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Thursday, February 23, 1CC4 Daily fJebraskan Pc;-3 9 OOGES n?r7n n n .'I 1 n1"1 u I X ! n Sheldon Film Theatre Mr. Neville (Anthony Higsins) tries to keep things in the frame in the film The Draughtsman's Contract currently at the Sheldon Film Theatre. Mystery film a puzzle of great wit Review by Eric Peterson A mannered puzzle of great wit and intelligence starts tonight at the Sheldon Film Theatre. The Draughtsman's Contract, written and directed by Peter Greenway, is a murder mystery without an exposed and discovered murderer; it is an elaborate parody of life among Restoration gentry. The puzzle itself is the meaning. In the importance of its puzzle construction, The Draughtsman's Contract is something like Alain Resnais' magnificent film Last Year at Marienbad, in which a baroque setting and conflicting memories combine to oppress and cut off escape perhaps most like Nabokov's novel Pale Fire, in which an intellectual puzzle becomes a metaphor for how life is to be lived, the construction of webs and connec tions which are always in danger of being ripped apart. The rich visual style is one of the great delights of this film, and much of it seems a direct tribute to Last Year at Marienbad, especially in many opening shots where everything is rigorously balanced a person in powdered wig and a candle on each side of a centered figure, a mother and daughter almost pulling at the luscious young draughtsman sitting between them, two white-faced marionettes who appear to have no place in the plot, leaning head against head and saying the same disturbing words with mirrored expressions. This isa very self conscious and deliberately artificial kind of work, in flAP o Monday through Friday between 5-7 pm Tommy's Gives You Any Large Sandwich And Medium Drink! Midnight to 8 am Receive A $100 OFF Any Large Sandwich And Medium Drink! 1229 "FT Street r 435-6850 What the Draughtsman drew Tht Draughtsman's Contract, directed by Peter Green way; screenplay by Petr Greenway; produced by the British Film Institute; released through United Artists Screen Classics. At theSheldon Film Thea-' tre, 12th and R streets, today through Saturday. Shows are at 7 and 9 p.m., with a 3 p.m. matinee Saturday. Rated R. Mr. Neville Anthony Higgins Mrs. Neville Jant Sutman which parallel lines and echoed phrases are as important as anything the characters happen to be saying. Perhaps the most important recurring effect in The Draughtsman s Contract is visual framing. Over and over we see the house at Compston Anstey, or its gardens, through the draughtsman's grid he is a strict representationalist, a sort of logical positi ves t of the eye, and everything he sees must be ren dered "as it is," in scale. For less deliberately instru sive but equally lovely effects there is, for example, a scene on a hillside in which the draughtsman and the matron stand in the sun, continue talking as a cloud passes over them and their conversation, and after a breathless interval the shadow is silently gone. . Continued cn Ps3 11 WW vv by William Shakespeare Y5j March 1,2, 3 Vv 2RC through 10 w at 0 pm UNIVERSITY THEATRE LINCOLN V NN. Howell Stofl 12 4 R Sts. Vs. PH: C2) 472-2C73 Hours: 12 to fern, ?kdays v v.. U StudentsSenior Citirens VX . 15 Central Admission N VVs. a Grout Rati - 20 or mort vWvS. '"-' rVTN University ol Nebraska-Lincoln NS. V7G7 T-COQ? $50 1st Pfccc 625 2rifJ Pk Plus . ' aL 7-10 pm iOcGiA Night FRIDAY, 1 1 an 11 .11 11 1L7 . . ? FREE DRINKS FOR LADIES 79 P.M. MONDAY 8 P.M. BOYLESQUE MALE REVUE by Magic Show for Ladies Only. Men admitted after show. U 7 ) coi'.o:.' Uo U U ft2 Dni:::cs till t:iD::i3:iT Good OPJLY Feb. 28, 1C34 WEDKESORY M1SMT Frc2 Drin'.is For Men 7-9P.r.i. I : DANCE TO STOOGE'S NEW VIDEO MUSIC SYSTEM & 3 M Vv J J W 'J ' I 1 & P St. 9th WE ROCK LINCOLN