Self
This unique and cheeky documentary explores Britain and what makes our country great from our traditions to our self-deprecating sense of humour.
Gandalf
Bilbo Baggins is chosen by Gandalf to embark on a quest with 13 Dwarves to reclaim the lost kindgom of Erebor. Thorin Oakenshield leads the company to the mountain and the beast that laid waste to his people and claimed their land. Through mountains, forests and unforseeable dangers, witness the epic quest to reclaim a homeland through the eyes of a Hobbit as he learns the value of courage and friendship in the face of darkness.
Self
An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inclusion and a sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce. Legends of the stage and screen—including Helen Mirren, Christine Baranski, August Wilson, James Corden, Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Viola Davis, Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellen—take us behind the scenes of Broadway's most groundbreaking and beloved shows, from A Chorus Line to Hamilton. Iconic performances by Lin Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, James Earl Jones and Mandy Patinkin lead the way on a hurly burly ride through Times Square, once again the main street of American show business in this documentary directed by Academy-Award nominee Oren Jacoby.
Self
The powerful and inspiring true story of the controversial human rights campaigner whose provocative acts of civil diso bedience rocked the British establishment, revolutionised attitudes to homosexuality and exposed world tyrants. As social attitudes change and history vindicates Peter's stance on gay rights, his David versus Goliath battles gradually win him status as a national treasure. The film follows Peter as he embarks on his riskiest crusade yet by seeking to disrupt the FIFA World Cup in Moscow to draw attention to the persecution of LGBT+ people in Russia and Chechnya.
Dr. Charles Marland-White
Jane is the subject of a twisted science experiment where she is placed in a parallel world and is forced to find a way to either alter her reality or be stuck in a time-loop, destined to repeat the same test over and over again, with no memory of her doing it before. But with each 'reset' she starts to retain fragments of memory. With clues pointing to the mysterious Wytness Quantum Research Centre, she tries to find a way out. (The film was shot entirely on an iPhone during the UK’s first lockdown.)
Ian McKellen on Stage: With Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and YOU is a one-man stage performance by English stage and screen actor Sir Ian McKellen. The performance sees McKellen reprising roles over his career in the theatre (such as the works of William Shakespeare), on film (such as Gandalf in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings film series) while discussing anecdotes throughout his life and career.
Sir Ian McKellen reads the poetry, Michael Wood traces the journey on the ground. Together they conjure up the extraordinary life, times and words of China’s greatest poet, Du Fu. In this film, the first to ever be made about Du Fu in the west, Michael follows his tracks by road, train and riverboat. Along the way, he meets ordinary people, dancers and musicians, who help to tell the amazing story of a poet whose words have resonated through the centuries, describing the experiences of ordinary people caught up in war, corruption, famine and natural disasters. "I am one of the privileged. If my life is so bitter, then how much worse is the life of the common people?"
Gus, the Theatre Cat
T.S.エリオットの詩にアンドリュー・ロイド＝ウェバーが曲をつけた世界的人気ミュージカルの映画版。ロンドンの片隅、新たな人生を生きることが許される猫が選ばれる特別な夜に、猫たちのドラマが描かれていく。
Roy Courtnay
ベテラン詐欺師のロイ(イアン・マッケラン)が出会い系サイトで狙いを定めたのは、夫を亡くしてまもない資産家ベティ(ヘレン・ミレン)。全財産を騙し取ろうと策略をめぐらす非情なロイを、世間知らずのベティは徐々に信用するようになる。しかし、単純な詐欺だったはずが、物語は思いがけない事態へ発展していく―。
暴かれるのは、人間誰しもが抱えて生きていかねばならない秘密と嘘。偽りに満ちた人生の奥底にある真実とはー。英国が誇る両名優がぶつかり合う、至高のライアーゲームが今はじまる。
Associate Producer
1840 and another ship crashes on the rocks of an almost deserted island in Scotland. Three sailors survive the wreck and make it to shore where the few locals take them in as they wait for the mainland boat to come for them. But the sailors' survival story has only just started as they uncover the strange past of the once vibrant island.
