Arts & Entertainment
Culture-spreading show to be performed
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Up With People will perform their cultural awareness show at the Lied Center
tonight at 8 p.m.
By Jennifer Johnson
Staff Reporter
The global awareness trend of the 1990s is
nothing new to “Up With People,” an interna
tional entertainment and educational organiza
tion that will be perform tonight at 8 p.m. at the
Lied Center.
The new show, “Face to Face,” will cele
brate the group's 25th Silver Celebration anni
versary. This year’s cast includes 130 people
from 19 countries.
The show consists of a variety of music and
dance numbers including rock, gospel, folk,
rhythm and blues, and rap, to name a few.
The content of the songs is pertinent to
problems across the world such as racism,
drugs and the environment. When the group is
in foreign countries and the words in the songs
can’t be translated to fit the music, slides in the
appropriate language are projected so that the
meaning is not lost.
The cast visiting Lincoln is one of five
international “Up With People” casts that
travels for 11 months worldwide. The aim of
the group is to bring people of different cul
tures together. By doing this, members develop
an increased global perspective, integrity and
motivation to service.
David Johnson, who is a former cast mem
ber, found this to be true when he traveled with
an “ Up With People” cast last year. By staying
with local families wherever they went, the
cast members were forced to become engrossed
in foreign cultures, he said.
“You get to learn about history first hand,”
Johnson said about his experience in East
Germany.
He and his cast were in Leipzig, East Ger
many, just after the Berlin Wall came down,
and they had a chance to see the people and feel
the emotion. He definitely got more than the
Life Magazine effect
Johnson’s group traveled through Europe
for 2 1/2 months, spent two months in Mexico
and then traveled from the east to west coast of
the United States.
Johnson is now a member of the advanced
team of “Up With People.” He is based in the
Lincoln United Way office, the organization
that receives all proceeds from the shows.
He works with people who are interested in
becoming future cast members, and as a previ
ous member he can share his “invaluable
experiences.”
“Up With People’s” method of acquiring
new members is unique for a musical group in
that applicants do not have a musical audition
but an interview.
“You can teach someone losing and dance,
but you can’t teach them how to represent
themselves or their country,” Johnson said.
“Up With People” will give Lincoln resi
dents a chance to interact with them. Local
families will house the group members while
they arc here, and anyone interested will have
a chance after the show to talk to the members
about becoming part of a future cast.
Applicants must be between the ages of 18
to 25, single, a high school graduate or equiva
lent, and have the ability to participate 100
percent, he said. It’s also very important to be
a “people person,” Johnson said.
There will be an information session after
the show and anyone interested in joining can
stay for information and an interview. Anyone
who cannot attend the show is welcome to
come to the Lied Center at 9:45 p.m. for the
information session.
There are still tickets available for this cul
ture-spreading event and they are on sale at the
Lied Center Box office for S10, SI2 and S14.
Sheldon Film Theater to provide
free film studies movie screenings
By Julie Naughton
Senior Reporter
Attention students short on money,
hut interested in film -- the Sheldon
Film Theater will be showing free
movies this semester, thanks to the
UNL Film Studies Department.
The Sheldon Theater screens films
for the UNL Film Studies depart
ment. The films, which will be shown
throughout the semester, are free and
arc open to the public.
Movies are chosen by the faculty
that teach UNL Film Studies classes,
according to Dan Ladely, the Shel
don’s director. Films arc chosen for
their aesthetic value and film tech
nique, Ladely said. Many of the films
are in black and white. The films
come from the Soviet Union, Ger
many, France, Italy, Denmark, Mex
ico, Sweden and the United Stales.
Film students are required to see
the films, and anyone else who would
like to see them is welcome.
• The next film to be screened is
Sergei Eisenstein’s “Strike.”
“Strike,” made in 1925, is a 97
minute Soviet film. It will be shown
Tuesday at 1 p.m. and Wednesday at
3:15 p.m. The film is in black and
white.
•After “Strike,” students will have
the chance to see Fritz Lang’s “Me
tropolis” and Frederick Wiseman’s
“High School.” “Metropolis” is a
black and white German film, made
in 1926; “High School” is an Ameri
can film, also in black and white,
made in 1968. %
• “Metropolis” will screen Tues
day, Sept. 18, at 1 p.m., and Wednes
day, Sept. 19, at 3:15 p.m. “High
School” will screen Tuesday, Sept.
18, at 3:15 p.m. and Wednesday, Sept.
19, at 1 p.m.
