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Ml 16 BOOKS SUNDAY 16 DECEMBER 1984 AMIS us ffljgSJS WSi Sjjpaxgffi ASKF.Tj in Msrltm rmmtlv tn I HAVE seen the future and it ART CINEMA describe a very latest British nirtiin triitrtrnferl oinmtViino dangerous areas where figuration is still only, a Trial Offer. In his traduction to an exhibition of works by artists "works, said Lincoln Steffens on his return from Russia in the Steffens was said Clifton Fadiman after a about the New Imagery, the' uerman accents, the compul visit to California 30 years later, I've seen the future and it Having just been sive impasto, the almost obligatory fountains and chasms, labyrinths, -chalices and Lost Boys. The neo-Tantric artists of Madras were regaiea oy tne million tilm rwajvu ui jlsliuc empire, VT, Frank Herbert's vision of life in the vear 10.991 AD. I disagree 3 amazed. It sounded so old-fashioned, so perverse.

But sure enough, back in London, there it all is. Steven Camnbell's naintinos at the WILLIAM FE AVER and Tbirese Oultpn's paintings, transferred to the Serpentine from Gimpel, where they were shown only last month, evoke ragged clouds, scarred; ravines 'the Tolkien country where dead souls flap aimlessly. The course of events runs smoother in Andrew Mansfield's picturesque settings. Tulips hold their own in a. jug, regardless of the symbolic falling petals foam, torrents flow; twilight prevails.

This universal dusk extends to the undergrowth and knotted stems repeatedly painted in rapid giant shorthand by Peter Lewis. It suffuses Maria Chevska's dissolving views of senses railing; it is dispelled momentarily by white streaks Riverside and Landscape, memory ana jjesire, a group show selected by Robert Ayers and Tony Godfrey at the oerpennne, are typical or tne current upsurge. Ten years ago the eauivalent mrvln nn thunderous abstraction Jon waiKers juggernauts, say, with their caulked and dusfv elephant-hide finishes. Today we nave uus nana-over-fist figuration: Steven Carnnhell niwwnt complex situations in which men like overgrown schoolboys in thorn-proof tweeds, wrestle with themselves and lose their1 oeanng8. The format is gigant- esque.

Holed up in tight space-shipyard as Star with some components brought in from 'Close Encounters and Gore Vidal's 1950s play, Visit to a Small Alex (Lance Guest), a sweet discontented teenager longing to get away from the dreary rural trailer-park his mother manages, kills time by mastering a video-game called Like the tablet in this machine has been placed there as a test by extraterrestrials and, when Alex achieves a record score, a visitor from the intergalactic Star League appears to recruit his services in a space war to save the universe from the evil Ko-Dan armada. Amusingly, this space trickster, as he turns out to be, has adopted the earthly form of that celebrated smooth-talking con-, man, 'Music Man' Robert Preston. The movie also has' the nice idea of leaving behind in Alex's place an android doppelganger, who has a little trouble understanding local folkways, such as what our hero's girlfriend means when she sticks her tongue into his ear. That splendid Irish actor Dan O'Herlihy, Bunuel's immortal Crusoe, is also on hand to lend comic substance to a lizard-skinned extraterrestrial pilot. Yet for all this, Castle's likeable movie is never as funny or as exciting as it so often promises to be.

John Korty's Caravan of Courage (Odeoh, Marble Arch, U) isn't merely akin to Star it's an authentic sliver of shrapnel spun off from The Return of the featuring the Ewoks from the planet Endor. The Ewoks, you may recall, are ingratiating snub-nosed bear-like creatures, virtually designed to be merchandised in toyshops. And five of these trade-marked Coca-Koalas come to the rescue of two grisly American infants, Cindel and' Mace, marooned on Endor when the family's spacecraft goes off-course on an intergalactic holiday. The four-year-old Cindel is played by a charmless child, chosen because of her resemblance to Drew Barrymore from Mace is a brash 10-year-old from. the same mould that produced endless Mark HamiU lookalikes.

