Joshua James

ロスタンの名作戯曲「シラノ・ド・ベルジュラック」を、ジョー・ライト監督が映画化したロマンティック・ミュージカル。自分の容姿に自信がない仏軍きっての騎士が、片想い相手の恋愛を応援するはめになり……。

The day of Lady Windermere’s birthday party, and all is perfectly in order. Until her friend Lord Darlington plants a seed of suspicion. Is her husband having an affair? And will the other woman really attend the party? First performed in 1892, Lady Windermere’s Fan explores the ambiguity of upper class morality and the fragile position of women in society in the late Victorian era in one of Wilde’s most popular and witty plays.

第2次世界大戦初期、ナチスドイツによってフランスが陥落寸前にまで追い込まれ、イギリスにも侵略の脅威が迫っていた。連合軍が北フランスの港町ダンケルクの浜辺で窮地に陥る中、就任したばかりの英国首相ウィンストン・チャーチルの手にヨーロッパ中の運命が委ねられることに。ヒトラーとの和平交渉か徹底抗戦か、究極の選択を迫られるチャーチルだった。

King Lear has three daughters, but no sons. Boldly he makes a decision to divide his kingdom among his children, but fails to anticipate the consequences of his actions. His generosity is cruelly repaid and Lear finds himself adrift, wandering homeless and destitute. As he comes to realize the false values by which he has lived, he finally encounters his own humanity.

On a summer’s day in a makeshift theatre by a lake, Konstantin’s cutting-edge new play is performed, changing the lives of everyone involved forever. Chekhov’s masterly meditation on how the old take revenge on the young is both comic and tragic, and marks the birth of the modern stage. Adapted by David Hare whose stage plays include Skylight, Pravada and screenplays include The Hours and The Reader, directed by Jonathan Kent (Gypsy, Private Lives).

アメリカ軍の核ミサイルを遠隔で操作することが可能なハッカー、ダッチマンの居場所をただ一人知るCIAエージェントのビリーが、任務中にこの世を去る。手掛かりにすべく、ビリーの記憶が死刑囚のジェリコ・スチュアートの脳に移植されることになる。凶悪犯である自身とエージェントのビリーの二つの人格がせめぎ合う中、ジェリコは記憶が消える48時間以内にテロを防ぐため孤独な闘いに没入していく。

It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in – and her dangerous voyage begins. Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life on the Olivier stage in a thrilling new adaptation by Bryony Lavery.

Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island. He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and served by his spirit Ariel and his deformed slave Caliban. When Prospero raises a storm to wreck this perfidious brother and his confederates on the island, his long contemplated revenge at last seems within reach. - Shakespeare's Globe

A Jewish boy nurturing a secret romance with a Muslim girl, despite the realities of their backgrounds, is unaware he is being stalked. While the young lovers struggle to be open about their relationship, the stalker's obsession reveals a thought provoking turn culminating in the trio coming face to face.

The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now regarded as one of Britain's most sought-after artists, is at the centre of the complex love triangle, involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and Gilbert Evans, the land agent in charge of the Lamorna Valley estate. True - and deeply moving - the story is played out against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the approaching shadow of The Great War.