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Show Past B2 Thursday, November 18, 1982 Park City News by Rick Brough f Now Open Thursday thru Saturday PARK CIT7 fiOWBlV Ik Tonight JEFF COLECROVE TRIO Acoustic Country Friday, November 19th 004 SKA-ROCK Saturday, November 20th JOE CANNON AVf ws'c and Ribald Comedy 'Fitzcarraldo,' a strange but possible tale November 25th Join us for our full Thanksgiving Buffet and celebration 3 to 8 p.m. $5.95 Coming Attractions Dec. 2nd, 3rd & 4th THE LEGENDARY BIDES BAND Dec. 6th & 7th THE FABULOUS TBDNDERBIBDS Happy Hour 6:00 to 7:00, Dancing begins at 9:00 Join us for dinner featuring BBQ ribs, steaks and a great evening's entertainment For dinner reservations and information please call 649-4146 We specialize in banquets & parties. book your nnsimas panies now r 5 1 A Classic Recommended Good double feature material Time-killer For masochists only y2 Fitzcarraldo German director Werner Herzog is either a great talent or a maniac, or both. His movie, "Fitzcarraldo," "Fitz-carraldo," is about an impossible im-possible feat. And Herzog, out of contrariness or dementia, actually duplicated the impossible in order to film his movie. The story of his struggles on the picture in the heart of the Amazon becomes a metaphor for his drama. In fact, it may make a better bet-ter story than the film he created. And it raises a question: if audiences come to the theater without special knowledge of its background, will "Fitzcarraldo" "Fitz-carraldo" really be a great film to them? Klaus Kinski plays Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald "Fitzcarraldo" "Fitz-carraldo" to the Indians, who can't pronounce his last name. For some reason, this quixotic Irishman has landed land-ed in the South American jungles in the early 1900s, where a string of business schemes have failed for him. His great obsession, however, is opera. He dreams of opening an opera house in Iquitos (a rubber-boom rubber-boom town of half-sunken shacks along the Amazon), and bringing Enrico Caruso to sing at the premiere. But the only way to get rich is to make a killing in the rubber market. And the only good forest area still unclaimed is up the Ucayali River, an Amazon tributary, beyond a series of wicked rapids no one has been able to navigate. Fitzcarraldo, however, is "planning something geographical." He sails a steamship up another river which runs very close to the upper section of the Ucayali. The two streams are within walking distance. If a boat can travel the Ucayali, picking up rubber along the shores, the merchandise can be unloaded at this strategic point, hauled through the jungle a short distance, loaded on another boat, and carried off to the world. He's all set to strike it rich. But he has to perform one more little chore. To get transport on the Ucayali, he decides to drag an entire steamship over the mountain moun-tain between the two rivers, in the midst of jungle inhabited by a tribe of head-hunters. head-hunters. A real-life character did disassemble a ship and arranged for natives to carry the pieces through the jungle. But Herzog chose a much bigger ship and actually ac-tually hauled it up the side of a hill. Over a three-year period, he dealt with intertribal inter-tribal disputes, bad weather, engineering problems, and cast changes. (Jason Ro-bards, Ro-bards, who was to play Fitzcarraldo, was waylaid by illness. Mick Jagger, as his sidekick, ran into schedule problems, and his entire role was excised from the picture.) pic-ture.) The jungle here is a .palpably formidable entity. According to the prologue, the Indians believe it's a section sec-tion of the earth that God never quite finished. And it's awesome to watch Fitz-carraldoHerzog Fitz-carraldoHerzog cut a swath through the trees. In the story, Fitz manages to recruit the headhunters as slave labor. (They believe the ship is an omen of salvation.) The tribesman look like ants as they attack a huge tree trunk with their axes. The tree eventually falls, like an old pagan god brought to its knees. After the forest is dynamited and the trees are used to form a ramp, it is time at last to move the ship. This is surely some of the most mind-boggling footage ever put on film. You almost can't conceive the sight of this ship inching slowly up the hill pulled by Fitz's natives working a complex of pulleys, along with the ship's engine itself. To handle the imagery, I had to focus my mind on just one part of the picture like the ships mast, for instance, moving across the screen. Even then, one has this awful vision of the ship being pulled up to the