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i relgron, for s"ome. Kell uncovcrs the movemcnt's orjBins {drd the i.",,"*. ."i p"ut;i;;-;". * Detroit, the Soulh BrJu, or the West Bron?) md his drifercnt 'chapters" cover graffiti, ,f,i *." U"r, t'mtabling and rap battles. lntemational somd bytes/beats come from Afrika Bmbaataa, ;;;il;;.*& "", il;l ["r, pTrase Too, Gimdmasier Flash, Grmd lVizard The odorc, lmzy lay, Gil Scott-Hero-n, The Crash C-i*, n* UV1C, U"tcedes Ladies, Pee Wee Dince, Jo-Jo & Frosty Freeze of the Rock Steady Cre*', Jurassic Tha Funky i Co*.ot, De La Soul, Prince Paul The Beatnuts, Dilated Peoples, Bcat ]unkim, Del Franti ol Spearhead' MC
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inthe turbulent wodd of 19th-centurv China, University ol Texas alumus Hark of societal has fashioned m epic tale o{ a counlry md its peopie in the'Jrows lhe upheavai ard sudden chmge Martiai arLs exPert Jet Li sian as \{ong FeiHwg' leeend@ Chinese hero tnealv 100 films have been made about his outrageous (md it seems,as though neuly *r"ploltr ro tut1, who. along wiih his manv disciples orvipe him ev'eryone in this film eitheiwmts 1o become a disciple of Master Wonp violent off &e face of the earth), acts as a savior to the common man by lending off the at{ack oI the rival Shaho Tong and subvertilg the corruptive siren song of the of gold nattily-dressed Westerners whoie promises of m Anerica paved with streets galore -- nost ol -"r"ly u hollot" *se to ensnaie slave labor' There ue subplols fight them indecipherable in a single liewin& but )et Li's b!illianily choreographed with too many scenes ate ar adrenaline-friele.l ru-"h, rvhether it's in a warehome

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1993, D. COREY YUEN, & 100 MIN, 813A,7:A0 Like the equally legendary Chirese lolk hero Wong Fe,v-Hon& compatriot Fong Sai-Yul< rus also patial to defending his kung fu-impaired brethren from the dishonest scormdreis that seem to in{est Ching dynasty China (not to mention tlrat boti roles seem virhally created lor the ever-impressive, though improbably named, Jet Li). This recent film chronicles the often hilarious adventurei of the young Fong, as he tems up with his martial arts mother (Siao, the star o{ mmy Sixties dropsocky-fests) to save fiis dad - who is a membel of a secret society intent on overthrowing the iron rule of the l{mchuim - from exeotion bv the cutrent govemment. In the meantinre, Fong is busily woorng the daughter of a newiy mived busilessmm, the boisterous Tiger Lei. Sexual -aside, The Legmd of Fong Sai-Yuk dazzles with some of the most politics Lreathtakingly choreographed fight scenes witnessed in yeus, including one shor-stopper featuring a full battle waged atop the heads md shoulden of an awestruck crowd of gat'kers. Norv that's entertajment! (Marc Savlor', Tle
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GUS TRIKONIS,9120, 7:00 "Amerim is goia' country and she's in it hip deep every whidr way ... but good!" Al exploitation staple since the dam of filmmaking has been the mbeatable "virhrous small-tom girl gms to the big city in search of fme and forhrne, is used up md spit out by heartless degenerates, retum to the small tom, hopelessly jaded md no longer able to partake of the simple ioys md rewads she so recklessly eschewed" formula. WelL here it is again but with several important twists. This time, instead of New York or LA, it's Nashville, and the heroine is a 16-year old country singer, fresh meat for the music city sausage mill. Which is great becaure as fa m we're conceme{ for sheer sruziness you can keep your New York gmgsters and your Holllwood talent scouts, we'll take music-business scumbags every time. And not since Lillim Cish has there been a more heartbrea&ingl,v imocent heroine thm Monica Cavle. Miss Gayle, perhaps best known as tough girl PatcJr in fa& Hill's great Saitchbladr Sisters, is one o{ the most fascirating lost talents of the '70s, both ethereally beautiftrl and wholesomely all-American. Ou credo is: if Monica Gayie's in the movie, we re in the house. (Lars)

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Casualties of Rock is a progrm dedicated to the shining stus of populu muic who left us ioo early for our liking. Rare videos md television perfommces are interspersed with historical commentary in m effort to examine tle rock stereotype of dying young (whidr has oft been used ac evidence that rock and roll i,s the devil;s music) md in reverence of those unique voices that ue sorely missed. Featuring ciips of Karen CarPenter, Johmy Thunden, Gram Pmsom, ilarry Nilssen, Nicq Richard Mmuel, Joe Meek, Ian Curtis, Mama Cass, Keith Mooo Epic Somdhack, Bon Scott, Darby Crash, Klaus Nomi, Brim Jones, Jobriath, Stiv Bators, Tom Evans/Pete Ham, Wendy O. WilLiams as well as the holy trinity oI Janis, Jirn and Jimi and mmy othert this collection also indudes a small section on tho-qe visionaries who dropped out of dre scene due to personal trauma. Special Thadcs to lvlike Fecmci md Kent Bmimin.

