I"HF MICHIGAN DAILY F°age Flve [HF MICHIGAN DAILY rage Pive C LU d Esther Phillips . . appears with Gato Barbieri and Keith Jarret in Hill Aud. tomorrow night, February 23 at 8. Tickets are still on sale at the UAC ticket desk in the Union. A tingbit o Pick of the week: Tom Jones Cinema II, Aud. B Sat., 7, 9:15 Tony Richardson's superb 1963 adaptation of Henry Fielding's novel of life and love in 18th cen- tury England is this week's handsdown number one pick from Cinema Weekend. This lus- ty triple Oscar winner .(includ- ing best picture) starts the au- dience laughing at frame one and somehow keeps up the pace un- til the very last name on the crawl at the end. Richardson's keenly developed timing and masterful visual touches will both delight and amaze you. Photography, cos- tumes, and the other technical credits are extremely impres- sive - especially John Addi- son's perky music score that is humorous in itself. Albert Finney and Eusannah York head up a fine cast in this memorable piece of celluloid comedy. -David Blomquist The Candidate Friends of Newsreel MLB, Aud. 3 & 4 Double feature with Joe 7:30, 9:30 on Fri., 9:30 Sat. Double feature with Chaplin shorts on Sat., 7:30. 4 The Candidate is one of the best films about politics ever made in this country. Scripted by Jeremy Larner, a staff mem- ber of the 1968 McCarthy cam- paign, the film realistically chronicles a fictional campaign for a Senate in California. Robert Radford plays the young liberal lawyer who is talk- *ed into running by a pseudo-Ma- chiavelli professional campaign manager, portrayed by Peter Boyle. Director Michael Ritchie (Prime Cut) has paid painstak- ing attention to detail in staging a political campaign, from the slick television ads to the rec- tic rallies. Consequently, the film has a frightening aura of truth about it. -James Hynes Joe Friends of Newsreel, MLB, Aud. 3 & 4 Double feature with Candidate 7:30, 9:30 Fri., 7:30 Sat. Double feature with Chaplin shorts 7:30 Sat. Joe stars a magnificent Peter Boyle in the title role , as 'an ultra-conservative blue collar worker who hates hippies, Com- mies, pinkos, fags, and just about anyone who is any more liberal than Barry Goldwater. He meets an upper middle-class man whose daughter has run off with a "hippie freak"; what Joe and the man decide to do will leave you uncomfortable for quite some time. This film, along with Easy Rider, was one of the first to prove that a low budget does not necessarily mean low quality: it is a disturbing but fine motion picture. -James Hynes Max Orphuls Festival Cinema Guild, Arch. Aud. La Ronde: Sat., 7, 9:05 Earrings of Madame De: Sun., 7, 9:05 Featured this weekend are two French films, La Ronde and Earrings of Madame De, per- haps the most characteristic works of German director Max Orphuls. Orphuls's style, best de- scribed as highly romantic and over - decorated, is brightly por- trayed with tongue-in-cheek in these two high society spoofs. In Earrings (1953), we follow the travels of a pair of jeweled earrings through the upper rungs, of European society as they pass from husband (Charles Boyer, in a role more militar- ily rigid than you'd expect from him) to wife (Danielle Darieux) to lover (Vittorio de Sica). La Ronde (1951), the film adap- tation of a play by Arthur Schwitzler, is a sexy spoof of old Vienna.'It is constructed as a series of ten amorous episodes, connected through common lov- ers and by the waltz that en~ds each affair. Apparently ill - prepared for such bawdy subject matter, cen- sorship boards kept much of the American public from seeing La Ronda when it was first releas- ed, in this country. You can go see it now - but be careful. -Bruce Weber Brink of Life Cinema Guild, Arch. And. Fri., 7, 9:05 This 1958 Bergman film at- tempted (like so many others) to be the all-time, definitive hos- pital drama flick; it didn't suc- ceed (again, like so many oth- ers), but is nevertheless rather interesting and generally watch- able (completely unlike the oth- ers). Bergman takes us to a mater- nity ward where three women are on the brink of giving birth -or, if you prefer, life (hence our catchy title). His zesty screenplay trends to keep the show from drowning in soap-op- era tears, but you still may run from the theater screaming "Help! Please! Is there a doc- tor in the house?" before the last reel is through. -David Blomquist New York Erotic Film Festival UAC Mediatrics, Nat. Sci. Aud. Fri., Sat., 7, 9:45, 10:15 Has your alarm clock been failing to arouse you lately? Does getting turned on turn you on? Well, then, let me tell you about The New York Erotic Film Fes- tival: yes, friends, in this flick you not only see the porn, but you see it evaluated! This film (which was not ban- ned in Boston or censured in Schenectady but may be edited in Edmonton) has been termed an attempt to bring class to por- no flicks . . . and, indeed, it does that. If you look closely at the audience, in fact, you'll prob- ably see half your English class, three quarters of your French class, and those in Bot/Zoo 100 who haven't yet finished chap- ter 10. In other words-if flesh is your forte (and only if flesh is your forte), don't miss this movie! -Steve Stathos Little Big Man Bursley Hall Enterprises, Bursley West Cafeteria, Sat., 9 Arthur Penn is a master at tak- ing old movie themes and re- working them into something new. After rejuvenating the gangster movie with Bonnie and Clyde, Penn next turned his tal- ents to the Western. His result is Little Big Man, a whopping big tall tale of epic proportions. Little Big Man is the life story of the fabulous Jack Crabb. Rais- ed by the Indians, Crabb was a merchant, a gunslinger, a trap- per, a town drunk, an Indian brave, a con man, and a cavalry scout. As an Indian,he lived through Custer's infamous mas- sacre of the Sioux at the Wash- ita; as Custer's scout, he was the only white survivor of the Bat- tle of the Little Big Horn. Exciting, funny, always enter- tainng, Little Big Man is a mar- velous film with a scope as broad as the prairies. Dustin Hoffman stars as Crabb; the film also features Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Jeff Corey, and Mar- tin Balsam. -James Hynes Breezy State In which Clint Eastwood proves that he still hasn't given up trying to direct movies - and also proves that he still hasn't learned how to. The bland, cliched plot dooms the show from the start: unbe- lievably, Eastwood has the guts to bring out yet another flick about a frustrated old man who befriends a teenage female de- linquent, and neither better- than-average dialogue nor gen- erally good acting from a fair cast headed by William Holden and Roger. C Carmel can sal- vage it. --David Blomquist Jerentia h Johnson Campus Warner Brothers is re-releas- ing Jeremiah Johnson and giving it the same sort of promotional build up that worked so well for MGM's Westworld. While John- son isn't quite the cinema clas- sic Warners would have us be- lieve, .it is still a very good movie. Robert Redford stars as John- son, a young man who journeys to the Rockies in the 1830's to be- come a "mountain man." The film chronicles his education in the ways of the "mountain man", his uneasy relationship with the Indians, and his ill-fated attempt at family life in the wilderness. The scenery is magnificent (portions of the film were made on Redford's Colorado ranch), Redford presents one of his best performances, and Will Geer is very good as the old hand who teaches Jeremiah the art of survival. Directed by Sydney Pollack, Johnson is a lyrical look at a time of American history that is rarely filmed. -James Hynes ._ CHARLES his selection, score and pro- loque for Chaplin introduces the films from his studio with a discussion of the era of si- lent film making. SHOULDER ARMS (1918) nAlso utef LJ n i t e d Artists, Butterfield Theatres, and Woody Allen con- tinue to rake in money as Sleeper goes on for another hilarious week at the Michigan. The movies at Briarwood aren't suffering, however; blockbusters Serpico and (big Oscar nominee) The Exorcist continue Holding for Another week at the Fifth Forum is Five on the Black HandrSide, a non-violent black film. Fri., (Aud. B, 7, 9), Cinema Guild has a rather