Earl of Southampton
大切な劇場を火事で失った天才劇作家、ウィリアム・シェイクスピア。失意のシェイクスピアは引退して故郷へ戻るのだが、家族との間には大きな溝ができていた。
King Lear
Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with bitter ends.
Himself
Built upon a 14 hour interview, McKellen: Playing the Part is a unique journey through the key landmarks of McKellen's life, from early childhood into a demanding career that placed him in the public eye for the best part of his lifetime. Using an abundance of photography from McKellen's private albums and cinematically reconstructed scenes, a raw talent shines through in the intensity, variety and devotion to that moment in the light.
Himself
A razor-witted entertainer who found fame as two people - first his drag queen alter ego, Lily Savage, and then as himself. This documentary film charts the unique career of a working class Merseysider whose life away from the spotlight has often been far more dramatic than the consistently successful career he has enjoyed on stage and screen.
Horatio P. Huntington (voice)
A family must use a magical box of Animal Crackers to save a rundown circus from being taken over by their evil uncle Horatio P. Huntington.
Mr. Kite (voice)
Sir Ian McKellen voices an alcoholic kite. A down-and-out who prefers to hang around his dingy local strip joint rather than get out into the blue sky. But when memories of happier times come back to haunt him, he decides to take action and try one last flight.
Cogsworth
美しい娘ベルは進歩的な考え方が原因で閉鎖的な村人たちとなじめないことに悩んでいたが、ある日、彼女は野獣と遭遇する。彼は魔女の呪いによって変身させられた王子で魔女が残したバラの花びらがすべて散ってしまう前に誰かと相思相愛の仲にならなければ元の姿に戻れない。ベルは野獣の恐ろしい外見にたじろぎながらも心惹かれていく。
Self
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin celebrates one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, following his evolution from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to reclaim their lives.
Narrator
When news breaks that the county pig fete's being revived, the once-legendary Farmer decides to make one final roll of the dice - and invest his life savings in a thoroughbred piglet with which to breed new life back into his now dilapidated farm. But when he puts young Edmund out to breed and the lad abstains, the Farmer's forced on a journey that will challenge everything he thought he knew about pigs, love and the true value of life.
Self
This documentary celebrates one of Britain’s greatest actors, Dame Judi Dench, and looks back over her remarkable 60-year career.
Spooner
One summer's evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst's stately house nearby. As the pair become increasingly inebriated, and their stories increasingly unbelievable, the lively conversation soon turns into a revealing power game, further complicated by the return home of two sinister younger men.
Acting legend Ian McKellen discusses his impressive range of Shakespearean performances. Since playing Malvolio in Twelfth Night at 12 years old, Ian McKellen has acted in more than half of Shakespeare’s canon on stages worldwide and screens large and small. In a one-man performance filmed at BFI Southbank McKellen offers his unique insights into the problems and joys of interpreting Shakespeare for the theatre, television, radio and cinema.
Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine in conversation about Richard III.
Sir Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine talking about making the film.
From the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, David Tennant, Catherine Tate and guests mark the life of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death.
And Even Yet Another Fan
A brief comedy about a visit from a legendary theatre maker and his legion of fans.
Norman
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager Sir who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser Norman must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time and if he does will he be able to perform that night? The Dresser is a wickedly funny and deeply moving story of friendship and loyalty as Sir reflects on his lifelong accomplishments and seeks to reconcile his turbulent friendships with those in his employ before the final curtain.
Self
The film's all-star ensemble cast joins director Bryan Singer and screenwriter Simon Kinberg to share their favorite stories from the set.
