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[Shawnna Franz]

September12 Run Lola Run (Germany) 81 mins.

aka Lola Rennt (English subtitles)

Directed by Tom Tykwer

With Moritz Bleibtreu, Franka Potente, et al.

Hugelypopular as an immensely entertaining escape into Berlin, this movie is stillplaying on the mainland after months of sell-out crowds. The plot is assimple as it gets: Lola (Potente) runs (without Nikes) to save herboyfriend's life. But hot new director Tykwer plays fast and free with thelinear drive, opening us up to the way the smallest incidents can alter ourdestinies. In other words, all is never quite as straight-ahead as it seems.Call it fate, fortune, luck, or simply the director's editorial choices, theplot of this film is, in every way, the real subject of our interest. True,everybody loves the punk attitude of Lola: she easily embodies the newEurope, wild and passionate, youthful and driven to get what she wants. Butthis is no study in Euro-symbolism, no way. Run Loa Runs is a clever andengaging movie that celebrates all possibilities. Just do it.

September 19 The Dreamlife of Angels (France) 113 mins.

aka La Vie Rve des Anges (English subtitles)

Directed by Erick Zonca

With lodie Bouchez, Natacha Rgnier,Grgoire Colin, Jo Prestia, Patrick Mercado.

Look, it won all the Europeanprizes, including Cannes. It boasts an amazingly fresh cast. It's wonderful.It's about Isa, a twenty-something drifter in the new Europe (see above) wholives life just as it comes -- fully, with a backpack and constantaffirmation. When things get rough, Isa just goes somewhere else. Almostaccidentally, she makes a friend in the brooding young Marie. The two ofthem forge a life of compatible rhythms from the textured bits of existence,transforming their days into amusing dates with gentle bikers, pots of tea,and aimless conversations about uncertain futures, satisfied and unsatisfiedlives. Inevitably, the rhythms change, however. Dreamlife weaves a highlywatchable tale of random passages, taking us somewhere with patience andgood grace. Bouchez, who plays the sunny-smart waif of a lead role, iscompellingly unconventionally beautiful, a powerful screen presence whopersuades us the world is as charged as it looks in her eyes.

September 26 Three Seasons (USA/Viet Nam 1999) 113 mins.

Sundance prize winner

Directed by Tony Bui

With Don Duong, Nguyen Ngoc Hiep, Tran Manh Cuong, Harvey Keitel,Zo Bui, Nguyen Huu Duo.

As the poster boasts, never before in the history ofthe Sundance Film Festival has one film won three of the top awards. You'vejust experienced the new Europe: here's the New Vietnam. The film centres onfour strangers in Saigon whose lives intersect in a shifting world. The realvictors of the war in Viet Nam seem to be the mutil-nationals: Saigon is litup with Coca Cola signs, the garish neon of global desire. The characters inthe film seek meaning beneath the glare of late capitalism, each finding itin his or her own way. One follows a traditional path, picking lotus flowersfor an old master; another falls in love with a prostitute and would doanything to redeem her life; a young boy hocks watches and junk in thebrightly lit underworld; finally another, an American, seeks the daughter heleft behind in the war. Past, present, and future tenses of a ravagedcountry are imaged lyrically and informatively in this superbly acted film.Frankly, can a movie with Harvey Keitel drinking whiskey in a Saigon barcalled 'Apocalypse Now' be anything but rich?

October 3 The Winslow Boy (USA 1998) 104 mins.

Directed by David Mamet

With Nigel Hawthorne, Jeremy Northam, Rebecca Pidgeon, Gemma Jones, GuyEdwards, Matthew Pidgeon.

That's right, we said Mamet, Dave Mamet. Is thereeven a question about not finding this movie interesting? Nigel Hawthornespeaks words by Mamet in the England of 1912. That is all ye need to know.But for those who need even more, the Winslow family returns from Church fora toast. Father (Hawthorne) confers blessing on daughter (Mamet's wife,Pidgeon) and future son-in-law. They drink Medeira, my dear. Just then goodold prodigal son Ronnie returns from duty at sea. Seems he's been caughtwith his hand in a till and the court room drama begins. Modern principlesbump up against traditional values, and in the battle to clear Ronnie of thecharges the Winslows are thrown into an ideological spin. Particularlyeffected is daughter Catherine whose suffragette beliefs are sorely testedby the prevailing winds of the day. Needless to say, The Winslow Boy is fullof Mametian musings, even while based on the play by Terence Rattigan. Forlovers of good words, rich plots, and juicy moral dilemmas, this is themovie for you.

October 10 The Herd (Canada 1999) 100 mins.

Directed by Peter Lynch

With James Allodi Colm Feore, Graham Greene, David Hemblen, Doug Lennox,Don McKellar, Mark McKinney.

