James Franco — Director (35)
Francophrenia (or: Don't Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is) (2012) [Movie] Douban
director: Ian Olds / 詹姆斯·弗兰科 actor: 詹姆斯·弗兰科 / 文斯·朱利威特
Ian Olds and Paul Felten wrote a new script to accompany footage of Franco made while shooting the soap General Hospital. The result is an experimental psychological thriller in which Franco's ideas become increasingly paranoid, making the celebrity’s eventual fall inevitable.
When James Franco announced he was to play a role in the TV series General Hospital, it caused quite a stir. Franco is known as a serious actor, so what was he doing in a soap series? There were rumours that his performance had something to do with an art project.
Not such a crazy theory, as James Franco (who acted in Spider-Man, 127 Hours and Howl) has many talents. He directs, writes, studies and makes (performance) art. Francophrenia demonstrates that there is more to his role as artist/murderer Franco in General Hospital than meets the eye.
The film starts innocently: we follow him during a day's shooting of the soap series. But it soon becomes clear that directors Ian Olds and Franco didn't want to make an ordinary documentary. In voice-over, we hear Franco's thoughts as these become increasingly paranoid and megalomaniacal. Francophrenia is a humorous, experimental psycho-thriller that Franco grandly and stunningly trips up. 'I'm everywhere. I'm the light of this world!'
Sal (2011) [Movie] Douban
Sal
director: 詹姆斯·弗兰科 actor: 瓦尔·劳伦 / Jim Parrack
other title: 萨尔 / Sal Mineo: A Biography
影片是关于曾在《无因的反叛》中出演普拉托一角的演员萨尔·米涅奥的传记片。记录了萨尔生命的最后几个小时。
The Institute (2017) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Institute
director: 詹姆斯·弗兰科 / 帕梅拉·罗曼诺夫斯基 actor: 詹姆斯·弗兰科 / 帕米拉·安德森
other title: 研究院 / 은밀한 교육의 비밀
In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter, a girl stricken with grief from her parents' untimely death, voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood Institute. Subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, she must escape the clutches of the Rosewood and exact her revenge, or else be forever lost.
Bukowski (2013) [Movie] Douban
Bukowski
director: 詹姆斯·弗兰科 actor: 乔希·佩克 / 莎侬·多赫提
other title: 布考斯基
The story of writer Charles Bukowski's formative years from childhood to high school and his struggles with an abusive father, disfiguring acne, alcohol addiction, and his initial attempts at writing.
黑狗,红狗 (2015) [Movie] Douban
Black Dog, Red Dog
director: 阿德里安娜·塞佩达·埃斯皮诺萨 / 詹姆斯·弗兰科 actor: 奥利维亚·王尔德 / 詹姆斯·弗兰科
other title: Black Dog, Red Dog
Black Dog Red Dog is a feature-length project that follows the life of poet Stephen Dobyns as he deals with his relationships with women and with mortality, from his childhood to his time as a young journalist and then his transition to poetry.
The Clerk's Tale (2010) [Movie] Douban
The Clerk's Tale
other title: 店员的故事 / 职员的故事
Based on the eponymous poem by Spencer Reece, The Clerk's Tale is a psychological portrait of a gay man trapped in the monotonous routine of life at a high-end menswear store. For Spencer, every day is a sequence of mundane tasks and empty exchanges. He fits a customer, straightens a display, takes his usual break at his usual time. But all the while the presence of an aging gay colleague eats away at him. Watching this older man, with his affects and almost grotesque habits, Spencer becomes keenly aware of the future that awaits him.
The Long Home (2022) [Movie] Douban
The Long Home
director: 詹姆斯·弗兰科 actor: 安娜丽·提普顿 / 詹姆斯·弗兰科
other title: 至念吾父 / Долгий дом
“工作狂”詹姆斯·弗兰科确定执导影片《The Long Home》,同时他还身兼了影片制片人一职。影片改编自威廉·盖伊的同名小说,小说还获得了1999年的詹姆斯·米歇尔奖。
小说以1940年代的田纳西为背景,主人公内森·维纳是一位年轻而固执的木匠,他的父亲死于不测,而长大成人后的他则要勇敢面对导致父亲身亡的真正原因。
The Ape (2006) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Ape
other title: 猿王 / ジェームズ・フランコ VS エイプ
Human resources drone and put-upon family man Harry imagines he could be the next Dostoyevsky if he could just get a little peace and quiet. When he moves into his own apartment to craft his masterpiece, his solitude is broken by an unexpected roommate-a foul-mouthed, Hawaiian shirt-wearing gorilla, eager to share his opinions on life, love, and animal magnetism.
Rant (2018) [Movie] Douban
Rant
other title: 咆哮
《搏击俱乐部》(Fight Club)作者恰克·帕拉尼克(Chuck Palahniuk)日前透露,詹姆斯·弗兰科(James Franco)已经买下他2007年小说《咆哮》(Rant)的电影版权,准备亲自将其搬上大银幕。
《咆哮》将是继《搏击俱乐部》(Fight Club,1999)、《窒息》(Choke,2008)之后恰克·帕拉尼克第三部被改编成电影的小说。同时该片也是詹姆斯·弗兰科的第四部导演作品,这位演而优则导的好莱坞明星此前已经先后拍摄了三部自己导演的电影,分别是2013年《在我弥留之际》(As I Lay Dying)以及即将上映的《喧哗与骚动》(The Sound and The Fury)和《梦断影都》(Zeroville)。
《咆哮》的故事发生在未来,以口述回忆录的形式讲述了一个叫做“巴斯特·凯西”(Buster Casey)的人短暂而暴力的一生。巴斯特小时候曾做过一个恶作剧,让很多人生病呕吐,他们呕吐的声音听起来就像英文单词“Rant”(咆哮)的发音,因此大伙儿就将这个词送给他作为他的外号。“咆哮”生平最爱的就是冲撞赛车这项运动,但他同时也是一名系列杀手。就在警方开始调查他的时候,他却选择在一次比赛中用华丽的撞车自杀。所有媒体和观众都认为他死了,但是打开车门后,大家却看到车里空空荡荡,并没有他的尸体。