Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 8, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba I u Winnipeg fret press january Page 17 Chuck features editor entertainment Huppert film wins kudos from critics by Kevin Thomas los Angeles times Hollywood what strikes you first about Isabelle Huppert is that the camera Doest lie she is the aubur haired Beauty in life that she is on the she is also As self possessed in person As Are Many of her most notably her Marie in Claude Chabrol masterful Story of one of Frances finest younger Huppert is warm and confidently bilingual and so direct and brisk that it takes half As Long to interview he As it does most Huppert happened to be i Hollywood for a photo session for a French press Agency when the los Angeles and new York critics voted Story of women Best foreign film of the an Honor already accorded it by the National Board of in Huppert plays an impoverished provincial Young wife and Mother who finds that during the occupation she can improve her lot dramatically by performing the occasional mainly upon women who have become pregnant by German and renting a spare room to a prostitute Friend whose clientele is mainly hypocritical Latour is based on an actual Marie Louise who met a dire and hypocritical Fate because of these the political facts Are All True Maries actions Are All Huppert we built upon the facts a Marie is not really a sympathetic but she is a she is Scarlett a product of for she is an exact metaphor for the female something which goes beyond the question of Good and As timely As Story of women is in regard to abortion and women it is even More important an evocation of the most painful period in modern i French Chabrol views Marie As a catalyst for her showing the full extent of their corruption under nazi Hupperts Marie is at once shrewd and Quick to take advantage of previously Undre amt possibilities but Blind to the one touch that Huppert contributed to Maries naivete was to suggest to Chabrol and his co writer Colo Tavernier Ohagan that they have her Start studying to be an opera something that Huppert has done herself for three years purely for her own ambiguous the film is very Complex and and it is really fair in regard to Huppert it recognizes that it is a difficult Issue even if you Are the scene i like Best i the entire film is in the cafe when the prostitute do you think babies have souls even when they Are i the belly of their mothers Chabrol has the honesty to ask in most films set during the you have the Good French and the bad but in our film it is not so Black and it makes audiences a Little for Story of women was a Happy reunion with who directed her a decade ago in a stunning film based on a True Story of a Young woman who in the 1930s murdered her i say this about but i think in Good at these unsympathetic Huppert i think i can show their we shot Story of women in eight its so extraordinary to work with Chabrol he works so his footage hardly has to be edited Only the great directors edit in the we didst talk much we ended up with the same clumsiness i had a concern about playing an so i tried to use this clumsiness i Chabrol told me to remember that she could Huppert starred with Kris Kristofferson in Michael Miminos heavens just As easily have been a that first abortion was very after that scene i Felt but great roles Are easy to do those roles which totally revolve around you just let yourself its All there in your inner of it takes years to build an inner but its no big Deal to draw upon now Huppert has been in films since 1971 and has worked not Only with most of Frances top directors but has even gone to Australia to appear in Paul Coxs along with Violette and Story of Claude Goretta the pacemaker has provided her with perhaps her finest that of a country girl undone by a summer she was the leading lady in Michael Miminos hugely controversial heavens which she firmly regards As a masterpiece and is pleased that at last it will open in Paris in its uncut Huppert recently returned to the stage for the first time in 12 years to play Natalia in Turgenev a month in the that led to her being cast by Jacques Dillon in the revenge of a based on Dostoevsky the constant confrontation who i think is very made it about two women instead of two she its the confrontation of two a wife and a mis i play the and Bea Trice who was in Jeanjacques Beineix Betty plays the i try to make her feel its coming out i Paris in two i have another picture with Chabrol this its from a Little French Book you might have heard this is something Chabrol has always wanted to its Bis favorite his bedside read in the Huppert would like another try at Hollywood her last time around was Curtis hansens stylish 1987 Hitchcock the bedroom i like Hollywood not All of but the Point does Hollywood like me i like a very Broad Range i like expert my motivation is Sim ply what i really want to and if a director really wants i always feel the possibility of