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Associated Students PROGRAM BOARD presents The Sound of Loss Peter Kater/R. Carlos Nakai How The West Was Lost TOMORROW VoL 2 Silver Wave @ NOON Native American flutes, drums, rattles and an eagle bone whistle come together in harmony with European instruments to create the music on the second volume of the V o o d o o soundtrack to the Discov­ ery Channel’s miniseries “How The West Was Lost” D a d d y z The Peter Kater com­ positions, released earlier this year, are mostly in­ note to note in a whimsical ters in a Native American FREE IN STORKE PLAZA! strumental. Some do fea­ fashion. language over the soft ture beautiful vocals, in­ The mood of the album flutes and drums of “Chief cluding those by Native is altered, however, when Ouray's Death Song.” His American songstress the listener encounters message and somber Joanne Shenandoah. “Landscape of War.” The mood transcend the THIS SATURDAY As the solo voice on “In­ composition is quite un­ tongue in which it is spo­ dian Territory,” a compos­ suited to the feeling the al­ ken, and communicate February 25th ition of just under two mi­ bum evokes. It is here that well. nutes, Shenandoah’s voc­ Western synthesizers and How The West Was als echo over drums and snare drums take away Lost concludes the way it synthesizers to create a from the indigenous opened, with Shenandoah dreamlike atmosphere. sounds, moving the music ooh-ing over soft synthe­ in Campbell Hall “Challenge at White toward ’80s television sizer chords and a gentle River” is an emotional drama land with a track piano solo. The music for duet between a piano and more suited to a car chase the miniseries is beautiful, a native wooden flute. The scene from “Magnum P.I.” and if the listener is open piano is the driving force than for background to the sounds, they will of the song, pushing the music to an austere cul­ create striking visuals for music forward, while the tural documentary. the imagination. flute lightly ¿ides from Vocalist Chris White ut­ —M. Jolie Lash

after There’s been a re­ surgence of a certain comic-book style over the past few years and it’s been mainly due to the work of one pair of creators. The style is Western and the men responsible have been Joe Lansdale and Tix still Available! _ _ ^ Tim Truman. General seating - Doors open X'wsgv Almost two years ago, _____ ^ ^ A j \ J the pair shocked readers @ 8 pm with their five-part series, Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo, which blended a with special guest tough-as-nails Southern gunfighter against a travel­ ing snake-oil salesman and his troop of zombies. J k i ^ w n s ’.' a i n i The comic was an excel­ Q ilr^ ^ r a lnu IqÆk ILg> lent mix of Old West and horror, Truman’s art and Lansdale’s witty plot and dialogue. It was a realistic depiction of the time... ex­ All Tickets are available at the A .S . Ticket Office, cept for the zombies. on the 3rd floor of the UCen, or charge by phone: 893-2064. Truman and Landsdale then went on to produce last year’s Lone Ranger Grupo Folklórico and Tonto, but now have returned to the character Raíces De Mi Tierra that started the ball roll­ ing, with Jonah Hex: Rid­ presents ers of the Worm and Such. Hex is a confederate of­ ficer who, after the war, spends time as a bounty hunter, at least when he isn’t being pursued by even if it weren’t all your natural in the mix, which ("TREASURES OF OUR CULTURE") trouble. Hex is easily rec­ fault and them folks comes in the form of giant ognizable because of a ter­ needed holes in ’em any­ worms living underneath rible scar down one side of way. It saddened me to see the prairies of the Texas Campbell Hall his fiice, and by his bright what Texas was cornin’ to Panhandle. The worms red eye. He always seems ... gettin’ so danged civil­ have been living under the March 4 to have some interesting ized and all.” earth for centuries and quip to explain what hap­ The story begins with have decided to come up Doors open @ 6 pm pened to him; “My mother Hex on the run from to the surface to get them­ $8 stu. / $10 gen. kissed me too hard” or bounty hunters, due to tile selves a little snack. “My toothpick slipped,” aforementioned incident Lansdale brings out the For tickets & info. - Call the Chicano/Latin but mostly Hex is a likable They catch up to him, but characters of the Old West character due to his have a little trouble bring­ with amusing results, E.O.P. office