Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.

An unschooled young man, one of the countless victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution, is laboring in the countryside when he is assigned to teach in a nearby school. Gradually, he abandons the Maoist textbook and encourages the barely literate kids to write about their own lives and feelings.

2020 film by Vadim Perelman

2019 film directed by Elia Suleiman

由导演丹尼-波尔(Danny Boyle)担纲执导的剧作《弗兰肯斯坦(Frankenstein)》将于2011年在伦敦西区正式挂牌上演。英国演员本尼迪克特-康伯巴奇(Benedict Cumberbatch)、男星约翰尼-李-米勒(Jonny Lee Miller)将担任剧中主人公亮相英国国家剧院(National Theater)。 改编自由英国诗人雪莱的妻子玛丽-雪莱于1818年创作的同名科幻小说，由编剧尼克-蒂尔改编之后，舞台剧《弗兰肯斯坦》将从“怪物”的角度来讲述这个在西方世界家喻户晓的科幻故事。BBC版“福尔摩斯”康伯巴奇将在其中饰演剧中“弗兰肯斯坦博士”，约翰尼-李-米勒则饰演由博士造出来的“怪物”。 本尼迪克特-康伯巴奇在戏剧舞台的表现赢得了剧迷与业内人气的广泛好评，由其主演的作品主要包括《城市》、《纵火犯》、《犀牛》、《调整时期(Period Of Adjustment)》、《海边来的女人(The Lady From The Sea)》、《罗密欧与朱丽叶》以及《多么可爱的战争(Oh! What a Lovely War)》等，凭借正在奥利维尔剧场挂牌上演的《舞蹈之后(After The Dance)》，康伯巴奇获得伦敦晚间标准奖最佳男主角的提名。在荧屏作品方面，出演BBC版热播英剧《福尔摩斯》为康伯巴奇赢得了奥利维亚大奖提名，不仅如此，他还参演了由史蒂文-斯皮尔伯格执导的影片《战马(War Horse)》。 对于著名影星约翰尼-李-米勒来说，《弗兰肯斯坦》并不是他与导演丹尼-波尔的首次合作，两人首度“牵手”要追溯到1996年版的电影《迷幻列车(Trainspotting)》。之前，米勒出演的戏剧作品包括《愈爱愈美丽(Beautiful Thing)》、《The Play What I Wrote》、《家变(Festen)》以及斯特林堡的作品《朱丽小姐(Miss Julie)》等。

2017 film directed by Dominic Cooke

A coming-of-age family drama with a timid fifth grader, an orthodox middle-aged teacher, and a grumpy old man awakening to their true selves during the 1998 World Cup.

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.

The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.

A surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain’s most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, as he prepares to release his final major film I, Daniel Blake.

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.

Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.

A look at the life and work of Italian cinematographer, Carlo di Palma.

After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she would start a revolution through paintings, animals and love.

Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with bitter ends.

The kingdom of Takicardie quakes under the rule of the tyrannical King Charles V-et-III-font-VIII-et-VIII-font-XVI, whose favourite pastime is shooting birds. His archenemy is a cheeky mockingbird, whose favourite pastime is thwarting the king’s attempts to shoot birds. One night, a portrait of the king comes to life and disposes of the real king, taking his place. The portrait king falls in love with a young shepherdess in another painting and intends to marry her. But, alas, the shepherdess has fallen in love with a chimneysweep and together they elope from the king’s palace. Enraged, the king sends his police to capture them and once they are within his power he forces the shepherdess to marry him. The mockingbird must use all his guile and courage to once more thwart the king and bring his evil reign to an end.

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.

A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.