Sherlock Holmes
名探偵ホームズも93歳の老人となり、海辺の家で静かな日々を過ごしていた。しかし、その一方で30年前のとある事件が頭に引っ掛かっていた。それは死んだ子供たちと会話しているという女性の調査だったが、いつしか彼女による夫の殺害計画の疑惑が浮上した果てに、ホームズの失態で未解決となって自身も探偵引退を余儀なくされたのだった。ある時、日本への旅行で事件解決のヒントを得たホームズは、10歳になる家政婦の息子ロジャーを助手に事件を再捜査していく。
Gandalf
ドワーフの王国を取り戻すべく旅をしていたホビット族のビルボ・バギンズやドワーフのトーリンらは、竜のスマウグからついに王国を奪い返す。しかし、スマウグは人々を襲い、その一方でトーリンが財宝を独り占めしようとし、ビルボがそれを止めようと危険な選択をしてしまう。そんな中、宿敵サウロンが奇襲を仕掛け、ドワーフとエルフと人間の間では対立が深まる。
Himself
This making-of piece looks at the genesis of this project and how Singer wanted to reunite the original cast again.
Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
2023年、バイオメカニカルロボットのセンチネルの攻撃により、X-MENと地球は危機的状況に陥る。プロフェッサーXは宿敵マグニートーと共闘し、1973年にウルヴァリンの魂を送る。しかし、1973年の地球でセンチネル・プログラムの開発を阻止しようとする間も、2023年では地球滅亡の危機が迫っていた。
The Prologue
An adaptation of David Garrick's 1747 afterpiece, this lighthearted comedy follows Miss Biddy Bellair as she pits her suitors against eachother in order to find true love.
Gandalf
ホビット族の青年ビルボ・バギンズは、魔法使いのガンダルフや屈強なドワーフの一行と共に、たった一頭で一国を滅亡に導くと伝えられる邪悪な竜スマウグに奪われたドワーフの王国を奪取すべく旅に出る。竜の潜む山を目指す道中、巨大なクモの大群や凶暴なオークたちが一行の行く手を阻むように次々と立ちはだかる。
Self
A nice exploration of the samurai-ninja aspect of the story, including its roots in the actual Marvel comic books. There are the requisite interviews with the principal cast and crew along with copious clips from the film as well as some behind the scenes footage (including a look at that supercool metallic bed that the elderly Yashida lies on in the lab in his fortress).
Himself
With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy are keen to be involved. But do they manage it?
Self
Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to find out everything they can about tackling the greatest writer of them all. Together they have directed and produced an inspiring film that aims to demystify and illuminate Shakespeare’s work for everyone: from actors, directors and students of all disciplines, right through to the? man on the street? Denmark with Jude Law, Baz Luhrmann in Hollywood, Prison in Berlin, and on the street with Mark Rylance. Think Shakespeare is boring? Think again!
Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (uncredited)
カナダで人目を避けるように暮らすウルヴァリンことローガンは、以前命を救ったことのある日本人実業家・矢志田からの願いで、彼の部下ユキオと共に日本へと向かう。不敵なまなざしを向ける矢志田の息子シンゲンに迎えられ、病身の矢志田と再会したローガンは彼から謎めいた言葉を告げられる。ほどなくして亡くなった矢志田の葬儀が執り行われるが、そこをギャングたちが襲撃。ローガンは矢志田の孫娘・マリコを連れ、その混乱から逃げ出す。
Magician
Do you know the joke about the broken egg?
The Great Intelligence (voice)
The Doctor has retired to 1892 London. Despite the protests of his allies, he is determined to keep out of mankind's affairs. However, a governess named Clara has stumbled upon a plot which only the Doctor can unravel, involving the death of her predecessor in ice and the sinister Dr. Simeon, who controls monsters made of sentient snow. And there is another mystery afoot: Clara is the spitting image of Oswin Oswald, whom the Doctor saw die in the Dalek asylum...
Gandalf
ホビット族のビルボ・バギンズは、魔法使いのガンダルフから思わぬ旅の誘いを受ける。それは、ドラゴンに乗っ取られたドワーフの王国を奪取するというものだった。ドワーフの戦士トーリンが率いる13人のドワーフたちと、最初の目的地“はなれ山”を目指してワーグ、オークといった怪物や魔術師がひしめく荒野を進んでいくビルボ。そんな中、ゴブリンが巣食うトンネルに入っていった彼は、そこでゴラムという醜悪な化け物と出会う。
Himself
The opening ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic games.