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$TnlP (re56 d. David L. !te'*iti) tvhen an all-female moonshining operation on the m from the law teams up lvith a sadistic motorcycle gang, thry set the lvoods on iire. Cirsey Kasem is vew funny as the constipated federal agent sent down south [o shut down the illegal t'hiskey business. Kasem is teamed with easvgoing soulhem sherifl (and walking Juicv Fruit gum commercial) Jack Starretf, v'ho later went on to direct such ciassics as Race \Fith'lirc Deoil, Tirc Lasos,'l'\rc Dion tsrofhers, nd. Citopntm lotics. r/fe lotorv this sounds clazy but Kasem md Staffett could have beeir a I'orid-class comedv team. Brtt maybe we should all feel grateful th at Giils From Thund# Stip wasn't a breakthrough Wild Angels cdiber hit,
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AtlG$$T 25: BtA&l{ $lSffn'S nruIflGE (1e76 d. Jarnaa Fma&a) From Jmraa Fmaka ("the tdack Ed l!bod"), direclor of crowd tar;aite Penitentiart and many other classics, comes this earlli ulheralded
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lvlarks(Borrle's(lrls,Detloit9000,Frido4Foster). IfyouseethenameArthurMerksinthecreditsyoecmpretiy much sit back arrd relax, assured of an evenirg's t'orih of pime tasteles-q enterlainment. And that's eractly rvhat Raamnais is: iitillaljng sex, shocking violence, aad dialog-ue thal rvould make Shakespeare himself green with eruy We're taikhg about pure entertaiment babli (Lars)
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(2003, d. lared Hess, 82 min, PG, $5.50/$5 student/senior/AlS) A hysrericaily tunny high school comedy about the eponynou delusional nerd (Jon Heder) md his misadventures with his pasty older brother Kip, oeepy, 80s-ob*sred Unde Rico (Jon Gries hom RenI Gerfusl), exheme-living grmdm4 md mis6t buddias Pedro md Deb- Facing the daily hell of high school, Napoleon daydream of'ligers' and tater-tots and uses his aeative 'skills' to full tilt despite the ridiculous odds siacked agairut him. uproariousiy fumv with unique production design" costuning and hair-styles rnakes this nrisocosm of middle-America come to life with biting t'it and style. A real sleeper in th e vein of Election, Webome to the Dollhotse and, Rushmorc - and a1 ode to the dork in all of us. Get your 'VOTE FOR PEDRO T-shirt in the lobby after the show!

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(1996, D" Milos Fomm, 129 min, R) Leave it to Czech director h{ilos Formm (One Flelv Over to Cuckoo,s Nest) to make the most entertaining md offbeat celebration of the American Comtitution that the mor4es have ever given us. You think the First Amendment was designed hr protect you from offensive speech? Think again. The real giory of the Constihrtion and ihe Bill of Rights--as broughr ro iife rn this splendid\- quirky and al%rmtely rercrent md ineverent comedy-is thdt it enttr.s ut'uryme's ireedom by protecting u *irot raigu of expression, from.the bmalto dre ouhageous. Scripted bv the udters ot E,J Wood (another afflcdonately tw"isted biography of a disreputably eccentric entertaiment figure), The.Propie vs. Lury Flynt applies a similai sort o{ and telescoPed editodal-cartoon seroibility to the wild life and trmes of Husiler skin-magazine publishl"r "*ugf"rJt"a Larry Flynt. It's the great (and fictionalized-but-true) American story o{ horv Flynt ended up"upp.uing a iibel case tfgf\l.ll televangelistJerry Fahveli) to,the Supreme Court ind winnirg a malor tegh viitory tfiut utr..t, us all rmific perfomaces by wcody Hanelson asllynl gnmge-star-fumej-glmour-fuss Courtney Lou. u, hi, nife Althea, md Edwud Norion as their lan yer. (Jrm Emcr:Jnl

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Boogr) the purigy-faced Linda Blair hacl e*ned her place in the cilematic pandreon as Regm lvlacNeil - dre possessed littie girl who becme m impiration io holv rollers md juvenile delinquents everyn'here. ller head could spin. She found obscene uses for reiigious iconography. She could levitate, vonit green, beat a priest, what a teen! \Atren scientific techrology proves useless, her urotirer (Eilen Burstyn) calls in the big gun-s, runely redred Exorcjst Father N{arron (Max Von Sydorr) and his bewildered assistant Damien Karras (Jason N{iller), who prove no matdr ior the scabb\', trucker-mouthed hellcat. See Puuzu's pre-teen putti as she rvas nemt to be sen on the big saeen! (lvriteup freely adapted from Alice Donut song ivrics)

