Doge Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, February 25, 1972 Page wo TE MICIGANDAIL I Editor's note: Tf were compiled by th viewing staff: Kyle Gabler, Richard GI Munsing, and Bruce THE STRA U Michigan Th By trimming a few a rape (there's on from his Straw Dog inpah got its sente .from "X" to "R". I'm told, needn't f the surgery apparer noticed: Dogs is stil still bloodcurdling, A highly regarded rect or, Peckinpa course this time a story in modern d England, where a- ed mathematician man) has emigrated fromn sinstained Am else? Alas, one of men has designs of can's Bsritish-born v thing leads to anotl rurals surround the cottage and force7 it out. In the" film's apy, we are suppose watching the .thin ve ization being scrape really not sure wh nausea,: is any reco for art. I'll tell yo seen the film. * * DIRTY H State Thea Ever since Dirty ed here five weel tried to hammer h siderable artistic m because I think the of people who wu have passed it by; cuse on principle critic, should discus ily in terms of go n'ot agreeable and( and third, because a the first-thing that into the trashcan None of this is to thetics are somehom noraIs (if anything is the case) or that myself included, moral judgments wt the theatre; ethic legitimately apart sibilty. I would c< ever, that. while humaneness of grea artist qua artist w mand humanity. Ar is gravy. hese reviews he Daily's re- Counts, Neal latzer, Peter Shlain. DOGS eater murders and C lC IQQ 3Q d people who have seen the film agreed with him. Reputedly light, witty, and delighttul, Trouble concerns two poli1ied and charming crooks (played by Miriam Hopkins and Herbert Marshall) who attempt to s:win- dle the chic, rich, and unsuspect- ing Marianne Colet (Kay Franc- is). I'll be surprised if Trouble in Paradise isn't top-notch en- tertainment. This film not seen at press time. ly one left) On the first count, that of the 's Sam Peck- artist's intentions, Harry g e t s nce reduced acquitted of one charge and con- But purists, victed on another. It is innocent ret, because of fascism, propaganda, exploi- ntly goes un- tation, and sadism. There is ad- l distressing, mittedly a strain of look-how-the still sadistic. courts-have-tied-the-hands-of-the- Western di- police (though this is fascism ,h changes only by a very broad definition nd sets his of the word), and if that were ay Cornwall, the sum of Siegel's message I'd mild-manner- have to agree that the picture Dustin Hoff- was possibly immoral and intel- to get away lectually bankrupt to boot. There erica. Where is, of course, quite a bit more the towns- to it than that, but for some n the Amer- odd reason many people over- wife, and one look the last two minutes of the her until the movie, just as so many people e professor's overlooked the epilogue in Bat- him to fight tie of Algiers. In that earlier pic- s shock ther- ture the Algerians go on revolt d to get sick spontaneously years after Ali's neer of civil- death. So. much for revolution- d away. I'm aries, Harry, in Siegel's epilogue, ether or not toses away his badge. He real- )mmendation izes that by going outside t h e u after I've channels of justice to get the sniper he must now forfeit his -N.G. place in society. We live by the * . rules and even Harry knows you 4RRY can't transgress them and then iter pretends that everything is all Harry open- right. sag 'e- 'As I pointed out in my initial smago I review; Harry's realization no ome its con- more mitigates his crime than eit 'first, Raskolikov's conversion lessens re are a lot the gravity of his crime. And ld otherwise this is where the film is guilty: second, be- The real immorality of Harry is I believe a not the bogus accusation of fas- art primar- cism, but the picture's altimate ad and bad, reliance on violence to solve its disagreeable; problem. Countering fascism, Sie- tget icsheaved gel really 'hasn't stacked t h e getheaed deck against liberals; they are these days. not portrayed as stupid or evil say thataes- - in fact they seem quite rea- h sporto sonable and articulate. 