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Thursday, June 23, 1988
The Red and Black
After Hours
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A Critical Guide
MOVIES ON CAMPUS
June 23 From Russia Willi Love.
Sean Connery in an action-packed
Bond flick June 24 and 25 Little
Shop of Horrors. Hick Moranis,
Ellen Greene. Steve Martin, Audrey
II and the Rondettes are back
Great music, great performances,
great everything June 26 Closely
Watched Trains. Oscar-winning for
eign film dealing with an adoles
cent's coming of age
MOVIES IN TOWN
Alps llairspray. John Water’s
(gasp) mainstream comedy is an
affectionate ode to the '60s
Classic Triple Colors. Violent and
plodding gang-war drama. Red
Meat. Schwarzenegger and Belushi
in a “48 Hours'' clone Poltergeist
III. For better or worse, they’re
back.
Georgia Carafe and Draft: Biloxi
Blues. Winning bootcamp comedy
with Matthew Broderick
Georgia Square: Big. Smart role-re
versal comedy starring Tom Hanks.
Hanks is indeed impressive, but it’s
Elizabeth Perkins as the love in
terest who swipes the film. Big
Business. Surprisingly stale comedy
from Touchstone. Bette Midler and
Lily Tomlin star as two sets of
twins. Willow. Ron Howard directed
and George Lucas produced this
fantasy/adventure that’s great for
kids, but sluggish for adults. Bull
Durham. Sexy, romantic, funny and
surprisingly effective. Kevin
Costner and Susan Sarandon are
both excellent as a baseball player
and the groupie who lusts for him.
Funny Farm. Chevy Chase and wife
move to the country. Crocodile
Dundee II. Harmless sequel, but so
rely lacking the original’s wit and
whimsy. Kambo III. Who Framed
Roger Rabbit. Disney fare combinig
animation and live action. Beetle-
juice. Visually pleasing, but this
oddball comic offering just doesn’t
offer enough laughs
LeFont: The Presidio. Actioner with
Sean Connery, Mark Harmon and
the sexy Meg Ryan Aria. The Great
Outdoors. Dan Akroyd and John
Candy in a comedy sounding suspi
ciously like “Plains, Trains and Au
tomobiles.” White Mischief. Greta
Scacchi and Sarah Miles in a tale of
betrayal, sex and murder.
VIDEO
New releases:
Overboard. Winning romantic
comedy with Goldie Hawn and Kurt
Russell.
Julia and Julia. Confusing time-
travel film with Kathleen Turner,
Gabriel Byrne and Sting.
Ironweed. Depressing drama about
skid-row drunks. Meryl Streep and
Jack Nicholson were Oscar-nomi
nated for their performances.
The Couch Trip. Dan Akroyd and
Charles Grodin in a familiar but
pleasing story of a madman posing
as a psychiatrist.
Pick of the Week:
Nuts. Dazzling courtroom drama
with Barbara Streisand and
Richard Dreyfuss. Babs stars as a
high-priced hooker who’s on trial to
determine whether she's fit to go on
trial for the murder of a customer.
Reviews.
House of Games. David Mamet di
rected this fascinating psycholog
ical drama about a woman
psychiatrist drawn to bunch of con
men. Lindsay Crouse and Joe Man
tegna star. Filled with the quintes
sential strong Mamet dialogue and
lots of twists and turns.
Weeds. Imbecilic drama of prison
inmates who get released from jail
and travel around the country put
ting on performances of a play
written by convict-turned-play
wright Nick Nolte . If you believe
this you must still believe in the
Easter Bunny.
—Jim Farmer
MUSIC AROUND TOWN
40 Watt - June 23: Gravity Creeps.
June 24 Hillbilly Frankenstein.
June 25: Blue Wail. June 27: Dance
Party with Michael Lachowski.
June 28: Vic Chestnutt and Friends.
June29: Wheel O' Cheese.
Uptown Lounge June 23 Agitpop
will open for jangle/folk band Cu
cumbers. June 24 Ruben Kincaid
opens for those crazy guys with gi
gantic hats They Might Be Giants.
June 25: Strawberry Flats playing
old covers. June 27: Another retro
night with Widespread Panic. June
28: Bolt Upright.
Rockfish Palace - June 23-29: Call
549-0624 for information.
Unitarian Universalist Church
June 24: Vic Chestnutt will play
original acoustic songs from 8 p.m.
to 10 p.m. Edward Hunter. George
Norman and Pat Shields open with
New England fiddle tunes.
