亡命刺客

学生安德森（克里斯托弗·里夫 Christopher Reeve 饰）在编剧上的的过人才华让如今早已江郎才尽的辛尼（迈克尔·凯恩 Michael Caine 饰）又羡慕又嫉妒，安德森让他想起了自己曾经有过的那些春风得意的时光。在辛尼的指导下，安德森完成了一个名叫《死亡计 中计》的剧本，准备在辛尼家中进行试演。辛尼从剧本中看出了商机，他明白，如此完美的剧本，必定会成为圈子里炙手可热的作品。辛尼和妻子迈拉（黛恩·坎农 Dyan Cannon 饰）决定设计杀死安德森，将剧本据为己有，幸运的是，他们的诡计没能瞒住敏感的邻居海格（Irene Worth 饰）和精明的律师波特（亨瑞·琼斯 Henry Jones 饰），眼看着安德森一步一步的走向了死亡的陷阱，两人决定向其伸出援手。

故事发生在墨西哥城的一个中产阶级社区“罗马”，讲述年轻女佣克里奥（雅利扎·阿巴里西奥饰）在雇主索菲亚（玛丽娜·德·塔维拉饰）家中工作，该家中索菲亚的丈夫长期在外，由女佣克里奥照顾索菲的四个孩子。突如其来的两个意外，同时砸中了女佣克里奥和雇主索菲亚，两人究竟该如何面对苦涩茫然的生活？四位孩子似乎是希望所在。 这是以导演阿方索·卡隆的儿时记忆铸成的影片，而卡隆其实就是片中某一位小孩。

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.

剧情描述一个犹太拉比的儿子一心想成为百老汇明星，唱歌跳舞。此举遭到家长的强烈反对。他们只想让他成为犹太教仪式中的领唱。但是深深热爱爵士乐的儿子一心只想唱流行歌曲……多年后，背井离乡，更名改姓的他终于登上了舞台，在旧金山的夜店酒吧里，他实现了自己的理想，成了一名爵士歌手。第一部有声片，但其中只有很少几段对白，但足以让当年的观众大吃一惊。这部影片使歌舞喜剧演员乔尔森(Al Jolson)大享盛名，并彻底改变整个电影业的轨迹。曾多次重拍，1980年版由尼尔·戴蒙和劳伦斯·奥利弗主演。