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New to View: 'Dirty Dancing' swings back to screen with extras

New to View: 'Dirty Dancing' swings back to screen with extras
Hotty Miss  |  by www.dispatch.com. All rights reserved. 26.04 | 18:56

This is dancing? Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey save wear and tear on their feet.
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Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey save wear and tear on their feet.

Twenty years ago, many moviegoers -- mostly women -- were having the time of their lives watching Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey make steamy music in the 1987 hit Dirty Dancing.
The feel-good romance from director Emile Ardolino is back in theaters for two anniversary screenings next week.


The film and a host of extras will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at the Easton 30, Georgesville Square 16 and Lennox 24 theaters.


Among the extras are a 20-minute documentary on the making of the film, including interviews with the principals; a look at the movie's cultural imfluence; and a separate visit to the London stage version.
Admission is $10. A commemorative 20th-anniversary DVD is on the way.


Sandrine Bonnaire plays Joan of Arc in Rivette's version of the saint's military career and trial. The film was so long that it was edited (purists prefer the verb butchered) into two two-hour features, but the Wexner will screen Rivette's 5 1/2 -hour original in its entirety over two nights.
Part one, The Battles, will be screened at 7 tonight, followed by part two, The Prisons, at 7 p.

m. Friday.
Curiously, despite the length, Rivette's version of Joan's life and execution skips over the long trial that has been the centerpiece of other versions -- notably Carl Dreyer's 1928 classic, The Passion of Joan of Arc.


• The Condemned -- Wrestling champ "Stone Cold" Steve Austin plays an American who is taken from a South American prison by a TV producer to a remote island and forced to battle other condemned killers for his life. The R-rated knuckle-buster was co-written and directed by Scott Wiper, a former Granville resident who made a pair of features, Captain Jack and A Better Way To Die, in his old Ohio haunts some years ago.
• Everything's Gone Green -- No, this isn't an optimistic sequel to Al Gore's environmental lecture.

Paulo Costanzo of the sitcom Joey plays a slacker who stumbles into a job writing about Canadian lottery winners, then is tempted into a money-laundering scheme that feeds his greed. The R-rated comedy was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia (playing itself for a change), by veteran Canadian TV director Paul Fox.
• The Invisible -- A teenage boy is beaten by other kids who think he ratted on one of them.

He dies, then becomes an invisible ghost who must find a way to prove the circumstances of his death. The PG-13 spooker from director David S. Goyer (Blade: Trinity) is based on a 2002 Swedish movie and stars Justin Chatwin, who played Tom Cruise's son in War of the Worlds.


• Kickin' It Old Skool -- The latest title for the spelling-impaired stars Jamie Kennedy (Malibu's Most Wanted) as a young '80s break dancer who suffers an accident that puts him in a coma for 20 years. When he emerges, he tries to kick-start his dancing career in a new age. The comedy with a lot of beats marks the directorial debut of Harvey Glazer.


• Next -- Nicolas Cage lends his assorted talents to another conflicted character: a Las Vegas magician who can see a few moments into the future. He considers his talent a curse, but it interests a government agent (Julianne Moore) who needs him to help her stop the threatened detonation of a nuclear device by a terrorist group. Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day) directed the PG-13 thriller.


• Year of the Dog -- Former Saturday Night Live regular Molly Shannon takes on her largest role since the creepy Superstar as a single woman whose greatest passion is for her dog. When the pooch accidentally dies, she struggles to fill the void by becoming an animal-rights activist. The first film directed by writer Mike White (Chuck Buck, The School of Rock) also stars Peter Sarsgaard, John C.

Reilly and Laura Dern. The unconventional comedy is rated PG-13.
• Horatio's Hamlet is a 28-minute film that imagines what Hamlet's friend Horatio did after the events of Shakespeare's play.

The work grew out of a monologue developed by Columbus actor Nick Baldasare, who plays Horatio. The film, directed by Columbus native and longtime filmmaker Jay Woelfel, will be screened at 8 and 9 tonight at the Drexel Gateway theater, 1550 N. High St.

Baldasare and Woelfel will be on hand to discuss the project. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted to support Actors' Theatre Company.
• The Wexner Center will screen the 1935 British adventure Emil and the Detectives at 7 p.

m. Saturday as part of a European Cinema Research Forum hosted by the Film Studies program at Ohio State University. The film recounts the plight of a boy en route to London by train when he is robbed.

He enlists a gang of street kids to help him track the thief.
• How Ohio Pulled It Off is a documentary feature by three Ohio University graduate students investigating charges that votes in the 2004 presidential election in Ohio were miscounted and voters were disenfranchised. As part of the Athens International Film Video Festival, the feature will be screened at 7 p.

m. Saturday in Stuart's Opera House, 52 Public Square, Nelsonville. Admission is free, but a $3 donation is suggested.

Filmmakers Matthew Kraus, Charla Baker and Mariana Quiroga will introduce the screening. For a festival schedule, visit www.athensfest.

org.
• Welcome to the Dollhouse, writer-director Todd Solondz's stinging, funny, sad depiction of high-school hell, will conclude Ohio Wesleyan University's Community Film Series at 9:15 p.m.

Tuesday and 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Strand Theatre, 28 E.

Winter St., Delaware. Heather Matarazzo stars as Dawn Wiener, the social outcast who feels all the pain that her classmates and family inflict on her.

Tickets cost $5 at the door.
• The second of two "Optic Nerve" programs will be presented at 7 p.m.

Tuesday at the Wexner Center. Conducted in conjunction with a Columbus Museum of Art exhibition, the program compiled by OSU's J. Ronald Green will present examples of 1960s avant-garde work by experimental filmmakers Scott Bartlett, Stan Brakhage, Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, Peter Kubelka and Paul Sharits.


Always subject to change: Lucky You, Spider-Man 3, May 4; After the Wedding, Delta Farce, The Ex, Georgia Rule, 28 Weeks Later, May 11; Away From Her, Shrek the Third, May 18; Bug, Waitress, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, May 25.
Frank Gabrenya is Dispatch film critic.

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