• Other films to be shown in Sep
tember are F.W. Mumau’s“Thc Last
Laugh,” Sept. 25 and Sept. 26, and
Barbara Kopple’s “Harlan County,
U.S.A.,” Sept. 25 and Sept. 26.
• October films: Jean Renoir’s
“Rules of the Game,” Oct. 2-3; Albert
and David Maysles’ “Grey Gardens,”
Oct. 2-3; Orson Welles’ “Citizen
Kane,” Oct. 9-10; Fritz Lang’s
“Scarlet Street,” Oct. 16-17; Roberto
Rossellini’s “Open City,” Oct. 23
24. Alain Renais’ “Hiroshima, Mon
Amour,” OcL 30-31.
• Films to be shown in November
include: Carl Th. Dreycr’s “Day of
Wrath,” Nov. 6-7; Alfred Hitchcock’s
“Strangers on a Train,” Nov. 13-14;
Emile de Antonio’s “In the Year of
The Pig,” Nov. 13-14; and Luis
Bunuel’s “The Exterminating An
gel,” Nov. 27-28. — In December,
look for Jean-Luc Goddard’s “Mas
culine/Fcminmc,” Dec. 4-5; Errol
Morris’ “The Thin Blue Line,” Dec.
4-5; Ingmar Bergman's “Persona,”
Dec. 11-12; and Connie Field’s “The
Life and Times of Rosie the Riv
eter,” Dec. 11-12.
All films will be shown at the
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, 12th
and R streets.
UNLfilm studies program
born from student interest
By Julie Naughton
Senior Reporter
When David Stilwell hung out with
i female Elvis impersonator last year,
le wasn’t fooling around -- he was
studying.
Homework may be a little differ
ent for Stilwell, a senior film studies
major who made a documentary of
the lady Elvis. But after all, so is his
major.
Film studies is an integrated slud
es major through the College of Arts
k Sciences. The college grants a minor
n film studies as well. The minor has
)een available since the late 1970s,
md the major since the early 1980s.
^cording to June Levine, one of the
idvisors to film studies students, the
Jrogram grew out of student interest.
“We didn’t have a single film
class of 1970,” Levine said. ‘‘And
some interested students went to the
head of the English department and
asked him to set one up. He knew that
I was a film buff, and asked me to
leach the class. The program grew
from there.”
Levine subsequently was named
head and chief advisor of the film
studies program. That post is now
held by Professor Wheeler Dixon,
although Levine still is very involved
in the program.
Classes were added from existing
classes to form the minor. The major
was created in the early 1980s; be
cause integrated studies concentra
tions require 50 hours for a major, the
major was not available until enough
classes had been created.
Film studies students lake classes
in English, journalism, theater, his
lory, photography and filmmaking.
Students making films work in 8
millimeter and 16 millimeter film.
Students involved with the pro
?;ram say that they’re glad they chose
ilm studies.
Stilwell said the film studies pro
gram taught him skills he needed to
make his films.
“I had to go out and do films on
my own to get hands-on experiences,”
Stilwell said. ‘‘But as far as the pro
duction classes go, the instructor is
very competent and the production
classes have boen very helpful to me.”
The strongest aspects of the pro
gram, Stilwell said, are film theory
and history classes.
“At first, I didn’t even know you
could major in it (film). If it hadn’t
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Anthrax album succeeds
with heavy, catchy tunes
By Michael Deeds
Senior Editor
Anthrax
“Persistence of Time”
Island
Guitarists Scott Ian and Charlie
Benantc have gotten their axe to
gether on “Persistence of Time,”
the new thrash attack from East
Coast speedsters Anthrax.
After teetering recently between
mediocrity and genius, Anthrax
finally has set the heavy metal fool
down, bringing out some heavy
lyrics, heavy guitars and heavy
attitudes to match the genre.
Though the cover art of “Per
sistence of Time” deceivingly
makes the band look like some
speedster pack that hasn’t made
the cut, inside lurks a meaty diet of
chunky riffs and beefed-up back
beats.
The album opens with a mo
notonous “tick, tick” of time but
the pace quickens soon enough.
Never short on breath, vocalist Joe
Belladonna turns off the hcadbangcr
screams and turns more to Heificld
stylc passion on tunes like “Blood”
and “In My World,” which deal
with typical self-exploratory sub
jects like life and death.
On “Keep it in the Family,”
undoubtedly the strongest cut on
the album, Anthrax bases a seven
minute tune on a crunchy, plod
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