MSC Aggie
Cinema and
Cepheid
Variable
845-1515
Purple Rain: Prince stars in (his
semi-autobiographical look at “The
Kid,” a struggling musician. The film
follows his rise through the club cir
cuit to stardom. Actually, if you have
to read something to discover what
this movie is about I doubt you are se
riously contemplating going. Ifyou do
go, don’t sing too loud, OK? Friday &
Saturday. 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Saturday
Midnight. Rudder Theatre R.
Ziggy Stardust and the Spi
ders from Mars: On July 3,1973, at
London’s Hammersmith Odcon, Da
vid Bowie bid farewell to his most in
credible persona, glitter-rock icon
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from
Mars band. This film takes a look at
all the flash and dazzle that made Bo
wie famous — his outrageous and
magical stage performance. Friday.
Midnight. Rudder Theatre.PG.
Koyaansquatsi: The title is de
rived from a Hopi Indian phrase
which may mean either “world at
balance” or “a way of life that calls
for another way of living.” Godfrey
Reggio visualizes both meanings of
the term in his striking impressionis
tic essay in images and sound. Sun
day. 7:30 p.m.Unrated.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
Nest: A remarkable adaptation of
Ken Kesev’s classic novel of the '60s.
Jack Nicholson plays the free-spirited
McMurphy, who finds himself com
mitted to a mental hospital. He at
tempts to wake up the other patients
to the fact that the difTerence be-
twecen sanity and insanity is just so
ciety’s attempt to stifle individualism.
Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. R.
Willy Wonka and the Choc
olate Factory: Oompa. Loompa.
Doompitty doo. Gene Wilder makes a
bizarre, but really good, Willy Wonka
who offers a lifetime of chocolate to
the finders of five golden tickets.
Chocolate rivers, Everlasting Gobstop-
pers and a nifty-neato glass-elevator
make this an adventure anyone would
give their eye-teeth to go on. Just be
ware of the “Blueberry-girl.” Thurs
day. 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Rudder
Theatre. 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 vour 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 you knew in high school —
perhaps even yourself. 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. R.
A Passage to India: It was a
terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad
day 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 r ather
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. Good movie. PG-13.
Nlean 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. R,
Post Oak
764-0616
1 rotocol: Just when you
thought it was safe to go to a movie
and not see Goldie Hawn! She’s back
flow, foreboding music begins).
Goldie stars as a spirited Washington
D.C. cocktail waitress who accidently
saves the life of a foriegn dignitary. As
life usually goes in the movie world,
the State Department offers her the
job of entertaining visiting diplomats.
Buck Henry 7 had a hand in the screen
play. PG.
Schulman Six
775-2463
Witness: A Philadelphia cop, John
Book; must protect a little Amish boy
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 truth, 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 kid’s
mom. But can romance span cultures
so intensely different? Harrison Ford
plays Book along the lines of Hans
Solo. Really a neat and different
movie. R.
Th e Killing Fields: Columnist Syd
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 7 emotional film that tells the
story of Schanberg and Pran as much
as it does the story of the war. R.
Beverly Hills Cop: How much
money can this film make? 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 shirt throughout Bev
erly Hills and not look tacky. Par
amount executives are already dis
cussing a sequel. Classic Eddie
Murphy. 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 be
comes obsessed with more than just
wrestling. Actually, this movie is sur
prisingly alright. Matthew Modine
(“Birdy” and' “Mrs. Soffel”) plays
Louden. PG.
Fast Forward: Body rock hits
the streets! I'm not sure but some
thing tells me this movie is a combi-
nataion “Flashdance’7“Breakin\”
Maybe it was the break dancing in the
street or the dance audition scene that
surfaced • in the preview's. Anyway,
lots of peole dance around in lots of
nothing and get paid for it. (I think
I’m in the wrong profession.) Here’s a
tidbit: Sidney Poiter directed. PG.
Turk 182: Answering my own
question from last week, Turk 182 is a
code name used by Timothy Hutton
as he tries to fight the system for his
brother. Good(?) sources say this is a
“really, really good movie,” but hey,
sources can be wrong. Timothy Hut
ton is in the movie so lots of girls wall
go see it. (Something about Hutton
makes girls go spend lots of money to
gawk. PG-
Mischief: Supposedly, this is a
better-than-usual teen flick. Kinda
hard for me to believe, but you never
know. The kid from “On Golden
Pond” is trying to make it with a cer
tain prom queen-type who, we dis
cover, is not as prudish as we origi
nally think. There is also a hunk
(played by some 33-year-old guy) who
is tiying to show the kid the way. And
there’s a sweet girl who is a prude, as
well. R.
Starman: All life forms in the
universe have been receiving an invi
tation to Earth since 1977 thanks to
Voyager II. In this film, directed by
John Carpenter (“Halloween”), some
thing out there, played by Jeff Bridges,
accepts the invitation, comes to Earth
and clones himself human from a
lock of hair. Karen Allen has the mis
fortune (or is she actually fortunate?)
to be chosen to drive Bridges to the
rendevous point picked by the upper-
echelon of his home planet. R.
Heaven Help Us: This week’s
$64,000 question is do young boys in
Catholic schools ever discover them
selves? (time lapse) I think so.
(buzzer noise) Bad answer, bad an
swer. Now for the consolation ques
tion: do they discover armhing?
Someone seems to think so because
there’s a movie about just that. Sup
posedly there is at least one character
that everyone can relate to, but I have
yet to find that one character R,
Manor East
823-8300
Falcon and the Snowman: Two
upper class 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 into 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 possession
of massive amounts of cocaine. Timo
thy Hutton and Sean Penn star. They
are the best things going for the
movie. The basic plot is boring. The
KGB agents aren’t believable, which is
a real shame since they are on the
screen a whole lot. R.
NIrs. Soffel: Mel Gibson and
Diane Keaton star in a steamy love
story that is based on fact. Gibson and
his brother (Mathew Modine (does
this guy ever rest?)) are in jail. 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 someone please
tell this woman that a stationery 7 cam
era is not anathema to a successful
film!). R.
IVIartins’ Day: Henry' Thomas
(of “E.T.” fame) stars. Really, that’s
about all I know. It has something to
do with Thomas having to spend the
dav with some criminal type and they
both are named Martin. Maybe that’s
it. Maybe not. Sounds stupid to me.
PG.
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