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Recent Releases
Superman IV
A socially conscious Superman
film Who would base thought?
Chris Reeve for one. In fact, be
came back for the fourth in the
senes on the condition he have
creative ivolvement, and the story
he co-wrote pits the man of steel
against the nuclear arms race.
Challenges to make the world safe
for peace, the man in blue decides
to rid the world of nuclear
weapons.
Gene Hackman is back as
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ington, Virginia, in the late 60s,
James Caan and James Earl Jones
are war weary vets teaching cadets
what they call the “show business”
side of the military. They are the
Arlington Cemetery Honor Guard,
burying the war dead with preci
sion cadence in perfectly pressed
uniforms and spit polished shoes.
Though some war issues are
touched upon, Gardens of Stone is
really about the military family, a
theme right out of Ford’s cavalry
films. Caan is a career officer
who's made the army his home
and built his life around it, leaving
little personal life to speak of. He
carouses with buddy Jones, adopts
young cadet D. B. Sweeney and,
in the few opportunities he has,
leaches his charges a few things he
hopes might keep them alive over
seas. Caan can’t have an opinion
on the war; it exists and therefore
he must teach his men the best he
can before they leave to fight.
That's all well and good, but the
subplot built around Caan’s rela
tionship with liberal newspaper
woman Anjelica Huston pokes at a
host of issues that never really get
dealt with. It’s well done drama,
well acted and handsomely staged
with some marvelous moments of
camaraderie that nicely illustrate
Coppola’s family theme, but more
is promised than the film is will
ing to deliver.
Clay Fantasies
From the man who brought us
the dancing raisins come two
wonderful works: The Festival of
Claymat ion, a collection of short
films from the Will Vinton studios,
including the Oscar winning Clos
ed Mondays and the recent
California Raisins commercial, and
The Adventures of Mark Twain, an
hilarious full length feature made
two years ago but little seen
because of a poor release. Both
prove Vinton and his crew to be
the most imaginative animators in
the country. The writing is witty,
the timing impeccable and the at
tention to detail and gesture rich,
making these the most expressive
animated works to come from an
American studio in years.
The Vinton charm can be en
joyed by all ages. The Festival may
be the most accessible with its col
lection of diverse short features,
but Mark Twain is my favorite.
Fashioned largely from excerpts of
Twain’s work, this fantasy com
bines adolescent adventure (star
ring the likes of Tom Sawyer and
Huck Finn) with the insight and
subtle humor of the master satirist.
These are two perfect family treats
for the upcoming holidays.
Tough Guys Don’t Think
When Walter Hill made Extreme
Prejudice I don’t think he meant it
to be a parody. Alex Cox,
however, hoped Straight to Hell
would send up Sergio Leone’s late
60s spaghetti westerns in grand
fashion. Neither film has a par
ticularly strong sense of logic to
hold it together.
Extreme Prejudice (a lousy title,
and it has nothing to do with
racism) suffers from an overdose of
machismo and carnage, hinting at
Peckinpah (the ending is a verit
able remake of The Wild Bunch)
but missing the point altogether.
Though expertly choreographed,
Nick Nolte walks through the pic
ture like a robot and Powers Booth
can’t keep his character straight.
The ending is ludicrous, a parody
of itself and its ilk which is all the
more funny because it takes itself
so seriously.
Straight to Hell has no such
delusions, but in its chaos it
neglects to tell a story. A collec
tion of gags centered around three
bumbling hit men holed up in a
town controlled by a gunslinging
family, it is full of references to
Leone films and humorous little
scenes, but for the most part it is
rampant silliness. Cox and friends
(which include Joe Strummer,
Elvis Costello, Dennis Hopper,
Grace Jones, Jim Jarmusch and the
Poagues) have concocted a private
joke which they’ve neglected to let
us in on.
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