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l image ofa once-great nation. Loyalties and friendship are tested. however. when
one of their friends is murdered.
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5 Betty’s Brood (Mick McConnell. UK.
199(J)8.3(lpm. Sec Cameo 3. 6.30pm.
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Close My Eyes (Steven Poliakoff. UK.
I990) 8.45pm. When a brother and sister
meet after some years. an incestuous
relationship ensues. Rather than being
contentious for its own sake. their affairis
used as a metaphor for the moral decayof
i recent years and the anxieties it has
; caused.
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l Surprise Film 9pm. It‘s all very hush-hush.
but we can assure you that this will be one
of the most talked about films of the year.
here receiving its first British public
screening.
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Waiting (Jackie MeKimmie. Australia.
I990) 9pm. A surrogate mother awaits the
delivery of her child in an isolated
farmhouse. surrounded by various
hangers-on. including a radical filmmaker
who is using the event as the climax ofa
film criticising doctors‘ attitudes to
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Sorry To Be Late (Massimo Troisi. Italy
198.3)9. 15pm. A Neopolitan
good-for-nothing falls in love with a girl he
meets at a party. but who lives outside the
city. He can win her over only by
becoming moe respectable and caring.
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The Refrigerator 11.15pm. An ordinary
New York couple find that their
innocent-looking refrigerator is really the
doorway to I lcll. A worthy parody ofSOs
; and 60s teen-monster movies. coupled
; with contemporary greed and paranoia.
f SATURDAY 24
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Travel Production Show 10.45pm.
Post Office McLaren Awards 5 12.30pm. This programme has a younger audience in mind and includes two films made by
school children in Gaelic. I CAMEO 1
My Sky, My Home (Slatnet Rahardjo ' Djarot. Indonesia. 1989) 2pm. Two boys t with completely different backgrounds — ‘ one who goes to school in a chauffeur-driven car. the other who spends his days collecting wastepaper to support his family - meet and become firm friends. An adventure film about friendship across social barriers. I FILMHOUSE 2 Eyes of the World 2.15pm. Nikita — The Elements of War includes some astonishing unseen footage of Khrushchev and his first generation Communist viewpoint. I FILMHOUSET Young Filmmaker at the Year Programme 14 2.30pm. Gill Wilkinson‘s Ellie and Danny Cannon‘s Strangers — two films made at the National Film and Television School. Beaconsfield. I CAMEO 1 City ol Hope (John Sayles. US. 1991) 4.30pm. When the no-good son ofa contractor walks out of hisjob. he ignites the political and racial tensions ofthe fictional Hudson City. NewJersey. I FILMHOUSET Tickets for the Zoo (Brian (‘rumlish. UK. 1990) 4.45pm. Scotland‘s Cormorant Films are behind this story ofteenagc
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orphans in Edinburgh trying to cope with the real world. A moving low-budget love story with an underlying condemnation of current government policies.
I CAMEO 3
Bl! (Pupi Avati. Italy. l99())6.15pm. Subtitled ‘Thc Interpretation ofa Legend‘. Avati — the subject of last year‘s retrospective — offers a bio-pic of live-fast-die-youngjazz trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke.
I CAMEOT
Schacko Klack (Paul Kieffer. Luxemburg. 1990) 6.45pm. A young boy in occupied Luxembourg is forced to assume adult responsibilities as the war goes on. A rare feature made in the local dialect. with English subtitles.
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Hlll Raft (Ken Loach. UK. 1990) 7pm. A young Glasgwcgian finds work on a London building site and begins a doomed affair with a young Irish girl. The site banter is hilarious. as Loach's direction allows for some rewarding ensemble acting.
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Shorts We Met Like '1‘th (Jorge Gurvich. Israel. l99l ) and Kyoto. MyMother's Place (Nagisa Oshima. UK. 1991).
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Charade (Stanley Donan. US. 1963) 7pm. This comedy thriller twists and turns as a trio of wierdos start trailing recently widowed Audrey Hepburn for the fortune of her deceased husband. Luckily Cary Grant is on hand to help her. . . or ishe'.’ I CAMEO 3
To Love (Mikhail Kalik. USSR. 1968) 8.30pm. Kalik was invited to re—edit the ‘corrccted version‘ of this film thanks to recent changes under glasnost. The result is a mysterious treatise on love. with juxtaposed documentary and fictional fragments. ’
I CAMEO 1
Hear My Song (Peter Chelsom. UK. 1991) 8.45pm. The owner ofa Liverpudlian club venue books a famous tenor who is on the run for tax evasion. and finds himself dealing not only with the police. but a full house of fans as well.
