EO VIDEO VIDEO VID@OIV 0301V 0301V 03 ideo summertime in Isla Vista, long six pack. Here then is a list of some days and sometimes even longer movies you can rent throughout the nights. Most of your friends have Santa Barbara area. You may have to either gone home, went to Europe do a little hunting for some of these, (those lucky bastards) or just plain but they are all worth seeking out. Be graduated. Whatever the case you cautioned that this is a list of some of probably have a little extra time to fill. the more unusual movies that are out Summertime is a great movie rental there in rental land, some of the time, especially when the funds are movies you might have passed up on low you can always get enough people your way to rent Fatal Attraction. Check to pitch in for a couple of movies and a some of these titles out, have a groovy by Adam Liebowitz time and don't sit too close to the TV. FORE]H jII through one more viewing of Caddyshack or any other FILM s____ film staring anyone else from these shows who Oh no, you say, none of that artsy-fartsy European escaped dying from a drug overdose. Comedy is a crap it's un-American. But these films are good for you tricky art form that rarely achieves the magic of satire and just think how smart you will seem when one of and true belly laughs. One of the funniest and most these films comes up in conversation and you can say ingenious films of all time is Stanley Kubrick's Dr. ■yeah I’ve seen that.’ As a general rule of thumb stay Strangelove, a film that has you question the unthinkable away from dubbed versions; they are usually pretty horror of nuclear war and makes you laugh. If Dr. poorly done and tend to take a lot away from the film. It Strangelove has you in the mood for the genius of Peter is equivalent to watching a colorized version of Sellers and you’ve already seen all the Pink Panther film s Casablanca. then rent Being There, a great satire on the power of If you haven’t seen anything from the late French television. You may be able to recognize Charlie director Francois Truffuat then you’ve been missing Chaplin's little tramp character, but if you haven’t out on one of the great masters of cinema. One of his seen one of his films then you are missing out on some earliest works is the now classic The 400 Blows a funny funny stuff. Modern Times has the little tramp up against and sad look at childhood. Also by Truffaut is Jules and the evils of technology; it is a timeless satire on the Jim, a love triangle story about love, death, friendship, very goofy state of modern man. You’ve probably seen the meaninglessness of existence and all that fun stuff; Back to the Future and by this point Roger Rabbit, but before actually it is a must see for anyone interested in film. If Director Robert Zemeckis formed a satanic pact with you are still feeling like a Frenchophile, then check out Steven Spielberg he made Used Cars, a great look at Jacques Beniex's Diva, a very witty and cool crime flick. ‘80s style American greed. I hate to recommend anything that is Australian simply Also Recommended: Spinal Tap, anything starring the because if I hear one more commercial with someone Marx Brothers. saying ‘G'day’ I’m going to vomit. But before there was Crocodile Dundee they were making a lot of groovy films. MICKEY ROURKE From the creator of Witness, Peter Weir, there is The Last He has definitely had his ups and downs both Wave, no it’s not a surf film, but does have a lot of trippy critically and at the box office in his still-young career, cosmic-voodoo weirdness about the end of the world. but without a doubt he is one of the few male leads of If you haven't yet seen a film by Italian director the decade to achieve a star status. Mickey Rourke has Frederico Fellini then rent La Strada, a bittersweet love a certain charisma on the screen, in other words story of sorts and if Fellini was your groove then check chicks dig him and guys think he’s cool, besides how out the classic 8 and a Half. many actors could have achieved fame being named m m I mmmim Also Recommended: Some more films you can use to Mickey and not be a mouse or a midget. He has ac­ CHRISTOPHER impress a date with — by the maker of Diva, Betty Blue, tually been in a few other films besides Nine and a Half p u m w t cmmmsamx also from France Subway, from China A Great Wall; from Weeks and Angel Heart, films which are worth seeing if HERBERT10M B razil Eu te Amo; from Argentina The Official Story, only to watch one of the most talented actors of our anything by Wim Wenders; from New Zealand The Quiet time. In Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish he plays the T h » enigmatic Motorcycle Boy, one of the great scruffy S U lit r it Earth; from Australia Bliss and from England Prick Up Your Ears. rebels of moviedome, played with the perfect amount c P » JPinh COMEDY of overblown irony. In Diner he plays the misun­ j W t h e r derstood Boogie, in what is one of the great film It seems that every comedy film in the last decade classics of the '80s. One of the overlooked films in has starred somebody from either Saturday Night Live or recent years was The Pope of Greenwich Village, in which SCTV. Not that I don’t think most of these films have Rourke starred with Eric Roberts as small-time been funny, it’s just that I don't think I could sit hustlers who get in a little too deep with the Mob. ^ A Wednesday L l \ July 13,1988 features HEY ISLA VISTAI GREAT great Robert Duvall. If it's action that you want, go RIBS TRIP OUT with some 70s style mean and gritty realism, in fact AND I cannot recommend substance abuse (God only make it a triple feature of the very cool Shqft, drug wars CHICKEN knows what that includes) but unless you work for a in the early days with The French Connection, and the very company that demands drug testing your body is your mean Robert De Niro in Mean Streets. Above all don't own. If someone suggests watching The Wall one more forget the movie that discoed a generation Saturday Night time I’m going to be forced to confiscate their VCR, Fever. D ELIV ER S 967-3775 because there are a few other films which one can Also recommended: Shampoo, Car Wash, American enjoy by staring with dilated pupils at the screen. One Grqffiti, The Last Detail, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, of the best is Koyannisqatsi, the title of which means ‘life and Billy Jack. out of balance.’ It’s a documentary of sorts with some beautiful photography showing the intense beauty of UNUSUAL If s time for the natural world compared to the very strange way in The last few years have marked the appearance of which human beings have chosen to live; there is also some very good but off-beat movies. The excellent Blue GRANDMA GERTIE’S a great score-by Philip Glass. Also there is Altered States Velvet seems to have cornered a lot of the college (need i say more) which has William Hurt taking audience's attention, but there are several other films 991 Thursday! Mexican Mushrooms and going ape. While we are on worth seeing other than David Lynch’s masterpiece. the subject of our ancestral kin, The Monkees actually Director Jim Jarmusch has created two excellent films, made a movie called Head and it's pretty groovy, not to the funky Stranger Than Paradise and the equally off-beat mention it was directed by Jack Nicholson. Dorn by Law which starred singer Tom Waits. If you Also recommended: Bliss, the classic Tommy, and The haven't seen the hilarious Repo Man then put it at the Hidden. top of your list, but if you've seen it too many times already then check out Alex Cox's Straight to Hell, ANIMATION starring the Pogues, Joe Strummer, and Dennis Hopper. If those last films weren’t enough good weirdness Also recommended: Choose Me, After Hours, In- for you, then go mainline with some very off-beat signifigance, and River’s Edge. animation. The Fantastic Tourney of Animation is kind of a pitchers home version of one of those festivals of animation and FREAK/HORROR includes some classics such as Closed Mondays and So these aren’t hardcore enough for some of you burgers Moonshadow. Before that Rabbit movie there was the weirdos. If your tastes run to the bizarre then rent fries very groovy Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat. Created by Ralph Freaks, a self-proclaimed docudrama from the '30s that 996 Bakshi, this very cool cat was up to some dirty deeds in uses some real circus freaks in a mystery with a very 3-8 pm 968-8888 this animation social satire originally rated X. chilling moral. Still not enough for some of you slime- Also recommended: Fantastic Planer, B a ksh i’s Wizards.