Sitting at a table near the stage, watching through glazed eyes and helplessly giggling at the awesome perfection of it all, I was reduced to thoroughly unprofessional cried of “Lock ’em up for arson!” after each tune. The band loved me, but not as much as we in the audience loved them. It was, without question, the finest music I heard in New York. ■ I ■ - » - ' B i EPILOGUE: fter a nervous plane ride in the first days of the controller’s strike, I’m back in good, old Whitebread Portland, where you can walk around alone at night without feeling like a moving target; where the cops may be assholes but at least they act sober; where people will smile at you on the street even if they don’t like your looks; where heroin is hard to find in the open and the prostitutes will leave you alone if you leave them alone; where the liquor stores close before dark; where there’s almost no place good to eat after midnight and you can’t get pizza by the slice; where the latest trends arrive a year later; where both daily papers are owned by the same publisher; where black music is almost never played on the radio; where the best musicians can’t make enough to live on and there’s no place that features national jazz talent on a regular basis; where the white folks like to think they’re “progressive” while pretending that the black folks aren’t here; where most people still give a shit about the so-called “quality of life” ; where the landlords haven’t yet discovered how to make money by burning down their own buildings; where smog alerts are rare and traffic jams can be avoided; where the sun sets behind green hills and the city lights reflect off the river so peacefully; where there’s more trees than people. In so many ways, Portland is the opposite of New York. It might be a nice place to live, but I wouldn’t want to spend a whole vacation here. Books 0 n Resale & Handsewn Maternity Clothing Specialty Cotton Children’s Clothing Birth Announcements Gifts and accessories for the newborn & the nursing mother 3959 S.E. Hawthorne Tuesday-Saturday 10:30-5:30 233-8130 NORTHWEST FILM STUDY CENTER 1219 SW Park Ave. Portland, OR 97205 221-1156 OCTOBER FILMS 1 THURSDAY The Exterminating Angel and Simon of the Desert —8 p.m. This black comedy fable is one of Bunuel’s most mysterious and fascinating works. 3 SATURDAY “ The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad —2 p.m. Diary of a Chambermaid —8 p.m. This Bunuel film is a pointed observation of the rise of Fascism in 1939 France. Jeanne Moreau stars. 4 SUNDAY Diary of a Chambermaid — 7 p.m. Seventh Voyage of Sinbad — 9 p.m. 7 WEDNESDAY Open Screening —8 p.m. Regional film and video artists are invited to bring or send recent work for public screening. 8 THURSDAY FREE MOVIES! (You Buy the Popcorn) Subscribe to Willamette Week —the scrappiest, most awardwinning weekly paper in the U.S.—and we'll send you a bonus Pass for Two good for any movies showing at these great Seven Gables theaters: Cinema 21 The Movie House Fine Arts Remember, besides Willamette Week's tough, perceptive behind- the-scenes reporting, you also get Fresh Weekly, Portland's great arts & entertainment guide. Delivered to your home each week for just 29c! (New subscriptions only) r ---------------------------------------------------------- 1 I Looks good to me. Sign me up for: • □ $15, One year and a Seven Gables Theater pass □ $26, Two years and two Seven Gables Theater passes U|—। Pnaymen.trEnc1losejd □ VISA or □ MC □ Bill me ff_______________________ (Ind. exp. date) Name ___________________________________________ Address • City ----------------------------------------------Zip I sc j Phone ____________________________________________ • Willamette Week 320 SW Stark St., Portland, OR., 97204 243-2122 Passes will expire Dec. 31, 1981 The Clio Awards —8 p.m. IVe present the winners from the 1980 competition, the best of a special kind of filmmaking. 9 FRIDAY The Story of Carl G. Jung — 8 p.m. 10 SATURDAY The Secret Garden —2 p.m. Belle de Jour — 8 p.m. Catherine Deneuve plays the sexually unfulfilled wife of a gentle doctor, who finds diversion working afternoons in a brothel. Bunuel. The Milky Way — 10 p.m. A surreal pilgrimage through contemporary France. Bunuel. 11 SUNDAY The Milky Way — 7 p.m. and Belle de Jour — 9 p.m. 14 WEDNESDAY The Pagnol Trilogy: Marius — 8 p.m. Among the classics of pre-war French cinema are Marcel Pagnol's Marius, Fanny, and Cesar. Directed by Alexander Korda. 15 THURSDAY The Pagnol Trilogy: Fanny —8 p.m. 16 FRIDAY The Pagnol Trilogy: Cesar —8 p.m. 17 SATURDAY National Velvet — 2 p.m. Tristana —8 p.m. Catherine Deneuve and Fernando Rey star in this chilling surrealist horror story. Bunuel. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie — 10 p.m. Perhaps Bunuel’s most accessible film, it won the Oscarfor the Best Foreign Film of the year. 18 SUNDAY The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie —7 p.m. and Tristana — 9 p.m. 21 WEDNESDAY Films From the Archive of the Oregon Historical Society — 8 p.m. 22 THURSDAY Best Boy —8 p.m. This Academy Award winning film is about Philly, the filmmaker's 52-year old cousin with the emotional and intellectual age of an eight year old, and his elderly parents. 24 SATURDAY Heidi —2 p.m. The Phantom of Liberty —8 p.m. Behind an apparently haphazard daisy chain of episodes lies an ordered series of sardonic inversions. Directed by Bunuel. 25 SUNDAY Best Boy —7 p.m. The Phantom of Liberty —9 p.m. 28 WEDNESDAY The Films of Al Razutis — 8 p.m. Al Razutis’ work integrates film, video and holography. 29 THURSDAY That Obscure Object of Desire —8 p.m. At age 77 Bunuel created this darkly humorous and satirical work in fulfillment of a longstanding fantasy. 31 SATURDAY Ichabod and Mr. Toad —2 p.m. Phantom of the Opera —8 p.m. Clinton St. Quarterly 39
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