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-16- MSC Aggie Cinema and Cepheid Variable 845-1515 Hitchcock Festival: MSC Aggie Cinema pesents six films bv the mas ter of suspense. Alfred Hitchcock. The movies scheduled and their times are: Friday — “Rear Window,” 7:30: “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” 9:45 and “The 39 Steps,” Midnight. Saturday — “The Trouble With Harrv,” 7:30; “Ro pe,” 9:45 and “Spellbound,” Mid night. Rudder Theatre.PG. iVoyaansquatsi; The title is de rived from a Hopi Indian phrase which may mean either “world out of balance” or “a wav of life that calls for another wav of living." Godfrev Reggio visualizes both meanings of the term in his striking impressionis tic essay in images and sound. Sun day. Rudder Theatre. 7:30.Unrated. L/ilies of the Field: Academy Award-winner Sidney Poitier portrays a black journeyman laborer who joins a group of refugee nuns from East Germany who want to; build a chapel in tht middle of the Arizona desert. The battle between the down-to-earth Homer and the strong-willed Mother Superior provide moments both hu morous and touching. Wednesday. Rudder Theatre. 7:30 Unrated. recent inflax of supposedly teenage antics movies, these kids control themselves, like any normal kid would. See page three for complete review. R. A Passage to India: It was a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad dav for Dr. Aziz. From the moment he instigates a picnic at the caves, to the end of his being tried for a rape charge, he has a very difficult time. This one is about the culture clashes in pre-Gandhi India (as one rather verbose.Englishwoman put it, “East is East. It's a matter of culture.”). That might be so, but which culture is the one to live by. David Lean,(“Lawrence of Arabia”), “Doctor Zhivago ’) di rected, which really doesn't surprise me since the directing is so good. Nominated for best picture, best actor and best actress. Good movie. PG-13. Mean Season: Kurt Russell and Mariel Hemingway star in this movie about a reporter (Russell) who gets caught up too strongly in a story he is covering. A. murderer starts call ing Russell and telling him about his actions beforehand, but Russell can’t do anything about it As fellow jour nalists scream, “Pulitzer," ethics and First Amendment rights come into question Looks to be very intense and probably quite good, R. Post Oak 764-0616 Yellow Submarine: The an- imated musical tale of how the Beatles drove the Blue Meenies out of Pepperland. Definitely a unique movie. Lots of Peter Max animation. (You know who he is. He does the stuff for Montv Pvthon.) Score by the Beatles (obviously). Thursday. Rudder Theatre. 7:30 & 9:45.G. Plitt Cinema III 846-6714 The Breakfast Club: Five kids are stuck in detention for nine hours. Nothing can be more depressing than nine hours with five of your non-clos- est friends. Funny thing how easy it is to find friends where you least.expect it. Every character will remind you of someone vou knew' in high school — perhaps even vourself. Let s see, there is a jock, a princess, a brain, a basket- case and a criminal. This is perhaps the first movie I’ve ever seen where kids are acting like kids. Despite the The Killing Fields; Columnist Syri- ney Schanberg (Sam Waterston) went to Cambodia in 1977 as a New York Time’s correspondent His assistant, Dith Pran (Haing S, Ngor) was Cam bodian born. When all Cambodians were ordered out of the country, Schanberg watches Pran enter what was to be known as the “killing fields," the interior Cambodia This is a very emotional film that tells the storv of Schanberg and Pran as much as it does the story of the war. Based on a true storv. Nominated for best picture. R. Visionquest: Louden is a high school wrestler. His goal in life is to beat the best wrestler in the district. Unfortunately, this other wrestler has arms bigger than the telephone pole he trains with. Not a good sign. Loud- en‘s training is cruising along great when he meets the girl of his dreams. When she moves into his house, he goes beserk. This one is brought to vou from the executive producers ol "Flashdance.” The soundtrack has manv, many big name performers on it .’Journey, Madonna ... PG. I ast Forward: Body rock hits the streets! I’m not sure but some thing tells me this