32 - Wednesday, February 27, 1991 - North Shore News

Demme and Foster succeed

with ;

The Silence of the Lambs ***%
(Orion) Rated R (at the Park &
Tilford, Granville, Coquitlam, Scott
72 and Clearbrook cinemas)

‘OU MAY have to
count sheep to get to
sleep after seeing this
thriller.
There’s cannibalism, flayed cor-

pses and the pits of human
madness, but, believe it or not, it’s

. done tastefully in this terrifying

adaption of Thomas Harris’
bestseller.

Dr. Hannibal ‘the Cannibal’
Lector (Anthony Hopkins) may be
at the top of the food chain, but
he is also in the lowest cell in a
hespital for the criminally insane.
He can’t indulge his passion lock-
ed behind safety glass in the
seriously deranged ward.

Well, not lately anyway. Not
since that regrettable incident at
the hospital when Lector faked an
illness and a nurse leaned over
and ... but | digress.

FBI agent Jack Crawford (Scott
Glen) hopes the brilliant
psychiatrist-turned-psycho might

- shed some light on a serial killer

called Buffalo Bill if approached by
a woman. That's why FBI trainee
Clarise Starling (Jodie Foster) is
facing a verbal dissection by the
smiling, soft-spoken monster.

With his piercing observation,
he brutally analyzes her

_ weaknesses. Intrigued by her can-

dor, he agrees to review the case
study, but, in return, he wants to
get inside her mind.

Besides the chills, the movie

_ features two dazzling perfor-

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film review

mances. fodie Foster's Clarise is a
5'3°' dynamo trying to keep pace
with Lector’s macabre wit and
veiled hints about the case.

Her high intelligence and exac-
ting professionalism (even the
kitlers are addressed as ‘‘sir’’)
make her a tough adversary, but
she’s not without a few childhood
demons of her own. It’s a gutsy
performance of emotion and
strength.

And she certainly needs it
against Anthony Hopkins, who
manages to be compellingly
repulsive. He is a polished coil of
brutal savagery, and the most
frightening psycho since Norman
Bates.

Like Hitchcock, director
Jonathan Demme creates real ten-
sion, not cheap thrills. The horror
is not in the glimpses of partially
skinned corpses, but in the depths
of inhumanity. There’s a real aura
of sorrow for the victims, rare in
terror filrns.

Not only is Silence of the Lambs
thoroughly unnerving, it’s
thoughtfully executed. It is quite
simply the best thriller in years.
Working Girls *** (Charter Home
Video) Rated R

The director is named Lizzie

A Member ot The feadingt Hotels of the World”

high tension thriller

Borden, but this is no hatchet job.

It's a funny, compassionate and
sometimes frightening look at a
brothel as a university student re-
evaluates her worth during a fong
evening with an endless stream of
quirky johns.

Although somewhat graphic, the
sex is more business than erotic
and the encounters reveal much
more about the well-acted charac-
ters than their bodies.

NORTH SHORE VIEWS

Park Royal: Hamlet, White Fang,
Never Erding Story II, GoodFellas
Park & Tilford: Silence of the
Lambs, Sleeping With the Enemy,
Dances With Wolves. King Ralph,
Awakenings, Perfectly Normal
Esplanade 6: Nothing But Trouble,
Scenes from the Mall, L.A. Story,
Never Ending Story ll, Green Card,
He Said, She Said

Showtime Hotlines: Famous
Players 681-4255, Cineplex Odeon
687-1515

home.

TYE VOIEE OF MONTH AND WEST WARCOUVER:

SUNDAY » WEONESOAY - FRIDAY

Kerstin is the lucky winner of a pair of tickets to the 1991 ° '
Juno Awards. Congratulations. \

Thank you to all who entered.

NEWE photo Neil boc @
DEGRASS! HIGH celebrities Neil Hope (Wheels) and Stacie
Nistysyn (Caitlin) were at Coles Bookstore in Capilano Mall
recently autcgraphing their new book series based on the
Emmy-Award-winning TV show. The duo were also promoting
a Read'n Rock contest in which participants are eligible to win
a set of Degrassi books or attend a rock concert with one of

the stars from Degrassi High.

-,.and the
winner

IS...

KERSTIN

Kerstin and guest will get picked up ina “‘Star’’ limousine SD
and be taken to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for the Juno
Champagne Reception and Awards Show. Afterwards the
limousine will take them to dinner at Cafe Roma and then

Limeusine courtesy: Dinner for 2 courtesy:

CaféROMA

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