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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.

叶山托生（柳下大 饰）是个内向的高中二年级生，就读于私立祠堂学院，这是一所全日制的男子寄宿学校。托生的内向为他招惹到不少他人的欺负。而之所以有这样的性格，是因为托生患有“对人接触厌恶症”。这样的体质让托生害怕与人接触。在一次午餐时间，托生激怒了学院偶像高林泉（斋藤康嘉 饰），泉将餐盘砸向了托生，但是托生的同学崎义一（加藤庆佑 饰）突然冲到了托生面前，替其挡下了飞来横祸。而义一这已不是第一次替托生解围。第一次被人如此温柔的对待，让托生困惑不已。而义一在无意中说出了托生的秘密，让托生惊慌的逃出宿舍，结果被对其虎视眈眈的篮球部主将野崎大介（牧田哲也 饰）给逮住。大危机下，又是义一将其解救。而这时义一也向托生说出了自己的心意，托生会怎样回答呢？一出成长的恋爱物语就此展开。

南方人沈敬炳经营着一家粤菜馆，因为口味地道深受食客的青睐。一次偶然中，沈敬炳遇见了北方人李世普，两人因为误会而结了怨，更让沈敬炳感到生气的是，李世普竟然就在自己的餐馆对面开了一家京菜馆，这简直就是啪啪打自己的脸啊。在两位老板争得你死我活之际，他们的孩子清文与曼玲却早已经坠入了情网，这两人的恋情当然遭到了双方家人的强烈反对，但陷入真爱的男女才不会因为这点阻挠就轻易退缩，最后只能是家长们选择妥协。哪知道在谈婚论嫁之际，两家人又因为聘礼谈不拢而险些大打出手，这婚到底是能结还是不能结呢？

米尔德雷德（弗兰西斯·麦克多蒙德 Frances McDormand 饰）的女儿在外出时惨遭奸杀，米尔德雷德和丈夫查理（约翰·哈克斯 John Hawkes 饰）之间的婚姻因此走到了尽头，如今，她同儿子罗比（卢卡斯·赫奇斯 Lucas Hedges饰）过着相依为命的生活。一晃眼几个月过去了，案件仍然没有告破预兆，而警方似乎早已经将注意力从案子上转移了开来。被绝望和痛苦缠绕的米尔德雷德租下了高速公路边上的三块巨型广告牌，在上面控诉警方办案无能，并将矛头直接对准了警察局局长威洛比（伍迪·哈里森 Woody Harrelson 饰）。实际上，威洛比一直隐瞒着自己身患绝症命不久矣的事实。因为这三块广告牌，米尔德雷德和威洛比的生活发生了翻天覆地的变化。