Alma is a scientist coerced into participating in an extraordinary study in order to obtain research funds for her work. For three weeks, she has to live with a humanoid robot tailored to her character and needs, whose artificial intelligence is designed to be the perfect life partner for her. Enter Tom, a machine in human form in a class of its own, created solely to make her happy.

2002 film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

以二战期间纳粹占领的前南斯拉夫克罗地亚乌斯塔沙政权“NDH”为背景，讲述的是一个名叫达拉的小女孩，她在巴尔干大屠杀期间被送到臭名昭著的灭绝营地Jasenovac，也被称为“巴尔干奥斯威辛集中营”，直到南斯拉夫游击队解放

《地中海的辉煌——罗马帝国的兴衰》纪录片，邀请了中国知名西方哲学与文化研究专家——赵林教授，作为文化交流大使深度走访意大利。通过现场观摩、实景体验、学术对话等方式，带领观众感受罗马帝国的荣耀和意大利的地中海浪漫风情。 该系列纪录片将按照古罗马历史发展的时间线细分为10个中国观众耳熟能详的专题，覆盖王政时期、共和时期、帝国时期，并通过著名旅游景点引出古罗马在政治、宗教、建筑、文学、法律等方面的特色，由点及面，层层深入。从历史和人文的角度，以研学旅行的方式介绍这片孕育了欧洲文化和文艺复兴的大地，讲述发生在亚平宁半岛上的绮丽故事。 我们的时代是一个开放的时代，中国人有了放眼世界与各种不同人类打交道的机会和探索其他不同人性的非功利的好奇心，从而有了更好地认识我们自己、成为一个更为自觉的民族的机会。同武汉大学赵林教授一起踏上旅途，沿古罗马文明的兴衰脉络，看英雄悲歌、帝国陨落，让古老文明的智慧照鉴未来。

Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an easy task in this economy.

Russian troops occupied Paris. Russia became the first power in the world. Now everything seems possible. Young winners, guards officers, are sure that equality and freedom will come - here and now. For this they are ready to sacrifice everything - position, wealth, love, life ... and the country itself.

Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many. To protect Erik from his violent stepfather’s reaction to his expulsion, Erik's mother arranges for Erik to spend a year at Stjärnsberg Boarding School, the only school willing to accept him. This is Erik's last chance to graduate to Upper School and he promises his mother, for his and her sake, to do all he can to stay out of trouble.

影片讲述了一个典型的罗马尼亚家庭从乡下到城里去领取他们中的大奖。在途中通过高度喜剧化的方式展现了罗马尼亚正经历的经济和社会方面的巨变。然而，这一家人的团结也因为这场原本是一件天大的喜事而遭到严重破坏，再也开心不起来。原来是18岁的女儿赢得了一辆价格不菲的汽车，结果竟然演变成了一场商业广告。 一罐果汁，三个标签，让她击败了不计其数的消费者，成为崭新房车的主人，但她的噩梦却才刚开始...。 得奖容易吗？资本主义社会里中产阶级的梦魇，凝结在一个幸运抽中大奖的年轻女孩身上。喝完果汁，寄出三个标签，她击败了不计其数寄出千枚标签的消费者，成为崭新房车的主人。最困难的，她轻松度过了，却没想到噩梦却才刚开始。 《世界上最快乐的女孩》叙述一个抽中大奖的女孩德莉亚，千里迢迢随着父母到市中心，配合厂商拍摄促销广告。在广告中，她必须现出幸运到不可思议的快乐笑容，念出一连串拗口饶舌的台词，心旷神怡地喝下大半令她获奖的果汁；在广告外，她却必须应付下至拍摄工作人员、上至活动赞助商的各种难缠要求，最令她窒息的却还不是这些陌生人，而是伴她前来的父母，正软硬兼施要她把还没拿到手的新车即刻脱手转卖，好应付家里那些没完没了的账单，就当作报答父母的养育之恩。拍摄过程的消耗、同学质疑她得奖的真实性、诱人的新车、咄咄逼人的父母，德莉亚开始感到身心俱疲......。 宛如《受影响的女人》中，吉娜罗兰所饰演的家庭主妇角色，因生活中高低小事而逐渐削减旺盛的意志，在疯狂的群体中无法自保，《世界上最快乐的女孩》中的德莉亚从得奖那一刻开始，就踏上了始料未及的麻烦路程，慢慢分毫地削弱她对得奖的快乐，直到她再也笑不出来为止。而这些打击她的重手，却是奖励她喝果汁的厂商，以及理应与她一同分享的父母。神采飞扬的广告背后，隐藏的是多少以理智包藏的利欲野心，以及为资本主义奴役的现代奴仆。 故事背景仅在一个白天进行，无过多冗长说教的台词、无刻意雕琢的对比凸露，镜头默默检视这个广告的拍摄过程，寓意即自然流露，讽刺感强烈精确。近乎舞台剧式的封闭格局，似乎成为新锐导演们严谨叙事的不错选择，低成本的限制反而让要诉说的概念更加火力集中。看完《世界上最快乐的女孩》，或许可以想想自己会不会早已无形成为资本主义社会中「最快乐的人」，却连一台车、一个小奖也没抽中过。导演Radu Jude生于1977年，在拍过一系列短片之后，这是他的第一部长片。

