Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, October 4, 1970 Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY cinema: I Superceding Europe in 3y BRUCE MOCKING The first of two parts. The New York Film Festival, so t h e Festival propaganda booklet boasts, is the only claim this country has to any really decent film showcase on a par with Cannes or Berlin or Venice. After having seen four of the major entries in t h i s year's competition, in Septem- ber, this appears to have been quite an understatement. As far as I am concerned this is the best film festival in the world. Opening night marked the American debut of Truffaut's latest film, The Wild Child, and Philharmonic Hall, as might well be expected, was entirely sold out. For some perverse rea- son I had not purchased a tick- et in advance, a n d I arrived amidst t h e crowd at Lincoln Center's box office full of pes- simism yet resolved to get in. Fortunately, after a complex deal involving no less than four last-minute ticket buyers a n d sellers I managed to -get hold of one of the best possible seats. Lincoln Center is one of the outstanding locations for a film Truffaut's 'Wild Child' festival. Its two theatres c a n handle typical festival crowds of nearly t h r e e thousand people without making patrons feel they're on a New York subway. The seat numbering system is so rational it's nearly idiot-proof, something sorely deficient in most theatres. Above all t h e } DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Day Calendar SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4 University Symphony Band: Wm. D.1 Revelli, conductor and John Mohler,4 guest clarinetist: Hill Aud., 3:30 p.m.1 MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 Representatives from the Law school of Syracuse Univ. will meet with stu- dents interested in the study of law, in1 1017 Angeli Hall, 4 p.m. Physics Colloquium: J. Mice( B. An- 'hony, "Backward Inelastic Scattering of Pions," P & A Colloq. Rm., 4 p.m._ General Notices Local chapter of the American As- sociation of University Professors will: meet at 8:00 p.m., Oct. 7, in Con- ference Ur., Rkacham Bldg. Speakers will be Prof. H. Levinson, J DeMent (Oakland), J.Frederick, C. Eggerten, and C. Rebmus, on the topic, "Pros and Cons of Collective Bargaining in High- er Education with Special Refence to the University of Michigan Faculty." Notice to Employees of All University Uunits: Open Enrollment Period for Blue Cross. Blue Shield and M a J 0 r Medical Health Insurance will be Oc-E tober 5-18, 1970 in locations noted:I Campus, Office of Staff Benefits, 1058 LS&A; Medical Center. Office of Staff Benefits, A7030 Hap. New applications and changes to existing contracts may be made without evidence of insur- ability. Family members, eligible for coverage, may be added at this time, including those unmarried children over 19 but not yet 25. No new applica-1 tions, changes, or additions will be accepted after open enrollment periodt other than for new employees or1 normal changes in existing contracts £ made within the allowable 30-day per- iod. Next Open Enrollment Period will not be until Oct. of 1971.t Woodrow Wilson Fellowships: Nom- inations for Woodrow Wilson Fellow- ships and Designates for first year graduate work leading to career in col- lege teaching, due Oct. 31. Only faculty members may nominate candidates. Eligible for nomination are men and women of outstanding ability who are seniors, or graduates not now enrolled in a graduate school, or graduates now in the armed forces who, will be free to enter a graduate school in 1969-70, Seniors who next semester will be double enrolled in Literary College and in Graduate School are eligible. To give nominees sufficient time to pre- pare and submit required credentials, faculty members are urged to send in nominations early as possible, al- though letters postmarked October 31 will be accepted. Letters of nomination should include student's dfiel of cohcentration, his local address and telephone, and should be sent to Professor David Anderson, Physics Department, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, 44074. Seniors inter- ested in advanced study and a teach- ing career whose academic perform- ance merits nomination for Woodrow Wilson fellowships may consult the campus