　　Frank Lloyd Wright is America's greatest-ever architect. However, few people know about the Welsh roots that shaped his life and world-famous buildings. Now, leading Welsh architect Jonathan Adams sets off across America to explore Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpieces for himself. Along the way, he uncovers the tempestuous life story of the man behind them and the significance of his radical family background.
　　In a career spanning seven decades, Frank Lloyd Wright built over 500 buildings, and changed the face of modern architecture: Fallingwater, the house over the waterfall, has been called the greatest house of the 20th century; the spiralling Guggenheim Museum in New York reinvented the art museum; the concrete Unity Temple was the first truly modern building in the world. But the underlying philosophy that links all Wright's buildings is as important as anything he built.
　　Those ideas were rooted in the Unitarian religion of Frank Lloyd Wright's mother. Anna Lloyd Jones was born and raised near Llandysul in west Wales and migrated to America with her family in 1844, most likely to escape religious persecution. Her son, Frank, was raised in a Unitarian community in Wisconsin, a small piece of Wales in America. The values he absorbed there were based on the sanctity of nature, the importance of hard work, and the need to question convention and defy it where necessary. Wright's architecture was shaped by, and expressed, these beliefs.
　　Frank Lloyd Wright set out to create a new American architecture for a new country. He built his own lifelong home in the valley he was raised in, and he named it after an ancient Welsh bard called Taliesin. It was the scene of many adventures - and a horrific crime. In 1914, a servant at Taliesin ran amok and killed seven people including Wright's partner, Mamah Cheney, and her two young children.
　　Wright rebuilt his home and went on to marry a Montenegrin woman, Olgivanna Milanoff, some 30 years younger than him. It was Olgivanna who struck upon the idea that saved Wright's career after the Wall Street Crash and personal scandal laid it low. She decided that her husband should take on apprentices and that the apprentices should pay for the privilege. The Taliesin Fellowship had a hands-on approach, with apprentices often building extensions to Wright's own houses, labouring and cooking for him. Somehow it worked, lasting for decades and nurturing hundreds of young talents.
　　Frank Lloyd Wright died in 1959 aged 91 while working on his final masterpiece, New York's incomparable Guggenheim Museum. He had been born in the wake of the American civil war, the son of a pioneer, and died a television celebrity, in the space age. He is buried in the shadow of Taliesin, alongside his Welsh ancestors.
　　A 150 years after his birth, Jonathan Adams argues that Frank Lloyd Wright is now a vitally important figure who can teach us how to build for a better world. Wright believed in what he called organic architecture; buildings that grace the landscape, express an idea of how to live and respond to individual needs. This bespoke approach - a philosophy, not a style - puts him at the heart of modern architectural thinking.

3060

2017

弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特：建筑美国之人

主演：Jonathan Adams

主演：阮安妮,張芳遠,張芳華,嘉義新麗美歌劇團

简介：

　　漂流是安妮的命运，十年越南清化放牛的小孩，十年河内国家马戏团明星，十年台湾野台戏班当家花旦，然而，来台湾这趟路却说不清是悲？是喜？新住民和野台戏在台湾，同属社会边缘的边缘，安妮却依然不放弃追寻梦想。

994

2016

神戏

主演：阮安妮,張芳遠,張芳華,嘉義新麗美歌劇團

主演：Katharina Schüttler,Maximilian Brückner,Margarete Tiesel

简介：

　　《克拉拉傳》，克拉拉是德國第一位化學女博士，嫁給的丈夫弗裡茨哈珀是德國著名的化學家，氮肥之父➕一戰化學戰之父。因為氮肥獲得諾貝爾化學獎，但因為研製了N多化學武器被詬病，後來也由於他猶太人身份被德國驅逐，一些親人也死于他發明的化學武器。這是他第一任妻子的傳記片，或者代表他曾經有過的良知，良知死去了，片中的兒子後來也死於自殺。女主演的不錯，是《我們的父輩》裡那位女演員。

1350

2014

克拉拉傳

主演：Katharina Schüttler,Maximilian Brückner,Margarete Tiesel

　　A year in the life of a dying shopping mall.

主演：林靖杰,小野,王小棣,李烈,戴立忍,易智言,陈玉勋,钮承泽,钟孟宏,林强,赵德胤,蔡明亮,侯孝贤,张艾嘉,闻天祥,林正盛,叶如芬,朱延平,郑文堂,周美玲,蓝祖蔚,吴乙峰,秦鼎昌,魏德圣,林书宇,郑有杰,李光爵,蔡岳勋,王师,齐柏林,杨力州 ,陈芯宜,黄茂昌,李中,程伟豪

简介：

　　《白鴿計畫：台灣新電影二十年》蕭菊貞受釜山影展20週年特別企劃「紀錄片系列專題—亞洲電影的力量」之託，拍攝本片紀錄自台片票房復興，台灣電影工作者所面臨的困難，藉由一段段與台灣導演的訪談，爬梳台灣電影中所反映的社會脈動以及「國族認同」議題。
　　透過訪問導演、製片等電影各界人士，形塑出現今台灣電影的嶄新樣貌，更一窺電影從業人員對於電影的肺腑之言。另一方面，隨時代演變，觀眾對於台灣的想像日漸擴展，這片土地的觀眾似乎湧起一股渴求，希望看到與自身環境及土地相互連結的電影。對於這股新趨勢，身處新世代的導演們又將會如何應對？

　　从冰冻极地到热带雨林，认识自然界最迷人的巨兽，它们证明了庞大体型也会带来巨大挑战。

主演：Karen Mason,Barry Mason,瑞秋·梅森,Josh Mason,Micah Mason,Alexei Romanoff,Billy Miller,Don Norman,Freddie Bercovitz,Paulo Morillo,Ellen Winer,拉里·弗林特,David Gregory,Fernando Aguilar,Alaska Thunderfuck

简介：

　　In 1976, Karen and Barry Mason had fallen on hard times and were looking for a way to support their young family when they answered an ad in the Los Angeles Times. Larry Flynt was seeking distributors for Hustler Magazine. What was expected to be a brief sideline led to their becoming fully immersed in the LGBT community as they took over a local store, Circus of Books. A decade later, they had become the biggest distributors of gay porn in the US.
　　The film focuses on the double life they led, trying to maintain the balance of being parents at a time when LGBT culture was not yet accepted. Their many challenges included facing jail time for a federal obscenity prosecution and enabling their store to be a place of refuge at the height of the AIDS crisis.
　　Circus of Books offers a rare glimpse into an untold chapter of queer history, and it is told through the lense of the owners' own daughter, Rachel Mason, an artist, filmmaker and musician.

2004

2019

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