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Not the least of the attractions at a film festival is the chance to meet moviemakers and talk to celebrities. See Debra Hill, producer of the shocking "Halloween" films! See Roger Ebert, national film critic, who recently decreed "Halloween II" as one oi the worst films of 1981! See what happens when Roger meets Debra! Despite explosive combinations combi-nations like that, festival interchanges rarely lead to second-degree homicide. More often, they are lively, fun, learning experiences. Anyone who attended last year's festival will tell you that the informal afternoon discussions, held free at the Holiday Inn, were some of last year's best moments. This year, guests will be popping up at the afternoon bull sessions, and will also participate in five important seminars. Roger Ebert Ebert, the owlish film scholar of the PBS series "Sneak Previews", will conduct con-duct a seminar on "The Eye of the Beholder: The Art of Watching a Film". He will illustrate his ideas using one of the greatest films ever made, Orson Welles' "Citizen "Cit-izen Kane". The 1941 film, made by the youthful prodigy prod-igy Welles, broke new ground in practically every department you can think of subject matter, tone, plot construction, music, camerawork, lighting, and acting. Judd Hirsch Another popular seminar will be "Director Meets Actor in the Creative Process." Pro-cess." The U.S. Festival announced the session will be conducted by actor Judd Hirsch. (Previous reports had scheduled director Sydney Syd-ney Pollack for this session) Hirsch is known for the TV series "Taxi" and his Oscar-nominated role as the compassionate psychiatrist of Robert Redford's "Ordinary "Ordin-ary People." Joe Dante "Yes, there are still Movies Made for Under $3 Million." Every independent filmmaker film-maker knows that, of course, but we're talking about Hollywood movies. The host is director Joe Dante, who made the horror films "Piranha" "Pir-anha" and "The Howling" and trained under producer Roger Corman, whose name is synonymous with "make it cheap." (In the Sixties, Corman pictures like "Little Shop of Horrors", made in two days with left-over sets, were often better than the multi-million dollar pictures of the time.) Sidney Ganis Sidney Ganis will speak "The Use of Sound, Light, Magic and Clever Marketing to Make a Great Film Even Better." Odds are that Ganis knows what he's talking about, since the film he'd discussing is "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Ganis is Senior Vice President of Lucasfilm. Thomas Smith As "Mad Magazine" joked the villains in "Raiders" were killed off by God "and the wrath of 60 Special Effects people". The magic behind the effects will be explained by Thomas Smith, vice president and general manager of Industrial Light and Magic, a firm which first attracted attention for its work on "Star Wars." Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno Finally, for the video angle of the festival, a seminar called "And Where it Stops, Nobody knows: The Video Phenomenom", explores the changes in television. Two of the most prominent figures there will be Jon Alpert and his wife-collaborator Keiko Tsuno. They wre the first TV journalists allowed into Castro's Cast-ro's Cuba and the fallen South Vietnam. Alpert has interviewd Afghani rebels under fire and photographed Iranian students as they cursed the U.S. The discussion of video will include its evolution in documentary and news reporting, re-porting, changes in video art (especially its integration with film technology) and its future markets. Others Other participants will include: Larry Kirkman, video director for the American Ameri-can Film Institute in Washington, Wash-ington, who formed the first National Video Festival; David Antin, a video critic and scholar; and David Ross, formerly the curator of the Berkeley Art Museum, and recognized as the first scholar to call video an art form. Video specialist Thomas Thom-as Brown will also attend the seminar representing Zoe-trope Zoe-trope Studios, where director Francis Ford Coppola is using video techniques to make his films more efficiently. effi-ciently. (As noted elsewhere, Coppola is the first recipient of a special video award from the festival.) Each seminar takes place over three days. The minimum mini-mum price is $30 for each topic. The whole package sells for $160. If you do buy the whole package, this also gets you into a series of professional small-group exchange sessions. ses-sions. These smaller seminars semi-nars will look at topics like scripting, marketing, budgeting and distributing pictures, the Australian cinema, cine-ma, and the future of Walt Disney. The jury In addition, the festival has announced the guests who will judge the competition competi-tion works. The jury for film drama is made up of critic Ebert, Taylor Hackford, an Oscar winner for his short film "Teenage Father"; Arthur Knight, film historian and critic; and actress Lee Grant. Film documentaries will be evaluated by Jon Else, an award-winner at last year's festival for his J. Robert Oppenheimer documentary, "The Day After Trinity"; by Jenny Bowen, entered in the drama division for her film "Street Music"; and by Tad Danielewski, theater and cinema professor at Brig-ham Brig-ham Young University. The video art entries will be judged by David Ross; David Antin, video artist Nori Sato; and Barbara London, video curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Video documentaries will be judged by Jon Alpert, Keiko Tsuno, Larry Kirkman Kirk-man and Jud Taylor, president presi-dent of the Director's Guild and director of the Park City-based TV-movie "Incident "Inci-dent at Crestridge." 