at 893-4040 cactus-like wit, supplied ing him in. After dealing while Truman keeps a Still Accepting Artworks for this year s Extravaganza. by Lansdale. with the situation, Hex Western feel in his art and Interested in getting a free T-shirt and lots of Posters? “Times is changin’,” runs into some fellow keeps the details as close Hexsays. “These days,you travelers, one of whom to reality as possible. It’s Then Submit & be in Awe at your art on the backs of shoot a bunch of bullies all closely resembles the out­ obvious that with two eople you know and don't. It's Funl Try It! More 411 - j to pieces and seta town on law, Billy the Kid. Old-West successes under Call 893-3536- Peace! fire, the law takes it It wouldn’t be a Truman their belt, this pair of crea­ personal-like. Law wants and Lansdale story with­ tors are on to their third. *0 you to pay for them killin’s out something a bit super­ —Matt Nelson Daily Nexus Thursday, February 23,1995 3 A

Tricky^ B o n a n z a ! A fterm ath and Ponderosa 4th & B’way There is a remix on Tricky’s single A fterm ath that is parenthetically known as the "Hip Hop Blues” mix. That is as good a description as any of what TTicky — the man and his “band” — do. Imagine being a 26-year-old Black man growing up in a part of Bristol, England known as the “Bristol Bronx,” raised "Smart, jazz-laced hip-hop. by a rather old-fashioned Never self conscious." grandmother and getting — Rolling Stone into music at an early age, BLOWOUT COMB as well as alcohol, mari­ W ith Blowout Comb, juana and acid. more eerie and strange like all Tricky releases, it’s Digable Planets continue to than ever before. It has to pretty hard to find. Imagine at age 19 get­ grow on the promise of their ting involved with a bunch be said that they recorded Sometime this month, of young, wild musicians stoned out of their minds. Tricky will be releasing a debutalbum Reachin'(A New of a similar age who The remixes on Ponder- debut album, Maxin- Refutation of Time ^ pursued music and drugs osa were more creative, as quaye. It remains to be and Space). p-. ) with equal abandon. Ima­ well, than the ones on A f­ seen if they will be her­ gine being a part of the term ath. There were com­ alded as the “new sound of group that created Mas­ pletely funked-up disco acid jazz,” as so many peo­ sive Attack’s influential mixes of “Ponderosa” by ple would like to assume and critically acclaimed Dobie, and a monotonous, of Massive Attack, or if debut album, Blue Lines, ambient “Terrorists Power they’ll be taken up as the in 1991. Underground Club Mix,” by the Ultra- next Portishead. Triclqr, heroes, all of them. magnetic MCs. the man, has always been In 1993, Tricky (the very mysterious about his band) released its debut S ince Ponderosa, music. single, Afterm ath. It was a Tricky has released a new “Basically, it’s music slow concoction of low- single on 4th and B’Way, you can do whatever you down bass, a sampled called Overcome. It’s a want to,” he says. “If you garage-blues guitar riff and Tricky cover of “Karma- want to dance to it, go a shuffling backbeat with coma,” one of the songs he ahead. I’d like to see you the pulse of the streets. contributed to the new try. If you want to sit m a And it boasted the voice of Massive Attack album, darkened room and let it Martina, an 18-year-old and it features vocals by fill your head with strange student who has since be­ Martina. I’ve heard it’s dis­ thoughts, that’s fine.” come, with Tricky (the turbingly beautiful, but, —Mix. E man), a core member of Tricky (the band). It was like the cool jazz of Portis- head, crossed with the messy blues of Tom Waits. (Of course, to be fair, at this time Portishead had not even recorded an al­ bum yet — they were only a glimmer in Geoff Bar- row’s eye.) Afterm ath did not see release here in the States until 1994, and by that time, Tricky had recorded another single. Ponderosa upped the ante and pushed the envelope even further. Martina’s sensual Spearhead is a San Fran­ murmur had become more ■ SPEARHEAD visceral, along with Hom e cisco based seven member Tricky’s parenthetical group and the brainchild of mutters, groans and pioneering rapper/vocalist asides, creating something Michael Franti. As an artist and activist, Franti has cre­ ated his own brand of social­ ly engaging soul-based hip hop. Spearhead's musicand KCSB 9 1 . 9 FM new album Home j crosses g m Top records of the Week boundaries and cultures.

