6B -he Michigan Daily - Weend, etc. Magazine -- Thuray, September 30, 1999 f The Michigan Daily *Weekend, etc. Magazine -*hursday, September 30, @99 - 11B Carl Craig's new band breaks new ground, breaks it down QUIT YOUR WHINING AND Go RENT A MOVIE By Jason Birchmeier tive artistic experimentation may even ized language of electronic music in a Daly, Atrs iter take years before audiences learn to manner that few could understand. Now appreciate its value, at the future's dawn in 1999, Carl Cmig's Special works of art challenge our pre- This same phenomenon has occurred Innerzone Orchestra similarly promises to conceptions towards a given form, asking within the world of recorded music. Miles challenge your preconceptions of music. us to reconsider our interpretations. Davis challenged his listeners in 1969 An independently spirited and idealis- Audiences seldom could prepare when with "Bitches Brew," daring to fuse jazz tic artist, Craig has arranged for a special artists such as D. W Griffith, Jackson with untraditional ideals. Then in 1989 a performance this Saturday night in Pollock and Jack Kerouac sought to chal- large camp of Detroit artists brought soul, Detroit, the city he's proud to call home. lenge their notions of art. Truly innova- intelligence and emotion to the computer- The show will be Detroit's first chance to experience Orchestra and will also show- Innerzone case artists from Craig's Orchestra independent Motor Detroit record label, Saturday at as p.m. Planet E. A live performance of dreamy techno by Common Factor, an + eclectic DJ set of downbeat funk by Recloose and plenty of other surprises will supplement the Innerzone experi- ence. Innerzone Orchestra may be marketed as "Detroit techno meets free-jazz;' but this recipe inadequately summarizes the sound of Craig's most ambitious musical experiment yet. Comprised of electronic composer Carl Craig, pianist Craig Taborn, percussionist Francisco Mora, turntablist Recloose and a few other guest stars, Innerzone is an unlikely combina- tion of juxtaposing sounds and musical perspectives. The paradoxical nature of Innerzone's sound -jaz without homs atd techno without thumping bass beats - has often left audiences just as con- fused as enlightened. The group's Saturday night perfor- mance in Detroit will launch Innerzone's US tour in support of their recently released album on Astralwerks, "Programmed." Without following a for- See INNERZONE, Page 13B UM School of Mus Dept of Theatre & Drama escape fro a quirky comedy by George F. Walker d 11 ~"i One family's BIZARRE struggle to hold on for dear life. this play contains adult language and themes October 7 - 9, 14 - 16 at 8pm October 10 & 17 at 2pm Trueblood Theatre Tickets are $14 " Students $7 with ID League Ticket Office 734-764-0450 ® " FRANCE * GREECE THAILAND RUSSIA MEXICO " z z m Z N m Bencther ,909e C hat- yWW? ) . C c o era?,na1Pogr9 s Michigan Union Ballroom 4:40to06:00 PMC . . .. 3'. Mz Been there, done SC Ethat-yet? Z The University of Michigan r z Office of International Programs m y0513 Michigan Union C) 734 764 4311 tel C L OP oip~unichedu0 waxnck ..n~ rn "CHINA " ENGLAND " JAPAN,* GERMANY " AUSTRIA'"3 As you might have noticed, but probably didn't, in last week's Weekend, Etc. the film staff started counting down the top 10 movies of the '90s. It started with "The Sweet Hereafter" and continues this week with "The Usual Suspects," and will keep on trucking until we hit what our votes deter- mined to be the best movie of .. the '90s.e o And you will probably dis- agree with us. Hell, I dis- agree with what the whole film staff {l picked as the Ed best film of theSEd decade. But Sholinsky that doesn't really matter, tato of because it just t breaks down to _ _ _ _ the fact that it reflects our OPINION. It's not some immutable fact. It's not the truth. What it is is something that the com- bined film staff thinks is right. Whenever any group of people venture to compile a list of films, books, albums, people or whatever, there will be always people who scoff at the list. For one reason or another something or someone that somebody likes will get left out of that list. But we don't claim that this list is meant to be exhaustive. Instead, it reflects what our compiled votes considered the best. That being said, I think the list we came up with is pretty damn good. It's not exhaustive; it doesn't have every movie I'd like to have on it; but it does give a good sense of what qualityufilmmaking in the '90s was all about. And while drawing up this list, I realized what a great decade the '90s was for film. Sure, there was a lot wrong with Hollywood in the '90s: the $100 million budget, the $20 mil- lion star and the bottom-line domi- nance of the megaplex. Although every decade has had to cope with some tampering with artistic film- making, now the financial stakes are higher than ever. But a great deal of good has hap- pened in the '90s. First there was the rise (and I'd say fall) of the indepen- dent film, starting with "The Grifters," peaking with "Pulp Fiction" and coming apart with films like "The Brothers McMullen" and the monopoly-like reign of Miramax. That was complemented by film- makers being allowed a greater degree of freedom, facilitating the return of auteurs like Robert Altman and Terence Malick. And the result is a large body of work that spans gen- res and proves that whether a film was made with a gigantic budget or on a shoestring, many works of value are possible. Our list is diverse and far-reach- ing, and includes many films you may recognize (like "The Usual Suspects") and films you may not (like "The Sweet Hereafter"). A cou- ple of the films won Oscars for Best Picture, while others deserved to win and got trounced by lesser films (see "Shakespeare in Love" beating out both "Saving Private Ryan" and "The Thin Red Line" last year). But I think our list is best defined by the films that didn't make the cut. They demonstrate best the high cal- iber of films that represent the decade. Hopefully they will be what filmmakers, film students, film scholars and fans see when they look back on the '90s, not out-of-control budgets and who triumphed on the bottom line. The following is a list of films that were voted for by at least one staff member, but didn't make the top 10 (in no particular order): "My Left Foot," "The Remains of the Day," "Shine," "Scent of a Woman," "Mrs. Brown," "The Ice Storm," "Clerks," "Out of Sight," "American Beauty," "Rushmore," "Life is Beautiful," "Forrest Gump," "The Wings of the Dove," "Evita," "The English Patient," "The Prince of Tides" (yes, there is a Barbra fan on staff - oy!), "The Thin Red Line," "Fargo," "Clockers," "The People Vs. Larry Flynt," "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control," "Hoop Apply in person Dreams," "Leaving Las Vegas," "Heat," "Sling Blade," "Swingers," "Lone Star," "Akira Kurosawva's Dreams," "JFK," "Lost Highway," "Smoke," "Devil in a Blue Dress" and "Fearless." Are there films missing? Yep. 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