六朝云龙吟1

小店店员敏郎和小女孩早智住在石川县的乡下。一天在小镇上发生了一场神秘的谋杀，随后发现这其实仅仅是对敏郎之后遭遇的警示。原来敏郎曾效忠于一个神秘的组织，然而他却亲手摧毁了这个组织，仅留下长官幽灵一个活口。幽灵于是带着杀手们前来复仇，决心处决这个叛徒。敏郎也为了他所爱的人们而与幽灵决一生死。

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.

人烟寥落，阴霾苍凉。在这个与大都会形成鲜明对比的萧索小镇，两个有着不同背景的男女相遇了。一个是在东京小有成就的电影导演（岩井俊二 饰），然而他无法直视莫大的空虚与失落，渴望暂时逃离名利场，寻找创作的动力与激情；女孩（藤谷文子 饰）身着红色雨衣，在晴天里也打着雨伞，永远宣称明天是她的生日。仿佛受到命运的驱使，导演走近女孩的生活，并将镜头对准了这个藏着万千心事和愁绪的精灵。他跟随她走过废墟大楼的楼顶，以及其赖以栖身的地下室。烦躁、憎恶、忧愁、悲伤、喜悦、失落，各种情绪交错，不由分说将他们紧紧缠绕在一起……本片根据女主角藤谷文子的小说《逃避梦》改编。

该纪录片将为观众呈现埃及考古学家在挖掘出一个未曾接触过4,400年的坟墓之后，试图破译这一惊人发现的历史。