James Schamus

King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force, a move that is further complicated by his illegitimate daughter's discovery of the creature.

Movie stars and members of the film industry make fun of several narrative and visual clichés that are as shocking and aesthetic as they are often truly ridiculous.

Eight-year-old Cody is spending the summer in an unfamiliar setting with his mom Kathy. Though he can't relate to the neighbourhood kids, things take an unexpected turn when he develops an unusual friendship with grouchy old Del from next door.

A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.

James’s film provides us with a thoughtful history of photography and the moving image that both pays tribute to the past and celebrates how advancements in technology support the ever-evolving nature of cinema. His film elaborates on a history of storytelling through image and how we can use the iPhone and other new technologies to create, reflect and inspire in our day-to-day lives.

James’s film provides us with a thoughtful history of photography and the moving image that both pays tribute to the past and celebrates how advancements in technology support the ever-evolving nature of cinema. His film elaborates on a history of storytelling through image and how we can use the iPhone and other new technologies to create, reflect and inspire in our day-to-day lives.

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.

Adam, an awkward teen, spends a summer with his older sister, who is part of New York City's lesbian and trans activist scene. He meets the girl of his dreams but can't figure out how to tell her he's not the trans man she thinks he is.

アメリカの田舎町で、いつか訪れる世界の終わりにそなえて備蓄を続ける男。そして、物を捨てられない未亡人。そんな、老境に差し掛かった男女の恋の行方は...。

In between caring for her mother, a young woman works part time at a prison. The rookie guard gets a chance to prove her mettle when she's tasked with accompanying a hell-raising inmate on an emergency furlough to visit her dying mother. But things soon spiral out of control, sending the pair on a hilarious, surprising, and ultimately touching road trip.

In the wake of his big brother’s violent death, 13-year-old Dayveon struggles to find his way in an economically depressed Arkansas town. With no parents and few role models around, Dayveon is soon torn between the lure of a local gang and the friendship of his sister’s boyfriend.

Twenty years after the modern world's most notorious child murder, the legacy of the crime and its impact are explored.

Set against a backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian rapper Kareem and his singer girlfriend Manar struggle, love and make music in their crime-ridden ghetto and Tel Aviv's hip-hop club scene.

A three-part feature in which Cultural Critic/Film Journalist Tasha R. Robinson interviews three key members of the filmmaking team. The first features Director Ang Lee discussing the film in In Conversation with Ang Lee. In Conversation with Tim Squyres looks at how the American-born Editor cut the film, which was shot in Mandarin. Finally, In Conversation with James Schamus features the Screenwriter and Producer discussing the film's worldwide success and his relationship with Ang Lee.

In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Korean War.

In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Korean War.

In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Korean War.

1940年6月、フランスが降伏し、ドイツ国中が戦勝ムードに沸く中、首都ベルリンに暮らす労働者階級の夫婦、オットーとアンナのもとに1通の手紙が届く。それは、彼らのひとり息子ハンスの戦死を知らせるものだった。それ以来、2人は、悲しみと失意を怒りに転化させ、ヒトラー政権を批判するメッセージを匿名の葉書にせっせと書き綴っては、街のあちこちに人知れずばらまくという、ささやかな抵抗運動に身を投じるようになる。

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.

What is the real value of a dollar? You think that a dollar bill is money and that banks are where your cash is stored and safeguarded. Well, you’re wrong. Like, really wrong.

What is the real value of a dollar? You think that a dollar bill is money and that banks are where your cash is stored and safeguarded. Well, you’re wrong. Like, really wrong.

What is the real value of a dollar? You think that a dollar bill is money and that banks are where your cash is stored and safeguarded. Well, you’re wrong. Like, really wrong.

A documentary about the influential independent film production company The Shooting Gallery.

This documentary short takes you inside the fascinating world of film preservation and restoration.

Tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself.

The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.

The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.

1938年、日中戦争の激化によって中国本土から香港に逃れていた女子大学生・王佳芝（ワン・チアチー）は、学友・鄺祐民（クァン・ユイミン）の勧誘で抗日運動をかかげる学生劇団に入団。翌年、佳芝も地下工作員として、暗殺の機を窺うため特務機関の易（イー）を誘惑したが、易の厳しい警戒で暗殺は未遂に終わる。3年後、再度、易暗殺の工作員として抜擢された佳芝は激しい性愛を交わすうち、すさまじい孤独の苦悩を抱える易にいつしか魅かれてゆく。

1938年、日中戦争の激化によって中国本土から香港に逃れていた女子大学生・王佳芝（ワン・チアチー）は、学友・鄺祐民（クァン・ユイミン）の勧誘で抗日運動をかかげる学生劇団に入団。翌年、佳芝も地下工作員として、暗殺の機を窺うため特務機関の易（イー）を誘惑したが、易の厳しい警戒で暗殺は未遂に終わる。3年後、再度、易暗殺の工作員として抜擢された佳芝は激しい性愛を交わすうち、すさまじい孤独の苦悩を抱える易にいつしか魅かれてゆく。

A chronological look at films by, for, or about gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, Kenneth Anger's "Fireworks" to "Brokeback Mountain". Talking heads, anchored by critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich, are interspersed with an advancing timeline and with clips from two dozen films. The narrative groups the pictures around various firsts, movements, and triumphs: experimental films, indie films, sex on screen, outlaw culture and bad guys, lesbian lovers, films about AIDS and dying, emergence of romantic comedy, transgender films, films about diversity and various cultures, documentaries and then mainstream Hollywood drama. What might come next?