ART
Athens Area Art Gallery: Impres
sionistic paintings by Flo Gross,
closing June 30.
The Downstairs Art Gallery: Art
works by Mindy Pfeffer. mixed
media and installations.
Georgia Museum of Art: “Images
of 1930’s.” “WPA Prints, and The
'30s Reviewed: American Paint
ings, Watercolors, Drawings and
Prints," closing July 17.
State Botanical Garden/Conserva
tory: “Living Waters,” watercolors
by Bev Williams, closing June 30.
The Strand Haircutting Gallery:
Recent works by Cindy Clarke.
UGA Tate Center Art Gallery:
Sculpture and silversmith works by
Sharon Crisman and Adam Lieber-
man.closing July 5.
—Cara May
Local musician Vic Chestnutt performs Friday
Next Tuesday, June 28- LUNCH AND LEARN SERIES
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4 Aria’ mixes romance, opera
A review of "Aria," starring Buck
Henry, Beverly D'Angelo, Anita
Morris and Brigitte Fonda. Di
rected by Jean-Luc Godard,
Robert Altman, Ken Russell,
Bruce Beresford, Nicholas Roeg,
Bill Bryden, Derek Jarman,
Franc Rodam, Charles Sturridge
and Julien Temple. A Miramax
Films release. Now playing at Le
Font.
By Jim Farmer
Ked and Black Staff Writer
“Aria" is an uneven but fre
quently fascinating amalgam of
opera and pure eroticism.
Directed by 10 different direc
tors, who are given their own seg
ment to produce, “Aria” is an
odyssey quite unlike anything
you’ve ever seen.
Each of the pieces deals with
the theme of opera Opening the
film is a segment by Nicholas
Roeg. Theresa Russell, the direc
tor’s wife, stars as King Zog, the
real-life Albanian leader who was
almost assassinated while at
tending an opera. Unfortunately,
it’s strangely remote and silly and
suffers by the usage of Russell (in
drag) as the king.
But the goings-on get better. Ju
lian Temple, who directed the un-
derseen gem of a musical
“Absolute Beginners,” combines
sexiness with a comic playfulness
in his piece. A woman (Anita
Morris) pretends to be sick, only
to jump into the arms of her lover.
Her husband (Buck Henry) isn’t
too remorseful; supposedly off
shooting a movie, he's in the arms
of a Swedish bombshell (Beverly
D’Angelo).
Three segments are powerfully
erotic. Jean-Luc Godard combines
naked girls and weightlifting studs
in a gym for a sensual vision, and
Bruce Beresford delivers with a
short scene of a couple making
love amidst a plaintive environ
ment.
The most arousing is Franc
Roddam's, detailing the suicide of
a couple after they’ve made love.
Surprisingly, this episode, despite
its soft-core pom, is beautiful and
quite romantic.
Ken Russell, who can never be
accused of being boring or
uninspired, deals trashily but win-
ningly with the surreal dreams of
a car-crash victim.
The worst is Robert Altman’s.
Comprised of an 18th century au
dience interacting before a perfor
mance, it makes little sense and is
hopelessly dull Little also comes
from Charles Sturridge, who deals
unsuccessfully with two children
who steal a car, and Bill Bryden,
whose segment with John Hurt as
an actor is a snoozer.
Compilation films rarely work,
and "Aria’’ certainly isn’t a bona-
fide smash. But the good parts
compensate for the weak, and
where else on Earth could you
possibly see Russell, Godard,
Roeg, et. al., on the same ticket?
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UGA Today
Hr assertive
There will be a Lunch and Learn series June 29 from 12:05 to 1:15
p.m in Room 119 of Clark Howell Hall dealing with being assertive.
This event is sponsored by the Counseling and Testing Center For
more information call 542-3183.
(.offee. anyone?
An International Coffee Hour will take place Friday. June 24 from
11:30 to 1:30 p m in Memorial Hall ballroom The event is open to al)
students. American and foreign
Support Group meets
The Athens Area Arthritis Support Group will meet at Holy Cross
Lutheran Church June 28 at 10 a m All interested persons are invited to
attend For more information call 769-5348
Clinic of fered
The University’s Learning Disabilities Adult Clinic is currently pro
viding support for students with learning disabilities. For more infor
mation call 542-4591 or 542-4596
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