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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.

继索纳岛恐龙逃往事件过去已有八年，艾伦?格兰特博士（山姆?尼尔 Sam Neill 饰）无论如何也不愿再返回那个鬼地方。虽然发下重誓，但现状不得不让他收回誓言。他的一项史前动物研究陷入资金紧张的窘境。而这时，富有的商人保罗?科比（William H. Macy 饰）及其夫人阿曼达（Téa Leoni 饰）找到艾伦，邀请他作为向导带他们乘飞机前往索纳岛观光。一方面酬劳颇丰，一方面又得知不用着陆小岛，好了伤疤忘了疼的艾伦接受了他们的邀请。然而事情却朝相反的方向发展，他们的飞机最终迫降小岛。至此他才得知，原来科比夫妇来此的目的竟是为了寻找失踪的儿子。与此同时他还发现，经过八年的自然进化，恐龙中最聪明的速龙竟然拥有了自己赖以交流的语言。这一次他的对手不仅凶恶，而且更为狡猾……

上海苏州河上，用摩托车替人送货的马达（贾宏声）接下送接纯真少女牡丹（周迅）的活，两人相处时，牡丹爱上马达，但就在她决定把终身托付给对方时，马达财迷心窍联合黑道朋友绑架了她，令牡丹心灰意冷跳进苏州河里。临跳前，牡丹丢下会变成美人鱼再寻马达的话。五年后，为自己行为懊悔不迭的马达疑惑牡丹又回来了，开始四处找寻。当在某酒吧里看到扮美人鱼表演的美美（周迅）时，马达认定她就是牡丹，然而美美不过是另一个痴情女子而已。

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