ENTERTAINMENT
The University Daily KANSAN September 2, 1983 Page 6
Film society sharing stage
By GUELMA ANDERSON
Staff Representant
Staff Reporter
For more than 20 years, the Student Union Activities film series has led the way in bringing popular and classical films to the University of Kapsas.
HIKSA:
However, a challenger, the University Film Society,
is taking over part of the student audience.
This semester the society is presenting its regular popular film series, as well as a new series called "Screening Room," which shows films that have not been widely viewed.
Film presenters say that the highlight of the "Screening Room" series will be the Midwest premiere of Francis Ford Coppola's "One from the Heart" Heart, Sept. 14-17.
MICHAEL BORBELY, Leavenworth junior and coordinator of UFS films, said that the film, which has received mixed reviews from critics, became a financial liability for Coppola, whose
other films include "The Godfather" and "Apocalypse Now."
Specifically pass these tests.
So with hard work and many contacts, Borbely obtained the right to be the first theater to show the film and to charge admission.
He also acquired a rare print of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" that has never been seen before. It will be shown Sept. 16-17.
Borbely said that three years ago he had called the UFS club about starting a film series and that they had agreed to finance it.
that they had. The society had presented some classical films in the past, but had attracted only small audiences.
THE POOR QUALITY FILMS presented by SUA spurred the idea to rescurse the classical series and an additional popular film series, Borbely said.
"We were kind of upset with SUA," he said. "They were presenting blurred films and films with bad sound. We are trying to make them clean up their act."
In the process of trying to keep SUA on its toes, UFS has attracted a large following.
Profits from last year helped the society buy expensive speakers and a new wide screen to be used in Downs Auditorium in Dyche Hall where the films are shown, Borbely said.
BUT SUA IS NOT worried about its competition. In fact they welcome it.
Stephan Dwork, Overland Park senior and president of UFS, said the society took pride in increasing the quality of presentations, whatever the costs.
"I think the competition makes the students aware of both services and it heightens their interest in films," said Jim Colson. Mankato senior and chairman of the SUA film board. "It's good for SUA to get films different from the ones shown by UFS."
Dwark said. "The competition is not tooth-and-nail. And it's not necessarily a bad thing, because we have to get on the ball to improve presentation and promotion."
Artistic events seen by few students
If record holds true, less than half of the people who attend the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra performance Sept. 10 in Hoch Auditorium will be students.
In April, Time Magazine called the orchestra "one of the two best orchestras in the nation," yet on the Saturday night it performs here, most of the members are not performing out of the ordinary delight they are missing.
Others will study, and some will go out to a movie. So the orchestra will play to a crowd of mostly middle-aged Lawrence residents and University faculty.
KU's Spencer Museum of Art, Concert and Chamber Music Series and its theatre and dance performances offer students the opportunity to lose themselves in some of the finest art in the world and to learn about more than just biology, computer science and English.
computer KINETIC WEST STUDENTS regularly attend artistic or musical performances at the University. It is easier to stay home and not break the normal routine by dressing up and going to a play or concert — one that might take a bit of effort to understand and appreciate.
Students often cheat themselves of the insight into life that art can afford.
Oscar Wilde said, "It is through Art and through Art only, that we realize our perfections; through Art and Art only that we can derive ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence."
Statistics confirm that few KU students take advantage of the art around them.
Jacqueline Davis, director of the KU Concert and Chamber Music Series, which is recognized as one of the best series of its kind, said that students made up 55 percent of the audience at a recent dance show. That was the highest percentage of Students to attend such a performance.
SARA KEMPIN
Entertainment Editor
THIRTY-FOUR PERCENT of the audience in the concert by world-renowned pianist Emanuel Ax were students, she said, and 29 percent of the audience were performers well performed on the French Horn were students.
Moreover, these figures are actually better than student attendance for most series such as this. Davis said.
Some students complain that KU music, theatre and dance performances are too
expensive for students to attend. Many of them do not realize that concert and theatre organizers recognize the importance of keeping shows low-priced, to enable students to take advantage of art's educational and aesthetic benefits.
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Students are usually charged exactly half of what non-students are charged. But why do so few students care about the arts?
