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.

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德川幕府倒台，日本进入开明的民主时代。但是明治时期政府、军队及至商贾仍存在腐败贪婪的现象。明治八年爆发血税暴乱，小学教师鹿岛刚（大門正明 饰）携家眷旅行途中遭到暴乱农民的袭击，鹿岛和儿子司郎（内田慎一 饰）惨遭杀害，他的妻子小夜（赤座美代子 饰）则被暴民侵犯。在此之后，小夜瞅准时机杀死一名暴徒，入狱后她与狱警、官员私通，千方百计产下一女，取名雪姬，并将为家族复仇的使命交给女儿。狱友同情小夜的遭遇，想尽办法将雪姬托付给武功高强的僧人大臣道海（西村晃 饰）修行。20年后，背负着莫大仇恨的修罗雪姬（梶芽衣子 饰）携着血雨腥风来至人间……本片根据小池一夫（漫画脚本）和上村一夫（作画）的漫画原著改编，主题歌后被昆汀·塔伦蒂诺用到《杀死比尔》中。

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