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The 1987 Eugene International Film Festival has
begun at Cinema 7 the Atrium, downtown at 10th
d Olive. See elsewhere in What’s Happening lor
an article on this much-awaited, yearly local film
happening, as well as reviews of some of the up
coming films in the series.
International Film Festival
Tangos, The Exile of Gardel: Beautiful musical
sequences are in this tale of Argentinian exiles in
Paris Runs August 14-17 at Cinema 7 (687-0733).
Nineteen Nineteen: Paul Scofield and Maria
Schell play loners who were patients of Sigmund
Freud, and meet 50 years later Will be screened
from August 18-20 as a double fature with Beyond
Therapy at Cinema 7 (687-0733).
Beyond Therapy: Robert Altman's adaptation
of a play satirizes contemporary sexual relation
ships. With Glenda Jackson and Tom Conti. Will
be screened from August 18-20 as a double
feature with Nineteen Nineteen at Cinema 7
(687-0733).
Starting Friday, August 14:
Can’t Buy Me Love: As a high school nerd,
Patrick Dempsey tries to use his money to attract
cheerleader Amanda Peterson. Teen comedy.
Movieland (342-4142) and Springfield Quad
(726-9073).
Monster Squad: Heroic teenagers save a town
from a crew of famous monsters. Horror/com
edy/adventure. Movieland (342-4142) and Spring
field Quad (726-9073).
No Way Out: Navy lieutenant Kevin Costner goes
from shipboard duty to involvement with the CIA.
With Gene Hackman and some reportedly steamy
scenes. Valley River Twin (686-8633).
North Shore: Matt Adler plays Rick Kane, who
finds challenge in romance and surfing on Oahu's
north shore. Springfield Quad (726-9073).
Prick Up Your Ears: Stephen Frears (My
Beautiful Laundrette) directs Gary Oldham (Sid and
Nancy) and Alfred Molina in a film based on the
life—and brutal death—of playwright Joe Orton.
The Bijou (686-2458).
CONTINUING/RETURNING
Back to the Beach: Late '50s pop stars Annette
Funicello and Frankie Avalon reappear on movie
beaches. This time they're a couple visiting a
daughter at her California pad. Valley River Twin
(666-8633).
La Bamba: Lou Diamond Phillips and Esai
Morales star in this re-creation of the life of Richie
Valens, a late-'50s rock star who died in a plane
crash at the peak of his career. Los Lobos pro
vides many of the musical numbers. Cinema
World (342-6536).
The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland:
Th' Cam Bears meet Alice and other creatures in
this animated, G-rated movie. Cinema World
(342-6536).
Full Metal Jacket: The long-awaited Stanley
(2001) Kubrick film. it never lets up revealing the
mindlessness and brutality of war, climaxing at
the 1968 Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.
McDonald (344-4343).
Heartbreak Ridge: Clint Eastwood plays a tough
marine sergeant about to retire. Double feature
with Witches of Eastwick at Springfield Fine Arts
(747-2201).
Innerspace: In this science fiction comedy about
a secret government project, Dennis Quaid plays
a macho brute reduced to miniature, then injected
into grocery clerk Martin Short Double feature
with Roxanne at Cinema World (342-6536).
Lethal Weapon: This action picture stars Mel
Gibson and Danny Glover. Returns to town as the
late-night feature at the Bijou (686-2458).
The Living Daylights: Two firsts are in this new
James Bond flick: Timothy Dalton now plays Agent
007, and he is involved with a new intrigue—mono
gamy. Fantasy/adventure. Movieland (342-4142).
The Lott Boys: A new twist in the annals of
vampire stories, it combines rock and roll with ter
ror. With Jami Gertz, Dianne Wiest and Edward
Herrmann. National (344-3431).
Maid to Order: Ally Sheedy goes from riches
to rags. Co-stars Beverly D'Angelo, Michael Ont
kean and Valerie Perrine. Comedy. Movieland
(342-4142).
Masters of the Universe: Dolph Lundgren and
Frank Langella face combat in this live-action sci-fi
adaptation of the toys/cartoon series. Movieland
(342-4142) and Springfield Quad (726-9073).
Nadine: Takes place in Texas in the '50s. Jeff
Bridges and Kim Basinger play a couple at odds,
trying to avoid a murder rap. Comedy-thriller.
Cinema World (342-6536).
RoboCop: Sci-fi thriller about a cyborg employed
to clean up on Detroit lowlife. With Peter Weller,
it's graphically violent, satirizes TV newscasts, and
is more than comix brought to life. Movieland
(342-4142) and Springfield Quad (726-9073).
