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Pensacola News Journal 17G Thursday, November 27, 1986 British Film Festival shows 'The Fly 'Short 'Heartburn' r. iri By Matt Wolf adaptation of the book bv Lucv Ir Man Who Fell to Earth" and "Bad the 20 new French films being from such Hollywood ventures as "The Fly," "Short Circuit" and "Heartburn," to the independent films of Spike Lee Gotta Have Lizzie Borden and Ross McElwee Thirty movies from the Third World are being shown, including five from India, three each from China and Taiwan, and one each from Mali. Tunisia and Indonesia. The festival also has scheduled special events, featuring three performances of Erich Von Stroheim's 1924 "Greed," with a new score by Carl Davis and live orchestral accompaniment, and two showings of F. W.

Murnau's 1922 "Nosferatu," which has been newly tinted and will be presented with live music by the Duesseldorf Ensemble. A third special event is the uncut premiere of Cyril Frankel's 1953 British film "Man of Africa," which was made on location in Africa with an all-black cast. When it was first released, the movie was cut to half its 74 minutes and used as a travelogue. "At last it will be properly rediscovered." Malcolm said. shown are Coline Serreau's delightful "3 Men and a Cradle," Arthur Joffe's "Harem," Costa-Gavras' "Family Business" and Jean-Charles Tacchella's "Escalier Other international films include Luigi Comencini's "La Storia" adapted from Elsa Morante's novel about a schoolteacher who is raped by a German soldier, and Andrei Tar-kovBky's "The Sacrifice," with Er-land Josephson as a man who makes a pact with God to restore order to the world.

The 32 American films range Associated PressjWriter LONDON (AP) Nicholas Roeg's "Castaway" opened the 30th London Film Festival, and "Gothic," Ken Russell's work about the creation of the Frankenstein tale, will close the 17-day movie binge. "This is an important anniversary for film and for London," said Derek Malcolm, festival program director and film critic for The Guardian newspaper. "It gives me great pleasure that we are starting with the world premiere of a new British film and ending with another." "Castaway" stars Oliver Reed and Amanda Donohoe in the film vine. It is a romantic tragicomedy about a young woman in search of adventure who marries a middle-aged man and goes to live on a tropical island with him. "Gothic" stars Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands and Natasha Richardson.

It is the story about the gathering on the night of June 16, 1816, of Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley from whence sprang the classic horror tales "Frankenstein" and "Vampire," a predecessor of "Dracula." Malcolm called Roeg and Russell "among the most imaginative directors we've ever had, and also among the most maligned by some people." Roeg's films include "The Timing." Russell has directed "Tommy," "The Devils" and "Women in Love." Both filmmakers have received mixed receptions for their works. One hundred fifty feature films and 60 shorts are being screened in 10 theaters throughout the capital during the festival that began Nov. 13 and ends Nov. 30. Malcolm said programming 28 British films, including the Welsh-language "Boy Soldier" and Terry Jones' "Personal Services," proved that the designation of 1985 as British Film Year wasn't really just a fluke.

As was the case at this year's New York Film Festival, the French lineup looks strong. Among GOME SEE WHAT WE'VE BROUGHT HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS with decision to do 'Blue Velvet' By Bob Thomas Associated Press LOS ANGELES AP) As star of the $40 million "Dun" IV MacLachlan seemed rlesrinpH tr become an instant star with Viia first movie. But then "Dune" became one of the maior bombs of the lflfifte "My career went bleak." the ac Mmm tor recalled about what hannened next. "The most difficult thing was with violence, sexual violence, deviance. I gotta believe they are in there for a purpose." MacLachlan balked only once, over a scene in which he was to be brutalized by Dennis Hopper and his gang.

"I think we're going to lose our audience here," he observed to Lynch. The scene was eliminated. Growing up in Yakima, Kyle MacLachlan led a somewhat sheltered childhood. He remembered his mother's anger at seeing a Life magazine cover featuring a woman with nearly exposed breasts. "Her outrage was over what society did to women," the actor said, "and I suppose that had something to do with my original objections to 'Blue MacLachlan was asked how he thinks Yakima will react to "Blue Velvet." "That's something I don't want to think about," he grinned.

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We'll even ship your gift for you. loon with 'you're a star; you're never eoine to oe the same aenin: you re going to be doing live I had signed a contract for five more. CORDOVA MALL, 477-7474 "I tried to be as skeptical as pos sible, savine. 'We'll see what hnn- 'Dune' star Kyle MacLachlan's newest role is in 'Blue Velvet' try's cinema," the actor said. "So they are going crazy.

Those who are complaining about how horrible and ugly and grotesque it is have perhaps had a chord struck in But that stuff can't help getting in there; it's like a poison. When the film came out and did big business the first weekend, then slowly went into a talespin, I had a lot of readjustments to go through. It was like going through fire." During the making of "Dune," director David Lynch told MacLachlan of another film they could do together. It turned out to be "Blue Velvet," which has restored the actor's viability while arousing some fit of the most stridentlv oro and con Springdale Plaza, Mobile, Alabama; 478-1967 Northcross Village, Pensacola, Florida; 476-0486 reviews in recent history. The DEG film also stars Isabella Ros-sellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange and Dean Stockwell.

them deeper than they would want i to admit. "I've seen some of the television reviewers, and they seem violently opposed to (the film). They sort of lose themselves, and I see something strange behind the eyes. They condemn the film with such vehemence that it's not quite right somehow." MacLachlan admitted that he had his own misgivings about Lynch's "Blue Velvet" script. "A few months before we started shooting, I said, 'I don't think I can do this I told David that there were a couple of scenes that, as they were written, I just couldn't do.

He understood, and we let it sit for a couple of months. Finally I came around, and I said, 'Yes, I gotta do it. "More than anything it was a matter of trust, knowing how David would transfer it to the screen," he said. "David didn't set out to make an exploitive picture. The scenes that I had trouble with are in there for a reason.

They deal In "Blue Velvet" MacLachlan HIlIXLSlI IHU plays a naive collegian who investigates an old criminal case in a small town and finds himself embroiled in an nether world of kinky sex and murder. Some reviewers have called the film a near-masterpiece; others have condemned it as decadent trash. maxell (lliixllll filB!) "Symbols abound in this picture, and critics have been given ripe material to write about, which doesn't happen often in this coun- maxell muxull m'l yi 'mmiMuiiiMfef iil 9 sbbbbsbbmmmsssissbbsbbssisbsisbbbbbssss I Perry Mason finds romance in upcoming NBC-TV movie maxell LOS ANGELES (AP) Perry Mason will have a love life for the first time in his long legal career in the new NBC movie "Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love." III niNiiliiiiiiia Hill a 'jllllllllfrnrm f3piiiiin pillllllll' IriuiiniifiiiiHimHW MMiinniiuriium "'imitiiUHiiitHtw Mason never had a private life in plays Delia, said, "The closest we ever came to an intimacy was years ago when he rubbed my neck." In the new movie Jean Simmons plays his lost love, who asks him to defend her husband (Gene Barry) against a murder charge. The movie will include a love scene in which Burr and Simmons kiss. This arouses Delia's jealousy, but the movie has a happy ending.

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