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6B The Miami Herald Thursday May 9 19K5 powerful disturbing WORKING IT OUT INDECENT PLEASURES I BRIEF AFFAIRS SOCIETY AFFAIRS Movie Review New Shows Monday Open ALL NITI Continuous Entertainment 10am to 2 am (LIVE: PEEPaSHO Wi25f MM 2004 Collin Ave Miami Beach Animotion performs tonight at Summers on the Beach The sound of "ONE OF THE YEAR TEN BEST" Pal Collin CBS-TV CBS MORNING NfWS Dennis Cunningham CBS-TV NATIONAL BOARD Of REVIEW JACK LEPIMOPI By LAURIE HORN Herald Arts Writer Director Alan Parker has turned 180 degrees from the exuberant Fame with his latest movie Birdy a dark and gripping look at mental illness and the bond between two Philadelphia-born veterans Movies of this genre (David and Lisa and the television film Sybil come to mind) walk a fine line between sensationalizing the delusions of the sick person and leaving them totally unexplained In Birdy Parker and screenwriters Sandy kroopf and Jack Behr have created a powerful adaptation actually a reconception of William 1978 novel Instead of a stream-of-consciousness narrative of a shell-shocked psychotic who thinks a bird we are shown the dynamics between his stronger buddy Al and the stunned Birdy Their war is Vietnam not the World War II of the novel and both old friends have been wounded wounds are mental: The young latent schizophrenia is pushed into a full-blown hallucinatory catatonia after a helicopter explosion We see him first in a Administration psychiatric hospital crouching like a bird on the floor of his stark cell or perching naked on the footboard of his bed His friend Al has had half of his face blown away A psychiatrist has him transferred still in bandages to hospital The psychiatrist hopes memories of their friendship in Philadelphia will jar a response from Birdy Al is as suspicious of the authority as he is bitter at the war He trust the doctor but his Birdy (R) CAST: Matthew Modine Nicholas Cage John Harkins Sandy Barron Karen Yoong I CREDITS Director: Alan Parker Producer: Alan Marshall Screenplay: Sandy Kroopf and Jack Behr Based on the novel by: William Wharton Executive Producer David Manson Director of Photography: Michael Seresm Production Designer: Geoffrey Kirkland Edited by Gerry Hambling Nudity sexual situations vulgar language violence Tristar Pictures 120 minutes Excellent Very Good Good 11 Worth Seeing Fair A Poor Zero Worthless working class West Philadelphia neighborhood The flashbacks are neatly cut and paced to shed light on the mental state of Birdy and Al One might have hoped for more exploration of the dynamics between Birdy and his rigid mother but the narrative perspective in most of these flashbacks is and although intuitive about in head no shrink and his approach clinical Matthew Modine gives' a haunting performance as Birdy As a young adolescent he is sweet and nutsy As the catatonic! he takes the look in his eyes a million miles away Nicholas Cage is thoroughly believable as the explosive big-hearted Al John Harkins does the best he can with the slightly caricatured role of th? psychiatrist But the strength of this movie is in its pacing psychological restraint and visual texture Birdy is disturbing and not for those who have trouble sleeping A UrilVFRSAL RELEASE 1pg)spb 2nd WEEK! on Route 441 West Hollywood 9871000 Float diMk mvl tlm dock daily Modine: A haunting performance monologues to the dazed Birdy become a therapy for both The movie is structured in the form of psychotherapy beginning with flashbacks of innocent escapades of the two teen-age friends and building to the most painful memories of their separation first pre-Vietnam psychotic break and the flaming attacks in Vietnam that pushed both of them to their psychological limit Parker has taken care to capture the squalid texture of their FAMC Marina 1 500 1 ISlfkSl 9312873 71st St 866-9623 1 said Wadhams who writes the songs would rather write a song that was more abstract than one that says is what happened I want to leave something for the imagination aware that if the songs are successful made into videos but never written for The video for Obsession is on heavy rotation on MTV and is credited with breaking the band into the Top 10 Funnily enough the one song Wadhams write song was recorded and released a year before we recorded it and was written by Holly Knight and Michael he said recorded it for the movie A Night in Heaven and if you really listen to it you can hear that very different from our The band is getting ready to release a second single called Let Him Go from its self-titled debut album on Polygon love it our dreams are coming Wadhams said not up on a pedestal or on ego trips we just enjoy doing the shows and having the fans enjoy it as well We feel very ANIMOTION: doors open at 7 tonight Summers on the Beach 219 Atlantic Blvd Fort Lauderdale S9 plus service charge if purchased from BASS 3H-1' I Dixie Hwy 666-8513 1 By1 ROBYN LISA BURN 'Special to The Herald Many of the rock bands California has recently launched onto the national