Lee Sellars

Following “the life in the kitchen of a vast New York City restaurant where all the cultures of the world mix during the lunchtime rush.”

A flying saucer lands in the backyard of an elderly suburbanite with memory problems, who forms a bond with the scared alien inside.

世界最高峰のオーケストラの一つであるドイツのベルリン・フィルで、女性として初めて首席指揮者に任命されたリディア・ター。彼女は天才的な能力とそれを上回る努力、類稀なるプロデュース力で、自身を輝けるブランドとして作り上げることに成功する。今や作曲家としても、圧倒的な地位を手にしたターだったが、マーラーの交響曲第5番の演奏と録音のプレッシャーと、新曲の創作に苦しんでいた。そんな時、かつてターが指導した若手指揮者の訃報が入り、ある疑惑をかけられたターは、追いつめられていく──

When a successful New York public defender loses his first case, he is pulled into a drug heist by a former client in an effort to beat the broken system at its own game.

Two desperate men find themselves unwitting pawns in an ancient ritual.

Hal is a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route – he joins the school debating team, which sends him on a headfirst plunge into breakneck speech competitions and offers a much-needed boost toward correcting the problem.

Claire, a brilliant student, seeks answers to the meaning of life in the calm of her biology laboratory. One day, she meets a mysterious young man, Jack, at the cinema, and is intrigued by his style, assurance and audacity. Apart from his artistic activities, Jack has a regular scam going, ripping off foreign businessmen with his loyal mate Charlie and two actresses. But his tough guy exterior conceals a secret passion for old books, and he dreams of writing a novel one day. Jack falls hard for Claire's purity and curiosity. An unusual romance develops between them. But Jack is scared of their growing intimacy and rejects Claire, withdrawing into his shell. Abandoned and confused, Claire gradually begins to neglect her studies and embarks on a spiraling course of self-destruction, whilst Jack, who tries to ignore her, concentrates on his criminal activities. However, a sharp detective, named Linda Fox, is following his dodgy tracks.

40-year-old Arnold Gardner is put in charge of the talk show "The Twenty-fifth Hour" after the death of the former host Duncan Mackay. His role on screen creates immediate interest and the program becomes a great success with TV audiences. This proves to be a period of great satisfaction for Arnold, but his childhood friend, Eddie Greenberg, suddenly comes on the scene. Eddie is ill and frustrated by lack of success, and is so resentful and envious of Arnold's fame that he wants him to make a full public confession of a "sin" he committed in his young days.

TVの人気天気予報キャスター、フィルは地方で開かれる伝統的祭りを女性プロデューサーのリタと取材。その町では毎年2月2日、冬眠から目覚めたウッドチャックが春の到来を占うという祭りが開かれていた。その帰路、吹雪に襲われた一行は町に引き返すが翌朝、フィルはなぜか同じ祭りと出くわす。その日から彼は2月2日を繰り返し過ごす。毎日これから何が起きるかを知っているフィルは、それを自分のために悪用しようとする。