13) 6) Ml II? New luxury RIDGEVIEW homes offer more value per square foot with a more personalized and private environment for both living and entertaining. Each home offers quality workmanship and panoramic views of the ski areas. Carefree property management is available for year-round maintenance, upkeep and rental if desired. YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF TO LOOK AT THIS ALTERNATIVE BEFORE BUYING A C0ND0! For a tour of the available homes, contact Tom McReynolds: office: 649-8550 home: 649-6234 M HOUDAV RANCH jWT 11 Gum p anD Ryen REAL ESTATE INC. Park Meadows Plaza 649-8550 m I W i f Francis Ford Coppola, director of the classic "Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now" will be the first recipient of the U.S. Festival's special video award. Coppola is being touted for his use of video technology in film. He will accept the award via a live t.v. hookup from Los Angeles to Park City's Medallion dinner on Jan. 30th. Kramer from Al everything that's going on, we don't deserve to sleep!' And he walks out into the crowd. And he's booed! I think that picture was right about a lot of things." Kramer believes the student movement move-ment never fulfilled its promise. "As soon as the kids didn't have to be drafted, the whole movement collapsed," col-lapsed," he said. The '70s troubled him. "I didn't understand the times, and I think that's reflected in my work." In 1971, he made "BIes$ the Beasts and Children", about a group of campers trying to save a duffalo herd from laughter. "People called it an anti-gun film, said I was a Bambi-ist. I am for gun control, but the film was about a group of confused kids growing up," Kramer said. "During that time, I fell into a trap on national television, 'debating two guys in funny hats about i gun control." It's a long way back from the confused '70s to a time 30 years ago, when Kramer first arrived in Hollywood, Holly-wood, infused with New Deal idealism. His idol was Eleanor Roosevelt. "I admired her for the way she stood up to the Daughters of the American Revolution when they refused to let (black singer) Marian Anderson into Constitution Hall." Kramer came West as one of five winners in a writing contest sponsored by Twentieth Century-Fox. "I think it was a public-relations ploy. They never looked at what we wrote. And we were all thrown out on the same day." From there, Kramer wrote for radio, labored in the property department and in editing and research. He worked his way up to assistant producer. "Then I was interrupted by a little unpleasantness called World War II, and was off for four years, three months, and eleven days in the army," he said. After the war, he formed an independent company, Stanley Kramer Kra-mer Productions. Their first picture was a satire called "So This is New York". "Satire, they say, is what closes on Saturday night, and this did," he said. But he scored with the Kirk Douglas fight film "Champion", and then, with the ground-breaking race-relations drama, "Home of the Brave." He was supposed to be the hard-nosed producer, but he said he always had a "simpatico" with his directors. It was inevitable, he said, when he turned to directing in 1955. When Kramer began producing, movies felt threatened by television. Now, he said, the new wave of cable, video cassettes, discs, and other home equipment may change movies, as we know them, forever. "I know it is said that people will always go out. The legitimate theater or football games, maybe, but I'm not sure they'll go for these garages converted into theaters that smell bad," he said. "Maybe it's just as well to have a large screen in your living room." Ask Kramer the standard question what picture is he proudest of? and the self-critical director can't give you an answer. What he cherishes are the moments the great acting from Poitier, or Maximillian Schell in "Nuremburg", Ava Gardner in "On the Beach" ("She almost made it there as a total actress."), the truckload of comedians in "Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" ("It was a staring contest with them at first. Here I was, this dramatic director. Now, some of them are my best friends.") and, most of all, Spencer Tracy. "Tracy reacted better than most act," said Kramer. "He taught me to take the job seriously, but not myself." A director's job, he said, calls for patience and understanding especially especial-ly with actors who go together like ketchup and cottage cheese. "On 'Ship of Fools', I had Osker Werner, an actor who likes to rehearse, playing against Simone Signoret, who hates to rehearse." re-hearse." Kramer confessed his patience grew thin on his last movies. "I'm not as tolerant as I was about pills and booze on the set." Currently, Kramer is looking forward for-ward to two future film projects a comedy about the oil-rich Arabs, and a drama about a dissident in the Soviet Union. What sustains Kramer, in an era that he calls perilous and confused? "You do what you think is right. Your own truth is what's important," he said. "I believe, as Anne Frank did, that people are basically good that they will preserve themselves and their fellows." |