What is a revolutionary? The writings of Marx and Engels both use the metaphor of revolution as the "locomotive of history". Is, then, the revolutionary a standard bearer of progress, a pace setter, a frontrunner? 　　None of the above, because in a world ruled by a turbo "devaluation" where only the new has market value, where commodity production spirals out of control, the "train of time" is a deadly trend. Alexander Kluge instead opts for Walter Benjamin's idea of the revolution as mankind "pulling the emergency brake". We must hold up the torch of reason to the problems at hand, and the true revolutionary is therefore the one who can unite future and past, merging two times, two societies, the artist who montages stories and history. And so we come to Alexander Kluge and his art. 　　Kluge's monumental "News from Ideological Antiquity. Marx – Eisenstein – Das Kapital" is a 570-minute film available only on DVD which is based on the work of two other montage artists, James Joyce and Sergei Eisenstein. These two met in 1929 to discuss filming Marx's "Kapital" which had been written 60 years beforehand. Now, eighty years on, Alexander Kluge joins the party and takes up where Eisenstein failed, because neither Hollywood's capitalists nor Moscow's Communists were prepared to send the necessary funds his way. 　　Most of the film consists of involved discussions between Alexander Kluge and other Marx-savvy writers and artists. Poet and essayist Hans Magnus Enzensberger compares the soul of man with the soul of money, author Dietmar Dath explains the meaning of the hammer and sickle on the Soviet flag and, from the standpoint of the Stoics, leaps (rather than marches at an orderly pace) into industrialisation, the actress Sophie Rois makes an impassioned appeal for Medea, differentiating between additive and subtractive love, filmmaker Werner Schroeter stages a Wagner opera featuring the "rebirth of Tristan in the spirit of battleship Potemkin", philosopher Peter Sloterdijk talks about Ovid and the metamorphosis of added value, a man at the piano analyses the score of a strike song while workers and factory owners face off in an opera by Luigi Nono, the poet Dürs Grünbein interprets Bert Brecht's aesthetisation of the Communist manifesto in swinging oceanic hexameter, cultural scientist Rainer Stollmann emphasises the myriad meanings of Marx's writings as science, art, story telling, philosophy, poetry. And social theorist and philosopher Oskar Negt looks sceptical when asked whether it's possible to find the right images for all this stuff when you're less interested in pedagogical content than the encompassing theory. 　　Scholarly stuff, wide and deep in scope, yet bold and playful. But even if your own study of Marx is no more than a faded memory, it is hugely enjoyable to watch and listen to these experts as their "thinking gradually deepens through talking" and to watch Kluge interject, hopping adroitly from one thought to the next, surprising his interlocutors, catching them off balance, sending them off on new trajectories. We never know how much agreement and variance is hidden in Kluge's objections. His a Socratic approach to questioning, curious, open to everything, and so wonderfully subtle that at the end always find yourself wondering whether he had been driving at a particular target all along. Alexander Kluge is a great manipulator, an industrious loom, who weaves the most far-flung observations into his system. 　　He is not filming "Das Kapital" but researching how one might find images to make Marx's book filmable. The quest is the way is the destination. The model for his underlying structure is Joyce's "Ulysses" where the entire history of the world is packed into a day in the life of his hero, Bloom. In Kluge's hands this becomes a collage of documentary, essayistic and fictional scenes, interviews and still photos, archive images of smoking factory chimneys, time-lapse footage of pounding machines and mountains of products, diary entries and blackboards scribbled with quotes referencing constructivism and concrete poetry. 　　Coincidences, collisions. Back to back with a short film in which director Tom Tykwer stirs things up in a Berlin street, two readers struggle to recite the following sentence, slipping in and out of synch with increasing desperation: "Whenever real, corporeal man, man with his feet firmly on the solid ground, man exhaling and inhaling all the forces of nature, posits his real, objective essential powers as alien objects by his externalisation, it is not the act of positing which is the subject in this process: it is the subjectivity of objective essential powers, whose action, therefore, must also be something objective." 　　No sooner are we shown "how the history of industry and the established objective existence of industry are the open book of man's essential powers, the perceptibly existing human psychology" than we have the history of capitalism is explained to us as a giant extension of the fairytale about the devil with the three golden hairs – every thing is a human being being cast under a spell. And the beginning of Mae West's film career runs parallel to the leap into industrialisation – a form of aesthetic slapstick in which not cream pies fly through the air but ideas and concepts. 　　Unlike Eisenstein, who was driven to desperation by the herculean task of cutting the 29 hours of "October" into a 90-minute film version and turned to drugs into the process which left him temporarily blind, Kluge cooly sticks to his guns and his nine hours. And it's not a minute too long. 　　(This article was originally published in Tagesspiegel on 8 January 2009. Helmut Merker is a film critic.)

A student film by Béla Tarr, from 1979. 　　Presumed lost until very recently.

Confronting half of her mother’s life—her mother who had survived the Jeju April 3 Incident—the director tries to scoop out disappearing memories. A tale of family, which carries on from Dear Pyongyang (YIDFF 2005), carving out the cruelty of history, and questioning the precarious existence of the nation-state.

