Robert Benton
出生 : 1932-09-29, Waxahachie, Texas, USA
略歴
Robert Douglas Benton (born September 29, 1932) is an American screenwriter and film director.
Benton was born in Waxahachie, Texas, the son of Dorothy (née Spaulding) and Ellery Douglass Benton, a telephone company employee. He attended the University of Texas and Columbia University.[1] Benton has enjoyed a highly successful career in film, winning numerous prestigious awards for both writing and directing. He was also the art director at Esquire magazine in the early 1960s. In 2006, he appeared in the documentary Wanderlust, as did a number of other well-known people.
Benton's family originally hailed from Northumberland in Great Britain, where the Bentons held a seat long before the Norman Conquest. Many family members settled in America, including Abigail and Isabel Benton, who settled in Virginia in 1642; George Benton, who settled in Barbados in 1669; and Robert Benton, who settled in Virginia in 1635. Benton was once a noble family, but they became commoners after the Norman invasion. Robert Benton still has relatives living in England who trace their origins to the seventeenth century. Other prominent Bentons include: Thomas Hart Benton and William Burnett Benton.
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Self
Documentary by Luc Lagier exploring Godard's career as a filmmaker, the production of Breathless and his influence and his relationship with American cinema.
Self
Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film.
Self
The making-of documentary of Bonnie and Clyde.
Director
ロバート・ベントン監督がモーガン・フリーマンを主演に迎えて贈る、大人のラヴストーリー。悩みを抱えた9人の男女が、それぞれの愛の形を見出すまでの人間模様を描き出す。不良息子との折り合いに悩む哲学教授を軸に愛を語る群像劇。
Self
A 5-part documentary of the history of Superman in the movies. • Origin - Superman in the media and the challenges the Salkinds faced • Vision - Creating the right script, Choosing the right director and casting the right actors • Ascent - The production and launch of a new kind of fantasy film • Crisis - Complications and conflicts between the creative forces behind Superman II • Redemption - Criticisms and burnout of Superman III and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Himself
A look at the mystique of road movies, combining interviews, film clips, music, photography, literature and a narrative storyline featuring Paul Rudd and Tom McCarthy.
Executive Producer
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.
Screenplay
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.
Director
コールマン・シルクは、世界的に尊敬されている教授だが、無意識のうちに人種差別的な発言をしてしまい、職を失ってしまう。潔白を証明するために、シルクは友人である同僚のネイサン・ザッカーマンと共に事件についての本を書くが、その過程でザッカーマンはシルクが生涯隠し続けてきた暗い秘密を知ることになる。その間、シルクは若い女性ファウニア・ファーリーと関係を持つ。彼女の苦悩に満ちた過去は、シルクが作り上げた幾重もの欺瞞を解き明かそうとしている。
Self
A behind-the-scenes look at this Oscar-winning classic about a man who finds himself a single parent after his wife walks out on him, then is forced to fight for custody of his child in court. Includes interviews with the stars of the film, including Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, giving their views of what it was like to make this picture.
Writer
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
Director
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
Screenplay
極寒の田舎町に住む60歳の男。金も、家庭も、定職もない彼が失いかけていた人間の絆を取り戻していく姿を愛情一杯に描いた作品。監督は『クレイマー クレイマー』のロバート・ベントン。
Director
極寒の田舎町に住む60歳の男。金も、家庭も、定職もない彼が失いかけていた人間の絆を取り戻していく姿を愛情一杯に描いた作品。監督は『クレイマー クレイマー』のロバート・ベントン。
Self
An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the movement with insight on the lives and works of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and other principal players in the New Wave.
Director
In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.
Executive Producer
Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. One day her attention is drawn to a noisy argument being conducted largely in German in a neighbouring house, the more so since one of those involved is her main senator prosecutor. Starting to look into things, she gradually enlists the help of FBI officer Cochran who was initially detailed to check her out. Just as well when things turn nasty
Writer
Hairdresser Nadine Hightower wants to retrieve the risqué photos she once posed for, but when she visits the photographer at his office, he's murdered by an intruder. Nadine talks her estranged husband, Vernon, into going along when she returns to the office, where they stumble across plans for a less than legal construction project. But when Vernon tries to turn the documents into a cash windfall, he and Nadine are pursued by goons with guns.
Director
Hairdresser Nadine Hightower wants to retrieve the risqué photos she once posed for, but when she visits the photographer at his office, he's murdered by an intruder. Nadine talks her estranged husband, Vernon, into going along when she returns to the office, where they stumble across plans for a less than legal construction project. But when Vernon tries to turn the documents into a cash windfall, he and Nadine are pursued by goons with guns.
