Festival passes to be won in contest

Press, 6 October 1989, Page 30

Festival passes to be won in contest

To promote the 5.45 Film Festival at the Regent, during which “art house” standard movies will be screened over the next weeks, Pacer-Ker-ridge is giving away single passes to see seven of them in a simple contest. Entrants are requested to name the directors of two of the films being shown during the eightweek festival. To assist in getting the answers, brochures giving details of ail the films are available free at the Regent and Westend. The films will be screened at the Regent at 5.45 p.m. from Sunday to Thursday each week. The festival started this week with "Siesta,” a surrealist nightmare set in Spain, starring Ellen Barkin, Martin Sheen, Jodie Foster and Grace Jones. The second one in the series, a horror entitled “Monkey Shines,” will start this Sunday. “Monkey Shines” is a finely honed piece of terror by the maker of “Dawn Of The Dead,” about a capuchin monkey that gains the upper hand over his quadraplegic master.' Richard Corliss, in “Time,” described “Monkey Shines” as “the smartest dark fantasy since David Cronenberg’s 1986 update of ‘The Fly’ and the best monkey movie since ‘King Kong’,”. Other films to be screened at these 5.45 p.m. sessions will be Oscar Wilde’s “Salone’s Last Dance," October 1519; “Hanussen,” starring Klaus Maria Brandauer, October 22-26; “Pathfinder,” a legendary adventure from Lapland, October 29-November 2; “Heavy Petting,” a documentary on teen-age traumas in the 19505, November 5-9; “The Kitchen Toto,” about the beginning of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, November 12-16; and "The Thin Blue Line,” an investigation of the case of a man who was wrongly convicted of murder, November 19-23. Please send your entry listing names of the directors of two of the aforementioned films to: Film Festival Contest, c/- Hans Petrovic, “The Press,” Private Bag, Christchurch. Also include your phone number to speed up notification of winners. The names of the winners of the five passes to see the last seven of these films will be published in “The Press” next Friday.