This week’s highlights

> Website for Bjork's movie Dancer in the Dark
> “sinan of the Dunes — Wednesday on BRAVO
> Paul Bowles — Thursday on BRAVO

INTERNET

§ Go to the Website
<www.cmiliana.nu/spe-
dal /ditd/> for details on
Bjork’s new movie Dancer
in the Dark.

The Icelandic pop star
won the best actress award
at Cannes on Sunday for her
role as Selma in Lars Von
Trier’s new musical set for
release this fall. Dancer in
the Dark also won the Palme
D’Or for best picture.

: The DITD Website has
‘photo stills from the movie
as well as complete coverage
of the cast in Cannes. The
- Site also reprints in English
an article from. the Swedish
magazine Bibel — reporter
- | Sdg Bjorkman and photog-

rapher Rolf Konow went
behind the scenes as the film
was being shac fast summer.
Location shooting include
several weeks in Washington
Svaie.

As well as starring in the
movie Bjork wrote the
soundiack, full details of
which can be found at the
DITD site. The opening
instrumental overture runs
for three minutes over a
black screen with no images.

Bjork also does a cover of
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s
“My Favourite Things”.

Other pieces include col-
laborations with Icelandic
surrealist Sjon, Broadway
performer Joc! Grey, and
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke.
Catherine Deneuve dances

: Vixen made Meyer big bucks

From Page 18

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Erica Gavin (Vixen), Harrison Page (Niles), Garth Pillsbury
(Tom), Michael O’Donnell (O’Banton), Vincent Wzitace
(Janet), Robert Aiken (Dave), Jon Evans (Ju23). Directed
and produced by Russ Myer. Screenplay by Robert

(Ie i) a celebration of cesfal

direction and photography, and

@ lot of the time, it’s very funny. In a field filled with cheap, dreary
productions, Meyer is the best craftsman and the only artist. He has
developed a directing style so open, direct, and good-humoured that
st dominates bis material; what a relief it was to hear laughter

during a skin-flick, instead of the dead silence that usually envelops

ir cheerless audiences. Vixen is not only a good skin-flick, but a
merciless put-on of the whole genre.”

Visen altered the course of American film, and, of course,
Riss Meyer's career. It cost him a mere $68,000 to make (in ’
northern California — substituting for B.C., Canada). It grossed
over $24 million and I was paid a mere $350 for a week’s work.

“Fox had him direct the sequel to Jacqueline Susann’s Valley
"The Dolls (reicased as Beyond The Valley of the Dolls) and

vertised as, “not a
fike i!” It was a hu

wel — there has never been anything
ecult film in the ’70s. Then, incredibly, .

came, Betcath The Valley Of The Uleravixens, a wild satire on

small-town-U.S.A. sexuality.

“— Next week: the making of Vixen.

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in musical numbers but
doesn’t sing.

After winning the award
Bjork rold the press at
Cannes she is retiring from
acting — “I only have 50
more years to Make music.”

Despite Deneuve's claim
that her co-star is “very shy”
Bjork must be one of the
most documented artists on
the Internet. Go to
Lunargirl’s Website
<bjork.mmedia.is/> for
more links and information.

SATURDAY

@ MUSIC Rage Against
the Machine Live in Mexico
(MuchMusic, Ch 39, 6 pm)

@ MUSIC Austin City
Limits (PBS, Channel 30,
12:30 a.m.) Trisha
Yearwood,

@ MUSIC Sessions at West
Sith (PBS, Channel 30,
1:30 a.m.) Marianne
Faithfull.

WEDNESDAY

@ MOVIE & kkk
Woman in the Dunes (Japan
1964) (BRAVO Channel
28, 11:35 p.m.) Classic film
directed by Hiroshi
Teshigahara, adapted from
the existentialist novel by
Kobo Abe.

THURSDAY
@ DOCUMENTARY Let it
Come Down: The Life of
Paul Bowles (BRAVO
Channel 28, 12:30 p.m.)
Critically-acclaimed
Canadian documentary by
filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal.
— folm Goodman

CINEMA SHOWTIMES

From Page 19

East is Bast (14.4) — 7:20, 9:35 p.m. Sat/Sun 2, 4:40
p-m. Tue 4:40 p.m.

Up At The Villa (PG) — 7, 9:25 p.m. Sat/Sun 1:30, 4
p.m. Tue 4 p.m.

Human Traffic (18A) — 7:30, 9:45 p.m. Sat/Sun 2:10,
4:20 p.m. Tue 4:20 p.m. (no 7:30 p.m. show Mon, May 29
and Wed, May 31)

Me, Myself, I (14A) — 7:1Q 9:30 p.m. Sat/Sun 1:40,
4:10 p.m. Tue 4:10 p.m.

@ Park Theatre

3440 Cambie at 18th, Vancouver (876-2747)

Mission Impossible (14A) — 7, 9:40 p.m. Sat/Sun 1:30,
4 p.m. Tue 4 p.m.

® Hollywood Theatre

3123 West Broadway, Vancouver (515-5864)
Mission to Mars (PG) — 7:30 p.m.
Bicentennial Man (PG) — 9:30 p.m.

@ Pacific Cinematheque
1131 Howe St., Vancouver (688-FILM)