scene offer some variation of the heavy-metal sound but Animotion has emerged from Los Angeles with a mixture of tech-no-pop that emphasizes synthesizers rather than screaming guitars The six-piece band's first single Obsession is steadily climbing the Top 10 charts Animotion will perform tonight at Summers on the Beach in Fort Lauderdale Although the music has been thrown into the techno-sound category vocalistguitarist Bill Wadhams feels its members have more to offer all grew up on rock roll and soul music and all doing is playing it on recently developed equipment The reason that we may sound is because 1985 and the machines using are definitely high technology I think since we still have a lot of guitar sounds with live bass and drums that our music is more When thinking of a name for the band singer Astrid Plane came up with something the band could relate its music to is the combination of two words I think great because what trying to express emotions between people life every Kendall Drive itS 141 Ave MS-B363 IN BROWARD CO ATINVERRARV GATEWAY POMPANO CINEMA MOVIE CITY MARGATE RIDOE PLAZA A NO BOCA MAU IN BOCA RATON A slow night at the Philharmonic Co OK MATINEE 4 TWI-LITE SHOW QZZ3 STARTING BEFORE 6 PM SATURDAY SUNDAY 4 HOLIDAYS FIRSTSHOWONIY Special Engagements Excluded Music Review OMNI 6 358-2304 B1SCAYNE BLVD A ML SOU ML UN if CWM4 utvcmoai JUST ONE OF THE GUYS (PQ-13) (MO 5:00 225) 7:30 10:15 LAST DRAGON (PG-13) (240 3:00 225) 7:49 10:15 QOTChA (PG-13) (2:15 a 5:15 225) 7:45 10:15 8 TICK (R) (2:15 a 5:15 225) 7:45 10:30 HELLHOLE (R) (2:30 5:30 225) 800 10:30 CODE Of SILENCE (R) (2:30 4 520 5 225) 800 10:30 Jonathan started out trying to score And ended up being the target ro Di OR STARTING BEFORE 6 PM SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS EXCLUDED By JAMES ROOS Herald Music Critic Not a great deal can be said for the Philharmonic Orchestra of next to last concert of the season in War Memorial Auditorium Emerson program was not necessarily dull but his conducting was more routine than inspired his soloist Aldo Ciccolini was at less than his considerable best and the playing fell below its sometimes higher standard of technique and style As an exponent of the music of Carlos Surinach the Spanish-born composer now living in Miami Buckley has introduced several of his scores to the repertory The Concerto for Orchestra which opened this concert is a compact pungent piece of work cast in a pattern of aggressive end movements and an introspective slow section juxtaposing piccolos and dark winds The last movement has tremendous vitality and the astringent wit typical of the composer but Buckley give it all its intensity and insistent drive and the intonation left a lot to be desired It might have gone better if Surinach a skilled conductor in his own right had been asked to direct it as there is no substitute for a composer-conductor recreating his own music The sense of re-creation in fact was precisely what was missing in most of Tuesday performances notably in lethargic handling of La Valse But then not sure I need the fingers of one hand to count the conductors and orchestras who can pull this off It has a dreamily gauzy texture yet a vertiginous violence unique in music performance lacked just about everything color verve translucence and sweep Nor did Nights in the Gardens of Spain or Symphonic Variations fare especially well either Ciccolini the Italian pianist who has done some fairly distinguished playing in South Florida was walking stiffly as if his back hurt and held back in his playing He can play cleanly and with a good deal of incisive clarity sometimes with glittering brilliance But his tone often lacked solidity of dynamic impact and was brighter than usual on the Boesendorfer instrument he was playing The cool dry sound right for dusky nocturne and the orchestra rather than conjuring the amorous aura played ebarsely approach to the Franck too was less spontaneous than assiduous though there were beautiful moments The whole performance however was on the slow side conducting essentially stodgy and fingers not always unerring He tended to slow the quieter passages to a crawl and hurry the heroic ones out of balance Better luck next season when he returns as soloist with the Miami Chamber Symphony LAKES 6 73Q RTfifi HWV 441 A ja-bJOD OAKLANO PK BLVD HELLHOLE (R) (2:15 500 195) 500 0:55 BEVERLY HILL8 COP (R) (200 4:45 195) 7:30 0:55 COOE OF SILENCE (R) (2:30 5:15 195) 705 10:15 CAVE GIRL (R) (2-30 5:15 105) 705 10:15 MA8t( (PG-13) (200 a 405 195) 7:30 0:55 MOVING VIOLATIONS (PG-13) (2:15 500 125) 00 10:15 His first time may be his last PG-13 A UNIVERSAL PICTURE 'J' 1965 UNIVERSAL CITY SlUOtOS INC I twit IS XH MtTktl 8 if HI Will IKI MIX thTKA A-II I KM nKIrJ 1p6-133S3 IMA UHUUBIA It NOW SHOWING Float cKocfc movlo flmo ckxk 4lv 280 Miracle Mite 443 5201 2HEE SOUTH DADE QENSAAL CINEMA NATIONAL CINEMA GENERAL CINEMA CUTLER RIDGE MOVIES OF WESTCHESTER cinema KENDALL cinema 9 US 1 A 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