FILM
NEW FILM FESTIVAL
Lovers of art films need feel neglected no longer. Ster-Kinekor and The Mercury intend to present
film festivals twice-yearly at Musgrave Centre.
The Mercury/Ster-Kinekor Film Festival
first programme runs until September 12 and
includes 1994 Oscar-winner for the best foreign film, Russia's Burnt By the Sun, directed by Nikita
Mikhalkov. Future festivals will be held each May and late August.
A French film festival is planned from October 18 to 24 to be followed in November by another
festival highligh-ting top attractions from the recent Cannes film festival. The latter expects to run from November
9 to 14.
MUSEUM RENDEZVOUS
The film museum project is searching for premises in Durban to act as a stepping stone to permanent
accommodation for the film museum and its growing collec-tion of vintage film, photographic and television
equipment. The venue will need a screening room sufficient for about 300 seats and space for a wine and coffee bar.
Any ideas? Contact Lindi on 23-1236.
M-NET MOVIES
Fans of Quentin Tarantina will be delighted to see Pulp Fiction and
Reservoir Dogs on the M-Net channel this month as well as True Romance and
Natural Born Killers, two movies he had a hand in writing.
There's also Nobody's Fool with Paul Newman, Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith,
as well as Sirens with Hugh Grant and Elle MacPherson and Disclosure starring
Demi Moore and Michael Douglas.
A Jane Campion mini-festival features two of her earlier movies Sweetie and
An Angel at my Table as well as a repeat of her Oscar-nominated The Piano.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny De Vito and Emma Thompson appear in Junior and
Corbin Bernsen and JoBeth Williams are in Silhouette.
Foreign films lined up include Get Out Your Handkerchief with Gerard Depardieu,
Emily Lloyd in the hilarious Wish You Were Here, Strawberry and Chocolate, Belle
Epoque and Mediter-raneo and The Decline of the American Empire from
director Denys Arcand.
IN MEMORIAM
South African literature is the poorer for the passing of Jayapraga Reddy who died last month aged
47. Suffering from spinal atrophy and confined all her life to a wheelchair, writing was a laborious process for
Jayapraga but she overcome this handicap to produce work like a television script Web of Persuasion
which was screened in 1984 and The Awakening Spirit which The Reader's Digest published in
several languages in their international edition.
In earlier years, she submitted plays to the SABC which were refused because she was Indian. These
were later broad-cast by the BBC. At the time of her death, she was waiting for confirmation of the publication of
her autobiography.
KWAMUHLE FILMS
These are KwaMuhle Museum's free lunch-hour films shown at 130/132 Ordinance Road at 13h00:
Sept 4: Come Back Africa feature set in Sophiatown in 1959.
Sept 11: Changing this Country - four black shop stewards come under attack.
Sept 18: Mapantsula - acclaimed 1988 film set in the underworld of Johan-nesburg's
streets and townships.
Sept 25: Compelling Freedom - how culture was used in apartheid struggle.
LIBRARY FILMS
The Durban Municipal Library offers free lunch-hour films in the Museum Theatre, first floor of the
City Hall:
Sept 3 (13h05): World at War (Part 7) On Our Way - America enters the war.
Sept 10 (13h05): The Windsors: A Dynasty Revealed (Part 1: I Be Damned if I'm an
Alien) - a 75-year history of the British monarchy.
Sept 17 (13h00): Canada.
Sept 24 (13h05): Trials of Life : Find the Way - by David Attenborough.
THANKS
to Atlas for sponsoring the petition against crime and violence!