PAFE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1966 PAFE TWO TIlE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5,1966 FILMS Viewers Get Agony,No Eestacy FromHollywoo d Extravaganzas By GENE LEACH embellishments. The imperious Ju- standard chestnuts to suck on. No art connoisseur can possi- lius becomes a sly, hard manipu- Thus, it would be unthinkable to bly sit through "The Agony.and lator of men, redeemed, however, show Michelangelo brooding in The Ecstac y"without more or less by a soft mushy center. Michel- search of an inspiration without constantly gagging on his popcornangelo becomes a swashbuckling having one peasant wonder, For people who love Renaissance (Heston always swashbuckles) en- "Doesn't he ever stop worrying?" painting the agony of the film is trepreneur, charged with a vision and another reply, "No, not until real enough. The estacy belongs that drives him to insult Princes he .finds what he's looking for." rea henoug The cstc be of the Church and blast away all And since Michelangelo needed an to the box office. suspicion that painters aren't has- enormous scaffold to reach the The plot has anburied deep insides ically like pirates and Old Testa- ceiling, it would be unthinkable to it. Pol skeleton burid dempinside ment prophets. "Am I... a fool?" let all that expensive height go it. Pope Julius ' didcommission Michelangelo asks the woman of to waste without constantly send- igof the Sistine C hapela the piece. "You are ... yourself," ing paint, spit and people plum- ing f te Sitin Chaelandshe replies, neatly excusing screen- meting to the floor below." Michelangelo did suffer mightily writer and director from the obli- But art conoisseurs really have artist wrote a terrifying account gation to explain the artist's con- no business going to a slickie like of the physical and emotional tor- duct. 'The Agony and The Ecstacyl' ture he went through to complete Blasphemies are freely bestowedIt's pointless to carp about a this most ambitious and beautiful on Church and art alike. Makers movie - Hollywood never capital- of frescoes. of movies of this ilk simply cannot izes on artistic opportunities: the The transforming magic of Hol- resist cliches, evidently feeling that animal just isn't built that way. lywood fleshes out this elemental their audiences would feel inse- And certainly it can't improve on story with all manner of weary l cure if they weren't given the the art of Michelangelo. - The best thing one can do with a story like this is to avoid getting in the way of the paint- ]Eugene Nida, Ph.D., "Linguist er's work. Director Carol Reed de- serves at least a little credit for sp eking at both serviees realizing as much. Time and again "The Agony and the Ecstacy" res- 1 ncues itself from unbearable ban- 1030 A.M.- "Translating the Word Into Life"ality by returning to shots of the 7:00 P.M.-"God's Word in Our World" Sistine Chapel itself. Michelange- lo's masterpiece easily transcends j the shoddy vehicle in which it is Un.versity Reformed Church set. Once one gives up looking for 1001 E, Huron profundities and novelties, the --=-story too becomes shallowly en- -__-_-. <1 I+ C..1, ;. .CT ..fl +J n Lusty Fielding Fiction Becomes Richardson's Travelogue Farce i A Starting Nov. 8 WAR AND PEACE in the Michigan DAILY CLASSIFIED PAGE By JOHN T. KELLY Implications, indications, insin- uations romp across the English countryside most sensuously as Tony Richardson's somewhat laughable interpretation of Henry Fielding's novel, "Tom Jones," de- picts the lighter side of Old Eng- lish Aristocracy. It is all about a virile English lad whose illegal origin has not inhibited his lust for life and les femmes. It is about his loves Ray Directs Si Of Boy's Choji By BETSY COHN "Aparajito," part two of the Apu Trilogy directed by Sajiyat Ray, does not contain many words; it does not need many words for it expresses itself in movement, sound and facial expression. Told with simplicity, the film creates the life of a young "schol- ar," Apu, reared in a traditionally family. His father is a priest, his mother is the attentive and sub- servient mate. Apu's father dies, leaving the young boy and his mother alone. In return for the devotion she has shown her young son, she assumes that he will stay home, care for her and fol- low in the sacred steps of his father. But the natural egoism of youth and the absorbing passion of knowledge have redirected the pat- terned course for Apu; he defies 'Sophie Western, blandly played by bert Finney does justice to Henry Susannah York; Molly Seagrin, a Fielding's Tom Jones as a robust testy creature of a swarthy nature young man who wanders through depicted sensuously by Diane Cil- English valleys wooing sundry ento, and Mrs. Fitzpatrick, a wom- maidens and their mothers. an of many charms who is Tom Aside from the humorous and Jones' mother, maybe. intimate scenes, one can only feel One is taken to the door of Eng- that Tony Richardson would be I