Page 6-Friday, February 2, 1979-The Michigan Daily
George Cukor's
1949
ADAM'S RIB
Dubbed the "women's director" for his skill with portraying actresses in good
roles, Cukor is more than qualified to handle this very peppy battle of the
sexes with dramatic dispatch and comic overtones. Defense. lawyer KATHERINE
HEPBURN decides to come to the aid of Judy Holliday-a woman accused of
the ottempted murder of her wayward husband. Prosecuting attorney SPENCER
TRACY is Hepburn's husband and court fight become a personal one as
Hepburn tries to puncture the myth of male superiority.
SAT: Wertmuller's SEVEN BEAUTIES
Acting sustains family drama
CINEMA GUILD
TONIGHT AT
7:00 & 9:05
OLD ARCH. AUD.
$1.50
BY JOSHUA PECK
The University Showcase Produc-
tions In Celebration achieves, I think,
In Celebration
David Storey
Trueblood Theater
Jan. 3-Feb. 3, 8:00p.m.
Steven Shaw...... ............ Kirk Johnson
Mr. Shaw ......................... Loren Bass
Mrs. Burnett................. Karen Keckler
Mrs. Shaw.... ............... Candice Cain
Andrew Shaw.. ................. Terry Caza
Colin Shaw ...................Jon Hallquist
Mr. Reardon.................... Ted Badgerow
Steve Reynolds, director; John Woodland, sets;
Cheryl Perkins.costumes. Susan Benderlighting.
its primary objective: It beckons its
audience members to reflect - on
themselves, on the way their families
might have shaped them, perhaps on
their very notions of sanity. Along the.
way, though, it churns through more
ups and downs than a ship in a sea
squall. Most of these undulations are
brought about by the remarkable range
of talent in the show's cast; from Terry
Caza's and Candice Cain's capable and
pointed portrayals of troubled son and
troubling mother, all the way down to
Karen Keckler's and Ted Badgerow's
The Ann Arbor Film Cooperative presents at MLB 3
Friday, February 2
The Tall Blonde Man With One Black Shoe
(Yves Robert, 1975) 7 & 10:20-MLB 3
Buggings, break-ins, and surveillance are the objects of this timely satire. A
young violinist unknowingly becomes the decoy in a cutthroat battle between
spies who turn his life into total mayhem. "This is one of the funniest movies in
recent memory. It's so crammed with funny moments it's impossible to pick
a favorite."-L.A. Times. In French, with subtitles.
THE THIEF OF PARIS
(Louis Malle, 1967) 8:40 only-MLB 3
When an orphan (JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO) is cheated out of his inheritance by
an uncle anal is jilted by a beautiful cousin, he robs the family jewels of the
cousin's fiance. That starts him on his career as a professional thief. "The film
has more political wit and amplitude of observation than any period film since
Visconti's THE LEAPORD. It persuades you that this is exactly what it is like to
live in France through the 1890's."-Penelope Gilliatt. In French with subtitles.
TOMORROW: Fantastic Animation Festival and Supershorts,
Featuring Devol
stylized and utterly phony imitations of
North Country old folks.
The "celebration" is the wedding an-
niversary of Mr. and Mrs. Shaw, a
working class couple who make their
home in Northern England. The Shaws'
three grown sons arrive to spend the
joyful day with their parents. It turns
out not to be so terribly joyful a day af-
ter all.
Eldest son Andrew (Terry Caza) is
maddeningly bitter over, well, every-
thing. His whole family serves as vic-
tim to his vitriolic attacks, .aimed at
stirring up any painful memory he can.
In Celebration has its melancholy,
occasionallygmiserable waywith its
viewers, largely owing to the mar-
velous work of Candice Cain (Mrs.
Shaw), and Caza. The other family
members, while they have their
moments, are at best inconstantly
believable.
Cain's first moments on stage incon-
trovertibly establish her age in itself a
feat,, and a firm grasp on her charac-
ter's many sides soon follows.
See IN, Page 12
Happenings
For the week of
February 2 to February 9
AUDITIONS
February
78,
1979
University of Michigan
SHOWCASE SERIES
RED.
ROSES
FOR ME
.rr FRIDAY
SHOW- February.2
TIMES. Carnal Knowledge (Hutchins Hall
6:30 Rm. 100, 7 and 9 p.m.) Screenplay by
Sat., Sun. -Jules Feiffer.
S4s Adam's Rib (Old A&D, 7 and 9:05
6:30 p.m.) Spencer Tracy and Katherine
Ti:0e0s Hepburn play twoattorneys, husband
on sale and wife, who find themselves working
prio for opposite sides of a murder case.
show The Tall Blond Man With One Black
_PG United Artists Shoe (MLB 3, 7 and 10:20 p.m.) A Fren-
ch screwball comedy, featuring a con-
U.ERMAN SHOW cert violinist who unwittingly becomes
TIMES involved in an espionage ring.
Mon .Fri. The Thief of Paris (MLB 3, 8:40 only)'
MF 7Directed by Louis (Pretty Baby) Malle.
