John Sloss

出生 : 1956-01-01, Detroit, Michigan, USA

参加作品

Hit Man
Executive Producer
A cop working undercover as the most in-demand hitman in Houston breaks protocol in order to help a desperate woman escape her abusive boyfriend.
Apollo 10½:  A Space Age Childhood
Executive Producer
A man narrates stories of his life as a 10-year-old boy in 1969 Houston, weaving tales of nostalgia with a fantastical account of a journey to the moon.
星の消えた空に
Executive Producer
Julie is a new mom and children's book author, who escapes into the bright Crayola-colored world of her creation in order to leave behind the darkness caused by her post-partum depression.
The Velvet Underground
Executive Producer
Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage.
ランド
Executive Producer
Edee, in the aftermath of an unfathomable event, finds herself unable to stay connected to the world she once knew and in the face of that uncertainty, retreats to the magnificent, but unforgiving, wilds of the Rockies. After a local hunter brings her back from the brink of death, she must find a way to live again.
At the Video Store
Self
Equal parts personal essay, intense rumination, and playful satire, this movie laments the death of the American Video Store while it searches for the missing human element in today's digital landscape.
グリーンブック
Executive Producer
時は1962年、ニューヨークの一流ナイトクラブ、コパカバーナで用心棒を務めるトニー・リップは、ガサツで無学だが、腕っぷしとハッタリで家族や周囲に頼りにされていた。ある日、トニーは、黒人ピアニストの運転手としてスカウトされる。彼の名前はドクター・シャーリー、カーネギーホールを住処とし、ホワイトハウスでも演奏したほどの天才は、なぜか差別の色濃い南部での演奏ツアーを目論んでいた。二人は、〈黒人用旅行ガイド=グリーンブック〉を頼りに、出発するのだが─。
ブレイズ
Producer
Re-imagining the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting Texas legend.
30年後の同窓会
Producer
巨匠リチャード・リンクレイタ―監督が12年の構想期間を経て描く、感動のロードムービー。 妻に先立たれ、2日前に息子が戦死した父は、耐え切れない悲しみの中、故郷へ帰る旅に30年間音信普通だった戦友を誘った―。 かつて共にベトナム戦争に従軍し、痛みを分かち合った仲間たちは、30年前に起きた事件をきっかけに大きく人生が変わっていた。今はそれぞれの道を歩む旧友三人組は、仲間に起きた悲劇をきっかけに再会し、親友の息子の遺体を連れ帰る旅に出る――。戦争で刻まれた喪失感。仲間との旅は心の殻を一枚ずつ剥いでゆくー。30年前の“ある事件”によって傷ついた心の再生と、人生が再び輝き出す姿が描かれる。
ワンダーストラック
Producer
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
Obit
Thanks
How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys and existential angst of the Times obit writers, as they chronicle life after death on the front lines of history.
Everybody Wants Some!!
Executive Producer
A comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.
6才のボクが、大人になるまで。
Producer
メイソンは、母オリヴィアと姉サマンサとテキサス州の小さな町で生活していた。彼が6歳のとき、母は子供たちの反対を押し切って祖母が住むヒューストンへの引っ越しを決める。さらに彼らの転居先に、離婚してアラスカに行っていた父が1年半ぶりに突然現れる。
Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery
Self
A documentary about the influential independent film production company The Shooting Gallery.
ビフォア・ミッドナイト
Airport Traveller in Opening Scene (uncredited)
恋愛映画の金字塔“ビフォア”シリーズの最終章。『ビフォア・サンセット』から9年後。美しいギリシャの海辺の街を舞台に、“真夜中”まで飾らない想いを語り合うジェシーとセリーヌを描く。出演はイーサン・ホーク、ジュリー・デルピー。
ビフォア・ミッドナイト
Executive Producer
恋愛映画の金字塔“ビフォア”シリーズの最終章。『ビフォア・サンセット』から9年後。美しいギリシャの海辺の街を舞台に、“真夜中”まで飾らない想いを語り合うジェシーとセリーヌを描く。出演はイーサン・ホーク、ジュリー・デルピー。
Friends with Kids
Executive Producer
In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of parenthood without significantly curbing their personal freedom. However, when Julie and Jason both become involved with others, they discover that they secretly harbor romantic feelings for each other.
