The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 39

TUESDAY JANUARY 19 1999 I i I i mm SL-11 Joseph Fiennes passionate about Bard TCC film festival offers tales from around world 8 i- 0 i- 6 i 1 By Sored Ankxkn The News Tribune "My Life as a Dog" one of the most beloved foreign films of the past two decades makes a one-day big-screen reappearance Thursday in Tacoma Director Lasse engaging 1985 chronicle of a Swedish city eventful stay in a village full of eccentrics is the opening film of Tacoma Community annual International Film Festival Films will play on consecutive Thursdays through Feb 25 All films will be shown at the Blue Mouse Theater 2611 Proctor Showtime is 7 pm and all films will be shown in their native languages with English subtitles I 1 Lauhe SawhamMrmmx 3 Admission is $6 at the box office Festival passes costing $25 and good for admission to all six films in the se-r ries are available at the Blue Mouse box office and at several locations on the TCC campus including the book- store the office of continuing educa-j tion in Building 24 and the Mall Learning Center For more information call 253- 566-6031 The other films playing in the fes- i tivalare: Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Rennes who is one of seven sittings and says star in the much-praised film in in star is latest in talented family to draw international notice for his work By Mann Kennedy The Associated Press Writer 0 in a name? Joseph Fiennes the United latest It Boy has a very modern answer for that old William Shakespeare verse: not so jolly much actually Yes right: kid brother The name gets the door open but you still have to pass through Fiennes says during a visit to New York City it hinder? Enhance? I know I still have to do the work" Broodingly handsome the latest addition to die burgeoning Britpack that includes Ewan McGregor and Jude Law is turned out a gray herringbone suit for the interview Though the family tie has helped him Fiennes is well aware there also are pitfalls to a famous moniker can understand the interest and the parallels drawn but I rely on them People care or they really up to others to make up their minds" Happily they already have The 28-year-old thespian has won praise from critics and audiences for his performances in opposite Cate Blanchett and in with Gwyneth Paltrow Both films received Golden Globe nominations more than a little frightened at all this attention" says Fiennes is such a machine a beast which very wary of because got nothing to say nothing to want nothing which is sensible or going to change anyone's Joseph is the youngest along with his twin brother Jake of seven Fiennes a gypsylike clan that Slaughter Continued from Page 3 life with our whole Slaughter history certainly hasn't been all parties very hard to put a price on rock he said you do it fur free to resurrect it We went through our times where it wasn't K5IS year tour at the acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company where he tackled the prickly TYoilus just five years after Ralph the star of "The English had taken the part So when director John Madden -armed with a crackling script by Marc Norman and Tbm Stoppard -began casting about for a young man to portray Will Shakespeare Fiennes emerged as a perfect candidate began to wonder whether I was ever going to be able to find anybody of whom one would believe that he had written the says Madden who also directed look at him and he somehow seems adds Madden been in his blood for a long time He understands and celebrates the language The role he has passion for so unquestionably belongs to him Joe is the Fiennes is part HeathclifT part Romeo in black leather have Buch a passion for Shakespeare that I didn't want to sell him out as a cheap cartoon character with floppy hair and that Fiennes says wanted him modem and sexy and dynamic and slightly enigmatic Not a Disney idea of what he In other words a makeover of Elizabethan proportions he was a genius Yes of course But he was also a gypsy and a wheeler-dealer and he stole and he plagiarized He was a Fiennes says was a normal young guy who was exactly my age when he wrote these plays He drank he fought he fell madly in love he cursed We have to humanize Slaughter said going to go the distance" going to keep making the upbeat Kelly believed in haven't compromised in bur music or Slaughter said think grown up obviously changed a lot with the passing of Urn but a rock band staying true to our colors cmeplexooeon TACOMA CENTRAL amM vt-vn ran moved more than a dozen times around England and Ireland during their early childhood That nomadic upbringing Fiennes says prepared him perfectly for a career in acting you're thrown into a new school every few years you hone all your communication skills you learn tricks at adapting I was forever reinventing The experience also seems to have rubbed off on his siblings All except one of the Fiennes brood is currently employed iii the arts a little he says happily Word that Ralph wasn't the only talented Fiennes was cemented during Josephk six-month stint on West End in View From the and his prized role opposite Helen Mirren in Month in the Fiennes won raves during his two- pretty and we were traveling in a van Now turned around the other way" Just as things started turning however the band suffered a cruel setback Guitarist Tim Kelly was killed in a car pccidcnt about a year ago album was recorded at one of last shows and serves as a tribute I- swtkeiumau mmm OT LAKEWOOD If (Cuba 1997): The unfulfilled wife of a humorless Cuban bureaucrat repeatedly crosses paths with one of her former students an amorous truck driver during a jour-- ney from one end of Cuba to the other In addition to chronicling the bud-j ding romance the film also offers glimpses into the hardscrabble lives ofthepeoplein the countryside will 1 be shown on Jan 28 i (France Serbia 1997): At nearly three hours long the film is an epic oddball 50-year history of the former Yugoslavia Filmmaker Emir Kusturica Father Was Away on tells the tale from the perspective of two pals who have become rivals will be shown on Feb 4 Friend of the (Ukraine France 1998): In the post-i Soviet Ukraine a down-on-his luck intellectual contracts to have him- self killed by a hit man Then his for- tunes turn around and heb suddenly desperate to call the kiUcr oflf And no easy thing to do will be shown Feb 11 1 (Netherlands) Bleak is 1 the word to describe this Oscar-win ning film from the Netherlands Its subject is a literal fight to the death between a heartless slumlord and 1 his estranged lawyer son will be shown on Feb 18 Vie en Rose" (Belgium 19971 A Belgian settled life in an upscale suburb is disrupted when the 7-ycHr-old son starts (Hitting on makeup and pnrading around in a pink dress His parents arc coni' fused The neighbors are disnp-I proving The boy is determined to 1 assert what he sees as his true klen-j tity will lie shown on Fell 25 Tim was a true rock bass player Dana Strum wrote in the notes for the CD Tie lived for the moment and will be part of us no matter where he Jeff Blando who had been the sound man and a friend to Kelly has taken over as guitarist you go downtown and get beat up you either get stronger or you get in a deep I i88igyiiiigH tfUSjui -T THIN RED LINE EVERY MAN FIGHTS HIS OWN WAR MMfcWWlW IB Now Playing Cau Theatre Foe Showtime Skoal Engagement No Passes Accetted Incw Iwmiiiwt IHnnw Cn Tmoti Fw wrmn ft sa Jr.