'.9:4s Which Way Is Up? (Nat. Sci. 7, 8:40
Sat., sun. and 10:20 p.m.) Starring Richard
13Pryor. Obsession (Angell Aud. A, 7
7:00 and 9 p.m.) Brian DePalma tries to be
9s45 Alfred Hitchcock in this ponderous, dull
Tickets thriller.
on sale
SATURDAY
prior to
showtime February 3
The Red Balloon, The Blue Dashiki
BRIAN DePALMA 1976
OBSESSION
OBSESSION DePalma's (director of CARRIE) tribute to Hitchcock, tells the
story of Michael Cortland (CLIFF ROBERTSON), an ambitious New Orleans
businessman, and his obsessive guilt for the deaths of his wife and young
daughter in an unsuccessful kidnap rescue. Sixteen years after their deaths,
on a business trip to Italy, Michael meets a young Italian woman who is
the image of hid dead wife. Like the James Stewart character in VERTIGO,
Michael sets out to turn the woman, Sandra (GENEVIEVE BUJOLD) into this dead
wife. Filmed in New Orleans and Florence by Vilmos Zsigmond, with a
cathedral-filling score by the late Bernard Hermann. (98m)
SAT-LOONEY TUNES REVIEW Part 61
SUN-WORD IS OUT
Tonite at Angell Hall AUd "A"
7& 9:00 $1.50
(Pound House Childrens' Center, 1024
Hill St., 12:45-3:30 p.m.)
Shampoo (Markley Hall, 8 and 10:30
p.m.) Warren Beatty is perfect as a
whory hairdresser, with Julie Christie
and Lee Grant, among others, as his
clients.
Seven Beauties (Old A&D, 7 and 9:15,
p.m.) Directed by Lina Wertmuller.
Fantastic Animation Festival (MLB
3, 7 and 10:20) Sixteen short animated
films, including Will Vinton's Academy
Award winner Closed Mondays (which
won a small prize at the Ann Arbor
Film Festival).
Supershorts (MLB 3, 8:40 p.m. only)
Some of the best, funniest, and weirdest
short films ever made, like Hardware
Wars, The Dove, and a film by Devo
which tells "The Truth About De-
Evolution". Are we not men?
,Silver Streak, (Nat. Sci., 7 and 9
p.m.) Comedy about the old murder-
and-intrigue-on-a-train schtick, with
dear old Gene Wilder and Richard
Pryor.
Looney Tunes Revue, for all you Bugs
Bunny fans, returns to Angell- Aud. A,
this time with a completely new selec-
tion of Warner Brothers cartoons.
Program A starts at 7 and 10 p.m.;
Program B at.8:30 only.
SUNDAY,
February 4
The Last Picture Show (Old A&D,7
and 9:15 p.m.) Undoubtedly Peter
Bogdanovitch's finest film, but not a
cheery one. It's a bleak, sad, stark look
at life in a small Texas town during the,
fifties.
Word is Out (Angell Aud. A, 7 and 9
p.m.) Twenty-six videotaped inter-
views with gay persons.
MONDAY
'9:15 p.m.) A good adaptation of
Dickens' novel, with John Milles as Pip.
A Man Escapes (Angell Aud. A, 8:30
p.m. only) A true adventure story,
about a French resistance fighter's
escape from the Nazis.
The Married Woman (Angell Aud. A,
10 p.m. only) Directed by Jean-Luc
Godard.
WEDNESDAY
February 7
Shoot the Piano Player, (Old A&D, 7
and 9:05 p.m.) With Charles Aznavour
in the title role. Directed by Francois
Truffaut.
Rashomon (Aud. A, 7 and 10:20)
Akira Kurosawa's fable about a rob-
bery, rape and murder, seen in quite
different ways by the criminal, the
murdered man, and his wife.
The Man Who Skied Down Mt.
Everest (Angell Aud. A, 8:40 p.m. only)
Academy Award-winning documentary
about Yuchiro Miura, the man who
conquered Mt. Everest on skis.
THURSDAY
February 8
From Russia With Love (Old A&D, 7
and 9:15 p.m.) This installment of the
007 spy series finds James Bond (Sean
Connery) in Istanbul. Robert (Jaws)
Shaw plays-the bad guy:
, Cries and Whispers (Angell Aud. A, 7
and 8:40 p.m.) Ingmar Bergman once
again brings together his stock bevy of
exquisite, eloquent Swedish actresses
(Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Liv
Ullmann) for this film about a woman
dying of cancer and those who attend
her.
The Velvet Vampire (Angell Aud. A,
10:20 p.m. only) The Ann Arbor
premiere of a kinky little film about a
modern-day vampiress.
The Best Years of Our Lives
(Michigan Union Assembly Hall, 7 and
9:30 p.m.) William Wyler breaks out of
the escapist wartime Hollywood mold
in this opus about ex-GIs returning
from World War II.
by Sean
O 'Casey
Auditions, by Appointment Only. See
Sign-up Sheet Outside of Room 1502
in the Frieze Building. Read all of the
Instructions Carefully.
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February 5
American Shoeshine, Men of Bronze
(Old A&D, 7 and 9:05 p.m.) Two
documentaries on Afro-American life.
Edgar Ulmer night at Angell Aud. A;
Bluebeard at 9:30 p.m., and Murder is
My Beat, at 10:45 p.m.
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY IS MONDAY IS ADULTS FRt.,SAT., SUN.
"BARGAIN DAY" "GUEST NIGHT" EVE. d HOLIDAYS $3.50
$1.50 until 5:30 TWO ADULTS ADMITTED LMON.-THURS. EVk. $3
FOR PRICE OfONE ALL MATINEES $2.50
Ai ~ ~ C O O N J CHILD TO 14 $1.50
KCAMPW STARTING FRI., FEB. 9th
"LORD OF THE RINGS"
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February 6
Great Expectations, (Old A&D, 7 and
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