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Cinema a La Carte 2A Thursday, January 9,1966 Daily Nexus □ □□□□□ ‘A Sunday in the Country’Q □ □ □ □ □ Cinema A La Carte UCSB Arts & Lectures wiU present three film series this Winter quarter: FAM ILY FILM S ON SUNDAYS, a matinee series that has become a Santa Barbara tradition; NEW DIRECTIONS IN FILM, which will be shown on i Sunday evenings; and CONTEMPORARY INDIAN CINEMA, which will screen on Thursday evenings. Showcasing the country’s recent works, CONTEMPORARY INDIAN | CINEMA opens tonight with The Festival of Fire, set in an Indian u n iversity on the day of the national spring festival. The second film , Satyajit Ray’s The H om e and the World (Jan. 16), tells a story of a both romantic and political love triangle. Face to Face (Jan. 30), examines the historical crisis in which the Communist Party of India was split. A Summons for Joshi (F eb . 6), is the story of a retired clerk who sues his landlord in a battle for human dignity The final film in the series is Wages and Profits (Feb.20), is a modern epic about urban India and a particular woman’s unintentional involvement in a social power play. NEW DIRECTIONS IN FILM offers the best of contemporary in­ ternational cinema, and begins this Sunday with a French film by Bertrand Tavernier, A Sunday in the Country. In Cammina, Cammina (Jan. 19), Italian director Ermanno Olmi recreates the journey of the magi to see the Christ Child. Ali Ozgenturk was jailed on undetermined charges while he was making the Turkish Rim, The Horse (Jan. 26), about a father and son and th eir stru ggle to em brace th eir own hum anity. Th e focus o f The Legend o f Tianyun Mountain (Feb.2), concerns the role of women in modern Chinese history. Another French film will screen February 9; Robert Bresson’s L ’Argent, based on the them e o f the pow er o f m oney protectin g the rich and destroying the poor. The Family Game (Feb. 16), is a comedy about Japan’s affluent middle class and its obsession with success and corporate identity. Diary for My Children (Feb. 23), tells the childhood story of Hungarian director Marta Meszaros. The Favorites of the Moon (Mar. 2), about an improbable group of Parisians, was made by an expatriate Georgian. The final film in the series, Russian in origin: Jazzman (Mar. 9), ponders the question: jazz can survive poverty, but can it survive politics? The FAM ILY FILMS ON SUNDAYS series begins this week as well, with The Neverending Story. This is followed on consecutive Sundays with Charlotte’s Web, Pinocchio, The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Tron, Follow that Bird, and Swiss Family Robinson. All films will screen in Campbell Hall. The matinee screenings will begin THELIN’S at 2 p.m., and all others w ill begin at 7:30p.m. Series tickets for CONTEMPORARY INDIAN CINEMA and NEW DIRECTIONS IN FILM are available now at the Arts & Lectures Ticket Office. For free brochures, or to charge series tickets by phone, call Arts & MEN’S CLOTHING Lectures at 961-3535. Single tickets will be available at the door only, one hour before showtime. BLOWOUT! □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□DO With Enemies Like This...? I had thought there was still hope for the sci-fi genre, but evidently I was wrong. How I yearn for another classic like 2001: A Space Odyssey. L a st year there was a silly attempt at the impossible, Dune. This year, it is Enemy Mine. It takes a film genius like Kubrick to make this genre work, and I thought we had one here. Along with colleagues Herzog and Fassbinder, director Wolfgang Peterson had demonstrated with his Das Boot that, German cinema was not something to be overlooked. With Enemy Mine he had the golden opportunity to use a new angle in the sci-fi realm. Here was his chance to take a more personal look at the future, and explore deeper into his character’s psyches, instead of relying on lasers and computer graphics. Most of the film takes place on a hostile volcanic planet, Fyrine IV, where earthman Davidge (weakly played by Dennis Quaid) is stranded following a fight with a Drac, one of a reptilian race fighting with us humans over territorial claims. Davidge meets up with this Drac (Lou Gossett, Jr.), and their initial feuding gives way to the understanding that they need each other to keep their sanity and to survive. The world they’re in, of course, is prone to meteor showers and is laden with nasty “ unfriendlies.” The most interesting feature of the film is Gossett Jr.’s performance. What he describes as “ part lizard, kangaroo, bird, dog, and a little bit of Stevie Wonder” is the result of months of studying animal behavior and movements. The “ mask” he wears is in fact layers of prosthetics which allow all the