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Show The Daily Herald '. ! ?" pTB! Thursday, January 18, 1S96 -- Sundance Film Festival's 'Care of the Spitfire; Grill'' o on Friday nigh ' I ' ill t w ' The featured screening of the terse introduction, but Hannah Sundance Film Festival in Provo is could use the help, and Percy .. Care of the Spitfire Grill, one of the stays. In return for her board Percy : ' entries in the dramatic competion.'. - is to work as a waitress in the grill." ' ' The movie will show on Friday With this development Percy has : at 7:30 p.rp. at Central Square'; found a new home and perhaps a1 Theaters at 175 N. 200 West in new beginning. Sundance Institute's Geoffrey.. Provo. Tickets cost $10. Tickets are available from 9 Gilmore notes- - in the Sundance- a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Utah Valley Film Festival's Film Guide, that; what might have been the simplis-- I ; Visitor Bureau at 51 South Unitic in Provo. Room retelling of an old story is ; 111, versity Ave., The phone number is 370-839transformed.; by "superb perfor- - ; ; Any tickets not sold by the visitor mances, riveting direction, and;-.bureau will be sold at the theater attention to detail and nuance." ; before the show. "Emotionally as powerful and Care of the Spitfire Grill is about compelling. as any other film in- -I a troubled young woman's search this year's competition, Care op ', '' the' Spi fire Grjllis an exploration" for a new direction in her life. and rebirth of a Alison Elliott stars as Percy of redemption Talbot, who is released from jail girl, a marriage, a mother and a',' after, serving a lengtny sentance )Son, and a town," Gilmore wrote. The principal cast consists of--- 1 for manslaughter. Because she is forced to stay within Maine's state , Alison Elliot, Ellen Burstyn, Mar-ci- a lines by the terms of her parole, Gay Harden, Will Patton,'-;and because she has no family or Louise De Cormier, Ida Griesemer.v" life waiting for her, she settles in Kieran Mulroney, Gailard Sartain, ; Sam Lloyd and Sir Gil Rood. the small town of Gilead. The movie was ' written and ' She arrives in the middle of a directed by Lee David Zlotoff, pro-- . .. wintry night with the watchful duced by Forrest Murray and War- - ' her. on eyes of Gilead's citizenry Word of her criminal past spreads ren Stitt. Robert Draper was direc-- 1 .. quickly. Needing to find her a tern- - ,, tor of photography. Margie Good-spee- d edited. Howard Cummings ? porary place to stay, the local sher- iff asks Hannah Ferguson (Ellen was production designer. LouiseBurstyn), the owner of the Spitfire Mingenbach was costume design- Grill, to take her on. They have a er. Peter Borck was art director. -- t'V i m 0. '- -- , m ill' L tor, ff 'i 4V XW " 1 x rVN . -- i . - ,si---- - v 00r -- "' ' - - -a- . ., , m't Photo courtesy of The Pogachefsky Company . - Allison Elliott portrays Percy Talbot in writer- director Lee David Zlotoff's movie "Care of s undance Film By BETH PINSKER Dallas Morning News 10-da- distribution dcalmaking, there's more excitment about doing lunch and cocktail parties than screenings. The festival's mandate, says programming director Geoffrey Gilmore, is to "give visibility to a lot of talented people and to a lot of what!we think are very good films.:' The film festival sponsored by Robejj Redford's Sundance years. changed over its . Insti-tutpli- 1 1 it is seen as a media Increasingly, ciiyils (of course, mostly by the mexHa). jftie big question, which may be hdrjjto hear over the din of ringing cellar phones: Has Sundance beotne too upscale to promote ! mE Hmtoyory. LJ it i St. Bt. 6 7 Frt. B3 independent film? Gilmore says he can't help the media's focus on the flashy stories that make Sundance seem shallow. '"Sometimes, wjth the media pursuit of the one hot, young filmmak- - t:M pjn. 7 this year to promote "Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes," the first book ever launched at the festival. Pierson doesn't worry so much about independent filmmakers selling out, he worries about them selling at all. The odds are still heavily against them even in the age of Tarantino. For every Cinderella story like Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs," Kevin Smith's "Clerks" or Robert Rodriguez's "El Mariachi," there are just as many filmmakers and films that remain obscure after the trophies are handed out. "What ever happened to 'Naked Jane,' 'Parallel Suns' or 'The Girl in the Watermelon'?" asks Pierson, referring to several er, people get the sense that's what of last year's contenders that never .the festival is focusing on," he got released. So far, only three of the films in says. "Last year, people thought, we were being pretty eclectic and this year's competition are being dark with 'Living in Oblivion' and distributed: October Films signed "Female Perversions," Miramax (the premiere of) 'The Usual Suspects.' 