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Eyes of the World 2.15pm. Mama Calle looks at the life of Mexican street children. while the Australian film As the Mirror Burns examines the Vietnam War from the viewpoint of the Vietnamese women. I FILMHDUSEI
Young Filmmaker of the Year Programme 2 2.30pm. Three films from the Canadian Centre for Advanced Film Studies in Ontario.
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Return ot the Secaucus Seven (John Saylcs. US. 1979) 4.30pm. In the first ofthe Sayles‘ retrospective. a reunion weekend for a group of survivors of the 60s counter-culture generation reveals the political and social changes that have befallen an entire generation. A low-'key. intelligent debut.
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Deadly (Esben Storm. Australia. 1991) 6.30pm. Newspaper reports on the high death rate of Aborigines while in police custody give a serious edge to this fast-paced cop thriller from Down Under. I CAMEO 1
Diably, Dlably (Dorota Kedzierzawska. Poland, 1990) 6.45pm. Only the local children do not feel hostility towards a group ofgypsies who decide to camp in the neighbourhood. Kedzierzawska's social commentary is set in Poland in the late 60s.
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Le Million (Rene Clair. France. 1931 ) 7pm. A poor artist can‘t believe his luck when he wins the lottery . . . and can‘t believe his misfortune when he loses the winningticket.
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Scarface (Howard Ilawks. US. 1932) 7.15pm. Subtitled Shame ()fa Nation and based loosely on the infamous Al Capone. this early gangster flick had to go through as many fights with the censor as there are
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Crossed Lines (Piotr Mikucki. Poland. 1991)8.30pm. Set after the downfall of Communism in eastern Europe. this film centres on a 30-year-old intellectual who finds that political upheavals bring on an identity crisis.
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Truly, Madly. Deeply (Anthony Minghella. UK. 1991) 8.45pm. In what is described as ‘the thinking person‘s Ghost‘. Alan Rickman is the spirit who refuses to rest in peace. and instead becomes reinvolved in the life of his ex-lover. Juliet Stevenson. I FILMHDUSET
Goodbye Boys (Michael Kalik. USSR. 1966) 9pm. This long-lost film by politically supresscd director Kalik. follows the lives of three young men waiting to be called up for service on the eve ofthe Second World War. By juxtaposing newsreel footage and the carefree days of the youths. Kalik builds a
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striking picture of the threat ofwar.
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I Am An Autocrat (Nanni Moretti. Italy. 197o)9.15pm.Moretti‘sfilmmaking manifesto and self-satire was filmed with a handful of student friends on Super-8 for about 1' l 5110. Nevertheless. it paved the way for the new brand of Italian comedian-directors. The story concerns an attempt by a small company to puton an avant-garde show.
TUESDAY 13
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Post Office McLaren Programme 1 12.30pm. A selection of films by new British animators.
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Daemon (Colin Finbow. UK. 1985)2pm. Supernatural suspense for young horror fans. When new boy Nick arrives in the neighbourhood. strange things begin to happen at home and at school.
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Eyes ol the World 2.15pm. Loving the Dead is an exploration of the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe and Blood in the Face examines the white supremacist movement in America.
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Young Filmmaker oi the Year Programme 3 2.30pm. The Three Hunchbacks. a short film hailing from Edinburgh‘s own College of Art is complemented by three others from West Germany.
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Father(1stvan Svabo. Hungary. 1966) 4.30pm. The Svabo retrospective continues with a character study ofa young student who finds that his dead father‘s partisan activities make his own life almost impossible to bear.
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New British Shorts Programme 1 4.30pm. Four films. including Andrew Crabb's The Wanderer. a look at war through the ages. starring Michael York. Michael Cough and Imogen Stubbs.
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A Captive in the Land (John Berry. USSR/US. 1990) 6.30pm. Alexander Potapov is the Russian survivor ofan Arctic plane crash and Sam Killing Fields Waterston the American parachutist who goes to his rescue. Cultures and personalities come into conflict in this adventure yarn.
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Paris Trout (Stephen Gyllenhaal. US. l991)6.45pm. Dennis Ilopperisin his usual nasty form as a racist money-lender who always gets his payment back. Based on Pete Dexter‘s National Book Award-winning novel. Gyllenhaal‘s film captures its evil truth with an uncannily coolhand.