Reviews: Tangos and 1919
Two from the Festival
by Lois Wadsworth
Tangos, The Exile of Gardel is
about Argentinians who fled the
terror of the generals and came to
Paris in the 1970‘s. Working with
an art form called a tango-dy (an
opera of song/dance/tragedy/
comedy), a group of young
dancers tell the stories of these
men and women far from home.
The dances are based on the
famous tangos of the long-dead
Carlos Gardel, but the tragedy
(and comedy) is supplied by the
ten or twelve exiles.
The director of the company is
consumed with the question of
form—he can’t get backers until
The Exile of Gardel is complete.
The writer (who remained in Ar
gentina) hasn’t written an ending
for it, and the composer doesn’t
think the show needs one. The ar
tists in exile struggle with the Pari
sian theatre establishment to tell
what is going on back in Argen
tina in their own way. They take to
the streets to dance.
Tangos director Fernando
Solanas has chosen a non-linear
style of storytelling here—frag
ments begin to come together and
yield their meaning as the movie
progresses, but all is not revealed
at the beginning. Characters are
introduced, tensions erupt, tango
dies are danced.
Tangos, The Exile of Gardel is a
very ambitious piece. It works as a
metaphor for the making of the
film and for the artist’s never
ending conquest of the limitations
of form. It didn’t work for me on
a feeling level, although other peo
ple were moved by it. The
political statements about the hor
rors of Argentina were diluted by
the more frivolous concerns of the
young exiles to find a place be
tween their old world and the
Paris they find themselves living
in. Although I think the stories too
complex and the emotions not
focused, Solanas deserves credit
for taking the risks to make the
picture in his own way. Well
worth seeing for yourself.
Nineteen Nineteen is a story of
two of Sigmund Freud’s patients
who spend a day together in Vien
na 50 years after they told all (or
did they?) on the good doctor’s
couch. The film is an understated
character study ably performed by
veterans Maria Schell as Sophie
and Raul Scofield as Alexander.
Eighteen-year old Sophie was in
love with a woman in 1919, and
young Alexander was beset with
major sexual identity problems—in
Tangos: The Exile of Gardel is part of Cinema 7’s International
Film Festival.
love with his sister, attracted to
ugly women, and about to marry
beneath his class. Freud wrote
about them in his case histories:
Sophie is based loosely on a pa
tient from his Psychogenesis of a
Case of Homosexuality in a
Wyman and Alexander on a patient
he called the Wolf Man.
Sophie looks up Alexander in
Vienna in the 1970‘s to find out if
he thinks the therapy worked for
him—is he cured? she asks. She
has doubts. Alexander remembers
Freud saying: “There are no cures
. . . only the possibility of con
verting hysterical misery into
everyday unhappiness.” I have to
tell you that my personal bias
against Freud’s interpretation of
dreams and unconscious images
was reinforced by their recollec
tions of time on the couch. But
“the talking cure” the older
Sophie and Alexander engage in
does seem to work. A wonderful
kind of kinship is established be
tween these two strangers, and
their candor and shared intimacy
feels real.
A modest film, Hugh Brody’s
carefully constructed investigations
of the past are set in a context of
the horrors of the world war that
followed. Nineteen Nineteen quiet
ly exposes the dreams and hopes
of the young people in a time that
was the end of the world. “Every
thing has changed,” Sophie says.
“Nothing has changed,” Alexander
replies.
Roxanne: Steve Martin, with the longest nose
since Pinocchio, and Daryl Hannah star in a
modern-day comedy based on the story of Cyrano
de Bergerac. Double feature with Innerspace at
Cinema World (342-6536).
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Heigh
ho! This re-release of the 1937 technicolor Disney
classic is at Movieland (342-4142) and Springfield
Quad (726-9073).
Stakeout: Emilio Estevez and Richard Dreyfuss
are two undercover detectives. Comedy-adventure.
Cinema World (342-6536).
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace: Chris
topher Reeve again plays the Man of Steel, up
against Nuclear Man. Gene Hackman plays a
villain, with Margot Kidder as Lois Lane, and
Mariel Hemingway. Movieland (342-4142).
Witches of Eastwick: Jack Nicholson as the
devil, with Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan
Sarandon, star in this adaptation of a John Up
dike novel.
Double feature with
Heartbreak Ridge at Springfield Fine Arts
(747-2201).
Who’s That Girl: Madonna plays a parolee seek
ing the man who actually committed the crime
for which she did four years. Griffin Dunne is her
attorney. Movieland (342-4142).
Thursday, August 13 is the last showing for: Gothic
at Cinema 7 Burke and Wills at the Bijou.
Outrageous Fortune late-night show at the Bijou.
Summer School at Valley River Twin and Spring
field Quad. Dragnet at Springfield Quad.
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