Documentary, Jarmusch film
highlight Sheldon schedule
By Samuel McKewon
Senior editor
The usual mix of foreign and
arthouse films on the Mary
Riempa Ross Film Theater’s
summer film schedule is about
to get a dose of anarchy, UK
style.
“The Filth and the Fury,” the
highly acclaimed documentary
about the seminal band of the
punk-rock movement, The Sex
Pistols, is the highlight of the
Ross’ docket of six feature and
four short films. It’s also the last
film of the summer schedule; it
won’t hit the screen until Aug.
10-20. "
Call it saving the best - and
most filthy - for last.
“It’s the definitive Sex
Pistols documentary,” said Dan
Ladely, director of the Ross. “I
can’t say I’m much of a fan of
the Sex Pistols, but I can say I
enjoyed it.”
It* the second Pistols docu
mentary fjom Julien .Temple,
whose first effort, “Tne Great
Rock ’N’ Roll Swindle," focused
less on the band than its promo
tion. “Filth and Fury,” which
Ladely saw at its premiere at die
Sundance Film Festival, is more
intimate with the band, chroni
cles the downfall of Sid Vicious
and features the band’s best live
footage ever captured.
Made with the cooperation
of the surviving members, then
and-now interviews spice up the
1 OS-minute run time. Even
Johnny Rotten can’t resist the
urge to tear up.
The result is one of the more
critically lauded rockumentaries
made in recent years. It’s a genre
not often shown at the Ross,
Ladely said, because of its rela
tive obscurity in the 1990s. The
fall 1999 schedule included Wim
Wenders’ “Buena Vista Social
Club,” but music documentaries
are still a rarity. I
“You look back, and I don’t
know how many there’s been,”
Ladely said. “I know we showed
the first Sex Pistols documen
tary. It was well received.”
“Filth and Fury” will be
shown along with one of the four
short films this summer, “Paulo
e Ana Luiza em Porto Alegre,” a
15-minute tale of the strange
couple next door.
Other Ross offerings this
summer are mostly foreign
efforts, with avant garde film
maker Jim Jarmusch’s latest and
applauded film “Ghost Dog: The
Way of the Samurai” showing up
in mid-July.
As always, Ross movies
show Thursdays through
Sundays with two showings on
weekdays, four on weekends.
The complete slate of films:
“Holy Smoke!” June 1-11
Rated R
114 minutes
Director Jane Campion is a
leader of feminist filmmakers,
and “Holy Smoke,” a romantic
comedy about cult worshippers
and their deprogrammers, fits
her typical fare.
One of finest visual artists in
the film medium, Campion,
along with her sister Anna, wrote
a screenplay that they hoped
would be all things, but the film
only accomplishes some of
them. Kate Winslet is Ruth, the
blind follower in a spiritual cult,
while deprogrammer Harvey
Keitel is hired to draw her out. It
goes without saying they eventu
ally will draw each other out.
A risky, beautiful film,
“Holy Smoke!” takes too many
chances to be perfect. But it is
daring, and Ruth’s Australian
family is the American equiva
lent of lovable white trash.
Feminist hooey? Maybe a little.
It largely works nonetheless.
“East is East,” June 15-25
Rated R
96 minutes
A immigrant comedy from
England chronicles the life of a
boorish Pakistani man (Om Puri)
with a strange mixed-race family
and his struggle to keep his sons
and daughter under his watchful
eye, which includes arranged
marriages.
“Milkman,” a 15-minute
short film about a stroke victim
and his milk-loving visitor, will
accompany “East is East.”
“Beau Travail,” June 29
July 9
Not rated
90 minutes
Claire Denis’ military ballet
drama is a loose representation
of Herman Melville’s “Billy
Budd” and a story about a
French legionnaire outpost in
Africa. The outpost leader
(Denis Lavant) and his ritualistic
regiment of men is threatened by
new recruit Gregoire Colin.
“Amplifier,” a 22-minute
futuristic nightmare about tech
nology and television, also will
be shown.
“Ghost Dog: The Way of
the Samurai,” July 13-23
Rated R
115 minutes
More like filming poet than
moviemaker, Jim Jarmusch
tackles life and death with the
story of a hit man (Forest
Whitaker) who lives by the
honor code of the ancient
Japanese Samurai and therefore
must pledge allegiance to the
mob boss who once saved his
life. A carrier pigeon and small
girl are his only real connection
to the pop-culture universe.
Jarmusch paints with broad
strokes rather than specific ones;
his movies are meditations on
themes rather than being secured
squarely in reality. Expect
“Ghost Dog” to have a big taste
of the mythic.
“Mifune,” July 27-Aug.6
Rated R
103 minutes
Another samurai movie, sort
of. The next in the line of Dogma
95 movies (that means no cam
era tricks, no artificial lighting
and apparently, no cliched end
ings), “Mifune” is the story of a
well-to-do Swedish business
man, Kresten (Anders W.
Berthelsen), and his estranged
autistic brother, Rud (Jesper
Asholt).
Much like “Rain Man,” the
movie derives its name from the
samurai who Kresten imperson
ates to entertain Rud.
“Lipstick and Letterbox” a
short film on fidelity and fanta
sy, will run with “Mifune.”
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