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.

11岁的哥哥灿伊（俞承浩 饰）居然像个大人一样，无微不至的照顾着妹妹小伊（金香奇 饰）。兄妹俩人一直都相信，只要他们乖乖听话，总有一天，离家出走的妈妈会回到他们身边。小伊生日到了，为了满足她的心愿，哥哥送了一只刚刚出生小狗送给她，小伊认为这是妈妈送给她的礼物，所以取名为“心意”。有了“心意”的陪伴，灿伊不在家的时候，小伊有了玩伴。三个小家伙像一家人一样，快乐的生活着。转眼“心意”长大了，在一个阳光灿烂的冬日，“心意”拉着冰车，带着小伊在结冰的江上快乐的玩耍，不料发生意外，小伊掉进冰窟窿里面……灿伊把小伊意外的过错归咎在“心意”的身上，没有妈妈，没有小伊妹妹的灿伊，也不能接受“心意”再呆在自己身边，于是灿伊离家出去，开始了新的生活，而“心意”尾随其后，也开始了一段追觅之旅……

这是一部在生存与毁灭间行走的战争电影。在战争废墟的慷慨悲歌中，年轻的红军战士洪启辰接到军令，必须在48小时内炸毁敌人的弹药库。这是一条赴死的军令，他开始在危机四伏的群山里集结战友，带领伤残的同泽和敌人殊死搏斗。同时洪启辰还经历着战友们对于为何赴死的拷问，和大家相继死去的困境。时间一分一秒过去，任务似乎越来越不可能完成。有人因为信仰而选择坚持，有人忠于使命而毅然牺牲。影片用中国诗性电影美学讲述了中国1935年一次富有革命忠诚的军事行动，将残酷幻化于诗意，共同参与一次具有使命感的向死而生。

Between scenes from an excruciating date, Jim Jefferies digs into generational differences, his own bad habits and the shifting boundaries in comedy.