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Show JMk WBnaKiM'yai iSO ..vnieUBrou,., Here's 1986 lineup for film fest The United States Film Festival isn't over yet, and already we've received advance word of the films to be shown next year. The product is not as good as this year, but in many respects it will be as exciting as ever. Next year's emphasis will be on pictures that attempt to combine human concerns with traditional genres. For instance the festival will preview an expanded version of "On Golden Pond," which incorporates discarded footage directed by John Carpenter that works a science-fiction story into the plot. The new version is called "The Creature From On Golden Pond." Something's been killing the loons on the pond, and it's not long before the inhabitants discover the awful truth. Henry Fonda, as the Old Poop, struggles against senility as he tries to remember is he supposed to kiss the Creature, and shoot Katherine Hepburn with a harpoon gun, or is it the other way around? The Creature is defeated when daughter Jane lures it into an aerobics session, and it is fatally injured attempting to do a leg split. Also in the festival: "Termites of Endearment." Sure, this is a movie about giant 70-foot man-eating insects. But it's about relationships too. Nick Mancuso plays the Air Force colonel who leaves his girlfriend to bomb the creatures but is he really trying to save Cincinnati, or just afraid of facing himself! Sam Waterston is the scientist who pleads "If only we can rap with them." In the exciting climax, the heroes discover the creature's hidden weakness they're afraid of a commitment! "My Dinner With Godzilla." Sam Shepard meets for dinner with the legendary monster in a scrip that was developed from conversations between the two long-time friends. It may sound dull, but director Ingrnar Bergman makes great drama out of the contrast between the two philosophies and personalities. One is a prize-winning playwright concerned with alienation, mis-communication and the souring of tht American hero ethic; the other, a giant reptile who eats jet liners and destroys cities with his radioactive breath. It co-stars Roman Polanski as the dirty waiter and the population of Yokohama as the Main Course. "Our Fangs, Ourselves." A documentary examines the world of werewolves the last American ethnic group which is still the victim of prejudice. The film examines the early legends about werewolves, old movie stereotypes and the acceptance of entertainers who were "safe" Wolf man Jac, Cat Stevens, Eddie Rabbitt. (Those who played to the Establishment were later scomed as "Rin Tin Tins" by more militant wolfmen.) The film exposes some personalities who have posed as human (James Watt, Sonia Johnson) and explores the "Furry is Fabulous" movement of werewolf pride. Finally, the film shows the exciting new lifestyle of "lycanthrope lounges" and the city which has become the center of werewolf culture Butte, Montana. "Paris, Texas, Alpha Beta." A man staggers to the check-out line, after being lost for five years in the salads , and cereal section. He sets out in search of his wife, who was last seen around household goods and women's lingerie. The film is a mystery did she have eight items in her cart or 15 but in director Vim Vigor's treatment, the answer matters less than the nature of the groceries themselves. "Flushing." In this unstructured experimental film, Harry, who is starving but cannot leave the public lavatory, talks through the door to Larry, who has had a full meal but cannot enter the facility. The look-alike heroes are played by Ernest Borgnine and Stefanie Powers. This is the first American film of immigrant director Tort Crustos, who is here for the festival. He will be woken up after the screening to answer questions and to take an audience vote on whether to bum the movie. "Oh. Thank Heaven." Director Penny Gaunt helmed this semi-fictional account of nomadic street kids who live in Seven-11 stores, roaming from one to another, finding comfort in one unchanging element in an unstable world. We meet young Brock, who says, "No matter whether it's Texas or Maine, the Slurpies is . always there"; Frito and Dorito, who are married by the store manager; and doomed Eddie, who makes the mistake of napping in a microwave during lunch hour. "The Tim Conway Retrospective." After years of study by the French, American audiences are at last beginning to appreciate this cinematic genius. Conway is represented by films from his Cretin period ("McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force") and his later more mature, Moron period, teaming with the incomparable Don Knotts ("The Apple Dumpling Gang" and "Cannonball II.") Conway is not expected for the festival, but his underwear will be present at the screenings and can be fondled if you bought a festival sponsorship. "Far From Pearl Harbor." Documentary maker Dextra Pulp explored a daring new theory that the Japanese started World War II in the Pacific only to find that everybody already knew this. The film began as an historical question, but soon becomes a dialectic between the subject and the filmmaker's history (which consisted mainly of falling asleep in history class all through school). It asks the question, "Can documentary capture the real especially if I'm about as retentive as a fence post?" Also, don't miss the seminar on "Methods of Financing: Is Groveling Enough?" The discussion will explore ways of approaching bankers, pitching ideas to producers, and walking up to total strangers and asking, "Can I have $10,000 dollars for a cup of coffee?" . WORST NEW SLOGAN FOR AN APRON: "Somehow, Nothing Satisfies Like Beef." (Worn by a couple of beefy barbecuers on the cover of the January "Utah Cattleman" magazine.) Mrs. Fields Cookies now have the ultimate status. y They're one of the tasty temptations plaguing comic-strip heroine Cathy. In a recent strip, she reflected that every time she developed more will power, more new taste treats were brought out. "... I got more will power and now they've introduced . . . Mrs. Field's Cookies cheesecake parlors and a pasta emporium on every ,i corner,, ini-'-Wi t-,.w "Every new ounce of will power reaps 10 new pounds of fat," she concludes. What's next? Garfield switching his allegiance from lasagna to chocolate chips? |