The Ewoks, like safari guides or devoted PHILIP FRENCH peeling special effects, my mind steadily contracted, until at the end of the 135-minutes it felt like the fibre-dry centre of a bad walnut. I could discern that handsome Prince Paul Atreides (Kyle MacLachlan), dressed in neo-Ruritanian military gear, was the good guy, and that the Harkonnens, ar red-headed league of punk Michelin men, led by the floating Baron Vladmir (Kenneth McMillan) and his grinning, hitman Feyd Rautha (Sting), were the villains. I also understood that they were after the mystic, spice called essential fuel for space-travellers, mined on Arrakis, the desert planet known as Dune. However, the stages by which the Prince was identified as the planet's messiah or Kwisatz Haderach were by no means clear. And I possibly misheard him adopt, or be given, the nom de guerre etoile 'Ooshole' before mounting one of Dune's mile-long sand worms to lead his followers into battle.

The special effects may be the latest 'state of the art' thing and the credits are a roll-call of the top people in the business, from designer Anthony Masters (who worked on 2001 ') to Carlo Rambaldi (who conceived the creatures in 'Alien' and E.T-'). But Dune lacks the magic of the Powell-Press-burger Thief of the clarity of Things to the sustained conviction of and the ironic playfulness of Planet of the In Nick Castle's cheerful The Last Starfighter (Leicester Square Theatre, PG) we have a version of 'Wizard of Oz where the central characters find that happiness isn't in their own middle-American backyard, but up there in outer space, where the sole, activity appears to be blowing up other people's rocket-ships. This suggests that the dream of young people today would be to step into a video game the way Alice entered Wonderland, an idea first broached in the Disney movie Like 'The' Last Starfighter' is from the same retitmg oymvc alliums ui uic nu Gallery, Guy Brett talks about 'the neo-conservative tendency to promote a pompous and self-important notion of the artist but of the traditions of the Brett's selection, Critic's Space 2, includes no painting unless photo-retouching counts and no sign, beyond a broken column or two, of the mym-raking ascendancy. Faced with, such ineffably Seventies contraptions as Dar-rell J. Viner's pieces of dressed stone with motors attached, like.limpets or whining incubi, even the umpteenth Serpentine waterfall picture looks relatively refreshing.

John Rugger's banners assert the role of art as something to drape or flap on appropriate political) occasions. Kay Fido memorialises her father, killed in the last war, including colour Xeroxes of the terse notifications of injury and: death. Clare Dove gives an impressionistic account of the experience of living in the worst sort. of tower block drowning sensations again, this time inrphotographic form. Susan Dale is the only exhibitor to betray a concern for aspects of life beyond the dossier or the demo.

She uses bits of fake fur, heat-resistant graphics and printed circuits as the raw material for cut-out people, fish and dinosaurs, which she arranges in ill-assorted, groups, like flying duck sequences, pinned to the wall. At least she has the wit to allude to the tackier manifestations of contemporary culture in an enticingly cryptic manner She also avoids the woe-is-me tendency prevalent, it would appear, in some Space studios. Meanwhile, at the Cholaman-dal- Artists! Villagei near Madras, a settlement founded just over 20 years ago by artists exclusively for artiste, the cult of self-expression, couched in Tantric and bulgy organic has reached a dead end. Fashion has its virtues, after all. The hasty adoption of neo-conservative means and deeply meaningful motifs here in the West has, undeniably, generated a sense of renewal in painting and rediscovery.

with both. This future doesn't work at all and plays rather poorly. The first book of Herbert's galactic saga appeared to moderate acclaim 20 years ago. But- within five years Dune -was busting out all over as further sections appeared and it became a cult text for the 1960s generation. They loved its heady combination, or mishmash, of ecology, mysticism, messianic religion, high-minded questing, fantastic rituals, apparent endorsement of mind-expanding drugs and the championing of good guys with occult kinetic powers against villainous technocrats.

