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Show Saturday, January 25, 1996 Sundance Film Festival 1997 Ben Affleck and Joey Lauren Adams star as Holden and fJS'"0 lovers who venture into the world of relationships in Kevin Smith's "Chasing Amy." Movie Reviews Continued from B-6 a compelling story to start with, but contains revelations that even the filmmakers didn't plan. Randy Kehler and wife Betsy-Corner Betsy-Corner live in rural western Massachusetts, a region where heartfelt liberalism still thrives, people identify their occupations as "political activist" or "organic farmer." and dissidents trace their spiritual roots back to the Boston Tea Party and Shays Rebellion. For 14 years Randy and Betsy have openly refused to pay federal taxes in protest anainsl U.S. military mili-tary involvement in places like Iraq and Nicaragua. In response, the government seies their 80-year-old farmhouse; Randy is thrown in jail for a time, and the house is sold at government auction for $5,400. (Since that's a pittance of the withheld with-held taxes being sought by the government, gov-ernment, it appears the feds are satisfied to single out Randy and Betsy for political punishment.) Friends and supporters of the couple continue to occupy the house as squatters, but on a weekend week-end when they're drawn away to another protest, the new working-class working-class owners, Danny Franklin and Terry Charnesky slip in to set up housekeeping. In one of the film's many memorable moments. Randy Kehler complains that they've taken the law into their own hands, but he's torn between resentrrle'M . .aaaer aes to gFP3(DRfllP "WE'LL SUPPLY THE SNOWSHOES' SNOW-SHOE C O W N T DATE: 12597 TIME: 6:30PM-7:30PM Beginning Snowshoe Clinic LOCATION: Romp 1775 Associated Plaza & 1885 Sun Creek on Prospector Avenue FOR INFORMATION CALL: Jans Mountain Outfitters 1600 Park Avenue (801 ) JANS and feeling the irony of his situation. situa-tion. As the KehlerCorner advocates advo-cates set up a months-long vigil around the house, they're motivated motivat-ed by a proud American ethic that says you fight the System to achieve peace, justice and prosperity prosperi-ty for all. no matter how long or hopeless the struggle. But inside the house. Franklin and Charnesky speak up for a more practical world-view. They're working-class parents who under most circumstances would never have an opportunity to buy a house. By their lights, they own the home, the government says they're entitled to live there and the controversy's over. Terry Charnesky. obviously not thinking of the Boston Tea Party, says. "This country was founded on taxes. It's always been that way." While the new owners are sometimes some-times sympathetic, they can also behave like jerks, dismissing their opponents as hippies who don't have anything belter to do. The issue seems to reincarnate a cross-section of the aging American Left the dispute attracts Father Daniel Berrigan. Pete Seeger. and a group of Buddhist monks shown lingering outside the porch, tapping their prayer cymbals. (As a yahoo inside the house bangs on a drum in mockery, you're suddenly given a vision of two Americas con-.froivtisgMmd con-.froivtisgMmd not understandine ijoaotemlw.) COME JOIN US FOR A SNOWSHOE OUTING rl8MyigMMfe)il 7:30PM Moonlight bnowshoe Outing on the Union Pacific Rail Trail 649-4949 w An Act of Conscience unquestionably unques-tionably admires the bravery and dedication of social protest, but it also wonders if Randy and Betsy's protest has derailed into a nasty small-town fight between families. The film is a chronicle of black-and-white political idealism stumbling stum-bling into a landscape of gray. George B. Starring David Morse, Nina Siemasko and Brad Gregg Directed by Eric Lea U.S.A., 19 Dramatic competition by Rick Brough The title character of George B. ( 12) is a big shambling man (played by David Morse), and vou might well say that he's "simple." His wardrobe looks like it comes from the Wally Cleaver Collection: he greets total strangers as if he's known them lor years ("It's me. George."); reacts to situations with a limited supply of stock phrases; and guilelessly tends to blurt out what he's thinking. But you're in for a surprise if you think this movie is an update on Steinbeck's Lenny yet another hulking innocent. George can be as cranky as his redneck bar buddies. He's got a libido, and he accepts a sexual favor from a woman as if he were receiving an ice cream cone. And he's canny enough to parlay his janitorial job into a cleaning service ser-vice in his small California town. (It was bankrolled by winnings he got on a Reno jaunt taken on his birthday birth-day always ;i lucky day for him. he insists.) George is headed for trouble, though, when he falls for a small, shapely minx. Angela (Nina Siemasko). and invites her to move in with him. Adding to the mix is George's employee Jerry (Brad Gregg) a basically nice guy. He can't help the fact that his loyalty loyal-ty has its limits. Directorwriter F.ric Lea has created cre-ated a unique world where he sets up expectations seemingly derived from half-a-doen melodramatic formulas. But he avoids them by throwing a series of gentle curve balls and makes you like them. At the center of the film is an extraordinary, funny and moving performance by David Morse, rendering ren-dering a character who would look, in lesser hands, like a barely-credible puijidx. (If this were a major studio film, they'd be pumping "WE'LL SUPPLY THE ICE CREAM" VtkMONT: HNLi'i 'ICl Ck:.AM t- r'XBN YOuum Park in lot between Morse for Oscars.) Nina Siemasko is also memorable memo-rable as a woman whose predatory moves are almost everyday. She does what she does because she has to, just like she has to work as a MacFrugal's sales clerk. You can't blame her. since she's scrambling to get away from an upper-class family fami-ly fallen on hard times led by the most poisonously oppressive mother moth-er