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Show Page B6 Thursday, January 22, 1987 Park Record Robards shines in Petrie's 'Square Dance Editor's note: ft The United States Film Festival will continue through Jan. 25. Record contributing Writers John Kinch and Robin Moench' review festival movies below and on pages BiandBl. Square Dance In a slow starter that gradually takes you in, Winona Ryder plays Gemma, a little girl who works a farm with her grandfather (Jason Robards) and spouts Bible verses. Her mother, Juanelle (Jane Alexander) Alex-ander) is a flashy redhead who lives above a garage, works in a down-at-heels beauty shop and dreams of striking it rich with a Texas oil well. Juanelle comes back to the farm to reclaim Gemma, who refuses at first to go to the city with her mother, then changes her mind. A handsome, retarded neighbor, Rory (Rob Lowe), inadvertently opens the door to adulthood for Gemma Gem-ma when he's seduced by Gwen (Deborah Richter), Juanelle's bored co-worker. Robards, with his sly grumpiness, big-seated overalls and sad, seamed face, steals the show in his scenes. Alexander is light years away from Eleanor Roosevelt and Alexandra of Russia as the cheap, been-around-the-block Juanelle. Guich Koock plays Frank, Juanelle's mechanic husband, with memorable dignity. His scenes with Ryder are brief but among the movie's best. Daniel Petrie directed. The title comes from the folk dance, whose traditional movements suggest the fractured family's own complicated steps. RM The Big Easy Jim McBride directed this cop thriller set in New Orleans, aka the Big Easy, from a script by Daniel Petrie Jr., whose father directed "Square Dance." Remy Mcllheny (Dennis Quaid) is Cajun cop who's a little bit on the take. Anne Osborne (Ellen Barkin) is an assistant district attorney who is investigating corruption in the police department. While investigating a series of murders together, Remy and Anne fall in love. Then Remy is set up and nabbed on a bribery charge. Anne prosecutes him, but he gets off. Nevertheless he asks to be stricken from the department's payoff pad. Quaid is a classic fast-talking, sharp-dressing anti-hero who acts tough but is instinctively good at least when it comes to the big issues. - And Barkin- to" his"traditit)nal counterpart, the egghead beauty who has trouble loosening up but is scrupulous about ethics. As McBride said before the screening, "Don't be disappointed if this doesn't deal with lofty issues." It's good Hollywood entertainment with a sap-happy ending and no intention in-tention of changing the world. RM Waiting for the Moon Jill Godmilow's fictional movie about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas was developed at the Sundance Sun-dance Institute and will be shown on PBS this spring. "It's a complete fiction," said Godmilow before the screening. "It's not biographical. There's not a piece of truth in it. I seriously contest con-test the fact that you can tell history on film." Godmilow makes Stein (Linda Bassett) more attractive and Toklas (Linda Hunt) wittier than history usually suggests, and their repartee in a day was conversation was still considered an art is one of the movie's strengths. A series of characters , some based on real people, parade through the women's lives in fanciful situations. Ernest Hemingway (Bruce McGill) is a blustery drunk who amuses himself by acting in one of Stein's cubist plays. The poet Apollinaire (Jacques Boudet) and a soldier (Andrew McCarthy) Mc-Carthy) take the ladies on a picnic in the countryside. Later the poet dies and his infant comes into the keeping keep-ing of the women. Basset and Hunt are charming and convincing as the pair who lived together in Paris for 40 years, one writing her sometimes tedious literary experiments, the other patiently pa-tiently keeping the genius' household running smoothly. RM Her Name is Lisa Hargus Beesely (Bill Rice) is a Vermont farmer with a hound's long face and a mother fixation. Lisa (Lisa Wujnovich) loves him but can't separate him from his mother and finally leaves for a better bet-ter life in the city. Hargus follows her there after his mother dies and, dressed in his car- toonish hayseed clothes and toting a maple-syrup gift, he tackles the slick city in search of her. His only friend is Julius Marlboro (Rockets Redglare). Julius' urban savvy opens doors closed to the naive farmer and together they track Lisa through her acquaintances, acquain-tances, a low-life crew of one-eyed repressives, nightclub crooners, brutal feminists and denizens of the gay subculture. Rachid Kerdouche's Quixotic pair are funny, but the ending isn't. Brace yourself for a shock. RM Betty Blue Dramatic jury member Jean-Jacques Jean-Jacques Beineix directed this bittersweet bit-tersweet love story about a girl with "psychic antennae and a tinsel heart." Betty (Beatrice Dalle) is an appealing ap-pealing young woman who shows occasional oc-casional signs of unpredictable violence. Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) is an unpublished novelist. Life is an uninterrupted series of happy moves, wacky jobs and deep friendships until Betty discovers she's not pregnant. Her disappointment disappoint-ment drives her into an act from which she never recovers. The casual French treatment of nudity is a refreshing switch from our American dirty-joke bedroom scenes and Zorg's narration and asides are deadpan funny. After Betty announces she's preg nant (she's wrong), he broods about her IUD as "a broken door banging in the wind." And when she throws their furniture out the window in a Ki 'V u 'u to B7 A 11 . W ft f - ' ' I r - .VA A . s l - V r 1 il Butch (John Wildman) is an American runaway in "My American Cousin." - J i?iy ..J ifrr ITnn yZ-JlX immmmmmmmmmmi JO 3Sf , ir 12;. iV" ; Y I 1 ' X 1 Ernest Hemingway (Bruce McGill) and Alice B. 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