Thursdoy, September 6, 1975 THE MICHIGAN OAILY Ptve Five Thu ~do, Setemer ~ 193 TE MCHIGN fAII .. .. _.. : I 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 See CAMPUS, Page 6 ! OPEFN, SEVEN DAYS Monday and Tuesday: OLd TIME MOVIES Wednesday thru Sunday: LIVE ENTERTAINMENT (SING-ALONG, BANJO BAND) Itavlian and American Food --Boer--Wine-- Cckt oils 665w3231 -- 1 14 East Washlling ton-An n Arbor , _., .. ,. FORTY-FIE FF : TY D DA CE I. CONT R IES! bymnPliwic, cliarrl, chornber miusic, solo ro itpols, ord, jazz, mime, lpllet, ethnic and mod- er-n dance-all listed below for the comning 1973=74 season S e r ies at substantial savings available as long as they lust- prders for single concerts accepted September 1, with counter sale for frmaining tickets beginning September 12. 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 CHORAL UNION SERIES PETKOl! SYMPHONY ORCH95TRA (2.30) SEPT. 30 with its new conductor, Aldo Ceccato, and Franca Gulli, violin -soloist JULIAN BREAM, ;NGLISH GUITARIST (2:30) OCT. 21 ( ONDON PACH SOCIETY, SINGERS & MUSICIANS .......... OCT. 96 Paul Steiriitz, founder and conductor LENINGRAD PHILHARMONIC, OLDEST SOVIET ARCH. .... ,,..... NOV. 3 Evgeny Mravinsky, conductor BUDAPEST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA NOV. 10 Gyorgy Lehel, conductor; and Gyorqv Sandor, dcclciime concert pia~nist MARTINA ARROYO. RENOWNED SOPRANO NOV. 19 WARSAW PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA .......... (2:30) JAN. 27 Witold Rowicki, conduetor ISUCIANO PAVAROTTI, ITALIAN LYRIC TENOR.........FEB. 27 YEHUDI AND HEPHZISAH _MENUHIN .......... MAR. 13 Celebrated violin and piano virtuosos (Tenth Attraction to be Anrnumt4) a eieof 10 concerts. $50, $40, $33, $26, $20 Single concert prices: $8.50, $7.50, $7, $6, $5, $3.St CHOICE SERIES SERIS NOW QN SALE! 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