to be seen on the screen in years (icily played by Grace Zabriskie). John Franklin plays George's friend Little Mike. (Again, deviating deviat-ing from Steinbeck, he's no wise protector, but a yappy little terrier, trailing in George's wake.) Brad Gregg is an edgily sympathetic sympa-thetic Jerry. Also in the cast is Brad Garrett as a memorably blustery security guard; Henry V. Brown Jr. as a reliable buddy: Marcelo Tubert as a French barfly: and Lee Tergesen as the guy who can't have a single blessed conversation without with-out the veins on his forehead popping pop-ping out. The Last Time I Committed Suicide Starring Thomas Cane, Keanu Reeves and Adrian Brody DirectorScreenwriter: Stephen Kay U.S.A., 1996 American Spectrum by jason osburn RECORD GUEST WRITER It must be nice to be one of the beautiful people being one. having hav-ing friends that are. living that lifestyle. It might not have seemed that way then or now. but to director direc-tor Slephan Kay. it has always been. "The Lust Time I Committed Suicide" is indeed just that beautiful. beau-tiful. From the start, this is a movie that was made by not just telling the story, but by showing the ingredients: ingre-dients: jazz music, drunk sopho-moric sopho-moric adventures, and of course, all those beautiful people. Inspired by an eight-page letter from Neil Cassady to Jack Kerouae. Kay pulls out a big first move with confidence, confi-dence, vision and maturity. God only knows the passions, truths, myths and heartbreak a letter that long can contain, and Kay re-creates all of it and more. Opening with jazz beats that mix and match with moving camera shots, quick edits and soul-filled settings, the tempo created sets up a perfect base to tell an important All Sports Eyewear US Sunglasses & Goggles "You guys do have the largest selection of sunglasses in the area-including Salt taker "I love my new REVOS. Your demo program is a great idea!" We have a huge selection of sunglasses-all types and shapes-for every face and budget. Check out REVO'S NEW GOGGLES! Also, sunglass cords & cases, goggle replacement lenses, fun hats, test drive center and warranty repair assistance. NEW LOCATION IN PARK CITY Virtually at the base of the Town Lift- in the Caledonian 751 Main Street-Park City Utah I U- v... i NEW LOCATION at the base of the town lift in the Caledonian and inspiring tale. The starting point for this celluloid adventure is the love-filled lifestyle of Neil Cassady. played convincingly by Thomas Jane, and his ever-so-sweet but ever-so-vulnerable sweetheart Joan, played by a delicate Claire Forlani. Soon the stress of "being" gets to Joan, and she chooses to leave Neil alone to find his way with the rest of the world and. Neil showing his true colors, dutifully stands by his woman, wanting, waiting for her return. Soon the pain and pressure of waiting and watching get to his adventurous spirit and off into the night he goes... forgetting his pain and love. To keep time passing and wounds healing, Neil tries to find solace in beer buddy. Harry, played by a weighted-up Keanu Reeves. Together with a six pack and a pool table. Neil and Harry begin chasing their desires of alcohol, tender women and the ever elusive "American Dream." Along their travels they debate their true colors, col-ors, about being a drunk, working the night shift, looking for the day job or again chasing that white picket fence. HI B I jfi A; i' r b a I Thomas Cane stars as Neil Cassady, a future inspiration for writer Jack Kerouae, in "The Last Time I Committed Suicide." tC rtK v a One redeeming aspect of these little ponderings is that for all of us ugly people in the world who worry about being lov ed and cared for. the beautiful people worry about it. too. This is the best part of the movie. Kay takes these story-hook characters that, as young people many of us have read or dreamed about, and recreates them as real people that share our evervdav fears and dilemmas. This brings the movie to a personal level while still keeping us very aware that these men are the precursors to the travelers trav-elers and wanders of the next generation. gen-eration. To begin the eventual climax. Neil takes up the offer of an older woman and follows her home just to be surprised by his once-thought dead lover. Joan. Together Joan and Neil start planning the future home, job and children thai all young lovers do in the early moments of passion. Needing to start this new adventure on the right foot. Neil goes to fetch his favorite suit, which he happens shares with his three friends. Again, as with every task that Neil tries to accomplish, trouble soon finds him and as is Neil's predestinv. he falls right into it head ov er heels. Once knee deep in his newest adventure. Neil finds that he cannot force this one to play out and must succumb to the waiting game of jail time Eventually Neil finds the light of day and tries to find his lover, this time already lost. From here the story could be retold and relived in another tow n, somewhere farther down the road. All Neil needed was another stolen car. beer, a woman and the passion for the road that a man like Neil travels. Overall the story is heartbreaking heartbreak-ing but then again amazing the adventure, the lost love, new lov e, the accomplices of mischief all wrapped up into 93 minutes of beautiful people. It's a story like this that shows ev eryone that being beautiful, daring, strong and rambling ram-bling aren't as easy as we all assume. Neil Cassady had his troubles, trou-bles, and although he was the creator cre-ator of them, he refused to let them become his demise. Neil Cassady overcame his troubles but found new ones. This might be why his character and attitudes were so wanted by the likes of Jack Kerouae. Ken Kessey and William S. Burroughs. He was given somewhere some-where to stand and with that place, he stood, and he mov ed the earth. 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