P264 CJJFAX 264 Mon 20 Oct 21:14/55 1/9 IN THE ADMIT ONE NEW THIS +EEK 1 +/o?£o SHANGHAI SU%PRJSE 15 London/genital Cringingly bad film starring Madonna as a missionary alongside new husband Sean Penn in a 1930s drugs story. NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET II 18 London The monster with the steel fingernails returns. More over-the-top than the original but slick and suitably creepy. BLOOD RED ROSES PG London Made-for-TV film, cut to about 140 minutes, about a Scottish political activist's life. MoreP264 CJEFAX 264 Mon 20 Oct 21:14/37 2/9 IV THE ADMIT # ONE FESTRVAL NEWS 1 +/o?£o The 30th London Film Festival opens on November 13, with no fewer than 150 new pictures from throughout the world. Nicolas Roeg's new Castaway opens it, with Oliver Reed and Amanda Donohoe in the film of Lucy Irvine's best sjllur. Another British movie - Ken Russell's Gothic - closes it, alongside a special commercial premiere of Jim Henson's elaborate fantasy Labyrinth, with David Bowie and a host of special effects. MoreP264 CEEFAX 264 Mon 20 Oct 21:15/00 3/9 IV THE ADMIT ONE COMING OUT NEXT MONTH +/o?£o November 7 - Ginger And FredT based on Italian TV talent shows... November 14 - John Carpenter's latest, Big Trouble In Little China... - Farrah Fawcett in the controversial Extremities... November 28 - The much-vaunted new Tavernjer film Round Midnight... 2 ang 9s, BBC CJJFAX, BBC TV Cjntti, Wood Lane, London W22 7RR. MoreP264 CEEFAX 264 Mon 20 Oct 21:21/44 4/9 IN THE ADMIT # ONE NEW THIS +EEK 2 +Oo?£o +£+ GOBOTS - BATTLE OF THE ROCK LORDS U London/general An overly-complex story mars this otherwise attractive cartoon. Telly Savalas, Margot Kidder and Roddz McDowall provide the voices. CINDERELLA U LondonOgenjral It may be 3v but it's still going strong. With a new print it looks better than ives and has more detailed animation than modern cartoon films can afford. OXFORD BLUES 15 London/general MoreP264 CEJFAX 264 Mon 20 Oct 21:16/03 5/9 IV THE ADMIT ONE FESTIVAL NEWS 2 +/o?£o +£+ British films are to the fore in the London Film Festival next month. A Bill Douglas film based on the story of early trade unions, Comrades, will be launched, along with the an Anglo- German picture from conttovjrsial director Ken Loach called Fatherland. But Personal Services, made bz ex-Monty Python man Terry Jones, will not have its debut at the Festival - because of the ongoing Cynthia Paznj court case... MoreP264 CEEFA( 264 Mon 20 Oct 21:32/49 6/9 IV THE ADMIT ONE + SHORTS ... Actor Keenan Wynn, star of over 200 films and best remembered as Colonel Batguano in Dr Strangelove, has died of cancer in Lou Angeles, aged 70 ... ... The Aberdeen Gallery is showing a season of 40s films throughout October. Details on 0224 646333 ... ... Japan's top actor, Toshiro Mifune, is in London to attend a showing of the 1957 Akjra Kurosawa film Thrones of Blood in which hj starred ... MoreP264 CEEFAX 264 Mon 20 Oct 21:17/10 7/9 IN THE ADMIT ONE CRITICS' CHOICE... +/o?£o What to see or miss in the provinces ALIENS 18 Stunning effects and a well paced story make up for the director's fascination with guns. MONA LISA 18 Bob Hoskins as a loveable thug ducking and diving in the sinister side of London's underworld. PI$ARES 15 Roman Polanski's ill-fated parody of swashbuckling films, with Walter Matthau all-at-sea... MoreP264 CJEFAX 264 Mon 20 Oct 21:13/47 8/9 IV THE ADMIT ONE SURPRISE, SURPRISE... +/o?£o Shanghai Surprise, an unlikely story of 19307s missionaries and drugs starring Madonna, has its good side and its bad. The good side is for music lovers; Madonnb doesn't sing. The bad side is for filmgoers; she doesn't act either. As she and new husband Sean Penn arr the central characters, this give; the picture a body blow from the start. The film-makers complete the job, {ith poor direction of a plainly silly screenplay 2 an' 9s bz GRAHAM NORWOOD MoreP264 CJEFAX 264 Mon 20 Oct 21:14/24 * 9/9 *7£!j5j j}h—x?/$ p÷ *?/*j*j j77{/t * j *5 j5j j55* *5h5 j *//% */**////*/%*/ ?/ h +|?% BAR YNORMANT evening with his usual mixture of reviews, previews and surprises.. ....details of what's on the show can be found on this page from next Tujsdaz morning....