星の旅人たち
Executive Producer
ある日、アメリカ人眼科医トム・エイヴリーのもとに、一人息子ダニエルの訃報が届く。それは、ダニエルが聖地サンティアゴ・デ・コンポステーラへの巡礼の旅に出た矢先の悲劇だった。フランスとスペインの国境の町までやって来たトム。ダニエルの遺品と遺灰を手にした彼は、息子が巡礼の旅に求めたものが何だったのかを知ろうと、息子に代わり、旅を続けることを決意する。それは、800キロにもおよぶ長旅。その道中、彼は旅の目的も様々な巡礼者たちとの出会いを重ね、少しずつ彼らと打ち解けていくのだが…。
Me and Orson Welles
Executive Producer
New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach
Executive Producer
A profile of University of Texas baseball coach Augie Garrido, the winningest coach in NCAA history.
Starting Out in the Evening
Executive Producer
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for her thesis on his work, her interest forces him to address the issues that he has avoided all these years, and stirs in him feelings he has long forgotten, much to his daughter's consternation.
アイム・ノット・ゼア
Producer
クリスチャン・ベイル、リチャード・ギアら豪華キャスト共演によるボブ・ディランの伝記映画。詩人や映画スター、革命家など、6人の俳優がそれぞれに異なるイメージ像のディランを演じることで、実像に迫っていく。
スキャナー・ダークリー
Executive Producer
近未来のアメリカ。政府が腐敗した社会には、「物質D」と呼ばれる右脳と左脳を分裂させてしまう恐ろしいドラッグが蔓延。人民の権利はことごとく踏みにじられていた。覆面麻薬捜査官は、「物質D」の供給源を探るため、自らジャンキーとなりドラッグの世界へと深く潜入していくが、やがて捜査官の立場で、ジャンキーとしての自分を監視する事態に陥る。そして、彼の中で捜査官とジャンキーという2つの人格が分裂し始め、徐々に、しかし確実に崩壊していくのだった。<現実と幻覚とを曖昧にする表現手段として、俳優を撮影した実写映像をトレースしてアニメーション化するロトスコープという技法によって制作された。近未来のアメリカを舞台に、麻薬常習者たちと彼らを取り巻く監視社会を描いている。常習者たちの言動や共同体の様子、プライバシーに関する不安や妄想は、かつて麻薬を常用していた原作者ディックの体験に基づく。>
Lonesome Jim
Executive Producer
After failing to find success as a writer in New York City, Jim slinks back to his family's home in the Midwest to lick his wounds. But his visit is quickly complicated when his angst spreads to his brother, Tim, who promptly decides to drive his car straight into a tree. Under the shadow of his sibling's injurious actions, Jim strikes up an unlikely friendship with Anika, whose centered small-town wisdom gradually rubs off on him.
Land of Plenty
Executive Producer
After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War.
A Home at the End of the World
Executive Producer
Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and tears which culminate in a strong yet fragile friendship between the three.
ビフォア・サンセット
Executive Producer
9年前に列車の中で出会って惹かれ合い、再会を約束するも果たせなかった米国人ジェシーとフランス人のセリーヌ。9年後、ついにパリで再会した二人に残された時間は85分。リアルタイムで進行する恋の結末が気になるロマンス作。
フォッグ・オブ・ウォー マクナマラ元米国防長官の告白
Executive Producer
第2次世界大戦当時、経営管理の理論を米軍の戦略に応用するマクナマラの報告書は、日本への無差別爆撃を促し、マクナマラは自分が戦争犯罪を行なったと認める。85歳になったマクナマラは自分の人生で得た11の教訓を語る。“敵の身になって考えよ”、“理性は助けにならない”、“戦争は釣り合いが必要”、“人間の本質は変えられない”など。さらに彼はケネディ政権、ジョンソン政権などについて知られざる事実を明かす。
エイプリルの七面鳥
Executive Producer
家出して以来初めて家族を夕食に招待したエイプリル。感謝祭の七面鳥を焼こうとするが、実は彼女は料理をしたことがなかった……。巧みな人物造形で描く感動作。
エデンより彼方に
Executive Producer
1957年、コネティカット州。紅葉の美しいニューイングランドの町ハートフォード。キャシーは愛すべき夫と子供たちに囲まれ、貞淑な妻であり賢い母として忙しくも幸せな毎日を送っていた。女性として常に美しく、“理想の主婦”として雑誌の取材を受ける彼女は周囲の賞賛と憧れの対象だった。しかし、ある日夫の忌まわしい秘密が露呈され、キャシーの人生は一転する。
Tadpole
Executive Producer
Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands. On the train home from Chauncey Academy for the Thanksgiving weekend, Oscar confides in his best friend that he has plans for this vacation--he will win the heart of his true love. But there is one major problem--Oscar's true love is his stepmother Eve.
