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nite-knuckl

Speed *** (20th Century Fox)
Rated Mature (at the Park &
Tilford, Granviile, Oakridge,
Coquitlam, Station Square, Scott
72, Clearbrook and Hillcrest
Drive-in Cinemas). °

AVE A need for speed?

Take public transit.

Your daily commute
could become a non-stop
thrill ride.

You say you take the car?
That’s OK. Nine-fingered terrorist
Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper),
is waiting for you, preying on the
primal dread of office workers
everywhere — the plummeting
elevator. But never fear. LAPD is
here, With the derring-do of Jack
Traven (Keanu Reeves) and the
grey matter of his partner Harry
Temple (Jeff Daniels), they shaft
Payne’s $3-million extortion plot.

Or do they? Their commenda-
tion medals are just freshly pinned
when a bus explodes.

Payne’s fiery calling card starts
a 90-minute mad dash as another
L.A. bus activates a bomb set to
detonate when the speed drops
below 50 miles per hour.

OK, an L.A. bus hitting 50 in
LA. is a stretch — a big stretch —
but compared to the amazing

Tim Bell
FILM REVIEW

stunts, that’s a minor hurdle.
Action movies have a new set of
pecs with a beefed-up Reeves
who performs most of his own
leaps/falls/fights into, on top of, or
under speeding buses and subway
trains. That’s right, the elevator
and bus are only the first {wo acts.

Trading quips in the midst of
all the spine-tingles is white-
knuckled Sandra Bullock as a pas-
senger forced behind the bus’
wheel. One of the film’s many
gags is that she’s on the bus
because her driving license was
suspended for speeding.

The characters aren't the fresh-
est, but the wild chase jams
together laughs, romance and
relentless action. Don’t wait for
Speed to show up on video. See it
on the big screen. Live danger’ 5-
ly; take the bus.

Workhorse grapes
make excellent wines

Johny Moore .
WINE SPOTS

TERRE DEL TEMPO 1992 PINOT
GRIGIO $9.99 (Italy) ,
Italy’s Pinot Grigio is called
inot. gris in France and is
elieved to be a white mutation
of Burgundy’s Pinot Noir, of alt
things. (Ain’t nature wonderful?)
In Italy, as in Alsace where it’s
the workhorse grape, it produces

excellent, crisply finished wines
for dining or just plain quaffing.

This one is from the Veneto:
fruitier than the more famous
ulcer-popping dry Soave of the
region; a welcome alternative
from bombastic chardonnays in
this price range.

Not LDB listed, but you can
pick up a chilled flask at Liberty
Wine Merchants’ Lonsdale Quay
outlet.

CHATEAU TERRY GROS CAIL-
LOUX 1989 $26.80 (France)

Look for price-reduction stick-
ers; this one is going out of stock.
1989 was a superb year and this
is a good introduction to the
wines of one of Bordeaux’s small-
est and most elite parishes.

Huge, curranty complex fruit
over cedar undertones, softer tan-
nins typical of the vintage.

ed drive

The Piano ***% Rated R

Who would think that a man
with a blue-tatooed nose could be
so romantic?

Ada (Holly Hunter), the blush-
ing bride didn’t. Stewart (Sam
Neill), the stalwart groom, certain-
ly didn’t. Their arranged marriage
gets off on the wrong note when
Scottish mute Ada arrives with
Flora (Anna Paquin), her daugh-
ter, on a stormy New Zealan
beach.

Stewart decrees that her
heloved piano be abandoned on
the shore, triggering a deal from
George (Harvey Keitel), their
neighbor-turned blue-nosed-
native. He'll take the piano, if she
tutors him. Only he wants to tick-
le more than the ivories. Although
shocked, Ada agrees to their grad-
ually increased intimacy on each
visit.

Expertly acted and deserving of
its many awards, Jane Campion’s
unusual foray into eroticism plays
well on the small screen, espe-
cially on laserdisc where the
atmospheric greens and blues
positively shimmer.

SHOWTIME HOTLINE:
famous Players 681-4255
Cineplex Odeon 687-1515
Park Royal 926-6699

Lowry recalled

THE WORLD premiere of
Deep Cove author Malcolm
J Lowry’s Eridanus will take
place at Deep Cove Shaw
Theatre’s one-night show
Malcolm Lowry Remembered
on Monday, June 27, at 8
p.m. Eridanus was Lowry’s
personal name for the beach
where he lived at Dollarton.
Music by Michael Conway
Baker as well as Capriccio for
two pianos, The Flight of
Aphrodite and Canticle.
Personal stories will be told
by Harvey Bust, Lowry’s best
friend. Also on display will
be historic photographs from
the Deep Cove Area Heritage
Association's collection.
Tickets are $10.
For more information call
929-9456.

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