FILM

M-NET MOVIES

There is a most impressive line-up of films from M-Net - reason enough to get a decoder if you don't have one already!

Love Affair

(March 2), starring Warren Beatty, Annette Bening and Katharine Hepburn, is set in the same mould as classic tearjerker An Affair to Remember.

Don Juan de Marco

(March 9) is a comedy romance starring Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp and Faye Dunaway. Depp gives another fine per-formance as the transvestite director in the factual Ed Wood (March 13).

For lovers of sci-fi, there's Waterworld (March 16) which stars Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper and Jeanne Tripplehorn as well as The Puppet Masters (March 7) with Donald Sutherland and Eric Thal.

`MUST-SEE'

Withnail and I

(March 6) became a `must-see' on the circuit. Set at the end of the 60s, Richard E Grant and Paul McGann play two penniless, out-of- work actors who decide to spend what turns out to be a nightmarish weekend in the country.

The thriller The Usual Suspects (March 21) won an Oscar for best original screenplay and for best supporting actor for Kevin Spacey. Another thriller is Seven (March 14) with Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman and Gwyneth Paltrow.

The Robert Redford 1994 production Quiz Show (March 22) received four Oscar nominations. The star-studded cast includes John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield and David Paymer. Braveheart (March 23) won five Oscars including best film and director and stars Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau and Patrick McGoohan.

Indochine

(March 24) won an Oscar for best foreign language film and a best actress nomination for Catherine Deneuve who stars with Vincent Perez in

this drama set on a rubber plantation in French colonial Indochina.

Blue Sky

(March 25) received an Oscar for best actress for Jessica Lange who appears with Tommy Lee Jones and Powers Boothe and E=MC2 (March 26) stars Richard Attenborough as a brilliant American academic who is given a grant to work at Oxford to complete Einstein's unfinished work.

COTTAGE

In The Cormorant (March 26) Ralph Fiennes inherits his late uncle's cottage in Wales on condition he takes care of the old man's pet cormorant.

The hugely popular 1965 Oscar-winning musical, The Sound of Music (March 28), earned star-billing for Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Hombre (March 28) is a Western starring Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone and Diane Cilento.

Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore and Robin Williams star in Nine Months (March 30) which is a remake of the French comedy, Neuf Mois.

REMBRANDT FILM

On March 18 at 13h10 and again on March 20 at 13h10, the Tatham Art Gallery in Pietermaritzburg will show the film, The Real Rembrandt, in the Tatham Lecture Theatre. Admission is free.

Rembrandt, who lived from 1606 to 1669, is regarded as one of the masters of portraiture. From the age of 25 until his death he painted many self-portraits which, as he aged, grew in human understanding and compassion.

CIN&EACUTE;MA: "Z"

On March 25 at 19h00 the film Z is to be screened with English sub-titles in the auditorium of the Alliance Fran‡aise headquarters at 22 Sutton Crescent, Morningside. It is considered to be a masterpiece as a political film and was made in the 1970's by Costa Gavras with a cast headed by Yves Montand, IrŠne Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Jacques Perrin.

In an unidentified Mediterranean country under a totalitarian regime, support is growing for Z (Montand), the leader of the pacifist opposition party. Then Z is knocked down by a van and dies after undergoing brain surgery. While investi-gating the case a magistrate (Trintignant) uncovers a secret organisation supported by the government and police.

LIBRARY FILMS

During March the Durban Municipal Library offers the following free lunch hour films in the Museum Theatre on the first floor of the City Hall:

Mar 4 (12h45): Around the World in 80 Days (Part I: Day 9-24: Cairo to Bombay.

Mar 11 (12h45): Pavarotti and Friends... Together for the children of Bosnia (Live from the Parco Nov Sad, Modena on September 12 1995).

Mar 18 (13h05): Springbok of the Kalahari. African Diary: Dawn to Dusk in the African bush.

Mar 25 (13h05): World at War: The defi-nitive story (Pt 12: Whirlwind - bombing of Germany 1939- 1944).