Alternative Movies at Cinema CNC
Showcasing art films in Prince George

By: Destrudo

Welcome to the first
installment of an ongoing
exploration into the world of
film. For 28 years, Cinema
CNC has presented a wide
variety of films to students
and the public. The idea is to
present films that would oth-
erwise remain unviewed.

Peter Maides, who has
been with Cinema CNC for
10 Years, says that they are
offering films that are outside
the normal. “Now that we
have so few screens, it’s very
important to show arty,
Canadian, and foreign films.
You can’t see stuff like that in
movie theaters. We offer,
they come, but we’re not here
to sell films. We want people
to eventually recognize that
there are redeeming qualities
to these films, to see that
there is stuff outside of the
mainstream.”

This year they are show-
ing, in most ambitious effort,
nine films, or one every
Saturday night from
September 29, to November
24. By the time this paper is
in stands, the first two movies
in the series will have already
been shown, but fear not, all
of them will be reviewed.

The first of the films is
The Anniversary Party, writ-
ten, directed, and starring
Alan Cumming (TITUS), and
Jennifer Jason Leigh
(eXistenZ). Here we have
Joe and Sally Therrian host-
ing a wedding anniversary
after being back together for
five months in the wake of
marriage troubles. Joe is a
best selling author and an up
and coming in the world of
film as he has written a film
adaptation of his novel and is
slated to direct. His wife,
Sally, on the other hand is an
established actor who is
revealed to be on her way out
perhaps. Needless to say, the
party is full of those who Joe
and Sally know or meet in the
film and business industry.
One can see the elite behav-
iour of the upper class film

clique when the neighbors,
who Joe and Sally hate, are
invited to avoid a possible
lawsuit on the count of Joe’s
dog, who barks incessantly.
The party starts out being
uncomfortable, but the dis-
comfort is comedic in nature;
one can laugh at the
childish tension
between the,
Therrians and the,
neighbors, as well:}.
as, Joe and Sally ‘s

childish jealousy. }
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becomes more |

intoxicated (it is a
party, after all), and
behaviour loosens’
up as _ inhibition
loosens up; the
altered state of the’
characters is reflect- .
ed in the film’s tone.
Scenes become
more surreal and,
people come to act
more and more like
animals. Secrets are :
revealed, emotions
flare, and this upper :
class clique come to
realize how real they |
are when faced with :
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The Anniversary
Party has been
called one of those
films that one likes.
or hates, and it is
apparent why. If the
audience can identi- .
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So, keep an eye open for
Cinema CNC (at the College
of New Caledonia, if you
don’t know), there is bound to
be something for everyone.
On October 6, The Widow of
Saint-Pierre will be showing,
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Here’s to Life, on October 13,
will be reviewed for the next
issue.

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