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Paramount's Oscar 411o
"Save the Tiger" and
"Paper Moon",
State
Paramount Pictures-you may
know them better as "the God-
father company" brings two of
its. 1974 Oscar candidates to Ann
Arbor as a spring break double
bill.
Tiger is a product of John C.
Avildren, the fellow who, among
other flicks brought you Joe.
Avildren attempts here to put
together a film with Joe's hor-
rifying i m p, a c t, but becomes
mired in the qluicksand of senti-
mentality along the way and, un-
fortunately, ends up with a rather
mediocre product.
Jack Lemmon portrays Harry
Stoner, a Los Angeles garment
manufacturer ("Capri Casuals").
to keep up a wealthy image in
the midst of hard times. Pushed
up against a financial wall,
Harry devises a brilliant plan-
why not hire an arsonist, burn
Capri's factory down, and collect
the insurance?
Rumor has it that Ed Riemers
calls this film more gruesome
than The Excorist.
Paper Moon is a fine although
somewhat erratic quasi - period.
piece from Peter Bogdanovich
(Last Picture Show, What's Up
Doc?). $ogdanovich likes to im-
itate old Hollywood styles (that's
why Paper Moon is in black-and-
white), but in this case does so
with only limited success. When
this film is good, it's very good;
when it's corny, however, it frags
on relentelessly.
Ryan O'Neal portrays Moses
Pray, a very small-time con man
who comes to a small Kansas
town to pay last respects to an
old flame-but finds by graveside
Addie, a shrewish little 9-year-
old (played by O'Neal's daughter
Tatum) who might just be his
illegitimate child. Forced by cir-
cumstance to give her a lift to
Missouri, Pray thinks the con
game racket is over for a while
-until he discovers that the ciga-
rette-smoking Addie is better at
the trade than he. is.
While both movies have flaws,
b o t h are certainly better-than-
average fare - and a pleasant
way to spend a dreary spring
break evening.
-DAVID BLOMQUIST
* * *
Take the Money and
Run
GEO Benefit, Aud. 3, MLB
Fri., Sat., 7:30, 9:30
The Woody Allen film is the
greatest innovation in comedy
since the banana peel. Allen
weekend ..
. . . . - ''s r'
is the new Chaplin, writing, di-
recting, and starring in his own
outrsgeously funny films. Take
the Money and Run is, paradoxi-
cally, both his first and best
film. It is an insanely funny
pseudo-documentary that chron-
icles the life of a hopelessly inept
thief.
Allen's style, if one can call it
that, consists of cramming as
many gags as possible into two
' hours of celluloid. Take the
Money is the highest expression
of this style; hardly any of the
jokes fall flat, with the result
that the film achieves a high
level of lunacy early on and
maintains it for most of the film.
Frantically paced, the film is
rather loosely structured and
very rough around the edges.
Yet, even if it isn't as polished
as his more recent Sleeper, it is
funnier, which is saying an aw-
ful lot.
-JAMES HYNES
* * *
Great White Hope
G O Benefit, Aud. 4, MLB
Fri., Sat., 7:30, 9:30
The Great White Hope is an
ambitious but flawed film. Di-
rected by Martin Ritt (The Molly
Maguires) from Howard Sack-
ler's screenplay, the film depicts
the career of Jack Jefferson, the
first black heavyweight boxing
champion.
Hope was originally written for
the stage, and in the transition
from stage to screen the script
sowehow lost some of its power.
Cinema demands realism: as a
film, Hope seems too hollow and
and rather contrived. HN
-JAMES HYNES
Frank Capra Weekend
Cinema II, Aud. A
Fri., Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,
7, 9:15
Sat., Lost Horizon, 7, 9:15
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, made
in 1936, is a topical film. It is
not topical,.however, in the same
sense that John Ford's magnifi-
cent The Grapes of Wrath was
topical. Wrath is a painfully real-
istic portrait of life during the
Depression; Capra's film is a
sort of American fable that ex-
tols the virtures of simplicity and
common sense.
Gary Cooper plays the folksy,
Lincolnesque h e r o, Longfellow
Deeds, who inherits $20 million
and thwarts the efforts of shy-
ster lawyers to prevent him from
giving it away to the needy. This
sort of film was reassuring to
the public, for it showed that
even in an era of big govern-
ment, big business, and hard
times, the common man could,
through honesty, sincerity, and
simplicity, come out on top. Of
all the films of this type made
d u r i n g the Depression, Mr.
Deeds is one of the best.
Infinitely better than the re-
cent musical version, Capra's
Horizon is a beautiful film,
flawed only by the sets, which
look more like a 1937 set de-
signer's idea of a 1974 depart-
ment store than "paradise." The
film stars Ronald Colman, Ed-
ward E v e r e t t Horton, Jane
Wyatt, and Sam Jaffe.
