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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.

郁郁葱葱的小树林中，六个天真无邪同时又各怀心事的男孩女孩快乐玩耍。直到某天，有着天使般可爱面容的“面码”本间芽衣子（谷花音 饰）意外身亡，在其他朋友的心田投射了永远无法磨灭的阴影。许多年后，好友们渐行渐远，而为当年事件深感自责的宿海仁太（村上虹郎 饰）则将自己深锁家中。不知为何，仁太突然看到了长大后的面码（滨边美波 饰）的身影，他将此事告诉了偶然见到的久川铁道（高畑裕太 饰），铁道无比兴奋，连忙将松雪集（志尊淳 饰）、安城鸣子（松井爱莉 饰）、鹤见知利子（饭丰万理江 饰）等其他朋友召集在一起，以找出面码尚未实现的心愿。但心中满布创痕的朋友们，能否重新携手上路呢？本片根据同名动画改编。

校车司机于困樵（段奕宏 饰）因失职酿成了一起重大的校车车祸，困樵拼死救出了似与车祸背后真相息息相关的汪楚祺（荣梓杉 饰），校车上的其他学生无人生还。得知此事家境显赫的汪父（郭富城 饰）为了隐藏这个秘密，不得不把困樵藏在自己家的地下室里长达三年，却处处暗示困樵何时自首。随着访客的到来，这个原本温馨和睦的四口之家变得越来越诡异，母亲（许玮甯 饰）整日惴惴不安，姐姐（张子枫 饰）举止一反常态，家人个个心怀鬼胎，怪事频出，这个家背后不可告人的秘密似乎即将浮出水面……

故事发生在位于婆罗洲的原始丛林中，比尔（约翰尼·梅辛纳 Johnny Messner 饰）带领着他的探险小队穿行于其中，寻找着一种名为“血兰”的珍稀植物。在记载中，血兰拥有着能够使人长生不老的神秘力量，“几乎从未有人获得过它”的传闻也令血兰逐渐成为了传说。这一次，受一家著名的医药公司所托，比尔一行人决定揭开血兰的神秘面纱。在离目标越来越近的同时，危险也不期而至。血兰的力量没有使人类返老还童，却将一群蛇类变得凶猛而恐怖，为了挪动巨大的身体，它们不得不吃下比以往多达数倍的食物，而此时冒昧来访的人类，成为了它们最好的猎物。一边是丛林中恶劣的生态环境，一边是穷凶极恶的食人恶兽，同伴们一个接着一个的悲惨死去，比尔最终能够自保，并且挽救更多的生命吗？