Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake!
Who'd have thought it? I confess to not having got round to finishing or let's face it starting the original - but Mary Ellen Bute's 1965 film, Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, with its mixture of surrealism, TV parody, sci-fi imagery and straight stagey renactment leads you by the hand through the dreaming and waking of Joyce's story - or at least enough of it to be going on with. It's quite a lovely, strange and funny little film, in that swimmy black and white - and hearing the words spoken means they somehow make a lot more sense. (At Ubuweb, via feuilleton).
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I saw "Finnegans Wake" around 1970 and absolutely loved it - bought the soundtrack LP and everything (never quite got around to actually reading the book, though). MP3s of the soundtrack are available for download here.
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