Peter Kuran

Peter Kuran

出生 : 1955-12-15,

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Peter Kuran

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RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop
Himself
An immersive 4+ hour journey into the making of the seminal sci-fi movie RoboCop (1987). With over 60 cast/crew interviews including: Peter Weller, Paul Verhoeven, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Ray Wise, Ed Neumeier, Michael Miner, Phil Tippett, Jon Davison and many more. Complete with exclusive behind the scenes materials, ROBODOC is a unique, comprehensive and fully explorative scene-by-scene retrospective.
セッション9
Visual Effects Supervisor
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.
2001 and Beyond
Self
Author Arthur C. Clarke and the cast and crew of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey" star in this documentary, released in the film's long-anticipated title year. The origins of the production are traced as we see how the early days of the space race influenced Kubrick and Clarke's vision of a far more optimistic 21st century than we've managed to achieve - at least so far.
Nuclear Rescue 911: Broken Arrows & Incidents
Director
Since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents, known as "Broken Arrows." A Broken Arrow is defined as an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons that result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft or loss of the weapon. To date, six nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered.Now, recently declassified documents reveal the history and secrecy surrounding the events known as "Broken Arrows". There have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents since 1950. Six of these nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered. What does this say about our defense system? What does this mean to our threatened environment? What do we do to rectify these monumental "mistakes"? Using spectacular special effects, newly uncovered and recently declassified footage, filmmaker Peter Kuran explores the accidents, incidents and exercises in the secret world of nuclear weapons.
Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero
Producer
Through the use of spectacular, never-before-seen nuclear test footage, travels to ten former testing sites and explores the history, physical changes resulting from the tests and current condition of these amazing and important places. Visit the notorious Nevada Test Site, known as the most bombed place on earth. Over 900 nuclear explosions where detonated at this location – an area larger than the State of Rhode Island. Once upon a time these locations were kept top secret, but today, with this 60th Anniversary Diamond Edition of Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero, you will finally see these historic hot spots. Preserving the incredible legacy of America’s nuclear testing program stands as a reminder of the fine line between the progress of mankind and the destruction of the earth. Once you understand what really happened at the Ground Zero nuclear testing sites, you will never be the same.
Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero
Writer
Through the use of spectacular, never-before-seen nuclear test footage, travels to ten former testing sites and explores the history, physical changes resulting from the tests and current condition of these amazing and important places. Visit the notorious Nevada Test Site, known as the most bombed place on earth. Over 900 nuclear explosions where detonated at this location – an area larger than the State of Rhode Island. Once upon a time these locations were kept top secret, but today, with this 60th Anniversary Diamond Edition of Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero, you will finally see these historic hot spots. Preserving the incredible legacy of America’s nuclear testing program stands as a reminder of the fine line between the progress of mankind and the destruction of the earth. Once you understand what really happened at the Ground Zero nuclear testing sites, you will never be the same.
Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero
Director
Through the use of spectacular, never-before-seen nuclear test footage, travels to ten former testing sites and explores the history, physical changes resulting from the tests and current condition of these amazing and important places. Visit the notorious Nevada Test Site, known as the most bombed place on earth. Over 900 nuclear explosions where detonated at this location – an area larger than the State of Rhode Island. Once upon a time these locations were kept top secret, but today, with this 60th Anniversary Diamond Edition of Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero, you will finally see these historic hot spots. Preserving the incredible legacy of America’s nuclear testing program stands as a reminder of the fine line between the progress of mankind and the destruction of the earth. Once you understand what really happened at the Ground Zero nuclear testing sites, you will never be the same.
U.M.A レイク・プラシッド
Visual Effects Producer
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people!
Nukes in Space
Director
U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
The Thing: Terror Takes Shape
Self
An in-depth look at the making of John Carpenter's cult classic sci-fi horror The Thing, telling the story of a group of researchers in Antarctica who encounter a parasitic extra-terrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates other organisms.
