Film links present with past in thought-provoking manner
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
