Thursday, March 27, 1975 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five U camtpu4 (Iick.6 Blinded Bogdanovich sticks with Cybil. By JAMES VALK est This Tuesday, April Fool's Day. What's Up Doc? rolls into town, Peter Bogdanovich's tri- bute to the "screwball Com-i edy". Yet another homage to ai reflection in a long-lost-lens, Bogdanovich's film is an earlyI chapter in the mysterious rise and fall of the young director. Establishing his name as aF reputable film director with his second film, The Last Picturej Show, Bogdanovich established himself as a cinematic aficion-|I ado who had, indeed, seen I quite a few movies. The Last Picture Show was a virtual patchwork of styles borrowed from his personal repertoire of greats, from the transposed fun-{ eral of George Stevens' Shane to the inclusion of Howard Hawks' Red River as the 'lastI picture show'. This is not, however, to im- ply there is anything aesthetic- ally detrimental with that par-1 ticular technique. As a com- plete film, The Last Picture Show was a penetratingly pain- ful scenario of the monotony and degradation of the human purpose and relevance that typ- lified a small Texas town in the early fifties. In pursuing what may prove to be his ultimate goal, a library of contemporarily made film re- creations, proud Peter took on the comedy, a genre he felt had; been compromised in quality, and therefore deserved his ma- gic wand to lift it from the an- nals of cinematic neglect, or, more fittingly, cinematic disre- spect. The result is just what one might expect of a director who knows little or nothing about comedic execution: his attempt at recreating Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby was atro cious; Paper Moon wasn't much3 better, although more success-! ful. But then lightning struck. A horrible thing happened to Peter Bogdanovich on his road stumbled over a rock named Cybil Shepard. Hiding behind the camera with the directorl since Picture Show days, Cybii started her "comeback", a surge that could put Peter back on the two-tracks. After Daisy Miller, a putrid film that has all the charm of leprosy, one would think Bog-E danovich would have learned his' lesson - that Cybil Shepard simply didn't possess either the poise or the finesse to carry herself through a substantial part. But no - as if command- ed by some masochistic drive to self - destruction - Bogdano- vich played it again, and this tune it is worse. At Long Last Love transcends humor; it's just plain junk. Just as Boydanovich seeming- ly realized his potential as an original filmmaker with atre- mendous lore for the past, he has succumbed to the apparent love of his life. Bizarre stories I circulated that Peter was 're-3 programming' Cybil into a cul- tural creature, pelting her 'in- tellect' with great novels and fine music in a Swiftian at- tempt at transforming her into a person worthy of his stature; a sort of intellectual blow-up doll he could carry under his. arm and out in his movies.- It's really too bad that Bog-I danovich has become so capti- vated with his newly-found po- sition of starmaker that he has lost sight of reality, allowing his aesthetic license to become so self-abused as to reach the statet of abandoned recklessness. As Andrew Sarris asked inE his review of At Long Last Love, "Can love be so blind?": Evidently, yes, as the director has said "I'm going to make my next movie with Cybil, too, and I'm not going to apologize for that." I would venture a guess{ that somewhere, sometime, to someone, Peter will eat those words. But perhaps we'll never find out - until his next movie Sluggish Arts uneven Hill By KAREN PAUL subdued sound. It was delicate-l i ly performed, and Klein exhibit-i The University of Michigan ed good control in his direct.ion. Arts Chorale, directed by May- After a brief warmup, the nard Klein, gave an enjoyable choir performed Anton Bruck- if somewhat sluggish conc-rt ner's "Cristus Factus Est".; Tuesday night in Hill Auditor- The piece never seemed to ium± reach the proper level of forte, The program began rather but the gradual crescendoing3 lifelessly with Gustav flilst's effect provided dynamic con-E "Turn Back 0 Man." The choir trast through the score. Donald. seemed uncertain of themselves, Williams' organ accompaniment4 and were nearly overpowered was played with expertise. j by the organ accompaniment. Mozart's "Vesperae Solemnes "Adoramus Te", the second de Confessore" featured solos1 number, seemed more suitable by Linda Mohler, Cecelia (tier- to the choir's wel-blended but ra, Richard Ingram and Stephen La serium: lgts colors that blowV y Poulos. The soloists, Mohler es- panists Barbara Topel and Ron- pecially, performed admirablv. ald Fracker played efficiently summer. The soprano had many solo pas- and the choir usually kept up sages, and she sang them with with the changing character of Gr L a full and lovely mellowness, the pieces.GreatLocation something often lacking in a Of the 18 short waltzes, the 1 345 WASHTENAW ( Near S. Univ. soprano. faster ones tended to emerge The Chorale had some ensem- as superior, because the choir ble problems in the Mozart - showed more life in them. Coed Liing-nexpensive uneven tempi and balane -- There was a problem in bal- but demonstrated spirit and c;-l ance. The tenors and basses?662-5474 bility. were on the whole, strongest, but now and then the sopranos Last on the program was curiously dominated the choir. -- Brahm's waltz series, "Lieb- Barbara Tuss and Philip Smith- --- slieder Walzer" originally writ-! sang their solo passages well. ten for piano duet. Piano accom- The 65 member Arts Chorale, D a il C lassifieds made up mainly of non-music majors, on the whole did an ade- quate job. Mostly, they seemed 4 )tterns to enjoy performing under Klein Get Results and that made for a pleasur- 0 able concert. our m ind ____-----__ SERGEI & GEORGY VASILIEW'S 1934 Box" by the Peppers. Kaufman