スターシップ・トゥルーパーズ
Visual Effects Producer
主人公ジョニー・リコは、高校卒業後地球連邦軍に入隊して宇宙戦艦のパイロットを志望するカルメン・イバネスに憧れ、両親の反対を押し切って軍に入隊。優秀なカルメンは艦隊アカデミーへ、超能力者の友人・カールは情報部へ配属されるが、リコは機動歩兵隊へ配属され、訓練キャンプでしごかれる日々を送る。訓練中、自らの判断ミスにより同期一人を殉職させる事故を起こしたことで、一旦は軍隊をあきらめようとしたリコだったが、奇襲攻撃で故郷ブエノスアイレスが壊滅したため機動歩兵に復帰し、宇宙での戦いに加わる。
メン・イン・ブラック
Visual Effects
協定に基づき地球に侵入して来た異星人の監視を行う秘密組織MIB(メン・イン・ブラック)エージェントの活躍を描いたコメディ・タッチのSFアクション映画。NY市警の警官ジェームズは逃走中の犯人が人間でない事を知るが、その記憶は警察署に現れた黒服の男“K”によって消されてしまう。“K”はMIBと呼ばれるエイリアン監視組織の一員だった。ジェームズの腕を認めた“K”は彼を組織にスカウトし、二人は地球に無断で侵入して来た昆虫型エイリアンの追跡を開始する。
Atomic Filmmakers: Hollywood's Secret Film Studio
Director
For years, a secret U.S. government film studio operated in Hollywood capturing images of atomic bomb testing! This documentary chronicles the top secret film studio that for over twenty years during the height of the Cold War, photographed hundreds of nuclear weapons tests and other classified projects. Their work is among the most spectacular ever captured on film. From the Nevada desert to remote Pacific atolls to outer space, these top secret filmmakers developed advanced techniques and methods to create their fantastic movies. With the end of the Cold War, the story of Hollywood's secret film studio can now be told.
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Editor
"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of nuclear weapons development and testing between 1945-1963. Narrated by William Shatner and featuring an original score performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, this award-winning documentary reveals previously unreleased and classified government footage from several countries.
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Producer
"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of nuclear weapons development and testing between 1945-1963. Narrated by William Shatner and featuring an original score performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, this award-winning documentary reveals previously unreleased and classified government footage from several countries.
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Director
"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of nuclear weapons development and testing between 1945-1963. Narrated by William Shatner and featuring an original score performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, this award-winning documentary reveals previously unreleased and classified government footage from several countries.
The Atomic Bomb Collection
Writer
This is it - the complete set of 5 Atomic Bomb videos: Trinity & Beyond, Nukes in Space, Atomic Journeys, Nuclear 911, and Atomic Filmmakers. Director/producer Peter Kuran meticulously restored previously classified government footage of U.S. atomic bomb tests using a new, Academy Award winning process known as RCI. The result is this selection of DVDs.
The Atomic Bomb Collection
Director
This is it - the complete set of 5 Atomic Bomb videos: Trinity & Beyond, Nukes in Space, Atomic Journeys, Nuclear 911, and Atomic Filmmakers. Director/producer Peter Kuran meticulously restored previously classified government footage of U.S. atomic bomb tests using a new, Academy Award winning process known as RCI. The result is this selection of DVDs.
The Birds II: Land's End
Visual Effects Producer
Still haunted by the memory of the son they lost to an accident years ago, Ted and Mary Hocken take up residence with their two young daughters on the remote, windswept reaches of a tiny East Coast island. The Hockens are determined to forget their painful past and spend a quiet, uneventful summer. But as immense flocks of birds begin massing around the island, it becomes clear that something is very wrong in this isolated, deceptively calm oasis. Before long, the sky is darkened by a hideous onslaught of the screeching, winged creatures. It's an assault unlike anything in the history of man or beast – or is it? For one old timer recalls a similar, horrific outbreak that gripped the West Coast decades ago...