1951 film by Éric Rohmer

“我必须尽快开始真正的生活了，在我死于无聊和沮丧之前。” 以个人的生活经历串联起20世纪社会的历史，记录下生命中最重要的主题：爱与怜悯，激情与背叛，谎言与梦想，失去与惦念，乃至消隐与死亡。一本书，一面镜子，一颗烧灼的心，字里行间不断刺痛着读者：渴望伟大却又渐趋“平凡”的 人生 ，该如何勇敢前行？ 在伦敦初出茅庐，与伍尔夫、伊夫林·沃一同探寻文学的灵感；在爵士时代的巴黎，与乔伊斯、毕加索共赴流动的盛宴；在西班牙内战中，和海明威搭档冒险；在第二次世界大战时，被伊恩·弗莱明招募为间谍，又在异国他乡突遭背叛；在纽约，作为艺术品商人，经历风起云涌的先锋艺术运动。故事的主人公洛根·蒙斯图尔特，一生和同时代的弄潮儿多有交集，几乎游历了世界各地，但和我们一样，他也是凡人，在追求幸福的时候也犯下各种错误。 ※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ ★ 也许我们最终都只是凡人，但至少曾追求过完美的一生 ★ 属于21世纪的当代经典，英国首相鲍里斯·约翰逊、英国影星“抖森”至爱的名著 ★ 布克奖、国际都柏林文学奖提名作品，同名改编剧集获“英国奥斯卡奖” ★ 英文原版在豆瓣已有近1000位用户标记 ★ 《大西洋月刊》年度好书、《卫报》“死前必读的1000本书” ★ 和麦克尤恩、巴恩斯齐名的英国国民作家，“被英国当代文学图景低看了的”实力派小说家威廉·博伊德核心代表作首次译介 ★ 让·莫内欧洲文学奖、法国Elle杂志读者大奖获奖作品 ★ 多次获《书店日记》《小说药丸》等著名“书单书”推荐 ★ 《星期日泰晤士报》头牌专栏作家布莱恩·艾普亚德曾撰文称，相比共同入围2002年布克奖并最终得奖的《少年Pi的奇幻漂流》，《凡人之心》更应获奖 ※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ 一部出色的流浪汉小说，风格自信而写意。一股老式但新奇的力量，从头到尾始终保持活力。这部小说是各类文学奖的有力竞争者，也会是其中任何一个奖项当之无愧、炙手可热的得主。 ——安妮塔·布鲁克纳（英国作家，布克奖得主） 博伊德在全书开头的文笔是如此灵动，以至于读着读着，我们都忘了蒙特斯图尔特是一个虚构的角色。 ——角谷美智子（《纽约时报》首席书评人） 《凡人之心》也许是最多人向我推荐的书了。我倾向于避开任何一本别人推荐给我的书，宁可天真地想象自己会发掘出属于我的文学金矿，不过这次她的热情实在令人难以拒绝，于是在晚饭后，我点上烧木炭的火炉，读了起来。到临睡前，我已经欲罢不能了。 ——肖恩·白塞尔（《书店日记》作者） 这部小说比起一部世纪旅行见闻录来说可要丰富得多了。它映射出个人人生的轮廓：主旋律；反复无常；真诚与虚伪的友谊；没有能力完成自己人生设想的哀叹；几乎毫无意义的某些人生经历。小说名为“凡人之心”，然而，蒙斯图尔特并不代表每一个人。他比我们中的大多数人更加慷慨、宽容，更能享受自己的人生。 ——《大西洋月刊》 这本书乐趣无穷……读来令人快乐极了。 ——《华盛顿邮报》 博伊德具备一种独特的能力，这使得他能通过描述丰富、真实的细节，刻画复杂、可信、充满情感和生命力的人物，最终讲出引人入胜的精彩故事。……这本书我读了两遍了，可能马上要再读一遍。而又有几本书能让你这样不住想要重读呢？ ——《洛杉矶时报》 一个伟大的角色——以及一部伟大的小说……博伊德让你确信自己读到的正是一个真实、有缺陷、边缘化的角色，饱经20世纪历史中恶意和反复无常的创伤后，内心无尽的秘语。 ——《西雅图时报》 博伊德所赋予主角的，如果不是精神，那也是声音的完整性，是对自己不恰当之处最轻微的嘲讽，是对句子和短语优美凿琢后呈现的一出戏剧。 ——《纽约时报书评》 惊艳、动人，极为有趣。这既是一本记录逝去时代的精彩回忆录，也是一个有关平凡人的动人故事。 ——《星期日电讯报》 博伊德的技巧如此令人信服，甚至在书刚出版的时候，使得许多读者以为主角蒙斯图尔特在现实世界中是真实存在的。 ——《卫报》 博伊德惊人的叙事能力在这里得到了释放：这是一部你难以预知结局的传记，让你深深着迷又不住猜想……这是博伊德迄今为止最令人愉快的小说之一：慷慨、机智，又悄然地别具深意。 ——《标准晚报》 读到最后三分之一，似乎有点懂了说自己最爱这本书的抖森是怎样的人。LMS的一生，从二十年代的巴黎文学界，二战时期的间谍生活，五六十年代的纽约…一路下来，如果真能如《午夜巴黎》那样穿越，大概每个阶段都有人愿意穿回去，跟他交换吧。然而他那种一直追寻年轻时理想，回首时的无奈遗憾，却比那些传奇似的经历更直指人心，引人反思，我这一生，是否虚度？ 回顾人生，如一条河，我只是疑惑了，究竟自己是河心小船上那个人，还是岸上观望那个人。读者在阅读过程中，也开始疑惑，开始思考，岸上的人变成了船上的人，这大概是本书最大的魅力吧。 如果能给六颗星星，我会毫不犹豫，逐一点亮。 ——豆瓣读者Kathy 花几十天读完了小说主人公用一生写下的日记（虽是虚构但却真切无比），内心好像被一股巨大的虚无感吞噬。眼见主人公辗转于人生得意与颠沛流离间，世事无常，一路到最后，纵然有可被鉴定为传奇的经历傍身，还是抵挡不了衰老和死亡，抵挡不了时间这个最大的敌人。而我们每个人其实都一样。 ——豆瓣读者sorrento 算不上成功，算不上传奇，做不到自己想做的，也不断失去所爱，但看到最后一直在被戳中，如果是自己，又能不能把这么一生过好呢？ ——豆瓣读者with 读的时候，有许多回，威廉·博伊德写下的句子深中我心，牵扯出在那个时刻最本能流露的感情。能做到这一点的作家实在不多，而博伊德成功做到这点不止一次。《凡人之心》是我读过的博伊德的第一本书，但必然不会是最后一本。 ——英国亚马逊读者Kundra 厚实、浓重、无限蔓延，并非我惯常喜欢的类型，但不得不说，在读完之前我就是没法放下这本书。尽管篇幅不短，但《凡人之心》是那种能让你在翻阅繁多书页的过程中，持续且牢牢吸引住你的小说。博伊德有一项罕见的天赋，这让他写出充满力量、无比动人的散文文体。此外，《凡人之心》包涵这一切：爱、欢笑、痛苦、困顿、泪水，以及成功与失败。从各方面来看，这都是一部大师级的作品。 ——Goodreads读者J. Kent Messum ※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ 【对威廉·博伊德的评价】 他那一代人中最优秀的故事讲述者之一。 ——塞巴斯蒂安·福克斯（英国作家） 伊夫林·沃和金斯利·艾米斯当之无愧的继承人。博伊德似乎特别幸运，因为他天生就喜欢讲故事，而且有能力用迅疾、自信的散文表达这些故事。 ——《纽约时报》 很少有当代作家能像博伊德那样有力地描绘出离我们很近的现代历史。他的人物和他的散文同样令人着迷。 ——《华盛顿邮报》 威廉·博伊德可以说是英国在世最杰出的作家之一。 ——《周日快报》 英国在世的最伟大的小说家。博伊德可能比他的同代人写了更多真正的经典作品。他的作品有一种难得而优雅的持久性。 ——《每日电讯报》 他是最优秀的英文散文家和故事讲述者之一。 ——《大西洋月刊》 博伊德是一个天生的讲故事的人，他清晰、紧凑的散文从来不会阻碍到他的人物和他们不可预知的命运。 ——《华尔街日报》 21世纪的格雷厄姆·格林化身。现代英国小说家中写出最多令人不忍释卷的书的那个，具有以传统方式讲故事的美德——地点的唤起、节奏、戏剧性……天才的故事大师。 ——《独立报》 博伊德是一个温文尔雅、多才多艺、随和的哲学式文学表演者，聪明而富有思想。 ——《纽约时报书评》 读一本威廉·博伊德的小说，就像开启一瓶葡萄酒，点燃一架火炉，坐在你最喜欢的那把扶手椅上——相信大师会带你踏上一段充满趣味、不可预知的旅程。 ——《旁观者报》

