Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton

出生 : 1946-01-26, Faial, Açores, Portugal

略歴

Sir Christopher James Hampton CBE FRSL is a British playwright, screenwriter, translator and film director. He is best known for his play Les Liaisons Dangereuses based on the novel of the same name and the film adaptation

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Christopher Hampton

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A German Life
Screenplay
Life about the infamous secretary of Nazi Joseph Goebbels.
The Son/息子
Screenplay
A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.
ファーザー
Screenplay
名優アンソニー・ホプキンスが認知症の父親役を演じ、2度目のアカデミー主演男優賞を受賞した映画。老いによって記憶と幻想の境界が崩れていく父に、娘は戸惑いを隠せない。そんな揺れる絆を、父親の視点から描き出している。
Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream
Self
Documentary about David Lean's unfinished attempt of adapting Joseph Conrad's novel Nostromo.
Joe Orton Laid Bare
Himself
Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him.
The General And Me
Producer
Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s independence wars, a number of times. She was the first American who entered the home of the “Red Napoleon”. The fruit of this friendship is a film, personal and politically involved at the same time. Travelling across the country and talking to important figures as well as ordinary people, the director finds out more about her roots and offers the audience a unique perspective on Vietnam’s present and past.
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Theatre Play
Marquise de Merteuil, former lover of Vicomte de Valmont, incites him to corrupt the innocent Cécile de Volanges before her wedding night, but Valmont has targeted the peerlessly virtuous and beautiful Madame de Tourvel.
Ali and Nino
Writer
Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.
The Thirteenth Tale
Screenplay
Biographer Margaret Lea travels to the isolated rural mansion of the famous writer Vida Winter, who asks her to write her biography. Although initially she is reluctant, as Vida is known for constantly distorting the facts of her life, Margaret soon becomes fascinated with the story of a dark childhood, a disturbing tale that leads her to finally confront the traumas of her own past.
美しい絵の崩壊
Screenplay
Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.
危険なメソッド
Theatre Play
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.
危険なメソッド
Screenplay
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.
Chéri
Writer
A sumptuous dramatic comedy set in late 19th Century France, during the Belle Epoque, a period of social and cultural excess in European upper classes which ended only as the First World War erupted.
つぐない
Screenplay
1930年代、戦火が忍び寄るイギリス。政府官僚の長女セシーリアは、兄妹のように育てられた使用人の息子、ロビーと思いを通わせ合うようになる。しかし、小説家を目指す多感な妹ブライオニーのついたうそが、ロビーに無実の罪を着せ、刑務所送りにしてしまう。
Imagining Argentina
Director
Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious abductions, she is herself abducted and taken into police custody.
愛の落日
Screenplay
戦火に包まれるベトナムを舞台に、三角関係の悲痛な恋愛を描いたグレアム・グリーン原作の『おとなしいアメリカ人』の映画化。監督が『今そこにある危機』のフィリップ・ノイスだけに、スリリングな社会派サスペンスに仕上がっている。
The Secret Agent
Writer
In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, providing information to Chief Inspector Heat about a lazy anarchist organization. In order for the anarchists to be arrested, an act of terrorism must occur. So Verloc decides to set up bombs – which leads to tragedy – not only for himself but also for his family, including wife Winnie and brother-in-law, Stevie.
The Secret Agent
Director
In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, providing information to Chief Inspector Heat about a lazy anarchist organization. In order for the anarchists to be arrested, an act of terrorism must occur. So Verloc decides to set up bombs – which leads to tragedy – not only for himself but also for his family, including wife Winnie and brother-in-law, Stevie.
ジキル&ハイド
Screenplay
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
太陽と月に背いて
The Judge
パリ・コミューン崩壊後の1870年代フランス、パリ。新進気鋭の詩人として注目を集めていたヴェルレーヌの元に、一通の手紙が届く。そこには、無名の田舎青年の、衝撃的な詩が書かれていた。そして彼らはパリで出会うことを約束する。列車で上京してきたのは、まだ20歳にも満たないアルチュール・ランボーだった。この美青年は、妻子持ちのヴェルレーヌを惑わし、そして禁じられた愛欲の世界へと導いていった。
太陽と月に背いて
Screenplay
パリ・コミューン崩壊後の1870年代フランス、パリ。新進気鋭の詩人として注目を集めていたヴェルレーヌの元に、一通の手紙が届く。そこには、無名の田舎青年の、衝撃的な詩が書かれていた。そして彼らはパリで出会うことを約束する。列車で上京してきたのは、まだ20歳にも満たないアルチュール・ランボーだった。この美青年は、妻子持ちのヴェルレーヌを惑わし、そして禁じられた愛欲の世界へと導いていった。
Carrington
Screenplay
Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and they begin a lifelong friendship that has strangely romantic undertones. Eventually, Lytton and Dora decide to live together, despite the fact that the latter has fallen in love with military man Ralph Partridge, whom she plans to marry.
Carrington
Director
Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and they begin a lifelong friendship that has strangely romantic undertones. Eventually, Lytton and Dora decide to live together, despite the fact that the latter has fallen in love with military man Ralph Partridge, whom she plans to marry.
Tales from Hollywood
Writer
A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwriter (von Horvath) joins them and finds out, that there are gaps between the artistical attitudes and the real live behavior of authors like Thomas or Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger or Bertold Brecht.
危険な関係
Theatre Play
セシルの純潔を汚させようするメルトイユ侯爵夫人の計画と、それを実行するバルモン子爵……。18世紀のフランス革命前夜、貴族社交界を舞台に繰り広げられた快楽と退廃の人間模様を描いた、88年アメリカ作品。
危険な関係
Screenplay
セシルの純潔を汚させようするメルトイユ侯爵夫人の計画と、それを実行するバルモン子爵……。18世紀のフランス革命前夜、貴族社交界を舞台に繰り広げられた快楽と退廃の人間模様を描いた、88年アメリカ作品。
The Wolf at the Door
Screenplay
Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the financial problems caused by the inability to sell his artwork.
Hotel du Lac
Writer
Hotel du Lac, a screenplay version of the Booker prize-winning novel by Anita Brookner, starring Anna Massey, was released in 1986 as an episode of the BBC's "Screen Two" series.
The Good Father
Writer
Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so that she can enter a lesbian relationship, Bill decides to help his friend gain custody of his son...in any way that they can devise, including using a sleazeball lawyer. But while Bill feels that feminism has robbed him of his family, he begins to be appalled at what he and Roger have done.
The Honorary Consul
Screenplay
Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum, a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring. He is also a remorseful alcoholic. Another person the doctor meets is Clara, whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife.
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Writer
Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the butcher after falling in love with a fop named Alfred who, however, has no serious interest in returning her love. For this error, she must pay bitterly.
The Philanthropist
Writer
The original play by Christopher Hampton, was adapted into this made-for-TV movie and it offers witty dialogue in the midst of remarkable conflict among its privileged characters.
A Doll's House
Screenplay
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and lives in fear of her husband finding out, and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But, when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
Billy Wilder and Me
Writer
Part coming-of-age story, part true-life portrait of the beloved Billy Wilder, the film is set during the summer of 1977, when an innocent young woman begins working for the famed director and his screenwriter Iz Diamond on a Greek island during the filming of Fedora.