movie is a combi nation “Flashdance”/ “Breakin’.” Mavbe it was the break dancing in the street or the dance audition scene that surfaced in the previews. Anyway, lots of people dance around in lots of nothing and get paid for it. (I think fm in the wrong profession.) Here’s a tidbit: Sidney Poitier directed. PG. Schulman Six 775-2468 W itness: A Philadelphia cop, John Book, must protect a little Amish bov who is the only witness to a murder. The catch here is that the guy who was murdered was an undercover cop and the murderer is also a cop. Since Book knows the iruth, he flees Phila delphia and moves in with the Amish. Completely out of place, he begins his attempt to blend into the back ground. A romance blossoms be tween Book and Rachel, the kids mom. But can romance span cultures so intensely different? Harrison Ford plays Book along the lines of Hans Solo. Reallv a neat and different movie. R. Oeverly Hills Cop: How much money with this film maker That seems to be the only question left Ed die Murphy stars as a Detroit cop who follows the trail of a friend’s killer to Beverly Hills. This is a comedy-thriller with tons of action and Murphy is as great as always. Only Eddie could wear the same shin throughout Bev erly Hills and not look tacky. Par amount executives are already dis cussing a sequel. Classic Eddie Murphy. R. Turk 182: What does Turk 182 mean? I don’t know but Timothv Hut ton is in the movie so lots of girls will go see it. I know I will. I mean come on — I saw "Falcon and the Snow man.” The only thing I can definitely say is Hutton is out to avenge his brother. Oh, yeah. Hutton plays in one reallv steamv scene with Kim Cat- trell of “Porky’s” and “Police Acade my” fame. It might be worth the ticket price for that scene alone. PG- 13. IVIischief: Supposedly, this is a tter-than-usual teen flick. Kinda rd for me to believe, but you never iow. The kid from “On Golden md” is trying to make it with a cer- tn prom queen-type who, we dis- ver, is not as prudish as we origi- liy think. There is also a hunk laved bv some 33-year-old guy) who is trying to show the kid the wav. And there’s a sweet girl who is a prude, as well. All the necessary ingredients, huh? R. Starman, All life forms in the universe have been receiving an invi tation to Earth since 197? thanks to Voyager II. In this film, directed by John Carpenter (“Halloween”), some thing out there, played bvJeffBridges, accepts the invitation, comes to Earth and clones himself human from a lock of hair. Karen Allen tias the mis fortune (or is she actually fortunate?) to be chosen to dbouf just that. Sup posedly, there is at least one character that everyone can.relate to. Person ally, I, mvself, find, it hard to relate to young Catholic boys on their own level R. Manor East 823-8300 Falcon and fhe Snowman: Two upperclass California kids get them selves involved with the KGB when they begin selling CIA satellite secrets. It seems one of the kids finds out that the CIA is delving ink. Australian pol itics. His wav of fighting back is to sell secrets to the Soviets. His buddy is a drug dealer on the run for pocession of massive amounts of cocaine Timo thv Hutton and Sear Penn star as the two kids. They are the best things going for the movie, fhe basic plot is boring. The KGB agents aren’t believ able, which is a real shame since they are on the screen a whole lot . R. IVIrs, Soffei: Mel Gibson and Diane Keaton star in a steamy love storv that is based on fact Gibson and his brother (Mathew Modine) are in jaii. Keaton is the warden’s wife, but falls in love with Gibson and helps to break the brothers out. Keaton and Gibson give wonderful performances that make the movie worthwhile. The direction by Gillian Amstrong, (“My Brilliant Career”), however, causes the movie to drag (and would some one please tell this woman that a sta- tionerv camera is not anathema to a successful film!). R Micki and Maude: Dudley Moore plays a TV reporter who des perately wants to be a father So when his mistress, Maude (Amy Irving), be comes pregnant, he marries her. But he is already married to Micki (Ann Reinking), a successful lawyer. Sur prise: Micki becomes pregnant too. This comedv was directed by Blake Edwards and is delightful. One of the funniest movies to come out in a long time. PG-13.