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Show r.L. testival tilms announced i One upcoming film at next month's U.S. Film and Video Film Festival in Park City is about a low-life bar in Houston threatened by the bulldozer. The title is-ready for this, Parkites?-"Last Night atthe Alamo." This and other treats are being planned for the U.S. Film and Video Festival, scheduled for Jan. 23-29. Program Director Lory Smith has announced the films that will be in competition. competi-tion. The festival will feature 13 dramatic films, many from film-makers who have entered past festivals. The 10 documentaries include biography, controversial political po-litical arguments, and explorations ex-plorations of the American social scene. The seminars this year includes a scheduled acting workshop to be conducted by actor Robert Duvall. And one of the featured premieres pre-mieres at the festival is an animated version of the best-selling book "Plague Dogs." Smith said the following films will be shown in the Dramatic category: Mugge. "Citizen: The Political Life of Allard K. Lowen-stein." Lowen-stein." Julie Thompson tells the story of the New York congressman who supported youth dissent in the 1960s, and was shot by a protege in 1980. "Comedian." Katherine Matheson's documentary follows two women one shy, one seeking fame and shows how both ended up on stage as stand-up comediennes. comedi-ennes. -"The Electric Valley." The Tennessee Valley Authority Au-thority began as one of FDR's most popular projects, pro-jects, but 40 years later was assailed as a government menace. Director Ross Spears shows why. "The Good Fight" looks at a unique group of American Ameri-can veterans those who went overseas to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Directed by Noel Buckner. "When the Mountains Tremble." The violence and injustice in Guatemala is presented through the case of an Indian woman. Directed Direct-ed by Pamela Yates and Thomas Sigel. "Chicken Ranch" is about the Best Little (legal) Whorehouse in Nevada, just outside Las Vegas. Filmmaker Film-maker Nicholas Broomfield worked on a previous Festival Festi-val entry, "Soldier Girls." "Secret Agent." Director Direc-tor Jacki Ochs contends that Agent Orange is harming a generation of Vietnan vets, while, ihe government refuses re-fuses to recognize the problem. prob-lem. Produced and narrated by Max ("Wojo") Gail of "Barney Miller" fame. -"Style Wars" is a depiction depic-tion of the New York ghetto culture of graffiti artists and "break" dancers and the city government that tries to "protect" the Big Apple from street culture. Directed Direct-ed by Tony Silver. In "Seeing Red," filmmakers film-makers James Klein and Julia Reichert talked to Americans who belonged to the Communist party in the 1950s era of Red-hunting. Lory Smith said the festival festi-val is scheduled to have three related seminars. Robert Rob-ert Duvall and his wife, actress Gail Youngs, will participate in an acting seminar. A discussion on film auditions will feature casting director Lynn Stal-master. Stal-master. The event will also show two films directed by Duvall Du-vall a gypsy drama, "An-gelo "An-gelo My Love" and a rodeo documentary, "We Are Not the Jet Set" as well as an obscure but highly-acclaimed 1972 film starring Duvall, "Tomorrow." A discussion on film writing writ-ing will have guests Frank Pierson (an Oscar-winner for "Cool Hand Luke") and Edward Anhalt (writer for "Jeremiah Johnson"). Finally, a seminar on the future of American film will include representatives from Universal, Warners, Columbia and other studios. Some premieres are scheduled sche-duled for the festival, with more to be slated. "Plague Dogs" is an animated film 1 based on the Richard Adams novel about two dogs escap- ' ing from a laboratory that ( uses them for medical experiments. ex-periments. Producer Martin Rosen also filmed a fine version of another Adams story, "Watership Down," in 1978. "Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?" stars Karen Black as a woman in search of herself. And "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute" is about a group of women whose expectations don't live up to reality. The script for this premiere is by John "Secaucus Seven" Sayles. Lory Smith is program director for the event. The video component is helmed by Guilio Scalinger, head of the Utah Media Center in Salt Lake. Business affairs fall to managing director Karin Brockbank. Overall directorship of the festival is in the hands of a five-member committee. "Android," directed by Aaron Lipstadt, is an action-suspense-comedy with inter-nationally-known actor Klaus Kinski as the mad scientist working on a perfect per-fect robot. "Enter the Bassett." The festival will premiere this Colorado-made satire of kung-fu films. It includes the villain, Herr Bassett, and a hero named Awesome Lotus. Directed by David O'Malley. "Hero." Alexandre Rockwell directs a surrealistic surrealis-tic travelogue about a group of Eastern misfits who hop into a Yellow cab and head for Truth and Consequences, New Mexico. -"Last Night at the Alamo" is directed by Texas filmmaker Eagle Pennell, who won a special prize at the 1978 Utah Festival. -"My Brother's Wedding" Wed-ding" is about a young man in Watts, torn between disreputable friends and an older lawyer-brother whose success is held over him by his family. The director is Charles Burnett, whose film "Killer of Sheep" won a prize at the 1982 Park City v Festival. "Nightsongs," directed by Marva Nabili, tells of the struggle of a Chinese immigrant immi-grant family in New York, as seen through the eyes of a Vietnamese relative. This film received aid from Robert Redford's Sundance Institute. "El Norte." A young brother and sister journey from war-torn Guatemala to the slums and glamour of Los Angeles. Directed by Gregory Nava and produced by Anna Thomas, the team that brought "Haunting of M" to the festival in 1981. The heroes of "Signal 7" are two aging San Francisco cab drivers named Marty and Speed, who dream of pursuing acting careers in Hollywood. Filmmaker Rob Nilsson was co-director of a prize winner, "Northern Lights," at the 1979 Festival. "Summerspell" has a plot reminiscent of Sam Shepard. In Lynn Shenklin's film, a farm family full of secrets gathers for a tension-filled tension-filled reunion after World War II. "Suburbia" is the story of runaway teenagers who submerge their lives in Punk and live in a condemned housing development. Director Direc-tor Penelope Spheris also did the New Wave documentary "Decline of Western Civilization." Civiliz-ation." "Old Enough." Marissa Silver directed this story of an upper-middle-class girl and her friendship with a girl from a different background. back-ground. "Wildrose." Mainstream Main-stream actress Lisa Eich-horn Eich-horn stars as one of the few women miners in the country coun-try battling the effects of the 1982 recession in northern Minnesota. Film-maker John Hanson was the other director of "Northern Lights." "Vamping." Director Fred Keller, who brought two fantasy films to past festivals, returns with a mystery story and Patrick Duffy of "Dallas" is his star. The story is about a talented but alienated musician who moonlights as a small-time thief. The Documentary category cate-gory includes the following -films: "Black Wax" is about the outspoken rhythm and ' blues musician, Gil Scott-Heron. Scott-Heron. Directed by Robert |