muscular actions of his face to show through. His acting is excellent despite all the costuming, and his animal mimickry brings to mind the remarkable performance of Roddy McDowell in the Planet of the Apes series. Still, the script is pretty thin for what it could be, and the plot is as (See ENEMY, p.7A) Daily Nexus Thursday, January 9,1986 3 A UCSB ARTS & LECTURES WINTER EVENTS 1986 CALENDAR OF EVENTS FESTIVAL OF FIRE film Contemporary Indian Cinema begins tonight at 7:30 PM in Campbell Hall. LESLIE THORNTON lecture & film s Discussion and screening of her films Jennifer, Where Are You and Adynata: Murder Is Not a Story and Peggy and Fred in H e ll on Friday, January 10at 8 PM in the Isla Vista Theater # 2. Free. THE NEVERENDING STORY film Family Films on Sundays begins on Sunday, January 12 at 2 PM in Campbell Hall. Even the stage names of the dancers lampoon the ballet world with its endless procession of A SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY Russian émigrés and titled peers. Gracing the roster film of talent in Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo New Directions in Film begins on are Tamara Boumdiyeva, Igor Teupleze, the Legupski Sunday, January 12 at 7:30 PM in Brothers, and Dame Margaret Lowin-Octeyn (not to Campbell Hall. mention Tatiana Y ou betyabootskaya). ~ A highlight of both evening performances is FOOLSFIRE th e a te r a Trocks trademark, The Dying Swan. Writes the In The Alchemedians, a zany show by Tracks’ dance historian about this piece: “ Fokine Bob Berky and Michael Moschen on had little notion when he created his solo for Anna Tuesday, January 14 at 8 PM in Pavlova in 1905 that it would become... perhaps Campbell Hall. the most famous solo in ballet. Now, the Trocks offer their own distinctive interpretation of the termi­ DETLEV NEUFERT nal fowl.” lecture & film Lecture and screening of his film Take Away the N igh t on Thursday, January 16 at 3:30 PM in Girvetz 1004. Free. BISHOP DESMOND TUTU Arts & Lectures, together with numerous other THE HOME AND THE WORLD campus and community organizations, presents an film afternoon with Nobel Peace Laureate Bishop Contemporary Indian Cinema Desmond Tutu on Tuesday, January 21 at 4 PM in continues on Thursday, January 16 at the Events Center. 7:30 PM in Campbell Hall. The Anglican bishop of Johannesburg and an CHARLOTTE’S WEB film F oolsfire important South African anti-apartheid leader, Bishop Desmond Tutu champions the cause of black Family Films on Sundays continues South Africans and rings clear warnings against on Sunday, January 19 at 2 PM in “The show has no dialogue," Berky gently FOOLSFIRE: EXPERIMENTAL TREATER government oppression. International recognition of Campbell Hall. explains. “ Remember? We’re mimes." BRINGS PROVEN LAUGHTER his work includes the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. FOOLSFIRE will be in residence at UCSB Jan­ CAMMINA CAMMINA film Tutu speaks not only about the conditions in Coming to Campbell Hall on Tuesday, January uary 13-15. Watch for announcements about free New Directions in Film continues on South Africa; he also speaks to our own situation 14 is one of the zaniest contemporary experimental residency activities. (Please note: Section II seats Sunday, January 19 at 7:30 PM in as Americans who are part of the world community. theater events yet with FOOLSFIRE in The for FOOLSFIRE are already sold out.) Campbell Hall. Alchemedians. “The moral imperative is for you to take action so Clown Bob Berky and mime Michael Moschen that tomorrow, when we are free, we will know that BISHOP DESMOND TUTU make up the daffy duo of FOOLSFIRE, an Obie you were our friends," he has stated. lecture BALLETS “TROCKS” RETURN Award-winning act that has deployed these two Parking for Bishop Tutu’s presentation will be An afternoon with the Nobel Peace street-theater virtuosi onto the stages of Lincoln, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the available at Sterke Field only; those attending should Laureate on Tuesday, January 21 at Center and into the hearts of numerous prestigious fabulously funny “Tracks,” return to Campbell Hall plan to arrive at the Events Center no later than 3 PM. 4 PM in the Events Center. American theater seasons. Referred to in Am erican for their fourth visit on Wednesday, January 22 and Theatre as “acrobats of the soul,” FOOLSFIRE is Thursday, January 23 at 8 PM. The Tracks perform JULIA O’FAOLAIN p o e try often called part of the “ new vaudeville," a term classical and modern ballet favorites with one dis­ WINTER FILM SERIES A reading on Wednesday, Janaury 22 that has come to include jugglers, mimes, physical tinct difference: the Tracks are an all-male company.
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