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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.

远远看去就是一个普普通通的中年大叔，谁曾想到他竟然是天界的见习财神（贾冰 饰）。按照计划，只要再帮助一个好人发财，那么他就可以转为正式财神。谁知好事多磨，当他施展法术时，财运符的光打到了小混混肖洒（于洋 饰）的身上，并且法术无法撤销。万般无奈之下，见喜财神只能将错就错，上前表露身份。当然，肖洒不可能相信中年大叔的一派胡言，可是接二连三的发的小财和好运又让他对这个见习财神多了几分信任。不过财神告诉他，如果想发大财，还是需要多行好事，做个好人。就在此时，肖洒的社会大哥找上门来，一番输出后不仅让肖洒债台高筑，还差点丢掉性命。走投无路之际，肖洒只能求助财神帮忙……

大陆保安阿峰（于荣光 饰）身手敏捷，一直想出外闯荡世界。这天，阿峰见义勇为，和表妹女干警阿华（杨紫琼 饰）一起解救了被一伙恐怖分子绑架的人质，获得了警局表扬。阿峰认为这些表扬一点意义都没有，于是只身前往香港闯荡。半年后，阿华获派前往香港与当地警方合作侦查一个悍匪集团，暂时住在助理督察阿明（周华健 饰）家。阿明对阿华心生好感，展开追求，无奈阿华还是对表格阿峰念念不忘。随后，阿华见到了阿峰，两人聊了很多。不料，之前已经落网的悍匪集团重要成员炮哥忽然被人劫走。阿华对阿峰真正的身份开始心生疑心……

故事发生在车水马龙的大都市纽约，杰瑞（加里·格兰特 Cary Grant 饰）和露西（艾琳·邓恩 Irene Dunne 饰）是一对感情十分要好的夫妻，两人时常结伴出入上流人士所举办的高端晚宴之中，生活极尽奢华，但随着时间的推移，这表面幸福的婚姻生活终究还是出现了裂痕，杰瑞和露西决定离婚。在两人分开之后，杰瑞邂逅了富有而又美丽的遗孀芭芭拉（莫莉·拉蒙特 Molly Lamont 饰），露西则傍上了石油大亨丹尼尔（拉尔夫·贝拉米 Ralph Bellamy 饰），可寻找到了各自幸福的两人却并不能相安无事，正相反，他们开始想方设法的破坏和阻挠对方的情感关系，就此引出了一系列荒诞可笑的意外。