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THE FILM THE ALBUM by dawn mermer by jeffrey p. mcmanus

The night finally came. I hadn’t seen a line like Although ’s soundtrack is only it since I was 10 years old and Star Wars hit the superficially tied into the movie ( theaters. I was looking hot, and I was ready for a wrote the score), it stands alone as yet another hot movie. I walked into the Arlington on Thur­ typically-uneven yet somehow irresistable of­ sday and fought for a seat among thousands. I sat fering from Minneapolis' most androgynous there waiting. The lights went down. A huge funkster. spotlight of a Batman emblem soared across the Bouncy dance songs such as “” and audience and movie house. The crowd went wild. “Trust” — bread and butter for this artistic Then the film started, and we were all taken for demigod of buttock wriggling — carry this album. the rides of our lives. They don’t really carry it too far — just enough for We were watching Batman. you to get down and possibly get back up again. I could tell you.about how Jack Nicolson yuckecf The mechanized drum beats, dangling guitar it up with himself on the screen, sometimes for strumming and breathy melodies certainly won’t too long, only the way Jack could. Or I could talk do much for the hard-core anti-Prince fanatic — about how the choice of was this much is given. But if you’ve got an ounce of impeccable because of his presence and his eyes. soul in you, you gotta spin this one at least once I don’t even want to mention all of the hype for good measure. surrounding the film or that it made the most Of course, that “” thing must be money in its opening weekend than any other in reckoned with. The first single from the album, it history. is perhaps the only one that never lets you forget I want to discuss a stud — a directing stud — exactly what soundtrack you're listening to (since by the name of . all of the film’s principals contribute lines to the Twenty-nine-year-old Burton went to Warner tune). Bros, with an excellently written script by Sam It cannot be denied that Prince’s penchant for Hamm about the Dark Knight and basically told lapsing into crooning, often howling love ballads them that he was going to put a very un­ is his Achilles’ heel. However, the Purple People conventional super-hero type in the leading role Pleaser has graced us with two such beauties on and get the studio out of debt. Warners, with the Batman soundtrack, “Scandalous” (a just plain Burton’s Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure and in awful attempt to regain the nostalgic emotion of mind, said, “ Hell, we got nothing to lose because his earlier classic ballad “”) we’ve been losers for the past five years.” And and “” (elevated from utter that was the beginning of this beautiful project. nothingness to slothful mediocrity by the vocal Actors and acting aside, what Burton did to assists of long-time Prince pal ). Batman was unbelievable. His vision of Gotham The two quasi-tunes are such blatant VH-1 city incorporated the sinister darkness from the material you just feel compelled to drink newer comic books with the bigger and more decaffeinated ice tea and bear children while plastic-than-life sets from the T.V. series. listening to them. The result was a setting that matched the But, for the most part, barring the occasional bursting personalities of the characters while bout with temporary musical insanity, Batman and leaving a filthy taste in the viewer’s mouth. Also, Prince go together like socks and toe jam, and the combined with Danny Elfman’s .growling score result is a sometimes smelly, sometimes warm- (and he still makes stupid music in dumb Oingo and-wonderful collection of bouncy, fleet-footed Boingo!) the legend and harsh presence of the . Batman persona and his foes seemed to lurk swiftly and softly against the gray, black and steel of the design. Yes, I am envious of Tim Burton. Not only because of his youthful talent and great instincts to make the unconventional work, but because he’s made a damn swell film that I want to see again. 2A 06» 28 »89 r r r r a $ s J L U u HEY ISLA VISTA!

GREAT RIBS AND CHICKEN June 28-July 31: Ginny Brush's latest work, entitled Steven Rickards, assisted by lutenist Dorothy Linell, in Panoramic Dialogues, will be on display until the end of an “Evening on English Song.” The event is $6 Delivers 967-3775 July in the UCSB Women’s Center Art Gallery. For this general admission and $3 for students, and tickets are exhibit, Brush interviewed and photographed available through the UCSB Arts & Lectures Ticket residents of the Carrillo Retirement Hotel in Santa O ffice. Barbara, and these portraits will be in the form of a June 28-August 6: From its permanent collection, sculptural installation that incorporates audio tapes, the University Art Museum will present a summer cultural artifacts and personal mementos on loan from exhibition of works documenting the traveling artist the residents. entitled An Eye on the World. The exhibition will June 28: Tonight at 8 p.m. in Lotte Lehmann feature works dating from the 16th through the 20th Concert Hall the UCSB Summer Sessions Vocal In­ centuries, with an emphasis on a broad range of 19th stitute Concert Series will present countertenor century photography in commemoration of the 150th