goes wild with a dazzling d s- play of brilliantly colored cir- cles, stars and dots that se.m See the Red Army commander Chapayev, the ruthless Colonel Borozdin, to explode from the center. Anna the machine-gunner and the heroic partisans in what is probably the "Hoedown," another Emerson' most popular Soviet movie ever. Eisenstein liked it too. Lake and Palmer piece, was also excellently done to finishA TG the show. MAI ZETTERLING'S 1969 Laserium may well be the 9R .5 next major medium to emerge (at 9:05) and unlike mass media and The darkness of memory, the way we feel about personal relations long communication, it leaves muchr! of the interpretation up to the after they have been severed is the crux of Zetterling's film about an old viewer. As is explained before man trying vainly to remember sensual experiences from the past. ANN the show begins, whatever one ARBOR PREMIERE. Danish with English susbtitles. wants to receive, he or she will, BOTH SHOWS What you put in to interpreting FCINEMA$GUILD.OTH SHO.S the show will determine what FOR $1.5A you will get out of it. ~__- - Chorale gives performance Theta Xi Offers shelter from the storm this spring and (Continued from Page 1) AT YESTERDAY'S first show-l projected in four colors on a; ing, laserist Adam Kaufman It special screen by a unique one- skillfully illustrated the fullI watt krypton gas laser. The range of effects that the me-1 laser light is mechanically scan- dium can create. ned and diffused through lenses Kaufman frequently u s e d i and prisms into relaxing, cap- floating clouds of vibrant color tivating images. to illustrate such slow, calm The basic lens and scanner w o r k s as "Neptune" f r om adjustments that make up the Holst's The Planets. Yet the* dancing light effects are pre- rainbow-like clouds also appear- programmed at the Van Nays, ed at the center of designs for! Calif. headquarters of the show more rhythmic selections like{ on a track of the tape that car- Strauss's Blue Danube waltz,! ries the musical accompaniment but embellished with circles and' for the orogram. figure-eights. But the system operator, or The greatest experience of the "laserist," can change the mov- evening was the sequence usiag mg figures and objects into dif- Emerson, Lake and Palmer's ferent variations of the original "tank." Kaufman's effects ;n-, themes by modifying controls terpreted Carl Palmer's drm on a panel located next to the solo with incredible accuracy. laser in the middle of the audi-soowtinrdbecurc torium. Consequently, each Las- PERHAPS JUST as comnet- erium performance has some- ently done, though, was the thing slightly different to offer. short sequence using "Pepper I to cinematic recovery - he is released. Raab's poetry shows imagination's power By MARY LONG ; ted together neatly as dramas. Unfortunately, only a handful But Raab's work often shifts of people were present Tuesday to an opposite pole and is char- afternoon when Lawrence Raab acterized by qualities of imagi- read his work as part of the nation and spirit. Vampires English Department's Poetry make an appearance, as do 1975 series. princesses and sorcerers, mem- Those who were faithfully ories of the dead and presences scattered throughout the Mod- not completely understood. The ern Language Building audi- words "emptiness" and "ab- torium heard carefully finished sence" appear with startling poems of haunting strangeness frequency. -works that claim man's exper- Raab is reluctant both to sep- ience continually touches on , arate his work into two isolat- stories and legends and the spir- ed styles and to explain the es- it of our own lost consciousness. !sence of his more purely per- For Raab, the key to recover- ing this consciousness lies in be- sona poems. coming alert enough to every- "Poems remain mysterious" day surroundings. "I want to he insists. "Poetry doesn't draw say 'Look - see what the char- merely on what you can see o acters are doing"' Raab ex- say. It comes from memory, plained. from the subconscious, from "The difficulty is in how to dreams. These things have pow- look at things and how to contin- er, yes, when you use them in; ually discover new qualities in poetry - but the power remains those things that move you. An mysterious." enormous problem arises just in the attempt to see clearly and: there's no end to trying to find a solution," he said. Raab attempts to present the pain that acute perception can involve in a subtle way - by placing his poems in a context' that is familiar to a reader - such as popular novels or mov- ies-and in a situation designed to make a listener laugh. "You laugh," Raab says, "but out of that laughter a re- r cognition comes. I am attempt- ing to amuse and then disturb. Throughout my work you are constantly aware that under its F easy surface something a little darker is happening." That sly intervention of a deeper level of emotional truth is an ever-present characteris- tic. Raab's poems are often written in a prosaic style, fit- Read and Use Daily Classifieds SPIRITUAL. COMMUNITY OF THE SUN PRESENTS DICK GREGORY * SpeakinQ on the food crisis and survival of humanity * FRI., MAY 16, 1975-7:00 P.M. UNIV. OF MICH. BALLROOM Donation $4 plus 1 con of food orofits ao to world community food bank ann arbor. mi GET TICKET in ADVANCE of show! Available at David's Bookstore-529 E. Liberty and ;n the Michigan Union I _- h-" I the a n*ra i lS S -. S r* S * PRESENTS GREAT EXPECTATIONS from the novel by Charles Dickens directed by David Lean (director of Lawrence of Arabia) Thursday, March AU D.A 7:00& 9:00 27 $1.25 TOMORROW: MLB 3 and 4 BANANAS and PUTNEY SWOPE THIS WEEK ONLY! IA JOY! NEIL SIMON'S BEST PLAY YET." - Clive Barnes, N.Y. Times ED~DIE ARNY BRACKEN FREEMAN NEt 51HOHS NEW cOMEDY ___S 4 W ANTED: Talented, active candidates for student office. Must be interested in revitalizing student Cgovernment at the University of Michigan.