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get their own fest

IT could very well claim bragging
rights as the “Biggest” film festival
in the world.

And while you won’t sec the prerequisite star
power and stretch limos at the festival as it kicks
off today at nwo lozations in Vancouver, the
Humongous Film Festival does boast 3 24-fikn
lineup that is literally bigger than any film
screened at Cannes, Toronto or Aspen. Put
together.

Devoted to the large format IMAX/OMN-
IMAX 15/70 film genre, the festival runs
through Wednesday, Sept. 24 ar the CN MAX
Theatre at Canada Place and the OMNIMAX
Theatre at Science World.

Both theatres are showing movies, including
Antarctica, Into the Deep and The Last Buffalo
from noon till 10 p.m. everyday of the festival.
The highlight of the festival will be director
Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Wengs of Coxnrage,
showing at Canada Place next Thursday (8
p.m.) and Sacurday (noon). Shot in IMAX 3D,
the 1996 release stars Val Kilmer, Elizabeth

West Van writer's debut set

By Maria Verdicchio
Contributing Writer

IT’S 5 a.m. and I’m making 2 sweep of
the Mt. Pleasant parking lot, looking for
cigarette butts, stray coffee cups and bits
of food that have missed the garbage cans.
Since starting at 7 a.m. yesterday morning in an
alley in the downtown eastside, I’ve found lots of
butts (among other things) and encountered some

“colorful” characters.
“That’s a wrap everybody!”

McGovern and Craig Scheffer in the first-ever
¢:amatic motion picture filmed in the large for-
mat.

Pve always loved secing films in these the-
atres, but was always fruswated by the relatively
short running time of the features (approx. 40
minutes cach). But in this non-stop film festival
format, you'll be able to get a good three hour
dose of multiple-storey images while discover-
ing some of the most intriguing places in the
world.

This unique technology was invented in
Canada, and since its debut at Expo °70 in
Osaka, Japan, more than 150 theatres have been
built throughout the world.

To really get into the futuristic feel of the
format during the festival, ride the Skywain
between both cheatres during breaks in the -
screenings. Be a New World Man.

Brochures and Big 3 Film Passes to the festival
can be purchased at Lower Mainland Mac’s
Convenience stores or at either theatres for $19.97
(plus GST). To charge by phone call 443-7575 or
682-4629. — Andrew McCredie

screenplay, Rupert's
Land, produced.

Starring British
actor Samucl West, our
own Ian Traccy, Susan
Hogan, Gabrielle
Miller, and George
Wendt, the story fol-
iows two half-brothers
reunited after 20 years,
on a road trip to Prince
Rupert to attend their
father’s funeral.

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s Wedding —
Nightly at 7:10 and 9:10 p.m.
Even! Horizon — Nighy 7
ond 9:05 p.m.
Mastermind — Nighily at 7:05
Contact — Nighily ot 9 p.m.

T'm jolted out of my delirium — something even a
double espresso can’t do after the 17th hour of work.
It’s the end of another day in the life of a production
assistant in the glamorous world of film making.

Three days of work and two days of recovery later,
T find myself enjoying a Cuban breakfast at the
Havana Cafe. My companion is Gracme Manson, a
West Vancouver native and writer who's recently
returned from film school in Toronto to see his first

Manson's _ inspira-
tian for the comedy
came from time spent
working summers in
Prince Rupert, his love
of British comedy, and

the road itself between Vancouver and Prince Rupert.
Jonathan Tammuz directs. An expat-Brit himself,
Tammuz directed the short film The Child Eater,

MARIA Verdicchio:

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INTO The Deep (above) is one of a number of big for-
mat films featured in the Humongous Film Festival,
beginning today at CN IMAX and OMNIMAX thsatres.

for loronto film festival

which received an Academy Award nomination for
best short. With Bill Thumm and Scott Kennedy of
Cadence Entertainment producing. and Greg
Middleton (Kised) as director of photography, the
cameras are set to roll next week.

Graeme Manson's first cowritten feature Cube, a.
Kafka-esque thriller shot in Toronto, is premiering at
the Toronto Film Festival next week, then making its
way to the Vancouver Film Festival ar the end of

September. 000 :
Be on the lookout for celebrities William Baldwin,

Graham Greene and Anne Parillaud, who are in town
to film the feature, Shattered Image. And Rob Lowe

and Jennifer Grey are here to shoot the TV movie, oa .

Outrage. :
If you have any questions, comments or sugges-
tions, or heard any rumors worth investigating, please :
fax me at 985-2104. : ee
Maria Verdicchio will write regularly on whats hap-
pening in the movie industry for This Week. Her next
column appears on Sept. 26. .