周囲の人々を描いた感動作。監督・脚本はウディ・アレン。
ロングアイランドの高級住宅地。いかにも落ち着き払った環境に住む、30年連れ添った両親に突然別居話が持ち上がる。ショックで、インテリア・デザイナーの母は自殺未遂。三人の娘たちは、愛人を作った父の無責任をなじるが、父の連れてきたその人は不思議な個性の持ち主だった。あらためて、夫と妻、親子の関係を問いただす彼ら…。
ハンナ、ホリー、リーの芸術家三姉妹と、二人の男性の恋愛関係を絡めながら、“人生のほろ苦さ”を描いた感動作。シニカルなのにコミカルで、でもその視点は終始温かいというアレンならではの作品。
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married.
A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
マンハッタンの超高級マンションで暮らすアリス。体調不良を崩しチャイナタウンの怪しげな診療所でもらった薬を飲むと、いつもとは違う積極的な性格になり……。ウディ・アレン流“自分探しの旅”コメディ。
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
1920年代のニューヨーク。自分のいる環境によってさまざまな人種に変身してしまう不思議なユダヤ人ゼリグが精神病院に収監された。マスコミの寵児となったゼリグだったが、やがて変身した時の罪に問われ失踪してしまい……。
This film tells the story of a successful writer called Harry Block, played by Allen himself, who draws inspiration from people he knows in real-life, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.
