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COMPLIMENTARY PASSES EXCLUSIVELY FOR AMERICAN EXPRESS' CARDMEMBERS WHEN & WHERE. February 22 Cinemark Hollywood Movie Cinema 16 WHAT. Cardmembers get two compli mentary passes to United Artists’ blockbuster The Birdcage. HOW. Just bring the American Express Card or Optima® Card and your student ID to the location listed below to pick up your passes. NOW. If you’re not yet a Cardmember and would like to take part in our exclusive previews, it’s easy to apply for the Card. Just call 1-800-942-AMEX, ext. 4114. MORE TO COME. The Birdcage is one in a series of five major motion pictures to be previewed on your campus this year, compliments of American Express. PICK UP YOUR TICKETS HERE. B&N Bookstore February 20-22 AFI American Film Institute Entertainment ©1996 American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. & > J ♦* * N*. C-S. \ Blues Original Brother: % ■ m O ll Past Credits Include: Schlock Kentucky Fjried Movie ^ National tiaropopn # sAnimal House The Blues eVctheirg ; a An Americ^rt Wejrew London Trading i Michael Thriller Into the ^ Keeping the Blues Alive Amazon Women on the Moon Spies Like 1 Us Three Amigp§ Jr Coming tiQ America HBO series P n Oscar' - a'F '' Michael Jackson's Black or White ' • " •: cTT.«S'.; < : A' J innocent :^lpod J, Mr. Landis will be speaking followed by a screening of The Blues Brothers n Tickets $5.00 Tickets available at the MSC Box Office 845-1234 cl Beverly Hills. Cop III Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to inform us of your » special /-N /“J <*> n a and the upcoming film. The Stupids : ■' I v ; V . Rudder Auditorium Feb3ru§jry 23, 1596 9:30PM mm:. Jfc:’ 1 A Presentation of the Texas Film Festival sponsored by the MSC Film Society of Texas A&M. Funded in part by the Arts Council of the Brazos Valley and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Page 4 • The Battalion Aggielife Monday • February 19,15| Funland offers promising sound vocals on The Funland Band day • F' jn By Tab Dougherty The Battalion driving “Die Like a Satellite,” with unique vocals and talented With so many new bands out there these days, it’s hard to find one with a unique style. Funland's debut album. The Funland Band, does a good job at creating a different sound. With heavy gui tar combined with powerful lyrics and catchy melodies, Funland has managed to find a niche of its own. Being unique is a talent, but it’s hard not to compare a new band to a previously existing one. And for those who need something solid to compare Fun land to, it is a mix of Nirvana with Cobainesque vocals, Bush with heavy and catchy guitar licks, and The Toadies with pow erful lyrics. Funland highlights several topics, but many songs seem re Album Review f f) Funland A Vf The funland Band Steve Records *^/2(©u« of Hire) lit H| lationship-based, such as the rhythms and melodies, and “Par allel Lines," a heavy tribute to relationships. At first listening, the album sounds like it was recorded straight out of a garage, but once you get past the distorted ve neer, you will find intelligent lyrics and sublime messages. “Head in Hands on Floor” is one of the bright spots on the al bum. It has excellent harmoniz ing and mixing of guitar and vo cals, without overdoing either. However, any debut album will have its flaws, and this al bum is no exception. Many of the songs sound nearly identical, and it is disap pointing to hear a great song like “Head in Hands on Floor followed by a less-than mediocre one. Uncreative use of distorted guitar and the Same screaming voice in most of the songs lendto a dull and repetitive sound. Songs such as “Impala,” “Spinal Music” and “Feedback” sound nearly identical. One shouldn’t have to con centrate on songs to be able to find differences. Despite the similar-sounding songs, Funland shouldn’t be written off as the typical alter native, distorted-guitar-depen- dent band just yet. The band does have promise. It is obvious from listening to The Funland Band that Funland has the potential to make an ini pact in the music industry. Alit tie refinement of the sounds will lead to a good band with its own unique sound. lANCtfl four da] lican pr ( Phil G on Sui ess and Party r unation 1 believe Repubh today v nomic cc bring tc es and ' ilican PE ty that is Clinto inging A leliverinf Publicly, ed in th itrality. ‘ Ref sur QThe some s Bucha hree- 1 Impersonal characters, poor script keep Persuasion from living up to Austen's story By Mandy Cater The Batt alion Hot on the heels of the success of the cinematic adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility comes another of the author’s clas sic novels brought to life on the big screen. This time, director Roger Michell brings us Persuasion, a sweeping tale set in post-war Eng land in the early 1800s. Persuasion revolves around Anne Elliot (Amanda Root). Elliot is an independent, educat ed young woman from a family of socially climb ing aristocrats. Her lack of interest in her fami ly’s decadent and uppity lifestyle often leaves her at odds with them, or even worse, being treated like simply another servant. After an upheaval in her family’s estate, Elliot finds herself thrown into the home of her in-laws in the English countryside. Here we are introduced to Elliot’s sister, Mary Musgrove, wonderfully played by British actress Sophie Thompson. Musgrove is the brightest spot in an otherwise dim movie. Her neurotic wailings and outrageous egocentricism provide badly needed bursts of humor. Despite Mary’s melodrama, however, Anne as sumes the role of caretaker without a complaint. Just as it seems things cannot get any worse for Anne, they do. Her old flame, Capt. Frederick Wentworth (Ciaran Hinds), a dashing naval captain, rides into town. Anne turned down Capt. Wentworth’s ~ Movie Review Persuasion Starring Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds Directed by Roger Michell RatedPH Hollywood 16 ** 1/2 font of five) marriage proposal be fore he sailed off for war. Secretly, thou$ Anne is stil 1 very enam ored with the gentle man, and she greatly re grets her actions eight years earlier. Frederick woosthe ladies on the estate, hardly giving Anne the time of day. It seems that Cap. Went worth cannot even stand to be in the same place as Elliot. Finally, Anne goes back to an unhappy exis tence with her family, who have now moved into the city with all of its social rituals. After daily torture from her sister and constant nagging from her father, Anne’s life begins to look more pathetic than ever. Finally, though, after what seems like an eter nity, the dapper Frederick rolls into town to sweep Anne off her feet and rescue her from her miserable existence. The premise behind Persuasion is one with a great deal of potential, but it falls quiteshort.lt has little of the charm of its counterpart, Sense and Sensibility. The characters are rather cardboard; and the story is full of unanswered questions, especially where the love of Anne and Frederick is con cerned. In the end, the movie fails to breathe life into Austen’s tale. Despite beautiful costumes and landscapes, some hilarious moments and a very romantic finale, Per suasion comes across as too long and impersonal. 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