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Reel To Reel

lead a film discussion group titled
Reel Talk. This is your chance to dis-
cuss all of your favorite nominees.
7:30 p.m. at Borders Books & Music,
30955 Orchard Lake Road, Farming-
ton Hills. (248) 368-1802.

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Art Scene

powerful cabaret, Ghetto Tango:
Music in Extremis, 8:30 p.m. Satur-
day, March 28, at Trinity-St. Paul's
Centre, 427 Bloor Street West,
Toronto. Ghetto Tango taps into the
rage and anxiety of the Holocaust
artists who sang and played in order
to live. Performed in Yiddish and
English. $20-$25. (416) 324-9413.

Dance Fever

Detroit Dance Collective presents
Countdown, favorite works from the
/- Collective's dance repertory and the
preview of "The Unknown Sequence,"
8 p.m. Friday, March 20, at Adray
Theater, MacKenzie Fine Arts Bldg.,
Henry Ford Community College,
Dearborn. Artistic directors Barbara
Selinger, of Farmington, and Paula
Kramer, of Huntington Woods, are
featured. (313) 965-3544.
The Oakland Dance Theatre per-
forms A Happening Thing,
a look at dance in the '60s,
8 p.m. Friday and Saturday,
March 20 and 21; 3 p.m.
Sunday, March 22. $10/gen-
eral seating, $8/senior,
$5/students. Varner Recital
Hall, Oakland University,
Rochester. (248) 370-3013.

Revolution hosts a solo exhibition of
recent work by New York painter
Brenda Goodman through April 11.
Goodman combines figuration with
abstraction into psychological portraits
of relationships and loss. She is a for-
mer Detroiter and her work is included
in the DIA collections. 23257 Wood-
ward Ave., Ferndale. (248) 541-3444.
Meet featured Clique Gallery artists
7-9 p.m. Friday, March 13, in the
gallery's final show, which is titled It's A
Wrap. The exhibit continues through
April 15, with the fifth annual National
Glass Jewelry Show and art from the
gallery's 24 past shows. 200 W Fifth,
Royal Oak. (248) 545-2200.

Whatnot

Xavier Joseph Carbajal will sign his
bestseller, Lady President, at Birm-
ingham's Borders Books and Music 7
p.m. Tuesday, March 17. Carbajal's
book is a current selection of Oprah
Winfrey's Book of the Month Club. It
has sparked debates over abortion
rights, gun control, women's rights
and the Iraq controversy.
Everything's coming up springtime
at Michigan's Home and Garden
Antiques Market, March 20-22, at
the Southfield Civic Center, 26000
Evergreen Road, Southfield. 2-9 p.m.
Friday; 12-8 p.m. Saturday; 12-5 p.m.
Sunday. $5/with ad or listing, $6/reg-
ular admission.

Big Screen

On Monday, March 16,
just one week before the
Academy Awards and just in
time to enter our Oscar
Contest, Ruth Daniels will

Barbara Selinger choreographs "Other Places" for
the Detroit Dance Collective.

Photo by To m Krame r

Gilbert Gottfried performs at Joey's
Comedy Club.

s the nation sits in antici-
pation of Oscar night,
Ann Arbor gears up for its
36th film fest, a showcase
of independent and experimental
film from all over the world.
The Ann Arbor Film Festival runs
Tuesday-Sunday, March 17-22, and
features 100 films in a mix of genres,
including animation, documentary
and narrative.
The festival-week program
includes presentations by the awards
jury: Canyon Cinema Executive
Director Dominic Angerame, Stan-
ford University professor of docu-
mentary film Jan Krawitz and ani-
mator Christopher Sullivan.
Members of the jury screen the
films with the audience at the his-
toric Michigan Theater and award a
total of $12,000 to about 35 film-
makers. Winning films will be
screened on Sunday, March 22.
Entertainment also includes live
on-stage performances prior to the
film programs, including a presenta-
tion by the Peter Sparling Dance Co.
The final program of films will be
announced today.
Not to be outdone, the East L,ans-
ing Arts Commission inaugurates its
first annual East Lansing Film Festi-
val (ELFF) Thursday-Sunday, March
26-29. ELFF will showcase full-
length independent films, as well as
documentaries, shorts and videos.
Over 30 films will be screened at the
Fairchild Theater and at the three
adjacent theaters of Wells Hall on
the Michigan State University cam-
pus.
Kicking off the festival will be the
U.S. premiere of the British comedy
Shooting Fish, a modern-day Robin
Hood story. On Friday, March 27, at
8 p.m. ELFF will hold a tribute to
Twentieth Century Fox, with a spe-
cial presentation by Bill Mechanic,
CEO and chairman of Fox Filmed
Entertainment.
Mechanic, a Michigan native,
returns to his alma mater, where he
once reviewed films for the student
newspaper, The State News. The
money man behind Titanic,
Mechanic will discuss Star Wars ver-
sus Titanic -- the anatomy of a
blockbuster. He also will show

"product reels," sneak previews of
future Fox films.
On Saturday, March 28, two
1998 Academy Award-nominated
films will be screened: Waco: The
Rules of Engagement and Dance Lexie
Dance.
Michigan filmmakers will be hon-
ored in a program on Sunday, March
29, that showcases their works.
World premieres will be featured,
including Four-Way Stop, In the
Woods and Mutant Swingers from
Mars.
Also on Sunday, at 2 p.m. in the
Fairchild Theater, the festival will
screen Mendel, the bittersweet story
of how a homeless 9-year-old Jewish
German boy comes to grips with a
new environment when his family is
displaced to a remote Norwegian vil-
lage. The film, set in the 1950s,
chronicles the child's life in Norway
where his religious background is
kept secret.
As the closing night film, ELFF
premieres Michael Moore's new
movie, The Big One a look at
Moore's three-month tour promoting
his best-selling book Down Size This!
Part Roger eT Me, part "TV Nation,"_'
part debut of a reluctant stand-up
comic, the film serves as a reminder
that Moore can make us think and
_
laugh at the same time

The 36th Ann Arbor Film Festi-
val will be held March 17-22, at
the Michigan Theater, 603 E.
Liberty, Ann Arbor. $6/single
tickets, $10/for an entire
evening, $35/for the series. For a
complete schedule and screening
times, call (313) 995-5356 or
check the Website at
http://aafilmfest.org
The East Lansing Film Festi-
val will be held March 26-29 at
the Fairchild Theater and at
venues on the Michigan State
University campus. $5/adults,
$3/students, $45/festival pass.
For screening times, call (517)
351-2735 or access the Website
at http://www.elffcom

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