Himself
Looking for Lowry is an entertaining documentary film about the life and work of the much loved British artist L.S. Lowry (1887 – 1976). This contemporary new film illuminates Lowry’s extraordinary vision for the first time in high definition, as we meet those who knew him and those who have been inspired in our post-industrial age by his unique observations of our country and his powerful artistic legacy. Manchester-born rock star Noel Gallagher describes how Lowry’s life chimes with his own: “…for me it’s like when did you first hear the Beatles? Lowry has always been there… I guess all the people Lowry ever met are there in his paintings…”
Himself (as Sir Ian McKellan)
Fourth chapter of the Lady Dior saga starring Marion Cotillard as Lady Grey, a burlesque artist with magical healing powers.
Hamish Miller (voice)
England, 1988. Thatcher, New Order, Section 28, The Kants. Russell finds himself caught between two opposing worlds and needs to decide whether to keep up the appearances or stand up for who he is.
Narrator (voice)
When his father dies unexpectedly, a young man seeking to cope with his grief goes on a powerful emotional journey through time and space.
Self (archive footage)
For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
Himself
8 part series behind the scenes at the famous Theatre Royal, Haymarket, with a focus on a production Waiting for Godot featuring Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Ronald Pickup and Simon Callow. Also covers the early stages of Breakfast at Tiffany's starring Anna Friel and Joseph Cross.
King Lear
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
Dream
Squidward Tentacles gets a call from his wealthy former high school classmate and rival, Squilliam Fancyson, who has succeeded in everything in which Squidward has failed, including music. Squilliam reveals to Squidward that he has become the leader of a band scheduled to play at a venue called the Bubble Bowl, but he will be busy at that time and so cannot attend. Squilliam derisively suggests that Squidward's band should substitute for his at the Bubble Bowl, correctly believing that Squidward does not have one. However, to impress Squilliam, Squidward defiantly insists that he has a band and accepts the challenge. He assembles a large marching band composed of various Bikini Bottom residents, including SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, Mrs. Puff, Larry, Plankton, and Mr. Krabs
Iorek Byrnison (voice)
われわれが住む世界と似ている並行世界の中の英国オックスフォード。幼いころに両親を亡くし、オックスフォード大の学寮で育った12歳の少女ライラだが、彼女の叔父アスリエル卿は“ダスト”と呼ばれる謎の粒子の秘密を調べるべく、北の地へ探検に向かう。そんなライラに上流社会の実力者コールター夫人が接近してくる一方、ライラの周囲で子どもが次々と失踪する。ついにライラの親友の少年ロジャーまでもが失踪してしまう。
Narrator (voice)
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals his true identity.
The Jackdaw
'For the Love of God' is the wickedly irreverent tale of Graham (Coogan); an over-grown man-child still living at home under the suffocating glare of his elderly Mother, in her dusty and forgotten Christian bookshop. Graham has a terrible secret - an unholy fantasy - which only he and his Mother's pet Jackdaw (McKellen) know about. Spurred on by the sinister bird and the possibility of consummating his perverse desire, will Graham do the deed before his Mother uncovers the awful truth?
The Toad (voice)
ネズミのロディは、ロンドンのお金持ちの家で暮らしているペット。ある日、地下で暮らしているシドがロディの家に侵入し、ロディは追い出そうとしたが、逆に地下に流されてしまう。ロディが辿り着いた場所はネズミだけが暮らす「マウス・タウン」だった。
Self (uncredited)
Self
A behind the scenes look at the making of the X-Men trilogy made up out of interviews shot during the production of all three films.
Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto
時は20年前。ジーン・グレイは、プロフェッサーXに底知れない能力を見出され、それを操るべく「恵まれし者の学園」に彼女の居場所を与えた。 その10年後、とある大企業の社長の息子が思春期を迎え背中に翼が生え始めた。社長、ワージントンは、息子を普通の人間に戻そうとミュータント治療薬「キュア」を作り上げた。果たしてミュータントであることは病気なのか。ミュータント達の蟠りとマグニートーの作為が人類とミュータントの戦争を起こそうとしていた。
Sir Leigh Teabing
ルーブル美術館の館長が殺され、宗教象徴学の権威ラングドン教授に捜査協力が依頼される。遺体はダ・ヴィンチの素描「ウィトルウィウス的人体図」を模した姿勢を取らされ、周囲には暗号が記されていた。担当のファーシュ警部は、暗号が“ラングドンを捜せ”と示していたことから教授を疑うが、館長の孫ソフィーは教授の無実を信じ、彼を現場から逃がす。2人は警察に追われながら、暗号の真意と真犯人を捜し始める。
Narrator
Saint of 9/11 presents the turbulent, restless, spiritual and remarkable journey of Father Mychal Judge. Compassionate champion of the needy and forgotten, a beloved Fire Department Chaplain, rousing Irish-American balladeer and iconoclast, Father wrestled with his own private demons while touching others in powerful and miraculous ways. Mychal Judge knew the pain of loss and suffering. He struggled with alcoholism and was an outspoken AA advocate. Father Judge was a gay man who loved his priestly work. Saint of 9/11 portrays Mychal's life as a spiritual adventure and an honest embrace of life, where alcoholism and sexuality were acknowledged. Saint of 9/11 is the story of a life's journey interrupted. Inspired by his life, the documentary embraces Mychal's full humanity.
Zebedee (voice)
This is the story of Doogal, an adorable candy-loving mutt who goes on a mission to save the world.
Dr. Peter Cleave
A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
Gabriel Finch
Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the very place where his novelist father, T.L. Pierson, spent many years of his life.
Himself
Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at a school in a dangerous, poor, drug-infested 100% Latino/Asian neighborhood in Los Angeles.
Zebedee (voice)
A shaggy, candy-loving puppy named Dougal along with a group of friends embarks on a dangerous journey in an effort to imprison their oppressor -- the evil ice sorcerer ZeeBad (Zebedee's evil twin). As the world is placed in mortal danger Zeebad who wants to turn the world to ice. Doogal and his friends must recover 3 diamonds that are needed to stop him.
'Ringers: Lord of the Fans' is a feature-length documentary that explores how "The Lord of the Rings" has influenced Western popular culture over the past 50 years.
Jason Anders (voice)
Pip, a street kid just turning 18, receives his grandfather's World War II-era memoirs and discovers parallels to his own life.
Himself
The documentary looks at the rise to celebrity status of NZ actor and musician Bret McKenzie, who appeared for 3 seconds as an extra in "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", during the Council of Elrond scene. His brief appearance sparked a huge internet fan-base dedicated to his "brooding pout" and "elvish good looks". McKenzie has been dubbed "FIGWIT", an acronym of "Frodo is Great; Who is That!!?"
Profile of the life, work and ethos behind one of Britain's most controversial and prolific human rights campaigner: gay UK activist Peter Tatchell.
Himself
Gandalf
昼なお暗いモルドールの山。フロドが眠る隣でゴラムは、彼の“愛しいしと”たる指輪を初めて手に入れたときのことを思い出していた。彼はホビットの支族ストゥア族で スメアゴルと呼ばれていた。ある日、いっしょに川で魚を釣っていたデアゴルが川に落ちてたまたま指輪を拾う。スメアゴルはその指輪を見た瞬間に指輪に魅せられ、それを奪おうとしてデアゴルを殺してしまった。そのために村を追放された彼は、指輪だけを友に長い年月を過ごすうちに指輪の魔力に蝕まれ、徐々に心身ともに変貌し現在の姿になったのだ。眠りから目覚めたサムはゴラムの邪心を疑うが、フロドはそんなサムをいさめる。
Himself
This is feature-length documentary on the 2-Disc of X2.
Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto
プロフェッサーX率いる“X-MEN”は、人類抹殺計画を企てたマグニートー一味を倒し、マグニートーを牢獄に幽閉。人間との共存による平和が訪れるかに思われた。しかし、人類のミュータントに対する偏見や嫌悪はやがてX-MENたちにも向けられていく。そんな時、謎のミュータントによる大統領暗殺未遂事件が発生する。これにより、人類はミュータントの脅威に改めて恐れおののき、反ミュータント運動を加速させる結果となる。そして、その運動の先頭には、ミュータントへの生体実験を噂される元陸軍司令官で大富豪のストライカーがいた。
Himself
We find notes from Singer, Stan Lee, Stewart, McKellen, Berry, Mane, Davison, Romijn-Stamos, Paquin, Jackman, Janssen, and Marsden.
