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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.

八岁的彼得（伍迪·诺曼 Woody Norman 饰）经常受到来自卧室墙壁内的神秘的、持续的敲墙声的困扰——他的父母坚持认为这种敲击声只是他的想象。随着彼得的恐惧加剧，他相信他的父母可能隐藏着一个可怕、危险的秘密，并逐渐丧失对他们的信任。对于一个孩子来说，还有什么比这更可怕的呢？

某知名小说家(斯特里普饰)要到英国去领奖，她的两位老朋友（坎迪斯·伯根和黛安·韦斯特饰）和侄子（卢卡斯·赫奇斯饰）与她一起乘船出行，在船上，大家掀起了一场充满回忆、遗憾和辩论的狂欢，她的侄子还跟她的助理(嘉玛·陈饰)培养了亲密关系。

死亡可怕，更讓人痛苦的，莫過於死前與死神對峙所帶來的身心煎熬。獨居的老陳得知自己罹患末期癌症，萬念俱灰，打算了結自己，提早「報到」。就在一切行將終結之際，多年不見的外孫嘉進帶來一隻遭棄養的老狗。兩個走到夕陽階段的生命相遇，互相帶來溫暖和慰藉。雖然無法逆轉彼此的生命軌跡，但老狗至少讓老陳和嘉進重拾久違的隔代親情，共同經歷一段溫柔共振。