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FILM CALENDAR FRIDAY OCTOBER 6-THURSDAY OCTOBER 12, 1989 LA WEEKLY 78 distinctive, idiosyncratic flesh and blood. Pouty and introspective, Gainsborough wants to add something stronger, richer, to the film but is left to cruise on charisma. The result is a tragedy, in the purest sense of the word. (Royal)ilM) them into a nest of racist South African vipers. For what it is, Lethal Weapon 2 is accomplished, but the oppressive violence and body-slam editing make this a thoughtless boys' adventure film that pretends it has a conscience self-congratulatory cynicism.

(CitywideHtM) the Constitution. Stallone's girlfriend, Darlanne Fluegel, is apparently stunned into stupidity; it never occurs to her to CALL A LAWYER I Inside the joint, he becomes the Fix-It Man of Alcatraz, helping his fellow inmates cope, fixing their car (don't ask), and playing manly, roughhousing games, and theres nothing homoerotic about it, dammit! Also starring action villain Sonny Landham, who stretches himself and, instead of playing a caveman psycho named Psycho, plays a caveman psycho named Chino. (Selected theaters) (EM) leopards being restrained by Elvis Presley. Daniel J.Travanti is a renowned physicist who believes that the air tragedies may be tied to something bigger and more wondrous: time travel. And Cheryl Ladd is a time-traveleradventurer from a future grimy with pollution, who oh, why bother.

Suffice it to say that Millennium represented a first for me: I'd never seen an entire audience (well, not that big an audience) of adult moviegoers reduced to giggles. Not laughter giggles: its mediocrity is overwhelming. Millennium is a well-meaning plea for global restraint, to curtail the widespread puilution that's ruining our planet's future. You can't help but applaud its message, but the cynical might think that a shortened planetary lifespan would spare us any more movies like Millennium. Why aren't there as many lame right-wing sci-fi films? (Selected theaters)tM) popinjay who oscillates between grand gestures of renunciation and hopeless immersion in his addiction.

Robbie Coltrane is hilarious ds the bovine, world-weary ticket clerk who comes reluctantly to admire the loser-turned-champ. (Peninsula) (ET) THE IITTU THIEF If someone with limited powers of description told you what a Francois Truffaut movie was like, you might envision something like The Little Thief, a pale and vague reflection directed by Claude Miller; in other words, you'd have the wrong idea entirely. The Little 7iefollows Janine (Charlotte Gainsborough) through her discovery of the awkwardness of sexual awakening, and the transition from adolescence to adulthood. (Truffaut originally meant to use the character in The 400 Blows) Miller, who was Truffaut's production manager, expanded Truffaut's story outline into a sheer and utter drag, a misty, pastel and slow-moving rendering of French life on screen, the sexy cliches that Truffaut crushed with the weight of LOCK UP Sylvester Stallone in another of his insane masochism specials; the solitary confinement sequences look like they were shot by Herb Ritts. This time, it's the guards and warden of Gateway Prison who are beating the snot out of him, but no matter what they take from him, they cant take away his dignity.

Donald Sutherland, who would've been carrying protest placards in front of theaters running the violent, pointless Lock Up 1 0 years ago, is Gateways evil, pink warden who, in removing Stallone from his country-club prison and moving him into Gateway, violates every amendment to LET IT RIDE Richard Dreyfuss at his most Chaplinesque plays a small-time compulsive gambler who, with his dim-witted sidekick (David Johansen), suddenly starts to win big at the race track. This plot-driven movie is often gross to no purpose, sometimes downright offensive her orthodontist Ray and with a nagging but staunch wife (Teri Garr). a stacked and squeaky-voiced bimbette, and an over-sexed older woman, probably the most uninhibitedly misogynous movie of the season. It's also intermittently charming, especially in its hard-headed but affectionate observation of the grungy world of the track. Worth seeing for Dreyfuss' wound-up rendition of the innocent little MILLENNIUM A real disaster movie: a Canadian film about air traffic catastrophes.

(It looks like it was lighted with a 30-watt bulb and sounds like it was recorded on a phone answering machine.) Kris Kristofferson's beard is darkened to the color of the black velvet canvasses featuring renderings of virile THESE SHOWTIMES FOR FRIDAY 106 THROUGH THURSDAY 1 012 ONLY 10 devastating experience, I wept when I saw it! Gary Franklin, KABC-TV ivvimvx.i.i.) 1 UNIVERSAtlCITYl AL PACINO IN SEA OF LOVE (R) In Dolby Stereo 2 00, 30 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 1 1 :45 RAUL JULIA OCEON CINEMA 208-4575 1 0887 LINDBROOK DR. NEAR WESTWOOD BLVD. MATINEES DAILY CINEPLEX BEVERLY CENTER 652-7760 BEVERLY BLVD. AT LA CIENEGA 3 HOURS FREE PARKING UNIVERSAL CITY 18 CINEMAS (818)508-0588 ATOP THE HILL AT UNIVERSAL STUDIOS PARKING (50 OF PARKING CHARGE NOW REFUNDED WITH PURCHASE OF MOVIE TICKET) NOW EQUIPPED FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED. CAFE NOW OPEN.