top of the hill, slipping down, being 'Killing Radius' ends this weekend A unique experiment in theatre, Killing Radius will close its three-week run at the Egyptian Theatre this weekend. This has been one of the more controversial pieces of theatre ever produced in Park City. It is an original work by Craig Clyde, and features actors from Salt Lake City and Park City. During this past week, cast and crew have been busy videotaping the show for sale to cable television. This is the culmination as well as the beginning of a longtime dream for Clyde and his associates with First West Films, Inc. Their hope is to develop an Emerging Playwright Series that will give new plays and playwrights exposure and experience, as well as giving actors the chance to work on an original theatre piece. Killing Radius will run Thursday, Friday and Saturday Satur-day at 8 p.m. at the Egyptian Theatre. Tickets are $7 general admission and $5.50 for members of the theatre. On Thursday night, anyone wearing or bringing anything military will be admitted for half price. For reservations, call 649-9371. pulled up, slipping down again ... By comparison, the Sisyphean labors look like a broken shoelace. Fitzcarraldo's Dlan is ultimately frustrated (we won't tell you how) but he attains at-tains a certain success, flashy and ironical, by bringing an opera company to Iquitos by boat to give at least one performance. The ending might be called mercifully mer-cifully happy (considering all of Fitz's trials) but it doesn't have the bizarre desperation of the rest of the movie. "Fitzcarraldo" raises an interesting question about goals and our struggle to attain them. Which is worse to give up on a dream without fighting enough for it, or to pursue an impossible dream, until your struggle becomes nothing more than a pathetic scratching away at Fate? On his trip upriver, Fitzcarraldo Fitz-carraldo meets a dreamer with no hope left. He stops at an old abandoned railroad station, which represents one of his past failures an effort to establish a coast-to-coast rail way across the Andes. An-des. The stationmaster has steadfastly remained there all these years and now eagerly imagines that Fitz has arrived with the money to complete the railway. Instead, In-stead, Fitz says he is there to tear up the rails for his new project. This faithful disciple in a dead cause, fermented on false hope to the point of madness, is what Fitzcar raldo might become if he had worse luck pursuing his dreams. Could this be what awaits all of us if we aren't "practical?" In the movie, people often talk of forcing their reality on the illusions and traps in the jungle. Herzog opens his story witn a nice example of Western culture asserting its artificial self. In a South American rubber town city, Caruso gives an operatic recital with a gaunt non-singing non-singing Sarah Bernhardt, who hobbles on her wooden leg and is dubbed by a fat singer in the orchestra pit. For the fanatical Fitzcarraldo, Fitzcar-raldo, this shallow stage passion has powers to conquer the jungle. And he's right. When sailing into headhunter country, the natives unnerve the adventures adven-tures with their pounding drums. But Fitz silences them with his own weapon: he plays a scratchy recording of Caruso. "Fitzcarraldo" is a long film about two hours and 40 minutes but this is essential essen-tial to emphasize Fitz's arduous ar-duous struggle for his opera house, and how it all comes to a point with that gigantic ship being pulled up the slope. The role doesn't always tap Kinski's potential for bizarre flamboyance, but he shoulders the film well with his portrait of a spooky, determined dreamer. Its artistic message may not always come through clearly. But as a document of the possible, "Fitzcarraldo" "Fitz-carraldo" lays waste to the imagination. Jean-Pierre Rampal to appear at Symphony Hall World-reknowned flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal is scheduled to appear in Salt Lake's Symphony Hall March 2, 1983 at 8 p.m. Rampal, one of the most enthusiastic musicians alive today, will be accompanied by John Steele Ritter at the March 2 concert. Tickets will go on sale Nov. 26 at the Cosmic Aeroplane, 258 East First South. They will be available for $8, $10 and $12. For additional ticket information call 355-1445. ullI U La. "1W 51aJ LiiLsL JLAJ LJ LdLaI Your choice of 2 interest-earning checking plans. Advantage NOW Receive these 10 special benefits at no cost if you keep a $1,000 minimum checking balance or $2,000 minimum savings balance. 