representative, Prof. M o r r i s Greenhut, 1616 Haven. Placeme ant Service 3200 S.A.B. Interviews held at Placement Services, 3200 SAB, call 763-1363 for appts., see bulletin for requirements. Oct. 6: Univ. of Mich Program in Health Planning, N. Y. U. graduate school; Oct. 7: Prudential Insurance; Oct. 8: General Foods, Mead Johnson, DANCE OF INDIA CLASSES START WED., 7 P.M. for 10 weeks Information: 665-2383r 662-5804 A A Fresh Idea In Communication CHAUTAUQUA ARRIVES Oct. 12: Aetna Life and Casualty, N. Y. U. Grad. School of Business; Oct. 13: Dept. of State, Univ. of Chicago School of Business, Radio Corporation of Americe; Oct. 14, IBM Corp, Proctor and Gamble; Oct. 15: Chicago Payment Gtr., Soc. Security Admin., IBM Corp., Minnesota Fabrics; Oct. 16: Dunn and Bradstreet. Latin American & Caribbean Profes- sional Internships in Buc. & Pub. Ad- min.: Reps. at School of Bus. Ad. Placement office, Rm 69, Oct. 6, 4-5 p.m., Mr. James Gould. MBA & MPA candidates or professionals employed in these areas for no more than 3 years. Other internships in areas of agric. sci., dev. educ., engrg. & lib. sci. Army Material Command has project- ed 1971 entry level demtnd as follows: 900 procurement, supply management types (any degree), 349 engrs., a ri d scientists. Davenport, Iowa regional office indicates a .85 plus FSEE score min. or the larger demand; engrs. and scientists not required to take FSEE. ORGANIZATION NOTICES -- 41 acoustics are tremendous a n d every seat has a clear view of the screen. Opening night in Philhar- monic H a 11 began in typical welcome - to - the - convention fashion with speeches by Wil- liam May and Martin Siegel, the chairman and president of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, sponsor of the Festival. Next on the agenda was a wel- coming speech by Mayor Lind- say, who surprised the hell out of me by getting a tremendous ovation. I suppose the audience liked what he had done for film and the arts more than what he had failed to do about the prob- lems of New York City. T h e highlight of his speech was a joke about Catherine Deneuve: "They don't make girls like her anymore . . . and neither do I." With all due regard for the Mayor, a man I deeply admire, the high point of the Festival came shortly after he walked off. the stage, and Truffaut emerged. Francois T r u f f a u t himself, a god descended from Olympus to allow mortals to gaze on him for a brief moment. He didn't say much except to tie his inability to speak Eng- lish to the plight of the boy in his film, but his mere presence was sufficient to awe what must have b e e n one of the world's most sophisticated au- diences. He received a thunder- ous standing ovation when he came on stage and another when he left. Still another high- light came following the film when a spotlight revealed Truf- faut seated with the live, real, true Catherine Deneuve. The applause redoubled, as did libi- do. The ovation was especially well deserved that night, f o r Wild Child is one of Truffaut's masterpieces ranking with Jules and Jim and The 400 Blows. To a certain degree, Wild Child re- sembles 400 Blows. For one thing, it is dedicated to Jean- Pierre Leaud, the great French actoi w h o played 400 Blows' Antoine Doinel. For another, it is in black and white, attempt- ing to get at a similar kind of mood. But the basic problems, the basic themes. are markedly different. While 400 -Blows tried to show the transformation of a boy to a man, The Wild Child must show something infinitely more difficult: the transforma- tion of an animal into a boy. The child here has lived in a forest all his life and is totally unable to communicate, let alone cope with the human world. In small quiet scenes of the doctor. played by Truffaut himself, trying to make contact with the boy and then trying to teach him basic skills, we learn much about our own humanity and our own abilities to com- municate. really communicate with another. The acting, especially import- ant in a film such as this, is excellent. Truffaut, of course, is not as good at acting as he is at directing. but he still man- ages to give a very solid per- formance. Jean-Pierre Cargol deserves special praise as the wild boy, a role exceedingly dif- ficult because it lies so far be- yond normal experience. All of