In his free time he scours the web for good links and posts the best finds on Twitter. He admits that he didn’t enjoy it too much, but concedes this may have been because he hadn’t actually read the book.īy profession, Matthias Rascher teaches English and History at a High School in northern Bavaria, Germany. The video above shows only the opening sequence, but the whole film can be enjoyed online courtesy of UbuWeb.īonus: You can read Roger Ebert’s 1968 review of Bute’s film here. The movie was screened at the Cannes Film Festival and named Best Debut of the Year (1965). Don’t miss her first color film from 1938.īetween 19, Bute created her last film, and only feature film, Passages from Finnegans Wake. Sadly, Mary Ellen Bute’s short films are almost forgotten today, but from the 1930s to 1950s her abstract musical shorts were known to a wide audience. But after Mary Manning Howe adapted passages from the book for the stage (listen to her reading from Finnegans Wake here), American animator Mary Ellen Bute accepted the challenge and turned Manning’s play into a film. And that is why virtually no filmmaker has ever tried to adapt Joyce’s final work for the screen. Instead, check out Lars von Triers Dogville, which is currently showing on MUBI. Passages is a trove of superimpositions, flashbacks, varied angles, slow motion, intercutting, rapid motion, stop. Due to its stylistic and linguistic complexity, James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake ranks among the most difficult works of fiction. Passages from James Joyces Finnegans Wake is not available at this time. Passages from James Joyces Finnegans Wake.
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