A bittersweet comedy starring the great Vlastimil Brodský as Fanda, an old man who refuses to grow up. Despite pleas from his exasperated wife who wants him to make serious decisions about the future, Fanda ignores the nagging and spends his days seeking amusement and adventure.

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.

以女性视角重述《伊利亚特》 英雄史诗的背后是女人无声的悲怆！ ☆布克奖得主派特•巴克全新力作 ☆入围科斯塔奖短名单、女性小说奖决选名单 ☆《纽约时报》年度好书、《经济学人》年度好书、《金融时报》年度好书 ☆《卫报》评选“21世纪最伟大的100本书”之一 ☆改编电影将由《宠儿》《房间》的出品方Element Pictures与BBC Film共同制作 【编辑推荐】 1.本书作者派特•巴克是布克奖获奖作家，她的代表作《重生三部曲》曾入围布克奖40周年最佳小说，《少女的沉默》是其2018年出版的长篇小说新作，一经推出后便好评如潮，获得诸多权威媒体好评推荐。 2.本书以女性视角重述《伊利亚特》这一西方文学的中心作品，为在荷马笔下失语千年的女性发声，视角独特，文笔雄健。 3.本书入围科斯塔奖、女性小说奖等多个权威文学奖项的决选名单，并荣获包括《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《卫报》《经济学人》等众多权威媒体好评推荐。 【内容简介】 因为一个女人（海伦），特洛伊与希腊陷入长达十年的血腥之战。而在希腊人的营地里，另一个女人正在苦等战争结束。布里塞伊斯，昔日特洛伊邻邦吕耳涅索斯的王后，在阿喀琉斯攻入城门，杀死她丈夫、兄弟的那一刻，便成了他的奴隶、战利品。她只有接受现实才能活下去。这个女人沦为阿伽门农与阿喀琉斯角力的筹码。再一次的，男人将冲突和伤亡统统归咎于一个女人…… 《少女的沉默》以前所未有的女性视角重新书写《伊利亚特》，透过布里塞伊斯敏锐的双眼，再现了特洛伊战争的残酷，以及千万无辜妇孺的悲惨命运。英雄史诗背后被压抑千年的女性声音，在派特•巴克的雄健文笔下复活、发声，诉说被世代继承的悲剧命运。 【媒体推荐】 《少女的沉默》为那些在战争中被遗忘的女人们发声，让她们被聆听、被见证。 ——《华盛顿邮报》 这是一部给人带来震撼的书，它不仅以不同的视角去诠释《伊利亚特》，还让我们用自己的方式讲述过去和现在的故事。 ——《卫报》 《少女的沉默》来得如此恰如其分……巴克娴熟地捕捉到了日常生活中女性的声音。 ——《出版人周刊》

阿基·考里斯马基的短片遗珠，连IMDB都未收录 The men work in the foundry day and night. Finally they get hungry. 参考资料

2002 film by Aki Kaurismäki

2011 film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

本书为伽利玛出版社推出的“缔造法国的三十天”系列丛书中的一种（现已更名为“缔造法国的重要之日”），由享有国际声誉的法国史学家乔治·杜比撰写，记录法国历史上有重要意义的一天——1214年7月27日，周日。是日，法兰西国王菲利普·奥古斯都与神圣罗马帝国皇帝奥托、佛兰德斯伯爵 斐迪南和布洛涅伯爵雷诺率领的强大联军在布汶平原交战。法兰西国王得到上帝的庇佑，成为战场上最终的胜者。皇帝奥托落荒而逃，两位反叛的伯爵被俘。这是一场具有奠基意义的胜利，它大大巩固了法兰西君主制的根基。虽只是一场战斗、一起事件，但一战之微，亦有远旨。 勒高夫认为，《布汶的周日》是杜比的代表作。这部著作完美地将“结构”与“事件”结合在一起，向我们说明，对一个事件的分析离不开对长时段结构的理解。造就布汶的是之前长时间内的军事技术的进步、骑士比武和战争引发的经济行为的改变、权力的变化、心态与想象的变化。而布汶在历史中的意义也需要依靠记忆获得，依靠“布汶之后的布汶”去把握。 本书荣获1973年“大使奖”（Prix des Ambassadeurs）。

Michael Portillo travels on the great train routes of Europe, as he retraces the journeys featured in George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide.

