Arts & Entertainment
Action, fun,
stolen jewels
all in new flick
From Staff Reports
“Peking Opera Blues” is a fun
movie from Hong Kong that offers
action, romance and revolutionaries.
Tsao Wan, daughter of a Chinese
warlord, has joined an underground
liberation movement in 1911 after
spending years studying abroad.
She and Pak Ying conspire to steal
an important document from her fa
ther, but in their escape, they run into
a greedy maid, a would-be actress,
another revolutionary, and several
bad guys from the “Ticketing Of
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Sheung Hung has stolen diamonds
from the previous warlord, and she
stashes them on a cart that belongs to
a Peking opera troupe. Actress Chung
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Scene from “Peking Opera Blues.”
Chor Hung is delightfully flirtatious
in this role.
Pak Neil desperately wants to go
on stage at the Peking opera, but her
father, the manager, won’t let her.
The revolutionaries take shelter in
the Peking opera house, disrupt the
performance, and give Pak her
chance on stage.
The film is great entertainment,
and touches on the themes of trans
vestism, homosexuality, androgony
and the role of women in Chinese
society.
“Peking Opera Blues” will be
shown today at 1 and 7 p.m., and
Saturday at 3 and 9 p.m. at the Shel
don Film Theater.
‘Dark Eyes’ shines with brilliance
By William Rudolph
Staff Reporter
“Dark Eyes,” Lhc final film in ihc
fall University Program Council’s
Foreign Film Scries, will show at the
Sheldon Film Theater Sunday.
Based on a story by Anton
Chekhov, “Dark Eyes” tells the SI017
of Romano (Marcello Mastroianni),
an idle aristocrat who wanted to be an
architect but wound up marrying into
money instead.
Now his children are grown, he’s
starting to age and life has become
boring. What’s a guy to do?
In Romano’s case, he falls in love
with a beautiful but mysterious Soviet
aristocrat he meets at, a fashionable
spa. But the lady has a past, and the
lovers must part. For the first time in
his life, Romano genuinely cares
about something . . . and he’s not
about to let it go.
“Dark Eyes" abounds with won
derful moments. One especially
charming scene concerns the treat
ment Mastrioanni receives as the first
Western European to visit a liny
Soviet village. Other hilarious and
charming examples occur at the hot
springs in which the ailing Mas
troianni literally walks on water for
Anna.
Mastroianni is simply brilliant.
Every expression, every gesture is
deliberate yet subtle. This is powerful
acting, deserving of the highest
praise.
In fact, Mastroianni received the
nomination for best actor at the Can
nes Film Festival for his work in
“Dark Eyes.” As Newsday’s Mike
McGrady said,“Mastroianni delivers
the performance of a lifetime.”
The rest of the cast does an equally
fine job. Director Nikita Mikahlkov
manages to keep the audience en
thralled for nearly two hours. The
sheer number of beautiful scenic
backgrounds, the visual detail of
costumes and sets, even the props the
characters use to establish their iden
tities combine for a rare film experi
ence. I
Tickets are $4 for the public and S3
for University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1
students with identification cards, i
“Dark Eyes” will show at 3, 5, 7 and i
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Presentation Tuesday
Roadside comes to Kimball
From Staff Reports
“South of the Mountain” will be
performed by the Roadside Theater
at Kimball Hall Tuesday and
Wednesday at 8 p.m.
The play tells the story ol two
generations of a mountain family.
The story traces the family’s life on
a small farm to the personal, dra
matic changes that shape the lives
of the family ’s younger generation
as industrialization moves into the
mountains.
Tom Bledsoe, Nancy Jeffrey
and Ron Short are the actors in this
production.
A guitar, banjo and fiddle ac
company the dozen original songs
that are woven into the story.
“South of the Mountain” is
largely based on the reflections of
author Ron Short’s relatives.
The performance isn’t really a
play in the conventional sense,
since story-telling and music play a
big role.
Three actors trace an Appala
chian family’s life from the early
1930s through the New Deal pro
grams.
Roadside Theater, from
Whitcsburg, Ky., and Norton, Va.,
is one of a handful of rural theater
companies in existence in the
United Slates.
The nationally acclaimed thea
ter tours all year to more than 1,000
towns, back hollows and coal
camps.
The company has also toured
many of the big cities in the South,
and has performed at Lincoln Cen
ter, the National Storytelling Festi
val, off-Broadway in New York
and in Europe and Canada.
The company began in 1974 as
part of a rural arts organization,
Appalshop.
Roadside tries to develop a kind
of theater that makes sense in the
southern Appalachians, and its
style is drawn from the music,
church and story-telling traditions
of that place.
All of Roadside’s performers
have grown up in the region, and
their special relationship with their
material helps create a relaxed
story-telling form that doesn’t in
volve props, costumes or scenery.
The New & Courier of Char
leston, S.C., said in a review that
the first part of the program is a
celebration of a rural life that has
harsh living conditions, but full of
human companionship.
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