'Safe' got ignored then, but owns "Meet Ruth Stoops," and it made it onto 10 best lists. That Sony Pictures Classics owns "Welwas a movie that .was literally and come to the Dollhouse." The rest, including the "Late figuratively our centerpiece." will have to duke it out. Bloomers," Some of those who complain of for deals. the odds, Considering Sundance's commercialism sound like grunge rockers who complain they should consider themselves ' about corporate rock even as they lucky just for the chance. 500 films Approximately sign with big labels. "My problem with Sundance is that people are applied to Sundance. For the 470 films that got rejected, willing to cede it a monopoly," independent the math is daunting. says producer John Pierson, who By adding up the films in compreviously served on the festival's the new American Specpetition, selection committee! "Filmmakers and the films that debut a.t the look at it as a way to break out. trum, Toronto Festival and the Los AngeJournalists look at it as a way to les Film Festival, Independent Figure out the key trends of the Pierson comes up with about 90. upcoming year. Distributors just films that merit national release. put it in this catbird seat. Sundance films get pared down to Those didn't grab that power itself, it just 30. about evolved kind of naturally," Even as the number movie W. Utah Av inn I M U ChiMrm $2 All SHOWS (ALL SHOWS 3 WISHES $4 50 CLOSED SUNDAY N. UniwmHy Ptiwy., 375 5667 $1.50 ALL DAY IT TAKES TWO ti 4.40 ? 20 8 im PGI 7 2:15 4. 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TWO IF BY SEA 13.50 BAHOAIN MATINEE ALL SHOWS BEFORE 8:00 PM 1 VkU tr a (PG) 120 West Main American Fork Tonight 7:00 9:15 Starts Frl.: Hit (F B3SMEN ' . ' ::vn:D 6 G id Payon IJUIViHIii ?4?4 : 1 U - thara ic rxfKot rrrtA news: Sundance alumni Todd Haynes ("Safe"), Bryan Singer 4 . et bigger-budg- cowp it. n. WSal. riT TAKES TWO rarkuty. J'Pircrxn ("The Usual Suspects"), Kevi are gettin ' Smith ("Mallrats") second fe;." to make tures, a feat that has eluded indi pendent filmmakers for years. ;. screens has skyrocketed, the num IN it'CfeVne T ; rtrrs. C " new cable channels." ' To give- exposure ' to more' movies, the festival has added the American Spectrum category to showcase 20 first-tim- e features, Its allowed us to be broader, Gilmore says. And for the second year, an alternative festival called Slamdance will show films around of But Pierson is a pragmatist about filmmakers who surrender to the Hollywood circus of After all, he'll be at Sundance AduHt TnWNfr ber of independent releases has remained steady since 1988. "I think those others could basi- cally be flushed down the toilet," Pierson says. Showing a bit more1 optimism, Gilmore thinks that soon filmmakers may be more creative about outlets for their work, "There has to be some ways for the wonc to reacn an audience, because thf unrLr'c tnn rrrrH rrt tr " tic ' says. "There might be smaller dis- tribution companies cropping up or ... 2 p.m. p.m. Thur. Motv at the Central Square Theater. The movie is Zlotoff's feature film debut. Festival starts today; competition was fierce among filmmakers to get in cutting-edg- e The myth about the Sundance. Film Festival is that anybody lucky enough to get into the festival is assures a distribution deal and star status in Hollywood. Look at Quentin Tarantino. Or Ed Burns. This year's crop of filmmakers, docuwho have 18 features and mentaries in competition, will find out if that's true during the y festival, which begins today in Salt Lake City. After the gala premiere of Kenneth Branagh's comedy "A Midwinter's Tale," the party moves up the .mountain to the swank Park City, Utah, ski resort. There the publicists and( studio representatives take over.' ' Of the 115 films to be shown, only 34 are in competition. The rest of the program: the new American Spectrum series for first features; the World Cinema section; nightly premieres of new films; several midnight shows and a tribute to directpr William Wellman. With most ;zzzzof the filmmakers and stars available for interviews and ' the Spitfire Grill." 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