1963年、ワイオミング州ブロークバック・マウンテン。定職のないイニスとジャックは、羊放牧の職を得て、共にひと夏を過ごすことになる。大自然の中でお互いを助け合ううちに、彼らに深い絆が生まれる。それがごく自然に男同士の関係へと変化していくのに、それほど時間はかからなかった。しかし、保守的な時代、閉鎖的な土地…厳しい社会の現実が２人の関係に影を落とし始める。

遺伝子工学者ブルース・バナーは、実験装置の事故で大量のガンマ線を浴びてしまう。命に別状はなかったが、以来、彼は何度も強い怒りに我を忘れそうになり、ついにその怒りがピークに達した時、彼は怪力を持つ巨人ハルクに変貌する。その後もブルースは何度もハルクに変身するが、我に返ると自分が引き起こした惨事に苦悩する。実は元をたどれば同じく遺伝子工学者だった彼の父デヴィッド・バナー博士の研究に端を発していた。

遺伝子工学者ブルース・バナーは、実験装置の事故で大量のガンマ線を浴びてしまう。命に別状はなかったが、以来、彼は何度も強い怒りに我を忘れそうになり、ついにその怒りがピークに達した時、彼は怪力を持つ巨人ハルクに変貌する。その後もブルースは何度もハルクに変身するが、我に返ると自分が引き起こした惨事に苦悩する。実は元をたどれば同じく遺伝子工学者だった彼の父デヴィッド・バナー博士の研究に端を発していた。

遺伝子工学者ブルース・バナーは、実験装置の事故で大量のガンマ線を浴びてしまう。命に別状はなかったが、以来、彼は何度も強い怒りに我を忘れそうになり、ついにその怒りがピークに達した時、彼は怪力を持つ巨人ハルクに変貌する。その後もブルースは何度もハルクに変身するが、我に返ると自分が引き起こした惨事に苦悩する。実は元をたどれば同じく遺伝子工学者だった彼の父デヴィッド・バナー博士の研究に端を発していた。

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama reveals how Crane's double life takes its toll on him and his family, and ultimately contributes to his death.

剣の英雄たちが群雄割拠する時代。天下の名剣“グリーン・デスティニー”の使い手としてその名を轟かせる英雄リ－と女弟子ユーは、心惹かれ合いながらも長い間人々のため正義に生きてきた。リーは剣を置く決意をしてグリーン・デスティニーをユーに託し、依頼されたティエ氏に無事剣を届けたユーは、そこで貴族の娘イェンと出会う。その夜、グリーン・デスティニーが何者かに盗まれ、ユーはイェンを疑い彼女の家を訪ねる。

剣の英雄たちが群雄割拠する時代。天下の名剣“グリーン・デスティニー”の使い手としてその名を轟かせる英雄リ－と女弟子ユーは、心惹かれ合いながらも長い間人々のため正義に生きてきた。リーは剣を置く決意をしてグリーン・デスティニーをユーに託し、依頼されたティエ氏に無事剣を届けたユーは、そこで貴族の娘イェンと出会う。その夜、グリーン・デスティニーが何者かに盗まれ、ユーはイェンを疑い彼女の家を訪ねる。

Manhattan, 1996. All mental hospitals must cut their patient load by a third, and LaRue (Will Keenan) is sent out onto the streets with "chronic reading syndrome". He ends up at the Love Hotel (where most of the inmates are being held), and falls in love with a mute girl who's obsessive mother dominates her life. To top it all off, LaRue is given a roommate with Tourette's syndrome and is chased by a prehistoric worm that inhabits peoples bodies and mutates them.

南北戦争期のアメリカを舞台に、必死で時代を生きた5人の若者の姿を描いた、アン・リー監督が贈る青春映画の傑作。

南北戦争期のアメリカを舞台に、必死で時代を生きた5人の若者の姿を描いた、アン・リー監督が贈る青春映画の傑作。

Murat, a Turkish gay youth living in Berlin’s Turkish ghetto, decides to come out to his family. What he doesn’t know yet is that his family has even bigger secrets to hide.

ニュージャージー州の郊外に暮らす三姉妹を軸に描かれる不幸な人たち……イタ電オヤジ、ヤリ逃げ男、ホモの少年などなどワケありな人々が幸せを求めて繰り広げる過激なコメディ。

When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench the loneliness of her home life, as a macabre office place forms in her basement, populated by dead co-workers.

