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南飛烏鵲曰：

第一次聽到拉赫曼尼諾夫的「練聲曲」，該是從某家汽車的廣告。此曲版本甚多，或獨唱、或合唱、或獨奏、或合奏、或被之管絃，極受歡迎。

南飛烏鵲曰：

「星艦迷航」與「星際大戰」都是美國的科幻經典了。AFI (American Film Institute) 頒發終身成就獎給「星戰」導演喬治‧盧卡斯，居然找來「星艦」演員威廉‧夏特那插科打諢一番，真逗。

南飛烏鵲曰：

Orson Welles 真是奇才，二十來歲拍成的「大國民」，迄今仍為人傳頌。片段為電影開頭，主角Charles Foster Kane 死前留下不解之謎：「Rosebud」。

Orson Welles 拍過的片子還有「黑獄亡魂」、「歷劫佳人」、「安柏森大族」、「簡愛」、「馬克白」等等。

今天紐約時報網站刊載了篇訃聞：Gary Graver, a cinematographer who worked with Orson Welles in the final years of the director’s life and fought for decades to see Welles’s final film finished and released, died on Thursday at his home here. He was 68. （Gary Graver, 68, Orson Welles’s Collaborator, Dies）。Gary Graver 掌鏡的功力如何，文章沒說，也沒必要說，畢竟，和Welles合作這段往事，已經讓他在影史裡留下了姓名。

南飛烏鵲曰：

“Imagine if George Lucas directed Lord of the Rings. Imagine the lack of location shooting . . .”  謹以此片段向Peter Jackson 致敬。

The biblical Job, faced with these disasters, agonized but never cursed God. The Job in Hanoch Levin's "Job’s Passion," now at Theater for the New City, quickly announces his conclusion that God does not exist.

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In “Job’s Passion” (1981), which benefits from lively direction by David Paul Willinger and clever translation by Shay Azoulay , it may seem that Mr. Levin has gone to an awful lot of trouble just to declare God’s nonexistence. But the play is also an indictment of humanity. (If some entity created us, it wouldn’t necessarily want to stick around and take credit.).

詳見紐約時報：Job and Jesus Combine to Overcome

南飛烏鵲曰：

前陣子網上流傳一部「霍元甲布袋戲版」(如上)，頗受關注，製片人自稱是對岸同胞。近日有戲迷神通廣大，查出影片裡的戲偶與操偶路數，實出自本地的金鹰閣劇團。奇哉，莫非霍元甲偷師某賢人或是某智者，懂得身化為二、為三，以至無窮？抑或，一切不過是為打響知名度而故佈疑陣？

金鷹閣短片：醉拳、變臉