Shadowfax plays at the EMU Ballroom, Saturday, Jan. 15, at 8:30 pm. See Saturday's listing for details.
Saturday
Radio
Classical Music/KWAX 91.1 FM,
10:30 am, Barber's Hermit Songs; 11
am. The Met, Mozart's Idomenco.
KLCC's New Dimensions presents
Planetary Changes with , Richard
Grossinger, 89.7 FM at 11 am.
Blackberry Jam on KLCC, 89.7 FM
at 6 pm. Local folk musicians live
from the Balladeer Music Shop at
5th St. Market.
Star Wars episode 8: Death Star's
Transit at 6 pm on KWAX 91.1 FM.
A Canticle for Leibowitz, part 3:
Brother Francis shares his discovery
of the Leibowitzian relics with the
skeptical monastery leader, Dom
Abbot Arkos. KWAX 91.1 FM at
6:30 pm.
Children
Animal Movement is a workshop
for children to understand how
animals move; with Judy Chamard,
anthropology and dance student.
For children 7-11 at the Museum of
Natural History, 1-5 pm. Cost $4.00
($3.50 members). 686-3024.
Through the Looking Glass, John
Tenniel's drawings of Lewis Carroll's
imaginative tales of Alice will inspire
drawings and salt dough sculptures.
1-3 pm. $3.50. 345-1571.
Etc.
There will be a 4-H Showmanship
Clinic and Show, 8 am at the Fair
grounds.
The Greenpeace Eugene Whale
Watches is offering a 2-hour cruise
to observe the Gray Whale Migra
tion every Saturday and Sunday in
January. Call 726-5208 for infor
mation and reservations, $15.
Oregon Repertory Theater Youth
Academy classes are at 11 am (for
ages 7-11) and noon (for ages 12-15).
At Lincoln School, 650 W 12th. Pre
register with Bonnie at 688-4270.
Celebration of Martin Luther King's
birthday at Lane County Conference
Center, 13th and Madison. Chil
dren's activities noon-3, 3-5
speakers, 5-7 dinner, 7-12 music and
dancing. Donations accepted.
344-7041.
Winter Skies, tonight's constella
tions and sky objects, 1 pm. To
Worlds Unknown explores the
planets, 3 pm. New exhibits include
holography, musical computer and
model railraod. WISTEC, 2300 Cen
tennial Loop. 484-9027.
Springfield Coin Club’s 28th annual
Coin Show is free today at Eugene
Conference Center on W 6th Ave,
Eugene. Time: 10 am-9 pm.
Hammett
It has been a long wait for Hammett. Wim Wender's homage to the
American detective fiction writer of the twenties and thirties. The film took
nearly seven years (some say longer) to complete. In the making, it acquired a
rather public production history. For example, young German director
Wenders (The American Friend) originally wanted Hammet to have a film noir
voice-over and to be shot in black and white. Somehow the film ended up
without a voice-over and in color. Now that Hammett has finally been re
leased, it is receiving very mixed reviews. And deservedly so, for it is a film
worthy of discussion.
Hammett takes place in 1928, in San Francisco. Samuel Dashiell Hammett is
at the point in his career when he has given up being a Pinkerton detective and
has decided to try his hand at writing private-eye fiction. Along comes an old
colleague, who is coincidentally the model for the Continental Op character of
pulp mag Black Mask renown. The old gumshoe enlists Hammett's aid in an
exotic, convoluted case involving "cops, crooks and the big rich—the people
who run things."
Based on the mystery novel Hammett by Joe Gores, the movie Hammett is a
fictionalization of both Hammett the writer and Hammett the detective. While
Gores wrote his story in a manner which honored Hammett, he was not so pre
sumptuous as to imitate his predecessor or to posit fictional sources for Ham
mett's own fictive creations. Gores captured Hammett's authentically
American realism in his book. Zoetrope Studio's production of the film cap
tures Hollywood's imitation of such realism. Hammett is a sounstage movie
which provides an art-imitates-life setting for the narrative.