something emerging that fulfil jaz2 Showbiz life led Howard to parenthood by Charles Champlin los Angeles times Hollywood one of the rewards of keeping an Eye on Hollywood Over a period of years is the Chance to watch careers begin and especially when the undertakings grow riskier and the achievements More impress you have to bite your Tongue to keep from saying too it seems like Only but it was not much More than the Day before yesterday that the Jodie Foster of the accused was a Disney moppet i Napoleon and for and Ron Howard a Niney Earold i Vicente Minnelli the courtship of eddies or Ople on the Andy Griffith show and then Richie on Happy More it has been possible to watch howards growth As a from his first grand theft a Box office win Ner for Roger normans Compa it was followed by splash and both substantial and done with producer George which did not do Well but was a quit amazing technical and Logis tical philosophical Road now who will be Only 36 i has directed what appears to be his largest Parent which at a recent count had grossed close to who lives i Connecticut with his and their four was in Hollywood a few Days ago on a regular visit to the offices of imagine the production company he runs with partner Brian he talked about the philosophical Road that led to directing and Par restaurants a locations 246 Kino Chinatown 9444400 ebs Henderson 6813135 487 Marks 2331463 1041 map humps 718 0880bne 4742491 to 2501 Portage 8868668 17ss pc Mana 2610341 of 1380 Eunce Osome Village motor hotel 160 Osborne at the zoo choir boys 13 saturday Jamboree he was born in Oklahoma to acting parents Ranee and Jean Howard his father recently appeared in an american express commercial and grew up in a curiously mixed atmosphere of Showbiz and Dow Home Ameri Howard did his first stage Walkon i a Baltimore production of the seven year itch when he was just two and by his teens was an established he the family lived in where his pals parents worked for Lockheed or the sheriffs department and he went to Burroughs he worked on the school paper but he want one of the the kids make up their minds whether it was cooler to hang out with me or to ignore the ignores appear to have prevailed and it left he with a shyness that has not gone there is indeed less of a show business Aura around him than most of the waiters in Hollywood it did not take him Long to find film still in his he took a Columbus Centennial Centre 410 de Salaberry every monday doors open Bonanza Nevada Bingo empty House in 46 Jackpot ii Usu top line Jackpot in 12 Lucky 7 in 31 Bingo my 29 201 to International inn phone 86 80l Malanka in the hollow Mug january 1990 hollow Mug show Sweet Charity Danny Carroll Trio with special guest Ted Omar Buffet featuring ukrainian dishes regular menu available for reservations Call 7864801 Agatha Chris ties the u no iv1amitoba theatre Centre now playing hollow Mug Sweet Charity second prize nationally in an East Man Kodak Competition that involved shooting a Roll of supers film and sending it undeveloped to the it was planning and edit ing in the camera with a he made a deed of Der ring co starring with his brother now also an there were 37 he remembers with some he was accepted at the University of Southern California film school and talked his Way into advanced classes in editing and a role in american Graffiti and other gigs took him away before he finished Howard going to film school opened my mind to an other level of thinking about nobody around the Griffith show spent a lot of time talking about metaphors and years when George Lucas and writer Bob Dol Man told the plot of Willow to the late philosopher Joseph Howard Campbell identified All the themes and like other Howard Learned a lot from the men he worked attention to detail he remembers Minnelli patient attention to the time he spent looking through the demanding a different shaped watch for howards he found the same meticulous attention to cast ing both people and cars when Lucas made from Don Siegel on the Sho Otist there were lessons in bold for the camera and in at the Howard you tend to make your actors into it took a while to learn How Little you have to and usually the less the he made As Well the obvious realization that you have to Back up the Story As an i sup pose i was late in coming to the idea that its More than shooting you can use visuals to get and create one of the things that worried him about parenthood was that a lot of the time there was nothing be tween the actors and the audience except the camera that was scary after All the special effects id dealt with in cocoon and he and partner Grazer thought that parenthood might Well break even but was not Likely to do a lot better than we figured everybody might get their Money Howard on the other he had made still another realization along the Way a film int even going to be entertaining if it Doest have some thing to people never want to be bored they want to be we just had to Hope that the simple