Coastlines
Executive Producer
An ex-con returns to his Florida hometown after three years and becomes involved with the wife of his best friend, the local sheriff.
Personal Velocity
Executive Producer
In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.
Ten Tiny Love Stories
Executive Producer
Rodrigo Garcia's Ten Tiny Love Stories follows the stories of ten women with very different emotional and psychological experiences across ten scripted monologues.
テープ
Executive Producer
Three old high school friends meet in a Michigan motel room to dissect painful memories from their past.
ウェイキング・ライフ
Executive Producer
Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.
Chelsea Walls
Executive Producer
This movie tells five stories set in a single day at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City, involving an ensemble cast of some 30-35 characters.
セッション9
Executive Producer
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Hamlet
Executive Producer
Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City.
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
Executive Producer
A portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Mr. Leuchter was an engineer who became an expert on execution devices and was later hired by holocaust revisionist historian Ernst Zundel to "prove" that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Leuchter published a controversial report confirming Zundel's position, which ultimately ruined his own career. Most of the footage is of Leuchter, working in and around execution facilities or chipping away at the walls of Auschwitz, but Morris also interviews various historians, associates, and neighbors.
Whiteboyz
Executive Producer
In a virtually all-white Iowa town, Flip daydreams of being a hip-hop star, hanging with Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre. He practices in front of a mirror and with his two pals, James and Trevor. He talks Black slang, he dresses Black. He's also a wannabe pusher, selling flour as cocaine. And while he talks about "keeping it real," he hardly notices real life around him: his father's been laid off, his mother uses Food Stamps, his girlfriend is pregnant, James may be psychotic, one of his friends (one of the town's few Black kids) is preparing for college, and, on a trip to Chicago to try to buy drugs, the cops shoot real bullets. What will it take for Flip to get real?
ボーイズ・ドント・クライ
Executive Producer
男性と女性、両方の要素を持って生まれてきたブランドン。だが閉鎖的な町の人々は、衝撃の事件を引き起こしてしまう……。アカデミー賞主演女優賞に輝いたヒラリー・スワンクの演技が観どころ。
ラスト・デイズ・オブ・ディスコ
Legal Services
Two young women and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York.
ラスト・デイズ・オブ・ディスコ
Executive Producer
Two young women and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York.
No Looking Back
Co-Executive Producer
Charlie returns to his old town where he meets his ex-girlfriend again and tries to get her back.
ニュートン・ボーイズ
Executive Producer
誰ひとり殺さず、アメリカ史上最も高い成功率を誇った実在の強盗犯、ニュートン四兄弟を描いた作品。強盗稼業から足を洗った次兄ウィリスは無一文になってしまい、兄弟最後となる一世一代の大列車強盗を計画する。
Men with Guns
Executive Producer
Dr. Fuentes is a medical professor approaching his retirement and journeys to find old students, with sometimes disturbing results.
木洩れ日の中で
Executive Producer
Third-generation Florida beekeeper Ulee Jackson may have gotten out of Vietnam alive, but he left a part of himself behind. Now he methodically tends his bees, carefully provides for his two grandchildren and keeps his emotions at bay. But when a long-buried secret threatens Ulee's business and family, he is forced to break through his emotional walls and confront the terror of his wounded spirit.
SubUrbia
Executive Producer
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
American Buffalo
Legal Services
Three inner-city losers plan a robbery of a valuable coin in a seedy second-hand junk shop.
American Buffalo
Executive Producer
Three inner-city losers plan a robbery of a valuable coin in a seedy second-hand junk shop.
She's the One
Co-Executive Producer
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
真実の囁き
Executive Producer
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
恋人までの距離
Executive Producer
A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.
恋人までの距離
Cafe Patron
A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.
The Secret of Roan Inish
Executive Producer
Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate.
The Ballad of Little Jo
Executive Producer
Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man, and struggles to make a life for herself in a dingy frontier mining town. Can "Little Jo" live and love without revealing his/her secret?
パッション・フィッシュ
Executive Producer
心を体に傷を負ったふたりの女性が、アメリカ南部に根づいているケージャン文化に出会う。生命力あふれる文化を通して、彼女たちの心と体が同時に癒されていくさまが伝わってくるような秀作。
City of Hope
Executive Producer
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father. Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn, an idealistic young politician.
メイトワン-1920
Legal Services
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.