肖邦拯救人生
肖邦的《G小调第一叙事曲》总长仅九分钟,诞生至今已有近二百年,却依然有着特殊的魅力,不但在视频网站上创下数百万的点击率,更影响着今天许多人的生活。本片讲述了两个普通人——苏格兰青年保罗和日本中学生桃香,在各自经历了人生的不幸之后,因肖邦的叙事曲而重新振作,勇敢面对今后的生活。伊莫金·库珀、弗拉基米尔·阿什肯纳齐、朗朗、斯蒂芬·霍夫等钢琴演奏家也将轮番登场,详细剖析这首不同寻常的钢琴曲,为我们揭开音符中的奥妙。   This hour-long documentary, directed by BAFTA and Emmy award winning director James Kent, meets Japanese teenager Momoka and Scottish music student Paul Murray to explore how Chopin’s extraordinary Ballade Number 1 transforms the lives of ordinary people and illustrates how classical music still penetrates contemporary life in unexpected and powerful ways.   Momoka, is a 15-year-old pianist from Sendai, Japan, whose community was decimated by the 2011 tsunami and earthquakes. For Momoka, the Ballade embodies the anguish and rebellion she feels but doesn't allow to surface.   For 22-year-old Paul from Glasgow, the piece is life-changing. Paul grew up in Bellshill, a working class suburb of Glasgow. He first played piano at 15, and it opened up a whole new world for him. During his first term studying on the B.Mus (Hons) degree programme at the University of Aberdeen, Paul was diagnosed with a brain tumour and then MS which both eventually caused him to lose the ability to walk and to play with his right hand. Waiting in his hospital bed in between operations over three months, he played the Ballade again and again on the iPod his dad Stephen had given him. It was that single piece's emotional pull that Paul credits with the return of his memory.   Paul told us some more about his involvement in the programme:   "I have been for some time now transcribing the Ballade in g minor for the left-hand alone. The reason being I played this piece back in high school and with the medical complications lost the ability to play perhaps my favourite piece of all time. Luckily for my this piece was going to be the subject of a major documentary and with my story and attachment to the Ballade I was selected to be involved!"   The film includes interviews with some of the world's greatest pianists including Stephen Hough, Lang Lang and Vladimir Ashkenazy. It was shown on Channel 4 in August and trailers can still be viewed on    The documentary was awarded 2nd place in the 'Halo' Best Arts Documentary award category at the awards ceremony on Monday, 4 November 2013 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall at London’s Southbank Centre. The ceremony was filmed and shown on Sky Atlantic.
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万物一体
一生中,你的最终目标是什么?千万分之一的人回答说:“觉悟”。而其他人,则答以成功、财富、权力等。影片《万物一体》(UNITY)通过对生命的各种诠释,献给所有追求更深刻的生存意义、谋求与他人和谐相处之道的人们。想象一下这样一个世界,它不依存于对立面(我们/他们、富贵/贫穷、黑/白、同性恋/异性恋、人类/动物),而是以追求完整存在。《万物一体》(UNITY)呈现的是我们完全平等的世界观,即使我们不尽相同:人类、动物、树木。   《万物一体》(UNITY)是由导演尚恩•莫森(Nation Earth创立者)在过去五年间编写和拍摄的一部影片,它将于2012年公映。影片包括以下六个部分:肉体、精神、内心、灵魂、伴以序幕及尾声。   影片集中于探讨人性的冷漠与共鸣倾向。尚恩形容道,《万物一体》是一部有关对立物的影片,或者也可以说,“为什么尽管我们都有着宗教信仰(世界上88%的地区存在宗教信仰)、自助书籍、十二步治疗方案甚至哲学及科技,却还觉察出彼此间的对立。”   《万物一体》所呈现的将是日常生活画面的错综拼接,喜忧参半。影片充满了喜悦、惊奇、悲伤和成熟。与尚恩的上一部影片《地球公民》(Earthlings)相同,这部影片再一次通过糅合前所未有的美景与令人心碎的悲剧,试图将观众引往新奇和有趣的场景。尽管是一部警示纪录片,但影片也希望比之先前,将恩惠、哲理及意识传播给更多人。   对于影片《地球公民》,上网搜索便知,它凭借其最富想象力的描述和纪录片从未有过的殊荣,尤其是所述主题之难度,一跃成为纪录片史上的焦点之一。尽管2005年首次发行时,该片完全不被发行商看好,但它对其后探讨相同主题的纪录片有着无可置疑的影响,这其中就包括三部由HBO发行的影片:2006年的《虐狗丑闻》(DEALING DOGS ,2006)、2007年的《我是动物》(I AM AN ANIMAL ,2007)、2009年的《工业农场大屠杀》(DEATH ON A FACTORY FARM ,2009),以及两部获得2010年奥斯卡金像奖提名的影片:《食品公司》(FOOD INC.)、荣获最佳纪录片奖的《海豚湾》(THE COVE)。   《万物一体》继续着《地球公民》未完的路,它探索了人类彼此之间的二元关系,而非人与动物的关系。因此,我们希望借这部影片展现冷漠与共鸣之间的主要差别,让观影者明白:我们,不论是人类、动物或者树木,均源自共同的根,那就是——地球。 (nightcatcher&影子方  译)
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