Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 29

Wi mtAdSkefc tw Sj jy HWnW'Srf 2B-Thft MiN OTiinaRrLTmTiBy-vWnyniaiBf iij jggf WALKER NEW FILMS I 4 f- a EP THE SERMON- I'm preaching this week dearly beloved is that man shall not live by films alone Consider TROUBLE IN MIND (Cert 15: 111 mins) Alan Rudolph wrote and directed it and Is plainly a man who knows and loves movies The trouble is he knows and loves too many of them Ttta his fellow film makers Henry Jaglom Jonathan Demme and now Jim Jar mush his movies axe stalled' with references to other movies his appeal is pitched to the movie-buff sects and not the wider congregation or filmgoers With the sort of subservient critic who treats him with line of -dialogue sounds like an homage" to a movie favourite like Chandler: a looked at a womans mouth before her eyes get fooled a lot less" push me but then you like where I go" Beattie Is the setting though its called Rain City1 presumably because it -always rains in noir-ish movies The characters are all mar- the deference of a head waiter this does no harm at aU A painfully impacted piece of apineclatian in the British Film Institute's current Monthly Film Bulletin in Mind to a half-doom other movies including The Getaway Heavens Gate The Great Race -Dirty Harry The Thief and The Asphalt Jungle and additionally refers to the Korean language and Eskimo obfeta the better to illuminate its noir-ish events Noir-ish is one of those cue words like and that the movie's own publicity sets on unquestioning tongues like hah wafers "Homage is another one In Trouble in Mind every ptnri people who look as if -j been -expelled from other pi to serve out the rest of their sentence in this one Their names are film- lsh too is an ex-oop (Kris Kristofferson In existential black) who has played God and executed a bigtime crook-before judge or jury -got a look an act that wMdd go down well with his Twgrhimn movie namesake Howard Hawks Keith Cairadine is He starts off a Gary -Cooper romantic who-wants to keep the Big Country in his lungs worfc jn but is forced to find the Big City A few crimes later he has become effeminated Jimmy who changes his after each job The myth of how corrupting the Big City thus is is one dear to moviemakers like Rudolph though I doubt if be any happier walking on- a cart-track instead of a sidewalk Lori Singer is wife She stands for innocence or even dumbness as you might expect of any woman attempting to suckle her babe-in-arms at a saloon bar Maternal love for somewhat bigger babies is offered by ABOVE Jun-Hnrues Aeglade and Beatrice Dalle in Betty Blue BIGHT AUm Alda and Bob Hoskins in Sweet Liberty 1 Kysr- the latex guts for a film-with-rln-arfilm His artfulneu is then re-cruited by a United States telllgenoe man (Brian Den-r 'nehy)- who wants to fake a puitdic death so as to keep him safely alive in --secret Brown agrees to set the -'-scene and write the scenaria -Almost too late he realises what he himself took to be i real is Just an Illusion except -or his own unscripted demise a pity that after this it Robert film both file neatness of De Body Double or The Conversation both -movies about movie-techno-'rrcrata-caught in their own Think about itYou insure yam house Yourcar Possibly even yourcamersuButhow many people allowrforthe problems they could have with theircentral heating system Its a big exeruuttitemr Especially when it goes wrong We have a raiige of Service Plans which -can cover your central heating system from simple boiler maintenance to a fully 'eom? prehensive protection jdKmernd they are all aesuned to uwyou oMlhiBC --d WVINK -r? 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