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...sidewalk. "If I don't do it, they'll think I'm hiding, and so they will start looking for me." Intellectuals have been particularly hard hit, arrested by the thousands. Some 40 Warsaw scientists narrowly escaped the roundup when one of them managed to alert a network of taxi drivers known to be Solidarity members. The cabbies picked up the scientists at their homes, according to a prearranged plan, and drove them to hiding places. On the streets, friends talked to one another while looking over their shoulders for soldiers. In their homes, people once again began to panic...
...Taxi Zum Klo--Thursday at 12:50, 2:40, 4:30, 6:20 and 10:10 p.m., Friday-Tuesday at 12:50 2:40, 4:30, 6:20, 8:15 and 10:10 p.m.; Nickelodeon Cinemas...
...Taxi Zum Kio--daily at 1:25, 3:05, 4:45, 6:25, 8:10 and 10 p.m.; with Beau Pere at 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:40 and 10 p.m.; and Cutter's Way at 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 p.m.; Nickelodeon Cinemas...
...Taxi zum Klo (Taxi to the John) answers most of the objections to filmed sex precisely by seeing sex as one facet, however crucial, of its protagonist's life. This lightly fictionalized autobiography is Writer-Director-Star Frank Ripploh's first feature film, and it is as ostensibly artless as a home movie. In the film, Frank is a well-liked teacher in a Berlin secondary school, a fond son, an amateur film maker and an energetic participant in the city's homosexual night life. His lover Bernd (Bernd Broaderup, who took the same role in Frank...
...People say the film is porno," Ripploh notes, "but that's not the movie. It's 92 minutes long, and only three minutes and 20 seconds show direct body sex." Those 200 seconds will be enough to attract some people to Taxi and repel others, all for the wrong reasons. The right reasons are these: the film is witty, charming, rigorously unsentimental and fair to all its characters. Though none of the principals are professional actors, the performances are acute and convincing. The film, made in 16-mm for about $50,000, is handsomely photographed and edited with...