FILM LIST
— PASSION ANDCOMPASSION: MAURICE PIALAT “DO see THE COLOR PURPLE. ..
a ‘rattling’ good watch.” —- THE DAILY MAIL. Shaun Usher
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i Edinburgh Filmhouse and presented in . film with Depardieu and Isabelle 5 association with the Institut Francais . Huppert, which dissects a tempestuous i d’Ecosse. Eerhaps the age at which relationship between well-to-do girl A STE-MEN SPIEI BERG FILM
: Pialat came to the cinema partly and layabout biker, similarly show a
‘ explains the humanity and maturity of concern for the young. Using youthful his work. Naked Childhood (17 Sept) actors enables Pialat to channel their tackles the subject of an unwanted freshness into improvisation for a orphan with compassion and an greater naturalism. lnterveiwed in emotional pragmatism that refuses to ' 1983, he said: ‘l’m very keen on e offerany easy ways out. Hi31974 film improvisation. Even if I chose to return ‘5 The Mouth Agape (25 Sept) earned him to a more traditional concept of cinema Air v warm paw my \k'mnmfi em
a reputation as ‘the French Bergman' there's no doubt that I would still make as Itcentres on the turmoil for a family i sure that I could create such privileged when their mother is diagnosed as f moments. They are lndispensable'. As terminally ill, yet does so with a grim are Pialat’s challenging, wise films as humour and a noticeable lack of ; a whole. (TrevorJohnston)
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actors. No great Shakes Noriyuki ipat‘ Morita‘ Tamlyn WARNER BROS. ViuwmthTEVEN SPIELBERO l :im THE COLOR PURPLE Edinburgh; Odcon. Glasgow; ABC Tommi. 113 minsi Set some Six sum-m DANNY CLOVER ' ADOLPH CAESAR ° MARGARET AVERY Clarkston Road‘ Cinema, months after the b0x_officc and Infrrx‘iuitfi‘; .nf n'lzv Grosvenor‘ Odcon‘ Rio. Lothian; smash‘ this sequel takes young Itim l .sz- .: MICHAEL KAHN. ACE I’nxiurlzu': Designer J. MICHAEL RIVA ABC Strathclydc; ABC Greenock‘ champion Danie) and his [mm m of remnahmm ALLEN DAVIAU Ham-(S upon m:- mm: m ALICE WALKER ABC Kilmarnock‘ Kclbumc. La wisdom_dispcnsing mentor Miyagi Minx QUINCY JONEb \n'rnpldk 'm MENNO MEYJES Scala‘ Odeon Avr‘ Odcon , [0 [he Iatter‘s ancestral home in I;u'<:il:\i’l’f1xlllls’f\ and l’rl .im m! is Hamilton‘ Okinawa where the youngster learns ' ‘
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Teague. US. 1985) Michael ‘ the karate code of honour. ’ Rm WWW“PW “Wm” ‘7 I when.“deuterium ‘ Douglas. Kathleen Turner. 108 Glasgow? Cinema» GTOSVCHOR 9—: A I < I “I I '1 ~ WWWRWHM'1 “I”
mins, Lacklustrc. ramshackle | Odeon. Strathclyde; Kelburne -3"r-‘.‘3‘"‘-’l"”-mi‘ ll? A "3717’ sequel-by-numbers to the altogether ‘ o Ladyhawke (PG) (Richard Donner.
more persuasive Romancing the us. 1985) Matthew Broderick. ? NOW SHOWING ; 5’0’“’- Edinburgh? Odcon Rutger Hauer. Michelle Pfeiffer. 121 i ' The Karate Kld Pan 2 (PG) (10hr! mins. An impressive breadth ofscale I
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