idea we were putting out there that parenting is really Tough would hold we we rent even going for nonstop there were great stretches of people just expectations parenthood has been particularly pleasing to Howard because it was the first time he was dealing not with received material but with an idea that he and his regular writing Badaloo Mandel and Lowell had developed from scratch out of their own parenting Mandel and Ganz have nine children Between them and mandels wife was expecting triplets As the script was in id love to have called it great Howard Grin because its about the expectations we All not Only for our children but for ourselves As Par As against the reality of expert that pull Between the expectations and the you have to accept it and come to peace with and that other thing we were about was the corny notion that being a Parent is hard but heroic it interests Howard that today parents have a harder time telling their kids what it is they comedy theory in the old the son followed his father on the these your kids wonder what kind of work is talking on the one Day i took Home a working cassette of the film i was doing and showed it to the kids and my daughter that what you howards theory about comedy is that you have to earn the right to do something if you get the audience to relate to the characters and the then you can have someone fall off the roof and not be killed As Steve Martin does in Paulsky shows Hes a Cool Solo by Randal Millroy Bley Justin theres something fitting about Quebe born pianist Paul Bley rec ording at last for the Montrea based Label Justin such things could not be taken for granted 30 years when Bley first made his Mark in the United states with Ornette its to hear him a context to which he returns period his two recent eco sets Are intoxicating examples of group but Solo pares the atmospherics to show the other Bley a arguably intellectual but never a dry or Distant investigating a program of his own he sounds comfortable but hardly the melodies simply allow Clear recording is always crucial to Solo piano and this one does Justice to Bleys every such a storyteller merits nothing the lion for Ginsberg great each Man kills the thing he Friday and the Man seeker seven just when things looked relatively along come these three Singu Lar and striking dispatches from the fringe of where classifications mean less than jazz and poetry have crossed paths and sometimes swords in the from Sun Ras Declama tons in the cause of space travel to Michael Garricks More earthbound sessions with English writers such As Laurie putting celebrated beat poet Allen Ginsberg in the Stu Dio with a floating cast of jazz and beyond players May seem like con trived nostalgia for the Days of berets and but the lion for real rings with some of the credit has to go to producer Hal by now an old hand at assembling disparate musicians for special projects notably that the Way i feel his inventive tribute to Theolonius having assembled players As distinctive As Steve Gary Bill Frisell and Arto Willner encouraged the musicians to work with Ginsberg rather than behind the result is a musical crazy stitched together by Ginsberg Vig Orous refrain was scored by Tom Wattss Michael and rattles like one of Waits junkyard with percussion and exotic Gui Frisell drapes Gossa Mer guitars across Multi Reed expert Lenny Pickett plays a Oneman big band for stanzas writ ten at night in radio the plucky Swallow makes a pop song out of the Antiwar hum bom and that Only four out of 16 Willner also produced the first Solo record by Gavin formerly of an sporadically Brilliant Irish Virgin fridays timeworn singing re Mains an acquired but he has an undeniable feel for these Torch songs and Frisell shows up Matching guitar textures with Marc Ribot another Waits also in the lounge and Blair and cel list Hank Roberts figure prominently in the materials latest Marks another tantalizingly wayward step in Lead Bill la swells International narrator William Burroughs is the featured and the music involving such resourceful Lieuten ants As guitarist Nicky Skopelitis and violinist Shankar comes on like a tribute to that grave voiced Skirling Indian violins tangle with african Oriental fretted electric taped chants and live file under fourth world Odd the local live jazz scene gets a shot in the Arm and a kick else where this first up is the most Welcome re turn of papa Mambo and his Grin the Winnipeg Salsa band led by the irrepressible papa Mambo alias Rodrigo and also including Walle Marilyn Gilles Ray Greg Greg Carlos Diaz and Carol Road to Salsa land is booked for 19 at the West end cultural and if youve Ever had the slightest inclination to put your Back Field in you must be shortly the same venue presents three nights of risk taking jazz from jazz Quebec 2628 features the Multi instrumental duo Les Gran a quartet called Tuyo that features newly primitive music on homemade and an excellent Wouter Fea tured recently in option ;