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■ From Ginny Brush’s Exhibit Panoramic Dialogues. anniversary of the birth of photography. Ravel’s Quartet in F. June 29: Thursday night at 8 p.m. in Campbell Hall July 2: Australia’s comedy documentary Cane Toads TAKE YOUR DATE you will get a chance to see actor bigger will be part of the International Cinema series to be than life in Dangerous Liaisons. He’s so cool in this shown at 8 p.m. in Campbell Hall. The film tells the period film that even the dudes w ill be ogling over him tale of Australia’s love-hate relationship with, well, BOWLING TONITE... instead of , babe extrodinaire. toads. Also showing will be three award-winning June 30: The Essex String Quartet, one of the shorts by Jane Campion. IT’S AN AUTOMATIC SCORE! country's most successful young string ensembles, will July 3: Direct from the Bronx and brought to you by perform the first of three concerts this Friday at 8 p.m. KCSB is 24-7 Spyz. This Living Coloureseque band in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall. The program will will be performing at the Ventura Theatre at 8 p.m. Orchid Bowl’s automatic scoring lets you and include Mozart’s Quartet in D minor, Schubert’s w ith the Slammin’ Watusis, and tickets are available at your date enjoy the game without the hassle. Quartettsatz in C minor, Dvorak’s in F Major and the Ventura Theatre box office or at Heck Music. Now bowling is more fun than ever.

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From one o f Jane ARTS & LECTURES Campion’s short films

Dangerous Liaisons * 1 I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing Thursday, June 29 Sunday, July 16 This seductive and savagely witty film has stunned With a whimsical and exuberant excursion into the realm of audiences with its dazzling psychological twists and eccentricity, Patricia Rozema’s film has a fresh and funny shocking resolutions. Directed by (Prick Up charm that magnifies human emotions. The heroine Polly Your Ears), it features the brilliantly nimble and erotic stumbles in perpetual embarrassment and confusion gamesmanship of actors and John Malkovich. through a reality that seems much more alien and unsettling Winner of three including best art than her vivid fantasies. (Canada, 1987, 81 min.) direction and costume design. (United States, 1988, 123 min.) The Funeral Cane Toads and Thursday, July 20 Jane Campion Shorts This film’s wry and poignant subject is a family’s three-day Sunday, July 2 adventure/endurance of a traditional Buddhist funeral. Although the film’s insights are frequently hilarious, The cane toads are coming! They’re ugly; they’re voracious; director Juzo Itami (Tampopo) is concerned with the they’re unstoppable! Mark Lewis’ riotously funny ambivalent relationship of modern Japan to its traditional documentary on Australia’s love-hate relationship with this past and the question of how we all confront our mortality. amphibian pest is like a meeting of Monty Python and (Japan, 1984, 124 min.) National Geographic. (Australia, 1988, 43 min.) This light­ hearted all-Australian show is rounded out with three award-winning shorts by Jane Campion. Passionless Moments Frida (1984,12 min.), Peel (1982,9 min.), and A Girl's Oivn Story Sunday, July 23 (1984, 27 min.) Director Paul Leduc’s vibrantly colored.images capture the shocking power of the artistic vision of Mexican painter The Unbearable Lightness of Being Frida Kahlo. The return screening of this film celebrates Thursday, July 6 the passion, flamboyance and gallantry of Latin America’s This philosophical lovers’ story is based on the fragmented greatest woman artist, political activist and feminist whose and meditative novel by Czech emigré Milan Kundera. Set festive and macabre paintings reveal a never ending quest in Prague, 1968, director Philip Kaufman’s (The Right Stuff) T È m fora transcription of herself. (Mexico, 1987, 108 min.) film tells the playfully ironic story of an epic womanizer’s erotic triangle and the struggle between commitment and spontaneity. Daniel Day-Lewis () Evening Bell stars. (United States, 1988, 172 min.) Thursday, July 27 Set at the end of WWII, this film follows a battle- hardened band of five Chinese soldiers struggling across a Half of Heaven remote landscape wracked by post-armistice horrors. Wu Sunday, July 9 Ziniu’s tension-filled stand-off and forbidding subject is With the sly wit, intelligence and unpredictability of this transfused with humanity as stunning images are film, comes an unexpected appreciation of the power, counterpointed with the actors’ wrenching performances. beauty, tenacity and mysteries of women. Angela Molina (People’s Republic of China, 1987, 90 min.) stars as the powerful and compelling heroine who rises from poverty to the highest circles of postwar Madrid in The Way of the Lotus Manuel Gutierrez Aragon’s divinely entertaining film Sunday, July 30 where the institution of the family prevails. (Spain, 1987, 137 min.) Based on the controversial novel Viragaya (Non- Attachment) by Martin Wickramasinghe, this insightful and philosophical film explores the inner anatomy of Alice Sinhalese culture. Tissa Abeyeskara directs this film about Thursday, July 13 Aravinda, a man whose name translates as Lotus which Jan Svankmajer’s surreal combination of the real and the symbolizes his struggles between the simultaneous animated is no ordinary telling of the classic Lewis Carroll attachment to and detachment from life. (Sri Lanka, 1987, tale Alice in Wonderland. By exploring the dark 140 min.) undercurrents of the story, this Czech animator creates an UCSB enchanting but sinister dream that combines Disney and Series tickets: $18 Students: $15 Bufiuel. Note: this film is not suitable for children. (Switzerland, 1988, 84 min.) ML AMTS A UCTUBIS SAVE 50% WITH SERIES TICKETS