unique offer- ing in for a 'one-night stand: Ivory's Savages. Also in for a ome-night stand, but on Sun. and from Cinema II (Aud. B, 6:45, 10) is Carne's Children of Paradise - an enter- taining epic. Iri*sh By BETH NISSEN The Ann Arbor Civic Theatre's production of Hogan's Goat pre- miered at Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Wednesday night with a great deal of Irish brogue and fiesty temper. By the end of the first act, William Alfred's Pulitzer Prize- winning play had the audience hooked on a plot as thick as glue. Alfred's dialogue was full of biting similes and metaphors with strong below-the-buckle jabs at the Catholic church, re- ligious strictures and timely comments on political corrup- tion. Some of the dialogue was un- fortunately lost, due to Mendels- sohn's less than pin-drop acous- tics, some too speedy delivery of lines and a particularly croupy audience. The cast performed well in the roles of Irish immigrants in the Land of Promise. Irish ac- cents were surprisingly sham- rock-authentic. bo'gu e William Gross did an excellent job playing the rising political hopeful Matthew Stanton, a man eager to escape his past, a man with icy ambition in his veins. Meg Gilbert did an exquisite portrayal of Stanton's china-doll wife and political asset. Desmond P. Ryan, playing' Edward Quinn, Stanton's politi- cal rival, was sufficiently slimy and protective of his mayoralty at all costs, yet believably sorry for his role in the classic tragedy ending. Special verbal applause should go to Colby Wertenberger for her sleazy rendition of a Bessie Legg, a bar-room girl with more cleav- age than morals, vand to Cathe Wright at Josephine Finn, the Irish gossip with the serrated tongue. Trilling their "r'"s, with eyes and tongues flashing, Ann Arbor community talent successfully pulled off a good suspense play with an even better moral. k.sf, , ° 1214 S. UNIVERSITY 0 DIAL 668-6416 WOODY ALLEN TAKES A NOSTALGIC LOOK AT THE FUTURE-. 5th HIT WEEK! r ,Nt.: NOW SHOWING Fri. at Sat. & Sun. 7&9p.m. . F at 1, 3,5, only Redtord 7 pm Johnson A SYDNEY POLLACK FILM The man who became a legend. The film destined to be a classic! 4woody -Diarte cAlleq''KEton inevr United Avufts Ann Arbor Civic Theatre presents A PULITZER PRIZE DRAMA -N------ 603 East Liberty M I C H I G AM Dial 665-6290 iI OAWS GOA by WILLIAM ALFRED WEDNESDAY through SATURDAY evening MENDELSSOHN. THEATRE TICKETS: $3.00 Call: 763-1085-10 a.m.-5 p.m. TON IGHT ROBERT REDFORD as The Candidate Robert Redford (The Sting, Jeremiah Johnson) as an idealist "people's lawyer" caught in the hustle of Democratic politics, in what the National Observer described as "The best political film ever, absolutely authentic, tough, honest, mature and cynical in a grown-up kind of way-what more could you a " -and PETER BOYLE as JOE DIALL 662-6264 r 231 SOUTH, STATE OPEN 12:45; SHOWS AT 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 P.M. NOW SHOWING! Free Get-Acquainted Offer ARCADE 5 PINBALL PARLOR 618 CHURCH STREET * with this coupon we will match quarters with you until 7 p.m. each day thru March 1st. Only one * per person ASK ABOUT r $1000 SCHOLARSHIP must be 17 u FFTE4 FIJNIYI..1... 210 S. FIFTH AVE. ANN ARBOR 761-9700 Youve been BLACULA-RIZED and SUPERFLY-ED -but now you're gonna be glorified and filled-with-pride... when you see BLACK0 HTRID ~Tnn" pass ist Ssuspended A Different New Love by Clint Eastwood Her name / ~Q Story ... Directed is Breezy A "Explosively funny, harsh, impassioned, immensely sophisticated." -L.A. Times. A telling contrast of the generations of Middle America, and the response to the youth insurgence of the "liber- al" upper and "reactionary" working class. New York Times nom- nated "Peter Boyle for the Oscar for Best Actor." Remember Orville Garland? Friday and Saturday Friday, both films at 7:30 & 9:30, side by side; Saturday, Joe at 7:30, Candidate at 9:30; Chaplin Revue 7:30 & 9:30. $1.25 ...and love Was all they had in common. ROBERT REDFORD in A Sydney Pollack Film PG '"JEREMIAH JOHNSON" Joe Wizan-Sanford Production Co-Starring WILL GEER 1!111I I IANA HAlDF NIVAV' 1 FN1