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The first song is “Seventeen,” which sounds to me like Here we go: the song Pearl Jam thought to be too terrible to put on I promise to say these two things only once: I got this Ten. (I won’t be reviewing that anytime soon.) The angst- column-type thing because I asked, and I got my other youth-frustration motif runs deep for much of the album. job, copy editor for your Daily Nexus, for essentially the But if this isn’t your favorite lyrical style — and it sure same reason. I'm here because every time this is pub­ isn’t mine — the irresistible combo of Butler’s voice, lished, I want to try to write something interesting and beautifully designed music and the fact that the lyrics are different, encasing my attempt in a (slightly slanted) re­ universal, even to an angstless pseudo-intellectual guy view of an album special enough to be deemed one of like myself, make the album worthy. “James’z Favorites.” However, “Seventeen” becomes a true introduction to The album found here won’t always be as recent as this the album. In spite of its chorus, “17 — cannot see / I one, butsince Love Spit Love has made such an impress­ can’t believe it’s been so long /1 7 —follow me,” the rest ion on me in the three weeks I’ve owned it, I’m sure it will of the lyrics are filled with compelling imagery and intel­ remain with me indefinitely. I didn’t dig this album when lect and are characteristic of Butler’s style, like a veteran I first listened to it, so if you pick it up, I recommend sit­ of the wars of maturity versus life. ting down with it once and then coming back to it after “Seventeen” also gives the listener an impression of doing the dishes and watching Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. the music on the album. The song includes a quirky shrill Or something. note at the very start, which then chums itself into crash­ Love Spit Love is the new band put together by Ri­ ing guitars, Richard jumping intoja falsetto for the bridge, chard Butler, who likewise led and wrote the words for and a suddenly light and pop-like arrangement of words that I forget.” And then the guitar layers come tiie Psychedelic Furs. (Vknow, “Ghost in You” (she stripped-down guitar and open hi-hat during me chorus. crashing in to accent his fury, as he screams, “And it don’t fade), “Love My Way” (it’s a new rooo-ooom), and In short, the music on the whole album is not only un­ would be so easy / if I could be there — right now!” John Hughes’ grossly misinterpreted “Pretty in Pink” predictable from song to song, but w ithin each song. The rest of the songs contain simple but vivid, meta­ (Isn’t the ...).) I bought the album because I’d heard The third track is by far my persona] favorite, the kind phorical lines like “You know it’s me that picks you up / some acoustic versions of its first singles on 91X last of song I could listen to until my roommate was blue in You know it’s me that puts you down” on “Change in the summer, and because Richard’s voice is so amazingly the face. It was also one of the three songs played on 91X, Weather” and “Don’t make promises that don’t mean distinctive and evocative. called “Half a Life.” Whenever Richard sings these anything / Wake up, it’s light out, honestly” on “Wake Also in for this strangely unique and truly alternative words, it’s as if he’s summing up everything he’s been Up.” Both songs feature odd feedback loops and con­ rock music are Butler’s brother Tim on bass, Richard through so far, and that it simply hasn’t been enough: “I trast sharply with “Am I Wrong,” Love Spit Love’s most Fortus imitating Knox Chandler on guitar and other str­ hear the lies blowing through my teeth / and at my back, I radio-friendly song. And it’s no question why — lines can feel you breathe,” he monotones in his baritone, like “When I break, I wish no one in my place” and the moving on to “there for no one / there for change / no chorus refrain of “good-bye, lay the blame on luck” show a high point in the band’s songwriting, and the music is "So this is a favorite of mine perfect, intelligent pop. But tiie album’s crowning musical achievement is “St. for its variety, consistency and Maiy*s Gate” (can there be a more obviously English Richard Butler's voice. (Aaah, song title?). This track, the last before the album-closing if only he were a woman!)" “More,” alternates between stripped-down rock, peace­ ful melodies from Fortus’ electnc guitar and oigan, and good reason / no one came ... half a life.” luxuriously crafted orchestral arrangements. There is a Now, even a happy-go-lucky guy like me could come series of no less than three melodies of different layers of closer to depression after this song, were it not for the instruments played one after another in an extended solo music. Fortus gives skillful, tense mandolin strumming block, before coming back to the acoustic theme set up throughout, and even the cymbals sound plaintive. All in by Fortus and winding down with the album. all, the song reminds me of sensual sex outside at sunrise. The oddity of the album is found in “Jigsaw,” opening So this is a favorite of mine for its variety, consistency with a German sample of a fliigelhom oom-pah-pahing, and Richard Butler’s voice. (Aaah, if he were only a wo- and then a kazoo! One may wonder if these guys are try­ mant) If you’re into this sort of tiring, the richness also ing to be weird. But then Richard starts up in belated an­ found in pood Tears for Fears, R.E.M. and XTC, and you ger at a relationship: “I’ve got to get this crossword done see verisimilitude in the lyrics, some Love Spit Love of everything you said / all the one-way conversations, could be your cold cup of tea. Some Personal Favorites I have some strong opinions about music. For in­ to 20 songs, each is worthy of its own individual praise. The Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique. The Beastie Boys stance, MTV Buzz Clips can be immediately discounted “Eye Know” is the first intelligent rap love song. This al­ are hip-hop revolutionaries. This album showed for the as bad, almost without exception. As a rule, I stay away bum contains tiie first use of some later widely used sam­ first time what was really possible with sampling. P aul’s from bands that have one-syllable, one-word names ples. And tiie beats, oh the beats! Boutique is one of the most underrated ¿bums of all (Bush, Prick, Yes, Rush, Sponge). I also tiy to avoid all time. It is a maze of funk and humor capable of shakin’ bands with “box” in their names (Candlebox, Hammer- your rump. box, Anything Box, Living in a Box) except Jawbox. So, I Yo La Tengo’s Fakebook. Singer/guitarist Ira Kaplan just thought I’d share what are my favorite albums right has no problem with putting beautiful 10-minute solos now. Here they are, in no particular order all over his songs. “Can’t Forget” and “Bamaby, Hardly American Music Club’s Everclear. This is a dark, Working” are mournful, weeping epics that conjure im­ beautiful collection of songs, with each one exposing a ages of vast, rainy landscapes. new element of the human psyche. When singer/ Rites of Spring’s End on End. Band leader Guy Pic-

The Spinanes’ M anos. Singer/guitarist Rebecca Gates’ gentle whisper of a voice and her self-invented chords just sound right. Drummer Scott Plouf plays hard and solid, providing the twosome all it redly needs. “Epiphany" is one of he most beautiful songs I’ve heard. Drive Like Jehu’s self-titled debut Guitarist John “Speedo” Reis is a riff machine, pounding your face with his Les Paul. Pushing the limits of punk music, D rive songwriter Mark Eitzel sings, “I wake up still walking in Like Jehu is harder and more strangely melodic than I ciotto, now a member of Fugazi, expands punk’s defini­ my sleep,” on “Sick of Food,” I shiver with goose bumps. ever thought possible. Songs like “Caress” and “If It Kills tion on End on End. The songs had such feeling for him Something new pops up every time I listen to Everclear’s You” are infinitely intense yet still listenable. that he often cried while singing them. But bear in mind sad majesty. The Swirlies’ What to Do About Them. This album that these are punk songs, punk songs that effectively De La Soul’s Three Feet High and Rising. Here De La has its own elusive mood. It sounds like a noisy sleep. and honestly express anger. Soul has created a unique style of rhyme where not ev­ “Sara Sitting” and “Cousteau” are so catchy that they erything makes perfect sense the first time. Of the close must be fought out of your head. ______—Noah Blumberg ARTS WEEKARTS WEEKARTS WEEK Daily Nexus Thursday, February 23,1995 5 A On the Threshold Spinning Glass What should I expect from a first novel because its surrealness would sound ridi­ Threshold by a film and home video critic? Rants ab­ culous unless experienced in the first per­ Mad One out an