If you know about Lynch's acclaimed Project Grizzlyyou'll love this film. The Herd is also about a man's battles with thewilderness, the true story of Andy Bahr, a 62 year-old man who left Alaskain 1929 with a herd of 3,000 reindeer. His task was to lead them to thestarving Inuit of the Northwest Territories. The journey eventually took sixyears tocomplete, while every sniveling bureaucrat paying attention to the excursionwas freaking out. This might not sound like the ideal way to satisfy yourweekly entertainment quotient, but rest assured that Lynch invigorates thisdocudrama with wit and power, complementing the staged realism of the shootwith actual archival footage of the herd in the thirties. Comparisons havebeen drawn between this effort and Werner Herzog's acclaimed Fitzcarraldo,with the latter looking like a monumental bore by comparison. The northnever looked as strong, free, and forbidding as it does here, and man'sirrational obsessions with peace, order, and good government never soundedso challenged. Watch especially for (Glenn Gould impressionist) Colm Feore'sstunning performance as a self-assured lackey of the Dominion, a man withtoo many memos in his past.

October 17 Xiu Xiu (USA 1998) 99 mins.

(English subtitles.)

10th St. John's International Women's Film and Video Festival

Directed by Joan Chen

With Lu Lu, Lopsang, Jie Gao, Wenqiang, and othernames with X, Y, and Z.

In honour of the 10th St. John's InternationalWomen's Film and Video Festival we bring you this moving and subversiveChinese film. While Hollywood box offices churn out an infinite number oftickets for bigger, longer, and uncut teen porn, here's a movie about afifteen-year old girl with enough hardship in her life to flatten your wok.Chen's film is set in 1975, during the heat of the Cultural Revolution. As a'sent-down' girl, the result of a widely staged policy, Xiu Xiu findsherself forcibly removed from her province to a remote rural area near Tibetwhere she is supposed to be instilled with the values of the proletariat. Aspart of the edict, she must live in a wind-beaten tent with a horse herderwho, in his own silent way, cares for her, a desperate and lonely teenager.To get out of her apparently hideous situation, Xiu Xiu is encouraged toresort to the oldest profession. This is not a love story. Shot in theforbidden zone of China, without government approval, Xiu Xiu sounds anunforgettable cry of rage against a cruel system, its omnipotent leader(Mao), and, by implication, its present-day strictures. To be sure, Chenwon't eat dim sum in that country again. But a half-hour after seeing thisfilm you won't forget it.

October 24 Besieged (Italy) 90 mins.

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

With Thandie Newton, David Thewlis, Claudio Santamaria.

The difference between Italian movies and almost all other national cinemascan be summed up in the following observation by Roger Ebert: Besieged is amovie about whether two people with nothing in common, who have nomeaningful conversations, will have sex. Okaaaaaay. Sounds fine to us. Buttypically, the film has generated a wide divergence of views. Never shyabout his subjects, Bertolucci takes on the matter of race, in this case viaan African political refugee, Shandurai (Thandie Newton), who is working asa housekeeper while studying in Rome. Her boss, the pianist Mr. Kinsky, is abrooding type, cultured and meditative. As we expect, because Shandurai isso gorgeous, he starts to fall into deep obsessive lust with her. You canchoose to see all this as a study in male gazing, appropriation, Othering,and desire, as a filmic treatment of the humanizing effects of love, or assome combination of the above. Whatever, Bertolucci manages to give us a lotto look at, whether you accuse him of being a dirty old cinematographer oran honest genius. Think of Besieged as Last Tango, but this is Rome and it'sseveral decades later.

October 31 Hideous Kinky (UK/France 1998) 98 mins.

Directed by Gillies MacKinnon

With Kate Winslet, Sad Taghmaoui, Bella Riza, Carrie Mullan,Pierre Clmenti, Abigail Cruttenden, et al.

Good title, designed to reel inanyone who's ever been naughty or nice. Is there life after Titanic?Full-figure gal Winslet plays the mother of two sweet little girls whom sheschleps to Morocco in the '70s, when freedom was just another word forreefer madness. In search of spiritual transcendence, she meets instead witheconomic pressures. Even in the seventies you had to eat some protein everynow and then. The large appeal of this movie lies in its unflinchingexamination of our lifestyle choices. Neither sentimental nor cynical,Hideously Kinky prefers to look at life with some bemused distance. In someways the movie emerges as excellent sociology about hippies, that muchmaligned, misunderstood social phenomenon that once suddenly put us all inbeads and headbands. Winslet is perfect as the addled Julia, a poster actorfor the Woodstock generation. Now that the fashion has returned with avengeance, it's probably about time that we had some intelligent examinationof where it all came from. You might be inspired to trick or treat incaftans after this costume-inspired matinee.

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