1'h e Sthe oposite Mayor tries to apease thesnp any viewer, er. Why not when the only alter- can bansh native is more mayhem? The hen he enters District Attorney tells H a r r y s are quite that the sniper poses a threat to of ourse society but that even a criminal :ontnd, ow-.has civil rights. Is this foolish- we demand ness? Sadly, the trouble w i t h t men, of the Harry's liberals (and here Sie- 'e shoud. de- gel does stack the deck) is that nything more they're ineffectual. When their reason fails, the last resort is ' Harry. Siegel may think this is realism, bu I don't like it. >r Harry probably also stands guilty on the second count (aud- ienee reaction), since itwill no y, ~doubt reinforce the. opinions of law and order nuts. This is a lesser crime, I think,because audience reaction isn't -wholly the film's faulti Siegel, like a good mythologist, has translated values into narrative ,action; isf film doesn't impose.so much as reflect. Needless to say, ours is ?: < a violent country in which bru- 'itality more often than not takes human if not precedence over rationality. At as taken a least Harry has to pay a price m the moral- for his violence, and morality it fascistic, wins a slight victory. gether has no sexually redeem- ing value. Good porn should be erotic, sexually stimulating. Mere ex-. posure is not enough; other- Wise -you could just as we4l ogle the imagazines at Fourth Ave. Adult News.,Together is in fact anti-erotic,. destirmlating, a n d not even very revealing at that. Sure there's tit, and even a gi- gantic dong, massaged to turgid- ity with a flower no less. But' dongs and tits alone do -iot good porn mkke. HAROLD AND MAUDE Campus Theater Tired of sarcasm? Those nat- tering nabobs of nihilism getting you down? Ready for some op- timism? Well, here's Harold & Maude, as nice a film as Walt Disney -ever produced-the type of film Woodstock Nation might send its kids to. It concerns the love of an introverted 20-year-old boy for a 79-year-old woman, who "Would like to change into a sunflower." A liberated Little Only a lobotomized could enjoy Together, a pite what the ads say, no redeeming social val fore you pay your two think of how the adverti tempts to manipulate y if you're not a moron leave, richer, happier Together is so bad I. the was a parody at first. T, is: abysmal boring, cras efluent, fake godawful i ous etc., etc. THE FRENCI CONNECTIO. Fox Village cretin nd des- it has le. Be- dollars sing at- ou, and you'll wiser. sought it [ogether ss. dull, iorrend- -P.M. H' N Daily-John Upton Old Lady from Pasadena, she initiates him into dope, sex and love. The film is directed by Hal Ashby and a number of scenes show great potential for the type of comic-tragedy he used in The Landlord. Unfortunately these are e i t h e r overextended or drowned in a sea of mindless sunshine philosophy. Coaxed on by such aphorisms as "Live- otherwise you got nothing to talk about 'in the locker room," and "Everybody has the right to make an ass out of themselves," the film ends with Cat Ste vens singing "If you want to sing out, sing out; If you want to be free, be free." And it's non-fattening, all-sacharine too! -P.M. LOS OLVIDADOS Cinema II Friday and Saturday Cinema II has changed their schedule; instead of fristana they'llbe showing Los Cvidados (The Young and the Damned) tonight and Saturday. Olvidados, made during Bunel's Mexican period, documents the delin- quency of Pedro, pathetic and unloved by his mother, %nd Jai- bo, sadistic and very much lov- ed by Pedro's mother. In their spare time, the boys amuse themselves by toppling legless beggars out of carts and tor- ment blind men. American crit- ics found the film either a shock- ing, sordid, pointless waste or a brilliant liberal expose )f t h e horrors of city life, bu just about everyone agreed - t h e movie's powerful stuff. This film not seen at press time. --R.G. * * * CHAPPAQ UA Cinema H Chappaqua is Conrad Rooks' autobiographical study of his heroin addiction and withdraw- al, produced with $500,000 of hi father's money over a three year period. The result is an encyclo- pedia of photgraphic techni- ques, displayed rather than used. The film centers around the actions of Rooks' subconscious, the larger part of this basically plotless film. The problem is that Rooks appears so often, whe- ther as Dracula, Cagney, or him- self, that the imagery becomes overbearing rather than insight- fully introspective. While t h i s may make for great therapy for Rooks the result is a psycho- dramatic home movie. At the moment Rooks is in his fourth year of filming Sidhartha, and says "Hesse answers three questions. Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? If I can make a film showing this, I can reassure people of the meaning of existence." -P.M. THE LUBITSCH ,FESTIVAL Cinema Guild all week I'll admit it right off - I've FREEPORT LU(AYA BEACH 5 days and 4 nights includes: -roundtrip air fare -deluxe quad accommodations -rum swizzle party --airport parking and Kitchenette in every Quad all for $119000 MARCH 3-7 MARCH 8-12 call Stuart Kantor 769-2456 never seen an Ernst movie, so I'm especialy for this week's festiva ema Guild. Lubitsch,a comedian turned didec how imbued silent com wit and drawing-room s tion, and soon enoug wood moguls, thinking would be salable com brought the man and h to America. In fact, proved to be one of foreign directors to fi wood 'and the subse vent of sound well suit films and abilities. TROUBLE IN PARADI Cinema Guild 'Friday= Ernst Lubitsch has for pure style, I think nothing bet r or as Trouble in Paradise," Lubitsch y 5rrateful i at Cin- a German tor, some- nedy with soohistiCa- gh .polly- CLUNY BROWN his films Cinema Guild nmodities, Saturday is talents Jennifer Jones, as C 1 u n y Lubitsch Brown, a lady plumber, predates the few Josephine by about twenty years. 