![]() ![]() The paper and photographs in the donation now comprise the Mary Ellen Bute Papers at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. In December 1985, Donald Crafton, then director of the Yale Film Study Center, accepted a donation of film elements and paper materials from the family. The film screened at Cannes and at various festivals in the United States, and was distributed by Grove Press, but by the 1980s, it had become difficult to see the film in its original 35mm format.īute passed away in 1983. The film was the result of the creative partnership between director Mary Ellen Bute, alumna of the Yale School of Drama, and her husband, cinematographer Ted Nemeth. “By and large, the film achieves the innermost effect of the great dream novel… what redeems it far past its faults is the very strong sense of Miss Bute’s vision: her loving perception of the novel and her response to it in cinematic imagination.” - Stanley Kauffmanĭirector Mary Ellen Bute’s 1965 film PASSAGES FROM JAMES JOYCE’S FINNEGANS WAKE, called by Time magazine “as challenging and witty as Joyce’s prose,” was the first feature film adapted from the work of James Joyce (1882-1941). Kelley, Jane Reilly, Page Johnson, and John V. ![]() Screenplay by Mary Ellen Bute and Mary Manning, adapted from the book by James JoyceĪssociate production and cinematography by Ted Nemeth ![]() Introduction by Brian Meacham and Bute biographer Kit Basquinĭirected by Mary Ellen Bute (1965) 93 mins PASSAGES FROM JAMES JOYCE'S FINNEGANS WAKE ![]()
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