视频简介
Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings and explores the medieval world they reveal. Part 1: Ruling by the Book Janina begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum. Part 2: What a King Should Know Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion, discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia. Part 3: Libraries Gave Us Power The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries| and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Nina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance. （转自mvgroup论坛）。影片主要以费里尼后期电影，如《我记得，想当年》、《卡萨诺瓦》、《月吟》等为切入点，结合片长实录、访谈、费里尼本人自述。。高哥（高捷）接到小麻花（伊能静）的电话，赶到夜市见到被揍得鼻青脸肿的扁头（林强），没动手而是找到刑警欲讨公道，却被反抓，明白自己的尴尬处境——原来“弃武从文”只会使自己更难堪。可是以前混黑社会的日子，想想得来的也只有失落。 因为不懂与时俱进，高哥显得很“可悲”，天早换成了另外的天，他却仍固守着原来的那朵云。30岁的他顾家、重情义、有思想，不想在打打杀杀中混日子，可是却无力改变环境，只能想办法适应环境，然而适应的结果，是事业与爱情的双失败。当他和小麻花、扁头在一起，能短暂放松身心，但是他们在食物链中处于相同的一环，能做的，也只是尽量要笑声持久一些。。
