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September 15, 1999
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guru. This lively ocmedy of sexual man­
The Film Center, located at 1219SW. ners, an ALFIE for the 90s, is bolstered
Park Avenue in Portland is pleased to by an energetic young cast, a director
present this series of contemporary Brit who has a gifted visual sensibility and a
ish film. “ Kicked off in 1996 by music track that furthers the action along.
TRAINSPOTTING and mainstreamed What sounds like an exercise in nihilism
bytheintemationalsuccessofrHEFULL (Are you homy, baby?) really has its
MONTY, a new British cinema emerged poignant moments as Grewal, with stops
at the end of 18 years of Conservative in Paris and Bombay, touches on the
government and the election of New drive and desperation that are part of
Labour.
life in the Asian diaspora. (107 mins.)
THUR-FRI, SE P T 16 17 A T 7PM
SUN SE P T 26 A T 6PM,
PO R I LAND PR EM IERE
MON 27 A T 7PM
T H E T IC H B O R N E C LA IM A N T
PO R TLA N D PR EM IERES
GREAT BRITAIN 1998
DIRECTOR: DAVID YATES
In 1866, the aristocrat Sir Roger
Tichborne disappeared at sea Sent to
Find him but becoming stranded in
Australia, his African manservant An­
drew Bogle decides to painstakingly
transform a drunken louse into the lost
aristocrat with the agreement each will
share the vast Tichborne inheritance.
Recounting a curiously true episode in
British history, T H E TICH BO RN E
C LA IM A N T draws comparison to
T H E R E T U R N O F M A R T IN
GU ERRE as it explores the nature of
truth and identity, in this case with a
peculiarly British sensibility. This “el­
egantly-crafted Victorian yam brim­
ming with intrigue, deception and class
conflict. ..has an added bonus in a string
of cameos from such seasoned scene
stealers as Stephen Fry, Sir John Gielgud
and Charles Gray. (97 mins.)
WED - THUR, SEPT 22-23 A T 7PM
PO R TLA N D PR EM IER ES
GURU IN SEV EN
GREAT BRITAIN
1998
DIRECTOR SHANI
GREWAL
URBAN G H O ST STO R Y
GREAT BRITAIN 1998
DIRECTOR GENEVIEVE JOLLIFFE
Proving there’s more than one ultra-
low-budget supernatural thriller with its
share of scares out there and URBAN
G H O ST STORY easily holds its own
with the best of them. In a run-down
Glasgow housing project, 12-year-old
Lizzie (Heather -Ann Foster), who has
just survived a near-death experience
and lives with her mother and younger
brother, is terrorized by poltergeist mani­
festations. Soon the furniture is moving,
the police are called in and journalists
call attention to the family’s plight. Sur­
prisingly, even the parapsychologists are
at a loss to explain the events. Shot in
Super 16mm and blown up to 35mm,
imagine POL 1 ER G E ISI given a dose
of documentary realism. Jolliffe and
screenwriter Chrisjones “show they can
multiplex with the best of Blighty
wannabes." (90 mins.)
T U E S SE P T 28 A T 7PM
P O R T LA N D PR EM IER ES
G A L L IV A N T
GREAT BRITAIN 1997
more adventurous and humane film
maker than either. And his grandmother
could give a lesson to Charlie Rose on
how to make good conversation with
strangers." - Amy Taubin, I HE VIL­
LAGE VOICE. (100 mins.)
DIRECTOR ANDREW ROTTING
“G alliv an t:” to
roam about in search
of pleasure or amuse­
ment.
“ Andrew
Kotting’s wildly inven
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GALUVAN 1.. dm m te
a three-month 6,000
m ile trip he took
around the coasts of
England, Wales and
Scotland with his re­
markably energetic 90-
y ear-old grandmother
and his seven-yearold
daughter who suffers
from the rare life-
threatening neurologi
cal disorder,Joubert’s
Syndrome. G A LLI­
VANT, which is often
hilarious, occasionally
melancholy, and al­
ways
profoundly
aware of the fragility
of life, combines Brit
ish history, family his­
tory, film history, geol­
ogy, seminology, and
tourism into a non-fic­
tion comedy of man­
ners. Rotting owes
something to Ross
Robert Pugh (left) and John Kani (right) in THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT.
McElwee and Peter
Greenaway, but he’s a
N a tio n a l B lu e N o te s a x o p h o n is t
RONNIE LAWS
Along With
Craig T Cooper
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With a refrain that
could be Austin Pow­
ers’ “Do you want to
shag now or do you
want to shag later?,"
G U R U IN S E V E N
gets its title from the
challenge Sanjay (Nitin
Chandra Ganatra), a
young Punjabi artist on
the dole, receives from
his partying friends.
When his girlfriend
(E rn estin a Q u arc)
leaves him and heads
to L.A for a week be­
cause he won’t commit
to marrieage, his pals
suggest he forget her
by taking on a bet If he
sleeps with seven dif­ I
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ferent women in seven
days, he’ll become a
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Verneii Brown
Larry Antonino
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