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Some of 1997's most feted dance acts bid it goodbye in style

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Some of 1997's most feted dance acts bid it goodbye in style. Topping the bill are Black Grape, the Chemical Brothers, Roni Size/Reprazent, 808 State, Lo-Fidelity All Stars, LTJ Bukem, etc. He studied everything - medicine, philosophy and painting - before starting his film career as a director of music videos in the late 1960s. Music, particularly American music, has always played a major role in his work. And here, as in Paris, Texas, he uses a score contributed by Ry Cooder.We have 500 tickets for a preview screening on Sun 4 Jan at 11am at the Chelsea Cinema, SW3. Tickets can be picked up from the box-office any time: just wave a copy of this paper.

Few European directors have so openly expressed the ambivalent relationship that almost all of them engage in with the Dream Factory. Some clues to what really happened may lie in the video accidentally recorded by a former Nasa scientist (Gabriel Byrne), who is involved with an experiment to end "violence as we know it".Wenders has been quoted as saying that he set out not with a story, but with a theme: violence as a consumer article, and how, as one of the characters in the film remarks, "When things are upside-down, you start to like them that way." The result is not a simple film, but it has a stronger storyline than some of Wenders's earlier work, while exhibiting his usual strengths: memorable images, and a momentary sense of rhapsody that few other directors can equal.In a sense, it was inevitable that Wenders would go back to America. One day, he is kidnapped, but it appears that he may be mysteriously involved in some way in his own abduction; and, in the end, it is the kidnappers who end up as the news item, after being found decapitated on a patch of waste ground. FREE FILM SCREENING Wim Wenders was so shaken by his experience with Hammett (1982) that he swore never to make another film for an American producer. The End of Violence is far from being another tribute to the Hollywood myth and to American cinema as Hammett was, suggesting that Wenders may have outgrown his fascination with the States. Set in the near future (so near, in fact, that it could be a present in which communications technology has been marginally improved), The End of Violence stars Bill Pullman as a Hollywood producer with a failing marriage (to Andie MacDowell, above), a lovely swimming pool and a taste for violent action on screen. He has now relented, but only to make a film that exposes some of the underlying mechanisms of Californian society. Works from the 1960s are the best, plus a more recent installation that is exceptional Oxford Museum of Modern Art (01865 722733), to 15 Mar Tues & Wed, Fri-Sun 11- 6, Thurs 11-9 Tim Hilton.

The country's most popular painting competition, interesting as ever. Besides the first-prize winner Dan Hays, there are fine canvases by Callum Innes, Pete Ellis, Gwen Hardie and 40 others Liverpool Walker Art Gallery (0151 478 4199), to 15 Feb Mon-Sat 10-5 Sun 12-5.YOKO ONO Retrospective of the intense Japanese oddball. Very large show of familiar, repetitious works by Rossetti, Burne- Jones and Watts Their foreign contemporaries add interest Tate, SW1 (0171 887 8000) LAST WEEK (ends Sun 4 Jan) Daily 10-5.50.SENSATION. Exhibition of young British artists from the Saatchi collection. Short on honest talent, often unpleasant, nonetheless an important survey Royal Academy, W1 (0171 439 4996), ENDS TODAY 10-6.LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES EXHIBITION.

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