ロビン・フッド/キング・オブ・タイツ
Main Title Designer
12世紀。十字軍の遠征による国王の不在をいいことに、弟のジョン王子 と悪代官ロッティングハム は結託して悪政を敷いていた。神経症の王子は魔女ラトリーン に頼りきり。その魔女はロッティングハムにゾッコンだが、代官は王族の娘マリアン に恋している。マリアンは、いつか本当の恋人が現れると信じ、貞操帯を付けてその人を待ち続けていた。十字軍に参加した若き英国貴族、ロビン はイスラエルで捕虜となるが、ムーア人のアスニーズ の協力で脱走に成功。イングランドまで泳いで帰った彼は、盲目の従者ブリンキン、アスニーズの息子アチュー、大男のリトルジョン、ナイフの名手スカーレット らを連れて反乱ののろしを上げた。城中に乗り込んだロビンはマリアンとひと目で恋に落ちる。彼は圧政にあえぐ庶民を集めてゲリラ隊「メン・イン・タイツ」を組織し、特訓を開始した。一方、ロッティングハムはひそかに殺し屋の親分ドン・ジョヴァンニ を呼び、ロビンを暗殺する計画を練る。城内のアーチェリー大会に変装して忍び込んだロビンは、敵と大立ち回りを演じる。その時リチャード国王 が帰還し、王子と代官をいさめる。国内には平和が戻り、ロビンとマリアンも結ばれた。
クリフハンガー
Additional Visual Effects
ゲイブはロッキー山脈の仕事に就いていた。ある時、同僚のハルとハルの恋人・サラが山でデートをしている最中にハルが怪我をし、ゲイブが救助に向かう。ゲイブはハルの目の前のサラの救出に失敗しサラを死なせてしまう。以後ハルはゲイブを憎むようになり、同僚の恋人・ジェシーと別れ仕事もやめた。 その後、国際犯罪組織が財務省の紙幣輸送の飛行機を乗っ取り、使用済みの紙幣を強奪を図ったが、手違いから紙幣の入ったスーツケースを雪のロッキー山脈に落としてしまう。
ダーク・ハーフ
Visual Effects Producer
Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides to ‘kill-off’ his alter-ego in a mock ceremony, it precipitates a string of sadistic murders matching those in his pulp novels, which are soon discovered to be the work of Stark himself. Looking like a maniacal version of his counterpart, Stark is not so willing to quit the writing game – even if it means coming after Thad's wife and their baby.
アミティヴィル1992
Visual Effects
When an old clock arrives at home as a gift, strange things begin to happen. The family that proudly assigned a privileged place to the clock in the living room, is unaware that this thing is a link to an old and evil house...
Drop Dead Fred
Visual Effects Producer
When Elizabeth returns to her mother's home after her marriage breaks up, she recreates her imaginary childhood friend, Fred, to escape from the trauma of losing her husband and her job. In between the chaos and mayhem that Fred creates, Elizabeth attempts to win back her husband and return to normality.
シザーハンズ
Visual Effects
エドワードは、発明家の博士によって生み出された人造人間。だが、完成直前に博士が急死してしまった為、彼は両手がハサミのままこの世に残されてしまう。その後、ゴースト屋敷のような丘の上の家で、顔が傷だらけで孤独な日々を送っていた彼の元にある日、化粧品のセールス・ウーマンのペグが訪ねて来た。心優しい彼女は、そんな彼の姿に同情し、自分の家に連れて帰る。そうして家の中へ通された彼は、写真に写っているペグの娘キムに心奪われ、彼女に恋してしまう。
Nightbreed
Animation
A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of monsters are hiding from humanity.
デッドフォール
Visual Effects
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income that Tango and Cash have caused him, frames the two for murder. Caught with the murder weapon on the scene of the crime, the two have no alibi. Thrown into prison with most of the criminals they helped convict, it appears that they are going to have to trust each other if they are to clear their names and catch the evil Perret.
ロボコップ
Visual Effects
舞台は近未来のデトロイト。かつて自動車産業で栄華を誇ったこの街は犯罪都市と化し、巨大コングロマリット企業オムニ・コンシューマ・プロダクツ(OCP、通称オムニ社)によって警察(民営化されていて警察官から一般職員に至るまで会社員)を含む街全体が支配されていた。 アレックス・マーフィー巡査は、一連の警官殺しにおける犯人とされ指名手配中のマフィアであるクラレンス一味を追っていた。マーフィーはカーチェイスの末に一味の隠家を発見、潜入するも惨殺される。犯罪撲滅のため「警官のロボット化」を企画していたオムニ社は、死亡診断が下されたマーフィーの死していない生体部分を部品として利用、彼をロボコップとして蘇らせる。 ロボコップは驚異的な性能で優秀な成果をあげ、街の治安は少しずつ取り戻されて行った。しかし、ロボコップ自身は人間だった頃の記憶の断片に悩まされ、ついには自分が何者であったかを知ってしまう。
Q
Visual Effects
New York police are bemused by reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York, until the lizard starts to eat people. An out-of-work ex-con is the only person who knows the location of the monster's nest and is determined to turn the knowledge to his advantage, but will his gamble pay off or will he end up as lizard food?
ハウリング
Visual Effects
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
フライング・ハイ
Visual Effects
食中毒の発生したジェット機内のパニックをパロディ満載で描いたスラップスティック・コメディ。「JAWS/ジョーズ」に始まり「エアポート'75」「大陸横断超特急」など数々の作品がネタにされている。「ケンタッキー・フライド・ムービー」で注目を集め、近年では「裸の銃を持つ男」などでコメディ界に君臨し続けるトリオ“ZAZ”が手掛ける。