悠久之翼动漫

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.

1812年，拿破仑的军队控制大部分的欧洲国家。在为数不多未被征服的国家中，俄国打算联合奥地利一起进行殊死抵抗。贵族安德烈公爵（梅尔·弗尔 Mel Ferrer 饰）就是这样怀揣一腔抱负的俄国军官。然而安德烈的挚友皮埃尔公爵（亨利·方达 Henry Fonda 饰）却毫不关心战事。他在父亲临终前成为遗产继承人，与贵族之女海伦（安妮塔·艾克伯格 Anita Ekberg 饰）结婚，却在婚后不久发现性格不合而分居。安德烈战役失败被释放归家看望难产而死的妻子。几个月后，彼埃尔与罗斯托夫伯爵一家在去打猎，叫上了安德烈。安德烈对伯爵的女儿娜塔莎（奥黛丽·赫本 Audrey Hepburn 饰）一见钟情。不久，娜塔莎接受了安德烈的求婚，然而安德烈很快重返军队。海伦的弟弟阿纳托里趁虚而入，骗得娜塔莎的爱，唆使娜塔莎与他私奔。俄法战争开始，娜塔莎遇到了深受重伤的安德烈，安德烈在临死前原谅了娜塔莎的背叛。战争结束后，皮埃尔回到了莫斯科，与娜塔莎结合在了一起。

1943年3月，巴顿（乔治·C·斯科特 George C. Scott 饰）率美军在法属摩洛哥登陆后临危受命，担任美军在北非的第二军团长，性格强势、钟情古典文化又熟稔战史相信灵魂转世的巴顿很快用铁血律令扭转了北非部队的散漫风格，连番激战后与蒙哥马利统率的英军合力将“沙漠之狐”隆美尔赶出了北非。随后升任第7集团军司令的巴顿筹划占领西西里，战斗中巴顿抢在蒙哥马利之前连下军事重镇，立下赫赫战功的同时饱受非议，部下指责他用士兵的生命换取荣耀，在成功占领西西里后，巴顿因严厉训斥一位士兵遭到媒体的谴责，铁血将军只得公开道歉……然而长于战争的巴顿又迎来了新的重任……

《宿醉2》由原班人马打造，延续上集的搞笑风格。上集中经历了情感纠葛的Stu （艾德赫尔·姆斯 Ed Helms 饰）这集中新婚，众好友Phil（布莱德利·库珀 Bradley Cooper 饰）、Alan（扎克·加利费安纳基斯 Zach Galifianakis 饰）和 Doug（贾斯汀·巴萨 Justin Bartha饰）前去泰国参加他的婚礼。不料宿醉事件又发生了，一帮兄弟醒来后发现身在曼谷，并且新娘的弟弟（李淳 饰）神秘失踪，亚洲黑帮“周先生”（肯·郑 Ken Jeong 饰）突然出现，于是一场疯狂冒险在异国又卷土重来！值得一提的是李安的儿子李淳在片中饰演了新娘的弟弟，一名成绩优秀的高材生。