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Homicide (David Mamet. US. I991 )9pm. When a cop investigates the murder ofan old Jewish woman. it arouses a conflict between his indoctrinated racism and his own Jewish roots.
I CAMEO 2
Toto Les Heros (Jaco Van Dormael. France/BelgiumGermany. 1991 ) 9pm. Convinced that he was swapped at birth with his next-door neighbour. young Thomas constructs a dream life where he becomes a secret agent. Then. in his twilight years. he again tries to retrieve his life.
I FILMHOUSE 2
Bianca (Nanni Moretti. Italy. 198-1) 9.15pm. The Marilyn Monroe School is ultra-hip. with jukeboxes in every classroom. and the school psychiatrist is on hand. not for the pupils. but forthe staff.
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Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD (Lloyd Kaufman/Michael Herz. US. 1991) 11.15pm. A New York crimefighter is intermittently possessed by the spirit ofa murdered martial artist. The latest from the shamelessly low-budget spoofTroma stable.
SUNDAY 25
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Bill Douglas Trilogy (Bill Douglas. UK. 1972/74/79) 9am. My Childhood has eight-year-old Jamie befriended only by a German PoW; My Ain Folk sees his father return to the mining village of Newcraighall; and My Way Home finally
has him leave the children‘s home and escape to the RAF.
I CAMEO 1
John Sayles Guardian Lecture 10.30am. Sayles talks about his career as writer. director and independent filmmaker with Guardian critic Derek Malcolm. Also with the first British screening of his 25 minute long TV film. Mountaint'iew.
I FILMHOUSET
Animated in Italia 12.30pm. Asa
. compaction piece to the retrospective of
Italian Author Comics. this programme is a survey of the country‘s most prolific comic animators.
I CAMEO 1
Doombeach (Colin I‘inbow. UK. 1989) 2pm. A young boy becomes ill after swimming in the sea near a nuclear power station. and so local pupils decide to expose the pollution cover-up. An exciting children's film with an extremely relevent message.
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Eyes of the World 2. 15pm. Emil and Fiji plots the life of an exiled Czechoslovakian writer. while Locked Up Time isa powerful expose by East German filmmaker Sibyllc Schoncmann of her own imprisonment.
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Young Film Maker of the Year Programme 15 2.30pm. The final programme includes works from Lodz. London and British Columbia.
I CAMEO 1
Colonel Redl (Istvan Svabo. Hungary/West Germany'Austria. 1985) 4pm. L‘singJohn Osborne‘s play A Patriot For Me as a starting point. Svabo's second major Iiuropean film again starred Klaus-Maria Brandauer. this time as a soldier obsessed with his need for acceptance by the aristocracy.
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Comrades (Bill Douglas. UK. 1986) 5.30pm. Using the story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs. six labourers who were transported to Australia in 1834 for trade union activities. Douglas celebrates the history ofthe British labour struggle.
I CAMEO 1
Waterjan Wrobel (RolfSchuebel. Germany. l9‘)l)o.45pm. In 194] . a young man in occupied Poland is assigned to
i forced labouron a widow‘s farm. When he
becomes homesick and causes trouble. he is arrested by the Gestapo and sent toa concentrationcamp.
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Roman Holiday (William Wylcr. US. 1963) 7pm. A young princess on a liuropean tour becomes bored in Rome and. while spending a night on the town. mectsan American newsman. Audrey I Iepburn and Gregory Peck star.
I CAMEO 3
The Sacrament (l Iugo Claus. Belgium. 1990) 8.30pm. Set in the 50s. Klaus‘s sixth feature centres on a tormented young homosexual and his involvement at an annual famin reunion lunch.
I CAMEO 1
Barton Fink (Joel and Ethan (‘oen. L'S. I991)9pm. A young playwright. fresh from overnight success. finds himself struggling with writer‘s block in Hollywood. Another off-centre film from the makers of Miller's Crossing and Raising Arizona.
I FILMHOUSE 2 Hatataplan (Maurizio Nichetti. Italy. 1979) 9. 15pm. Nichetti's nonsense comedy takes shots at everybody in today's poor-rich society. capturing all the spirit and energy of youth.
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Dracula (Tod Browning. US. I931) 11.15pm. Bela Lugosi hams his way through the first sound version ofthe vampire legend. A creaky. melodramatic cinema classic.
60 The List 23 — 29 August 1991