French Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
『ブルーノ』などのお騒がせ男サシャ・バロン・コーエンが、世界一危険な独裁者を熱演する痛快爆笑ムービー。それまで欲望のままに生きてきた暴君が、ひょんなことからニューヨークに渡り、生まれて初めて庶民の世界を垣間見る様子をブラックな笑いと共に描き出す。将軍の右腕を、『ガンジー』などの名優ベン・キングズレーが好演。観る者を爆笑の渦に巻き込みつつ、時代背景を反映した痛烈な社会批判も込めた力作に脱帽する。
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.
Driver
A saga centered on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney, investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.