Welcome to Levittown, New York - America's first cookie-cutter community. From wife-swapping to bomb shelters, to flag burning, Wonderland takes a hilarious and unforgettable look at life in a town where thousands of identical-looking houses were assigned to their residents in alphabetical order.

When a New England dysfunctional family gathers for Thanksgiving, past demons reveal themselves as one son returns for the first time in three years.

In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.

In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.

A directionless teenager (Aesha Waks) becomes involved with a headstrong runaway (Summer Phoenix) and her drug-dealing brother (Sam Rockwell).

Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's influence. Though they disagree about everything, they have one thing in common: Mickey's ex-fiance Heather is Francis's secret love. Though both brothers have beautiful wives, Heather triggers their longtime sibling rivalry

Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back.

19世紀初頭。イングランド南東部のサセックス州にある私園“ノーランド・パーク”を構えるダッシュウッド家の主ヘンリーを失った彼の妻と３人の娘。法律の定めるところにより私園を含め財産は先妻の息子ジョンに相続されるのを心配したヘンリーは、死の床でジョンに妻と娘の世話を頼んでいたが、ジョンの妻の反対にあいその約束は反故にされてしまう。彼女たちは悲しみにひたる間もなく、早速新しい家を探し始める。

Deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with basic ideas and values — love, sex, marriage, religion and family — in the 1990s. Directed, written, produced by and starring Edward Burns.

When Jill Godmilow’s documentary Roy Cohn/Jack Smith premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, the number of AIDS-related deaths was reaching an all-time high in the United States (over 270,000). In New York City, the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, many artists and filmmakers were grappling with the disease. While Broadway was hosting the second part of Tony Kushner’s award-winning play Angels in America, downtown New Yorkers were fondly recalling another recent production, Ron Vawter’s one-man show Roy Cohn/Jack Smith, in which the actor, who died of AIDS in April 1994, performed two monologues, first as Cohn, the conservative lawyer, and secondly, as Smith, the flamboyant experimental filmmaker—both of whom died of AIDS-related causes in the late 1980s.

An upper middle-class housewife suffering from various unexplained symptoms of illness comes to believe that she is suffering from multiple chemical sensitivity and moves into a secluded facility to recover.

Jackie and Michael are coworkers at a large law firm. They decide to meet at Jackie's for dinner one night.

A retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu and his family live in modern day Taipei, Taiwan. He lives with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each of the daughters encounter new men in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes. Since the family has difficulty expressing their love for each other, the intricate preparation of banquet quality dishes for their Sunday dinners is the surrogate for their familial feelings.

A retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu and his family live in modern day Taipei, Taiwan. He lives with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each of the daughters encounter new men in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes. Since the family has difficulty expressing their love for each other, the intricate preparation of banquet quality dishes for their Sunday dinners is the surrogate for their familial feelings.

A psychic suburban mother--with an affinity for Doris Day films--begins a spiritual journey beyond the confines of her neighborhood and failed nuclear family experience.

A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.

A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.

An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.

Director Jan Oxenberg's docu-fantasy narrative about aging and death, and how it affects her family.

Jude, a college professor, is obsessed with Sophie, his student. She, in turn, is intrigued by his scholarly charm. Flirtation turns to lust and the two become lovers.

Mr. Chu is an elderly widower who teaches tai chi chuan in Beijing. He moves to America to live with his son's family, but finds the cultural adjustment difficult. Since his daughter-in-law is a white woman who does not speak Chinese, Mr. Chu's son, Alex, must mediate.

Mr. Chu is an elderly widower who teaches tai chi chuan in Beijing. He moves to America to live with his son's family, but finds the cultural adjustment difficult. Since his daughter-in-law is a white woman who does not speak Chinese, Mr. Chu's son, Alex, must mediate.

Silva fulfills herself a dream: from Poland she flies to USA. With only a few hundred dollars she arrives in New York, incapable of the language. Not long until the charming swindler Avi steals all her money - but she doesn't give up: She hunts him down, follows him around, demanding her money back.

A boy shoots his father and flies out the window. A man falls in love with a fellow inmate in prison. A doctor accidentally ingests his experimental sex serum, wreaking havoc on the community.

Follows a day in the life of a young artist who longs for professional success and the attention of beautiful women, but who encounters only frustration and violence.

Sophie comes to New York from France with the intention of joining a man she met a few months before. She finds herself alone in the apartment of the guy, who left town because he was scared stiff at the idea of seeing her. Originally commissioned as one third of an omnibus feature showcasing the Figaro, a Japan-only retro throwback car.

A young Karl Rove vies for the position of chief campus conservative under the guidance of Lee Atwater.

A young Karl Rove vies for the position of chief campus conservative under the guidance of Lee Atwater.