Tickets for the St. Louis Symphony, for instance, cost non-students $12 for preferred seating and $10 for general seating. Students with a KUID pay $6 for preferred seating and $5
University Theatre productions this year include such productions as "Goddess," "The Elephant Man," "The Oedipus Project" and "The Skin of Our Teeth."
FPEW OPLEW WHO MADE a special offer to hear the rlowly sounds of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the delicatles strum of music by the Dresden, Utrecht and Cologne bands; they
KU students should try to take advantage of as many of these and other artistic performances in the department.
As Davis said, "For me, it is a matter of experiencing something really beautiful and knowing that it is a special occasion. It's a way of expanding and broadening your knowledge of the world around you, which is what being a university student is all about."
Gary Smith/KANSAN
Steve Trank, Overland Park senior, leads a line of trombone players in playing "I'm a Jayhawk" as the Marching Jayhawks practice for their performance at the 36th Annual Band Day tomorrow at Memorial Stadium.
SPARE TIME
A BAND DAY PARDE will begin at 9 a.m. in downtown Lawrence Saturday.
RUCHARD BRANHAM AND David Hill will show their work through Sept. 9 in a faculty show at the University of North Carolina.
REGION
THE KU CREW IS recruiting novice men and women rowers. Practice is 3:30-5 p.m. for women and 5:60-5 p.m. for men. Anyone interested in joining the crew and learning to row should drop by practice at Burcham Park, Second and Indiana streets.
THE TAU SIGMA student dance club will meet at p.m. Tuesday in Dance Studio 242 of
Dance Hall.
THE SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART is exhibiting Eldred and Nevelson sculpture through Sept. 25 and antique quilts by contemporary quilters through Oct. 16.
THE KAW VALLEY DANCE Theater will have auditions for ballet and nondancers at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Lawrence School of Ballet, 205 $21. W. Eighth Street.
Count Basie
THE RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL in Bonner Springs, which is sponsored by the Kansas City Art Institute, begins tomorrow and runs six consecutive weeks from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
KANSAS CITY JAZZ perform at 1 p.m.
at Crownt Center Square. Admission is free.
"COUNT BASIE'S 79TH Birthday Party" will be at 8 p.m. today in the Crown Center Square featuring Count Basie and the Count Basie Band. Admission is free.
KANSAIS CITY JAZZ artists perform for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art's "60th Birthday Party" as part of the Kansas City, Mo Parks and Recreation's "Showcase of Entertainment" at 4 p.m. tomorrow on the museum lawn. Admission is free.
GEORGE BENSON PERFORMES at 8 p.m. at the Starlight Theatre. Admission is $5=14.50.
Kansas City INXS of music tonight
By PAMELA THOMPSON
Staff Reporter
Musical bands from "down under" may be in excess now, but to the Australian group named INXS, which is touring North America for the second time this year, the much publicized Australian invasion in the music industry has not occurred.
After crisis-crossing the United States and Canada for about seven months, INXS returns to Kansas City at 9 p.m. today for a performance in the Worlds of Pun amphibians.
Tim Farriss, lead guitarist for the sixmember band from Sydney, said in a telephone interview from Chicago Tuesday that Americans had only recently become aware of musical sounds from other countries with the help of Music Television Video tracks.
"We've be rock video in Australia for eight years," he said. "It's so surprising it just hits me."
HOWEVER, THE RECENT popularity in the United States of other Australian bands such as Men At Work and Air Supply has not overshadowed INXS.
Farriss said that the band had sold-out all but one concert on its North American tour.
"The fact is that Men At Work used to open for us in Australia until their single went number one here," he said.
The members of INXS, who began playing together in 1976, most recently been played in the most recent AL Worcester game.
FARRISS SAID THAT his group's "basic
ROCKETS" could not really re-
countedly be any more dangerous
than any one categorized.
Three of the group's albums have gone gold in Australia. But only one album, "Shaboo Shooboo," has been released in the United States. The album features two singles and three songs. Changes which have made it into the top 40 most popular songs on the U.S. charts this year.
"It's not just rock 'n roll or punk or funk," he said. "It crosses many different skirts in music."
INXS has come a long way since it began playing in small, earthy courts in Australia four years ago.
guitarist Kirk Pengilly and bass player Garry Gairy Beers, "knew it was time to find some big bass."
