Ulee's Gold, opening at the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater on Aug. 28, features Peter Fonda as Ulee Jackson, a Florida beekeeper in his mid-50s who is struggling to keep his family together. Fonda, in the performance of his life, hypnotizes the camera with a gaze that calls up a bottomless well of anger, yearning, and loss.
Ulee's Gold is showing on Aug. 28 through Aug. 31 and on Sept. 4 through Sept. 7. Screenings are at 7 and 9:15 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays; at 1, 3:15, 7, and 9:15 p.m. on Saturdays; and at 2:30, 4:45, 7, and 9:15 p.m. on Sundays. Admission is $6; $5 for students; and $4 for senior citizens, children, and members of the Friends of the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater.
Ulee's Gold is the story of Ulysses Jackson (Peter Fonda), a solitary beekeeper working in the tupelo marshes of the Florida Panhandle. Wishing only to work his bees and live withdrawn from past ties, Ulee is a war veteran devastated by his wife's death and the collapse of his family. With his son, Jimmy (Tom Wood), in jail and his daughter-in-law, Helen (Christine Dunford), gone for almost two years, Ulee has become caretaker of his two granddaughters, Penny (Vanessa Zima) and Casey (Jessica Biel) Jackson.
The trio lives an ordered, if somewhat narrow, life until a call from Jimmy changes everything. Helen is in trouble, and only Ulee can fetch her home. Ulee must travel to Orlando to retrieve Helen from two of Jimmy's former partners in crime, Eddie Flowers (Steven Flynn) and Ferris Dooley (Dewey Weber). The duo turns out to have their own reasons for getting Ulee to Orlando. Old robbery money is involved and the two will haunt the Jackson family to the end.
Help comes from surprising places - a new neighbor (Patricia Richardson), an old friend from the past (J. Kenneth Campbell), and the thoughts and insights of a child. Torn from his isolating routine, Ulee must draw on old strengths and craftiness to save his family, and ultimately, himself.
The presentation of this program at the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater is made possible, in part, with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council, a state agency.
Twenty-one 19th-century Japanese woodblock prints depicting Samurai warrior stories are on display at the Lentz Center for Asian Culture through Sept. 9.
The exhibit, "Samurai Stories: Woodblock Prints of Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi," includes many prints in horizontal triptych form, a format suited to action panoramas.
Kuniyoshi (1798-1861) lived and worked during the later Edo Period of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867). Kuniyoshi's early work focused on beautiful women, landscapes, book illustrations and Kabuki actors, but after the government banned portrayal of life in the pleasure districts in 1842, he turned his talents to making dramatic and colorful prints, mixing historical and mythological events.
The exhibit is from a private collection and was organized by the University of Iowa Museum of Art as a touring retrospective exhibition.
The Lentz Center is in room 329 of Morrill Hall, 14th and U streets.
Admission is free, but a donation of $2 is suggested for Morrill Hall visitors over the age of 2. Lentz Center hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1:30-4 p.m. Sunday (the center is closed Mondays).
The 1997-98 Docent Education Course at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery will begin on Sept. 3, and will continue each Monday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon through September.
Docents will learn how to assist visitors in becoming knowledgeable about the museum and its collection, and in gaining an understanding of a wide variety of visual images. No special background or expertise is required as the course provides sufficient information and materials for applicants to become proficient in docent skills.Additional monthly sessions will be held as exhibitions change during the school year.
Beginning its 34th year, the Sheldon Docent Program has an annual enrollment of approximately 50 volunteers. Qualifications for the docent program are a commitment to education through the visual arts, time to volunteer in the museum during the hours that tours are scheduled, and an enthusiastic interest in working with people of all ages. Eligible are volunteers who wish to learn about the art museum, and who will provide informational tours for both student and adult visitors.
Following the course, the docent program requires a minimum of one morning per week throughout the school year. The primary beneficiaries of the docent-led tours are Lincoln Public Schools' fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students who visit each Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning October through April, although many additional tour groups are scheduled for afternoons and other days.
The program allows people from all segments of the community who share a commitment to the arts to volunteer their time in one of the nation's finest art museums. The 20th-century American art collection housed at the Sheldon Gallery is among the most comprehensive in the entire country.
To apply or nominate a person for the program, contact Karen Janovy, curator of education at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, 12th & R Sts., Lincoln NE 68588-0300, 472-2461.
The UNL Oratorio Chorus season will commemorate three composers: Schubert (born 1797), Mendelssohn (died 1847) and Brahms (died 1897). Lincoln residents and and other non-student singers are invited to join UNL students this fall in preparation for the Oratorio Chorus concert at 8 p.m. Nov.16, in Kimball Recital Hall. There is no audition and no fees are levied for membership in this group. Singers are to purchase music (less than $8) at Dietze Music House, 1280 O St.
An organizational meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. Aug.25 in Room 119 of the Westbrook Music Building. Weekly rehearsals commence on Sept. 8, at the same time and place.
This fall's concert will feature music for men's and women's voices as well as works for mixed choir. Highlighting the concert will be Mendelssohn's a cappella double choir setting "Denn er hat seinen Engeln" (better known as "For he shall give his angels..." from "Elijah"), "Lass dich nur nichts nicht dauren" by Brahms, and Schubert's settings of Psalm 23 for women and "Standchen" for men's voices.
For further information, call conductor James Hejduk at 472-2993
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