A questionnaire circulated among my undergraduate pupils at an -American university in' 1972 -revealed that Dune was way ahead of Lord of the Flies as -the class's favourite novel, u. Though there was some iwriting of undeniable power in hefty novel, I found it ultimately impenetrable, partly because I couldn't carry in my head the fancy names of people places, or form satisfactory mental images of them. Certainly it didn't speak to my spiritual needs. Consequently, and not for the time, I looked forward to a film adaptation that would provide a satisfactory viewer's digest version. The fact that the director and screenwriter was David Lynch, whose 'The "Elephant Man' is among my favourite films of recent years, considerably raised my hopes, and in the event made my disappointment all the greater.

A historical briefing by Prin-; cess Irulan (Virginia Madsen), 'daughter of Padishah Emperor "Shaddam IV (Jose Ferrer), on "the state-of-play in the galaxy "gets' the film off to a nebulous -stait and it left me reeling. -Then' under a barrage of incomprehensible dialogue and thought), hieratic rites, inscrutable encounters, battles and cornea- corners, his heroes (many of them self-portraits) act like Glen Baxter i characters: In Owl butting Hiker on the Knee for example, the assault takes place; beside a ridge tent erected on a narrow ledge, above which the rock face is being carved into a Celtic Mount Rushmore. Is Anaemia: Nature Caused; by Disease or Lighting another title, demands. The picture carries on regardless signposts pointing, wildflowers bursting forth, conifers bending over, burly figures laying into one another like performing bears. The treatment is uniformly mock-heroic with recurring 'predicaments and a constant air of ponderous charade.

Campbell's Scots quirks (which include a robust prosiness) make him distinctive the paintings have plenty of substance. But the intensive activity, up the magic mountains, down the rushy glens, gives rise to the suspicion that there's more rhyme than reason in the events portrayed. These are catchpenny epics. Waterfalls, drowning sensations, wreaths and thickets pervade Landscape, Memory Hieratic rites Franceses Annls as Lady Jessica, the hero's mother, in being pehted under 'the umcirella title, That's Not All The first is a selection of Warner Brothers Looney Detail from Steven Campbell's' God's in his Heaven of downpour in Michael Porter's violent evocations of dirty weather. The general drift of these paintings is in the direction of (his -with achieving the glare of heat, the bite of cold), and Where Courbet developed a habit of painting quarry and stream with harsh green foliage offsetting the scabby stone and dark water, Peter Lewis plunges again and again into the same patch of woodland.

Where Turner emulated Claude, Adrian Searle attempts Turners, but does so from an awkward standpoint that of a one-time abstract painter venturing uncertainly into Tunes and Melodies, the second a series of the wildly inventive Tex Avery cartoons Lasf Starfighter and Caravan of Courage might seem the ideal place for a Yuletide family night-out the infants, babyminded by the Ewoks the teenagers engaging in videogame fantasies Mum and Dad revisiting follies of the 1960s.with Frank Herbert. But if you are looking 'for. real family entertainment, I would suggest an. expedition to the ICA Cinema, Nash House, to see the three programmes of vintage non-Disney Hollywood cartoons from the 1940s and 1950s Vietnam Montagnards, go wombling through the woods (California's Redwood Forest, in fact) in search of the children's parents, who have, been captured by a wicked giant, and on the way they; confront a variety of ill-tempered and indifferently animated creatures. The tale is as padded as the shoulder of a zoot-suit and has an amateur, home-movie feel we don't associate with its producer, George Lucas.

A tripled cinema showing wMch: helped shape theXciiie-, matic sensibilities of Steven Spielberg and Joe Dante, the third a portfolio of cartoons 1 sending up Hollywood conventions and genres. All reveal the respect their makers had for the sophistication of moviegoers. WHAT'S ON I CONCERTS -M it J- C3 UU tt- 1-- -i ctoMfdaacisiiuia 3tV Sunday. CITYOFUrNrN8INFONIA.friBidHlclco)aiMtr. Daceuibar It Richard Htetaw (cond).

