Tri-City Herald from Pasco, Washington • 23

Around Town: Film FRIDAY MARCH 13 19B8 TRI-OTY HERALD C3 hereafter' stunning deserved nomination QW if J'l -v if i -v5 'tr? h- Outstanding iUFROM --AROUND Worthy effort So-so Ta bomb a- MV- -Ar-V- 'a i Anastasia (G) The Apostle (PG-13) As Good As It Gets (PG-13) The Borrowers (PG) Dark City (R) Rubber (PQ) 3331 QD 3333 333 E3E5 3333 can 39313 di 9331 For Richer or Poor (PG-13) Good Win Hunting (R) Great Expectations (R) Jackie Brown (R) Kissing A Fool (R) been so hard on the best picture Oscar nominations for The Full Monty and Good Will Hunting They're fine pictures but they pale in comparison with something as stunning as The Sweet Hereafter Gary lifnln nit TVOKOu Mr Movie I feel the same about Matt Damon and Dustin Hoffinan getting tabbed for the best actor Oscar proficient in their roles but performance is staggering Outside of Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets nobody was better in 1987 than Holm in The Sweet Hereafter Definitely see it and judge for yourself USMarshab US Manhole is an interesting sequel It's based on the The supporting character toe Oscar-winning supporting role I might add of Tommy Lee Jones as Lt Samuel Gerard US Marshals takes The Fugitive formula twists it slightly adds a half-hour in length and sends it off totoe chases This is basically a chase movie albeit a good one attitude toward this character is as sardonic in US Marshals as it was in The Fugitive Instead of an innocent doctor to chase Jones gets Wesley Snipes as an agent of toe US government framed for murders he commit Though 21 hours in length US Marshals whizzes by ones has a zillion flinny lines a cast of offbeat assistants to bounce off of and enough action sequences to keep you glued to your seat The whodunit much of a mystery Those who watch enough of this kind of movie will only have to do toe math to figure out who toe culprit is but still fun and worth catching TheRgLebomU Joel and Ethan Coen can do no wrong These guys are the most off-beat filmmakers working today and Die Big Lebowski proves Fargo was no fluke KrippendorfS Tribe (PG-13 LA Confidential (R) Sphere (PG-13) Titanic (PG-13) Tomorrow Noer Dies (PG-13 The WBddtag Singer (R) -wauwBBnjju'iuiijinijni iRwnr i 'I 'i i -i a movie filled with gut-busters The Coens also add some of the best character actors in the business to the mix Check this lineup: Steve Buscemi Sam Elliot John Turturro andJulianne Moore The Big Lebowski is an outrageously flinny film Nothing is sacred and the Coens hold nothing back How can you miss with Twilight! A cast of castoff whos Paul Newman James Gamer Gene Hackman and Susan Sarandon Except for Sarandon they get much movie work anymore Too bad because actors get any better than these guys Newman is a former private detective who cleans up the messes of a philandering couple of Hollywood has-beens Sarandon and Hackman He gets embroiled in a mystery when Hackman sends him to deliver some blackmail money and someone gets killed Then a couple of other people get killed and Newman finds himself a suspect Twilight is a genuinely taut thriller with plenty of twists and turns It has an intelligent plot and actors who need slow motion special effects to make things interesting Hush Hush is a routine psychopath movie What makes it exceptional is who toe psychopath is Lange as Johnathan Schaech mom Schaech is married to Gwyneth Paltrow jealous and tries to undo the bond by killing the bride morbid and well-worn stuff but Lange makes it work If anybody's a better actress than Lange I know who it is She smiles and looking radiant delivers normal lines in the regular way But underneath all that she drips venom You catch it in the lines or in the fecial features but the poison is just below the surface just out of reach Lange is simply an awesome actress and has so much flin in this role it makes Hush's drab story worth seeing ON THE WEB: If you want to find out wM Mr Movia thought of amovtebofora you rant it go the TM-Ctty HwiM Onfine for a Ibrary of hta rovtewa at wwwtri- diynBraKLOom vivwi mwn nk mrmovtoOawtcom Ttemmisbr locations PtyifisDnjgs Up with People 1 Ths Select HereeiHer Rated for mature themes i briefnudity lt opens tonight at the Uptown Cinemas Mr Movie rating: 5 bags US Marshak Rated PG-13 for violence mature themes playing at the Clearwater Cinemas 'Mr Movie rating: 3 bags "'V The Bb Lebowski -r Rated for language -mature themes nudity vio- lence playing at the Uptown Cinemas Mr Movie rating: 4V4 bags Twt Rated for mature themes language nudity It's playing at the Columbia Center MrMovierating4Mbags Hush Rated FG-13 for mature themes playing at toe Columbia Cinema 3 -Mr Movie rating 3V4 bags Jeff Bridges and John Goodman star in a plot heavy with twists and turns Bridges is mistaken