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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.

他是小偷，已步入中年，因患有一种疾病(右手间歇性抖动)，不得不放弃自己的“工作”，加之性格内向、孤僻，生活陷入了自闭、绝望的境地。他与外界几乎没什么联系，最大的“乐趣”是躲到洗手间听隔壁家李老头的生活进程(洗手间的墙壁几乎不隔音)，偶或看看电视播放的“唐诗讲座”。她是他的情人，也是他的“徒弟”，她用各种办法努力激起他对生活的欲望，但结果收效甚微。终于，她用一个大的“计划”(偷窃某夜总会的几十万现金)勾起了他的兴趣，两个人准备联手行动，但他最终没有赴约，使得她的计划流产。后来,隔壁李老头家里发生了命案(李老头怀疑另一个常来打麻将的老头偷了自己家的一大笔现金，便杀了那个老头)，警察来他家做例行调查时，她在旁边听了警察的询问后，对自己的情人产生了深深的怀疑和彻底的绝望，她利用送警察出去的机会偷了警察的枪。她返回来悄悄把枪放到客厅的桌子上后走掉。他从卧室出来发现了手枪。

白杨树农业生产合作社社长张登山（蒋锐 饰）因为一些矛盾和第二生产队队长田大虎（蓝谷 饰）产生了激烈的争吵，第二天，张登山中毒病倒。张登山的亲戚张万寿（白穆 饰）一口张登山中毒是田大虎报复所为，而种种的蛛丝马迹都将犯罪的嫌疑指向了田大虎，只有田大虎的未婚妻郭秀娥（束夷 饰）坚定的相信自己的未婚夫不是如此下三滥之人。经过公安人员缜密的调查，竟意外的发现了张万寿的特务身份，从而识破了张万寿企图栽赃陷害田大虎的阴谋。恼羞成怒的张万寿与富农田云卿（高笑鸥 饰）联手，决定拼一个鱼死网破，在张万寿实行他的破坏行动之际，郭秀娥发现了张万寿的计划。

「給我一支貓」，是一部反映台灣社會荒謬現實與導演奇幻狂想的愛情電影。鐵雄是業餘作家，筆下的人物黑樹深信自己是日本人投胎轉世的，黑樹一事無成，最常做的事是與流浪貓在屋頂上曬太陽睡覺，一天貓不見了，貓託夢給黑樹說牠到遠方打工去了，黑樹突然覺得自己也該找份工作，誤打誤撞的加入一個叫「夢中見」的讀書會。一天他們接到富商預約的生意－他喪禮上的樂隊，然而成員中沒有人會樂器，大家只有開始勤奮的練習，黑樹無意中在家裡看到一片偷拍光碟，女主角貌似自己的母親，隔天他知道母親懷孕了，同時又出現一位自稱是來自未來世界的弟弟，告訴他前些日子遇到的路邊停車收費工讀生－養樂多是他未來的妻子。黑樹的偶像－電視新聞女主播透過螢幕對他講話，他們將遭國家秘密暗殺以達到政府優生計劃，女主播不時指點黑樹如何成為社會精英，逃避這場災難。在上個世紀的最後一天，黑樹與養樂多甜蜜的等待死亡來臨，一切的秘密在千禧夜終於有了答案與驚喜。