WHEN THE PUBS COULD no longer accommodate the large crowds of followers INXS had gained, Farriss, his two brothers Jon and Andrew, vocalist Michael Hutchence,
An of the band members are in their early 20s and share the task of writing all the lyrics and music for the songs the group performs.
"We're a band of writers." Farriss said.
Although they admire the Talking Heads and Elvis Presley, he said that the group had not modeled itself or its music after any particular person or group.
"That's one reason why we don't put our picture on our album covers," he said, "so people won't judge our music from the kind of clothes we wear."
AFTER PLAYING IN KANSAS City, INXS will tour the Southeast United States before traveling to Europe to record its next album. The group will then film new video segments in Japan before returning to Australia.
Mary K. Duweilus, a public relations representative from Worlds of Fun, said the Worlds of Fun amphitheater would hold 4,200 people and that she expected the theater to be
MOVIE REVIEWS
'They're a real popular group around here,' she said.
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STRANGE BREW
--good
At last a film has come to Lawrence that won't make the viewer feel sighled. It is a film that is entertaining throughout and is hilariously well-written as well.
The film, now showing at the Hillcrest Theatre, is "Strange Brew" and it features Dave Thomas and Rick Moran as the two Canadian brothers, Bob and Doug MacKenzie, of Second City Television. The two comedians starred and wrote the screenplay with Steven De Janant.
As the film begins, the audience is treated to a film-within-a-film as the two characters screen their movie "The Beasts of 2051 A.D." for a theatre audience. This short segment starts off providing the stimulating humor that will follow during the rest of the film.
It is also during this first "film" that the filmmakers begin their parody of recent and older films. As the narrator of the short film explains, he is the only living human remaining after World War II. He finds a small replica of a wristband on his wrist. He picks it in snuff, grunted and loud out.
p. student, later grades a reference to being
A moment later he makes a reference to being
like Charlton Heston in the "Omega Man." Throughout the real film, the two go on to parody "Star Wars," "Superman," "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "Rollball" and mad scientist films. Some of it is extremely subtle, some of it downright blatant. It's all bilious.
After the introductory feature, the two brothers are thrown into a plot in which a mad brewmaster, played by the aging Max Von Sydow, plans to take over the world by producing a mind-control drug and incorporating it into his popular beer.
The two characters created by Moranis and Thomas are funny because they seem so real. Neither is very intelligent and the problems the writers create for the two characters are not as big as the problems seem likely to be the result of their bumbling natural behavior and their lack of intelligence.
This film is a triumph for its producers. I hope these two filmmakers will continue to work at their craft and perhaps even provide us with new techniques in the high quality of both Doe and Doug. Don't miss it!
METALSTORM
The movie is your basic outspaces western. The plot this time involves a Ranger who is seeking the Jawed Larfey Syn. Syn has retrieved evidence from his enemy, somebody with them he gets stronger. Were huh?
"Metalmortal" is the latest in the rebirth of 3-D movies. I hope it is the last. Although I did not like this film much, it was the best of the 3-D movies I have seen.
With this power he can zap people and objects
it seems that the director thought that because the movie was 3-D, it did not have to be fast-paced all the way through. If he had been able to capture him on the 3-D, this might have been a good film.
by just pointing his finger. (I know some movies I'd like to do that to.)
The problem with this movie is that the plot was not exciting enough. Yes, parts of the movie were thrilling but there were an equal number of boring scenes.
The D-3 is the best 3-D I have seen. Those who enjoy 3-D may want to see one, but for those who don't, it's a bit much.
Of course, as in all westerns, the basic showdown between the hero and the villain takes place. Who wins? The ending surprised me, surprisingly.
— Victor Goodpasture
EASY MONEY
Rodney Dangerfield gets no respect from me in Rodney's film. The laughs in this comedy (it's almost a shame to call it a comedy) are few and far between. It's a movie I kept waiting for it to get better. It didn't.
Dangerfield plays a photographer who gambles, smokes, drinks and is a generally rowdy guy. His mother in-law bites the dust and leaves his family with her $10 million estate on one condition — Dangerfield must rid him of his bad habits for a year and also lose weight.
The main problem with this film is that it doesn't know whether it is a comedy or a serious family film. First we see Rodney the drunk, druggie and gambler. Then we see Rodney the nice, happy family man concerned about his children's welfare. — Victor Goodpasture
BLOOM COUNTY
BY BERKE BREATHED
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