Voice 1 (male "professional announcer" type): This neighborhood(1) was made for the wretched dignity of the petty bourgeoisie, for respectable occupations and intellectual tourism. The sedentary population of the upper floors was sheltered from the influences of the street. This neighborhood has remained the same. It was the strange setting of our story, where a systematic questioning of all the diversions and works of a society, a total critique of its idea of happiness, was expressed in acts. These people also scorned "subjective profundity". They were interested in nothing but an adequate and concrete expression of themselves. Voice 2 (Debord, monotone): Human beings are not fully conscious of their real life - usually groping in the dark; overwhelmed by the consequences of their acts; at every moment groups and individuals find themselves confronted with results they have not wished. Voice 1: They said that oblivion was their ruling passion. They wanted to reinvent everything each day; to become the masters and possessors of their own lives. Just as one does not judge a man according to the conception he has of himself, one cannot judge such periods of transition according to their own consciousness; on the contrary, one must explain the consciousness through the contradictions of material life, through the conflict between social conditions and the forces of social production. The progress achieved in the domination of nature was not yet matched by a corresponding liberation of everyday life. Youth passed away among the various controls of resignation. Our camera has captured for you a few aspects of a provisional microsociety. The knowledge of empirical facts remains abstract and superficial as long as it is not concretized by its integration into the whole "” which alone permits the supersession of partial and abstract problems so as to arrive at their concrete essence, and implicitly at their meaning. This group was on the margins of the economy. It tended toward a role of pure consumption, and first of all the free consumption of its time. It thus found itself directly engaged in qualitative variations of everyday life but deprived of any means to intervene in them. The group ranged over a very small area. The same times brought them back to the same places. No one went to bed early. Discussion on the meaning of all this continued... Voice 2: "Our life is a journey "” In the winter and the night. "” We seek our passage..."� Voice 1: The abandoned literature nevertheless exerted a delaying action on new affective formulations. Voice 2: There was the fatigue and the cold of the morning in this much-traversed labyrinth, like an enigma that we had to resolve. It was a looking-glass reality through which we had to discover the potential richness of reality. On the bank of the river evening began once again; and caresses; and the importance of a world without importance. Just as the eyes have a blurred vision of many things and can see only one clearly, so the will can strive only incompletely toward diverse objects and can completely love only one at a time. Voice 3 (young girl): No one counted on the future. It would never be possible to be together later, or anywhere else. There would never be a greater freedom. Voice 1: The refusal of time and of growing old automatically limited encounters in this narrow, contingent zone, where what was lacking was felt as irreparable. The extreme precariousness of the means of getting by without working was at the root of this impatience which made excesses necessary and breaks definitive. Voice 2: One never really contests an organization of existence without contesting all of that organization's forms of language. Voice 1: When freedom is practiced in a closed circle, it fades into a dream, becomes a mere representation of itself. The ambiance of play is by nature unstable. At any moment "ordinary life"� can prevail once again. The geographical limitation of play is even more striking than its temporal limitation. Any game takes place within the contours of its spatial domain. Around the neighborhood, around its fleeting and threatened immobility, stretched a half-known city where people met only by chance, losing their way forever. The girls who found their way there, because they were legally under the control of their families until the age of eighteen, were often recaptured by the defenders of that detestable institution. They were generally confined under the guard of those creatures who among all the bad products of a bad society are the most ugly and repugnant: nuns. What usually makes documentaries so easy to understand is the arbitrary limitation of their subject matter. They describe the atomization of social functions and the isolation of their products. One can, in contrast, envisage the entire complexity of a moment which is not resolved into a work, a moment whose movement indissolubly contains facts and values and whose meaning does not yet appear. The subject matter of the documentary would then be this confused totality. Voice 2: The era had arrived at a level of knowledge and technical means that made possible, and increasingly necessary, a direct construction of all aspects of a liberated affective and practical existence. The appearance of these superior means of action, still unused because of the delays in the project of liquidating the commodity economy, had already condemned aesthetic activity, whose ambitions and powers were both outdated. The decay of art and of all the values of former mores had formed our sociological background. The ruling class's monopoly over the instruments we needed to control in order to realize the collective art of our time had excluded us from a cultural production officially devoted to illustrating and repeating the past. An art film on this generation can only be a film on its absence of real creations. Everyone unthinkingly followed the paths learned once and for all, to their work and their home, to their predictable future. For them duty had already become a habit, and