European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Short takes ant Fra an amazing True Story of a Seal that became living legend in Rockport Maine. An adorable new born Seal is orphaned after hit Mother ii caught in Fisherman s net. Lack Uty o. The adaptation of the classic 19th-Centuryhorse Story offers a Classy cast headed by David Thewlis and a Sublime period setting. Tank Man pm 13. He has no super Powers no Money and no name. He s Blankman a self appointed super hero who s so broke he fights crime in his Long Johns. Damon Wayans. Link r. A Voung woman recovering from an opera Tion that will restore her vision is witness to murder Madeleine Stowe Aidan Quinn. Camp Jowhara Po-13. Instead of going off to computer military diet and theatrical Camps kid scheme to create their own dream summer Cam with no Counselor or rules. John Putch Peter Scolari. Tha a Llano Po-13. A boy witnesses the suicide of Amob lawyer. Susan Sarandon Tommy Lee Jones. Color of Negm r. Haunted by a suicide of a patient a new York psychologist played by Bruce Willis aban dons his practice and relocates to . Pfaar and Prasant Dangar Po-13. Harrison Ford As Jack Ryan is once again drawn into global in Trigue. This time he s up against a colombian drug Cartel with Anne Archer and James Earl Jones. Corrona Corrona to. A widowed dad and a grieving daughter Are withdrawn into silence. A hopi i the housekeeper who brings Sunshine into their lives and a us in love with her employer. Tha flan Tatanya to. Steven Spiel Rock brings the Modem Stone age family to the Silver screen with John Goodman and Rick Moranis. Porrata dump Po-13. Travel through the last  and witness America s notable historic events As Tom Hanks stars As a simple Man who becomes anal american football player a decorated War hero and a prosperous businessman. A of oof Man in Africa r. Sean Connery if a reluctant Diplomat at a newly Independent african state. I lava trauma to. Nick Nolle and Julia Robert play rival reporters working for competing Chicago newspapers who find themselves on a collision course when they Are assigned to investigate a train wreck. In tha army new up. Pauly Shore joins the army reserves for the bennies and the regular salary. Reality kicks in when he becomes part of a Mission involving actual combat. Vic. It Calm mat hmm to Vau to. This Sweet nothing of a film pairs Nicolas Cage and Bridget Fonda m an appealing fairy tale of love and the new York lottery tha lion King o. Disney s newest animation i magnificent entertainment. Music by Elton John. Ettla Olanta to. Football families and the game of life Are thrown into the mix. De o Niell and Rick Moranis. Duc Estha Ettla Kaasala to. Steven Spielberg pro Dian update of the Hal Roach comedy series. Travis Tedford and Bug Hall it Mary Shahay a Frank Anatall r. A passionate love Story in which a Man s desire to know the unknowable seeps him into a living Nightmare. Iii. Tha mat pc-13. Jim Carrey a mild mannered Bank clerk is transformed into the weirdest super hero of All time when he dons his mask. To milk manay r. Melanie Griffith is the Streetwise woman who rescues three Young boys who have drifted in from Rural locales in Hopes of seeing a living breathing naked woman a Racla on 34th Traat to. In a Rema pc of the1947 Holiday classic a 6-Ycar-old girl has doubts about Santa  barn Willara r. The Saga of Mickey an Mai Lory Knox. Two thrill killers who truly enjoy their work Woody Harrelton and Juliette Lewis.  Po-13. An attorney takes on Tough Case Over aids. Tom Hanks Donzel Washington. Tha puppet Mattara r. Frightening thriller about an invasion of grotesque alien parasites that take Over the minds of their human hosts. Schlim Lav a at r. Winner of seven Academy awards Steven Spielberg s powerful film details How a businessman saved thousands of jews bom death Jam notion and Ben Kingsley. Tha Shawa Hank Nat apuan r. Shaw Shank is prison in Maine. Tim Robbins portrays the prisoner who Leanis to survive in the cruel world of maximum Security. With Morgan Freeman. Snow whoa anal tha Sayan Dwarf o. Disney classic has been dusted off and polished up to 90s specs. I Lii -.-. Tha spa Elalat r. A retired government explosive expert with a secret a Beautiful woman Bent on re Venge and a ruthless family of mobsters All become intertwined in this sensual suspense thriller set in Miami. Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone. To papal r. Hold on for electrifying action As a bus carrying a bomb careens through the los Angeles morn ing Rush hour. Dennis Hopper and Keanu Reeves. " Stargatt Po-13. Science fiction adventure that crosses space and time in a search to discover the on gins of civilization. Kurt Russell James Spader to armenal velocity Po-13. A skydiving instructor Charlie Sheen takes a mysterious stranger Nastassja Kinski out for nor first lesson. Thumb Allna o. Tassic tale of a girl the size of thumb. Animated with voices of Jodie Benson and Carol charming. To Macon r. Jean Claude Van Damme plays a Sci fico stable who hops from decade to decade rounding up time travelling Crooks. Sell and Val Kilmer. Tina Llama r. Harry Tasker Arnold Schwarzenegger is a special agent and International spy who has kept his real profession secret from his wife Jamie Lee Curtis for As Long As they have been together. Wagons cast pg-13. John Candy in his last film role plays a Wagon master to a group of Western settlers fed up with cattle rustling and Bank robbing. Wasj Crannan a naw night Mara r. This time the evil has moved beyond the screen and in a descending spiral of terror and horrific action. Robert Englun Dand Heather Langenkamp. Compiled from wire reports. Star ratings Buchuck Vinch. Tom cruise plays Lestat and Brad Pitt is Louis in interview with the Vampire opening Friday at military Heaters. Chuck Vinch staff writer on Moyies interview with the Vampire rated must see Worth your time passable entertainment coming soon to a video outlet near you and you can wait fans of Anne Rice s darkly Florid prose in her series of Vampire Chroni cles May be surprised to learn that she has a Well honed sense of humor. But in shaping her own novel into a film Rice flashes the kind of macabre wit that Only occasionally shows up in her writing. Diehard followers May be disappointed at the liberties Rice takes while changing her work for the screen she adds a number of ironic one liners drops minor characters and significantly alters the ending. But this flair for adapting an intensely melodramatic novel to the imperatives of a different medium some thing Kenneth Branagh lacks in his film treatment of Mary Shelley s Frankenstein makes this one of the most enjoyable and certainly one of the most graphic Vampire movies Ever made. Credit must also go to director Neil Jordan and makeup effects specialist Stan Winston. They chillingly capture the erotic subtext of Rice s novel As both vampires and victims writhe in orgasmic paroxysms of agony and ecstasy. Rice initially had doubts about cast ing Tom cruise As her otherworldly Antihero the Vampire Lestat. She later changed her mind and with Good Rea son he gives a slyly powerful performance in a role that is quite a Depar Ture from his past efforts. Simply put he makes the movie. When he temporarily disappears in the Middle of the Story the Energy level drains from the film like the Rich red blood from the necks of Lestat s Vic Tims.  such victim is Louis Brad Pitt. As the film opens he s preparing to Tell his Story to a reporter Christian Slater Haven t been human for More than 200 years Louis murmurs As we Flash Back to 1791. Despondent Over the recent death of his wife and child the wealthy Louisiana Plantation owner has taken to drinking and whoring in a futile Effort to numb his pain. One night he catches the Eye of Les Tat who sees Louis not Only As a snack but also a potential companion. Lestat revels in his Power and likes to seduce his victims before draining them but Louis proves a reluctant Vampire. He prefers rats and other animals to humans faced with killing an a Girth society Matron he chows Down on her two White poodles instead. Lestat noting Louis disgust with his blood lust seeks a Way to bind his com Panion to him. He finds it in Claudia remarkably self assured Kirsten Dunsta 10-year-old orphan whom he turns into a Vampire knowing that she will serve As a surrogate for the soft hearted Louis lost human child. Here Rice s humor surges to the fore As the film briefly turns into my two undead ads. Claudia becomes a precocious killer As Louis and Lestat Fol Low her around like carping parents. When she drains her piano teacher during a lesson Lestat slaps her wrist. Claudia we be told you never in your Home he shouts. Claudia and Louis eventually plot to leave the murderous Lestat and flee to Europe to seek out others vampires in an Effort to learn the meaning if any of their existence. This leads to the film s most problematic phase As Claudia and Louis stumble upon a twisted theater troupe of vampires in Paris led by charismatic Annand Antonio Banderas. The absurdly murky interplay of this sequence severely strains the Story s momentum and serves to keep the film below four Star status. The film will hardly Appeal to every one but horror fans with even a Fleet ing interest in the Vampire mythos will get plenty of jolts from interview with the Vampire. Page 12 sunday november 27,1994