必由之路

　　因走私海洛因遭捕后，米凯拉·麦考伦亲口描述自己如何在贩毒的非法世界中游走，其经历令人震惊

　　For over 50 years, Hayao Miyazaki has been enchanting the world with his films. Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro), Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke), Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away), or his latest film Kimitachi wa dō ikiru ka (The Boy and the Heron), to name only a few of eleven feature films, ten short films, several manga, and also through Studio Ghibli, a museum and a theme park. They form a luminous body of work and characters that have become cult classics. Miyazaki’s films, often autobiographical, also reflect the state of the world and the turmoil of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, made of wars and ecological disasters. He was born in Japan in 1941, during World War II. As a child, he immersed himself in drawing manga until he had a revelation upon discovering Hakuja den (The White Snake Enchantress), the first Japanese colour animated film by Taiji Yabushita. From then on, he decided to devote his life to animation, this magical art capable of overcoming the darkness that had always deeply inhabited him... Thanks to exceptional access granted by Studio Ghibli to numerous film excerpts and rare Japanese television archives, we discover the life of Miyazaki as well as a profoundly ecological body of work that questions our relationship with the natural world and living beings. Thinkers like anthropologist Philippe Descola or philosopher Timothy Morton, as well as close associates, his son and film director Gorō Miyazaki, and Toshio Suzuki, his longtime producer and friend, bring us closer to this tireless, obsessive, and mysterious artist.

　　日本电影导演小津安二郎是国际影坛上备受尊崇的大师，欧美和亚洲的不少导演都表达过受到他的作品启发和影响，德国的维姆·文德斯就是其中之一。1982年文德斯在罗马一次放映会上，选择了小津安二郎的《东京物语》作为对自己电影工作有特别影响力的作品来播放，并触发拍摄这个属于自己版本的“东京物语”的念头。文德斯表示并非本着朝圣的心态“寻找小津”，纵然他相信小津的留世作品最有资格被摆放在电影艺术的殿堂。他之所以推崇小津，是因小津“在掌握了经由美国推展及至全球的电影的语言后，竟能反过来从中调制出一种完全个人的景观；在拍摄某样事物时，能让事物保存原有的身份”。文德斯总结对小津的赏析，在片初把电影的本质界定为“提供一个这个世纪人类的真实和可行的图像，从而让人能够认清自我”。
　　寻找小津的片名Tokyo-Ga其意指东京画，是维姆·文德斯对小津致敬之作，他在八十年代中期亲自跑到日本去追寻小津的足迹，以日记手法纪录他对东京这个城市的感觉。此片对照了小津镜头下的东京，以及三十年后的东京，在拍《寻找小津》时，文德斯笔触显得平淡，几乎仿效了小津当年的拍法。