unfeeling community stifling the son. I can say that Lucas manages to in­ artistic dreams of filmmakers, or perhaps clude discourses on the meaning of fidel­ It seems that today's po­ a little T Sc A, judging from the none-too- ity, fetishes and their morality, and their pular music climate has subtle title and cover? Well, I got a little purpose of war in modem society, all created a boom for inde­ bit of both from Throat Sprockets, named pointing toward the act of “sprocketing” pendent labels. The lines for an almost mystical film that becomes a itself (and yes, “safe sprocketing” is prac­ are being blurred — labels cult phenomenon. Actually, the book de­ ticed in this novel). His eye for odd little like Caroline, Sub Pop, als with the many shapes of madness as­ details does give us, tritely enough, a cine­ Matador, American and sociated with obsession, using the film matographers viewpoint into our name­ Vernon Yard aren’t quite medium and yes, vampirism, to take that less narrator’s obsession. indies, but they aren’t emotion to higher levels. Throat Sprockets was intended to be a quite the major labels. And Books have been written (and films graphic novel, part of which made it into the increase in total num­ ber of imprints makes it ea­ sier for something brand- toms, beware of ghosts “More,” really showcases new. Strangely enough, in and hike me again” estab­ her voice. “More” begins these times of plenty, an lish a complexity that is with a light twinkling of independent pop band is rarely seen. The sharp im­ keyboards with a funky still hard to find, so I’m agery of the “run of water, dance beat that sets up her happy that bands like the birth of a scene, the lush voice. She sings out to Spinning Glass exist. color red” maintains a lover in the crowd of a Spinning Glass is a local mysteiy. perfect night. It feels like band comprised of singers Fischer continues to see an old pop song from the Jill Fischer, Bart Grady, red in “Red Skies,” which ’80s but sounds new and Jenn Jaffe, Wendy Werges begins with a classic key­ original with its echoes of and musician Paul Ardoin. board and dance beat. Sne jazz and blues. The best The singers swap lead voc­ wraps her voice around song is “Double Line,” a als while singing harmony the music until the instru­ six-minute epic ballad that and backing for each ments get coy and begin to consists mostly of a piano other, accompanied by a sneak in littie solos. The with occasional keyboard myriad of keyboards, song starts with a red dress glimmer. Jaffe uses her drums, bass, guitars and and soon progresses to the beautiful voice to chroni­ piano arranged by Ardoin. “sorrow of the day.” cle the search for direction While following the The haunting mood in life. convention of singing ab­ continues with “Into Threshold sets itself out love, Threshold does Deeper Sleep,” a light, airy apart with beautiful, intel­ not have the usual cheesy tune that Werges uses to ligent music and lyrics that lyrics that saturate pop. In­ create a dream world of weave wonderful stories. stead, we’re given intelli­ love, sex, mysteiy and sha­ While the music stands gent songwriting and good dows. The music and sing­ out in places, the album is singing, a combination ing perfectly fit the lyrics, really a chance for the sin­ that created some pretty in which “movement gers to shine. They each good music. softly slips into deeper display wondrous voices The first track, “Hold,” sleep.” and are the stars of the opens with a rather inter­ The music quickly band. It’s definitely an al­ esting combination of changes in “I Fell in Love bum to listen to. haunting keyboards and With An Actress.” Ardoin Spinning Glass will play slamming drums, but creates a hard, pounding tomorrow night, Friday quickly changes, with pop groove that everything re­ the 24th, at the Living bass and keyboards setting volves around, but created) about losing oneself in one’s print in an anthology called Taboo. How­ Room, located at 7190 work, and confusing fiction with reality ever, it reads well in straight prose format. a pace that the Irish- Grady’s voice feels out of Hollister. The show be­ accented Fischer easily place with the gritty gins at &30 p.ttu The Liv­ to tiie point where one is a character in The lack of accompanying pictures has slides into. “Hold” sings of groove. The lighter chorus ing Room’s information one’s own fantasies. Tim Lucas presents forced Lucas to search hiuder for the