davidl@orca.UUCP (09/21/84)
This information paraphrased from an article by Ted Mahar in the (Portland)
Oregonian. Thought you might be interested.
Sept. 21: "All of Me" - Lily Tomlin's soul occupies half of Steve Martin
Sept. 28: "Impulse" - People suddenly can't resist their impulses
"Repo Man" - A man reposesses a car with four ET's in the trunk
Oct. 5: "Amadeus" - Psychofantasy about Mozart, based on Broadway play
Oct. 26: "The Terminator" - Arnold Schwarzenegger as robot assasin
Nov. 9: "Oh, God! You Devil!" - George Burns returns as God
Nov. 21: "Supergirl" - Faye Dunaway and Peter O'Toole
Dec. 7: "2010" - sequel to "2001"
"Starman" - Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith
Dec. 14: "Dune" - Frank Herbert's epic finally comes to the screen
Dec. 21: "Pinocchio" - Disney's animated classic
These dates are not cast in stone for all of these. A quote from the same
article:
"...a few other films will drop in unexpectedly; some of the above may
not show up. Among those that probably will play here, perhaps in late
September, is W.D. Richter's 'The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai,' a big
science fantasy film that attracted a lot of critical attention, some
of it very critical, and opened to small audiences in several
engagements."
Some personal notes: I'm not sure whether "Amadeus" and "Starman"
belong on this list... I haven't seen "Amadeus," although friends who
saw it on Broadway waxed ecstatic about it, and I'd never heard of
"Starman" before reading this article. "Supergirl" is also something
of an unknown quantity. "2010" looks very good from the previews I saw
at the World Science Fiction Convention. At the same convention, Frank
Herbert said he really liked the "Dune" movie, but I'm withholding
judgement. The marketing people don't seem to know how to sell it,
which is always a sign of confusion in high places. Another movie that
the marketing people don't seem to know how to sell is "Buckaroo
Banzai," which has still acheived only limited release.
Sandworm 1: "I hear they're making a movie out of 'Dune.'"
Sandworm 2: "Really? Is Alan Dean Foster doing the novelizaton?"
David D. Levine (...decvax!tektronix!tekecs!davidl) [UUCP]
(tekecs!davidl.tektronix@csnet-relay.csnet) [ARPA]reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (09/23/84)
"Amadeus" probably doesn't belong in a list of sf/fantasy movies, and "Starman"
definitely does. "Amadeus" does contain speculation beyond what is known about
Mozart's death, but nothing that would qualify as fantasy. "Starman" is a real
sf picture aboutt a stranded alien, played by Jeff Bridges. I may be
misremembering this, but I think Nancy Allen, Brian dePalma's wife, is the
female lead, a woman who is more or less kidnapped to help the alien make a
rendezvous which is far away. I should remember the director's name, but
don't.
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Peter Reiher
reiher@ucla-cs.arpa
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