牵牛花开的日子32

电影取材自麦炳荣和凤凰女的粤剧戏宝《凤阁恩仇未了情》。嫣公主（蔡卓妍 饰）一心远嫁藩国当皇妃，在漫漫的出嫁途中，与负责护送的程将军（林峰 饰）成为斗气冤家，岂料两人日渐生情。二人不顾此情天地不容，交换陪嫁明珠与家传翡翠，以作定情之时，却遇山贼来袭。混乱之中，嫣失足堕崖，程落入山贼之手。一对有情人失散，各有一段奇遇。程被山贼女首领祝三娘（容祖儿 饰）带回山寨，嫣大难不死，却失去记忆，被说书人凌感开（王祖蓝 饰）救起。出走山寨寻找公主的程将军，一片痴情形影相随的祝三娘；流落民间失去记忆的嫣公主，平凡一生说书度日的失意才子。有一天，当他们相遇在一起，会发生怎样的故事……

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.

周小龙（周星驰 饰）与父亲周飞鸿（元华 饰）生活在大澳，与师妹毛毛（毛舜筠 饰）是一对单纯的欢喜冤家。某天，小龙的师叔毛仁（梁家仁 饰）到大澳躲债，飞鸿托阿仁把儿子小龙带到香港发展，阿仁意外发现了小龙高超的台球技术，变决定利用小龙进行赌博。黑帮龙哥看中了周家大澳的田地，便要求阿仁以地皮为赌注。小龙面对对方的世界级高手，压力巨大因此输掉了比赛。毛毛为了鼓励小龙，把自家的田地也作为赌注，决定要再次把自己的土地赢回来，但压力仍然困扰着小龙，比赛一度落后……

影片根据山崎丰子的同名长篇小说改编摄制。日本关西地区的财阀万俵大介是阪神银行的总经理，他为了使自己从关西的财阀一跃而为全日本的财阀，不惜耍尽资产阶级的一切权术拉拢大藏省大臣，在银行进行勾结、倾轧，把比阪神银行实力雄厚的大同银行挤垮、吞掉。为了满足他贪婪的野心，大介利用儿女婚姻拉裙带关系，甚至逼死自己的儿子。他是一个利欲熏心的垄断资本家的典型。介的长子铁平是阪神银行投资的阪神特种钢公司的负责人，他想把祖父创建的这个公司办成一个生产上更完善的企业，结果反而落进了他父亲设下的圈套。最后公司破产，并且连累了积极支持他的好友——大同银行的总经理三云，铁平感到愧对好友。外，大介一直认为铁平是他父亲和他妻子生的孩子，因此非常憎恨铁平，铁平为此也很苦恼。在事业失败、家庭生活痛苦的双重逼迫下，铁平终于自杀了。高须相子表面上是万俵家的家庭教师兼总管，而实际上是大介的情妇，她不仅把持着万俵家的一切大权，欺压大介的妻子，还利用大介子女的婚姻到处拉关系，是大介在事业上搞阴谋诡计的一个得力帮手，但最后当大介感到他们的关系威胁到自己的社会地位时，就把她一脚踢开了。大介的次女二子是个正派的年轻人。她不肯象她的哥哥姐姐那样把自己的婚姻作为父亲向上爬的阶梯。为了自己的幸福，她离家出走了。在影片反映官场、银行界生活的很多场戏里，出现了永田、春田、美马、绵贯、小岛等形形色色的人物，通过他们勾画出资产阶级社会中尔虞我诈的丑恶嘴脸和阴险勾当。最终，大介把大同银行吞并了，他为成立新的东洋银行而设宴庆贺。正当他得意之际，殊不知永田、美马等人准备三年之内再把东洋银行吞并的阴谋早已安排停当了。影片通过日本几家大银行的合并，描写了资本家之间的勾心斗角，以及政界和经界相互倾轧、相互勾结的诡诈行径，一定程度上揭示了资本主义社会人与人之间的关系就是赤裸裸的金钱关系。