right his ideas about obsession in strange and the intoxication of being allows Grady more free­ line is 564-0130. words and write such unsettling fiction in held by a lover. But lines dom in his singing. jagged prose, as if he conducted some spl­ order to replace the images that naturally like “Watch out for phan- Werges’ other song, —Michael Lin icing and oveidubbing on his own work. come to mind. I hardly feel qualified to It is this mixture of banal subject matter read or advocate a book about movies, (addiction to cigarettes, home shopping but the vampiric overtones and the explo­ channels, cheap pom flicks) with an en­ rations into obsessive behavior kept me thusiasm and belief in the magic of every­ reading. Anyone interested in any of the day events, and having the words to com­ three subjects mentioned would do well municate that belief that put this book far to surreptitiously grab a copy of Throat The Poppy Field above the average vampire/erotic thriller Sprockets before heading out to the Robert Forster all cover versions, which novel, just like Throat Sprockets the mo­ beach. songs. vie is above the average vampire/erotic I Had a New Yorh might have been a tedious A few are essentially Girlfriend thing to face. As it is, the thriller film. countiy. I don’t know a I won’t even begin to describe the story. —Rena Tom Beggars Banquet only drawback seems to be thing about Guy Clark — that we have to wait a bit Grant and Robert are great derful. I guess once in a In die summer, Beggars longer for another album admirers of him and Tow­ while, a second look from Banquet released the third of Forster originals — his nes van Zandt— but after a pop genius can resusci­ solo LP by Robert Forster, cover choices are great hearing Robert’s cover of tate something so knee- formerly of the Go- They cover quite a wide “Brokenhearted People,” deep in mundanity. Betweens. His former range — you’re liable to I’ve been humming it. This You may also recognize songwriting partner, have listened to some of album has a way of getting Martha and the Muffins’ Grant McLennan, has the originals, but not beyond connotations that “Echo Beach” or Grant been around the states re­ others. I came out liking might normally put you off Hart’s "2541.” Quite a var­ cently — he played Santa them all and even wanting something, getting to the iety. It’s like a mix tape of Monica early this quarter, to investigate some of the good song underneath. If I widely disparate talents and his own third album original artists. That logic hear the foies 'Take me to with similar musical val­ was just released by Atlan­ of extension doesn’t al­ a barroom, driver, take me ues, sung by a voice that tic — but Robert has had ways work — w ho’s the to a stool / If I can’t be her has come to mean innova­ less American exposure. favorite singer of my favo­ man, I’m damned if I’ll be a tive, pretty and eye­ Which is too bad, because rite singer? I might like fool” coming out of a opening. I Had c New York Girl­ them to o — but Robert re­ countiy radio station, I friend ii a fine album. It’s ally has an ear for great might roll my eyes and BMX Bandits switch it off. But here, it life goes on has credentials. It’s im­ Creation/Trlstar with Tristar last year. over a tinny radio with a pressed someone who There’s something here pull-out antenna. Echoes doesn’t impress easily. I think juxtapositions that calls up the unseen of a tame, domestic genre There’s likely to be emo­ are really where it’s at. The menace of the old- of music, put through the tional potency here. expression of two tones at fashioned. Like seeing wringer of serious drugs. Another couple of once is clever and unset­ Norman Rockwell paint­ Put through the wringer of tracks that might raise tling, and now that all the ings after reading accounts whoever came up with the some eyebrows, or lead to good ideas are used, origi­ by the grown children of weird front cover. mock gagging gestures at nality is probably being de­ d y sfu n ctio n al ’50s Like on “intermission first, are the covers of fined in terms of a combi­ families. (bathing beauties).” Pris­ “Alone” by Heart and nation anyway. It’s quite a trick. I don’t tine chiming sounds and a "Look Out Here Comes Robert Forster does this know exactly how I know sample: “Do you like him, Tomorrow” by Neil Dia­ as he sets an old clunker in it's happening, except that mother? Yes .