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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.

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

1997年柯一正的实验性电影《蓝月》将剧本写成红、橙、黄、绿、蓝五本，电影放映师可以随意排列组合播映，会产生120种不同的桥段、气氛与故事轴，但影片播毕仍是一部完整的电影。柯一正自己坦言，这种变化多端的影片架构象征着生命的无常。剧情介绍：蓝月是一种天文现象；当一个月里有两次月圆，那么第二次月圆就被称作蓝月。这听上去有些不可思议，但这决不是文人们的臆想，它确实存在，通常三年里面会出现一次蓝月。电影中，蓝月也是一家专卖咖啡与汤的咖啡馆。戴立忍和戴维王这两位从小就混在一起的同班同学，就是蓝月咖啡馆里经常出没的客人，他们都因为打垒球，因而结识爱上了苏慧伦，于是就在一个蓝月的晚上，咖啡馆主人罗北安邀约这段三角恋情的当事人共聚一桌，当场逼着苏慧伦表态：“你到底爱谁？”苏慧伦吓得把头趴在桌上，手悄悄滑到桌底下，然后仰起头来对着罗北安说：“我爱你。”后来，柯一正才让观众看到，她在桌底下的手，同时悄悄握着戴立忍和戴维王的手。戴维王先是藉酒壮胆，挑明了告诉苏慧伦说：“我爱你。”然而，她只是笑笑，回答说：“不够！”。后来，轮到了曾经结婚，生了孩子，却又离了婚的戴立忍，也是吞吞吐吐地折腾了半天，还是说不出求婚的话语。偏偏这时候，苏慧伦家中闯进了一位只会混黑社会，腹部还中了枪伤的混混张瀚，莫名其妙地就在照顾这位通缉犯的过程中，苏慧伦喜欢上了这位疼痛时还念几句莫名其妙的短句的年轻人，然而才刚要认识，他却又选择放逐河边，草草逝去。

爱斯米兰达是一个性格活泼热情似火的吉普赛女郎，生性善良的她赢得了许多人的赞美和喜爱。巴黎圣母院的神父克洛德觊觎爱斯米兰达的美貌已久，终于按奈不住派出手下样貌丑陋的撞钟人卡西莫多，将爱斯米兰达强行掠夺至巴黎圣母院，谁知道半途杀出了英俊勇敢的上尉菲比斯，后者令爱斯米兰达一见倾心。菲比斯遭到了蒙面歹徒的袭击，而爱斯米兰达居然成为了罪魁祸首。爱斯米兰达被判处绞刑，在行刑之前，卡西莫多救走了身陷囹圄的爱斯米兰达，将她藏到了巴黎圣母院之内。起初，爱斯米兰达对卡西莫多充满了戒备，但随着时间的推移，她渐渐了解到，在卡西莫多丑陋的外表下，隐藏这一颗金子一样的心。