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Hilda's Fish & Chips

1425 Marine Dr. (Vilage Square) WY 926-
8664) ;

Salmon House on the Hill
2229 Fotkesten: Why. WY 926-3212

Sea Mates Seafood Restaurant
998 Marine Dr., N¥ 980-1213

Seven Seas Seafood Restaurant
* j$oot! of Lonsdale Ave, NY 987-3344

The Sundowner

34 Sunser Beach. WY 921-8161
Surfside Seafood

2070 Marine Dr. NY 980-261!

Trolt’s: Restaurant,

= GAO8 bay $e, WY 921-7155
6418 Bay Sc, WY 921-8048

\ Keua Thai Restaurant
‘1445 Lonsdale Ave, NY 990-9349

Thai Palace
#31 u Chadwick Court, NY 987-2009

DIRECTOR Jacques Rivette and Jane Birkin go over a scene on set. BRAVO! airs . Rivette’ 's 1991 film La Belle
Noiseuse on May 8 as part of their special month-long celebration of French cinema, art and culture.

, French get special treatment on BRAVO! channel

Friday, May 1, 1998 — North Shore News —25

SATURDAY
MUSIC: Lon Reed: Rock and
Roll Heart (Channel 26, 10
p.m.) The 30-vear career of
the former Velvet
Underground leader is pro-
filed in a one-hour documen-
tary on Detroit’s PBS channel.
MUSIC; Austin City Limits
(PBS Channel 30, 11 p.m.)
Ray Benson’s Texas jump
band Asleep at the Wheel
and The Manhaitan Transfer
are featured live.
SUN
MOVIE ~ %%& Waiting to
Evhale (1995) (ABC Channel
31, 9 p.m.) Whitney
Houston, Angela Bassett,
Wesley Snipes and Gregory
Hines star in Forest
Whitaker’s directorial debut.
Soundtrack features music
written for the film by
ce including Mary J.
Blige’s drop-dead classic Nor
Gon’ Cry.
= tetetek The Big
Sleep (1946) (KVOS Channel
12,9 p.m.) Humphrey Bogart
and Lauren Bacall star in
Howard Hawk's version of
the Raymond Chandler novel.
The Unent guide to film noir
calls it “a fevered ride through
~ a dreamlike, afterhours Los
* Angeles.” Everything revolves
around the interaction
berween the nwo stars — the
fis incomprehensi-
ble. As it should be.
MOVIE:- *&% Fureign:
Correspondent (19-40) (Farnily
Channel|51,-10 p.m.) Rarely
shown Hitchcock film made

Photo Cahiers du cinéma

Gr pot Vegetarian Restaurant
2220, Marine Dr., WY 925-2218

ina Vietnamese Cuisine
2808 Marine Dra WY 926-6001

FOR the third consecutive year
BRAVO! TV (channel 28) will carry

- exclusive coverage of the opening

13) and closing (May 24) cere-
s from the Cannes Film
Festival.
Canadian filmmakers usually make
quite a splash at the festival — Atom

- Egoyan won three awards last year, and

the year before David Cronenberg’s
Crash had a special award created to ree-
ognize its controversial response.

‘This year American filmmaker Martin
Scorsese has been named President of
the Jury at Cannes. Roger Ebert usually
does the entertaining play-by-play for
the viewers ac home.

To enhance their coverage BRAVO!

BARBER’

is focussing on French culture through-
out the month of May. This will include
films such as Jean-Luc Godard’s brilliant
1965 sci-fi film noir Alphaville starring
Eddie Constantine and Anna Karina,
and Louis Malle’s first fiction film
Ascenseur pour U’Echafand (1957) with a
soundtrack by Miles Davis. Stay tuned.
~— John Goodman

during his transition period to
Hollywood. Joel McCrea and
Laraine Day star as lovers
searching for Nazis in London
and California, Dorothy
Parker’s buddy Robert’
Benchley gets a character role.

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Train is set to begin its second sea-
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“The Starlight travels along the Sea to Sky
“coastline between North Vancouver and
Porteau Cove each Wednesday
Sunday, May } until October 15. The train
departs North Vancouver station at 6:15 p.m.
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The Pacific Starlight offers a journey back
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dinners, big band music and fine food, all
served up in refurbished Art Deco coaches
‘from the 30's and 40°s. Onboard guests enjoy
athree course, haute cuisine dinner d

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by a wide choice of West Coast wines.

New for 2998 are Murder Mystery evenings
scheduled for Thursday nights on June 25, July
23, August 27 and Sept. 24.

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North Shore News, Starlight Dinner Train
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