514 per annum interest on all checking funds. VISA credit card (on approval), with no annual fee. VISA Banking Card (the plastic card that works like a check). 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In many French communities, parties organized around the Nouveau Beaujolais have become tasting traditions. In what we can judge to be a rare opportunity, the Salt Lake City chapter of Les Amis du Vin (the friends of wine) has arranged to bring in several casks of the 1982 Nouveau Gamay for an unusual meeting to be held in Deer Valley. What makes this meeting of more than passing interest is that the event has been generously opened to the public on a reservation-only basis, with arrangements handled through Deer Valley. The event Friday night may very well mark the first time that Nouveau Beaujolais has been tasted directly from the cask in this part of the country. One Park City resident who especially enjoys Beaujolais remarked, "This may be the first time the Nouveau Beaujolais has been made available for tasting west of the Mississippi in this form." The wine will arrive in Utah via airfreight, passing through both Paris and possibly Los Angeles. Yet Friday night promises to be more than a wine tasting as co-host Cafe Maripose offers its culinary expertise under the direction of Bill Nassikas, who" is" the director of food and beverages for Deer Valley, has planned a Burgundian buffet supper that will feature those foods traditionally found in the Gamay Beaujolais region. For those familiar with the outstanding Deer Valley cuisine, such a buffet alone probably brings to mind an evening created for the palate with a few calories too many. Yet when one considers the wine and a respected speaker as well, then the $25 admission price would seem a bargain. Did we say speaker? An educational dimension will be added to the evening in the form of Armand Cottin, a French negociant who owns the house of Laboure-Roi. The export house is celebrating its 150th anniversary and Armand has taken to the road for much of that celebration. After toasting the anniversary in New York earlier this month, he has done the same in California and now in Utah. Although Armand will talk generally about Beaujolais, the lecture and ensuing discus sion will be far ranging. Monsieur Cottin is knowledgeable about many facets of the wine industry and loves to talk at length on almost any subject. The audience will be free to ask questions and lend its knowledge as well. The evening should also give those who are unfamiliar with Les Amis du Fin an opportunity to talk with chapter members and learn more about the organization. Although Les Amis du Fin and Cafe Mariposa are the official co-hosts, Nassikas stressed that the event will be held in the Snow Park Lodge at Deer Valley's base. It should be noted that reservations are limited for the tasting and supper. By the time you read this many will have already been taken, so make your decision quickly and give Deer Valley a call at 649-1000. We recently tasted two red wines and came up with some surprising reviews. Both are established wines that have been reviewed in Winepress before, yet changes in style and perhaps vintages have altered our assessment. assess-ment. Sebastiani has always made good wines, though not perhaps great ones. A favorite jug wine from our early days was the Sebastiani Mountain Burgundy. Generally this had been a pleasant red wine, not especially complex, with medium body. For the price however its quality was dependable and there were never any noticeable acid problems. We recently tasted this wine again at a restaurant where it was stocked as the house vin ordinaire. We were impressed. It displayed better color, more body and a definitely smoother taste. We might compare it to the vintaged Charles Krug C.K. Mondavi Cabernet, which is surprising as it is labeled Burgundy. We give it a high recommendation. recommenda-tion. Our second tasting was an old favorite a 1978 Louis Martini Cabernet Sauvignon. Frankly, we were dissappointed. The color was pale, not the deep, almost blood red that one has come to admire with California Cabernets. The color was almost reminiscent of the popular Beaujolais. The body was thin, tannin almost nonexistent and the subtle taste of oak not present. We thought perhaps there had been shipping problems and opened a second bottle. Once again we found the same problems. 1978 was a good year for the California Cabernets and in that light, I would have to suggest other alternatives to this previously dependable verietal and vintage. In general, however, we would still give high marks to the Louis Martini winery and vineyard. , ' |