On screen
WINGS OF DESIRE (Academy): Wim Wenders sees Berlin from an an-gel’s-eye view in this brilliant fantasy. Every moment is magical as an angel decides to take the big step of giving up immortality to become human (GA).
SALAAM BOMBAY (Academy): The life of a street kid surviving in the red-light district of Bombay is presented as a brilliant tapestry that weaves the hardships of the people into their colourful surroundings. One of the year’s best (GA).
GONE WITH THE WIND (Hollywood 1, Sumner): David O. Selznick’s blockbuster celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh are back again in the Deep South, loving and scheming in one of the best-loved films of all time (GA).
DEAD POETS SOCIETY (Savoy 2 and Hollywood 2, Sumner): Robin Williams plays a free-thinking teacher at a private school who aspires to add something extraordinary to the lives of his pupils. A feel-good movie (GY).
PATHFINDER (Regent 1): See story (GA). ARIA (Westend): A selection of opera’s best-loved arias are seen through the idiosyncratic eyes of 18 top directors, including Ken Russell, Robert Altman and -Derek Jarman (RPI6).
SALOME’S LAST DANCE A Ken Russell
film which has been described as a crash course in what made Oscar Wilde tick, and also as an enjoyable oddity. (RPI6). TURNER AND HOOCH (Savoy 1): Tom Hanks, in his fourth film for the year, plays opposite a slobbering mastiff in a winning comedy (GY).
THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY H (Pantages, Hornby): More misadventures in the land of the bushmen. Very much the same formula that made the original so popular (GY).
EAT THE RICH (Metro): The makers of TV’s “The Young Ones” turn their off-beat humour to a group of discontents who start a restaurant that serves human flesh. In thoroughly bad taste, with no socially redeeming features, but still very funny occasionally (RPI3).
BLIND FURY (Westend): Rutger Hauer plays an Americanised version of a blind samurai who chops his way across the United States in this adventure comedy (RPI6).
HANNAH’S WAR (Regent 1): See story (RPI3).
FLETCH LIVES (Midcity): Chevy Chase returns in the role of Fletch, and a handful of other personalities, in this light comedy set in the Deep South (GY).
NO HOLDS BARRED (Regent 2); The superstar of wrestling. Hulk Hogan, takes to the big screen (RPl’>- ; ,
On screen
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