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f'Das Boot' repr IBy Doug Bell German cinema has been a major force in artistic filmmaking for the past decade. Art houses in America (Nickelodeon being the local example) have been flooded with films i by Wim Winders, Werner Herzog and the < late R.W. Fassbinder. Theater schedules < would seem depleted without the recent i German products. < Dinlrinrf o curanninrf rtnnnra 1? t ? ? An T tvinnf * iYidivii!& a 5unti uu^aiiuii, i mum ? say I feel the new breed of Germans have ] shown a deeper commitment to artistic ] [jS expression than any major national moviem making movement. < America seems too eager to appease its monolithic adolescent market; Australia |? too often yields to a somewhat naive populist tendency; France, thanks to occasional fresh surges from the New Wave (Truffaut, Rohmer, Resnais, Godard), can j|g still hold its head above a sea of mediocre Itnvonty (example: raraon Mon aifaire"); Italy struggles along as best it can, with occasional luck. BUT GERMANY panders to no one! Its filmmakers make movies with teutonic zeal bordering on the obsessional. Clearly, they are more interested in personal expression than box office receipts. When a director is able to convey a deeply personal, wildly visionary dream, has he not achieved a (dare I say) triumph of the will? Don't alarmed The German directors ||| do not condone totalitarianism, nor do their films induce fanaticism. They are essentially individualists, drawing from a heritage that includes a cultural tradition rich in music, art and cinema on one hand, || and the overwhelming shame of Nazism on IS the other. But they are not cowed by spectral ghosts from a guilty past. Werner Herzog, 1 USC Music Dep I _ 1 From btatf Heports USC's Music Department will continue its September Concerts series with a chamber music concert at 8 p m. tomorrow in Gambrell Hall Auditorium. Works by Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn and others will be performed by Music Department faculty members. Program highlights include Richard Conant and Raymond Dudley performing Brahms' "Four Serious Songs"; Laury Christie, Evelyn McGarrity and Charles Fugo, Schumann's "Bedeckt Mich mit Blurnen": and Robert Jesselson and Fugo, Mendelssohn's "Sonata in D Major, Op. 58." Tickets for the concert are available for $3 for the public, $1 for students. To confirm j reservations, call 777-4280. I! CALL24 hrs )}u H 771-8789 FOR ENTERTAINMENT JgJS? __ AINU IK I DRINK SPECIALS C0NCERT HALL I? TONIGHT COLUMBIA DEBUT OF I ISLAND plus |25<t Budweiser Draft 1 for I Rudweiser ? Bud Ligh 1$ 1.25 Vodka Drinks All Nigl Admission - $2.00 TUESDAY ASM/I.R.S. RECORDING ARTIST' A THE LORDS JL OF THF IT NEWCHURCh featuring STIV BA TOR, former lead singer for the Dead Boys Al SO APPEARING ISLAND 903 HLIGER STREET ADMISi. O esents artistic - v?;? film review 1 arguably the most eminent of the new German directors, ignores the implications )f Nazism altogether. Most of the others, .inable to escape its dreadful residue, try to 3eal with the recent Reich either from an absurdist's viewpoint, as in ''The Tin Drum," or more realistically, as in "Das Boot,'' which is playing at Columbia Mall. It is not every day that a high quality German movie makes the cross over from | art house to commercial cinema; for that | reason alone I am fit to crow. Wolfgang | Petersen's "Das Boot" (The Boat), while I would not place it among the highest j achievements of new German cinema, is a j fine film that is representative of this potent movement. IT CONCERNS the voyage of a Nazi U- ! boat during the heated middle of World War II. The major characters are the ship's > captain, the chief engineer and a lieutenant specially assigned to observe the naval procedures of the submarine. 1 The captain, exquisitely played by Jergen \ Prochnow, is a moody, concise man, ? suspicious of Nazi ideals. He never partakes f in party protocol; refusing to acknowledge ( or return a "Seig Heil!" War is a job to him, t one he does not relish. His is the dominant i attitude of the film. ine mm nas little dramatic tension in tne traditional sense. The U-boat is not a t microcosm of society, teeming with < colliding characters, although there are 1 disagreements on board. The real conflict is between the men and the submarine. < The mood, particularly because of t stunning photography, is claustrophobic. lartment continu SS& :'-.W ff: .... JKjjfl ' ,v%s>- y.<Ap$f>&:'': Pianist Charles Fugo will perform Tuesday. r?-am i !. sTer sept. 12 || | v? gregg j 1/4 lb 3,1 bed allman I with mustart SHOW chili and slav :ketsonsale | *i NOW *1 i I Gameroom a i -Mm I Bar B 1 ! > San II Jj pickles c i * Gameroom 141 L#* tl IH Topped with I Syrup. Walnuts. S ,ini1 1 . T Oameroom. Open t ; trend in Ge mif?W "':$m ?*X *' ' ' ^ r * ' ''' \\GEKs 'TmtBM-^---y*r^<. - : x : . :-^B : DWW??!V\'^!'1\'!\?/.,I'AV^^^A'<\'.,.V^^B ': ' : : Jergen Prochnow turns in an exquisite perfoi rhe camera rarely ventures outside the vessel, locking the viewer inside the narrow intique craft with its inadequate sanitary acilities, rotting food and terrified crew. Dne does not merely sympathize with them; he viewer feels as though he is, pardon me, n the same boat. IF THE atmosphere is convincing, so is he journey. One feels as though he has covered the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean by the time the film ends. Only one dedicated to new German :inema would take a leisurely three hours to :ell such a down-beat war tale. The film opens prior to the voyage in a les Seotember 1 entertainment briefs THE MCKISSICK AT NOON SERIES will open its third season Thursday with "Fanfare and Fripperies," performed by the USC Horn Ensemble. Presented by the USC Department of It K 1 _ iL 1 _ *11 1 _? n iviusic, me ensemoie win dc composed or USC music students and guest players from the community. Directed by Robert Pruzin, the program will include works by Dick Goodwin and USC staff member Fred Teuber. Other fall shows will be a concert by "The Carolina Camerata," a woodwind quintet, on Oct. 21, and a presentation by the USC Department of Theatre and Speech Nov. 18. The free performances, staged on the plaza in front of McKissick Museums on the HHUBUP ISJr I Slaw E*Pires I I ? 9-14-82 | 1 8 | I 1 Oscar Mayer , [! 1, homemade I i || v, and onions ? 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The acting is magnificent, each man's face becoming a demonstration of obsession, fear, madness, sadness and a spectrum of other emotions. 1 can't praise the photography enough. Although I recommend the film highly, I feel the events are too sparse and too light of meaning to call this a great film. Concerts series USC Horseshoe, begin at noon and last 30 to 40 minutes. n n n AN EXHIBIT of watercoior paintings by Georgetown, South Carolina artist Nancy Blackwell Bourne will be on display at the Richland County Public Library, 1400 Sumter Street, Sept. 7-30. Bourne has painted seriously for about five years and has studied with many outstanding teachers. She has participated in numerous shows, including the first Annual Blue Crab Festival and the C & S Statewide Art Competition. She won a merit award in the 1981 South Carolina Watercoior Society competition. The exhibit is open to the public during regular library hours: 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday, and 2:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sunday. ??i?ft???MM??? itaurant & lounge 1928 Rosewood Drive .j Tonite aby Buds 404 I londav Nieht I / S7 I Football 3 n widescreen TV I Tuesday imakazi Night I H ? Hors d Ueuvres I at 6 o'clock J