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1994年，南方某开放城市。某公司董事长徐景风和总经理于杰在大门口迎接上班职工。于总向徐董介绍着发展部经理袁方，徐董的秘书梁忆帆走近，徐董低声告诉她，下班后见。徐董陪外商参观车间，对袁方管辖部门的工作表示满意，称赞他是个人才，并请他出任公司的工会主席。袁方推辞不掉，只好答应。梁忆帆按时等徐董赴约，但徐董失约了。公司几位党员开支部会议，分析公司劳资关系的紧张情况，要求袁方发挥工会主席的作用……

混血の元モデル・緑川ミチとバーテンの山中高志は海外への生活を夢み、仲間の関光男と組んで、銀行強盗を続けていたが、神戸の銀行を襲った時に、光男が車にはねられて死んだ。光男の兄・勝男は、浮浪者同様の生活をしていたが、山中と光男が銀行強盗をしていた事を知り、山中を追いかけ始めた。指命手配の山中を追う警官の中の一人畠野は、大学卒の上役にいびられてさっぱり仕事に熱が入らず、婦人警官の愛子と寝てばかりいる。少年院出身でガソリンスタンドで働く益夫は、客から預ったスポーツカーを持ち出したが、暴走族に傷をつけられ帰るにも帰れなくなってしまった。一方、山中とミチは銀行を襲い大金を手に入れたが非常線にひっかかり、とあるモーテルに身を隠した。その頃、畠野は愛子を他の警官に寝取られてしまい、そのうっ奮を山中へと向けた。そして、上司の指示に従がわず、山中のいるモーテルに単身乗り込み、二人を逃がしてしまった。逃げる山中とミチの車を、畠野のパトカー、その後を山中の金を横取りすべく勝男の車が追った。やがて、勝男の車は電柱に追突したために、勝男は丁度通りかかった益夫のスポーツカーに乗り込み、さらに二人を追った。しばらく三つ巴のカーチェイスが続いた後、パトカー、白バイが続々と連らなり、やがて、暴走族、ダンプカー、観光バスまでを捲き込んで、狂ったように車と車をぶつけ始めた。横転した車が炎上し、消防車、救急車、機動隊が駆けつけるが、それらも狂走集団に捲き込まれてしまう。集った野次馬は逃げまどいながら投石を始め、凄まじいパニック状態に発展していった……。

Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake 1965 16mm film 90minsThis was the first attempt to cinematize the works of Irish author James Joyce. Based more on a stage adaptation by Mary Manning than the Joyce novel itself, the film concentrates on Dublin pubkeeper Finnegan (Martin J. Kelly), who while in the throes of inebriation has a vision of his own death. As the bemused Finnegan lies in his coffin, his friends gather for his wake. The "corpse" tries to cut through the keening and platitudes by probing the innermost thoughts of those closest to him. The surprising aspect of this film is that so much of its difficult text works on screen--a tribute to the loving care of scripter/director/ editor Mary Ellen Bute, who, while preparing this film spent her waking hours picking the brains and burrowing through the resource materials of the James Joyce Society.Although director Mary Ellen Bute’s highly regarded Finnegans Wake (aka Passages from Finnegans Wake) is a unique film that is likely to baffle anyone unfamiliar with James Joyce, it cannot be dismissed merely as a literary exercise. The director was right in claiming that her film was “not a translation of the book but a reaction to it”. It is actually based on a stage play by Mary Manning, who was also responsible for the screenplay. Joyce’s elliptical rhetoric and intricate punning, which might be considered a formidable barrier to the filming of this most opaque of his works, proved to be an attraction to Bute, whose enthusiasm for the ‘visual’ and ‘kinetic’ quality of his language led her to the surprising but well-judged move of running subtitles from the original text to support the dialogue.Visual music pioneer Mary Ellen Bute's final film was also her first feature film. James Joyce's classic story of Irish tavern-keeper who dreams of attending his own wake is brought to the screen with a sparkling energy which highlights its maker's career-long exploration of kinetic abstract animation. Perhaps best described as a 'film poem,' Passages from Finnegans Wake was the first attempt to 'cinematize' the works of James Joyce, featuring the author's highly original language spoken by characters and presented as text on screen.

女孩吉赛尔美丽的歌声飞遍森林，小动物们轻轻的和着，王子被深深地吸引。于是，王子和女孩一见倾心，正准备着他们盛大的婚礼。谁知，坏王后为了保住自己的权利，从中作梗，把吉赛尔送到了21世纪的纽约街头。吉赛尔（艾米?亚当斯 饰）无所适从的游走在喧嚣的纽约，没人知道她是真的公主，她害怕极了，找不到能够帮她的人。幸好，好心的律师罗伯特（帕特里克?德姆西 饰）收留了她。渐渐的，公主纯真的心打动了原本刻板的律师，机缘巧合，相遇的两个人互生情愫。而这时，爱德华王子（詹姆斯?麦斯登 饰）也不顾一切地，穿越时空，来到了纽约，营救他心爱的公主。公主真爱的天平，将倾向何处…