Himself
The short documentary about X-Men movie is featured on the X-Men 1.5 DVD.
Himself
The short documentary about X-Men movie is featured on the X-Men 1.5 DVD.
Emile
In a story weaving the past and present together, Emile seeks redemption from the family he abandoned.
Gandalf
オーク達の襲撃で離散してしまった「旅の仲間」達。フロドとサムは独力でモルドールの滅びの山への旅路を続けていた。荒涼とした景色が広がるをエミン・ムイル行くその2人の後を指輪の前の持ち主ゴラムが追跡していた。ゴラムを罠に掛けて捕らえた2人だが、すぐに殺そうと主張するサムに対し、フロドはエルフの綱につながれて苦しむゴラムを哀れに思い綱をほどく。フロドは情けをかけてゴラムを信じ、モルドールへの道案内を任せる事にする。
Self
A documentary about the influences on Tolkien, covering in brief his childhood and how he detested the onslaught of industry through the idyllic countryside, moving on to describe his fighting experience from WWI, and closing with a look at the Finnish inspiration for the scholar's self-invented languages of Elfish. In between are interviews with the cast of the films and some clips, by far the most from "The Fellowship of the Ring", but a few glimpses of Rohan riders (from "The Two Towers") are provided. Also, there are interviews with a range of the filmmakers.
Gandalf
はるか昔。闇の冥王サウロンは世界を滅ぼす魔力を秘めたひとつの指輪を作り出した。指輪の力に支配された中つ国では一人の勇者がサウロンの指を切り落とし、国を悪から救った。それから数千年の時を経た中つ国第3世紀。ある時、指輪がホビット族の青年フロドの手に渡る。しかし、指輪を取り戻そうとするサウロンの部下が迫っていた。世界を守るためには指輪をオロドルイン山の火口、“滅びの亀裂”に投げ込み破壊するしか方法はない。そこでフロドを中心とする9人の仲間が結成され、彼らは“滅びの亀裂”目指し、遥かなる冒険の旅に出るのだった。
Self
Himself
Narrator (voice)
A portrait of the 30 year relationship between Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. With comments by their friends and family.
Himself
While Senator Kelly addresses a senate committee about the supposed mutant menace, we learn about the making of the movie, X-Men.
Eric Lehnsherr / Magneto
200X年。人類は新たな「差別法案」の立法化を目指していた。それはDNAの突然変異により超人的なパワーを持つ“進化した人類＝ミュータント”を社会から合法的に迫害するものだった。人類との共存を目指すプロフェッサーX率いるミュータント集団X-MENは、人類の滅亡をもくろみテロ活動を企てるマグニートーたちと全面対決に突入していく！
Narrator (voice)
A child is born. We see underwater swimmers representing this. He is young, in a jungle setting, with two fanciful "instincts" guiding him as swooping bird-like acrobats initially menace, then delight. As an adolescent, he enters a desert, where a man spins a large cube of metal tubing. He leaves his instinct-guides behind, and enters a garden where two statues dance in a pond. As he watches their sensual acrobatics of love, he becomes a man. He is offered wealth (represented by a golden hat) by a devil figure. In a richly decorated room, a scruffy troupe of a dozen acrobats and a little girl reawaken the old man's youthful nature and love.
Self
A documentary from Universal about the movie "The Invisible Man" (1933) directed by James Whale.
Self
Written, co-produced and co-directed by David J. Skal, THE WORLD OF GODS AND MONSTERS is a behind-the scenes chronicle of the making of the 1998 Academy Award-winning film GODS AND MONSTERS starring Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser and Lynn Redgrave. Narrated by author/ filmmaker Clive Barker, the documentary interweaves the life and career of James Whale, director of the original FRANKENSTEIN, with the making of the acclaimed biopic. Interviewees include writer/director Bill Condon (Oscar winner for best adapted screenplay), Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, and Christopher Bram, author of the novel FATHER OF FRANKENSTEIN, on which the film was based.
