British Playwrights Series

In tandem with "Shouting in the Evening," a series of seminars and exhibits presented by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, the Austin Film Society will also present the following titles this month. All screenings are on Tuesdays in the Texas Union Theatre at 6pm. Admission is $3. For more information on "Shouting in the Evening," call 471-8944. This Sporting Life (1963)

D: Lindsay Anderson; with Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts.

Kitchen-sink realism tackles postwar anger, disappointment, and rugby in David Storey's self-penned adaptation of his novel; a landmark film of the British Free Cinema movement. (October 8)

Dance with a Stranger (1985)

D: Mike Newell; with Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm.

Written by Shelagh Delaney, a story of sordid working-class murder, highlighted by Richardson's wrathful, self-destructive demon of a femme fatale; based on the true story of Ruth Ellis, who was executed in 1955. (October 15)

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

D: Karel Reisz; with Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep.

Harold Pinter's script of John Fowles' novel about a Victorian romance and the actors who play the lovers in a movie a century later. (October 22)

Blow-Up

D: Michelangelo Antonioni; with David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sylvia Miles.

Co-written by Edward Bond. Swinging London as a landscape of alienation, though somehow still groovy. Fashion photography, trendy clothes, casual sex, existential riddles, the Yardbirds... all look like fun in spite of Antonioni's dismay. (October 29)