Hunter S. Thompson

Johnny Depp started off as a punk band guitarist, turning to acting to help pay the bills. But his dabbling catapulted him to global fame and there was no going back. Throughout his career, Depp has had fame and infamy in equal measure. His roles are often that of the isolated anti-hero: Edward Scissorhands, Donnie Brasco, Raoul Duke in Las Vegas Parano, and Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean. His poetic outsider characters reveal a critical view of American society.

Hunter S. Thompson went to the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago as a journalist and returned home disgusted, yet motivated by what he’d just seen: violently suppressed protests, riots, corrupt politicians, and abusive cops. Back in Aspen, he finds more of the same. The local police and sheriff’s departments are targeting young people, harassing and charging them with absurd crimes and trying to push them out of town. Hunter decides he has to do something to change the police brutality that has become the norm.

第39代アメリカ合衆国大統領ジミー・カーター。リベラルな姿勢を貫く彼は、同時に大の音楽好き。大統領在任時の1978年にホワイトハウスにミュージシャンを招いてコンサートを開いた最初の大統領でもある。「アメリカを団結させるものの一つが、僕らが共有し愛する音楽だ」と語る彼は、96歳となった現在も幅広いジャンルのアーティストたちとの交流を続けている。 そんなロックンロール・プレジデント、ジミー・カーターの音楽への情熱と、ボブ・ディラン、U2のボノ、ウィリー・ネルソンら著名ミュージシャンたちとの交友関係にスポットを当てたドキュメンタリー。ほかにポール・サイモン、ナイル・ロジャース、ガース・ブルックス、そして故人となったグレッグ・オールマンも出演。音楽が文化として深く根付くアメリカの一面を知る、興味深いドキュメンタリーといえるだろう。

For No Good Reason a film about Ralph Steadman. Johnny Depp guides the visually stunning journey, smashing narrative conventions, moving seamlessly from interview to animation and in the finest Gonzo tradition questions of witness and authenticity are challenged. Steadman's art is for the first time animated, including illustrations from Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vagas. Featuring Richard E Grant, Terry Gilliam, Bruce Robinson and with music from Slash, The All American Rejects, Jason Mraz, Crystal Castles, Ed Hardcourt and Beth Orton. A touching and at times funny film about honesty, friendship and the ambition driving an artist. This is a true record of the demise of the 20th Century counterculture and hipster dream with Ralph Steadman the last of the Gonzo visionaries.

伝説のジャーナリスト、故ハンター・S・トンプソンの自伝的同名小説の映画化。若きトンプソン自身をモデルに、プエルトリコで地元紙のフリー記者として働き始めたアメリカ人青年が、慣れない土地で繰り広げる悪戦苦闘と狂騒の日々を綴る。

Animals, Whores & Dialogue is more than just a sequel to Wayne Ewing's 2003 Breakfast with Hunter which Variety declared to be a movie "that captures the essence of his [Hunter Thompson's] jazzy pop journalism." This new feature length documentary goes even deeper into Gonzo journalism with intimate scenes of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson at work writing, editing, and recounting the creation of classics like Hells Angels and Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. Animals, whores & dialogue were metaphors and an element Hunter almost always wove into his writing, and the words were emblazoned on his typewriter.

Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance, " goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction for writing wrongs. Focusing on the good doctor's heyday, 1965 to 1975, the film includes clips of never-before-seen (nor heard) home movies, audiotapes, and passages from unpublished manuscripts.

Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance, " goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction for writing wrongs. Focusing on the good doctor's heyday, 1965 to 1975, the film includes clips of never-before-seen (nor heard) home movies, audiotapes, and passages from unpublished manuscripts.

An account of the professional and personal life of renowned American photographer Annie Leibovitz, from her early artistic endeavors to her international success as a photojournalist, war reporter, and pop culture chronicler.

A personal, intimate look at journalist Hunter S. Thompson with a special emphasis on his Hollywood relationships. It captures the legacy and "gonzo" spirit of one of this century's most notorious figures - a man whose life and work regularly intersected with some of the biggest names in the world of film, politics, journalism and sports.

A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.

The director paints a car with the Canadian flag and embarks on a road trip through America in search of the meaning of the so-called American Dream, ultimately searching out Hunter S. Thompson to hear his wisdom.

Breakfast with Hunter is a feature length documentary starring the infamous outlaw journalist Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. Edited by director Wayne Ewing from cinema verite film and digital video that he shot over many years on the road with Dr. Thompson, Breakfast with Hunter follows several story lines in the trials (literally) and triumphs of this cultural icon who created his own genre of writing - Gonzo journalism.

Hunter Thompson visits the set of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

A look at the life and influence of acclaimed sixties writer Ken Kesey. Features archive footage of his 1964 Magic Bus Tour with The Merry Pranksters.

スポーツ記者のラウル・デュークと、サモア人で弁護士のドクター・ゴンゾー。彼らはバイクレースの取材のため、トランク一杯に「治療薬」と称したあらゆるドラッグを詰め込み、一路ラスベガスへ。超一流ホテルのスウィートルームに到着した彼らは、取材そっちのけで、早速ドラッグ三昧。ホテルを荒らしまくってやりたい放題する。

スポーツ記者のラウル・デュークと、サモア人で弁護士のドクター・ゴンゾー。彼らはバイクレースの取材のため、トランク一杯に「治療薬」と称したあらゆるドラッグを詰め込み、一路ラスベガスへ。超一流ホテルのスウィートルームに到着した彼らは、取材そっちのけで、早速ドラッグ三昧。ホテルを荒らしまくってやりたい放題する。

When twenty-six-year-olds Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn quit their Hollywood jobs, packed up a borrowed car and hit the road, it was with the deeply felt conviction that somewhere, shrouded in the din of talk shows and tabloid headlines, they'd discover the real America, alive and well in all of its regions and demographics.

Hunter S. Thompson speaks out on: the Iran/Contra affair, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Politicians and Lawyers, John McFarlaine, Oliver North, and Richard Nixon.

Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood, also known as Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision, is a documentary film produced by BBC in 1978 on the subject of Hunter S. Thompson, directed by Nigel Finch. The road trip/film pairs Thompson with Finch's fellow Briton the illustrator Ralph Steadman. The party travel to Hollywood via Death Valley and Barstow from Las Vegas, scene of the pair's 1971 collaboration. It contains interviews with Thompson and Steadman, as well as some short excerpts from some of his work.