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C2 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday, March 7, 2001 Irish dancing captures the world (Continued from page C1) Proceeds from this fundraiser will provide each of this year's 12 com petitors - nine girls and two boys from Oakville and one girl from Windsor Photo by Erin Riley Shelley Morrison, 16, of the Goggin School of Irish Traditional Dance prepares her feet for the perfor mance she is about to give at a fund raising dinner/dance that was held at the 707 Galaxy Club on Friday. This formal event raised over $13,000 to help eleven Oakville dancers attend the world champi onships in Ireland next month. with $1,000 to defray the cost of their trip to County Clare, Ireland, April 7 to 15. Any remaining funds will go back into the kitty for next year's com petitors in the "W orld's." Goggin says her school will have at least one dancer dancing every day of that week. And she feels as though her dancers are at a slight disadvantage, since many of the dancers from Eng land and Ireland are known to the judges because they see them dance on a more regular basis. "One of our senior girls, Kristina Skrien, danced last year in Girls Under 17 and finished 26th (out of 180). And she was the highest ranked Canadian girl in her category...She hopes to improve that placing this year," says Goggin. "We also had a boy, Alex Johnston, who finished 17th, and he was the highest ranked North American boy in his category." River Dance and Lord of the Dance has popularized Irish dancing, she says, spreading it to such unlikely countries as South Africa and Saudi Arabia. "There's the first ever European open championships, which are being held in Spain in May," she says. "Irish dancing seems to be spreading all over Europe now." For more information on the Gog gin School, call 844-0333. Next film fest movie tonight The Oakville Arts Council (OAC) Film Festival begins its spring screen ings tonight (Wednesday) with the American film Two Family House. Set in the urban backwater of Stat en Island in the 1950s, Two Family House tells the story of Buddy Visalo, who dreams of singing stardom but is forced to face the struggles of an ordi nary life. After his one shot at making the big time is nixed by his fiancee, he tries to settle into married life, but he never manages to subdue his overar ching ambition to be a star. Buddy launches a string of failed ventures before eventually pinning his hopes on a run-down house where he plans to open a bar and be the star attraction. But between his w ife's urges to control and his tenants' refusal to vacate the house, nothing goes as planned, and Buddy is again forced to choose between his sense of duty and his heart. (Rated AA; 104 minutes.) Not o f this World will follow on Sunday, March 18. This award-win ning Italian film is the official Italian entry for the upcoming Oscars. Not o f this World is a superbly acted, bittersweet comedy, directed by Giuseppe Piccioni, who explores how a single event sets in motion lifechanging human interactions. Caterina is a young nun who is about to take her final vows. Ernesto owns a dry cleaning shop. Teresa is in her late teens and roams Milan looking for a place to sleep. Gabriele is a young police officer with a kind heart. The lives of these characters are bound together without their knowledge. The link is a newborn baby abandoned in the park. (Rated AA; 104 minutes.) Then, from Lasse Hallstrom, the director of The Cider House Rules, comes the popular French film Chocolat on Wednesday, March 21 st. Set in the 1950s in a tiny French village, where nothing much happens, Chocolat is the story of Vivianne, a young single mother who comes into town and opens a very unusual choco late shop. The shop, opening during Lent and with Sunday hours, is situat ed across from the town's church, which results in resentment and oppo sition with some members of the com munity. But when Vivianne announces her plans to hold a chocolate festival on Easter Sunday, the community finds itself in the middle of a crisis. However, in a fable-like style, most of the town, succumbs to her magical confections in a startling manner, breaking with their accepted traditions in miraculous, healthy and lusty ways. (Rated PG; 116 minutes.) Acclaimed co-winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, You Can Count on Me is both a heartbreaking and heartwarm ing comedic and dramatic snapshot of family life. This movie, which has been nominated for two Academy Awards, will be screened on Wednes day, April 4. Sammy and Terry are brother and sister who were orphaned as children but have remained close, even though they have led very different and sepa rate lives. Sammy is a church-going single mother, and Terry is a drifter moving from state to state working odd jobs, getting into trouble and occasion ally landing in jail. One tangible thing keeps them together - the family home left to them by their parents. When Terry comes to visit Sammy, this home soon becomes the meeting place for their hearts and minds as they struggle to reconcile their conflicting lives with the love that, for better or worse, irrevocably binds them togeth er. (Rated A A; 109 minutes.) On Wednesday, April 18, Crouch ing Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which has been nominated for 10 Oscars, will come to the Oakville Film Festival. Known for making films about famil ial relationships, director Ang Lee (Eat Drink Man Woman, Sense and Sensibility) surprised everyone with this martial arts epic. Based on a novel by Wang Du Lu, the film starts with the revenge plot common in the wuxia stories that Lee loved as a child, then adds a feminist twist. A legendary martial artist decides to pass on his sword. The Green Des tiny, to a friend. Soon afterwards, the sword is stolen by a masked female, setting in motion events that test the bonds of family, love, duty, and sister hood. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Drag on won the audience award at the Toronto Film Festival. (Rated PG; 119 minutes.) Director Bahman Ghobadi's tragic, yet dispassionate first feature film, A Time fo r Drunken Horses, will hit the Oakville screens on Sunday, April 29. With its sparse dialogue, rough set tings and intimate view of Kurdish Life, Ghobadi's film is a simply told but very powerful tale. (Rated AA; 80 minutes.) All OAC films are screened at 7 p.m. in Famous Players Cinemas at Oakville Town Centre I. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $8, $6 for members, and are available at the door or in advance at Bean There (106 Reynolds St.), Bookers Bookstore (172 Lakeshore Rd. 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