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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.

当晨光初现，街区四周还一片寂静时。远处传来略带疲惫却兴致高涨的歌声，那是汤姆和他的朋友布奇、闪电、肉头，他们刚刚结束了彻夜狂欢，互相搀扶向家中走去。此时此刻，汤姆已是超级困倦，他多希望能马上钻进窝里好好睡一觉。但这是不可能的，因为前一晚他溜出去狂欢，导致杰瑞在房中开起了美食盛宴，将家里弄得乱七八糟。女主人怒发冲冠，将汤姆一阵痛骂，并命令他马上抓住捣乱的小老鼠。虽然军令在身，但睡神已经完全征服了这只彻夜未眠的老猫，加上狡猾的杰瑞“贴心”为汤姆创造了各种各样的睡眠条件，这一次，汤姆猫完全成为对手任意摆布的玩物。祝你能有好的睡眠，如果可以的话……

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一出上世纪30年代旧上海的群像戏——叱咤风云的帮派大佬，不甘寂寞的交际花，说着地道上海话的日本妹夫，只收交通费的杀手，被冷落却忠诚的姨太太，外表光鲜的电影皇后，深宅大院里深不可测的管家，偶尔偷腥的电影皇帝，荷尔蒙满溢大脑的帮派小弟，一心想要破处的处男，善良的妓女，随波逐流的明星丈夫，投靠日本人的帮派二哥，日理万机却抽空恋爱的戴先生。战争之下，繁华落尽。帮派大佬逃亡香港，交际花不知所踪，日本妹夫死在上海，电影皇后被丈夫抛弃，处男遇上妓女，姨太太杀死二哥。战争惨烈，战争终于结束。