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.

比尔-科特内博士是个成功的科学家，他有一个漂亮的未婚妻叫詹-康普顿。在一次严重的车祸中比尔的未婚妻身首异处，比尔博士闻讯后他将詹的头带回实验室，依靠一种液体来维持未婚妻的生命。比尔博士为了让未婚妻复活，产生邪念，他想杀死一名女子来获得她的身躯嫁接到未婚妻的头颅上。未婚妻詹此时处在阴阳之间，她认为自己应该死去，而却被比尔置于这种状态中，而对比尔产生仇恨。她通过心灵感应召唤了原来关在实验室的变异怪物，杀死了博士的助手。博士寻找的了自己的目标，使用迷药叫一名女子带回了实验室，但遭到的詹的反对，这是怪物从锁的房间跑出来，这个怪物其实是博士许多次试验的失败品。它有7英尺高，最后博士被杀死了，实验室被大火吞没，而怪物带着那名女子逃跑了，詹与实验室一起化为灰烬。

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韩正锡（郑在泳 饰）是一个不喜欢变化的男人，生活中无论大事还是小事，正锡都会仔细的将它们记录在自己的计划表之中，并且严格按照计划表进行自己的人生。除此之外，正锡还拥有着远远超越了正常范畴的洁癖，如何在这个充满了细菌和病毒的世界里生存下去成为了正锡最大的课题。正锡龟毛的个性让他吃了不少的苦头，其中最令其耿耿于怀的就是年纪一大把却依然单身的悲惨事实。一次偶然中，正锡遇见了名为李智媛（韩智敏 饰）的女孩，智媛的活泼和开朗吸引了正锡的注意，但令正锡感到抓狂的是，生活中的智媛竟然是个大大咧咧邋里邋遢的姑娘。性格上的截然相反并没能熄灭正锡心中的爱情火花，有笑有泪的恋爱喜剧就此拉开序幕。