Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, September 19, 1969 TH__HGNDIL rdy etebr1,16 m" cinema- Ramsey Clark cites nation ' ills FOX' EASTEP~I i'.f TS iU FQX "HVILtaGE 375No MAPLE RD. "769.1300 MON.-FRI.- 7:20 & 9:30 SAT. &SUN.--3 5:10-7:20-9:30 Pick of the litter By GORMAN BEAUCHAMP Greta Garbo was the greatest movie star ever, the Mona Lisa of the silver screen, a woman of incredible, ineffable, elusive beauty. She was and is a legend. Strangely, however, few of her films are ever seen perhaps because few were very good. Cinema Guild in the last couple of years has shown the two best-Camille and Ninotchka. This week lFri the Guild is presenting her in Queen Christina, a high class bit of historical soap opera based, rather loosely I imagine, on the life and loves of the great seven- tcnth century queen of Sweden. The film was directed by Rouben Mamoulian, better known, and better, as a stage rather than a film director. but his comments on directing Garbo (to be found in an interview in Sarris' Interviews with Directors, Cinema Guild's other offering (Sat. and Sun.I is Antonioni's L'Avventura, which, along with Godard's Breathless, is probbly the most important film of the 60's, important both in itself as well as for its influence. It was the first in Antonioni's decade-long exploration of the inner life of modern man, the crisis of faith in our society. When it was awarded a special Jury Prize at the Cannes Festival in 1960. a huge uproar followed: the film was denounced as too difficult, too slow, too enigmate. But L'Avventura taught a generation a new way of looking at cinema, so that by 1967, in Blow-up, Antonioni's oblique, elliptical style proved to be com- mercially quite successful. Seeing L'Avventura now, one may not be struck by its startling originality as we were then, since it has been so widely assimilated, but its power and beauty are still over- whelni g. Another important and ori-ginal film is John Cassavetes' Faces, now playing on a double bill with Pasolini's Teorema at the Fifth Forum. For my money. Faces was the best American film of last year. The kind of social criticism implicit in Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy or Lester's Petulia is surface shallow up against Cassavetes' revelation of the sterile horror of Levittown living. The Ark coffee house shows films on Monday nights in an informal, sit on the floor and smoke atmosphere. Elliot Barden, head honcho of this venture, follows the enviable policy of booking films that he wants to see and often hasn't. This Monday he is showing Don Siegel's Riot in Cell Block 11, an account of a prison- er's rebellion in Folsom Prison, of Johnny Cash fame. Siegel is an action-film director, very highly regarded among European cineastes like Godard. Riot was filmed on location in the prison and stars, a number of then unknown, now familiar heavies led by Neville Brand. Siegel's films deal with the down and out, instinctively anarchi stratum of society and this one presents a violent but humane look at the jungle world of a modern prison. Another action-film director highly rated in the 50's, is John Sturges whose The Great Escape is being shown by Cinema II (Fri. and Sat.). Struges made a big splash in the early days of Cinema- scope, but critical reaction long ago set in to his overinflated reputation and it's hard to imagine why, now, Cinema II is reviving this film. The Campus contributing to the rash of reruns in town, is showing Claude Leluche's elegant soap opera, A Man and a Woman. This film was a great hit a couple of years back, but, except for its pastel surface beauty, it has little to recommend it. The seragly Lion in Winter roars on at the Michigan, soon, it is hoped, to be put out of its misery. At the Fox Village John Voight and Dustin Hoffman turn in excellent performances in the poorly directed Midnight Cowboy, making it a good, if not a great, film. You will greatly help the cause of discouraging this theatre's blatant "intermission" policy by boycotting the candy counter: pop your own and take it with you. I find it impossible to sit through Sidney Poitier movies anymore so the State's offering of The Last Man will go unreported in this column-not that it matters much. You can't argue with success but you can ignore it. LASER CONCERT THE VERY LATEST IN ELECTRONIC ENTERTAINMENT direct from its New York Pre- miere Showin. See the Sonovi ion Krypton Loser transform music into 4 color, full screen desins. SONOVISION Fri- 1:00 PM. Sat.- 1:00 matinee & 1:00 P.M. Sun 1:00 matinee & 1:00 P.M. i FIFI' FORUM 5th at Liberty 761-9700 By DAVE CHUDWIN Former U.S. Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark told how bad things really are to over 600 people at Hill Aud. yesterday. "Our's is a house of many divi- sions-between "rich and poor, young and old, educated and un- educated. and white and black," said the former adviser to Presi- dent Lyndon B. Johnson. Citing the great changes in American life since the turn of the century as the cause of many of these problems, Clark called on in- stitutions such as government and the universities to adapt to today's conditions. "What is most important is to develop techniques of institutional change," Clark said. "If we don't, the frustrations built up in this country will break loose." Clark listed the population ex- plosion and advances in science and technology as the two major factors in changing world con- ditions. "We'll add a billion people in the next decade and as many as we have now in 31 years." Clark explained. "That will affect the lives of all of us." Clark noted there are millions of Americans alive today who re- member when the first car rolled into their towns. With a barrage of statistics he showed the differ- ences technology has made to American society. "Men have come to master na- ture through science and tech- nology and now the question is 'whether science and technology I will conquer man," Clark added. Noting the fact that the natives of Alaska have a life expectancy half that of white Americans. Clark criticized the unequal dis- tribution of the benefits.of tech- nology and began a long list of America's unsolved problems. The former attorney general described large areas of cities where the average education is six years, over half the people are un- employed, most of the housing is substandard, and people face the greatest amount of crime. "The stability of every society has depended on the resignation of the poor to being poor," Clark continued. "I don't think the poor will remain resigned and I don't think they should." Clark said confrontation and OVL -, SEPTEMBER 18, 19 Queen Christina Dir. ROUBEN MAMOULIN 1933) THE GREATEST FACE ON THE SILVER SCREEN GRETA GARBO Be A Patron of Beauty 7 & 9 Architecture 662-8871 Auditorium 8h -k t po (lark Iists America' j pr~blemiS ask me what to do---it 's all around you." Clark answered. "You have to be perceptive and concerned enough to find one specific thing and work on it. The former attorney general evaded a question on Vietnam, claiming he is just another citizen without military knowledge. On the draft issue. Clark called for a universal service requirement for all men. "I think the present draft is incredibly unjust," he explained. After high school all males would be required to serve either in the army or in some type of , public service. Clark suggested a lottery to select those who would have to enter the military. Clark said he opposed a pro- fessional army. "I just don't have that much confidence in the mili- tary," he said. "While we have to have a military we should have a significant injection of civilians into it." m A -. rr~rrr o STEVE McQUEEN IN THE GREAT ESCAPE "Sherescapism" -Fromm "Lies' All Lies" -Goebbels SAT.-SUN. at 7 and 9:15 SEPT.2-21 Aud. A . 75c z : dissent 'are necessary to prod change. Opening communications, he added, would help to ease some of the divisions in society. "I don't know any greater divi- sion between the educated and the uneducated than when police come on campuses." Clark said, to the applause of the audience. Clark claimed today's genera- tion gap is different from those of previous eras. There have been so many changes since parents were in school that the young people of today are going through a dif- ferent experience than their elders. Clark said. Finishing his speech to polite ap- plause, Clark attempted to answer questions from the audience. One person asked Clark what solutions he could suggest to solve the mul- titude of problems mentioned. "If you care, you don't have to Clark also avoided a direct re- sponse to a question on the legal- ization of marijuana. "I think the real danger, rather than mari- juana or even heroin, are chemi- cal synthetics which can cause chromosome damage," he said. Before Clarks appearance, Mike Farrell of Student Government Council gave a speech on t h e student bookstore issue to t h e crowd. He asked people to attend a rally today urging the Regents to approve the bookstore proposal. MONDAY, SEPT. 29 8:00 P.M. PIONEER HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM, ANN ARBOR TICKETS: $3.00 Advance $3.25 at Door 5f t "Hey listen: change and growth make a fable, but a thing LEN made of silent demand and visual memory must still have legs if it is to stand." 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