Movie snippets

Press, 26 November 1981, Page 14

Movie snippets

What will probably be the biggest Christmas holiday box office success, “Raiders of the Lost Ark," will have two special public preview screenings at the Savo.y at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. this Sunday.

This high adventure is considered to be about as pure a Holywood escapist movie as anything since “Jaws” and “Star Wars.” Therefore, it may not be that surprising that it was conceived by the man who made “Star Wars” (and “The Empire Strikes Back” and “American Graffiti”) and directed by the man who made “Jaws” (and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind").

Nineteen of the 20 winners in our recent James Bond competition have already received their tickets. However, one has been sent back marked “Return to Sender.” If Richard Wong, c/- The University of Canterbury, reads this will he please get in touch with me with some proof of identity because the double pass to see “For Your Eyes Only” is still waiting here to be collected. The Christchurch film Society, in association with the Goethe Institute, will

present a mini-festival of German "road” films at the Museum Theatre, Rolleston Avenue, at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Tuesday, and 8 p.m. on Wednesday. The three films to be screened are Wim Wedners’s “Kings of the Road” (Wednesday), Adolf Winkelmann’s "On the Move” (Tuesday, 6 p.m.) and Niklaus Schilling’s “The Expulsion from Paradise” (Tuesday, 8 p.m.).

The mini-festival will be introduced by Hans Blumenberg, the West German film critic who visited New Zealand last year and gave a hastily arranged address around the film. “The Baker’s Bread.”

Blumenberg is the critic for the leading German weekly, “Die Zeit,” and also maker of several documentaries, including portraits on Billy Wilder and Howard Hawks.

His Hawks documentary, "A Hell of a Good Life,” was called “a hell of a good film" at the London Film Festival. It was also screened at the Berlin Film Festival and at the Los Angeles Filmex.