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Show C6 ENTERTAINMENT Saturday Febru The Salt Lake Tri ‘8mny’ Oozes Blood, Violence, But Mostly Disgus Repertory Dance Theatre to Stage ‘Der Mond’ BY MARGARET GODFREY leaping and lif For SPECIAL TO THETRIBUNE Never has the moon had to Work so hard. On the C apitol The. atre stage Thurs lay mornin g more than 40 dancerspushed and Pulledit all over the planet, then Cartedit away to the netherworld It was kidnapped, draped and dis Sected for an hour anda half. De fore finally earning its resting Placein the sky Thecaptivating story is the lat est production of Re pertory Dance Theatre's “Der Mond” (the final performance is tonight ) The indignities placed on the moon can be blamed on the Grimmbrothers, who published English, the title thefairytale (in is “The Moon”) almost 200 years ago. Its current incarnation was choreographed by RDTalumnus i@hn Mead, who has managed a thoughtful interpretation. With RDT’sdancers, the moon is a met apbor for safety, knowledge longing and, at final curtain, illu- mination. Mead’s storyline may be-subtle, but his production is HOt, He requires constant motion fromscores of dancers, and lots of “Der nd” BY VINCE HORIUCHI and the best scenes were when they dancedin semiunison. Theparade in Act I, Scene 3 was especially when the Red Villagers heraldedthearriv al of the moon. There were sever- leather sadomasochistic outfit storystays focusedand tens to knowif the movieis real and why her husbandhad it. After Welles discovers the i identity of the victim and visits I her mother, he is taken to the his last film, the overwroug “Snake Eyes.” Phoenix, River brother, is particularly good The widow(Myra Carter) wants 20 dancers were onstage at the THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Near the beginning of “8mm seedyside of Los Angeles where he tries to locate the producer of a porn-store clerk is z the film There, he meets Max California, a studded and blue-haired Listing’s turn as Village Woman and Chara Huckins’ Crying Girl guide private investiga Welles into the underbelly of the smut industry with this caution: There are things you're going to Mime Joe Pitti guest-st: the Mayor of the Blue Vi the Leader of the Underworld. tigator, played by Nicolas Cage rot er (Joaquin Phoenix) who lerks at a porn shopandacts as Welles’ guide into the dank and v wretched world of S& I films. C all it the flip side of Boogie He’s warning the audience Nights. al worthy solos, including Lynne displaying his wonderful kinetic expression in the latter role. His performance could not car- ry the scene, which provedoverlong and repetitive Mead’s inspiration for the dancewasits operatic score, written in 1939 by German composer Carl Orff. The music is wild, borrowing from all sorts of influ ences, including Egyptian chants and Viennese drinking songs RDT hopes to someday perform the music live, but its recorded track did not performance “| MARRIED A STRANCE PERSON RDT beefed ght-member cast n guest dancers and 18 members of jren’s Dance Theatre. Most of the time at least same time, 999 detract from the Kaysvilleoncnsovue “OUT AND OUT HILARIOUS!" JACK FROST(PG) 12:30 2:40 7 THE RUGRATS MOVIE(G) 12:40 2:30 7:45 MIGHTY JOE YOUNG(PG)12:15 2:35 6:55 STAR TREK: INSURRECTION(PG)4:40 9:15 EVER AFTER (PG-13) 4:20 9:10 THE WATERBOY(PG-13) 4:50 9:20 GADJO DILO™ A lusty and vibrant comedyfrom see that you can't unsee He is not just warning the inves- Thisis a two-hour trip that de. signedto revolt anddisgust its au But the movie points out that evil spreads, and Welles begins to get sucked into the madness. It’s here that “8mm” begins to shadow two earlier films. In Paul Nicholas Cage “Hardcore,” George cSchrader’s Scott is a strict father who loses Welles, a private investigator} his