habit a duty. They did not see the deficiency of their city. They thought the deficiency of their life was natural. We wanted to break out of this conditioning, in quest of another use of the urban landscape, in quest of new passions. The atmosphere of a few places gave us intimations of the future powers of an architecture it would be necessary to create to be the support and framework for less mediocre games. We could expect nothing of anything we had not ourselves altered. The urban environment proclaimed the orders and tastes of the ruling society just as violently as the newspapers. It is man who makes the unity of the world, but man has extended himself everywhere. People can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive. There were obstacles everywhere. There was a cohesion in the obstacles of all types. They maintained the coherent reign of poverty. Everything being connected, it was necessary to change everything by a unitary struggle, or nothing. It was necessary to link up with the masses, but we were surrounded by sleep. Voice 3: The dictatorship of the proletariat is a desperate struggle, bloody and bloodless, violent and peaceful, military and economic, educational and administrative, against the forces and traditions of the old world. Voice 1: In this country it is once again the men of order who have rebelled. They have reinforced their power. They have been able to aggravate the grotesqueness of the ruling conditions according to their will. They have embellished their system with the funereal ceremonies of the past. Voice 2: Years, like a single instant prolonged to this point, come to an end. Voice 1: What was directly lived reappears frozen in the distance, fit into the tastes and illusions of an era, carried away with it. Voice 2: The appearance of events that we have not made, that others have made against us, now obliges us to be aware of the passage of time, its results, the transformation of our own desires into events. What differentiates the past from the present is precisely its out-of-reach objectivity; there is no more should-be; being is so consumed that it has ceased to exist. The details are already lost in the dust of time. Who was afraid of life, afraid of the night, afraid of being taken, afraid of being kept? Voice 3: What should be abolished continues, and we continue to wear away with it. We are engulfed. We are separated. The years pass and we haven't changed anything. Voice 2: Once again morning in the same streets. Once again the fatigue of so many similarly passed nights. It is a walk that has lasted a long time. Voice 1: Really hard to drink more. Voice 2: Of course one might make a film of it. But even if such a film succeeds in being as fundamentally disconnected and unsatisfying as the reality it deals with, it will never be more than a re-creation "” poor and false like this botched traveling shot. Voice 3: There are now people who pride themselves on being authors of films, as others were authors of novels. They are even more backward than the novelists because they are unaware of the decomposition and exhaustion of individual expression in our time, ignorant of the end of the arts of passivity. They are praised for their sincerity since they dramatize, with more personal depth, the conventions of which their life consists. There is talk of the liberation of the cinema. But what does it matter to us if one more art is liberated through which Tom, Dick or Harry can joyously express their slavish sentiments? The only interesting venture is the liberation of everyday life, not only in the perspectives of history but for us and right away. This entails the withering away of alienated forms of communication. The cinema, too, has to be destroyed. Voice 2: In the final analysis, stars are created by the need we have for them, and not by their talent or lack of talent or even by the film industry or advertising. Miserable need, dismal, anonymous life that would like to expand itself to the dimensions of cinema life. The imaginary life on the screen is the product of this real need. The star is the projection of this need. The images of the advertisements during the intermissions are more suited than any others for evoking an intermission of life. To really describe this era it would no doubt be necessary to show many other things. But what would be the point? Better to grasp the totality of what has been done and what remains to be done than to add more ruins to the old world of the spectacle and of memories. 1. This film, which evokes the lettrist experiences at the origin of the situationist movement, opens with shots of the Paris district frequented by the lettrists in the early 1950s.

This is a two part Slovenian documentary on the Yugoslav Wars 1991-1999. It uses extensive archive footage from Slovenian terrestrial TV. Having watched every documentary I can find on this subject I can say that much of the footage contained in this documentary is unique to it, at least from a Western European audience's standpoint. As such this is an excellent documentary for those with an interest in the fall of Yugoslavia, or those looking for an account of the wars from a Slovenian perspective. As this is a war documentary be prepared for some violent/disturbing scenes. Above all of the other documentaries covering the Yugoslav wars I think that this one has some particularly gruesome images, corpses with gunshot wounds to the head, etc. The usual war footage I see on satellite TV news, rarely if ever shows such things, or when they are shown this is done so quickly, this is not the case here. I found that this does two things, firstly it hammers home the brutality of war. Secondly it illustrates the 'glossing over' of the reality of war by much of the global (or at least Western, from my own experience) media, where scenes of intense, real life violence are perhaps too difficult to swallow with an evening meal. That said, please note that this documentary is almost two hours long and these violent scenes only take up small parts of it.