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Show The Newspaper Thursday, January 28, 1982 Page B7 Film Festival Guide i Films from B5 asked by a mortally-wound-edbuddy to take care of a war orphan. Christopher winds up with 75 foundlings, co-star Susan Saint James, and a new purpose in life. Directed by Peter Werner. "Knightriders." The latest film from George "Night of the Uving Dead" Romero is about a moHern-day moHern-day band of Arthurian misfits who joust on motorcycles motor-cycles and stage a travelling Renaissance fair. Will they yield to temptation when a big-city promoter asks them to go commercial? werewolf movie strives for a social orientation. His premise is that detective Albert Finney discovers a tribe of super-intelligent wolves in New York who have kept their existence a Zootsuit." Luis Valdez' stage play becomes a movie, and Valdez leaps daringly between both mediums. The story is based on the "Sleepy Lagoon Murder" Mur-der" of World War II, involving in-volving Chicano gangs in Los Angeles. It focuses on the chief defendant in the case, Henry Reyna, (Daniel Valdez) his family, friends, and enemies, his taunting alter ego El Pachuco (Edward (Ed-ward James Olmos), and the White Establishment which maintains Reyna's "naturally bloodthirsty" Aztec Az-tec ancestry drove him to kill. The story, despite its daring style, is too heavy with message-movie cliches. "Melanie." Glynis O'Connor, who you might remember from "Ode to Billie Joe", plays a hillbilly wife whose child is kidnapped kidnap-ped by her husband. (He's exasperated with his wife's illiteracy.) She follows him to California, and struggles to survive with the help of an embittered musician (Burton (Bur-ton Cummings of The Guess Who.) Directed by Rex Bromfield. "Raggedy Man." Sissy Spacek's husband Jack Fisk directs her in this story of a divorced mother with two sons trying to get ahead in a Texas town during World War II. The mixture of nostalgia, small-town bigotry, and suspense is un-wieldly, un-wieldly, but is reminiscent in some ways of "To Kill a Mockingbird." "Thief." "I am wearing $150 slacks ... $800 suits ... a watch loaded with diamonds. And you wonder how I make a living?" James Caan plays a high-class crook who has finished 11 years in stir and wants one big job to put him in retirement. Willie Nelson is his jail mentor and Tuesday Weld is the woman who offers him a chancev to044 cldent'when a gang invaded settle down. Directed by and trashed a California Michael Mann. town. Stanley Kramer In addition, the festival looks back on the career of Stanley Kramer. In chronological order, the films are: "High Noon." Gary Cooper won his second Oscar as the beleaguered sheriff who is deserted by the craven townsfolk when a band of outlaws comes after him. With Lloyd Bridges as his deputy, Grace Kelly as Cooper's Quaker bride, and Harry Morgan as one of the non-helpful citizens. Their use of Tex Ritter's ballad "Do Not Forsake Me" started start-ed a whole tradition. "The Wild One." Not a very good picture, but who can every forget Brando and his gang cruising down the highway? Lee Marvin is a rival gang leader. The film is based on an actual 1947 in- "Wolfen." Director Michael Wadleigh is famous for the movie "Woodstock" . and in that light, his "On the Beach." Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Fred Astaire play the last few survivors of a nuclear holocaust that shrouds the globe. Though widely overrated at the time (some said the picture might save the world) critic John Baxter called it the best treatment of post-nuclear tragedy ever filmed. "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World." If we were lazy, we could fill up the paper with the cast of this movie Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Peter Falk, Jerry Lewis, and many more in this story of a bunch of idiots racing for a gangster's hidden cache. Can you spot "The Big W", where the loot's buried, before they do? "Ship Of Fools." On this doomed ship, our Greek chorus is a dwarf (Michael Dunn) and the fools include Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal, and Vivien Leigh. "Oklahoma Crude." The picture that showed it takes real guts to pee on Jack Palance's boots. George C. Scott is the fellow who commits that offense, he backs up oil driller Faye Dunaway against Palance and the other baddies. Short films The festival also has a polyglot of short films with an encyclopedic range of subjects. Several of them are arranged under the heading "Special Programs." And one of the most unusual is called "Tibetan Death Rites." If you're wondering what a film with that title is doing in the American film festival, let us point out that local Salt Laker Don Copelin was a sound recorder on the film. It is a short, virtually silent film record of the funeral ceremonies following the death of the Dalai Lama's mother. It was virtually an event of a lifetime one anthropologist said he had never seen such an assemblange of Himalayan monks and nuns. Film-maker Norman G. Dyhrenfurth is a climber in fact, the third generation of a family that has scaled the - Asian mountain ranges. - Another film displaying local talent is "Strong Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Sub-jugate Reptiles" by Salt Laker C. Larry Roberts. Despite the title, which arouses campy expectations, expec-tations, festival film director Lory Smith said the film is oddly reverent. Roberts uses existing footage from old Florida travelogues, juxtaposing jux-taposing water ballet numbers num-bers and footage of swimming swim-ming alligators and lizards. Ultimately the film finds an odd similarity between the grace and movement of the two groups. "I Remember Barbra" goes back to Streisand's old neighborhood, neigh-borhood, and talks with the folks who knew her when. Streisand only appears as old photos. Other films include "Possum Living", a documentary docu-mentary about a fatner ana daughter who live on $2,000 a year; "Close Harmony", a heartwarming story about a music teacher who spans the generations by forming a mixed senior citizens-child-rens chorus; and "An Acquired Taste," the Woody Allenish reflections of a hero who is even more laid-back laid-back than Woody Allen. "End of Innocence" is a short fiction piece about a more laid-back then Woody Allen. "End of Inocence" is a short fiction piece about a young Jewish boy in the '50s who suddenly confronts the insecurities and traumas of adulthood during the day when convicted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed for spying. "TV: The Enchanted Mirror" examines film's long-time rival and uneasy partner. "Strange Fruit" shows one black man's frustrated efforts ef-forts to vote in the Jim Crow South. And in the same milieu, "The Sky is Grey" examines a young black boy's initiation to manhood. "The Hideout", by local filmmaker Brian Patrick, steps behind the walls of the Utah State Prison. What we see, the film suggests, is a community of men who have no other place to go. Their bravura may be real or it may be staged for the camera. The Festival found itself with as much film to show as Park City has powder to ski on. So it also shoveled films into four different collections called "Regional Showcases". Show-cases". These collections include short film paradies from "Saturday Night Live", film tributes to Jim Morrison and Buster Keaton, a documentary documen-tary on the life of an adolescent model, and the adventures of a female detective. To find out what films go in what program, you should check with the Film Festival bus. ? " V i IN MIJIU .M.I.IIW.l,.....l..-lll..ll..n.l.lJIII I .JULII.MI IIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIU. 1.1. )L.II,I.I..MI1IHU.II.WU.IUUUIIIIJI.II.II.IMIII.J.....IUUTO...i.ii..I.,, ...yw s ..... 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