daughter to the same world of with a sterling reputation, is porn and “snuff"’ films. And Al hired by the widow of a mining | Pacino gets caught upin the gay magnate. She discovers in her S&M life in Cruising.” If you've dienceit oozes through the grime of “snuff” films — homemade sex movies wherethe “star” is mur deredon camera. But for most of the journey 8mm” is gripping and wellmade. It’s too bad that about three-quarters into the story wrong turns with Cage’s charac- husband’s personal safe an 8mm 5 een those movies, this stuffis not sex film showing a girl being xactly new hacked to death by a manin a Through most of 8mm,” the ter rattle the movie. And the end- ing relies on too many Hollywood conventions SIS) CINEMA PUB the director of Latcho Drom. 3:00 7: ‘TaeWATEROOY ss SWINGERS Noon $:00 11:30 QRGATMO 230 700 718, G77 5200Wust 8621 “INFO 355°5500" “More full ot lite tian any ten Hollywood {ive ofits character dramas” Jett Vice, Deseret News. PATNA RTESS MOVIES + FOOD + BEER BRENDAN FRASER ALICIA SILVERSTONE The movie's characters are a bunchofhigh school socialites filled with anxiety, unce ainty discuss who is cooler: the prom sexual charismaandthedesire to queenor thecaptain of the footfind lovers before Auld Lang ball team? As droll and mundaneas that Syne" hits the stereo’s speakers Or at least most of the 13 are— 5 ounds, “200 Cigarettes” delivers Monica (played by Martha Plimp- a lot of entertaininginteraction ton, “The Mosquito Coast”) just romits ensemblecast, which in wants herparty to be a success. dl ludes Ben Affleck, Courtney If this sounds to you like anepi- Li ove, Janeane Garofalo, Christi naRicci and Jay Mohr. sode of MTV's The Real World” then it will be no surprise that ‘Theprinciples’ dialogueis of200 Cigarettes” is a joint Para ten shockingly funny and delivmount/MTV Films production e red in such a waythat you can’t ‘The filmis muchlike observing help but remember a few night marish dates you've been on with ter 200 Cigarettes An all: r ensemble Brat Pack for the ‘90s s back to the 'B0s THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Still trying to forget the °80s? Well, Hollywoodis serving up a bit of that decade in “200 Cigarettes,” a film detailing the ro mantic goings on of 13 people be fore a New Year's Evepartyin 1981 BIAS] # nam LAL ¢ rystal wie pAsT PC Be a CAMO12 9 pee suse ‘CENTURY 6 SALTLAKE "YOU'LL LAUG YOU'LL CRY, YOU'LLMute the whacked-out but good-heai ed clerk. But when Welles kidnaps one « the bad guys, the movie want to accept certain character trait that throw the story off. It neve recovers. Bythe time the moviereach the big confrontation, it tak place in a hokey backdrop cemetery complete with drencl ing rain and lightning bursts. Director Joel Schumacher, wt was accused of ruining the Bat man movie series by “lightening up thelast two, almost overcom pensates in this film. No doubt “8mm” is violent, drab and 1 for everyone. After all, it written by the samesereenwril r who brought us the equally vio lent, but more effective “Sever “8mm is rated R for just abor every possible reason, and Schu macher hadto makea few cuts { prevent an NC-17. Too bad he didn’t keep on cutting Brat Pack of 90s Relives Hi-jinks, Angst of 80s in 200 Cigarette BY MATT SARTWELL = [A wants-acal potas ot 2 gypsy communi, (8) 345 745, Cage is in better control than ir aL NOW Every Sat,200 PM clarity Behind the actors perfor- mances are eye- catching sets quins, garish glamour and leath er-wrapped punk. Add to the movie's color some of thebetter tunes of the late "70s and early 80s, including a large block of 11 vis Costello, and debut-director Risa Bramon Garcia succeeds i taking the audienceback in time Thisis not to say that “200 Ci arettes’’ is a winner. 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