BY LOIS WADSWORTH
Nature’s Rhythmic Cycles
RIVERS AND TIDES: Andy Goldsworthy
Working with Time: Documentary written and di-
rected by Thomas Riedelsheimer. Produced by Annedore von
Donop. Cinematography and film editing by Thomas
Riedelsheimer. Original music by Fred Frith. Starring Andy
Goldsworthy as himself. Roxie Releasing, 2001. 90 minutes. NR.
A
ndy Goldsworthy is a 46-year-old
Scottish sculptor who works in
the field with natural objects.
Transitory art, his sculptures are not intend-
ed for posterity. Twig sculptures may sur-
vive an incoming tide only minutes, while a
winding rock wall may last centuries.
Photographs are what remain when nature
has reclaimed its own.
Goldsworthy speaks about his site-spe-
cific work in thoughtful rhythms, and his
light burr and disarming style add a person-
al touch to ideas he explores through art.
Just as he works with material he finds, he
is also fully present in the moment when he
speaks. He doesn’t tie up loose ends but lets
words float away into silence. He speaks
about death, loss, decay, change — lofty
subjects — but he is so down-to-earth we
remain grounded with him.
Goldsworthy makes art accessible to
anyone who has ever been a child. He is a
maker, and sometimes the form he is mak-
ing does not work. Rocks collapse in piles,
often many times. A hanging spider-web
design of lath falls off a tree. The making of
art is the process that feeds the artist, while
OPENING OR RETURNING:
All the Real Girls: Wry love story
between a young woman who wants to
break out and a more experienced guy
who loves her but wants to wait. Stars
Zooey Deschanel and Paul Schneider;
written and directed by David Gordon
Green. R. Bijou. See review this issue.
Better Luck Tomorrow: Asian
American high school seniors dabble in
criminal activities. Directed by Justin
Lin. R. Cinemark.
Confidence: Ed Burns plays a grifter
who swindles a bundle from the wrong
guy in James Foley’s double-crossing
drama. Also stars Rachel Weisz, Paul
Giamatti, Luis Guzman, Morris
Chestnet. R. Cinemark. Cinema World.
Cradle 2 the Grave: Jet Li and DMX
are “Born 2 the life, True 2 the code,
Bad 2 the bone.” R. Movies 12.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
(1982): Cameron Crowe’s adaptation of
his own novel is directed by Amy
Heckerling, who introduces a memo-
rable cast, including Sean Penn. Also
Nicolas Cage, Phoebe Cates, Jennifer
Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Forest
Whitaker, Eric Stoltz and more. R.
LateNite Bijou.
Gorgeous (China): At 4 pm on 5/2 in 115
Pacific, UO. Free.
House Built on Sand (Russia, 1991): On
the eve of WWII, Russian intelligentsia
suffer. At 7:15 on 4/30 in 115 Pacific, UO.
Free.
Identity: Ten travelers caught in a rip-
snorter of a storm seek refuge at a
creepy motel in the desert, and sure
enough they begin to die. Directed by
James Mangold, stars John Cusack,
Ray Liotta and lots of screaming wom-
ent. R. Cinema World. Cinemark.
It Runs in the Family: Fred Schepisi
directs Michael Douglas as a father trying
to avoid his father’s mistakes. His father,
Kirk Douglas, plays his father onscreen.
PG-13. Cinema World. Cinemark.
Ping Pong (Japan): At 7 pm on 5/2 in
207 Chapman, UO. Free.
Real Cancun, The: Theme: Anything
can happen during spring break. Okay.
R. Cinema World. Cinemark.
Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy
Works with Time: Splendid documen-
tary by Thomas Riedelsheimer about
famous Scottish sculptor Andy
Goldsworthy. He makes site-specific art
from found natural objects. Accessible
to anyone who has ever been a child. A
visual treat, it’s the most beautiful film
of the year. NR. Bijou. See review this
issue.
Shanghai Knights: Jackie Chan and
Owen Wilson are out to settle a score in
the end result is temporal at best.
