No wrecks at

NOW THIS is bliss: 250
movies and not a car chase
in sight.

By Kate Zimmerman
News Reporter

Nudity? Yep. Sex? Lots.

But these elements exist in
context and in harmony with
inte!ligent scripts, full-blown
characterizations, seamless act-
ing and concise editing.

That's right: these films were
made outside Hollywood.

This year’s Vancouver
International Film Festival fea-
tures a mind-boggling array of
movies and documentaries from
around the world, representing a
myriad of genres and cultures.
Judging from a sampling taken
over a luxurious weekend of zip-
ping between downtown
Vancouver's Ridge, Caprice and
Pacific Cinematheque. theatres,
the quality of festival entries is

igh.
arhe festival continues until
Oct. 16, with individual tickets

$7 for adults, $5 for seniors 65
and older and $5 for matinees.

Local film-maker Mina Shum
casts an informed and sympa-
thetic eye on the subject of
growing up Chinese-Canadian in
Double Happiness, her remark-
ably polished, often-comic debut
feature. This story stars Sandra
Oh as Jade, a young woman
caught between her parents’ old-
fashioned expectations and her
own modern sensibility. This
film will be screened again Oct.
9 at 2 p.m. at Pacific Cinema-
theque.

Domestic iife of a bleaker
variety is examined in the Irish
made-for-TV quartet Family,
directed by Michael
Winterbottom and written by
Roddy Doyle (The Commit-
ments, The Snappen. The rocky
terrain of a lower-class existence
pitted by peity crimes, abuse and
violence has been mined before
by Doyle and others.

This time four members of the
Spencer family receive individ-
ual focus — boozing thief and
father Charlo (Sean McGinley),

film fest

alcoholic, desperate mother
Paula (Ger Ryan), self-destruc-
tive 13-year-old John Paul and
budding, apprehensive eldest
daughter, Nicola. It shows again
Oct. 10 at 7 p.m. at the
Hollywood.

The film festival is amply sup-
plied with documentaries. In the
beautifully-crafted Eternity,
Australian director Lawrence
Johnston details the pilgrimage
of Sydney's Arthur Stace, a
reformed alcoholic who made a

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