land and is given a larger than a worthy asset to the British usual keyhole-peek at what the Chamber of Commerce. In other lords and Ladyships of Old Eng- words, if you have never been to land did as they frolicked from England, "Tom Jones" is a must. haystack to bedroom to fern Tony Richardson's sensitive tal- patches deep in English woods. Al- ent for directing was brilliantly --------- ---- --- displayed in the raw realism of the photography which deserved and Iperb Portrait did receive an Oscar: peoples' 1 faces panned into view with glow- ing effects and then were pounced 0 4 e jI upon by the camera for a bit of ee n1 1 that realism. One was confronted with the blushing pores of Sophie Western, the dastardly pimples straight-forwardness of a docu- around Blifil's mouth, who pursued mentary except for the awareness Miss Western in a most obnoxious Ray has given to man: everything manner, and a decaying mole on becomes important, the sounds of Suire Western's nose. footsteps, the roots of trees, the The realism does not cease there, faces of children, the soft moans for one is galloped through Eng- of grief; they embellish the terse lish woods on a deer hunt-or was characters and the unelaborate it Wild Game? Anyway, one is plot. The music of Ravi Shankar confronted with the crushed skull wheezes expressively, sometimes of a goose, the melancholy face accentuating sometimes consoling of its master, the ripped neck of the moods and directions of the a deer, all of which are pushed characters. to the nose of the camera, which There is a softness about the heartily tempts one to rush to the spontaneity of "Aparajito"; it is screen to see if any blood is pro- as if Ray has placed the situation truding from its surface. before his characters and instruct- In effect, "Tom Jones" appears ed them to react. They do so with to be a British Travelogue that compassion, and without the ap- was sidetracked by some very parent restriction of precision dia- fetching facets of Old English sex logue and calculated stage direc- life. tion. Thus, while the plot is an - important l t1m~f ithrnaE 10 r e r l CINEMA 1U. PRESENTS TM JIO N E S In color With Albert Finney and Susannah York riday, Saturday, and Sunday 7 & 9:15 P.M. Aud. A, Angell Hall Many Seats $till Available tertaining. Although it falls nlat as a dramatic conflict between artist and Pope, the movie manages to get up off the floor in the guise of a surprisingly low-keyed, un- melodramatic battle of wills. (All the promotional ballyhoo about guts and glamor is, fortunately, sheer baloney.) Rex Harrison's urbanity massages away the mus- cularity of Charlton Heston and gives the film some pleasant mo- ments. Diane Cilento plays an en- tirely irrelevant character, but plays it with a grace that takes most of the embarrassment out of her lines. So if you're looking for a smooth bit of colorful escapism that will slide painlessly over the surface of your brain, spend a couple of hours at the Campus this week. If you want to be unlifted, watch television. the expectations of tradition and goes to study at the university in Calcutta. Time passes; Apu grows wise and worldly while his mother be- comes weak with loneliness and illness. Whether Apu will leave his studies, obey the wishes of his family and become a priest be- comes a question almost too broad for the sensitive and myopic con- flicts which the movie discusses. Ray, in depicting the life of a young boy, has very gently touch- ed upon the pinpoint occasions in his youth which lead him to the life he will choose for himself. There is no fashionable photog- raphy, no gimmickry; rather, the film very nearly resembles the 111.plLa element, 1Lbecomesj merely a facility through which the characters can flow and de- velop with natural simplicity and grace. The result is two hours of superb choreography. 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A of Angell Hall. 7 and 9 p.m. - Cinema Guild will present "The World of Apu" in the Architecture Aud. 8:00 p.m. - The Professional Theatre Program will present the APA's production of Satre's "The Flies" in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. SUNDAY, NOV. 6 2:30 pm.-The APA Co. will present a matinee performance of Sartre's "The Flies" in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. 4:15 p.m.-School of Music con,- cert: The Stanley Quartet in Rackham Lecture Hall. 7:00 p-m-.-Cinema Guild will present the entire "Apu Trilogy" in the Satyajit Ray Festival in the Architecture Aud. Read and Use Daily Classifieds Shows at 1, 3, 5, 7, & 9 P.M. r DIAL 5-6290 Also Cartoon Special News ldp- on How Hsie became a fortune cookie OR: some people will do anything for $249,000.92 or openers, he got hit by 250 lb. Boom-Boom Jackson. "We'll be rich!" His wife got out shouted his of a warm bed brother-in-law "I'll be jailed!" to come home. lawyer, Whiplash cried poor but Willie Gingrich. honest Harry. 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