for an old millionaire whose very young wife owes money all over town He goes to toe guy to complain about his rug being ruined by the confosed goons When kidnappers snatch toe millionaire'll wife Bridges is asked to be the bag man The story also is wrapped around bowling Bowling and kidnapping? had me howling with laughter The Big Lebowski is a very flinny and typical of toe Coens warped movie Bridges and Goodman are a great team toe best work either has done in a decade character is a throwback to the 008 lazy stoned most of toe time a real slob The dude is also a pacifist who want trouble he want anything but to sit around and get high character is a Vietnam vet with an attitude Everything relates to toe war which he talks about incessantly Goodman goes off half-cocked at toe slightest provocation In one scene he threatens to kill a guy for a bowling error On paper it sounds stupid but that is one of the funniest scenes in nun Mudng STATES Ev THE NATION sHrayv 'JV fe -5 I fill Him iv mmrnrnmtmm nsn Knight-Rldder Tribune I wo hours of -energetic musical entertainment live on stage Packed with dance music and a powerful message straight from the neart A riveting performance that will keep you going for aays UNITED STATES CELLULAR WWSLESS COMMUNICATIONS The tray ftopk talk anuiulkertr Safety- Ynirmost 1 important call Wiroloss InduStrN fRemmds Yoj To' Use You Phone Safely When Driving 199L The Sweet Hereafter The Sweet Hereafter is a stunning inovie Its power is raw and emotional yet as subtle and silent as the drifting snow around its an isolated British Columbia community Most of the school children in the area are killed as a school bus crashes into a ftosen taka Tun Hnim plays an ambulance-chasing attorney who tries to get the parents to cash in on the catastrophe Holm is a study intact At first he treads on the subject like a man walking across cracked brittle ice similar to that which took the lives of the children He talks softly imploring the shell-shocked parents with his eyes and the logic of the law But Holm is a flawed man introverted beaten by life As the film moves forward the glass house in which he lives begins to crack and a guilt-wracked tortured soul emerges Holm is- brilliant Most actors play this kind of role like an emotional yo-yo up then down overamped outbursts rule Not so with Holm He takes a different road Holm never breaks never gives an inch He stays in character throughout We see the flaws the other characters The Sweet Hereafter is directed by Atom Egoyan who tells the story in bits and pieces He weaves in and but of past and present with flashes insight into toe lives of toe characters Along toe way he gives tantalizing clues to the truth of toe pwflil accident that claimed the lives of so many children I Atfi At first The Siueet Hereafter is so buiet almost stifling Bit by bit toe tension builds as we are shown how parents friends and siblings leact to toe tragedy But toe story is jnore than just toe crash What icurred before the bus slides into ie lake is every bit as important as ie incident itself pec the toe film seethes with emotions that seem to boil beneath toe surface of each personality You hear them in conversations but you know there They're like a time bomb ticking before it explodes so still so quiet deadly The Sweet Hereafter is a study in brilliance one of the top three movies of 1997 This film is one oftoe reasons Around Town briefs By the Herald staff Monlson drops out of Gorge concert Van Morrison backed out of his joint concert tour with Bob Dylan this week which included a stop at toe Gorge Amphitheater at George on May 16 a spokeswoman for Universal Concerts said Tuesday Universal Concerts Inc is confident Dylan still will perform in May but a replacement for Morrison has-not yet been named' Ticket sales for toe dual performances have been postponed until alaterdate Heppner celebrates SL Day The annual St Patrick Day celebration begins today and continues through toe weekend in Heppner Ore Festivities include a sheep dog competition an Irish parade down Main Street and a band competi-jtion on Saturday A teen dance will be from 9 pm to midnight today at Heppner High School Grant-writing workshop Saturday In Richland A workshop developed for teaching people how to write grants for arts organizations will be held from 930 am to noon Saturday at toe Richland public library Bitsy Bidwell toe community arts development director for toe Washington State Arts Commission will conduct the workshop which Is sponsored by toe Mid-Columbia Arts CoundL The course is for beginners or experienced grant writers and will teach people how to develop planning materials for grant projects and applications Cost is $5 and includes a workbook For 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