Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 5, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba B4 Winnipeg free August r is i rim e Hartley develops sharper film humor by Bob Strauss i los Angeles daily news american Independent filmmaker Hal Hartley movies the unbelievable simple men have been praised by people they obviously dont drive up a usually about disaffected drifters who whine about their empty lives but never quite know what to do to fix Hartley though not without have always been pretty annoying until with Hart Ley has discovered a stronger narrative style and a sharper sense of the characters in the movie Are As displaced As any the write director has come up but there Well spoken and Wack Ier about usual Hartley suspect Martin Donovan plays a Guy who wakes up in a lower Manhattan Alley with a bump on his head and selective while Hes trying to figure out who he Hes taken in by get this an Exun from France who writes sad pornographic stories for a living and claims to be a Virgin of Shes also movie review Amateur directed by Hal Hartley Cinema 3 parental guidance r out of five on a Mission from the Virgin but she Doest know what it is somebody had the great Good sense to cast Frances subtlest Isabelle in this tar pit of a its impossible to imagine anyone else who could make her come off As a believable human which Huppert does with deceptive As affections develop Between these called Thomas and another Story unfolds involving Sofia Elina a Young porn actress desperate to get out of the and Edward Damian an accountant with weird we gradually learn that there connected to Thomas and that there All involved with some very International crime despite the women provocative Back Amateur int very interested in anything it turns out to be yet another new wave film with the four principals eventually running for their lives from these Guys Are really hilarious thug account what they do to their former col league Edward is As appalling As it is and Youngs goofy por trayal of the tortured bean counter is every frightening thing that Robert de Niros of the Frankenstein monster should have what Hartley is interested in Here Are his usual themes of per Sonal transformation and red Emp for All of her erotic Isabelle really is try ing to be a better servant of the part of his past that Thomas has we is something both he and the world Are much better off of is trying to escape past even As she naively gets herself in much deeper and Edward somebody had to provide the comic Hartley films the whole thing against a Cool Blue production design that lends a dream like Quality to the comic Nightmare and Hes packed it with wonderful witty Sterns antics tiresome by Caryn James new York times service As a City Type hides from the Fri by masquerading As a scout camping out with a half dozen Daniel Stern in bushwhacked is in his Home alone like the robber he played in those his Max Grabelski is a Guy with one expression wide but what works for a comic foil becomes lame and tiresome when he is the Centre of a whole its even worse when the movie is As predictable As Bush a childrens action film that even children will find slow a deliveryman wrongly accused of Max wears a Black leather or More Likely Vinyl jacket and a Gold Chain around his he can cram a whole Cupcake into his Mouth just seconds before lighting a he is nobody idea of movie review bushwhacked starring Daniel Stern vital ii parental guidance irk out of five Stern learns what it Means to rough it in who is really a some rambunctious kids and physical the obvious scenes include one in which Max looks for Pine Cones and picks up a Beehive the Young actors Are smooth and especially Ari Greenberg As the Bookish Milton Fishman and Janna Michaels As the Lone Kelsey they All have some Lively moments when they learn that their Leader May not be a famed explorer nicknamed spider but a criminal called mad eventually they jump into the rapids and scale but the action comes too bushwhacked is a clone like innocuous and a role but when he tries to climb to a Clifftop area called devils where he can prove his inno he bumbles his Way into taking five boys and a Token girl into the wilderness with the idea is the same As that in Damon Wayans funnier major which came out earlier this there is a Tough Guy Cream of the i most popular musical Centennial concert Hall 813 tickets at ticketmaster or Call 7803333 Winnipeg free press cd and Sioum free press Bain knew the moment she picked up a Brush painting animals would be her lifes artists hidden Talent discovered mind images used to draw animals by Karen Emilson special to the free press one of the Interlaken Best kept Jan Bain is a Topnotch artist with a Down to Earth the 41yearold Ashern Painter emerged into the wildlife Art scene last even though Shes done Only five paintings in her the incredible detail in her work has propelled the likable artist into the Shes a wonderful artist who in a category by says Alace owner of the Woodlands gallery in the Winnipeg convention her artwork is quite different from it May take her a full Day to paint a Square Inch and that is Bain parachuted into her career after discovering her hidden Tal ent Only five years shortly after she and her moved to where he teaches a former school teacher and animal Lover knew instinctively the moment she picked up a Brush that painting animals would become her lifes Bains first a 40by30cm Porcupine titled looking was introduced in two Winnipeg and three Southern Ontario galleries last Bains second a look is a magnificent 56 by75cm Tiger that was reproduced this both Watercolour images Are limited edition press runs of Bains largest following lies with in but Art buffs nation wide Are noticing How uniquely she handles Watercolour with the thinnest available the self taught artist builds her subject hair by she begins with an animals and without the guidance of a the Ani Mal is gradually created from images in her mind and by photographs on the Jan has a real Affinity with the animal she says Maxine co owner of the Thomp son Art gallery in it is almost As if she knows the Ani Mal personally and it shows in her the work is an exercise in extreme evidenced by the 30 hours it took to Complete just the porcupines Bain paints up to 12 hours a seven Days a week in almost total Isola Rural artist a feature last fall by the Csc television series Coleman com Pany helped familiarize Manito bans with the Rural artist and her critics have said that Bain is using Watercolour but Bain is undaunted by the How can anything that looks so right be wrong she Art is throughout history often what has made a certain artist unique is the fact that what they Are doing is what strikes most admirers of Bains work is the fact that each painting looks As impressive at a distance As it does through a magnifying anybody who likes the realism in wildlife Art wont find work much better than says Shes the first per son Ive encountered who paints this Bain prefers to capture her images outside the animals Natur Al focusing Energy on the animal rather than she prefers to paint exotic her penchant is for those on the endangered species weve lived in such a disposable society for so i want to create a sense of says who has no i believe peo ple Are looking for Art that truly Means Winnipeg photographer Henry Kalen predicts a Bright future for Ive seen hundreds of but Ive never seen anything like says last fall Bain had the Opportunity of meeting her Canad an wildlife Painter Robert he offered encourage ment by saying her work reminds him of images by european wildlife artist Ray Harris meeting Robert Bateman was a wonderful Bain i fully appreciate his understand ing and compassion for the animals he Bain Hopes to produce 40 paint Ings in her stressing that she paints for the sheer Joy of Cre i never want to be changed by my she it is very important to me to be Down to her present a Chim will take at least one year to Hes absolutely she says with a Ive never painted skin before so this is a new experience for i think this Little Guy will be the closest to a human that i will probably Ever 2 2 Winnipeg Arena on Sale now t tickets at All select seat locations or charge by phone 780seat Winnipeg free press ;