hero ELLEN BARKIN IN SEA OF LOVE (R) In THX Dolby Stereo 2 00, 4-30, 700, 9 30 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 1 1 .45 PETER OTOOLE IN LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (PG) in 70mm 6 Track Spectral Recording Dolby Stereo 2:00,730 SPECIAL SNEAK PREVIEW LOOK WHO'S TALKING (PG-13) FR1 106 4 SAT 107 AT 8 00 PM BFUmtSEASOtiS mi botJY gftSET 1989 FOUR SEASONS ENTERTAINMENT INC SEA OF LOVE (R) In THX Dolby Stereo 2-45, LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 12:30 NOW SHOWING DONALD SUTHERLAND IN A DRV WHITE SEASON (R) In Dolby Stereo 100, 4 00,7 00,9 45 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 12 00 MARINAJDEL'REYJ SANTA ANA AMC Main Place 714972-8500 SPECIAL SNEAK PREVIEW LOOK WHOS TALKING (PG-13) FR1 106 SAT 107 AT 00 PM SANTA ANA Edwards Hutton Centres Cinemas 714662-2266 CENTURY CITY AMC Century 14 553-8900 DaHy 1115 AM 140 445 720SI000PM 4 hours free volfdottd parking with ttckel purchase MONTCLAIR Pacific's Montclair 714624-9696 PASADENA Laemmle Esquire 818793-6149 DOWNTOWN LA. Laemmles Grande 617-0268 HUNTINGTON PARK Pacific's Warner 582-6785 (SpoMsti Sab-TMM) SUSAN SARANDON IN A DRY WHITE SEASON (R) In Dolby Stereo 1:00,4 00,7 00,9 45 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 12 00 KEVIN DILLON IN WAR PARTY (R) In THX Dolby Stereo 1:45, 7:15 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 1 2-1 5 WED 1011 1-45 PrntodlnDQ oduBvgrgwior of SetadThaatr MARKETPLACE CINEMAS 827-9588 MAXELLA AND GLENCOE FREE PARKING NOW EQUIPPED FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED. CAFE NOW OPEN. GREGORY PECK IN OLD GRINGO (R) In THX Dolby Stereo 1:15, 4 00, 700, 9.45 LATE SHOW FRI SAT 1215 CHICK IHIATRE DlftlCTOftltS Oft CAU FOR SHOWTIME LOS FEUZ Los Fellz Theatre 664-2169 SANTA ANA Fiesta 714541-4351 SponMi MhTtttol) MARLON BRANDO IN A DRY WHITE SEASON (R) In THX Dolby Stereo 1 30, 4:30, 00 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 1210 JOHN CANDY IN UNCLE BUCK (PG) in Dolby Stereo 1 00,315,5 30, LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 12.15 SUN 108 7-45, 10 00 WED 1011 100,3:15, 10:00 MARLON BRANDO IN A DRY WHITE SEASON (R) In THX Dolby Stereo 100, 31 5, 5 30, 7 45, 1015 LATE SHOW FRI SAT 12:30 JANE FONDA IN OLD GRINGO (R) in Dolby Stereo 1:45,4 00,645, 9 30 MEG TILLY IN THE GIRL IN A SWING In Dolby Stereo 30, 7-15, 10 00 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 12.10 NEXT WEEKEND OCT. 13-14-15 AL PACINO IN SEA OF LOVE (R) In Dolby Stereo 1 00, 4 00, 7 00, 9 45 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 12 00 JAMES SPADER IN SEX, LIES, ANO VIDEOTAPE (R) in Dolby Stereo 1 00, 30,7 45, 10 00 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 1 2: 1 5 TOM SELLECK IN AN INNOCENT MAN (R) In Dolby Stereo 1000 NO COUPONS OR PASSES ACCEPTED I TICKETS ACCEPTED AT BARGAIN MATINEE ONLY DONALD SUTHERLAND IN A DRY WHITE SEASON (R) In Dolby Stereo 1:00, 3-15, 5 30, 7 45, 1015 LATE SHOW FRI SAT 1 2.30 ELLEN BARKIN IN SEA OF LOVE (R) In THX Dolby Stereo 7-15, 10 00 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 12 10 ED HARRIS IN THE ABYSS (PG-13) In THX Dolby Stereo 4 00, 9 30 WED 1011 4 00 MICKEY ROURKE IN JOHNNY HANDSOME (R) in Dolby Stereo 2 00,415,645, 915 NO PASSES ACCEPTED PAULINE COLLINS IN SHIRLEY VALENTINE (R) in Dolby Stereo 1 00, 4 00, 7 00, 9 45 MICKEY ROURKE IN JOHNNY HANDSOME (R) in THX Dolby Stereo 1:30, 30, 7 45,10 00 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 12 15 NO PASSES ACCEPTED SHIRLEY VALENTINE (R) In Dolby Stereo 30,7 15, 10 00 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 12 10 STEVE MARTIN IN PARENTHOOD (PG-13) In THX Oolby Stereo 1 45, 4 1 5,700,9 30 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 12 00 AL PACINO IN SEA OF LOVE (R) in Dolby Stereo 1 :30, 4 15, 7 00, 9 45 JOBETH WILLIAMS IN WELCOME HOME (R) in Dolby Stereo LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 12 00 JAMES SPADER IN SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE (R) In Dolby Stereo 1 00, 4 00, 7 00, 9 45 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 12 00 BILLY CRYSTAL IN WHEN HARRY MET (R) in THX Dolby Stereo 30,545,8 00, 10 15 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 12 30 FR1 106 4 SAT 107 V15, 3 30, 5 45, 10 15 PAULINE COLLINS IN SHIRLEY VALENTINE (R) In Oolby Stereo 2:00,515,745,10:15 ANDIE MACDOWELL IN SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE (R) in Dolby Stereo 30,7 30, 10 00 MICHAEL DOUGLAS IN BLACK RAIN (R) In Dolby Stereo 1 00,3 45,6 30,915 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 1 1 45 CENTURYXITYSi STEVE MARTIN IN PARENTHOOD (PG-13) In Dolby Stereo 2:15,445,730, 10 15 ED HARRIS IN THE ABYSS (PG-13) In Dolby Stereo 1.00,4 00,7 00,10 00 KIRK DOUGLAS IN PERSON In 1955 as a major player in an era of diminishing movie studio power, Kirk Douglas decided to launch the Bryna Company.