For most of the film’s 90-minute run-
ning time, German filmmaker Thomas
Riedelsheimer follows Goldsworthy. He
shoots him working and talking, then
observes what becomes of the artwork
Goldsworthy has labored to produce. Their
collaboration looks smooth, but once early
in the day on a cold, northern beach at low
tide, we see another side of their lengthy,
enforced togetherness. The artist tells the
filmmaker to turn off the camera and do
something useful, like haul more large
rocks over to his work site.
I appreciate Goldsworthy’s response to
having a camera record everything he says
and thinks while he’s working on a project
with a definitive deadline. As the artist
notes, tides are relentless and on time. But I
am also grateful that he cooperated with
Riedelsheimer to make this detailed, ele-
gant film that we can see.
The common pattern in Goldsworthy’s
work is in landforms such as a meandering
river seen from the air. He employs the
river’s coiling nature in many pieces, but he
also works with geometric forms, softening
them through the materials he uses and the
pliant surface where he places them.
Icicles form an undulating pattern
around the top of a fallen tree, shine with
brilliance in the earliest light of the sun,
Victorian London in this comedy direct-
ed by David Dobkin. PG-13. Movies 12.
Son’s Room, The (2001): The
teenaged son in a happy, middle-class
Italian family dies in an accident, and
everyone falls apart. A sensitive film
about grief directed by Nanni Moretti,
who also stars as the boy’s father. Won
the Palme d’Or (the highest honor) at
2001 Cannes Film Festival. NR. At 7:30
pm on 4/29 in 115 Pacific, UO. Free.
Steel Helmet, The: Filmmaker Samuel
Fuller’s gritty, rarely seen 1951 Korean
War drama was shot and scripted in just
three weeks. Videohound calls it
“Fuller’s scathing comment on the
madness of war.” At 7 pm on 4/30 in
180 PLC, UO. Free.
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Agent Cody Banks: Teen action
adventure stars Frankie Muniz as an
undercover CIA operative, Angie
Harmon as his boss, and Hilary Duff as
girlfriend. PG. Movies 12.
Anger Management: Adam Sandler
plays a man who must undergo anger
management. His shrink, played by
Jack Nicholson, moves in with him. Also
stars Marisa Tomei. PG-13. Cinemark.
Cinema World.
Bend It Like Beckham: Soccer-crazy
girls in London suburb drive their
respective families crazy because
they’d rather play soccer than think
about marriage and shopping. Warm-
hearted, generous film is likely to be a
big hit. Get onboard early and enjoy!.
Highly recommended. PG-13. Bijou.
Online archives.
Bringing Down the House: Domestic
comedy starring Steve Martin and
Queen Latifah is directed by Adam
Shankman. PG-13. Cinemark.
Bullet-Proof Monk: Chow Yun-Fat is a
Zen-calm martial arts master who must
find a successor to guard a sacred
scroll. Seann William Scott is the unlike-
ly choice. PG-13. Cinemark.
Catch Me If You Can: Steven
Spielberg directs Leonardo DiCaprio in
tale of Frank Abagnale Jr., an actual
‘60s con man who passed himself off as
a pilot, a doctor and a college professor
and forged millions in checks before he
was 21. Christopher Walken plays his
father, and Tom Hanks is an F.B.I. agent.
2002 Academy Award noms for John
Williams’ music, Walken. Highly recom-
mended. PG-13. Movies 12. Online
archives.
Chicago: Broadway spectacular direct-
ed by Rob Marshall stars Renee
Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones as
killer dames behind bars who compete
for tabloid coverage. With Queen
Latifah, John C. Reilly and Richard
Gere. 2002 Academy Awards for best
picture, supporting actress Zeta-Jones,
art direction, sound, editing and cos-
tumes. PG 13. Cinemark. Online
archives.
Core, The: Jon Amiel directs this
adventure to the center of the earth.
Scientists played by Aaron Eckhart,
Hilary Swank and Bruce Greenwood
journey deep into the earth to detonate
a device to reactivate the planet’s core.
An unintentional comedy, it’s a great
break from reality. PG-13. Cinemark.
Online archives.
