Bert Schneider

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.

20世紀初頭のアメリカの農村地帯を舞台に、農場主と季節労働者の男女が織り成す愛憎模様を名匠テレンス・マリック監督が詩情豊かに描く、監督第2作。20世紀初頭、第1次世界大戦が始まったころ、シカゴの製鉄工場で働くビリー（リチャード・ギア）は仕事を辞め、妹のリンダ（リンダ・マンズ）と恋人のアビー（ブルック・アダムス）と共にシカゴを飛び出す。テキサスの農場で麦刈り人として働くことになったビリーだが、若き農場主チャック（サム・シェパード）がアビーに目を付けた…。

A soldier returns from Vietnam on special assignment, accompanying the body of his friend by train to California for burial. During the trip, he falls in love with a gentle college student. But their relationship is shattered by his flashbacks to combat.

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.

High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.

A young woman in Manhattan lives in a world where the past, present and future mix.

Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, Gabriel, who may have dropped out from school and become a protestor, wants desperately not to get drafted for Vietnam.

A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.

マリファナ密売で儲けた大金をタンクに隠し、真のアメリカを求めてオートバイで放浪の旅に出る二人のヒッピーを描いたアメリカン・ニュー・シネマの代名詞的作品。元々は馬をバイクに乗り換えた現代の西部劇を目指して創られた作品だが、そこで描き出されたのはドラッグ・カルチャー、余所者への強烈な排他性、そして名ばかりの“自由”という現代のアメリカであった。