Thursday, January 16, 1975 THE 1'vtl MIGAN DAISY Page Five Thursday, January 1 6, 1975THE MICHIGAN DAiLY Gr"ad By JIM VALK Hopping between the Residen- tial College, Classics Depart-' ment, and LSA, John Allen has returned to Ann Arbor. The former Michigan grad turned film critic has come back to his alma mater for the fifth year in the Residential College, while making his debut in the Classics Department and LSA,' not considering, of course, his three years as a grader hashing through some "beastly" papers in Marvin Feldheim's now in- famous American Studies film course. Allen returns here for the "availability of film on cam- pus," and to indulge in the Ann Arbor Film Festival, which is "at least half a reason for wanting to live in Ann Arbor." But even more, he misseds having a kind of live audience.k "I missed a sense of who was out there," he explains of his time as film critic for the Chris- tian Science Monitor. Returning to the academic arena where the "classroom situation pro- vides instant feedback," Allen feels he is closer to his audi- ence. The transition from amateur turned pr to professional status in film hours spent at old films is veryG criticism is owed partly to his slight." work at Michigan. "If I must In order to write the type of give credit where credit is due, criticism that he feels is need- it goes at least in part to the ed, Allen prefers to "expose Michigan Daily." himself to Japanese classics While applying for a general and some of the better early news position at the Monitor, American comedies." the six film reviews he wrote Allen sees Francis Ford Cop- ". .academy Award voting is often shap. ed by a sense of being in the public eye. I think they are always worried about the image of Hollywood." 0 an an Kubricl terestir maker ing jus view u the Ch Allen (Kubric screeni cri tic ret trs ecdote involving Stanley k, whom he sees "as in- ng an American film- as is alive today". Hav- t finished a glowing re- f 2001 that appeared in ristian Science Monitor, was 'ushered into his ck's) presence" at a ing of the film. problem of censorship and whe- ther Hollywood is or is not be- ing socially responsive to the needs of the nation." He sees a number of the awards given to be a reinforce- ment by the industry, prompted by a desire to say "Yes, we are socially aware. You see, we vote for films like In the Heat of UAC Concert Co-op Presents TONIGHT and his band THURS., Jan. 16, POWER CENTER, 8 pm. Reserved seats $4.00. Avail. UM Union 11-5:30 daily (763-4553), Ann Arbor Music Mart on State 'St., Recordland at Briarwood, and Huckleberry Party Store in Ypsi. Sorry, no personal checks. Smoke not in concert hall, keep good music on campus. -- -John Allen I, for the Daily one summer were pola's The Conversation as seen by the editors of the pub- "the best American film since lication, who promptly gave j Bonnie and Clyde," a pair only him the position of film critic. to be joined by The Graduate Ironically, while coming up j and 2001: A Space Odyssey. through the American Studies "Chinatown," he says "is pretty program here, Allen has little brilliant film - hokey at mo- fondness for- the contemporary ments - but certainly one of American film. "I have seen'the best four or five films to only a fraction of the new films come out of Hollywood in recent of the past year - including the ' years." major ones; the number of 2001 holds a special place in hours spent at new films com- his cabinet of memories as a pared with the number of film critic. He eagerly recalls Allen gleefully recalls Ku- the Night. I can't think of any brick's words to his press ag- cinematic reason for choosing ent: "While I'm talking to Mr. that as best film of the year." Allen, I want you to go and get With the oncoming of New ahold of the New York Times. Yorker film critic Pauline Kael We've got to get this article to the Ann Arbor campus in Ap- reprinted . . . this is too good ril, Allen is predictably excit- to be buried in the Christian ed. His thesis for his doctorate Science Monitor." The result, bears the title "Pauline Kael, needlesshto say, wasta reprint- Art, and the Movies," a caustic ing of the entire article in an switch on Kael's classic piece ad for the film in the Sun- "Trash, Art, and the Movies. day New York Times. Like any knowledgable per- As playful as this tug-of-war son in his field, Allen has opin- may seem, Allen's approach to ions on those successful in the Kael's writing, which he main- craft, notably directors like tains are "full of very inter- Godard (" . . . started out to esting contradictions," is one be an interesting filmmaker"), of a scholarly tactician. His Altman ("very indulgent"), Po- ammunition consists of a 300 lanski ("uneven", Cassavettes plus page thesis that Allen ("as powerful work as anybody hopes to someday have publish- around"), and Bergman and ed. Fellini ("two of the four or five Although having never met greatest filmmakers who ever his cinematic antagonist face- lived"). to-face, John Allen is confident Also consistent with other knowledgeable persons in hisM NIC field is his disdain of the Aca- MINI C demy Awards. Allen does not INTERDISCIPLINS doubt the validity and authen- OF VI RG I ( ticity of the awards, as he be- MARGARE" lieves the men and women of Assistant Prof the Academy really do express TH U R their feelings when they vote January 16, 23, for the films the way they do. 7-9 P.M. "I think their voting is often This m -s P.M. shaped by a sense of being in Tisminicus will look at hpd bya s beg Bloominaton Group, her crit the public eye. I think they are of feminism and androcvnv always worried about the image of Philosophy from the NeA of Hollywood. They are fre- will give a guest lecture. quently concerned about the REGISTER AT 1058 John Allen in his knowledge of her psyche, as