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DATE: TUESDAY, February 11, 1992 TAG: 9202110121
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WHO, WHERE & WHEN
Film festival opensHollins College's French Film Festival begins tonight with "Diva," a film centering around an opera-intoxicated 18-year-old mail carrier.
Other films to be shown are "King of Hearts" on Feb. 18, "La Cage aux Folles" (Birds of a Feather) on Feb. 25, and "La Cage aux Folles II on March 3.
All films begin at 8 p.m. in the college's Babcock Auditorium of the Dana Science Building. English subtitles are provided with each film.
For more information, call 362-6000.
Film to be screened
German filmmaker Doris Dorrie will introduce her film "Men" on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Babcock Auditorium at Hollins College. Dorrie also will lead a discussion of the picture following the screening. The comedy-satire tells the story of an advertising man who discovers his wife is having an affair and becomes roommates with her bohemian lover. Dorrie is a Fulbright scholar-in-residence at Hollins and will teach there through June. The screening is open to the public at no charge.
UFO segment to air
WYTHEVILLE - A report on numerous sightings of unidentified flying
objects in Southwest Virginia skies in 1987-88 will be the lead segment on NBC-TV's "Unsolved Mysteries" for its 100th show Feb. 19.
The UFO segment was rescheduled so it could be used on the anniversary show, said producer Cynthia Buzzard.
She said professional actors will portray some of the Wythe County residents who reported sightings, and those sightings will be re-created through special effects. The segment had been enthusiastically received by Cosgrove-Meurer Productions, the creators of "Unsolved Mysteries," she said.
A TV crew visited Wythe County in early October last year to do interviews and shoot footage for the production. Area residents will be seen throughout much of the 20-minute segment.
Organ recital is next
The 1991-92 Fine Arts Series of Greene Memorial United Methodist Church will continue Sunday with a recital by English organist Andrew Lumsden.
His performance in the church will begin at 4 p.m.
There will be no charge for admission, though a voluntary offering will be collected. Proceeds will help to defray the cost of a $120,000 restoration of the church organ.
Lumsden, an alumnus of Cambridge University, is organist and master of the choristers at England's Lichfield Cathedral. Earlier, he was sub-organist at Westminster Abbey and assistant organist at Southwark Cathedral.
Lumsden was named National Young Organist of the Year in 1985 and in 1986 won the Manchester International Organ Competition over contestants from a dozen countries. His solo performance credites include appearances with the London Philharmonic and the amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. the organist's first recording was issued in 1990.
Sunday's program includes compositions by Cesar Franck, Louis Claude Daquin, J.S. Bach, Olivier Messiaen, Marcel Dupre and William Walton.