FILM

16MM FILM WORKSHOP



The Film Museum Project continues to make progress with its plans to revitalise the KZN film industry and to establish an interactive film museum in Durban.

As part of its awareness campaign the Museum Project screened films on two projectors at the Durban Arts open forum in August.

A meeting was also held with legendary French filmmaker Jean Rouch during his recent visit to South Africa. He was impressed with Durban and has agreed to return next year to run a 16mm film workshop and to make a film in Durban. Anyone interested in assisting the Film Museum Project or donating equipment should contact Lindi Gross or Mikhail Peppas on 23-1236.

BAT'S MONTHLY VIDEO



The BAT Centre's film unit will screen a double bill, Rabi and Jemina and Johnny, as the October African video.

Rabi

was directed by Gaston Kabore as a modern day fable using traditional African story-telling techniques. The 30-minute film is "a gentle enigmatic exploration of the relationship that Rabi builds up with the tortoise, with his father, with wise old Pusga and with his own conscience."

Jemina and Johnny

, directed by Lionel Ngakane, has been screened around the world and tells the story of a friendship between a black boy and a white girl.

The films will be shown at the BAT resource centre. Admission is R5.

LIBRARY FILMS



The Durban Municipal Library offers free lunch-time films in the Museum Theatre, first floor of the City Hall.

Oct 1 (13h05): Trials of Life - Homemaking. This is the sixth part of a natural history of animal behaviour by David Attenborough.

Oct 8 (13h05): The Windsors - A Dynasty Revealed. The second part of this history of the British Monarchy which spans 75 years is titled Brothers at War.

Oct 15 (13h05): Andre Brink - Writer's Talk: Ideas of Our Time.

Oct 22 (13h05): Images of South Africa.

Oct 29 (13h05): World at War (Part 8) Desert: the War in North Africa.

Enquiries to Deena Nair on 37-6246.

PHOTO MAGIC



The theme for this year's Durban Photo Awards, The Colours of Durban, Life in our Rainbow City. Phone 300-6206.



M-NET MOVIES



One of the highlights on M-Net this month is the series of five short thrillers titled Fallen Angels based on stories written by crime writers such as Mickey Spillane and Raymond Chandler.
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Mickey Rourke and Robert de Niro appear Angel Heart which deals with voodoo and satanism. Anthony Hopkins and Bridget Fonda play a married couple in The Road to Wellville and Geena Davis finds three furry aliens in her swimming pool in Earth Girls are Easy.

Anthony Hopkins also appears with Brad Pitt in the superb film Legends of the Fall. Stockard Channing was nominated for her performance in Six Degrees of Separation and Amanda Plummer and Megan Follows play two sisters caught in an emotional trap in Under the Piano.

Young and old alike will love The Jungle Book which stars Sam Neill and John Cleese. Trapped in Paradise sees Nicolas Cage in this story of three dim-witted brothers and Muriel's Wedding was highly successful on the circuit.

Kathleen Turner appears in two films: the drama Friends at Last and the cult comedy Serial Mom.



FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL



The 1996 Waterman French Film Festival being presented this month is set to be the largest exposure of French cinema yet in South Africa.

Sponsored by Waterman, the festival takes place at Ster-Kinekor complexes in Rosebank Mall, Johannesburg, (October 4 to 10); Cavendish Square, Claremont, Cape Town, (October 11 to 17) and in Durban at the Musgrave Centre from October 18 to 24.

This will be the first time that the festival has been staged in Durban for many years.

EMBASSY

The French Film Festival was first staged in South Africa in 1977 by the French Embassy and Len Davis, a director of Festival Films (Pty) Limited. In the past the festival has premiŠred a large range of the latest in French cinema not screened in the country outside this event.

The selection for the festival includes the best of recent French productions, retro-spectives of the greats of French cinema, and classics of French cinema.

All films are subtitled in English.

HEAD FOR MANNHEIM



The International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg in Germany, held from October 11 to 19, is committed to the discovery of unknown talents.

The decision to present a film in this Festival is based on the quality of the individual film and not on the `market value' which already exists in advance.

The international competition will present 100 carefully selected independents, the best films made in the past year.

Contact the organisers at Collini-Centre, Galerie, D-68161 Mannheim. Phone: +49(0)621-102943 or fax to +49(0)621-291564.