電影《變態者意識形態指南》是由斯洛文尼亞的哲學家、拉康精神分析專家斯拉沃熱‧齊澤克編寫劇本及主演、由蘇菲‧費因斯(Sophie Fiennes)執導。如齊澤克的另一部《變態者電影指南》一樣，它透過穿梭於著名的電影場景之間來勾勒出一個理解藝術和世界的精神分析理論框架，是某種意義下一部「紀錄片」。

IVYhttp://www.mtime.com/my/rocky/　　这个世界上最难以平复的痛苦，无疑是被迫与亲人至爱阴阳两隔的愤怒……马克思·佩恩是一个严肃至极的警察，虽然独来独往惯了的他还有点蔑视规章制度的小毛病，却仍然不啻为一个尽职尽责的优秀执法者。像警察这个行当，是最容易树敌的职业之一，马克思也不例外，每一个被他亲手抓住扔进监牢的罪犯，都对他恨这入骨，欲除之而后快。马克思了解自己职业所带来的危险，可是他也乐于接受这种刺激的挑战。然而让他想象不到的是，罪恶的魔爪竟然伸向了他的老婆和孩子，在家人被残忍地杀害后，几近疯狂的马克思开始在崩溃的边缘游走，为了给老婆孩子报仇，他什么事情都做得出来。　　马克思所实施的一系列过于充满强迫性的调查，最终将他引导至黑暗的地下世界，这个时候，突然出现了一个对他穷追猛打的杀手，马克思从这个杀手身上感受到了和自己一样的愤怒的火花……杀手名叫莫娜·塞克斯，她误以为强暴了她的姐姐之后又将她杀死的那个人就是马克思，所以才会将他当成一生的仇敌，然而经过一番调查，莫娜却惊讶的发现，原来她和马克思所寻找的仇家，竟然是同一个人。两个为了共同的目标而暂时结成同盟的人，开始了一场有如噩梦般的旅程，随着他们越来越接近谋杀案的真相，马克思发现自己不仅需要面对一些超自然的力量，还将经历一次想象不到的背叛与抉择。

1843年，君主专制下的欧洲饥荒肆虐、经济萧条，处处危机四伏。英国的工业革命改变了世界秩序，创造出新的无产阶级。秉持博爱共产理念，工人组织陆续成立。两名德国青年，马克思与恩格斯，将颠覆这些组织的乌托邦思想，改造他们的斗争及全世界的未来。马克思自大学毕业后，凭着犀利文笔与非凡思路迅速跃升《莱茵报》总编。然而，因他撰文抨击普鲁士国王导致报纸被迫停刊，随后，他带妻子迁居巴黎。在创办《德法年鉴》期间，马克思结识了家境富裕的德国同乡恩格斯。恩格斯在英国曼彻斯特经营纺织工厂，拥有卓越手腕与经济知识。他的出现，于金钱、于学识，都大大支持了马克思的思想实践。后来，两人受托起草“正义者同盟”规章，一同完成了经典政治文献《共产党宣言》。一位困苦拮据仍不改其志，一位含着金汤匙又满怀抱负。时代青年的聚首，即将让全世界风云变色 。

IVYhttp://www.mtime.com/my/rocky/　　这个世界上最难以平复的痛苦，无疑是被迫与亲人至爱阴阳两隔的愤怒……马克思·佩恩是一个严肃至极的警察，虽然独来独往惯了的他还有点蔑视规章制度的小毛病，却仍然不啻为一个尽职尽责的优秀执法者。像警察这个行当，是最容易树敌的职业之一，马克思也不例外，每一个被他亲手抓住扔进监牢的罪犯，都对他恨这入骨，欲除之而后快。马克思了解自己职业所带来的危险，可是他也乐于接受这种刺激的挑战。然而让他想象不到的是，罪恶的魔爪竟然伸向了他的老婆和孩子，在家人被残忍地杀害后，几近疯狂的马克思开始在崩溃的边缘游走，为了给老婆孩子报仇，他什么事情都做得出来。　　马克思所实施的一系列过于充满强迫性的调查，最终将他引导至黑暗的地下世界，这个时候，突然出现了一个对他穷追猛打的杀手，马克思从这个杀手身上感受到了和自己一样的愤怒的火花……杀手名叫莫娜·塞克斯，她误以为强暴了她的姐姐之后又将她杀死的那个人就是马克思，所以才会将他当成一生的仇敌，然而经过一番调查，莫娜却惊讶的发现，原来她和马克思所寻找的仇家，竟然是同一个人。两个为了共同的目标而暂时结成同盟的人，开始了一场有如噩梦般的旅程，随着他们越来越接近谋杀案的真相，马克思发现自己不仅需要面对一些超自然的力量，还将经历一次想象不到的背叛与抉择。

1843年，君主专制下的欧洲饥荒肆虐、经济萧条，处处危机四伏。英国的工业革命改变了世界秩序，创造出新的无产阶级。秉持博爱共产理念，工人组织陆续成立。两名德国青年，马克思与恩格斯，将颠覆这些组织的乌托邦思想，改造他们的斗争及全世界的未来。马克思自大学毕业后，凭着犀利文笔与非凡思路迅速跃升《莱茵报》总编。然而，因他撰文抨击普鲁士国王导致报纸被迫停刊，随后，他带妻子迁居巴黎。在创办《德法年鉴》期间，马克思结识了家境富裕的德国同乡恩格斯。恩格斯在英国曼彻斯特经营纺织工厂，拥有卓越手腕与经济知识。他的出现，于金钱、于学识，都大大支持了马克思的思想实践。后来，两人受托起草“正义者同盟”规章，一同完成了经典政治文献《共产党宣言》。一位困苦拮据仍不改其志，一位含着金汤匙又满怀抱负。时代青年的聚首，即将让全世界风云变色 。