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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.

日本摄影记者芥川（林子祥）三年后重返刚刚解放的越南采访，遍地的生机令他心生欢喜，但当他无意间走进城市的另一隅结识当地女孩琴娘（马斯晨）后，方知之前所见不过是越共政府特意为他这样的外国记者安排的粉饰太平的假像。在琴娘并非刻意的“导游”下，越南平民百姓正处于水深火热中的悲惨生活逐渐被芥川尽收眼底。琴娘一家人、战后唯一留下来的某酒吧的老板娘（缪骞人）及她的正想方设法逃离越南的情人祖明（刘德华）等人的被越共任意践踏的自尊强烈地触动着芥川敏感善良的心，尽管他并无彻底改变他们命运的能力，却仍是尽力给予帮助。

马丁（梅尔·吉布森 Mel Gibson 饰）和罗杰（丹尼·格洛弗 Danny Glover 饰）是相识多年的老友兼同事，两人都是警察。一次在与共同的好友盖茨（乔·佩西 Joe Pesci 饰）相约出海的途中，三人偶遇了一艘非法偷渡的船只。身为警察的马丁自知绝不能对此坐视不管，于是展开了与黑道分子的激烈斗争。在这批偷渡客中，有一位名为阿洪（高雄 饰）的男子，善良的罗杰收留了他和他无处可去的家人，没想到正是这一举动激怒了危险的黑帮教头王（李连杰 饰），为了从罗杰的手里将洪抢走，王不惜干下了许多伤天害理的勾当。在阿洪的身上究竟隐藏了怎样的秘密？王千方百计的想要得到阿洪又究竟是为了什么？

军政府统治下的缅甸，其西部由于蕴含丰富资源而被军队觊觎多年，那里的儿童经常被军队强征入伍，针对平民的屠杀已经成了部分军人的娱乐……一支教会义工小队为了进入该地区向难民提供人道主义帮助，在泰国找到了隐居的兰博（西尔维斯特?史泰龙 Sylvester Stallone 饰），希望熟悉河道的后者提供帮助。兰博认为时局没有改变的可能，拒绝带路，但终被义工莎拉（Julie Benz 饰）的诚意打动，将他们送达。岂料这支义工小队在村庄中遭到军队的袭击，生还者全部被掳走。教会获悉义工们身陷险境，组织雇佣兵营救，并再次委托兰博带路，这一次，兰博的态度发生了转变，他率领雇佣兵们潜入缅甸军营，又一次化身热血战士。