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Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Rid Carola for Chorus, Orchestra and Audience. Returns on.SoomwredcyHarroda GLC South Bank Concert Halls, Bahradara Road. London SE1 8XX Box Office: Opan Won-Sat 10anv8pm, Sun 130pnv9pm Telephone Bookings 01426 3191. Credit Cards 01-028 8800 Open all day with tree exhibitions and lunchtime music CoHee shop, buffet and bare. Jazz in the Riverside Cafe, dine to free entertainment every Friday.

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Handal: Pastoral SvmDhonv and choruses fmm 'Maaatah' Carols for GOLDSMITHS CHORAL UNION Brian Wright (conductor) Antony -16 Dec Saunders (porno) Roger Vignola (piano) Christopher Bowsrs- pm a Brosdbant (organ) Carols tor choir and sudtTica. 730 pm 2D0. 2.50. SSSO. 40.

650. Norman McCann Ltd 3f Chorus. Orchestra and Audience: Returns only. Sponsored OyHan-ooa. Wednesday HARRODS CHRISTMAS MUSIC FESTIVAL.

Deeembsr 19 The King's Singer in concert with the London Symphony 7.00pm Orchestra. Monday '17 Dee FAMILY CHRISTMAS EVENING Emm Raad Symphony Ofchtttra Ashtead Choral Socio ty. Camden Choir, Hertford Choral Howard WHIam (cond) PhHp Gammon (pno) Tchaikovsky Ste. The Nutcracker: Rachmanlnov Rhapsody on a theme ot Paoanini. Carols.

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(only) EJI.M.A. Thursday December 20 7.00pm London Symphony Orchestra. London Symphony Chorus. Richard Htdsn (cond) Richard Jackson (bar itone). Roaalnl: Overturn "William Tall' 'tcTtaJkowsky: Waltz ol the Snowllakes from The Nutcracker' Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols.

Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Rid. Carols tor Chorus, Orchestra and Audience. Returns only. Sponsored cy Harrods. ROYALPHUiUftatOHICOHEsrafo I1B Dec Trinity Boys' Choir Nicholas Cleobury (cond) Dsvtt Wilson-Johnson 740 pm (bar) Prog mc RoaaJnl Ov.

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4. 5. 6. 7. 8 In aid ot the Royal National Lifeboat Institution LGBEQLC SunfThurs THE SNOWMAN.

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The Real Thing Directed by PETER WOOD 2ndYear Great Expectations Mon-Fri at 7.30, Sats at 5.00 8.30, Mat Wed at 230 7.30. Few seats avail for eve perts Jon 15 -17 Eves 8.00, Mats Wed 3.00, Sat 4.00 By Charles Dickens. Adapted Directed by Peter Cos No perts Christmas EveDay. Extra pert Dec 27 at 230 BLOOMSBURY WC1 tel 387.9629 CC 380.1453 fMYMARKETSWIrel930.9832CCGroupsales930.6123 PALACE Wl tel 437.6834 CC 379.61314373327 VAUDEVUE WC2 tel 836.9987836.5645 CC A WftiP.90 930.6123 Foodavaltableat the theatre POLLY ADAMS, CUVE FRANCIS, JAN WATERS, Until Jan 13. DAVID WOODS MAGGIE SMITH, JOAN PLOWRIGHT and GAUNA PANOVA In: GLYN GRAIN In MICHAEL FRAYN'S new play.

lTieGNerbwdMan On Your Toes the rodgers hart Musical Benefactors WimPETERDUNCANSotatZ30oV5.30,Sunat3.30. "10 Way Ot me WOna DirabvMI(5rmr3lAKaWREOyer250 perfs ContoctBoxOtnceforturtherperftlmesinc.Suns By WILLIAM CONGREVE Directed by WILLIAM GASKILL SaSo Halt-price child tickets with each adult. Eves at 730, Mats Wed at 230, Safe at 3.00 Eves ot746. Mats at 230 No perfs Christmas EveDay. Extra pert Dec 27 at 230 C0USEUMWC2tel8363161SCC240.5258379.6212 HER MAJESTYS SW1 tel 930.66067 CC 93040256 PHOEKLX WC2 tel 240.9661 CC 8362294379 6433 WESTMINSTER SW1 tel 834.02834 CC 741.9999 r.