Daredevil: Marvel Comic’s Man
Without Fear is directed by Mark Steven
Johnson. Stars Ben Affleck as the
masked vigilante, Jennifer Graner,
Michael Clarke Duncan, Colin Farrell,
Joe Pantolliano, Jon Favreau and David
Keith. PG-13. Movies 12.
Darkness Falls: This horror thriller
directed by Jonathan Liebesman is
about the Tooth Fairy’s revenge. One
viewer wrote on the IMDB: “God, talk
about wretched and boring...” PG-13.
Movies 12.
Holes: Adventures digging holes at
Camp Green Lake for Stanley, who
comes from a strange family that’s
been cursed for generations.
Embarrassingly, Jon Voight, Sigourney
Weaver and Tim Blake Nelson co-star.
PG. Cinema World. Cinemark.
THOMAS RIEDELSHEIMER. ROXIE RELEASING, 2001.
Temporal, poetic beauty.
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY ASSEMBLES A LATH WEB IN A TREE.
melt and disappear. A snakelike chain of
brilliant leaves floats down a creek, making
visual its currents and eddies. At a boister-
ous spring creek, a round hole in a rock
presents a splash of brilliant marigold
petals covering still water. Dried stalks of
bracken from the previous summer — red-
orange above ground, black below — are
pulled up, broken and laid in a pattern at the
foot of a large tree. It forms a carpet of
orange containing a circle of black.
Carefully laid, flat slate stones rise from a
beach to form a large, standing cone-
shaped rock sculpture that the incoming
tide covers. Cut between this tableau are
House of a 1000 Corpses: Think this
might be a horror film? R. Cinemark.
Jungle Book 2: Same song, second
verse from Disney. Mowgli now lives in
the man village, but he misses his
friends and runs away to the jungle to
find them. But he may be found first: by
Shere Khan the tiger, his old jungle pals,
or his new family. Voices include John
Goodman, Haley Joel Osment and Phil
Collins. G. Movies 12.
Kangaroo Jack: Taking mob money to
Australia, two New York doofuses loose
it to a kangaroo. Stars Jerry O’Connell,
Anthony Anderson, Christopher
Walken and Dyan Cannon. David
McNally directs. PG. Movies 12.
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers:
Directed and re-imagined by Peter
Jackson, part two of J.R.R. Tolkien’s tril-
ogy continues. New characters, a sur-
prise return and great battles. Director
Peter Jackson’s second masterpiece.
Very highest recommendations. 2002
Academy Awards for sound editing,
visual effects. PG-13. Movies 12. Online
archives.
Malibu’s Most Wanted: Jamie
Kennedy, Taye Diggs and Anthony
Anderson in an urban comedy about
hip-hop culture. PG-13. Cinemark.
Cinema World.
Man Apart, A: If you’ve seen the trail-
er, you know that Vin Diesel is an under-
cover cop you don’t want to mess with,
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queen. Berlin Jerusalem (1989, 83 mins.) Two women meet first in Nazi Berlin,
escape to Jerusalem. Includes work by Pina Bausch Dance Company members.
Birth of a Golem (1991, 60 mins): Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics in imaginative
exploration of the Golem myth. Golem: The Spirit of Exile (1992, 105 mins.):
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legend of the Golem, set in Paris. Golem: The Petrified Garden (1993, 84 mins.):
Samuel Fuller, Hanna Schygulla, Jerome Koenig in wry film about art dealer who
goes to Siberia to pick up a collection that includes a giant Golem. Facets Video.
Electra, My Love: Miklos Jancso moves the classic Greek myth to the Hungarian
plain, where the drama plays out against more contemporary motifs. “The film is
shot as a visual epic, with elaborate camera moves that are Jancso’s famous sig-
nature,” according to Facets Video, which releases it in DVD from a restored print.
Henry IV: Marco Bellocchio’s 1984 screen version of Luigi Pirandello’s play stars
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shots of a similar red stone sculpture in a
meadow, where it is slowly covered by an
encroaching riot of summer vegetation.
