Ten THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, Januory 16, 1969 Ten THE MICHIGAN DAILY - U 4 c IBRA P"A 1969 'A THURSDAY and FRIDAY JAN.9, 10THE SILENCEi dir., Ingmar Bergman. Swedish, 1962. Ingrid Thulin, Gun- nel Lindblom. Bergman's somber view of modern man's condition, where human relations are grotesquely ego- centric and sexually perverse. "Touched with genius." Time JAN. 11i 12 THE LEFT HANDED GUN dir., Arthur Penn. Paul Newman, Hurd Hatfield. From the director of Bonnie and Clyde, a brilliant use of the Billy the Kid legend as a study in alienation. Newman at his best. A Western like you've never seen before. JAN. 16, 17 STREET OF SHAME dir., Kenji Mizogushi. Japanese, 1956. One of Japan's greatest directors uses a brothel setting for his recurrent theme-a man's soul saved by a woman's love. First time in Ann Arbor. Short: THE ADVENTURE (Chaplin) - JAN. 18, 19 THE ECLIPSE dir., Michelangelo Antonioni. Italian, 1961. Monica Vitti, Alain Delon. From the director of Blowup: "The image of man presented in this film of breath taking visual beauty is the fearful lunatic silence of a trapped animal, of man at dead end." Jonas Mekas. JAN. 22 ORPHANS OF THE STORM dir., D. W. Griffith. The Gish sisters on the rough end of the French Revolution. A silent classic by one of America's great directors. JAN. 23,24 TOUCH OF EVIL dir., Orson Welles, 1958. Marlene Dietrich, Orson Welles, Charlton Heston. Welles at his most grotesque! A garish, flamboyant thriller whose real subject "is love of the film medium and all its stylistic possibilities." Pauline Kael. Short: GUNS OF VENGEANCE (Tom Mix) JAN. 25, 26 THE SOFT SKIN lir., Francois Truffant. French, 1964. Francoise Dorleac. From the director of Jules and Jim and The 400 Blo*s, a film in the Hitchcock style in which he creates "a world, so concrete, it is almost tangible." The Seventh Art. JAN. 29 SHOULDER ARMS* 1919, Charlie Chaplin's hilarious parody of war. THE GOLD RUSH, 1925. Charlie in the Yukon. JAN. 30, 31 BORIS GUDINOV Russian 1954. (Color) Mussourgsky's opera based on Pushkin's tale, with stars of the Bolshoi Theatre. Full of pageantry; pomp and spectacle, "veryhmuch like Eisen- stein's Alexander Nevsky." Arthur Knight. Short: THE INTERVIEW FEB. 1, 2 BEFORE THE REVOLUTION dir., B. Bertolucci, Italian, 1964. A modern setting of Stend- hal's Charterhouse at Parma, dealing with the experiences of a young revolutionary idealist. "You come out of the theater elated, restored to that xyouthful ardor where all hopes are raised a once." Pauline Kael. FEB. 5 Special! Creative Arts Festival presents Stanley Kauff- man, noted film critic, for a lecture and discussion. FEB. 6, 7 EXPERIMENTAL FILM PROGRAM Some of the best films of the avante garde directors. FEB. 8,9 THE GOLDEN COACH dir., Jean Renoir, 1954. (Color) Anna Magnani in "her greatest screen performance." A commedia dell'arte troupe explore "the ambiguities of illusion and reality, theater and life." Short: MADELEINE FESTIVAL WEEK OF '30's FILMS FEB. 10 MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN dir., Frank Capra, 1939. Gary Copper. A biting satire on corrupt politics and reform movements, very much in the social protest style of the 30's. FEB. 1 1 THE WOMEN dir., George Cukor, 1939. Clare Booth Luce's venomous, bitchy comedy with an all - what else - female cast, the biggest stars of the day: Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, (INTER Sc . SATURDAY and SUNDAY FEB. 12 1 AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG dir., Mervyn Leroy, 1932. A film in the tradition of the 30's social action, a major influence in prison reform. Paul Muni gives an outstanding performance of a man forced into a life of crime. Shorts: MICKEY MOUSE CARTOONS FEB. 13 LITTLE CAESAR dir., Mervyn Leroy, 1930. Edward G. Robinson in the role that made him a star, the drchetypal touch man. First of the talky gangster films glorfying the 20's gang wars. Short: POWER AND THE LORD FEB. 14 MORNING GLORY dir., Lowell Sherman, 1936. Katherine Hepburn and Ad- olphe Menjou. The Cinderella story of a young actress who becomes a Broadway star. Hepburn won her first Oscar for this role. Short: CHICKENS COME HOME (Laurel fr Hardy) FEB. 15 NINOTCHKA dir., Ernst Lubitsch, 1939. Greta Garbo and Melvyn Doug- las. A witty burlesque of Bolsheviks in Paris. "The screen's first lady of drama playing in deadpan comedy with all the assurance of Buster Keaton." Hear Garbo laugh! FEB. 16 IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT dir., Frank Capra, 1934. Claudette Colbert as a runaway heiress, Clark Gable as a wandering journalist in this charming comedy. Academy awards for Best Film, Best Direction and Best Actor and Actress! . . . At 7 and 9:05 P.M. HEDULE MARCH 20, 21 GENERAL DELLA ROVERE dir., Roberto Rosselini. Italian, 1959. Vittorio De Sica in one of his greatest roles as a petty swindler who becomes a Resitance martyr.. A profoundly existential.film. Winner of the Grand Prize at the Venice and San Francisco Film Festivals. 