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Film links present with past in thought-provoking manner « _. .....rl-ic “Thn Mndrrn';” i« nhivin.* ... .1. MODERNS from Page 9 imposing writer perfectly. The movie changes film a lot; this is generally a transition device, f rom original footage of Paris in the 20s, to a gorgeous, sepia-tint film and finally color, the transitions are so smooth that it’s hard to tell when the color changed. The cinematography itself is ex cellent. Toyomichi Kurila pulls in very, very tight onto the faces, en hancing the emotion of the scene. He captures the rich, elegant decadence of the period perfectly. One perfect example is at the beginning of the film, when Stone eats and the glim mer off his silver fork is almost blind ing. The costumes are great, and the scenes arc stunning. Because the story revolves around the Paris art world, there arc an enormous number of artists. In particular, David Stein did the paintings and the forgeries of Cezanne that appear in the film. Stein was one of the world’s most celebrated ari lorgei .. masterful. Overall, “The Modems" is worth seeing. It’s about a period of desper ate outrageous ness and I un that would not last much longer—a period that might be much like our own. * "’Ct 111 UK Sheldon Film Theater Friday through Saturday, and Sept. 22-25. Screen ings arc at 7 and 9:15 p.m. Saturday matinees arc at 12:45 and 3 p,m Sunday matinees arc at 2:30 and 4:45 p.m. • n ^ Elective: Comedy 401 This elective is held every Thursday Friday and Saturday evening at Noodles Comedy Shoppe. In this class students will learn to tell "You had to be there..." I stories so that everyone will laugh. Students can also expect to cover subjects such as handling hecklers, taking advantage of the situation, on the spot “one liners" and improvisations. Class held every Thursday 8:30 P.M., Friday and Saturday at 9:00 P.M. NOODLES [OmEDY SHOPPE 228 NORTH 12TH 475-0900 (Above the Spaghetti Works) Reservations Welcome Youthfully-energized Dogs in ^pace reveals birth and death of punk era By Joeth Zucco Senior Editor and Mick Dyer Senior Reporter “We re living on dog food, si what” — iggy Pop “Dogs in Space,” a film focusinj on the colorful lives of a houseful o punks and hippies, will open the UPC Foreign Films Series this season. moyi£_, ^RFVIKW 1 The story takes place in Mel bourne, Australia, in 1978. It’sastor) of youthf ul energy, of watching vin tage footage of the first Soviet space launch on television anel wailing foi Skylabto fall. It'sastoryofsex,drug? and rock'n'roll, alternatively speak ing. —--— —i Mostly, it’s a love story. A story of understanding between a punk named Sam (Michael Hutchencc) and a free spirited career woman named Anna - (Saskia Post). It’s a punk documen , tary similar to the cultclassic Sidand Nancy,” in termsof music, drug abuse and overdose, but that s where the similarity ends. , The setting of the film is a house I with “Dogs in Space” spray-painted » on the street in front. In the house arc a melee of personalities: A student who spent most of the film studying for his engineering exams, a man with a hairy chest who was usually clad in a towel, a flower child whose boy friend smoked joints like they were cigarettes and many others. Oncol the most interesting charac ters in the film is “The Girl," a run away thai the people in ihe house took under their wing. She sits on the Iront steps in the beginning of the film. Throughout, she serves as the ob server. She experiences the house on the outside like we do as viewers. By the end, she realizes what she has experienced and matures because of it. The house itself is in constant shambles, littered with beer cans, bongs and people passed out in front of the television. The state of the house seems to reflect the chaos in each person’s life. Throughout the film, each of the 10 main characters experienced at least one conflict. The experience of drugs was a recurring theme all through the film: Shooting adrenaline in the bathroom at a band show, taking mushrooms and seeing the trip through “The Girl’s” eyes, taking heroin and mak ing a dreamlike passage to the other side of this life. Marijuana and alcohol were the two main drugs and effects portrayed. In a scene when the gang is tearing through the streets of Melbourne in their Volkswagen bugs, they Hip their car. No problem. They get out, turn u right side up and are on their way. The I ilm traces the subtle changes in “The Girl’s” life and in Sam’s life. It reflects the changes in the punk lifestyle, as punk grew out of ns ado lescence and into adulthood. The ef fects ol lhisera in music are still being felt today. The film romanticizes this dra matic period and the characters who influenced it. Although the film is entertaining and worth seeing more than once, hopefully the viewer will gain more than a look at Michael Hutchence, and will realize why the punk era died. The film will be shown Sunday at 3,5,7 and 9 p.m. in the Sheldon Film Theater. I no, well adjusted. Courtesy of Kimball Hall Box Office Joseph Mills performs “MOMIX" Dance troupe mixes mime, illusions, shadows I By Micki Haller Senior Kdilor One reason why Momix is such a fantastic dance troupe might lie in the fact that many of the dancers didn’t start out in dance. Momix is able to draw from a variety of fields: sculpture, mime, shadow shows, puppets and most of all, the magic of illusion. Throughout Momix’s performance at Kimball Hall, elements of all these things kept popping up. For in ancc, “Elva” started out with a man whose head was a televi sion screen. The TV guy played guitar and sang to Elvis’ “Blue Suede Shoes.” Then, halfway though the act, the man’s lace changed to a woman. The “guy’s” dancing changed to an effeminate style. The piece was almost theater rather than dance, yet the image of a TV-headed person must have been taken from the realm of sculpture. Another thing about Momix’s See MOMIX on 11