The characters in Hammett are somewhat wooden: it's as though the pages
which are their origin have turned back into trees. Frederic Forrest
(Apocalypse NOw, The Rose) as Hammett seemed unsure whether he was
Jason Robards-as-Hammett-in-Julia or Forrest-imitating-Hammett. The sup
porting characters—Peter Boyle as Hammett's old colleague, Lydia Lei as a
Chinese adolescent, blackmailing prostitute, and Marilu Henner ("Taxi") as a
vamp librarian—are far from credible. It must be noted as well that Jack
Nance, Eraserhead himself, plays a sleezy pornographer in Hammett. Elisha
Cook, the gunsel in the 1941 version of The Maltese Falcon, plays Eli the hack
driver.
So much time and energy could have produced a better movie. But like all
things of controversy, Hammet is a film which should be seen and judged on
your own terms. It's an interesting film—and it's a whole lot better than TV's
latest detective pilots.
—Cathy Sarkowsky
Sunday
16
Sports
Swim, Sauna and Steam at the
YMCA with Network Singles. Cost
$3, 7 pm. Cail 345-6432 for details.
Concert
Folk guitarists Rob McIntosh and
Laurie Brown will play in the Ger
linger Lounge at the U of O. This
evening marks the release of their
first album, “A Touch of Sanity."
$2.50 at 7 pm.
Dance
International Folk Dancing. Instruc
tion from 7-8 pm. Program and re
quest dancing from 8-10 pm. New
comters welcome. 75c. Westmore
land Community Center, 1545 W
22nd Ave. Sponsored by Veselo
Community Folk Dancers,
726-7548.
Etc.
Springfield Coin Club's annual coin
show continues (see Saturday
listing) from 10 am-4 pm.
THE JOLLY GOOD
CHIMNEY SWEEPS
P David Stuart Bull, Esq.
344-5571
A Sweep for All Seasons
At The Movies
Airplane II: McDonald, Jan 13-20.
344-4343.
Best Friends: West 11th Tri
Cinema, Jan 13-20. 342-4142. Also
at Springfield Cinema, Jan 13-20.
726-9073. Romantic comedy with
Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn.
Dark Crystal: Cinema World, Jan
13-20. 342-6536. An exciting
adventure with make-believe crea
tures.
Das Boot: Bijou, Jan 13-20.
686-2458. Harold & Maude is the
late show.
E.T.: Springfield Cinema, Jan
13-20. 726-9073. Everyone's
favorite alien teams up with the
kids (as always) in the latest
chapter of Steven Spielberg's UFO
mythology.
First Blood and Mad Max:
Oakway Cinema, Jan 14-20.
342-5351.
Forbidden Lessons and Naughty
Freshman, also Spanish Smiles and
Super Fuzz: all at the Eugene
Drive-in, Jan 14-20. 726-9073.
Gay Blade and Spring Fever:
Eugene Drive-in, Jan 14-20.
726-7412.
Hammett: Cinema 7, Jan 13-20.
687-0733. See review.
48 Hours: West 11th Tri Cinema,
Jan 14-20. 342-4142. A couple of
buddies shoot up the neighbor
hood in the tradition of Clint East
wood. Nick Nolte stars.
"Film is a ribbon of dreams."
—Orson Welles
Kiss Me Goodbye: West 11th Tri
Cinema, Jan 13-20. 342-4142.
Romantic comedy with James
Caan, Sally Field, and Jeff Bridges.
Man from Snowy River: Spring
field Cinema, Jan 13-20. 726-9073.
A family movie about a boy and
horses.
Peter Pan: Springfield Cinema, Jan
13-20. 726-9073. Walt Disney's
classic.
Savanah Suites: Cinema World,
Jan 14-20. 342-6536. Also at the
Eugene Drive-in, 726-7412.
Spring Fever: Cinema World, Jan
13-20. 342-6536.
Still of the Night and Trail of the
Pink Panther: Mayflower, Jan
13-20. 345-1022.
Six Weeks: National, Jan 13-20.
345-1022.
Tex: Fine Arts, Jan 14-20.
747-2201.
Tootsie: Cinema World, Jan 13-20.
342-6536. Wonderful comedy
about sex roles.
The Toy: Valley River Twin, Jan
13-20. 686-8633.
The Verdict: Valley River Twin,
Jan 13-20. 686-8633.
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