MORRIS MONTAGE

For two decades, said a recent arti-
cle in The New Yorker, filmmaker
Errol Morris has been turning out
"idiosyncratic nonfiction narratives in
which the profoundly funny harmo-
nizes with the potentially disturbing."
The Detroit Film Theatre at the
Detroit Institute of Arts will screen
the Jewish filmmaker's latest work,

HOLOCAUST •
IN FILM

GRAHAM
GRANDEUR

A young pioneer couple
faces the uncertainty of
love, the mysteries of the
earth and the emotional
conflicts of Puritanism in
legendary choreographer
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
Martha Graham's
Arts &Entertainment
Spring, one of
Appalachian
Editor
several classic dances that
will be presented as part of
"American
Graham
Tour 2000," corn-
Cinema: An Adventurer's Guide to
ing
to
Detroit's
Music
Hall for the
Movie Watching, Elliot Wilhem brings
Appalachian
Spring
Performing
Arts.
a scholarly and well-informed perspec-
features
a
Pulitzer
Prize-winning
score
tive to a current controversial issue:
by
Jewish
composer
Aaron
Copland.
the use of comedy in Holocaust films.
In her more than seven-decade career,
At 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 13,

As the founder of the
Detroit Film Theatre
series and curator of film
at the Detroit Institute of
Arts, host of a weekly
prime time television
show on Detroit Public
Television showcasing clas-
sic films, and author of
Videohound's World

with music by Gian-Carlo Menotti;
Satyric Festival Song, with music by
Imre Weisshaus; and But Not For Me,
featuring the music of George
Gershwin.
Tickets are $30-$40, with senior
and student discounts available. For
a complete performance schedule,
call the Music Hall box office at
(313) 963-2366.

.

Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred
DOUBLE NEGATIVES
A. Leuthher Jr., the weekend of Feb.
Camera bugs will enjoy two local
25-27 (see next week's Jewish News for
photography exhibits in town that
a complete story and review). In addi-
highlight the amateur photographer.
tion, the DFT will show a complete
Oakland Community College's
lineup of Morris' other nonfiction
Royal
Oak campus is currently dis-
works on consecutive Mondays, Feb.
playing 100 student photos in an
14-March 13, at 7:30 p.m. The
exhibition running through
schedule includes the following films:
Feb. 28 in the lobby of the
Feb 14: Gates of Heaven —
Lila Jones Johnson Theater,
Roger Ebert called this 1978
located at 739 S. Washington.
film about two California pet
Both analog and digital works
cemeteries and its portrait of the
produced in the campus' digi-
human condition ."one of the
tal photography lab are on
10 greatest films ever made."
display. Admission is free;
Feb. 21: Vernon, Florida —
(248) 540-1500.
In this 1980 film, Morris deliv-
The new traveling exhibit
ers a profile of a small
"Take My Picture, Please: A
Southern town that exposes the
Festival of Cultural Snapshots"
eccentric side of seemingly
runs through May 5 at the
Elliot Wilhelm:
ordinary people.
Cranbrook Institute of Science.
Interpreting
Feb. 28: The Thin Blue Line
The exhibit features three
Holocaust films.
— With a score by Philip
interactive components, and
This
photo
by
Herschel
Shulman
is
on
display
Glass, this 1988 documentary
at the OCC student photographers exhibit.
visitors are encouraged to
tells the story of a miscarriage
bring their cameras and take
of justice in a Texas capital-
At Music Hall: A tribute to
pictures. "From the
murder case, and notes Morris,
choreographer Martha Graham.
Background
to the
is "the only movie ever made
Foreground" offers 16 canvas
that actually solves a murder."
backdrops from around the world.
Graham choreographed 181 works, rev-
Wilhelm will present a lecture and
March 6: A Brief History of Time
"The Studio" provides a setting to
olutionizing
20th-century
dance
by
her
lead
a
discussion
about
current
per-
— Inspired by the book of the same
shoot
photos against a custom-made
use of the torso, simple movements and
spectives about the use of fiction
name, Morris' documentary about the
backdrop,
with props, lighting and
emotion
on
stage.
She
formed
her
own
and nonfiction in Holocaust films at
brilliant British physicist Stephen
computer
technology.
Costumes for
dance
company
in
1926.
Since
her
the Jewish Community Center,
Hawking won the Grand Jury Prize
children
will
be
available.
death
in
1991,
her
company
continues
Handleman Hall, in West
for Best Documentary at the
Finally, "The Snapshot Gallery
to foster the Graham technique of
Bloomfield. Using film clips, he will
Sundance Film Festival.
features
selected photos of special sig-
dance.
On
its
visit
to
Detroit,
the
troupe
Life
contrast current movies such as
March 14: Fast, Cheap er Out of
nificance
that the institute began solic-
will
hold
lecture/demonstration
classes
to
past
documentaries
Is
Beautiful
Control: A portrait of four obsessed
iting
in
November
from various mem-
for students at Abbott Middle School in
like Shoah. An afterglow with
men — a lion tamer, a topiary garden-
bers
of
the
community.
Visitors will
West
Bloomfield,
West
Bloomfield
High
refreshments follows.
er, a robot-building scientist and a pho-
take
on-
the
role
of
social
scientists and
School
and
North
Farmington
High
The program is sponsored by
tographer excited by a newly discovered
post
their
analyses
of
the
photos on a
School.
C.H.I.A.M.-Children of Holocaust
species of rodent — this 1997 film
Show
times
at
Music
Hall
are
8
p.m.
"talk
back"
board.
Survivors in Michigan. The commu-
salutes humanity's passion to create.
Museum admission is $7 adults/$4
Thursday-Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday,
nity is invited; there is no charge.
Tickets for each screening are
will
be
ages
3-17, students with ID and
Appalachian
Spring
Feb.
17-20.
For
more
information,
call
Barbara
$5.50. Books of five coupons for $20
seniors
(age 65+)/children under 3
danced
at
all
performances.
Other
Cohen,
(248)
855-0876,.or
Dr.
also are available. Call the DFT box
and
members
free. (877) 462-7262.
Errand
Into
the
Maze,
selections include
Charles Silow, (248) 356-6668.
office at (313) 833-3237.

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2000

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