Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 51

TUESDAY 2 NOVEMBER 1999 51 The guide to going on in London by Maddy Costa Yemxaleraess anutdl Cinema come much more unusual than the Festival of Films from Uzbekistan a two-day event featuring the best of the Tashkent film industry It kicks off tomorrow with Tenderness (1230pm) a light-hearted look at love on the river in Sixties Tashkent The highlight is The Seventh Bullet (9pm also 1230pm Thursday) a gritty tale of bandits on the borders with Afghanistan Curzon Soho W1 0171 734 2255 Tonight Only Music Music of the Bizarre: The London Sinfonietta is an old hand at performing mischievous composer Mauricio anarchic music Reinbert de Leeuw conducts A Compass Rose an octet of pieces each named for a point on a compass A clarinet and lots of strings (including a banjo) back the percussive nuttiness (including glass bottles and polystyrene) culminating in an axe chopping up a tree trunk live on stage Queen Elizabeth Hall SE1 745pm 0171 960 4242 Faultline: David Kosten is the electronics wizard who made Ben album sound so distinctive His own debut album Closer Colder is equally idiosyncratic and has won ecstatic reviews across the board He creates elegant tapestries of tugging hot and cold sounds with sumptuous string arrangements weaving through chilling drum 'n bass beats With a cellist violinist and trumpeter joining Kosten on stage the Faultline live show should be a spine-tingling event Water Rats WC1 doors 8pm £6 0171 284 0077 Remy Zero: Travis were so impressed by this Alabama quintet's live show at the Borderline earlier this year that they invited them to support them on their current tour With their collection of anthemic rock songs (like the forthcoming single Prophecy) and superbly posturing singer Cirvjun Tate this headline show promises to be rollicking Embassy Rooms Wl doors 730pm £701713872414 Boo Hewerdine: Better known for his collaborations with Eddi Reader than for his solo work Hewerdine is a heart-warming singer with a calm acoustic style There's the occasional hint of Ron Sexsmith in Thanksgiving his third album both sing of love and loss in a manner that is at once stoic and Rill of feeling La Gatta Cenerentola: You don't often find opera buffs and panto fans in the same audience but that's the mix this popular Italian miniopera translating as Cinderella the Cat attracts Part of the Italian Festival it combines cross-dressing Naples folk music and the Cinderella tale as told by Renaissance poet Evidence of Life After Death: Ambiguous and often esoteric performance artist Robert Pacitti's plays are crammed with thought-provoking symbols For this multimedia piece on death and dying macabre research took him from the Royal College of Surgeons to a Mexican Museum of Mummies The question of what lies beyond the final curtain should make for brilliantly uneasy theatre Drill Hall WC1 730pm 0171 6378270 Tomorrow Only luxuriance can also tip over into decay as in Jason Brooks's photorealist paintings of flineral flowers Kitsch kickers will love Virgil Marti's wallpaper designs festooned with fluorescent sleeping pills and Jo Girl on a Motorbike photographs (above) add to the camp atmosphere Jerwood Gallery SE1 10am-6pmr 0171654 0171 because of its similarity to the colour of skin an added advantage is that its distinctive scent pervades galleries Even though Funakoshi is an established artist representing Japan at the 1988 Biennale his enigmatic portrait busts of imaginary people (complete with beady glass eyes) are rarely shown in Europe: don't miss this chance Annely Juda Gallery Wl 10am-6pm 0171 629 7578 Natural Dependency: Decadence and excess the bywords of the fin de sidde are the inspirations linking the diverse works at this group show Abundance can be oddly pretty as in Bridgit Smith's pictures of pink Disneyland castles but i a Expect the live show to be very moving Jazz Caffe NW1 doors 7pm £10 0171 916 6060 From Tonight Dance One Two and Liquid Reflex: Lithe muscular dancer and choreographer Russell Maliphant brings his fluid powerful style to Dance Umbrella with a tempting triple bill Solos by Maliphant and Dana Fouras are the foils for a new work Liquid Reflex performed by his company of four Drawing on the vigour and precision of Brazilian martial arts choreography is always refreshing The Place WC 18pm £10 0171 387 0031 7DGKETF? 4- Vl-v-V y- A FORGET GOES TO THE SIIOF1' £T'! 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