Andy Warhol′s Screen Tests were filmed from early 1964 to November 1966. Factory visitors who had potential "star" quality would be seated in front of a tripod mounted camera, asked to be as still as possible, and told not to blink while the camera was running. Warhol manipulated light and shadow in increasingly inventive ways to capture the appearance, style, personality, and mood of both famous and lesser-known visitors to his studio, the Factory. His subjects included Dennis Hopper, Gerard Malanga, Edie Sedgwick, Susan Sontag, and Salvador Dalí. Although each film was shot at standard sound speed, or twenty-four frames per second, Warhol specified that prints be projected at a slower speed of sixteen frames per second, a rate used in the projection of silent films. The result is an unusual fluidity of pace, a rhythm gently at odds with the starkness of the lighting and the boldness of the close-ups of face and hair.In total more than 500 Screen Tests were made. Helmut was the seventh.

讲述一场亲情力量与欲望深渊的对抗，与爱同行的正能量之战。

电影版《大宅门》撷取了整部作品中最为精彩的前十五集———“复兴百草厅”作为电影的主要内容，讲述了因与官宦世家詹府惹下纠纷，险遭灭顶之灾、经营岌岌可危的百年老号———白草厅，如何在白家二媳妇“白文氏”的运筹帷幄下起死回生，再度复兴的故事。

新藤兼人監督の永遠のテーマである“女性“と“核“を同時に扱った作品。脳腫瘍に冒された子を持つ娘が再婚、夫が殺され、子供も失ったあと、新しい命を宿していることで希望を見いだすまでを乾いたタッチで描く。主演の乙羽が母のエネルギーを見事に表現。