a. West Side Story eroupsaies93o.ei23 37964336311101 I English National Opera Book byARTHUR LAURENTS. Music by LEONARD qriffrhw rPMTAvmDin AnewadaptaflanofCSlBWlS's BERNSTEIN. Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHBM. The Lion, The Witch and The WardrODO Original production Directed and Choreographed by iTUrnpetSandRaspDerrleS TwtceDaliv.SeeCKilrvWessforMrtormcincetlmes JEROME ROBBINS.

by DARK) FO Noeveoert Dec 24 no oerfs Christmas Day No perts Chrlstrnas EveDay, Dec 26, 27 Motrfri at 7.30. Mat Wed at 230. Sats 445 8.00 Morr-Thurs ot 745, Sat ot 530 8.30 ReducltonsforGrwps COMEDY SW1 tel 9302578 SCC 839 1438 LYRIC Wl tel 437.3686 SCC 434.1050741.5151 PICCADU.Y Wl tel 437.4506 CC 379 65656433 WYNDHAM'S WC2 tel 836.3028 SCC 379,6565 Group sales 930.6123 Group Sales 930.6123 741 .9999 Group sales 930.6123836.3962 379.6433 Info 836.1071 Groups8363962 BestMuslcaloftheYearl983StandardDromaAward THE THEATRE OF COMEDY COMPANY presents PAUL JONES, KIKI DEE BRIAN PROTHEROE SUETOWNSEND's lltMAChnn DINSDALE LANDEN, GEMMA CRAVEN, GARY HOLTON, CARLENE CARTER, JULIAN LITTMAN in: TtlO SSCrfit DiarV Of Adrian Mol Little Shop Patrick O'CONNEU. PumDRAVcand tslniittM inoaocreiuiaryoiAanuniiiaio OF HORRORS LOOthu lOEORTON Diractsdbv JONATHAN LYNN S1 Srt JC Aged 13 Directed by GRAHAM WATKINS I Morhursat8.00.FrtftSa.at6.00&845 BSSaa SStffi Saturday NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA VTvienne Price (cond) Berlioz 22 Dec Overture, Roman Carnival. Britten Simple Symphony, Strauss Horn 745pm Cone No 1 (1st mvt).

Handal Concerto Grosso, Op6a.wks by Rlmsky-' Korsskov, Anthony Carter, etc 1 50. 250. 3. 4. 5 National Children Orch RAYMOND GUBBAY presents at the BARBICAN WEDNESDAY 26 DECEMBER at 7.30 p.m.

BEETHOVEN EVENING 5f LORRAINE McASLAN (violin) JOHN 8LAXELY ipuinoj Beethoven 17 Dec Sonata in A minor. Op.23, Brahms Sonata in Op 100. Szymenowski 7M pm Mythes. three poems lor violin and piano. Op.30.

Walton Sonata 3f CORIOLAN PIANO CONCERTO NO. 5 (EMPEROR) SYMPHONY NO. 3 (EROICA) ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conductor LIONEL FRIEND, PETER DONOHOE piano 3.50, 4.50, 5.50, 6.50, 7.50, 8.50 SATURDAY 29 DECEMBER at 3 p.m. 2.00, 3.00 Kirckman Concert aociery no PETER LION (oiano) Havdn Andante con vanazione. Mob XVII 6.

Tuesday ISDec Beethoven Sonata in 0, Op 28 (Pastoral). Chopin Sonata in Hat minor, Oo.35. Rschmaninov Ffudfis-tablaaux. Od.33 730 pm NAPOLEON 2. C3.

4 Grapevine Concert Mot Wsrkisirtsv CHARLFS naMIRPy fnuitnrl Prnnrammn includes CastelnuOVO 14 Abel Gance's epic masterpiece returns to the Barbican for a Special Screening. Recreated by Kevin Brownlow with live orchestral accompaniment in the acclaimed scare by Carl Davis commissioned Yy Dec Tedesco Sonata. Ponce Sonata III. Erlka Fos Piece tor Guitar (1st pt). H730 pm Rodrigo Elogia de la Guitarra.

