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Show Openings 1988 Entertainment - Page Twelve UNIONMOVIES Mainstream avant-gard- e films on Union movie For Halloween, Union movies will feature the sci-f- i blockbuster Aliens. dollar outerspace This multi-millio- n with the will superior; thorplay epic oughly satisfying Nicholas Roeg sci-f- i sleeper, The Man Who Fell to Earth, By Andrew Hunt Chronicle managing editor The Union movies agenda 1988-8- 9 bill offers everything from masterpieces to the unbearable, without the devastating prices of corporate theater chains. During, autumn quarter, Union movies will feature a double bill of a mainstream film coupled with an avant garde film. So witn no further ado, the agenda is as starring David Bowie (Oct. 28-30- ). The powerful Argentinian parable, Man Facing Southeast, a splendid film about a chap in an insane asylum claiming to be an outer space alien, will play with Going Places (Nov. ). A must see. follows: 3-6- David Mamet's thriller House of Fall quarter gets off to a good start with Brian DePalma's The Untouchables (Sept. n t. dollar cops 2), the Games will show on Nov. 10-1- 3 with the brilliant German film Mephisto, starring Klaus Maria Brandauer as a playwright multi-millio- 30-Oc- and robbers epic, featuring the most X I t, m torn between his own ideals and the rise of Nazi Germany. As autumn quarter grinds to a halt, the Union movies will feature Terry Gilliam's wacky British comedy Jabberwocky along with the cult favorite Smithereens on authentic good guys and bad guys since Warner Bros, gangster films were in their heyday. Opening feature is What Have I Done to Deserve This. Easy Rider, starring Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper (Oct. ), the penetrating account of three bikers discovering America, is well worth the is Time price of admission. 6-9- Co-featu- F Nov. 17-2- 0. Broadcast News, James L. Brooks' amusing satire of the mainstream media, will play Dec. 4 with Les Enfants re Stands Still. 1-- y concert film, Prince's Prince: Sign O' the Times, will shower the Union movies with paisley and Oct. Sign O' the Times will play on a double feature Terribles. Winter quarter begins on a dreary note with the unsatisfying John Hughes' romp Planes, Trains ana Automobiles (Jan. ). high-energ- neo-psychede- lia sci-action-packe- d flick Aliens will play at the Union Theatre The The quarter rapidly picks up with the with The Man Who Fell to Earth for a Halloween run. Peter the same title by William Kennedy, will Feb. 16-1- 9 is the glossy, "just say no" with the concert film Heartland black comedy Robocop (Jan. ), Verhoeven's Less Than Zero, based on show Jan. scripted, cleverly melodrama, Reggae. of the at urban Ellis' narcissistic "novel." Kitsch comes to the Union movies Bret The Easton Pink metropolis Wall, starring everyglimpse Floyd 20-2ultifuture. the Oct. From John Waters, the body's favorite Boomtown Rat and phi- The Beatles' charming Yellow mate sleaze auteur and king of the Along those same lines, THX 1138, lanthropist, Bob Geldof, will flicker on Submarine, directed by George film about a the screen Feb. Baltimore film circuit, comes George Lucas' I'm getting sick and Dunning, pits the happy Kingdom of human automated of beings, tired of hearing people say what a great Pepperland against the dreaded Blue Hairspray. With a cast like Devine, Jerry civilization And. closing off Stiller, and Pia Zadora, you can't go should please even the most' avid science film this is under the influence of hal- Meanies (March ). fiction A of its will classic (Jan. Five be Corners (March the quarter kind, filmgoer oddity wrong! lucinogens, the depressiowill with love Levinson's Ironweed, of play Mysteries Hairspray story Barry pleasing n-era love storv based on the book of Moonstruck will play Feb. the Organism (wha!?). On j. 13-1- fi ever-popul- ar 5-8- 6. 12-15- ultra-viole- nt 26-2- 9. 3. .: anti-utopi- an 2-- 5. 23-26- r 19-22- ). slow-movin- g, v 1 2-5- 9-1- ). 6. 09 1 rifi H 1A DORM FRIDGE 1 FREE DELIVERY TO C I I IU.OFU. j II ' l) t nU- rf - DCDATD Great for dorm rooms, depts, offices, and labs. TV or VCR STE REO Dual cassette AMFM Turntable CD PLAYER u MICROWAVE 222 For "large servings" of wit and darn good food, too you oughtta drag your bod to EI.B.O.'s in Trolley Square, Sure, we're famous for nothing. But you'll go berserk over our tasty mesquite-broile- d steaks, fish and other neat stuff. Oh . . and feel free to stare at the wall. (You'll have to visit us to see what that means.) So make it EI.B.O.'s for lunch or dinner, . ; . . ; , rJ:jKM: Famous for Nothing A member of the Epicurious Family of Fine Restaurants. S31-77Q- Q Open 7 Days a Week. .300 Trolley Square |
