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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.

浙江绍兴府的书生李甲（佟瑞敏 饰）和同乡柳遇春（吴慈华 饰）共赴京城求仕，在此期间结识了迎春院的名妓杜十娘（潘虹 饰）。李甲风流倜傥，为了十娘挥金如土。老鸨（金雅琴 饰）贪图李甲钱财，前后左右溜须奉承。但一味享乐无有进项，难免坐吃山空。老鸨见李甲钱财散尽，顿时换作冰冷嘴脸，独有十娘一片真心，只愿与李公子天长地久。李甲有心救十娘跳出泥潭，然而自身尚且难保，亲戚朋友也与之断绝来往。几番奔走，最终凭借十娘的梯己和柳遇春出手相助，李甲总算凑得300两纹银。一朝摆脱泥沼，李甲、十娘携手返乡，却不曾想纨绔子弟孙富（娄际成 饰）暗中作梗……本片根据明代小说家冯梦龙《警世通言》中的故事《杜十娘怒沉百宝箱》改编。

伤残军人李天狗（富大龙）复员后，听从组织安排携带妻子桃花（朱媛媛）和儿子来到偏远山区当起国有林场的护林员，他没想到的是，眼前淳朴善良的农民发家致富的招数竟是乱砍乱伐乱卖林区的树木，而被当地人称为“三条龙”的孔家三兄弟是始作俑者兼幕后推手。为履行自己的护林人职责，李天狗开始了一个人的战斗，在这一过程中，他遭遇的威胁一次比一次升级（桃花甚至遭到侮辱），可是，他始终没忘记自己是一名共产党员，用自己的实际行为谱写了一曲生命赞歌。

木匠买买提做了一只首饰盒送给小女孩，财主巴依硬说是他掉在路上的园木所做，要木匠打一套家俱做赔偿。几天后木匠在山上造一小屋，巴依说这是我的财产，并要木匠每年为他砍一百棵树作交换条件。最后巴依被树压伤腿，木匠救起巴依，巴依对此有所触动，开始明白“善比恶好”的生活哲理。