John Beard

出生 : 1948-01-01, London, England, UK

参加作品

探偵マーロウ
Production Design
舞台は1939年、ロサンゼルス。私立探偵フィリップ・マーロウのもとに現れたのは、見るからに裕福そうなブロンドの美女。「突然姿を消したかつての愛人を探してほしい」 ――依頼を引き受けたマーロウだったが、捜査を進めるにつれ映画産業が急成長する“ハリウッドの闇”に飲み込まれ・・・予測不能な展開の連続、探偵マーロウが辿り着く真相や如何に!?
Unwelcome
Production Design
Londoners Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent, murderous goblins lurking in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden. When heavily pregnant Maya’s relationship with a local family turns sour, who – or what – will come to her rescue and what extremes will she go to to protect her unborn child?
Military Wives
Production Design
Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected bonds of friendship flourish, music and laughter transform their lives, helping each other to overcome their fears for loved ones in combat.
インクハート/魔法の声
Set Designer
The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
Easy Virtue
Production Design
A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
セレブ・ウォーズ ニューヨークの恋に勝つルール
Production Design
Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards ceremony, Sidney turns his fortunes around, attracting the attention of Clayton Harding, editor of New York-based glossy magazine 'Sharps', and landing the holy grail of journalism jobs. The Brit jets off to the Big Apple and moves from one blunder to the next.
The History Boys
Production Design
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.
スケルトン・キー
Production Design
ルイジアナ州ニューオリンズ。看護士のキャロラインは、老婦人のヴァイオレットと脳梗塞で全く身動き出来ない夫のベンが住んでいる古い屋敷に住み込みで働くことになった。その屋敷には鏡が一つもなく、至る所に魔よけのレンガ屑が撒いてある。働き始めて間もなく、バイオレットから全ての部屋を開けられる合鍵を預かるキャロライン。そしてある日、彼女はその鍵でも開けられない部屋を発見する。そこから、土地に伝わる古呪術“フードゥー”の存在と、昔この家で起こった惨劇を知らされる。
サンダーバード
Production Design
国際救助隊のトレーシー一家が活躍する2065年。末っ子アランは兄たちのようにサンダーバードの一員にと願うが、父から許可の降りない毎日を送っていた。そんなある日、兄たちがいない間に一家の島が何者かに乗っ取られる。
光の旅人 K-PAX
Production Design
ニューヨークの駅構内。不審な行動を見咎められ警察に連行される謎の男プロート。彼は自らを遥か1,000光年彼方のK-PAX星からやって来た異星人だと名乗り精神病院に送られる。プロートの治療に当たるのは精神科のパウエル医師。初めのうちは単なる妄想か虚言と高を括っていたパウエルだったが、その落ち着き払った言動や理路整然とした説明にかすかな疑問を抱き始める。さらに、プロートの存在は他の患者たちにも強い影響を与え、パウエルが治せずにいる患者たちがみるみる回復していく。
エニグマ
Production Design
1943年、イギリス軍の暗号解読センター。ここに様々な分野の専門家が集められナチスドイツの暗号化装置“エニグマ”機の解読が進められていた。その頃、チームの中心的存在で若き天才数学者のジェリコは、同じセンターで働く恋人クレアと喧嘩別れしたことが原因で神経衰弱に陥り、強制的に休暇を取らされていた。そんなある日、彼は急遽センターに呼び戻される。ようやく解読に成功したエニグマの暗号コードが突然変更されたのだ。連合軍は一転して窮地に立たされる。イギリス諜報部のウィグラムはこの一件でチーム内にスパイがいると睨み捜査を開始する…。
鳩の翼
Production Design
貧しい恋人のいる上流階級の女性ケイトは叔母が交際を反対。同じ頃、資産家の米国人女性と知り合うが……。H.ジェイムズの小説をもとに男女3人の愛と友情の行方を描くサスペンスフルな恋愛劇。
サイバーネット
Production Design
Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.
The Browning Version
Production Design
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire for 'health reasons', and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The boys regard him as a Hitler, with some justification. His unfaithful wife Laura tries to hurt him in any way she can. Andrew must come to terms with his failed life and at least regain his own self-esteem.
Splitting Heirs
Production Design
A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again. An Englishman who thinks he is an Indian comes to believe that he is actually the heir. He comes to hate the American who is his boss, his friend, and the man who has stolen the woman after whom he lusts.
Bernard and the Genie
Production Design
Bernard Bottle, a mild mannered art buyer, is fired by his greedy boss, abandoned by his girlfriend and discovers a genie in an old bottle. The genie immediately embraces the modern world and helps Bernard on the side.
最後の誘惑
Production Design
ニューヨークを代表する映画作家、マーティン・スコセッシ監督が新約聖書を独自の解釈でとらえた問題作。救世主イエス・キリストを、苦悩する1人の人間として描いていく。デヴィッド・ボウイの出演にも注目。
Siesta
Production Design
American Claire wakes up blood-soaked and bruised at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state, she has flashbacks from the past few days. She thinks she's killed someone, but isn't sure, and now she's wandering the Spanish streets without money or a clear memory.
Absolute Beginners
Production Design
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...
未来世紀ブラジル
Art Direction
20世紀のどこかの国。情報省はテロの容疑者「タトル」を「バトル」と打ち間違えてしまい、無関係なバトル氏を無理やり連行していく。それを一部始終見ていた上の階に住むトラック運転手のジルが抗議をするも、全く相手にされない。 一方、情報局に勤めるサムは、このミスをなんとかするために試行錯誤していた。近頃サムは、夢の中でナイトの格好をして、美女を助け出すというおかしな夢を見ていたが、情報省に抗議に来ていたジルがその美女にそっくりだということに気づく。 ある日、サムが家に帰るとダクトが故障しており、非合法のダクト修理屋と名乗るタトルが勝手に直してしまう。サムはまた夢の中でサムライの怪物と戦い、美女を救う夢を見る。サムはジルの正体を知るために断っていた昇格を望み、友人であったジャックの元を訪ねる。そして、様々な事柄が複雑に絡まりあっていく。
Jazzin' for Blue Jean
Production Design
Jazzin' for Blue Jean is a 20-minute short film featuring David Bowie and directed by Julien Temple. It was created to promote Bowie's single "Blue Jean" in 1984 and released as a video single. The film depicts the adventures of the socially incompetent Vic (played by Bowie) as he tries to win the affections of a beautiful girl by claiming to personally know her favorite rock star, Screaming Lord Byron (also played by Bowie).
Eureka
Art Direction
An Alaskan gold prospector lives in luxury with his family on an island which gangsters want.
人生狂騒曲
Art Direction
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
Digital Dreams
Art Direction
An amalgam of documentary and cinema verité, this movie outlines the life, loves and music of Rolling Stones bass guitarist Bill Wyman. After leaving the Stones in 1981, Wyman tried to establish his own separate musical identity, conveyed here through a stream of hallucinatory images and animated sequences.
Shock Treatment
Assistant Art Director
Janet and Brad Majors, unhappily married, are separated after appearing on a game show. Janet becomes a superstar while Brad is thrown into a mental hospital. But what does fast food magnate Farley Flavors have up his sleeve?
Priest of Love
Assistant Art Director
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."
Black Angel
Production Design
A knight returns home from the Crusades to find his village devastated by disease and his family gone. He roams the forest searching for them, until he finds a mysterious maiden who is being held prisoner by a black knight. In order to free her, he must confront her captor.
God's Spy
Production Design