Kurt Dussander
One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.
Dr. James Kennedy
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.
James Whale
オスカーに輝いたにもかかわらず、日本では未公開となってしまった幻の作品。『フランケンシュタインの花嫁』の監督の実話に基づき、彼の死の数日間を追う人間ドラマ。
Uncle Freddie
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.
In the early 90's seventy youth from a Hollywood homeless shelter started a theatre project encouraging them to tell their stories.. The youth ran the gamut of racial, cultural and sexual identities. Only ten completed the project and became performers. This film documents the process. The resulting play, Friendly Fire, was performed at the prestigious Los Angeles Festival before going on to tour high schools throughout the city.
Narrator
A Bit of Scarlet excavates clips from Britain's cinema archives to create a moving and humorous testament to the closeted gay and lesbian images from filmmaking's earliest days.
Tsar Nicholas II
Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation...or destroy it. Based on the true story of one of the most powerful and mysterious figures in Russian history.
Executive Producer
いつも悪態をついて国王一族の反感を買っているリチャード三世。王位継承を目論む彼は、兄を殺害するなど邪魔者の排除を開始したが……。英国皇室の残忍な陰謀劇を描いた歴史スペクタクル。
Screenplay
いつも悪態をついて国王一族の反感を買っているリチャード三世。王位継承を目論む彼は、兄を殺害するなど邪魔者の排除を開始したが……。英国皇室の残忍な陰謀劇を描いた歴史スペクタクル。
Will Gates
舞台は中世のイングランド。禁断の恋に苦しんだ青年が運命の女性と巡り合うまでをリリカルに描いた史劇。監督はマイケル・ホフマン、出演はロバート・ダウニーJr.、サム・ニールら。
Richard III
いつも悪態をついて国王一族の反感を買っているリチャード三世。王位継承を目論む彼は、兄を殺害するなど邪魔者の排除を開始したが……。英国皇室の残忍な陰謀劇を描いた歴史スペクタクル。
William
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a tumble down the stairs and lands on his head. When he comes around he discovers he is the proud father of a baby girl, but deficient in the spouse department to the tune of 1.
Amos Starkadder
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.
Quilt Documentary Narrator (voice)
Simon and Mark live together in London. When Mark dies of AIDS, Simon gets on with his life rather quickly, too quickly to suit the ghost of Mark, who reappears to disrupt Simon's cruising and then moves back into their flat to prompt Simon to experience and express feelings. Simon is adamant that feelings, especially love, are not for him. Subplots develop as Mark and Simon observe their neighbor Siobhan's love life and as Simon spends his days as a satellite-TV installer partnered with Dogger, a homophobe ignorant that Simon is gay. Is there any key that can unlock Simon's feelings and allow Mark to rest in peace?
Dr. Reinhardt Lane
Based on the 1930's comic strip, puts the hero up against his arch enemy, Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "The power to cloud men's minds", the Shadow comes blazing to the city's rescue with explosive results.
Augustus Caesar (voice)
The glories of Ancient Rome are explored in ROMAN CITY, based on David Macaulay's acclaimed book. This animated and live-action video recounts life in Verbonia, a fictional city in Gaul. A well-planned town with all modern conveniences, it is threatened by conflict between conquerors and conquered. Macaulay also visits Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia, Nimes, Orange, and Rome, to view actual Roman architecture and engineering greatness.
John Earl McAlpine
Matt Hobbs is a talented but unsuccessful actor. When estranged (and strange) ex-wife Beth dumps their daughter Jeannie on Matt, father and daughter have a lot of adjusting to do. His budding relationship with attractive production assistant Cathy Breslow is made complicated, while the precocious child is overly accustomed to getting her own way. Matt eventually faces the choice of family vs career in a particularly difficult way.
