Thursdoy, September 6, 1975
THE MICHIGAN OAILY
Ptve Five
Thu ~do, Setemer ~ 193 TE MCHIGN fAII
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Film: Something for everyone
By PTCI{AD GLAIZ E
Several years Ago, cheap cam-
pus alternatives to costly corn-
mnercial film-going were altnost
non-existent: Ann Arbor's' Cine-
ma Guild offered weekend nov-
ies at low prices, and they had
little if any conmpetition. Hardly
the state of affairs today, when
one can see first-run coiner-
CINEAG U I L D ating
from the '50's, Cinema Guild
w as. oiinally created out of a
sincere and committed interest
in movies both as sociology and
ani art form. 'Twenty years ago,
that sort of concern for film was
hardly the chic and fashionable
outlook it is today -- which per-
haps explains the sense of in-
esoterica (Chronicle of Aiuua
Magdelena Bach) to haxd-cort
porn (Pornogra Follies).
Still, Cinema Guild is the only
group capable of giving lengthy
retrospectives of film personali-
ties' careers, and an average
schedule does consist of enough
different things to makO it somre-
rwhat interesting~ for mos~t any
taste. Highlights (to my mind)
of the upcoming semester include
a Satyajit Ray weekend, a Jh
Ford retrospective, five days of
early Pellini and three fine Laur-
ence Olivier films.
This film organisation also
sponsors the nationally-kno~wn an-
nual Ann. Arbor Film Festival
in which ama~teur inidepende*nt
producers compete for moniey
prizes. Visitors from all over
the states flock to town in April
to view the many highly crea-
tive and thought - provoking en-
tries.
CINEMA 11 --Cinema 11 was
founded i~n the mid-sixties a.s a
weekend mo vie organization, and
it is, still showing filmns on Fri-
days, Saturdays, and Sundays 'n
Angell Hall Aud. A. Once a se-
verely divided and comnused or-
ganization, the group has recent-
ly defined itself more clearly
both by concentratng on Arneri-
can films of the thirties and for-
ties, and b'y supplemnenting these
w~ith occasional foreign films or
'irector's weekends.
ANN ARBOR VIED CO5-OP -~
The Co-op was established sev-
eral years ago as an institution
that would make money to fi-
nance film projects by showing
recent popular movies. The
group seems to be using its mnon-
ey for respectable ends - it
backed a recent feature- length,
Ann Arbor - made film. Yet the
Co-op's movie schedule has
come to be one of the most tire-
some and never _ changing fix-
tures Oil ca pa~s.
'The group hats estabhlied its
own core of films that moke up
probably fifty per cent of its
showings per semester. Womren~
in Love, Yel~low $asbmarne,
King of Hearts, Brewster Mcf
Cloud, M*A*S*H, BlowUp, et. Wl.
may a11 be well worth one e-
ve-ing., but who is so addieted to
any of them as to need $ fi sevv
eral times each month? The Co-
op does occasionally screen less
familiar, interesting cur ent
movies: Still, 1 Can't %elp feeling
that the group's typical schedule
ris slapped together rather has-
tily ; at any rate, there are cer-
tainly more inventive meant of
makung money. .T!uesday and
fThursday in Aud. A.
4FIWND$ OF "ZWS "UL
Friends of Newsreel set W to
rhave evolved partially from sev-
eral older organizations -- but
it has been showing films in the
rtwo Modern Languages Auditor,
iumns on Wednesdays and week
ends for about a year now.
Newsreel's schedule is gener-
ally an assori meat of all sorts
of things. The group often man-
ages to -get very recent, popular
films - a fact that disturbs comn-
mercil theatre managers tre-
mendously. Yet Newsreel also
shows obscure films that would
otherwise never play in this city.
For instance, last semester they
showed a documentary on R. D.
Laing, a filmed Cream concert,
and a recent Ma~i Zetterling di-
rectorial effort.
'Then too, they have their own
favorite directors whose work is
often present on their schedule
--- Ken Russell and Pier Paolo
Pasolini most notably. Newsreel
also brought Jean-Luo Godard
and Jean-Pierre Gorin to cam-
pus last year. A strange mixture
of things, to be sure.
l" W WORLD FILMV CO-OP-
The ;roup's nar44 says it all.
NC'W World has in the past shown
Third World films in the UGLI
Multipurpose tRoom for free oan
Friday nights. 'These films are
occasionally critically acclaimed,
.often very obscure. One recent
event was a Cuban filch night.
New World also shirws more
popular fare in the Nat. Sci. Aud
for an admission charge, presum-.
ably to finance the group's other
screenings.
UAC-MWDIATRCS --Last, ami
certainly least on this list, is the
very recently farmed VAC-Medi-
at ics. Jlis is the only Univer-
sity funded cinema organization
on campus, as the University Ac-
tivities Center invests its own1
r oney in the group's activities.1
One would think that this would
provide a fine opportunity to
bring to Ann. Arbor costly and/or'
smalliraw but noteworthy films
that the other movie groups cold
not afford to book themselves.
U~h-uh. Instead, Mediatrics has
proclaimed itself a means of driv-
ing Friends of Newsreel out of
b u s 1 n e s s (Mediatric~ people
claim illogically that Newsreel
is a big business that doesn't
belong on campus) an, unethical
aim being ineptly sought after.
Mediatricis' one s em es t er of
films consisted of some thorough-
ly third-rate recent commercial
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cial movies at 75s and choose
among as many as six or seven
campus showings on a single
night.
If this recent campus film
explosion has resulted in a huge
selection of cheap mnovies, it has
also resulted in a' Wall Street
sense of competition among film.
,groups, a large degree of bu-
reaucratization, and a need for
regulation, that Was virtually non-
existent i the pristine early
days of Cinmea Guild,
I have the feeling that the sur-
vival-of- the - financially ° fittest
nature of movies here may peat
an end to some of the most
worthwhile filnm institutions. on
campus. But as it stands now,
here is a rundown, from the old-
est to the newborns, of the dif-
ferent cinema organizations on
campus, what theyr showe and
where you can see it.
tegrity (often uniearned) th4t
surrounds the orgoiniz~tion still.
Cinema Guild screens movies
from five to seven nights a week
in the Arch. Auid., a room whose
unflashy decor, wooden seas,
and fine visual and audio set-up
seem perfectly - mntchej to the
group's ostensibly serious a~p-
proach to movies and movie his-
tory.
Yet Gnema Guild is hardly
above the recent dollar compe-
tition; its failed attempts at
creating popular successes out
of gradeZ rock and roll and
American International ite#ms
were downright embarrassing.
'When too, it is a victim of
growth. The Guild's board now
numbers over 20, each member
with his or her own very dis-
tinctive tastes. >~ The resulting
film schedules are often total
hodgepodges, uneven by any
standards and ranging from high
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