4The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, April 26, 1983
Film Night mocks movie masters
By DAVID SCHMIDT
Assistant Am Editor
Had the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award
ed an Oscar for Best Shorts Not Dealing Seriously With a Whole
Lot in Particular, the films shown during Sunday's UNC Student
Film Night wouid have won.
Approximately 100 viewers filled the Union Auditorium to
watch 22 movies that were mostly between one and 15 minutes
long. Like many major movie debuts, not everyone left satisfied
as controversy flared over Peyton Reed and George Dahir's
Looking for Punks in All the Wrong Places.
"I ought to, like, spit on you or something," a mohawked stu
dent whom Reed had interviewed told him after viewing his series
of punk-rocker-on-the-street interviews.
Saying he thought it was going to be a serious look at the peo
ple who listen to his type of music, the student claimed he was
quoted out of context and was extremely angry. Reed had, in fact,
mockingly asked questions like "Do you think punk music will
change the face of the Earth?" and even interviewed a dog,
pretending to mistake it for a punk-rocker. Reed laughed off the
complaints, and the man walked off saying, "You failed."
The Union Film Committee's application stated that it did not
endorse the views expressed in the students' movies.
Few of the remaining films failed at all, using black and white
and color to highlight the shades of some movie masters. Barry
Blackwelder's Life in Progress showed a colorful Oz-like world of
emerald trees seen by a despondent Dorothy through a door in
her gray room. David Palmer's You Never Looked So Good
couldn't have looked better had Hitchcock directed it himself
an Avon lady made Susan Russell go psycho in the dead of the
night when she attacked Russell's face with lipstick and eyeliner,
creating a made-up monster who strangled her in the end. And
David Mann's modern Charlie Chaplin blew up balloon muscles
and karate-chopped pre-split wood to impress The Girl on the
Swing before a single flower did the trick.
"If you really want to appreciate films you see at the theater,
make one yourself," said John Colvard, who added that last
semester's student films inspired him to make one himself.
Such respect for Hollywood did not keep some movie makers
from mastering techniques on their own. Colvard's Our Guns Do
Our Talking featured a hand grasping a roll of toilet paper
after the hand was sliced from its arm. Palmer created the illusion
of sound in a clever scene with a doorbell. Andy York's use of
flashbacks, blurrily framed scenes and heartbeats syncopated with
a girlfriend's farewell made Love Is Green the most technically
stunning picture of the evening. Overall, visual effects including
acting were smooth and occasionally surprising.
Soundtracks, when they existed, weren't so sophisticated. Ap
propriately moody music, however, did add life to Life in Pro
gress and rock songs spoke out against war even when Colvard's
guns stopped talking. '
Rarely did a filmmaker exercise too much creative license. The
imost bizarre film, Blackwelder's September Winter Nap, made
no sense out of a plastic triceratops stabbing a crucified rat. At
least that was interesting. The most interesting part of The Small
Lemon by Earl Owensby Jr. was the thick niece of lint which ac
cidentally crossed the screen. Otherwise this 22-minute tour of
Shelby included in-depth close-ups of restaurant signs, doorknobs,
. soda bottles and tombstones.
John Schultz's use of stunt dummies in CARBASH, which was
just that, and The Overexposed, a Russian spy thriller, deserved a
special Benny Award for the pioneering efforts in a field now
popularized by British comedian Benny Hill. The man who
brought Buford "Walking Tall" Pusser and Bruce "The
Dragon" Lee together on the screen said his films should be taken
lightly.
"What would you rather see a rat on a cross or a dummy .
falling out of a car?" Schultz asked. "Some of these films are too
serious. (Mine) are so unpretentious, they're funny."
Maybe Hollywood shouldn't take itself so seriously, either.
'Hothouse plays today in Memorial Hall
By JIM CLARDY
Staff Writer
Hothouse, a three-act play by Macon
Terry, is the latest presentation by the
UNC Laboratory Theatre, the
autonomous arm of the UNC depart
ment of dramatic art.
Hothouse stars Alison Heartinger, a
sophomore RTVMP major from
Chapel Hill; Ashley Dimmette, a fresh
man dramatic art major from Lenoir
and Dina Kaler, a junior English major
from Atlanta, Ga. The play is directed
by Joanne Gilbert, a junior English ma
jor from Chapel Hill. Juanita Shew, a
junior speech education major from
Trinity, is the assistant director and
stage manager.
Terry, a contemporary playwright,
wrote Hothouse in 1974. Gilbert be
came interested in the play when her
mother acted in a production in
Chicago several years ago.
Hothouse involves three generations
of women living. under one roof. Their
mother-daughter relationships border
on the incestuous. The men in their
lives, played by Al Parker, a sophomore
RTVMP major from Murfreesboro and
Jim Fitzgerald, a junior dramatic art
major from Wilson, are unable to pene
trate the bonds which hold the women
together. The women, in turn, are un
willing to allow men to enter their lives.
Potential suitors and ex-husbands come
and go but never stay long, hence the ti
tle Hothouse.
"The women's home has a green
house effect," Dimmette said. "The
women are only able to live and prosper
within their own home. They can't sur
vive outside their environment. Taking
care of each other is their first priority.
Men definitely take a back seat."
' "The women only grow if they are
together," Gilbert said. "They assume
both a mother and daughter role."
Shows are at 4 and 8 p.m. today in
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Police report no more sexual assaults
Police officials say there have been no attempted break-ins or
sexual assaults since April 20 following the recent series of assaults
on women near and on the UNC campus.
University, Chapel Hill and Carrboro police departments all
reported that there were no incidents over the weekend in connec
tion with their investigations.
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cases. The State Bureau of Investigation was called in last week to
investigate the five assaults which have occurred in the past
month.
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Spencer Residence Hall. The woman was awakened early
Wednesday morning when someone attempted to enter her room,
University police said. The unsuccessful attempt to enter the
locked room was reported at 4:35 a.m., said Major C.E. Mauer
of University police.
The report came just days after an attempt to enter a dormitory
room was followed by an assault. At S a.m., April 17, a female
resident of Hinton James Residence Hall was awakened by some
one trying to enter her room. She notified University police who
searched the building, according to police reports.
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room at Hinton James and assaulted a resident of the room, ac
cording to police reports.
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local law enforcement agencies," the spokesman said.
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