Author
35年のテキサス。酔っ払いの黒人によって誤って撃ち殺された保安官の妻、エドナ。それまで家計は夫に任せ切りで家に借金がある事すら知らなかった彼女は、銀行から期限までにお金を返さなければ家を売るように言われ、二人の子供を抱えて途方にくれてしまう。そんなある日、物乞いに現れた黒人に家の前の畑で綿花を育てればいい金になる事を教えられ、彼を雇って畑仕事を開始する。途中、幾多の苦難を乗り越え収穫の日を迎えるのだったが……。
Director
35年のテキサス。酔っ払いの黒人によって誤って撃ち殺された保安官の妻、エドナ。それまで家計は夫に任せ切りで家に借金がある事すら知らなかった彼女は、銀行から期限までにお金を返さなければ家を売るように言われ、二人の子供を抱えて途方にくれてしまう。そんなある日、物乞いに現れた黒人に家の前の畑で綿花を育てればいい金になる事を教えられ、彼を雇って畑仕事を開始する。途中、幾多の苦難を乗り越え収穫の日を迎えるのだったが……。
Story
When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then visited by the patient's mistress, Brooke Reynolds, whom he quickly falls for despite her being a likely murder suspect. As the police pressure on him intensifies, Rice decides to attempt solving the case on his own and soon discovers that someone is trying to kill him as well.
Screenplay
When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then visited by the patient's mistress, Brooke Reynolds, whom he quickly falls for despite her being a likely murder suspect. As the police pressure on him intensifies, Rice decides to attempt solving the case on his own and soon discovers that someone is trying to kill him as well.
Director
When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then visited by the patient's mistress, Brooke Reynolds, whom he quickly falls for despite her being a likely murder suspect. As the police pressure on him intensifies, Rice decides to attempt solving the case on his own and soon discovers that someone is trying to kill him as well.
Screenplay
ニューヨークのマンハッタン。結婚8年目のサラリーマン、テッド・クレイマーは忙しい毎日を送っているが、ある日突然、自立を決意した妻ジョアンナに家出されてしまう。テッドは仕方なく自力で7歳の息子ビリーの面倒をみるようになるが、仕事と子育ての両立は想像以上に厳しかった。やがてジョアンナは、ビリーの親権が自分にあると裁判所に訴え出るが、テッドは拒絶。クレイマー対クレイマーの裁判が法廷で争われることになる。
Director
ニューヨークのマンハッタン。結婚8年目のサラリーマン、テッド・クレイマーは忙しい毎日を送っているが、ある日突然、自立を決意した妻ジョアンナに家出されてしまう。テッドは仕方なく自力で7歳の息子ビリーの面倒をみるようになるが、仕事と子育ての両立は想像以上に厳しかった。やがてジョアンナは、ビリーの親権が自分にあると裁判所に訴え出るが、テッドは拒絶。クレイマー対クレイマーの裁判が法廷で争われることになる。
Screenplay
誰もが知っているアメコミのヒーローを巨費を投じて復活させた超娯楽作。素朴な田舎を背景に少年時代のスーパーマンを描いた、郷愁に満ちた序盤からデイリー・プラネットの記者として活躍する本編に入っても、暖かみを伴った面白さは一瞬たりとも揺らぐ事は無く、悪の天才レックス・ルーサーの陰謀を食い止めるクライマックスまで一気に見せきる。
Screenplay
Over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another detective who had gotten himself involved in a case concerning a murdered broad, stolen stamps, a nickel-plated handgun, a cheating dolly, and a kidnapped pussycat.
Director
Over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another detective who had gotten himself involved in a case concerning a murdered broad, stolen stamps, a nickel-plated handgun, a cheating dolly, and a kidnapped pussycat.
Theatre Play
TV adaptation of the campy 1960s Broadway musical about the Man of Steel, his friends, his enemies, and his self-image problems.
Writer
After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land with a loose confederation of young vagrants.
Director
After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land with a loose confederation of young vagrants.
Screenplay
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
Writer
Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him.
Writer
不況時代のアメリカ30年代に実在した男女二人組の強盗、ボニーとクライドの凄絶な生きざまを描いた、アメリカン・ニューシネマの先駆け的作品。ケチな自動車泥棒だったクライドは、気の強いウェイトレスの娘ボニーと運命的に出会い、コンビを組んで強盗をやりはじめる。二人は順調に犯行を重ねていくが……。アカデミー賞2部門を受賞（助演女優賞エステル・パーソンズと撮影賞）した。
Director
The film is an attempt to evoke, through paintings, the world of a small Texas town in an era long gone. The paintings are freely based on photographs, letters, and postcards, discovered hidden in a cigar box in the family barn by director Robert Benton, and dealing entirely with a courtship between his grandfather's brother, who was the local mailman, and a young woman who came to visit her relatives in Waxahachie, Texas, in the summer of 1909. They met, fell in love, got married, and shortly after the marriage, she died.
Duke
A dance hall girl is murdered and her body robbed of a quantity of gold obtained illegally. The killer flees into Death Valley and encounters the rightful owner of the gold and her sweetheart.