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(i996, D. Danny Boyle, R, 91 mir, $3) \'Viih its haiiucinatorl'visions of crawling dead babies and a gnrngy plunge into the filthiest toilet in Scotiand, you might nct thinkTrainsptttng could have been one of the best rnovies of 1996, but Dannv Bcyle's film about unrePentanl heroin addicis in Edinburgh is ail that and more. That doesu't make il everybody's cup of tea (so unsuspecting r,iervers bewae), but the fi1m's blend of hyperkinetic hrmor md reai-li{e honor is constantly fascinating, md the entire cast (led by Ewm l{cGregat nd Full hlonty star llobert Carlyle) bursts off of the screen in a supernovil of outrageous energy. Adapted by Tohn Hodge from the acclaimed rror.el by Jrrjrg ltrelslr, the film wa-" a phenomenal hit England, Scotland, and (io a iesser extent) lhe U.S. For all oI its comedic vitalig and invigorating filnuraking, the movie is no ode to heroin, nor is it a straight-iaced cautionary laTe.Trnin.spotfingis just a very honest and rreil-made film abcui the nature of addiction, ad it doesn't pull any prmches rvhen it is ijme to shorv the altemating pleasure and pain oi substance abuse. (Je{f Shannon)

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(1982, D. Lou Adler, 1982, 87 Min, & 35mrrt g5) Lou Adler's tarl ies and Gentlemen, tlrc Eabulaus Stains is a fascinating oddity of the punk geme in that it was made for a major studio (pmmrount) - but the execs were so unhinged_by the film's strmge, bitter tone that they refused to release it. This consigned stains to a foohrote in film history md ended Adlels movie career prolific (his onlv previous redit was ^ever Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke), he never directed again. That said, Stains desewes notice fust md foremost as a weicome respite from all those mush-brained John Hughes teen epics f the ,80s. The

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Min, It $5) Mu Fischer is a relentlessly enthusiastic tenth-grader Rushmore Academy. He producr.s crowd-pleasing school plays, presides ovir the calligrapl-ry club, and everything h between. Ruslmore is his life, but his grades are bati, md he's put on sudden dea& academic probation. Soo4 he falis in love with ischoolteacher, Ms. Cross. So does his new friend, steel tycoon \{r. Bloom. An unusual lore triangle develops md they go to lvar.
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(2004, d. Robert Stone, 89min. Uroated) Born out of the still smoldering embers of the 60s cormter crrlture movement and with the spirit of Cubm md Black Pmther"revolutionmies, the Slmbionese Liberation Amy sought to position themselves as the Robin Hoods of American sggety - stealing from 'corporate nazis' and giving back to the disaffected poor Their initial efforts went Iargeiy unnoticcd until the spectacular kidnapping of Patricia Hirst, daughtcr of media $rcoon Randoiph and granddaughter of William Ranaotph (the real life CitizeiKane). Camped outside the Hearst's mansion after the 1974 kidnapping, the media tumed the event into ; nightly.soap opera but when.Paity tumed from victiri io aitive SLA member this soapie tumed into a bving nightmare that becme more bizare with every turn. Bv using pristine #d mind-blun,ing archival footage, this explosive work traces the historv of the SLn"wjth particular attention io the yea md a hatf Hearst spent in captivity and participated h i*mous med robberies mdviolent actlvity of the mo'st extreme'nature. Alorie the wav, Stone paints a meticulousiy craftcd md researched picture of a prcfound time w'6en some of Arirerica's chickens cme home to roost. Sensaiional.

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Shot in 200i, {ullng 5]re_mgats for the Sm Irancisco premiere of Sam Shepard's play, The Late Henry Moss, Michael (Nadja) Almereyda's This So-Callell Disaster docnments the mysterious nuts and bolts o{ the dramatic process. Fragmented read-throughs md rehcarsals arc interspersed with interviews during rvhich shepard md cast rnembers sich as Nick Nolte, scar pdnn, woody Harrelson, Cheech Mrin and James Cammon strug,gle to articulate the "hows" and "whvs'of their chosen field. The film urges us to regard tfie theit"er professional as one who speaks thoights

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md.emotions that seem inexpressible, md whose reconfigurafion of past experierices mav verge on the pathologrca-I. As Gammor says (or ra&er, croaks)i'Acting_is desperlte because u'ctirgtit 1eve1ling." Directing Nolte and Pem as estra-nged brothers, *{th Gammon as their deceaid, drunkerq violent fatheq, Shepud ruminates aborit the 'fragile terril.ory" that isolates actors and directors, which they must find a way to inhabit during theJong rehearsal period. Shepard calls it "finding a language [with which.l to enter" that shared' metaphirical space, dran'ing lHention to the perfoming arts' Sreat contradiction: lvhereas preparatidns must b'e fiercely intimal, success depends upon the actors' ability to communicate, first wiih their collaboraiors, and then an audience. This territory renlains iloubly charged for shepard, as The Late Henrv Moss is rooted like so much of his work - in his onm troublid relatioruhip wjth his alcoholic father.
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