FILM SNEAK PEEK FROM URUGUAY, A HEROIC TALE.Byline: - Valerie Kuklenski The title ``Tricky Life'' has multiple meanings, and Uruguayan director Beatriz Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the Silva probably is OK with any of them. ``Tricky Life,'' opening tonight at the Laemmle Music Hall in Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. , tells the true story of Elisa, a rebel in Montevideo who resorts to prostitution to provide for her children, even moving to Spain in hopes of earning more. She learns the hard way she is being taken advantage of in many ways, and turns on her boss/lover in court, exposing his racket and becoming a heroine to thousands of other Uruguayan women stuck in the same situation. Director Silva is an activist as well, credited as one of a handful of filmmakers who have revived her country's film business. The film, Uruguay's official entry for the foreign-language Oscar, played earlier this month at the Palm Springs Film Festival and next week opens the Latin American Cinema Festival in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . It won awards at festivals in Cuba, Spain and Italy. Laemmle Music Hall is at 9036 Wilshire Blvd. Information: (310) 274-6869. CARPENTER RANTS: Here's a lowbrow film festival, one that is less likely to prompt deep discussions over late-night coffee than it is to make moviegoers nervously watch over their shoulders all the way home. American Cinematheque The American Cinematheque is an independent, non-profit cultural organization in Los Angeles dedicated exclusively to the public presentation of the Moving Image in all its forms. It is considered among the premier organizations of its kind in America. tonight opens a weeklong program, ``Escape Artist: A Tribute to John Carpenter,'' with the director on hand to discuss some of his most popular - and creepiest - movies. Tonight's double feature starts at 7:30 p.m. with ``Assault on Precinct 13,'' about a youth gang's attack on a police station, followed by his 1974 feature debut, ``Dark Star,'' about a ragtag rag·tag adj. 1. Shaggy or unkempt; ragged. 2. Diverse and disorderly in appearance or composition: "They're a small ragtag army of racketeers, bandits, and murderers" bunch of astronauts stuck on a spaceship with a beachball-shaped alien. Carpenter will discuss the films at the break. The 5 p.m. show on Saturday is ``The Thing,'' one of three films in the series starring Kurt Russell. Carpenter will talk after the screening. The 8 p.m. double feature opens with probably his most famous title, ``Halloween,'' followed by ``The Fog.'' The retrospective also includes ``Escape From New York,'' ``Big Trouble in Little China,'' ``Starman,'' ``In the Mouth of Madness,'' ``They Live'' and ``Ghosts of Mars.'' All screenings are at the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. Tickets are $8 for general admission, $7 for students and seniors, $6 for American Cinematheque members. Information: (323) 466-3456 or www.egyptiantheatre.com. BACK TO THE FUTURE: Here's some irony for you: ``Metropolis,'' Fritz Lang's acclaimed silent film about the ultimate inability of technological progress to meet basic human needs, has been revisited in anime form using the latest digital technology. Borrowing key images from Lang's film, anime pioneer Osamu Tezaku a half century ago created a comic version of Metropolis, a city-state populated pop·u·late tr.v. pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing, pop·u·lates 1. To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization; people. 2. by humans and robots in a strictly segmented society. Two current Japanese animators Famous animators no longer living
``Metropolis'' opens tonight at the Landmark Nuart Theater in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and the University Edwards Theatre in Orange County. WINNING DOCUMENTARY: ``Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport'' will be shown Tuesday night at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX as part of the 20th annual Contemporary Documentary Series. Mark Jonathan Harris' film about young survivors of the Holocaust, which won last year's feature documentary Academy Award, will be shown with the Robert Dornhelm short ``The Concert.'' Admission is free for the screening at the James Bridges Theater in the northeast corner of the UCLA campus. Information: (310) 206-3456. |
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