Film Societies
Film Societies lists films being shown in Oahu art theaters. Movies are rated on a four-star scale. "Film Societies" appears on-line every week, and Thursdays in the Star-Bulletin's "Community Calendar." Send notices to: Film Calendar, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, P.O. Box 3080, Honolulu 96802. Or fax to 523-8509. Or send e-mail to citydesk@starbulletin.com.

Thursday, June 27, 1996



Michelle Khan plays a kung-fu master in "Wing Chun."



Big Deal on Madonna Street

Hilarious satire on burglary capers follows the misadventures of amateurish crooks attempting to rob a store. The 1956 Italian film stars Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni and Renato Salvatori. At 6 and 8 p.m. Monday; $5. (Unrated)

Theater: Movie Museum

La Cage aux Folles

Gay couple Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault try to act straight on behalf of Tognazzi's son, who is bringing his fiancee and her parents to visit. French farce directed by Edouard Molinaro in 1978. At 8 p.m. July 4 and 5 and at 3, 5:30 and 8 p.m. July 6; $5. (R)

Theater: Movie Museum

Rumble in the Bronx

This chop-to-the-throat, foot-in-the-groin action film stars Jackie Chan as a tourist who runs afoul of local gangs. Chan's stunts include jumping from a bridge onto a runaway Hovercraft and leaping from the top of a garage to a tiny balcony 40 feet below. And he does it all himself, no stunt doubles, no computer-generated effects. At 6 and 8 p.m. daily through Sunday; $3.50. (R)

Theater: Hemenway Theatre

Up to His Ears

A wealthy young man decides to end his troubles by hiring a hit man for himself,

then changes his mind. The energetic French-Italian comedy features Jean-Paul Belmondo and Ursula Andress. At 3, 5:30 and 8 p.m. Sunday; $5. (Unrated)

Theater: Movie Museum

Wing Chun (Star rating unavailable)

Michelle Khan has the title role as the kung-fu master who helps in her aunt's tofu store while occasionally saving the village from rampaging bandits. Complications arise when her childhood friend (Donnie Yen) arrives and mistakes Wing Chun, who has dressed as a man, to be his romantic rival. The comic kung-fu fest, produced in 1994, is directed by Yuen Woo-Ping. At 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; $4. (Unrated)

Theater: UH-Manoa Art Auditorium

Young Frankenstein

Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks's finely tuned parody of old Frankenstein pictures features Wilder as the doctor's descendant and Peter Boyle as the monster, with Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn and Cloris Leachman. Gene Hackman appears for an uproarious spoof of the blind hermit sequence in "Bride of Frankenstein." At 8 p.m. Friday and at 3, 5:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday; $5. (PG)

Theater: Movie Museum




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