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"But they were blown away by
Mir sense of community and amount
rf freedom in our dance."
Dayger said the 14 dancers in the
company all have different body
sizes.
"We’re not all S-foot-2 and
skinny," he said. "We look like a
community of people."
This makes die dance very human,
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QTiffin (Hamlsh McFarlane), and Conner (Bruce Lyons), confer In a scene from ‘The Naviga
tor.”
‘The Navigator> director creates
many emotionally powerful scenes
By John Payne
Staff Reporter__
A movie as imaginative and1
original as “The Navigator An
Odyssey Across Time” would be
worth seeing on the basis of its
premise alone.
But this film also succeeds in
■ "1 ■ ■ r ...
deliveiing one emotionally power
ful scene after another, while say
ing something very basic about
human nature.
The somber fable begins in an
isolated mining village in Cum
bria, England. The year is 1348,
and the entire countryside is be
-i sieged by the Black Death. Village
dwellers live in daily fear of the
ever-spreading plague.
A young man named Conner
(Bruce Lyons), somewhat of a
leader of the village, just has re
turned from a lengthy journey into
the plague-stricken cities. His re
ports of the advancing Black Death
• suggest that the village has about
two months before it is reached.
Connor’s younger brother Grif
fin (Hamtsh McFvhne), a prophet
of sorts, has been haunted by recur
ring dreams of what must be done
• to save the village. In his dreams he
sees a huge cathedral in a far-away
city. As a tribute to God, a cross
made of copper from the village
mines must be placed upon the
spire of the cathedral. And the
people must do it before the dawn
of tne next day. Only then will the
village be spared.
In his dreams, Griffin has envi
sioned a great pit, believed by
many to lead to the other side of the
earth. Three other miners accom
pany the brothers on their pilgrim
age to Griffin's “celestial city.*’
When the group reaches the
other side they are amazed, as is
the audience, to discover that they
have tunneled into 1988 New Zeal
and.
The quest for this mysterious
cathedral takes up a good deal of
“The Navigator,’ ’ but it’s the
mining-village scenes, shot in
beautiful black and white, that set
it apart from similar movies like
“Highlander."
‘The Navigator” won six Aus
tralian Oscars last year, including
best picture and beat cinematogra
phy. Visually it is magnificent But
the real strength of the film is in tire
way Director Vincent Ward has
created a genuine sense of fear and
urgency within the village.
The film is showing at the Shel
don Film Theatre. Screening times
are 7 and 9 p.m. tonight, with
matinees at 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday,
and 3 and S p.m. Sunday. “The
Navigator" runs through Oct. 7.
Parents, reviewer like Sea’
by Mark Haia
and Becky Tktanan
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Mark Hain: Usually a parental
recommendation won’t propel me at
jet speed to see a film, especially
when it’s accompanied by a line such
as, “I just don’t know about that
Ellen Barkin - She’s so, well . ..
slutty.’’ But still “Sea of Love'4 was
the only new movie in town, and I
gotta hand it to Mom and Dad, I
enjoyed the flick.
Becky Tideman: You’re right.
Parental recommendations are a little
awkward. After reading last week's
review my Dad inquired several
times as to which vice I preferred,
sex, lies or videotape. I told him defi
nitely videotape; I just think it’s a
wonderful medium.
Ml!: The film opens with a typical
“isn’t New York scary and danger
ous*’ scene,and gives us a delightful
array of whores,pimps andperverts
who are seemingly swimming
through a “sea,’ * and as the old coun
try ballad goes, they’re all “looking
for love.”
The camera slowly pans heaven
ward, far above the city to a lit win
dow, which appears to be a safe ref
uge from the scandal and disease
which lies below. The sweet, calming
tune of “Sea of Love” wafts through
the gently billowing curtains. An,
peace at last. But surprise! We're just
in time to cafch a brutal murder, or
chestrated to the mellow sounds of
die title track.
BT: Enter Frank Keller, played by
A1 Pacino. Frank is a homicide detec
tive, and therefore attuned to all those
nifty Perry Mason bad-guy csichhig
a
techniques. Unfortunately, by the
time he gets to the scene of the mur
der the New York Police Depart
ments had put their donut fondling
fingers all over much of the evidence.
Frank gets lucky though, and lifts a
pair of prints from lip-stick stained
cigarette. Soon after at an unex
plained male-bonding beer-swigging
police event, Frank nms into Sher
man Touhy, played by John
Goodman of “Roseanne.” They dis
cover the murder isn't an isolated
event. It’s a serial killing. And the
plot thickens...
MH: Frank and Sherman team up
and discover that all the killer’s vic
tims placed teenage poetry in the
classifieds of lonely hearts maga
zines.
So, the two decide to take out their
own personal ad and go through the
strenuous and dangerous task of tak
ing out all the lovelies who respond to
their sappy plea. They figure all they
need to do is lift the set a prints which
match the ones on the cigarette, and
they’re in business.
BT: “Sea of Love” continues
through a barrage of steamy scenes
where Frank falls for one of the sus
pects, Helen, played by Ellen Barkin.
The performances were all solid. I’ve
long hud a tendency to combine A1
Pacino, Robert DeNiro and Dustin
Hoffman into a single character — a
gun-toting Italian Orthodox Jewish
cross-dressing cocaine dealer, but
now that Pacino has returned to the
big screen, I think I finally have them
straight. While it’s nothing earth
shattering, “Sea of Love” is well
made, interesting, and must impor
tantly in this season of unoriginauty,
it’s not a sequel.
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