24 - Wednesday, August 17, 1994 - North Shore News - Ne Pyrotechni for action-packed fi cs light way ick Harrison Ford reprises role as CIA agent Jack Ryan Clear and Present Danger &%* (Paramount) Rated Mature (at the Esplanade, Capitol, Dunbar, Richmond Centre, Station Square, Willowbrook, and Eagle Ridge Cinemas) OU’VE HEARD of feel- good movies. Well, this is the feel wwhummp movie of the year. The reason is Dolby Stereo Digital Sound. When those explosions go kaboom, you can feel the vibration in your gut. For the mast part, Clear and Present Danger is a thoughtful picture, but when the planes, houses and _ cars blow up, the whump factor is tangible. The cause for all the ruckus is office politics. Oval Office poli- tics, that is. The president requests that the CIA deal a little dirty justice to a South American drug lord who executed a close mutual friend, not officially, of course. Using a government Lack of arts su From page 23 recreation commission who would charge me and my friends — we were 17 at the time -— $800 to rent the Lynn Valley Hall to put on dances.” . Oostindie says he only real- ized {ater that he was “con- fronting the status-quo of how the community and bureaucrats were _ programming youth services.” He still feels strongly that the taxpayers had already paid for the hall and that he was paying again to provide a service that the recre- ation commission should have been providing. Oostindie went on to study marketing and political science at Capilano College before forming the North Shore Youth Art Works Society in 1988. The following summer he was running his own youth centre in - an auto body shop off Marine Drive with bands and student workshops and in 1990, after tak- ing six months of print production studies, was publishing a maga- zine called ARTEST. But the magazine was not just a polemic; it also contained images that were meant to intrigue, including some of Oostindie’s photographic impres- sions of Beijing just after the crushing of the democratic revo- lution in 1989, ARTEST also spawned “Under The Volcano” in 1990: “a fast- minute open-air party that was organized in about four clays.” The annual festival in Cates Park has continued to grow and prosper as an alternative, youth- pased celebration of political and cultural awareness that is unique in its non-commercial approach. Oostindie’s association with the NVCAC began in 1989 as the representative for Youth Art Works and despite, or perhaps because of, his progression from board member to communica- tions director to executive direc- tor is highly critical of its maga- zine Arts Access. “it's bland, it whitewashes and it Creates this impression that the FILM REVIEW branch for personal vendettas would be kissing a second term bye-bye...if you're caught. No, this calls for something delicate. Under the guise that the drug trade poses a national threat, the good old U.S. of A. does what it does best — it starts a war. But this one’s on the Q.T., complete with secret computer passwords, a crack assassination team and all sorts of serious pyrotechnics. Acting CIA intelligence direc- tor Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) clues in that something stinks in the state of Columbia when a nee BEF pport bazooka attack interrupts his investigation, But his sniffer real- ly get out of joint when he finds the smell leads right back to his department, Like the previous Ryan adven- tures, Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games, the modern crime-fighting tools are the most interesting aspect, Computers, faxes, satellite communications ~~ why if it weren't for the sturits and fireballs, you’d swear it was your own office. Harrison is his usual reluctant hero, with some good support from James Earl Jones as Ryan’s ailing boss, Willem Dafoe as a mercenary and Henry Czerny as his amoral co-worker, Robert Ritter. Anne Archer cashes an easy paycheque as “the wife.” The ending is a litle long in coming, but Clear and Present Danper is the best Ryan exploit et. SHOWTIME HOTLINES: Famous Players .......... 681-4255 Cineplex Odeon ...,..... 687-1515 Park Royal ......sssseee 926-6699 lamented IRWIN OOCSTINDIE: IN HIS OWN WORDS Who is your favorite artist? Hans Haake. Powerful work. Who would you like to take to dinner from the North Shore? Malcolm Lowry. Who was your most influential teacher? Jane Sparks, my Grade 3 teacher at Eastview. She would sit me next to her on the piano stool while we sang Beatles songs. What’s one skeleton in your closet? My arrest for biting the arm - of a McDonald’s manager in West Vancouver. Unfortunately the arrest masked the issues of the demonstration. Your favorite place on the North Shore? My parent's Lynn Valley home. The landscaping my Dad has done makes it a very . beautiful, tranquil place. What camera would you buy if you could? | already have. My Nikon F4. Where would you go if you could shoot anything in the world? Korea. To witness and expose the on-going cold war against North Korea that is being denied by the West. Your most memorable Nerth Shore experience? Losing my vir- ginity springs to mind but | would say the artist’s forum at Spirals Cale, with 68 artists telling the Arts Council their views on the role of artists and cultural production in the community. arts are vibrant, the arts are well, the arts are healthy. “Well, the arts are not healthy in North Vancouver. They are desperately in need of support, not hand-outs, in terms of facili- ties and recognition. My peers are all moving to Vancouver. Young people in arts programs at Capilano College and Emily Carr don’t see the North Shore as a place to work, a place to create. There's no reason for that.” Oostindie believes that North Shore artists have rights to cultur- al facilities that reflect their place but fears the status quo will create only a new museum (which he supports) and “a cement and glass gallery which will be inaccessible to North Vancouver artists.” Instead, he favors zoning changes that would allow artists to live and work in the same facil- ity with enhanced access to exhi- bition and retail space. Oostindie is looking forward to his own exhibition called Spectacular State which opens next year at Basic Inquiry Studio. Based on two trips to Korea, the installation piece of pho- tographs, video, film and written + word contrasts the esthetics of fas- cism in totalitarian North Korea and authoritarian South Korea. 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