Other breathtaking visuals await you in
this ravishing celebration of nature. If you
love being outdoors, if art is your passion,
if you love to make things, this movie has it
all. Goldsworthy’s work is available in
print (Hand to Earth: Andy Goldsworthy
Sculpture 1976-1990, Harry N. Abrams
publisher), but I doubt I’ll see a more beau-
tiful film this year. Rivers and Tides is an
undeniable pleasure for everyone in the
family. Opens Friday at the Bijou.
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especially after some sorry drug dealer
scum breaks into his home. Violent
revenge flick. R. Cinemark.
National Security: Martin Lawrence
and Steve Zahn star as LAPD
wannabes who end up as security
guards, yet still manage somehow to
nab the bad guys. PG 13. Movies 12.
Phone Booth: Colin Farrell, Kiefer
Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Katie
Holmes and Radha Mitchell star in Joel
Schumacher’s thriller. R. Cinemark.
Online archives.
R.M., The: Mormon-themed comic tale
of a young missionary, who returns
home only to find his large family has
forgotten he’s coming, his girlfriend has
found someone else, and his best friend
has charted his own path. PG. Cinema
World.
Recruit, The: Al Pacino and Colm
Ferrell star in this story about the inner
workings of the CIA. Also with Bridget
Moynahan, and directed by Roger
Donaldson. PG 13. Movies 12.
Spirited Away: Re-issue of 2002
Academy Award-winner for best ani-
mated feature. Japanese animation
director Hayao Miyazaki (Princess
Mononoke) follows adventures of 10-
year old girl, Chihiro, who discovers a
secret world and learns to take care of
herself after her parents mysteriously
change. Not just for kids, and too scary
for preschoolers. Very highest recom-
mendations. PG. Movies 12. Online
archives.
Twenty-fifth Hour: Spike Lee’s film
tracks the regrets of a mid-level heroin
dealer on his last day of freedom and
explores the limits of friendship.
Edward Norton has only 24 hours
before he’s due in prison for the next
seven years. Also stars Rosario
Dawson, Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Barry Pepper, Anna Paquin and Brian
Cox. Highly recommended for its realis-
tic depiction of regret, which suffuses
the film and raises it to a higher level. R.
Movies 12. Online archives.
Two Weeks Notice: Hugh Grant and
Sandra Bullock star as a very, very rich
man and his lawyer. When she quits,
and he replaces her with Alicia Witt, she
reconsiders. Written and directed by
Marc Lawrence (The Out-of-Towners).
PG-13. Movies 12.
What a Girl Wants: Teen Amanda
Byrnes is “trying to fit in, born to stand
out.” She wants a fairy tale relationship
with her absent dad and is tired of living
with her unconventional mom, played
by Colin Firth and Kelly Preston. Oliver
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Man Called Horse, A (1970): The late Richard Harris plays a rich Brit captured
by Sioux, who is tested through torture, then accepted by tribe. DVD. PG.
Once a Thief (1990, Hong Kong) Director John Woo’s adventure stars Chow Yun-
Fat, the late Leslie Cheung, Cherie Chung. NR.
Real Women Have Curves: This long-awaited, simple, strong story is about the
conflict between a strong-willed mother, Carmen (Lupe Ontiveros), and her equal-
ly determined daughter, Ana (America Ferrera). Ana is a Mexican-American
teenager with a full figure and a chance to get an education, while her mother
wants her to stay and work in the sweatshop. Directed by Patricia Cardoso. PG 13.
Bijou. Online archives.
Rio Lobo (1970): Howard Hawks’ last Western stars John Wayne in a post-Civil
War revenge mood. G.
Standing in the Shadows of Motown: Director Paul Justman’s documentary on
Motown’s history is told well, especially by two of the Funk Brothers, keyboardist
Joe Hunter and percussionist Jack Ashford. PG.
Swimmer, The (1969): Burt Lancaster stars in this strange but unforgettable,
existential film based on a John Cheever story. Frank Perry directs, and Kim
Hunter, John Garfield co-star. PG.
Treasure Planet
You Laugh: Taviani brothers film based on stories by Nobel Prize-winning Luigi
Pirandello. Accent Cinema, Facets Video.
Next week: Catch Me If You Can, The Emperor’s Club, Jane White is Sick
and Twisted and The Way Home.
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