Truffaut's films a r e well paced, but this one is es- pecially so. Typical narrative form has been modified so that the film becomes a series of vignettes demonstrating, in brief, occasional scenes, t h e development of the relationship between the doctor and the boy. The vignettes are tied together through a number of rather cle- ver devices; narration from the! doctor's diary (the film is based on Doctor Itard's actual journ- al dated 1804); extensive use of such uncommon camera transi- tions as iris-in & iris-out, lap- dissolve, and zoom-out; use of music, in this case some fast and furious keyboard pieces by Vivaldi. By all these means, Truffaut compresses weeks of real time down into a minute- long montage of film time. (Continued in Tuesday's paper) Paramount Pictures '" Presents' " A Howard W. Koch * -Alan Jay Lerner Producion r~r starring Streisand Montand .:"r a On A Clew OU Can See Based upon the Musical Play On A Clear Day You Can See Forever Panavision- Technicolor A Paramount Picture -G'-AN Ages Admitted General Audiences TOO / Late .. sff The i .Met ocolgr GP iI I Ann Arbor Civic Theatre presents "CACTUS FLOWER" by A BE BURROWS OCTOBER 14-17 8:00 P.M. ot Trueblood Theatre TICKET PRICES: $2.00 to $2.50 662-9405 P.O. Box 1993 Ann Arbor, Mich. 48106 r _- --- "A fluffy modern comedy" "An incredibly likable film" "PRETTY HEAVY STUFF" DIAL 662- 6264 "ONE OF THE BETTER AMERICAN FI LMS OF 1970" o i L -Mcigandil 4 4 National General Theatres FOHVILLiGE 375 No.MAPLE RD."7694300 NOW SHOWING MON.-FRI.-7:00-9:30 SAT.-SUN.-2:00- 4:30-7:00-9:30 " THE LANDLORD" OPEN 12:45 Shows at 1-3-5-7-9 P.M. State & Liberty Sts. i DIAL 5-6290 ABC Pictores Corp in association with Palomar Pictures presents Mn Associates and Aldrich Production of Robert Aldrich' GAy "'A rip-snorting he-man war-adven lr movie to stand as a model hereafter." Judith Crist, New York Magazine SHOWS AT 1:00 & 3:30 6:00 & 8:30 F 'Hill I is rescheduled for SATURDAY, OCT. 7:00-10:00 P.M. SUNDAY, OCT. 4 8:00 P.M. Reserved Seats $2.00 ----I, Graduate Outing Club, Sunday, Oct. 4. 1:30 p.m., Meet in front of Rackham, on Huron. Cars will leave from here for afternoon of hiking and dinner after- wards. * * * * UM Folk Dance Club Friday evening, $-11, Barbour Gym, teaching, 8-9. Open to all. Undergraduate Mathematics Club. Oct. 5, 1970, 7:00 Sharp! Room 3227, Angell Hall, Prof. Thomas Storer "Re- lations 'Between Combinatorics a n d Classical Analysis." Graduate Outing Club, Sun., Oct. 4, 1:30 p.m., meet in lront of Rackham on Huron. Cars will leave from here for afternoon of hiking and dinner afterwards. Baratin Coffee Hour, every Thurs., 3- 5, Frieze Bldg., Room 3050. Open in- vitauon to people interested in French language and culture. GUILD HOUSE 802 MONROE MONDAY OCT. 5th-NOON LUNCHEON 35c PROF. ROBERT ADAMS, Dept. of Philosophy: "The Ethics of Creation and the Ethics of Pro-Creation" BEST STEAK HOUSE STEAK DINNERS NOW SERVING At Reasonable Prices FI LET-1.59 SIRLOIN-1.53 Above includes Baked Potato, Salad, and Texas Toast STEAKBU RGER-.79 Includes Baked Potato and Texas Toast 217 S. STATE ST. Next to State Ttheater Box Office open weekdays 12:45-4:30 P.M. For reservations dial 487-1220 University of Michigan Film Society presents MONDAY John Cassovetes' SHADO WS "Under Cassavetes sensitive and indirect direction the actors improvised a sincere, original, powerful film. H"Again and again the line between acting and living is erased. Caught in ecstasy of collective creation, a handful of earnest amateurs have produced a Gelhs' tb h OA pbaY t olw Chc significnt piece of folk art." MONDAY, OCT. 5-7 Multipurpose Room UGLI I I The author of "Custer Died for Your Sins"-a devastating analysis of the Ameri- can Indian, a proud tribal people who do NOT want to enter the mainstream of homogeneous American life - now turns his attention to American society as a whole.. . AMERICAN INDIANS UNLIMITED & THE CENTICORE BOOKSHOP INVITE YOU TO AN AUTOGRAPHING PARTY FOR VINE DELORIA, JR. TO HONOR THE PUBLICATION OF I "WE TALK, YOU LISTEN" AN INDIAN SOLUTION TO WHITE AMERICA The answer to a legacy of genocide, imperialism, and liberalism centers around a uniquely Indian idea: that real community development is a form of modern neo- tribalism, that the elements of American society are in reality a collection of tribes