FORTHCOMING FILMS
Dance Craze ... lively ska movie with Specials, Beat, Madness, Selecter etc. Concert , footage in lovely technicolour. Opens September in three theatres with Dolby stereo; Christchurch's Midcity, Wellington's Academy and Auckland's Classic. Sept 4. Time Bandits ... by Handmade Films with John Cleese, Sean Connery, songs by George Harrison. It's about dwarfs who work for God, find holes in the universe and set about stealing from other areas. Starts Dunedin Sept 10. Riddle of the Sands ... set before WWI. Britain is invaded down on her exposed West Coast. Stars Michael York, Simon McCorkindale. Starts Auckland Sept 3. Poltergeist ... Steven Spielberg movie. Adolescent energies and psychic phenomena. Starts Aug 13. Grease II ... English boy at US school falls for head bikey lady and establishes lone biker' identity to win her. Starts Aug 13/20. Startrek II ... set in the 23C. Khan from the 20C is out to get Admiral Kirk. He steals a top secret device capable of destroying the universe and sets out on his murder mission. Starts Aug 13/20. Rocky 111 ... Sylvester Stallone gets bigger and beefier and Rocky goes on. Written and directed by Stallone. Theme revolves around Rocky's new adversary Clubber Lange. Starts Aug 20. David Bowie is lined up for a role in Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence being filmed in Rarotonga with NZ, UK and Japanese crew. It's directed ’by Oshima (Realm Of Senses) ... Bo Derek will film on location at Greenhithe ... alternative film makers from Australia, Arthur and Corinne Cantrill are in Auckland Sept 1-4. They'll be showing recent Australian alternative films and end the stay with a day workshop at the Maidment ... Police drummer Stewart Copeland has been commissioned by Francis Ford Coppola to write the music for his new film Rumble Fish ... ex Roxy Club DJ Don Letts edited Clash, Subway Sect, Siouxie material shot by himself on super 8 for the Punk Rock Movie out now in the UK. He's working on a Clash feature entitled Radio Clash. Rip It Up N 0.61, August 'B2 Post all correspondence to RIU, PO Box 5689, Auckland 1. /: Editor Murray Cammick Assistant Editor Ann Louise Martin ' ' Advertising Enquiries 790-653 Rip It Up is typeset by Artspect Typesetting Systems and printed by Lucas Print, Paraparaumu.
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Rip It Up, Issue 61, 1 August 1982, Page 26
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