Over the next thirty years, Bryna saw more than fifteen film projects to fruition. In this special salute, the American Cinematheque will screen eight of the Bryna Companys landmark productions, and will provide a rare public dialogue with the man who made the company a significant creative force in Hollywood. THE ADVENTURES OF MILO AND OTIS (G) In Dolby Stereo 1:00,3 00,5 00 CENTURY PLAZA CINEMAS 553-4291 2040 AVENUE OF THE STARS ABC ENTERTAINMENT CENTER (FORMERLY PUTT CENTURY PLAZA) CAFE NOW OPEN. KATE CAPSHAW IN BLACK RAINfR) In THX Dolby Stereo 1 00,345,630, 9-15 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 1 1 :45 HOLLYWOOD! ROB REINER'S WHEN HARRY MET In Dolby Stereo 1 00,3 15,5 00 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 12:00 FAIRFAX CINEMAS 653-3117 7907 BEVERLY BLVD. WEST SIDE STORY In 70mm Track THX Dolby Stereo 2:30, 5:45,9:00 ANDY GARCIA IN BLACK RAIN (R) In 70mm 6 Track THX Dolby Stereo 1:45, 10-00 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 12 30 WHEN HARRY MET In Oolby Stereo 715 3Q FR1 106 4 SAT 107 10:00 P.M.

Films include: KRIS KRISTOFFERSON IN WELCOME HOME (R) In Dolby Stereo 2:30,445, 7:15, 9:30 JOHN CANDY IN UNCLE BUCK (PG) In PS-4000 Dolby Stereo LONELY ARE THE BRAVE (1962) PATHS OF GLORY (1957) SPARTACUS (1960 Original Uncut Version) THE INDIAN FIGHTER (1955) THE VIKINGS (1958) AMOS (1985) SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (1964) POSSE (1975) 2 00. 4 30, 7 00, 9 30 FR1 106 4 WED 101 1 200, 4:30 HOLLYWOOdfli BLACK RAIN (R) In Dolby Stereo 2:30,515.6 00 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 10 45 ELLEN BARKIN IN JOHNNY HANDSOME (R) In Dolby Stereo 1:00,315,530,8 00, 1030 NO PASSES ACCEPTED TICKETS available prior lo showtime or mail check to: American Cinematheque, 1717 Highland 814 Hollywood 90028. General $8. Membera S3. MARTIN SHEEN IN BEVERLY HILLS BRATS (PG-13) In Ultra-Stereo Sound 2 30, 4:45,7 00,9 15 SEPARATE ADMISSION lor each program.

Programs subject to change. SHOWCASE 934-2944 614 N. LA BREA AT MELROSE RON HOWARD'S PARENTHOOO (PG-13) In Dolby Stereo 2 00, 4 30, 7.30, 10 00 tmwwiiiM, i niuu "ww 7TP 71 BRUCE WILLIS IN IN COUNTRY (R) in Dolby Stereo 30,715,1000 LATE SHOW FRI 4 SAT 12 30 MEG TILLY IN THE GIRL IN A SWING -In PS-4000 Oolby Stereo 2 00, 4:30, 7.00, 9.45 EMILY LLOYD IN IN COUNTRY (R) in Dolby Stereo 45 lyt- -t i. PI.