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讲述在纽约的华盛顿高地，杂货店老板Usnavi在继承了祖母的财产后，将要关掉店铺回到家乡多米尼加共和国过退休生活，对此他百感交集，而拉美裔社区和那里居民的吸引力让他停下来思考。影片围绕Usnavi、一名大学生、一名出租车司机、一位美容院员工和一个渴望更好生活的老妇人展开，随着中产阶级化开始扎根，闷热夏天中，一场停电让个人危机达到前所未有的高度。

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.

2012年，人类被不知名病毒感染，纽约成为一座空城。Robert Neville（Will Smith 饰）是为军方服务的科学家，也是对病毒有免疫力的幸存者。白天，他带着狗Sam在街道上寻找食物，用广播寻找幸存者，在实验室里研究治愈病毒的方法；晚上，他只能躲在屋子里，因为那些感染病毒而没有死亡的人们，成为了“夜魔”只能夜晚出来活动，丧失理智，会攻击所有的人。某天，Sam也感染病毒死去，Robert Neville陷入了前所未有的孤独。当他准备和“夜魔”们同归于尽的时候，另外一个幸存者Anna(Alice Braga 饰)救了他。Anna相信山上的隔离区还有幸存者，但是固执的Robert Neville却坚持守在纽约。又一个晚上，“夜魔”攻击Robert Neville的住所，此时他的研究已经获得成功，但是只有坚持到天亮，人类才能得以延存。

退役警探约翰·弗格森（詹姆斯·斯图尔特 James Stewart 饰）的同学加文·埃尔斯特（汤姆·赫尔莫 Tom Helmore 饰）是造船商。他请求约翰跟踪自己的妻子，并称妻子经常被鬼魂附身。随后，约翰按照加文的指示，在厄尼餐厅见到了一位美丽的女人（金姆·诺瓦克 Kim Novak 饰）。经过跟踪，约翰发现女人确有不同寻常的行为：开车出门，去花店买花，去墓园在卡洛塔·巴尔德斯的碑前驻足，去荣勋宫博物馆凝视卡洛塔画像，最后进入麦基屈克旅馆并出现在二楼的一扇窗前。约翰随即进入旅馆调查，发现女人登记名为卡洛塔·巴尔德斯，但其房中无人。卡洛塔·巴尔德斯究竟是何方神圣，鬼魂真的能附身活人吗？