影片改编自著名作家兹威格的同名小说，由美国环球影片公司出品。1885年，14的丽莎（琼·芳登 Joan Fontaine 饰）暗恋着住在隔壁的钢琴家斯蒂芬（路易斯·乔丹 Louis Jourdan 饰）。风流的斯蒂芬常把女人带进他的寓所，而年少的丽莎则对那个神秘世界羡慕不已。即便搬走后她仍对钢琴家难以忘怀。当她出落成了一个美丽的女郎，回来寻找钢琴家，并同他发生了关系。钢琴家很快将丽莎如其他女子般遗忘。丽莎生下了他的儿子后来嫁给了一个奥地利贵族。15年后，两人再次相逢，她离开丈夫最后一次献身于这个她惟一所爱的男人，钢琴家如往常一样逢场作戏，并将她很快忘记。最后儿子得伤寒而死，心力交瘁丽莎写了封长信给钢琴家，述说了15年来她从未停止的爱。丽莎死后，悲痛的丈夫要求同钢琴家决斗，在读到丽莎这封感人至深的信后，原本准备逃走的他登上了驶往决斗地的马车……

根据姚雪垠长篇小说《李自成》片断改编。明崇祯十一年。坚持了10年之久的明末农民革命陷入低潮，面临失败的危险。由于官军的疯狂镇压和各家义军相互不和，一同起义的十三家义军相继瓦解，有的溃败了，有的投降了。仅剩下李自成率领的一支孤军，也在潼关的南原陷入官军重围、全军覆没。在乱军中，李自成妻女俱失，仅率13骑突出重围，逃往山中。途中，夜宿林中，又险为当地乡勇所杀，喜遇李自成手下大将郝摇旗杀散乡勇，才得侥幸逃生。李自成逃往商洛山中，偃旗息鼓，准备东山再起。山中人烟稀少，粮草缺乏，严冬已至，又无棉衣，军心浮动。朝廷又派贺人龙进山搜捕，将士闻讯，竟有临阵脱逃者。李自成心情沉重，忍痛在阵前斩了逃兵，以定军心。面对严峻的现实，李自成认识到要重振大业，只有"一马破门而出"，去说服已经投降了明朝的另一个农民起义领袖张献忠，重举义旗。原来，十三家义军中张李两家实力最强，互相不服。张献忠在谷城投降了朝廷，在义军中引起连锁反应，招致起义的失败局面。李自成部下将领对他多有怨恨。张献忠为人狡诈多变，又与李自成有仇在先，因此以刘宗敏为首的众将坚决反对李自成贸然前往，认为此行凶多吉少。李自成力排众议，决心铤而走险。张献忠虽然降了朝廷，但并不受信任。朝廷不发粮饷，又不封给官职，各级官吏还要敲诈勒索。张献忠的有心率兵重新造反，无奈外有左良玉20万大军包围，内有巡按御使林铭球坐地监视，难以动手。李自成来到谷城，希望张献忠与他相互呼应，重新起义。张献忠虽有此心，但又不愿将来推翻了明朝，李自成与自己争夺天下。军师徐以显也力劝张献忠除掉李自成，以绝后患。可张献忠自己也看出，没有李闯王，自己一支孤军也难成功。两人谈判再三，张献忠犹豫不定，终不能决。李自成于危机四伏中沉着镇定，与张献忠坦诚相见，张献忠顾及绿林义气，否定了杀害李闯王之主张，两人虽各抱目的，但终于结成同盟。一年后，两支义军果然共同推翻了明王朝。

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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