„ but he is mond. That’s right, a a new context. And it’s there’s a vague familiarity the sort that makes you Heart cover! And a Neil also heard in the clean, in the organs and trumpets take all sorts of tranquiliz­ Diamond covert Coming pristine pop sounds of the that embellish the close ers before breakfast, isn’t from Robert, I give them new BMX Bandits, which harmonies and primary- he. And wash them down another chance. With is now out domestically color tunes. Like rainy with bloodys....” Brrrr. Robert’s voice and ar­ thanks to a deal that the nights in grammar school, rangement, both are won- UK label Creation signed a forgotten FM hit coming —Kevin Carhart 6A Thursday, February 23,1995 Daily Nexus Drop The Anchor

Chris Newby’s film ficult film to follow. It was devotion. up for hours to seek her di­ A nchoress displays the shot in black-and-white A pagan, which socially vine counsel, until she em­ conflict between paganism with sharp transitions be­ is equated with being the broiders tiie Viigin wear­ and Christianity in the tween shots. Dark images Antichrist, Pauline partici­ ing a red robe into an altar early 14th century, but overwhelmed the screen, pates in such un-Christian cloth instead of the con­ from the first 45 minutes resembling an Expression­ activities as gushing wine ventional blue. The priest you would never know. It ist film, with distant im­ into the earth as if to is horrified at this act, and starts with images of a ages flashing up. It is up to quench the M other’s Christine must escape her young girl setting up ap­ the viewer to correlate thirst. Additionally, she imprisonment or be ples like rays around the them in a logical manner. partakes in other witch­ damned by his wrath. base of a new statue of the After convincing a like rituals such as com­ The characters do take Virgin Maty. After what priest that she has contact mitting bestiality with a on their roles quite con­ seems like the start of a si­ with the Virgin Mary goat vincingly. Perhaps the lent film, tiie first words ut­ through this statue, Isolated in her cell and film’s slow, sparing dia­ tered are “Christine, Christine becomes an secure from the advances logue has a good side as Christine,” and then a anchoress and devotes of the reeve and the priest, well—it allows the actors’ understand and com­ The film will be shown flash of a woman pouring herself wholeheartedly to Christine is seen as the talents to be acknow­ pletely unentertaining. in Campbell Hall on wine from a carafe into a the church. Her mother, soothsayer and town men­ ledged through their pen­ Others may have the prior M onday a t 7p.m. Tickets grave. For me, who has Pauline, laments with tor. People lay flowers at sive expressions. knowledge needed to will be available at the never studied 14th century overbearing tears as the her single window. A cou­ Striking images understand the film and door beginning at 6 p.m. paganism and Christian- last brick is placed on her ple asks her why they can’t couldn’t save the film from find it an educational ity, it was an incredibly dif- daughter’s new cell of have children. People line being boring, difficult to_ -e*perlETIce7 -Melissa Altman (~/A Pigable Planets Play Campbell Hall Saturday the 25th at 9:00 Time: circa March/ gonna be boring. I mean, this shouldy be a good time. was a strong effort that in­ April, 1993. 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Rare is a war film which captures actual war in Bosnia, filming it in segments from footage while the war still continues. September 1993 to January 1994, finally Bosnal contains no death and violence completing die film last April, that has been acted, rehearsed or memor- Levy narrates the film in French, while ized for the cameras. Rather, it delivers providing English subtitles for American timely, truthful pictures of die people of viewers. An acclaimed philosopher in Bosnia, taking the audience through their France, he also writes about painting and tom nation. theater. He also works as an editor for the Often, filmmakers have the difficult French magazine La Regie du feu , and as task of showing in movies the details of a a columnist for the magazine Point. war, while using only the memories of the Ferrari, also a philosopher, works as a tragic images. But die directors of Bosnal television director, making several musi- chadlenged themselves to provide the au- cal television shows in France. Levy and

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