'id Holly- Set in pre-war England, Cluny quent ad- Brown's about the heroine's ted to his friendship with Adam Belinsi, (Charles Bayer), a patriotic S-R.G. Czech poet forced to flee his- native land, and about her job as E . pipe doctor on the Carmel Es- tate. Although Cluny (Lubits h's SE last completed movie) gets some Jabs in , at the English aristo- cracy, every critic I've read ex- said, As tolls the virtues of the film's breezy, urbanely racy - wit. I've done This film not seen at pr e ss . ... time. i j ' I I -R.G. and most -x.Lc. 6th WEEK NOW! At State and Liberty Program Information 662-6264 .. a Box Offices Open at6:30 Show Starts at 7:00 PM I From the Director of "Fanny Hill" &- "1, A Woman" and the Stars of "Therese and Isabelle"-The Modern Mak- ing of Emile Zola's Moterpiece "NANA" (X) 7:05 & 10:40 " (X) * * * UA-Daystar Presents ALICE COLTRANE LEON THOMAS. Con te'mporary Jazz Quintet MARCH 17, "FRIDAY 48 p.mn. Hill Aud. 2.00 - 8.50- 4.00 - 4.50A Reserved Seats Now On Sale Mich. Union 12-6 p.m. M-F 4* 4- plus "EUGENIE I OPEN 1 p.m. SHOWS AT 1:15-3:10-5-7-9 P.M. Feature Starts 5 min. later I The Story of Her Journey Into Perversion t r,---l ,,-FRI---A- .S.. "IT'S A SIZZLER" -Detroit News "ONE OF THE YEAR'S TEN BEST" --Time "The best American movie of the last six months." "Come on like gangbust- ers . .. I doubt if you'll see anything quite as devastating" --Michigan Doily DIRTY Q HARRY m Tj I IR Kely'," AMW.Y. FRI.-SAT.-SUN. .. .... . OF PAUL NEWMAN HENRY FONDA "Sometimes a Great Notion" (PG) SHIRLEY MACLAINE SAMMY DAVIS JR. "Sweet Charity" (G) JOANNE WOODWARD "They Might Be GEORGE C. Giants" SCOTT (G) oitiiaAL wwtNA COPPOaAT#Ow I rerr .Dirty Harry, a h humane picture, he good deal of flak fro ists. They called propagandistic, exploitative, and sadisti - .in a word, immoral. Which raises the question, "What exactly do they mean by 'immoral'?" I'll have to use inference, but if I interpret the complaints properly, the com- plainers are saying first of 'all that they find the artist's in- tentions offensive; specifically these critics condemn director Don Siegel's glorification of po- lice repression and his deroga- tion of the liberals who hamper aw -enforcement. Secondly, de- . .ractors are saying that the re- action the film elicits i: o n e they don't want tothave and one they don't want other people - ve, a criticism seldom lev- eled at Battle of Algiers (a film nich provoked mindless hur- rahs every time a Frenchman 't blown to smithereens). For some people morality is incon- Utant. -N.G. * * * TOGETHER Fifth Forum In my review of Ginger I stat- ed the critical canon that cer- tain types of movies have to be judged by standards different from other films; in this case is it or is it not good porn? Now, when I said that Together is the worst film I've ever -een, apparently people thought I was talking cinematically. W h-t I e Together is execrable cinemati- cally, let me now say that To- The French Connection is so much less affecting than Harry that moral issues never get rais- ed. New York cop Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) whacks a junk- ie around. Intellectually %ve may care but .Popeye bursts in- to a black bar and bullies the patrons. Intellectually we may ' fre but... Popeye argues with his superior while two accident victims are carted away. Intel- 'lectually we may care but... The postscript tells ,us t h a t Doyle and partner Russo were transferred out of Narcotics. Ho hum. Connection has two assets in director William Friedlin and star Gene Hackman (both Acad- emy Award nominees), and Hackman conveniently points up the film's dilemma. His p e r- formance is so naturalistic ne al- most puts the film in the cate- gory of documentary, at the ex- pense of impact. If Paul New- man had played Doyle the pic- ture would have gained affec- tiveness but at the expense of realism. The viewer is the only one who wins, and he just for two fun hours with no aftertaste. -N.G. RES. COLLEGE CREATIVE ARTS FESTIVAL FREE o FOON Q FAIR O original plays 7 p.m. THURS., FEB. 24 FRI., FEB. 25 SAT., FEB. 26 °Est Quad Aud. FREE! SOULFUL PEOPLE SATURDAY, FEB. 26th Bursicy HaIl, 9:30 pm. I SAT. 0:00 P.M. 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