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Show Page B4 Thursday, January 13, 1983 Park City News niHBr o Snow Park Lodge at Deer Valley A SEAFOOD BUFFET Thursday Evenings from 6:30 p.m. 649-1000 DEERVALLEY Festival looks back to New Wave ancestry FilmVideo Festival Guide a Before the Independent -Film Movement came The New Wave. For the first time, the festival looks back at films that helped to pave the way for today's independent filmmakers. film-makers. The collection is scheduled to tour selected art centers in the country. It includes works ranging from 1958 to 1967. The films are: Babo 73. In Robert Downey's absurd 1964 comedy come-dy we follow the President of the United States (Taylor Mead), a festival guest, through typical activities, as he backs a missile carrier into his garage as if It were a house trailer, or attempts to lead his staff in calisthentics, despite his lack of coordination. The Brig. In his film of a play, Jonas Mekas used his hand-held camera to convey the spacial and psychological psychologi-cal feel of the military brig. The film, a winner at the 1964 Venice Festival, has been hailed as one of the most horrifying indictments of militarism to come from the Sixties. Come Back, Africa. Filmmaker Film-maker Lionel Rogosin told the authorities in South Africa he was filming a musical comedy. Actually, this 1959 film was a harsh expose of living conditions for blacks in Johannesburg. Rogosin told the story Zach-arish Zach-arish and his family, moving from the plains to the city, with real-life footage and improvised acting. The Cool World. The first feature film shot in Harlem, and the first using a handheld hand-held 35-mm camera. Directed Di-rected by Shirley Clarke (scheduled to attend the festival), in 1963, the story of street gangs and their hard life derived its power and violence in part from characters charac-ters playing themselves. The film was regarded as a central work from the New York School of film. David Holzman's Diary. A story about a young man who turns his life into a film. During the filming in 1967, fact genuinely began to melt with fiction for director Jim McBride, photographer Michael Wadleigh, and L.M. Kit Caron (a festival guest), who played David. 1.-. ' I. k IT.'." Jj ., . wo in Deer Valley luxury 3-bedroom condominiums from $220,000 .... never before offered at such affordable prices. ... visit our model, open from 12- 6 p.m. daily, or call your favorite Broker. ... for further information, telephone 649-3968 or 649-1 200. Deer Valley ... simply the best. Hallelujah the Hills. Adol-fas Adol-fas Mekas' 1963 film purports pur-ports to tell the story of two men in love with, and deceived by, the same woman. wo-man. Behind this plot, the film is crammed with allusions allu-sions to film history war . movies, Sennet, Antonioni, Japanese cinema, W.C. Fields, and much more. Mekas is scheduled to appear ap-pear at the festival. Hold Me While I'm Naked. Director George Kuchar (a festival guest) salutes Hollywood Holly-wood melodrama with the lurid title of his film, and the movie's camp sensibility. But on a deeper level, the film alludes to creative frustration. The lonely, earnest hero cannot bridge the gap between his aspirations aspira-tions and his abilities. Nothing But a Man. This 1964 film was overlooked in the rash of civil-rights dramas, but won high honors at the Venice Film Festival. Director Michael Roemer joined "independent" concerns con-cerns to a Hollywood-humanist plot, as he followed the struggles of a young Alabama Ala-bama black (Ivan Dixon) and his wife (Abby Lincoln). Produced by "Gregorio Cor-tez" Cor-tez" director Robert M. Young. The biggest name in the cast, Ivan Dixon, is best known for his role in "Hogan's Heroes." Portrait of Jason. In 1967, director Shirley Clarke trained her camera on a gay black, Jason, for 12 hours, and let the lens-eye and subject respond to each other. Jason's monologue about "spade queens," bathhouse bath-house adventures, and coy love is funny, disturbing, and moving. Pull My Daisy. Written and narrated by the Godfather God-father of Beat himself, Jack Kerouac, this film may look like a documentary of the beatnik scene, but is actually a meticulously-planned spoof of Fifties subculture. Based on the third act of Kerouac's play, "The Beat Generation," the film also features Allen Ginsburg. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie in 1959. The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man. Director Ron Rice died disillusioned and pneumonic in Acapulco in 1964. This film was made over the two years before his death, and a posthumous version was assembled by Rice's assistant, Howard Everngam in 1965-67. Taylor Mead stars as a mad scientist in a film that celetiates "...a poetry which is at once beautiful and terrible, good and evil, delicate and dirty." The Savage Eye. Made over a period of five years, this story of a divorcee in the seamier sections of L.A, mixed social realism with a cold expressionist style.' With three directors (Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, and Joseph Stride), the film received thunderous acclaim on its release in 1959, but is practically buried in obscurity obscuri-ty today. Photographed by Haskell Wexle (a festival guest), and sound editing by the late Verna Fields, this year's Medallion Winner. Shadows. Actor John Cassavetes Cas-savetes emerged as a major force on the American Independent Inde-pendent scene with his first feature, made in 1959. The film was conspicuous for its use of improvisation and a minimal budget ($15,000 on 16-mmfilm). The program is sponsored by Media Study, Buffalo, New York, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Min-nesota, National Endowment for the Arts, the Sundance Institute, Salt Lake City Arts Council, Utah Arts Council, Utah Media Center and Utah Film Development. Short takes C.'iUiii.itn V The short films at the festival are not in competition, but merit interest by themselves. In many cases, they complement the longer films being shown at the event. Are you tired of hearing about the dire effects of atomic testing? Atomic Artist is about a man who converts the carnage of nukes to blissful purpose. He makes works of art from material discarded at Los Alamos. Other shorts contemplate the everyday objects around us. Clothesline looks at the never-ending task of washing and drying clothes a cycle that starts to take on almost religious connotations. Mick Reber, Billboard Artist is about a man who paints art that is meant to be appreciated at 60 MPH. Mick works outside out-side Las Vegas, and hand paints his work! The Phantom Cowboy examines the myth of cowboys, and the ways that we as a culture are in search of heroes. Ballet Robotique looks at robotics at work in a factory, fac-tory, choreographed, edited, and set to the four movements of a symphony. (This film plays with the documentary on Moses Pendleton.) Festival Film Coordinator Lory Smith took the short No World For Men and playfully booked it with the women-in-the-wilderness film, Miles To Go, the short film about a mysterious man pitted against a mountain never before climbed. Finally, the program has a documentary with an uncomfortable un-comfortable relevance to today's world. Willard Van Dyke's Valley Town is a Thirties look at the effects of unemployment on the people of Any Town, U.S.A. I Salt Lake City NjSi f MUL Park City Racquet Club Are You Exercising Correctly? Check points for your exercise program: III Begin class with a warm-up. 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