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Home of the Brave (U) (Laurie Anderson, US, 1986) Laurie Anderson and musicians, William S. Burroughs. 90 mins. Laurie Anderson‘s Home Of The Brave is like no other concert film you will ever have seen, just as her concerts are not simply concerts, but expanded, multi-media events. Anderson is the most enigmatic of performers, and the film captures the diversity and crafted unpredictability of her stage work, a carefully integrated, occasionally disruptive combination of song and dance, music and electronics, projected films and slogans, sound and light.
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0 Agnes of God ( 15) (Norman Jewison. US. 1985) Jane Fonda. Anne Bancroft. Meg 'I‘illy. ()8 mins. When a new-born infant is found strangled in the room ofa novice nun. court-appointed psychiatrist Fonda is dispatched to uncover the truth behind the grisly events.
Based on a Broadway hit. this is both a teasing detective story and a clearly defined theological tussle. Intelligently crafted middlebrow fare in which Tilly triumphantly nabs the acting honours. Glasgow; (iFl‘ 0 April Fool‘s Day( 18) (Fred Walton.
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. Adrian Belew, ex-Philip Glass The focus, however, remains on in a face-mask, her voice electronically systematically.“"0211st11mlkillCd- saxophonist Richard Landry, Anderson‘s slight, angular, compelling distorted, playing an electric violin Iiumorous Artifact/1e [31/1 clone is Newcastlehnm keyboard ntayer Joy figure Essentially a story-teller, her apparently made from Old industrial JUSt am“th WW “I "1151} Shlm‘k- Askew, and percussion wizard David insistence on non-musical elements shelving. "'8 a" “8'83 “Wing Shirts. Glasgow; (.annon Sauchiehall Street Van Tiegham' with backing vocals "om |ends the film the kind at inherent rubber guitars, radar, Japanese 0 Beverly‘Hills Cop ( 15.) (Martin nolene McDonald and Janice visual values generally denied to ideograms that turn to fish or dancing Brest. L 198-1) Eddie Murphy. pendarvis‘ but their role within the concert movies, with a succession of men, dislocation, alienation. And it JuggeRcthId~ 510W“ BOW)” songs extends far beyond simply weird, strikingly memorable images YOU'VE never 588" a 90"?" played With 105 mins. A downtown. _ playing; they, (on, are onnged to flicking across the screen. right from a knife and fork, now’s your big chance downmarket. ( hiCitgt) cop Is 0th 0f become performance artists. the opening frames when she appears . . . Don’t miss it. (Kenny Malhieson)
his element but never out of his depth investigating the murder of a
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