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.

又是平静的一天，大房子内小老鼠被汤姆追得走投无路。刚刚躲过新一轮的追逐，结果又被对手抓个正着，关在罐头内使劲晃动，完全被团成一个球扔了出去。接下来又被扔在台球桌上，遭受台球的猛烈攻击。被黑八压扁的杰瑞趴在窝内愁眉苦脸，伤心非常。这时一只美丽善良的仙女鼠出现，她帮杰瑞恢复了原状。杰瑞仿佛看到了救星，将所遭遇的不公全部告诉仙女。仙女同情杰瑞的遭遇，于是送给他一瓶粉红色的神秘药水。喝了药水之后，小老鼠变成了透明的样子。在此之后，他将向长久以来虐待自己的臭汤姆展开连番的报复……

少年牧真人（山时聪真 配音）的母亲葬身火海后，他随父亲牧胜一（木村拓哉 配音）与继母夏子（木村佳乃 配音）组成新家庭。深陷悲伤的真人阴郁孤僻，难以融入新环境。一次意外，他跟随一只会说话的苍鹭（菅田将晖 配音）闯入废弃的神秘塔楼，却不料进入了奇幻的“亡灵世界”，开始了一场不可思议的冒险……影片片名致敬了小说家吉野源三郎在1937年发表的同名小说，但电影故事由宫崎骏原创。

本片由Paul Morrissey和意大利CULT大师Antonio Margheriti(又名Anthony M. Dawson)联合执导，意大利制片巨头Carlo Ponti促成了两位大师的合作，Antonio Margheriti还兼任特效工作，当然还有监制Andy Warhol，已经无法弄清是谁赋予这部伟大经典CULT电影极品惊世骇俗的气质。Frankenstein是被反复制作的CULT形象，而这次更是变本加厉。恋尸癖男爵、疯狂的纳粹倾向科学家Frankenstein博士要打造完美无缺的极品男女，他收集了各种人体器官来拼装新人体，而 Frankenstein博士对于这些血块肆意无所谓的态度使得影片有一种Gore Comedy的风格，喜剧元素在这样一部赤裸血肉的作品里时常凸现，为了赋予极品男人超级淫荡的内心灵魂以完成极品男女的终极交合，Frankenstein博士需要物色一个人选然后砍下他的头颅。他误认为跟随强壮农夫一起去嫖娼的却一心想成为修士的同伴更淫荡更善于男女之事，于是趁两人酒醉时砍下那位同伴的头颅。当再造活人之后，他却发现极品男人居然内向胆怯，根本无法完成交合。影片中几乎每个人都有一颗邪恶的心，除了Frankenstein博士之外，跟他有姐弟关系并近亲结婚的妻子是个虚伪，淫荡的女子，她表面指责强壮农夫的野合行为，私下却要他满足自己的欲求，她还提出要“使用”新极品男人，并出卖强壮农夫，最后在与力大无比的人造男人交合时因发错指令而被死死抱紧，断筋碎骨而丧命。博士的助手受他影响，会用手撕开并插入女人胸腔来满足自己的邪念，最后却使得人造女死亡，自己也被盛怒的博士杀死。最令人吃惊的是博士的一对孩子本想救出农夫，却因看见橱柜里的内脏血块而把他吊得更高。Frankenstein博士由还出演过《Blood for Dracula》中Dracula 伯爵的Udo Kier饰演，绝对经典！