9 MARCH 22, 23 THE BLUE ANGEL Joseph von Sternberg, 1930. Marlene Dietrich, nings. The film that launched the Dietrich professor's sexual submission to a sultry singer of sado-masochism. Short: ANGORA LOVE (Laurel and Hardy) Emil Jan- legend. A is a classic WW FEB. 19 THE COMING OF SOUND Museum of Modern Art's composite of the effect of sound onthe film, including scenes of the original Mickey Mouse. (Free showing) FEB. 20, 21 ZAZIE DANS LE METRO dir., Louis Malle. French, 1960. (Color). Catherine Dem- ongeot. A wild, anarchistic comedy, demonic in its invent- iveness, like a modern "Alice in Wonderland." "There is something not quite innocent or healthy about this film," Bosley Crowther. FEB. 22, 23 YOJIMBO dir., A. Kurasawa. Japanese, 1961. Toshiro Mifune. A sav- agely comic and action packed Eastern. Mifune, as a Brechtian samuri, "a Galahad with lice," won the Venice Festival award for this great performance. "Visually fault- less," Sight and Sound. FEB. 26 SUNSET BOULEVARD dir., Billy Wilder, 1950. Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Eric von Strohelm. The grotesque tale of a faded movie queen and her ambitious gigolo. A great tribute to that tarnished jewel-Hollywood. FEB. 27,28 THE ITALIAN STRAW HAT dir., Rene Clair, 1827. "Very simply one of the funniest films ever made, and one of the most elegant as well ... so expertly timed and choreographed that farce become ballet," Pauline Kael. Shorts: MOSCOW CLAD IN SNOW; D. W. Griffith's MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (with Lillian Gish) MARCH 1,2 THE LOVERS (Les Amants) dir., Louis Malle. French, 1959. Jeanne Moreau as a bored Madame Bovary looking for a lover-whom she finds. "The film's unrestrained romantic plunge into the Reality of Sex is purely youthful. ... We can hear a fervent, whole-souled note," Stanley Kauffmran. Short: Rick Cluchey's THE CAGE (San Quentin prisoners) MARCH 11-16 THE SEVENTH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL MARCH 19 CITIZEN KANE dir., Orson Welles, 1941. The fictionalized life of William Randolph Hearst-and one of the films that revolutionized U i MARCH 26 ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE dir., Roger Corman. Jason Robards, Jr., George Segal. The Capone gang wars of the 20's presented in that distinct Corman style. MARCH 27-28 HALLELUJAH King Vidor, 1929. All black cast, first serious treatment of Negro life, but its exaggerated and patronizing approach reveals basic American stereotypes. MARCH 29-30 NOTHING BUT A MAN dir., Michael Roemer, 1965. Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln. A quiet, unpretentious film that looks honestly at some as- pects of the race problem. "It sounds like people talking, not like a doughy morality play," Stanley Kauffmann. Short: BEAR CIRCUS APRIL 2. A Western. Title to be announced. APRIL3,4 IVITELLONI dir., Federico Felini. Italian, 1953. Franco Fabrizi, Albeto Sardi. Small town boys with big ideas sponge off their par- ents, loaf; and dream of women. 'A fusion of acid satire and warm acceptance," Pauline Kael. Short: THE TELL TALE HEART APRIL 5, 6 THE MARRIED WOMAN Jean-Luc Godard. French, 1964. (Color). Mocha Meril, Bernard Noel. One of the world's greatest directors depicts mariage as legalized form of prostitution. A highly com- plex, controversial, beautiful and fascinating film. Short: RAILROAD STOWAWAYS APRIL 9 POINT OF ORDER 1964. An incredible documentary of the Army-McCarthy hearings. American fascism runs head on into Yankee integrity. APRIL10,11 MURIEL dir., Alain Resnais. French, 1964. (Color). Delphine Sey- rig. From the director of Hiroshima, Mon Amour and La Guerre est Finie comes "another absorbing exercise in style." APRIL 12, 13 .MONIKA dir., Ingmar Bergman. Swedish, 1952. Harriet Anderson, Lars Ekborg. Bergman's most erotic film, a nitty-gritty Elvira Madigan. "The most beautiful film of the most orig- inal of cineastes," Jean-Luc Godard. Short: WORK (Chaplin) APRIL 16 AN AMERICAN IN PARIS Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron star in this delightful musical about an expatriate in Paris. APRIL 17, 18 THE MISFITS dir., John Huston, 1961. Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift. Written by Arthur Miller. This nostal- gic tribute to the vanishing cowboy was the last film of both Monroe and Gable. One of Huston's most outstanding directing jobs. APRIL 19, 20 PROGRAM OF'JAPANESE EXPERIMENTAL FILMS See what's being done underground in the land of the rising sun. APRIL 24, 25 A NIGHT AT THE OPERA dir., Sam Wood. The Marx Brothers unstuff the shirts of High Society and Grand Opera. "I always enjoy watching this one," Groucho. Short: A NIGHT IN THE SNOW (Chaplin) APRIL 26,27 A DAY AT TH E RACES More of the Marx Brothers' crazy comedy. Would Harpo j * & I i