he states, "I may know Pau-. line Kae ,better than she knows herself, at least in terms of knowing her public persona." Should these two meet within striking distance sometime dur- ing Kael's visit in April, you can bet I'll have a ringside seat. r; t Madison Ave. bids adieu to the jet-setters' doorman )URSE 311 ARY PERSPECTIVES NIA WOOLF T A. LOURIE fessor of Enqlish SDAYS 30 and February 6 2413 MH t Woolf's participation in the ical theory, and her concepts . Dr. Solly Ruddick, Professor w Institute of Social Research LS&A FOR 1 CREDIT By STANLEY JOHNSON Hialeah. Associated Press Writer Bill, a Jamaican who grew up NEW YORK - Madison Ave- in Macon, Ga., met the Roose- nue said goodby Wednesday to velts when the then-governor (A its "Marvelous Mayor" who has New York went to Warm gossiped with Garbo, massaged Springs for therapy for inafan- President Franklin D. Roose- tile paralysis. velt, lived it up with Joe Na- Mrs. Roosevelt brought Bill math and in general, butlered to New York and introduced and badgered billionaires for 43 him to society. y ears. He's Bill Lattimer, 67, w h o "Get to know people, as many flew back from a Super Bowl as you can," Mrs. Roosevelt binge in New Orleans with once wrote him. "See them as "Broadway Joe" for a party people, not as black or white or marking the end of his 37 years yellow. Color does not matter. as the Very Different Doorman Believe that and you will find it at Sotheby Parke-Bernet A r t is true. And never be timid Galleries, never be afraid to go int any On Thursday, Bill flies to place you want to go. It is your Miami to join the owners of the right, and you must fight for! Jets and New Jersey's Mon- it by never being afraid." mouth Race Track in celebra- Bill left the United Sta -es as tions of the 50th anniversary of maitre d'hotel for Maxine Pin-; gree who had a P.rk Avenue apartment here, a house in Paris and suites in hotels in oth- er European cities. He met Maj. Hiram Parke at Mrs. Pingree's Paris house and later joined him at what was -then Parke-Bernet. His long career -is the jet- classroom instruction in electronic music the musi studio Partial list of subjects covered during our 12-week course: " Sound properties and acoustical phenomena " Electronic generation and modification of sound " Theory and use of voltage-controlled equipment " Tape recorder characteristics and operation . Studio recording. splicing and mixing techniques 555 e. william 994-5404 NOW ACCEPTING STUDENTS FOR WINTER TERM ' 1 Ir ;, setters' jet-setter had begun. He became the confidant on art and related matters to everyone frum TODAY ONLY!! Louis Armstrong to J. Paul Get- ty. " " r " " " " " Macy's dubbed him the "May- or of Madison Avenue" in full-: page newspaper ads when he presents presided over British Festival activities at the departmtnt THAT FABULOUS MUSICAL store. British Festival? ~A N r Yes, Bill has done tours of r q j I h duty in London. sarn ALNBA D He chatted with Queen ElizA- starring MARLON BRANDO beth II and struck up a friend- with Frank Sinatra & Jean Simmons ship with her gentleman-in-wait- ing, the Earl of Westmoreland, TA AV TL 7:00 that led to the two men to taeTODAY urs., n. 90 a ton nips togetherathrouha- TOMORROW: see KLUTE with Jane Fonda ada. Bill particularly cherishes MLB 4 7:00 & 9 :00 $1.25 Greta Garbo, who stops by for a chat every now and then. --- "I saw her last on Christmas! Day," Bill said. "She looked: great and we had a long talk ROBERT ROSSELLINI'S 1945 about old times and old friends." Asked is she ever really said "I want to be alone, ' Bill re- plied: "Not to me, she di 't." A modern classic, this Italian film shot during the dying days of the SO O N Nazis in Rome spawned the neo-realism movement in cinema after World War 11. It is on one hand a powerful human drama, and on the Gil Oother, very true to the atmosphere and events in which it was made. ANN ARBOR will be FRI.: Marilyn Monroe in GENTLEMEN PERFER BLONDS ROCKING with TONIGHT at ARCHITECTURE AUD. W103 FM CINEMA GUILD 7:00 &9:05 Adm. only$1i I 'L __ AP Photo Bill Lattimer r LINDA T RONSTADT Tues., Jan. 21 Hill Auditorium $6, $5.50, $5, $4 a RESERVED SEATS SAvailR U M Union 11-5:30 daily Y763-4553) ' l Smoking Strictly Prohibited TONIGHT: JOHN PRINE, Power Center-8 P.M. tickets avail Union 'til 5.30 at Door 7 p m. I El I t " x .ti , r fl Y Program in Judiac and Gebraic Studies-Winter 1975 COURSE OFFERINGS: BEGINNERS HEBREW: a multi-media audiovisual approach to the teaching of language. INTERMEDIATE HEBREW HEBREW SPEAKING CLUB BASIC JUDAISM I: on introduction to Judaism and Jewish life for those with no Jewish background. BASIC JUDAISM 11: for those who wish to explore the basic principles of the Jewish religion. AMERICAN JEWISH LITERATURE: we will be reading and discussing in depth three major American novels. JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY: this course will examine and compare classical Jewish and Christian views. MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT: Buber, Heschel, Rosenzweig, existentialism and the challenae of modernitv. A STUDY OF THE BIBLE: a study of Biblical religion particularly as it relates to previous religions that surrounded it. HASSIDISM: Jewish mysticism in its mass revival of 1 8th and 19th Century Eastern Europe, prayer and song, dancing and swaying, ascent to the heights of the "Em Sof." INTRODUCTION TO MIDRASH : we will discuss Midrash views of the story of the binding of Isaac, but also the nature and structure of Midrash. THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT: a study of source materials: this course will deal with the origins and develop- ment of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the emergence of the Palestinian national movement and the P.L.O. 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