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Show 1 The Newspaper Thursday, October 21, 1982 Page BS K 1 S I VI K N I at Prospector Square 649-8060 J r r. 3 'i i ',' ft. A ar .1 'm m u;& , r "Reclining Figure," oil on canvas, by Utah artist Francis Zimbeaux. photo by Morgan Queal Francis Zimbeaux A n artist in search of harmony by Morgan Queal Francis Zimbeaux Zim, as he is known to his friends is an artist at home with both his technique and his subjects. His oils and ink sketches on exhibit this month at the Kimball Art Center focus on the serenity and harmony of nature as seen in two distinctive and separate subjectsthe female form and Utah landscapes. In his large oil paintings, Zimbeaux shows a variety of expressive techniques. "Ghost Town" represents a bold and self-confident treatment with brush and palette knife; "Reflections on a Magic Day" is quiet in color and composition but alive with quick, deft horizontal strokes of the brush. "Lake No. 3," a different dif-ferent use of the oil medium again, is painted with a softness soft-ness that blends with the serenity of the landscape. Zimbeaux's admitted search for harmony is represented not only in his landscapes, but also shows in the flowing, sometimes whimsical pen and ink drawings of the nude female figure. A trio of such sketches sket-ches is among this writer's favorites-"The Cat," a reclining woman with a sleepy feline, "Girl in a Dream World" and "Girl in Deep Thought." These ink drawings have a casual, easy tone but on closer inspection in-spection demonstrate a superb skill and control that takes years to achieve. Zimbeaux, who was born in France, came to Utah in 1926 and studied at the University of Utah, has exhibited widely through the West. His works, on view at the center through Nov. 6, represent a maturity, and peacefulness that stems both from the artist's view of life and of his art. There's also a new exhibit in the center's Little Gallery silkscreen prints by Utah artist Kris Billington, a graduate tudent in printmaking at the University of Utah. Billington experiments with a variety of subjects in his serigraphs, and among his most effective are desert and mountain landscapes. "Landscapes 1 through 4," a quartet of small, finely-framed finely-framed and inexpensive prints, are typical of his style of combining warm, subtle colors with stark lines and forms. Both exhibits are sponsored spon-sored by Dick McGillis. Hours of the Kimball Art Center are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. by Rick Ilrougli A Classic Recommended Good double-feature double-feature material Time-killer For inasochists only 2 The Soldier The Robert Duvall character charac-ter in "Apocalypse Now" the one who loved to smell napalm would love "The Soldier," which devotes itself it-self to setting people on fire or plugging them with bullets. bul-lets. The story which excuses all this carnage is about Russian-backed terrorists who plant an atom bomb in the Saudi oil fields, and threaten to blow away 50 percent of the world's fuel unless the Israelis withdraw from the West Bank. This is a job for The Soldier (Ken Wahl) and his four paramilitary CIA buddies, bud-dies, who operate independently indepen-dently of the Russkies and the U.S. Wahl doesn't look or act like he could lead a high-school motorcycle gang, yet he masterminds a blackmail scheme that involves in-volves seizing a SAC missile, aimed and cocked at Moscow! Mos-cow! Director James Glicken-haus Glicken-haus uses Hitchcockian camera angles and other tricks to disguise the emptiness empti-ness of his story. Subplots go nowhere, his action scenes (a barroom brawl) sometimes some-times have nothing to do with the story and the actors are used like acrobatic store dummies. (Most unforgivably, unforgiv-ably, the bizarre, volatile German actor Klaus Kinski gets a five-minute walk-on and one line as a KGB agent.) The picture's opening scene typifies its arbitrary displays of macho. On a sleepy Philadelphia morning, morn-ing, three mundane pedestrians pedes-trians suddenly open fire on a diplomatic vehicle they're terrorists, natch and are quickly riddled with fire by the five heroes, who appear posing prettily in a row in their best recruiting recruit-ing poster uniforms. A Bond-ian Bond-ian ski chase is the only sequence that works up anv energy in this boring, supid mishmash. Tron Walt Disney's latest film is a precise match between story and style-fit, in fact for a computer. Hero Jeff Bridges falls inside the world of a super-IBM machine, and his adventures are told uiing the latest in movielaud's computer technology. Bridges plays an electronics elec-tronics whiz whose video game ideas are stolen by a corrupt exec (David Warner) War-ner) for the Encom corporation. cor-poration. His investigation of the firm's computer threatens to uncover an even bigger scandal Encom's Master Control Program (MCP), after vastly increasing in-creasing its intelligence, has gone megalomaniacal. (It now gets its follies poking into in-to the computers at the Kremlin and Pentagon. ) To stop Bridges' meddling, the MCP sucks him, via laser ray, into the machine where he and the enslaved "computer people" are forced for-ced to play suicidal video games. These characters are alter egos for the technicians who have designed them. Thus, when Bridges' human friend (Bruce Boxleitner) invents a data program called TRON to monitor the Master Control, Con-trol, TRON is embodied in the computer world (also by Boxleitner) as a fearless, defiant electric warrior. Photos are the best way to convey the TRON-world, but feeble words must suffice here. The computer landscape land-scape is like "Levi's-jean" animation, "2110" light showers, and three-dimensional three-dimensional blueprints all lumped together. Characters are formed out of neon skeletons or they die, screaming in "deresolu-tion." "deresolu-tion." Jeff Bridges, as the amiable hero, is a stand-out in a stalwart cast, and parts of the playful script by director direc-tor Steven Lisberger almost kid the premise. (The MCP threatens one video warrior with, "How would you like to be turned back to a pocket calculator?") The computer visuals may have a limited use to tell other kinds of stories. But they're just fine for "TRON." The Sword And The Sorceror Conan is a sissy next-to the brawny hero Talon, who gets crucified, pulls the nails out by his pierced hands, then grabs a sword and wades into in-to battle. Nevertheless this is a "Conan" rip-off, which would almost make the grade as good B material if it sustained its distinctive touches. Talon (Lee Horsley) is a young prince whose family was deposed by Oliver Cromwell (played by a venomous Richard Lynch) and who is now a roving adventurer. ad-venturer. He helps a young brother and sister (Simon MacCorkindale. Kathleen Bellen plot a revolt against Cromwell, on the condition that he gets to bed the girl! (Prtnce Valiant he isn't.) Talon also likes to taunt enemies with double-entendre double-entendre comments like, "That is a very small sword indeed!" The film promises to be a lot of fun, especially with another villain, a demon sorceror, lurking around to provide more trouble! But the second half of the film descends into the usual stuff lumbering sword fights, people dashing in and out of secret passages etc. The script also has the confusing con-fusing habit of constantly introducing in-troducing new characters in to the plot. "Sword" has vigorous action, wonderful photography, and a few stylish performances, but still misses the mark. Now showing: At the Holiday Village Cinemas : Inchon The Solider '! The Sword and the Sorceror Tron p rm nunm Vote X W uJ UJ WmiM.ifc- IMUPM !SfeMS!BBt I III lil 2 Year County Commissioner 1 0 years in managerial and administrative capacity with a large corporation. 5 years working within Summit County government. Businessman with own established estab-lished company in Summit County. 8 year resident of Summit County. '4 If you are having a party, Please call us for Catering 649-8060 ask for Sue 649-8060 Prospector Square, Highway 248, Park City Sue Haygood, Chef at the Grub Steak Restaurant, invites you to Sunday Brunch, every Sunday all year round ... Adults $7.95 Children $4.95 10:00 a.m. -2:00 p.m. We will be closed November 1st and 2nd for preseason cleaning, maintenance and repairs. 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