PassacalleFandango. Albeniz Tango I orne Bermeia. wk by Moreno Torroba 2 50. 3 00. 3 50 Schmalu Produciiona oy i names television loruiannci 4.

THE WREN ORCHESTRA Conductor CARL DAVIS The him runs for about 5 V. hours plus intervals, and is shown in two parts. Each half has a 20 minute interval and there is an extended break of approx. l'i hours between i rii sis ii ar ii tmm mi aa luc two pans. 10, 12.50, 14.50, 16.50 in association with the British Film Institute Box Office (01-628 8795) Credit Cards (01-638 8891) 3f 5f I THEATRES LONDON PALLADIUM.

01-437 7373. Evenings at 7.30. Matinees 3f 5f weanesaay Saturday 2.43. LONDON'S GREATEST STAR-STUDDED SPECTACULAR MUSICAL TOMMY STEELE in DOMINION THEATRE Tott Ct Rd Wl. Dec 21 for ltd season.

2.30 7.30. KEITH HARRIS ORVILLE in HUMPTY DUMPTY A New Musical Pantomime Book NOW for Christmas Tickets from 3.50 to 7.50 2 OFF Children OAPs 01-580 95623 CC 01-323 1576 8 SINGIN' IN THE RAIN with ROY CASTLE 3f "TOMMY STEELE'S MERE PRESENCE ON THE STAGE LIGHTS UP THE ENTIRE Box OfficeCredit Cards 01-935 2141 Mailing list 2.20 a year MOURA LYMPANY piano Mozart Adagio in minor Today Sonata in K330 Btcttaoren Sonata in minor Pathcti- 16 Dec. que Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Tberne byHandelOp 3.10 p.m. 24 Memorial Concert for Richard Sampson Handier OBE FRCS. 4.30, 3.50.

2.30, S2 CARROL McLAUGHUN harp Spohr Fantaisie Op 35 T--, Handel Concerto in flat Albeniz Sonata in Marx Textures (1st oerf) Salzedo Vara, on a Theme inUie Ancient i Unn. Style Op 30 Schaftr The Crown of Anadne HalfTter Danza p.m. de Pastora parhh-Ahars Mandoline. 4, 3.20, 2.30, 180 Aschl Canadian High Com. ALEXANDRA NOMIDOU piano Schumann Papillons Op 2 lSrS' Davidsbiindlertanze Op 6 Brahms 4 Klavierstucke Op 1 19 inTL Chopin Andante spianto and grande Polonaise bnllame Op 22.

7.30 p.m. 3 2Q 50 1 80 Hetm jeninBs Concert Agency ST GEORGE'S CANZONA John Solhcott dir. Tappattr, Wlj, Dryngker Fille Another Ale. Medieval, renaissance and tradi-io nL lionalniusic for the festive season with R. Attfield, C.

Elliston JinTL Bail. J. Grab. D. Harrison.

R. Harrison, M. Oxenham. M. 7.30 p.m.

Sargeant 4.50. 3.50. 2.50. 2 Early Music and Baroque Series IHEATKE Harold Hobson, Sunday Times, 9 September 1984. EXCLUSIVE CHRISTMAS Tel.

No. 01-437 6891 Open 24 hrs a day inc Sundays. NOTE NO PERFS CHRISTMAS EVE DAY, EXTRA MAT DEC 27 at 2.45. BOOKING OPEN NOW FOR ALL PERFORMANCES TO JUNE OF 5f GREENWICH THEATRE. 01-8)8 7755.

Preview Wed 7.45. Opens Thur 7.0. Sub Evgs 7.45, Mat Sat 2.30. (No pelfs Dec 24, 25). Extra Mat Dec 26 at 4.0.

CIDER WITH ROSIE by Laurie Lee. Adapted for the stage by JAMES ROOSE-EVANS. NEXT YEAR. Credit Cards 01-437 2055734 8961 NightSunday Ansafone 01-437 6892..