Geoffrey
世界各国で絶賛された舞台劇を『愛しのロクサーヌ』のF・スケピシが映画化した、サスペンスタッチのコメディ。1人の黒人青年が、上流社会に波紋を巻き起こす。
Bill Kraus
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
Percy Corcoran
Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man, and struggles to make a life for herself in a dingy frontier mining town. Can "Little Jo" live and love without revealing his/her secret?
Death
アクション・スター、ジャック・スレイターの大ファンである少年が、魔法のチケットを手に映画を観ていると、突然スクリーンの中にトリップ。憧れのヒーローとともに悪党を追う大冒険が始まる。
Iago
Noble Moroccan Othello finds his life with beautiful, fiercely loyal Desdemona thrown tragically out of balance when secretly jealous, scheming confidante Iago begins an insidious campaign of lies and treachery.
Adolf Hitler
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
John Profumo
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. Eventually a scandal occurs when her affair with the Minister of War goes public, threatening their lifestyles and their freedom.
Kronfeld
Zina, the daughter of Leon Trotsky by his first wife, is undergoing freudian analysis in Berlin in the 'thirties. Meanwhile Trotsky is in exile in Prinkipo having been driven from power by Stalin. The Nazis rise to power in Germany and Austria and Zina commits suicide.
Sir Andrew Charleson
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
Dr. Theodore Cuza
Nazis take over an ancient fortress that contains a mysterious entity that wreaks havoc and death upon them.
Walter
Sequel to the TV film "Walter". In the United States, the two films have been released together on DVD as a package, called "Loving Walter".
Chauvelin
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin
Walter
A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him. A sequel to this film, titled "Walter and June", was released in 1983 and set 19 years later in time. In the United States, these two are sometimes bundled together under the title "Loving Walter".
A record of McKellen's one-man Broadway show about the Bard.
D.H. Lawrence
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence writes "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
Macbeth
Macbeth is a 1978 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare. Produced by Thames Television, it features Ian McKellen as Macbeth and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. The TV version was directed by Philip Casson. The original stage production was performed at The Other Place, the RSC's small studio theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. It had been performed in the round before small audiences, with a bare stage and simple costuming. The recording preserves this style: the actors perform on a circular set and with a mostly black background changes of setting are indicated only by lighting changes.
Career army man Bill Paterson faces discharge in this examination of the harsh treatment of British NCOs.
George Tesman
Adaptation of the play by Henrik Ibsen.
King Edward
The reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile.
King Richard II
The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare. The actions and repercussions of a proud King, whose vanity and selfishness lead to his downfall.
Set in Leningrad. Follows the lives of three young Russians from the terror of the German siege of Leningrad through the uncertainty of the postwar years to the space age.
Roger
While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows to take up arms against the invaders, leading the English Christians to fight for their country. Alfred soundly defeats the Danes and becomes a hero. But now, although Alfred still longs for the priesthood, he is torn between his passion for God and his lust for blood.
George
Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advice of her best friend, Lydia, Rosamund chooses to keep the baby and adjusts her life to include both her studies and her pregnancy. However, when the baby is born, an unforeseen complication threatens the self-sufficient life Rosamund plans for herself.
Self (archive footage)
The BBC delves into its archives to discover British acting greats as they take their first tentative steps on the road to success. Long before they were knighted for their services to drama, we see early appearances from Michael Caine in a rare Shakespearean role, Ben Kingsley, Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi and Michael Gambon. Featuring unique behind-the-scenes footage alongside a wealth of classic British productions like War and Peace, the Mayor of Casterbridge and the Singing Detective, it reveals many career-defining moments from the first generation of acting talent to fully embrace television drama.
Jimmy Erskine
In 1934 London, Jimmy Erskine, the most feared drama critic in town, finds himself in the crosshairs of his newspaper’s new owner. Nina Land, the actress determined to win his favor, becomes entangled in a dangerous web of blackmail, deceit and murder.
Gandalf
Gandalf
Gandalf
Scrooge (rumored)
A music re-imagining version of Charles Dickins' well-known novel A Christmas Carol.
A modern-day version of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', which explores a young man's psyche as he contemplates avenging his father's death.
