CALENDAR
Thursday
KU Flute Ensemble, 8 p.m.
Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy
Hall.
Lonnie Ray's Blues Jam, blues,
9:30 p.m., The Jazzwha, 926½ Massachusetts St., $1.
■ Parlor Frogs, rock, 9:30 p.m.
Johnny's Tavern, 401 N. Second St,
$1.
**Rot Gut.** rock 'baily' 9:30 p.m.
Rock Chalk Bar, 618 W.12th st. $1.
Sons of Rex, party rock 9:30 p.m.
the Bottleneck, 757 New Hampshire st.
■ Tent meeting, black comedy, 8 m. Thursday through Sunday, Crafton-Fraiser Theater, Murphy Hall, general public $7 and $6, KU students $3.50 and $3, senior citizens and other students $6 and $5.
Friday
*Baba Baba-the Witch!*, Sunflower Puppets, 7 and 8 p.m., The Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont *reels*. $2.50.
■ Any Clark Beal, piano, student recital, 8 p.m., Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall.
Britt Hammond and the Country Gentleman, country, 9 p.m., Shiloh, 1003 E. 23rd St, $3.
Cold Is What You'd Call It. script reading, original play by Joe McCauley, KU student, 8 p.m., 100 Smith Hall.
The Last Movie, film, 3 p.m., Hoch Auditorium.
- Laura Ellis, organ, doctoral recital, 8 p.m., Grace Cathedral, 701 S.W. Eighth St., Topeka
Mauchovonian Love Beat, rock
9:30 p.m. Rock Chalk Bar, 618 W.
12th St., $2.
Ricky Dean Sinatra with The Mahoots openings, original rock, 9:30 p.m., The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.
St. Louis
■ That Statue Moved, college rock,
p. 30 p.m. The Jazzhaus, 92% Massachusetts St., $3.
- Valentine, rock, 9:30 p.m., John
nv's Tavern, 401 N. Second St., $1.
■ Borderline Country, country, $ p.m., Shiloh, 1003 E. 23rd St., $3
Saturday
Haybales and Missile Trails, print exhibition by Cima Katz, open through June 12, Kellas Gallery, 7 E. Seventh St.
**Pulling Strings:** The Bushong Martinezes, martionette exhibition through June 4. Elizabetht M. Watts Museum, Museum, 1047 Massachusetts St.
Roger Whitkler, singer/guitarist,
8 p.m., Midland Theater, 1228
Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Lawrence Civic Chair concert, 8 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St., adults $3, students and senior citizens $1.
■ Mongol Beach Party, rock, 9:30
p.m., Rock Chalk Bar, 618 W. 12th St.
$2.
Saxophone studio students, student recital, 9 a.m., Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall.
SDI, dance rock; 9:30 p.m. The
ottenkee, 737 New Hampshire St.
The Moved, college rock; 9:30 p.m.
The Zachsman, 82% Manhattan
Surchasst $3.
The Seventh Annual Truman Anniversary Concert, the Kansas City Symphony, 8 p.m., Reorganized Church of the Latter Day Saints Auditorium, 1001 W. Walnut St., Independence, MO, tickets to $25.
palladio, mo., tickets 88 to $2.
Valentine, rock, 8:30 p.m., Johnny's Tavern, 401 N. Second St., $1.
Sunday
■ Stories Off the Wall, tour of the month by Elizabeth Happy, 1 p.m., lobby, Museum College of Art.
■ We Be Doin' It, performance by Minority Theatre Program, 8 p.m., Crafton-Preyer Theatre, Murphy Hall
Exhibits
- Charles Darwin: A Portrait Biography, exhibition open through June 17, Museum of Natural History, Dyche Hall.
Committed to Print, exhibition open through May 6, Spencer Museum of Art.
From Behind the Fan: Sources of Japanese, 19th century Japanese woodblock prints exhibition open through June 10. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.
Mystery movie twists plots
By Christopher Cunnyngham Special to the Kansan
Jim Armusch is what some people call a minimalist director. He fills his screen with as little as possible; movements are slight and slow. The camera usually is put in one place during the course of film, and the extended shots can make some people nervous.
MOVIE review
His previous films, "Stranger Than Paradise" and "Down by Law," were black and white excursions into film existentialism, slow and delicate studies of down-at-the-heels U.S. citizens and confused foreigners in the land of plenty.
"Mystery Train" is no exception. The film takes place in Memphis, Tenn., and contains three stories about three different sets of characters, of whom meet during the course of the film. Several are foreigners and several are from the United States.
The first segment, "Far From Yokohama," is about Jun and Mitzuko (Masatoshi Nagase and Youku Kiduchi), two teenagers on vacation in the United States. Jun, who looks and dresses like the Japanese Eddie Cochran, and Mitzuko, a teen queen who
collects T-shirts, have arrived in Memphis to explore the roots of roll and to see the city of the King, who lives there. In room hotel they hear a gaurshot.
The second segment, "A Ghost, is about an Italian widow, Luisa (Nicoletta Braschi), stuck in Memphis who is trying to bring the dead body of her husband back to him, slugs into DeeDee (Elizabeth Brachco) and a woman who has just left her, who and they share a room together. In their hotel room they hear a gun shot.
The third and final segment, "Lost In Space," deals with Dee-Dee's abandoned boyfriend Johnny (Joe Strummer), Dee-Dee's brother (Steve Buscemi), Black Jack (John Wilbinson) (Rick Aviles) and with Dee-Dee's departure by getting drunk and dragging his friend around with him on a night of madness.
What plot there is unfolds slowly at best, but there is charm in the way Jarmusch paces his films. No one ever looks completely comely in the frame of his camera. The men are balanced on the mysterious floor in night clerk's and bellboy's reactions to the patrons of the hotel.
The acting is perfect. Even an amateur looks good in a Jarmusch film; they're supposed to look edgy.
> Christopher Cunningham is a Leeswood junior majoring in English and film studies.
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