近年科学界、出版界,与纪录片频道打龙通,推出“没有人的地球”末世想像。来自奥地利的葛哈特大概认为电视太细、CG 太假,讨论太消费浅薄,于是以在地真实拍摄,体现心中的荒凉情状。起点是日本,先叫我们一起沉思福岛──仓促撤出后的办公室、公园、学校、商店,又定又长的镜头,风雨光暗下阅读和感受。大不同你在荷里活大片碰到的新巴洛克式人工破坏,反击其实是大自然。视觉慢慢抵达未来,文明的颓垣败瓦,不在问:人类哪里去了?而是问:我们究竟走到哪个地步啊?。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)。24年前意外致家庭破碎,谢大龙与谢小虎两兄弟因误会而分离,如今将在擂台上重逢。他们一个为了拯救陌生小女孩的母亲,一个为了给患病的父亲争取一线生机,各自踏上格斗大赛的征程。当亲情与责任交织,当过往的怨恨遇上现时的大爱,他们会如何抉择?。