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Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian. US. 1932) 7pm. Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier soar through the Rodgers and Hart score in this innovative story of fairy tale romance.
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She Done Him Wrong (Lowell Sherman. US. 1933)7.15pm. Mae West's second film sees her reprise her famous stage role of Diamond Lil. An interesting period piece. it also includes fresh-faced Cary Grant's screen debut. Come up and see it some time.
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Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole (Amos Poe. US. 1990) 8.30pm. A French writeris hired by a Japanese-owned studio to write a screenplay based on three orphaned children who live on a motor yacht. All he has to work on are their memories and the home movies shot the summer their parents were killed.
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The Object of Beauty (Michael Lindsay-llogg. UK. 1990) 8.45pm. John Malkovich and Andy MacDowell star as a jet-setting couple who find their fortune and social standing diminishing as their cocoa crop rots in South America. The pairing works in the style ofthe old Hollywood comedy classics.
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Fatheonhn Power. Australia. 1991)) 9pm. A family‘s peace is shattered when the gentle emigre grandfather is accused of being a Nazi war criminal. Although the film takes the same path as Music Box. it is most notable for Max von Sydow‘s touching central performance.
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Red Lob (Nanni Moretti. Italy. 1989)
9. 15pm. The title refers to a technique for scoring a goal in water polo and. sure enough. most of the film takes place in a swimming pool during a match. Nevertheless. Moretti manages to use it as a metaphor for the present state ofthe Italian Communist Party.
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Frankenstein 11.15pm. From the opening scenes in the graveyard to the final purgation by fire. Whale‘s classic treatment of Mary Shelley's story is full of visual power. with Boris Karloff‘s terrifying yet sympathetic monster becoming horror cinema's greatest icon. A welcome opportunity to see the expressionist sets in their full big screen glory.
WEDNESDAY 14
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Darkest Mitteleuropa 12.30pm. An intriguing selection of recent Czechoslovakian animated films. some of which were made before the collapse of the Communist regime and some after.
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George's Island (Paul Donovan. Canada. 1989) 2pm. A wonderful return to talesof
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pirates and buried treasure. George and one of his friends from a cruel foster home escape on Halloween to the island where the ghostly guardians of Captain Kidd's treasure are about to awake from a 200 year sleep.
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Eyes DI the World 2.15pm. Chainsaw — Bull Born Bad is a profile of the Rodeoworld's meanest bovine stars. while The Wall reveals an entirely different world. that of the breached Berlin Wall and the people who have visited it since it fell.
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Young Filmmaker of the Year Programme 4 2.30pm. Three films from the prestigious London International Film School.
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Lianna (John Sayles. US. 1982) 4.3lipm. Sayles again enters the college milieu for
this story of a young mother who falls in
love with her female teacher. The film avoids melodrama. but exposes the hypocrisy ofsmall town morality.
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Ivan the Terrible Parts 1 and 2 (Sergei Eisenstein. USSR. 1943.194o)5.15pm. Although the planned trilogy was never completed due to ideological criticism by the Communist regime. the first two parts contain some of the most stunning usesof music in cinema. A bloody era of Russian history provides the backdrop for two of the country‘s greatest masters — Eisenstein and Prokofiev.
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Naked Tango (Leonard Schrader. US. 1991)) b.45pm. The roots ofthe Argentinian tango in knife fights and male domination provide the starting point for Schrader’s excursion into the legalised brothels of 1920s Argentina.
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Destry Rides Again (George Marshall. L's. 1939)7.15pm. James Stewart is at his engaging best as the eas\'-goirtgslterltf who can save the town when action is required. llis performance is matched by Marlene Dietrich's brazen bar-room singer. Frenchy.
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Takeshi: Childhood Days ( Masahiro Shinoda. Japan. 1991)) S.3()pm. A young Japanese boy is evacuated to the countryside during World War Two. As well as scenes of great pictorial beauty. Shinoda gives insight to the Japanese reaction to the 1945 surrender.
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Tickets lorthe Zoo (Brian Crumlish. ITK. 1990) 8.45pm. Scotland's Cormorant Films are behind this story ofteenage orphans in Edinburgh trying to cope with the real world. A moving low -budget love story with an underlying condemnation of current government policies.
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The List 9— 15 August 199163