European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Films grow up while kids go Back to Schoolboy Stephen Wigler the Baltimore Sun fall Means that kids go Back to school. It also Means that stateside films for adults Are in the offing a from Martin Scorsese a disturbing sexual thriller Cape fear to John Sayless drama of soldering ethnic tensions City of Hope. We won t be seeing much in the Way of cyborgs with hearts of Gold High kicking martial arts experts or gory body parts until the weather starts turning warm again. The exception that proves the Rule is that the first movie of the fall is really the last movie of the summer Freddy s dead the final Nightmare which opened Friday the 13th in the states and will Start saturday on the cafes circuit. It s the sixth a and supposedly final a instalment of the Nightmare on Elm Street series featuring dream Slasher Freddy Krueger. On tuesday comes Bernard t a Vernier a daddy nostalgia a romantic film with a performance by the great Dirk bogarde As a dying Man who reconciles with his daughter that has critics grasping for superlatives. The potentially interesting late for dinner will open Friday. Two Brothers accidentally undergo an Experiment in 1962 that shuttles them physically unchanged to their Hometown 29 years later. The films director is . Richter a his Bucka Roo Bambi is a cult classic a who has a phenomenal touch with such nutty material. Barton Fink the Send up of Hollywood by the Coen Brothers raising Arizona and Miller s crossing has been rivalling Kenneth Branagh a dead again As an intellectuals Delight. Then there a ram line Rose with Laura Dern. Diane Ladd and Robert Duvall and Livin , a comedy about a Black to newsman who slowly turns White because he tries so hard to assimilate in the White world. Sept. 27 will be Busy with six new movies due. Including the Fisher King opening oct. 6 on the cafes circuit from director Terry Gilliam of the strange and wonderful Brazil and the even More bizarre Baron Munchausen. It recasts the myth of the holy grail As a Story about a big shot radio personality Jeff Bridges who Falls on hard Days and is redeemed by a crazed but visionary homeless person Robin Williams. Other films scheduled include hanging with the Home boys. Another in a spate of recent movies by Young Black directors the super a comedy starring Joe Pes i As a slum landlord forced to John Goodman Sells Barton Fink. Live in one of his own buildings and deceived oct. 13 cafes Startin which Goldie hawn a in a rare non comedic role a discovers that her dead husband had been living w Ith her under an assumed identity. Also slated that weekend is necessary roughness a football comedy about a College team made up of Over the Hill. Continuing education types and married to it. A comedy about three married couples with a cast that includes cybill Shepherd Ron Silver. Beau Bridges and Stock Ard Channing. Films scheduled for september but without specific release dates include the Pope must die. An air Tane like spoof about the Vatican whose title and subject matter have already caused some newspapers to turn Down ads and love crimes which stars Sean Young As a prosecuting attorney who becomes involved with an accused rapist. On oct. 3 comes Independent filmmaker Richard Linklater s slacker a movie about kids in the College town of Austin Texas who drop out of school and hang out. Reviews and reception in other cities suggest that it will be to hip Young film goers what metropolitan and sex lies and videotape were in previous years. Three films open the following Day a shout a coming of age film set in the 50s starring John Travolta As a music teacher Ricochet starring John Lithgow As a criminal obsessed with destroying the cop Denzel Washington who once sent him to prison and Paradise which stars Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith in a drama about a couple who must overcome the death of their son. Three important movies open oct. 11. John Sayless City of Hope explores racial tension and ethnic identity in ways that Are sure to provoke debate for weeks. Frankie and Johnny is Terrence Mcnally a adaptation of his wonderful play Frankie and Johnny in the Claire do Lune about a love affair Between a shor1-order Cook Al Pacino and a waitress Michelle Pfeiffer. Little Man Tate promises to be interesting because of its subject the Battle for the soul of an extraordinarily gifted child Between his Mother and his psychologist because it is the first film to be directed by Jodie Foster who also stars and because it features an original screenplay by Scott Frank whose script for dead again is so impressive. Other films opening stateside oct. 11 include Ernest seared stupid in w Inch Ernest Jim Varney looses a troll upon the world and suburban commando in which Hulk Hogan is an extra intergalactic mercenary who wants to spend a quiet vacation at Home. On oct. 18 David Mamet s homicide opens. Like City of Hope it takes on issues of race and ethnic identity. Also that Day. The rapper Vanilla ice makes his debut in Cool As ice. About a mild mannered biker who becomes a hero. The most interesting movie scheduled for the following week oct. 25 looks like other peo 20tfi Century Fox pie s Money. Norman Jewison a comedy starring Danny Devito As Larry the liquidator a financial take Over artist who finally overreached himself. Other openings arc House party 2, which re Prises the antics of Black comedians kid n play and the butchers wife a comedy in which Demi Moore is a Backwoods clairvoyant who wreaks havoc upon a hip Greenwich Village neighbourhood. Other movies expected to have october releases Are 29th Street in which the mob tries to Rob Danny Aiello s son of a possibly winning lottery ticket k2, bused on the acclaimed stage play of the same name about an ascent of the world s second highest and most difficult to climb Mountain Antonia and Jane in which the lifelong Competition Between two women keeps them going and the re release of David Lynch s 1977 cult classic Eraser head. Also still unscheduled for october Are stepping out which stars Liza Minnelli As an inspirational tap dancer who teaches her students about a what else a life the people Hinler the stairs a horror thriller by director Wes Craven who made it dangerous to fall asleep in the original Nightmare on Elm Street and Welcome to Buz saw. In which Matthew Broderick is stranded in a Backwoods logging town and must Deal with the assorted nuts who live there. Three movies debut nov. 1, among them hard promises a screwball comedy in which a Long missing husband William Petersen who docs not realize he is divorced tries to win Back his wife Sissy speck on her wedding Day and curly sue. The latest John Hughes film about a lovable kid this time an a year old orphan. But the class film of the week should be Black Robe by Bruce Beresford tender mercies and driving miss dais about the first meeting in North America in 1634 Between european and american Indian cultures. The most interesting movie for nov. 8 is Cape fear. Scorsese a remake of the 1962 classic with Robert de Niro As the amoral sex con who terrorizes the attorney Nick Nolle who Pul him behind bars. Another intriguing opening is Prospro s books an adaptation by Peter Greenaway the Cook the thief his wife and her Lover of Shakespeare s the tempest. It stars the great Cost actor in the English speaking world. Sir John c ii loud. Other movies due out that Dav ate step kills. Joan Micklin Silver a Lester Street Ami Rossig Delaney film about a 13-year-oui girl who ones to Cope with her parents divorce and sliding through the world War ii Story of an american jew Melanie Griffith who convinces Sci Boss m the Oss Michael Douglas to let her spy behind enemy lines in nazi Germany. Also All i want for Christmas one of those Quot heartwarming Holiday stories in which two kids try to reunite their estranged parents and in which Leslie Nielsen it. Frank or com in die naked inn series stars As Santa Claus and strictly business in which an Ivy league educated Black Man achieves self realization by falling Lor a dancer in a Funky Uptown 15 1991 sunday a
