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Show -Inside' I Video review... ...pageC3 Book review... ...pageC4 Tube Times... ...paged 5 Crossword... ...paged 8 . 'ffwk-Iffiecoffd' For the week of Jan. 25 to Feb. 1 l i ll n jr-r''iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.iiiiBiiiMiiiiiiii.iii.iMi f9 Lagsg'...!iLiJlA! ,;wbb,. M .lVri..t . ... : - . Soviets show USSR rock after film The Sundance United States Film Festival will be ending Jan. 28, but not before some of the festival's most exciting events take place. For instance, members of the Soviet rock group Kino will perform after a screening of "The Needle," which stars lead singer Viktor Tsoi. Melvin Van Peebles, whose work is featured in a festival retrospective, will take the stage of the Egyptian Theatre Jan. 26 for a bit of joking, singing, and reading. Jamie Lee Curtis is coming to town to talk about her new film, "Blue Steel" after the screening Friday evening. And, of course, the films will be continuing through Jan. 28. A number of the showings are sold out; for the most current ticket information informa-tion as of press time, turn to page Cll. For the most up-to-the-minute information, stop by the box office at 1890 Bonanza drive ticket sellers there are constantly updating the ticket status. Or call either 322-1700, or 645-7280. "A time to Die" does story justice by RON GEORG Record staff writer. The South American cinema which has been a staple of the United States Film Festival adds an interesting side to the festival; , this year's selection of Columbian film is no exception. One exciting offering from that ; list is A Time to Die, a romantic story of revenge written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. With his standard flourish, Marquez has created a tale of machismo and honor set in a dusty, backward Columbian town. Intriguingly, there were no obvious ob-vious clues as to when the film takes place. A Columbian audience au-dience would certainly be better equipped to guage such a thing and perhaps on second inspection in-spection one might notice clues like modern telephones or some such tiling. However, it's more likely there are few clues to the time of the film, and that's quite appropriate. Revenge that might pass for common com-mon family tradition in Columbian Colum-bian culture is more like the American West of the nineteenth century, so American audiences will best relate to the film as a Western. Two brothers in a small town have sworn revenge on their father's killer. When the . murderer returns from prison to reclaim his home which has stood empty since his mother died fourteen years earlier, while he was jailed the brothers remember their pact to avenge their father's death. The interesting aspect of the film is a Marquez touch; while machismo and honor are the topics of the film, the story is careful to discern between the two. And paralleling the story of revenge, Marquez has carefully and delicately sketched the entirely en-tirely different story of the women who can do little but witness the events. . Of course, this is a film festival, and while he did begin with an obviously ob-viously great script, director Jorge Ali Triana has done a beautiful job of interpreting the story. While this is his first feature-length film, Triana has a graceful sense of timing, and he builds this film to a smooth, spectacular spec-tacular climax. CpIMc's picks Cinema The Horseplayer This thriller is just a little kinky but just who is has the oddest quirks may surprise you. Literature Polar Star Martin Cruz Smith returns with more adventures adven-tures of Arkady Renko, and the investigator is every bit as exciting as he was in Gorky Park. Cinema A Time to Die Adapted from a script by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, this film from the Columbian series is an exciting story of machismo and honor with the flavor of a Western. |