-JAMES HYNES
* * *
Of Human Bondage
Cinema Guild, Arch. Aud.
Fri., 7, 9:05
Late-late-show freaks will no
doubt love this 1934 RKO version
of Somerset Maugham's classic
novel, but everyone else might
just as well stay home. Even
though it headlines top talent
and a fair director (John Crom-
well), this first of three versions
to date of Bondage simply never
gets off the ground.
Most of the blame rests square-
ly with Leslie Howard, who plays
Philip Carey, the young man who
gives up a frustrating career in
art to pursue an equally frus-
trating career in medicine. Ho-
ward's performance is far too
rigid-he plays Carey with an
overly melodramatic touch, al-
most completely forgetting the
character's pathetic side.
-DAVID BLOMQUIST
* *
Also...
Woody Allen's Sleeper con-
tines on at the Michigan. Talk
is that the flick is on an eight
week contract-and that means
three more weeks to go.
Warner Brothers, impressed by
results from the first week of
its massively-promoted reissue of
Jeremiah Johnson, keeps this
Robert Redford e a r l y Western
flick in the Campus for another
week. (Rumor has it, however,
that Truffaut's Day for Night
begins next Thursday.)
The Movies at Briarwood is
also making money for Warners;
Excorist continues to run eleven
times daily. Al Pacino's Serpico
is Briarwood's other long-running
attraction.
For those of you headed home
for the break, one word on the
cinema scene: distributors should
have booked the Oscar nominees
into theatres in most areas by
now. If you haven't seen this
year's complement yet-especial-
ly The Sting, The Excorist, and
Cries and Whispers - spring
break is a good time to do so.
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Daily photo by KEN FINK
Netherlands Wind Ensemble
AVtherland
Comedy and
Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Thurs-
day, February 28 at Rackham Audi-
torium. Program:
Petite symphonie Counod
Serenade No. 12 in C minor Mozart
Chanson et dances .. D'Indy
Serenade in D minor Dvorak
The Netherland Wind Ensemble
is a group that knows how to
make music. They are also enter-
tainers and concert comedians of
the highest order, and they frol-
icked with the audience through-
out their program, via slide shows
in the lobby, cornball horn quar-
tets and other sundries.
Musically, the fare was roman-
tic with a strong predeliction
towards the classic period:
Gounod's Petite symphonie is
scored for only eight players,
while the Dvorak, the largest
piece requires only 12. So there
was a lot of miniaturization. The
players respected this feature of
the music, evidenced by careful
attention to all the filigree, the
small details of the music. Clar-
ity and balance were the watch-
words all evening long.
The Gounod gave the impres-
sion that the performers had
transformed themselves into one
large instrument. All of the
phrases were shaped gracefully
and the players never pushed the
music: the cantabile phrases
soke for themselves admirably.
All of this, mind you, was done
without the aid of a conductor.
The Mozart Serenade followed
the pattern set by the Petite
symphonie: never forced, always
galant and subtle. Thankfully,
this group did not try to play
excessively short notes-a com-
mon and dreadful mistake that
often plagues Mozart interpreta-
tions. The tempos were on the
bright side, but the group's ac-
curacy was uncanny.
At intermission the show moved
out to the Rackham lobby, where
generally clowning around were
interspersed with more playing.
Hornquartets dominated the scene
here with various hunting songs
and other novelties from the
musical woods.
The D'Indy Chanson et dances
followed the "interval," featuring
a stellar performance by the clar-
inets in a syncopated and quick-
paced set of dance tunes. The
piece itself was somewhat incon-
clusive, flirting from a dance sec-
tion to a song section and back
again without logical sequence.
Winds:
finesse
The Dvorak, like the Mozart,
did not suffer from lack of velo-
city. The four movements moved
swiftly by, with nuances properly
placed at the beginning and clos-
ing or phrases. The finale of the
work displayed the total, com-
plete virtuosity of this ensemble,
hurtling along faster than Mer-
cury himself.
There were two .encores, an
excerpt fromethe Balcony Scene
of Mozart's Don Giovanni and a
bassoon trio made up of various
50's pops songs! Twas marvelous.
Twas simply marvelous.
No Matinees Sat. or Sun.
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NEW WORLD MEDIA INTERNATIONAL FILM!
presents:
RAGA
. A Film on India; it's music and culture narrated by Rau Sh
Also: THE LONG CHAIN
East Quad Auditorium
8:00 p.m. TONIGHT
This WEDNESDAY: New World
RAY BRADBURY'S
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Doily Photo by PAULINE LUBENS
Strumming along
Music School's Classical Guitar Society sponsors a concert by Manuel Lopez Ramos at Rackham Aud.
last night.
FRANK CAPRA CLASSICS
FRIDAY, MARCH 1st
MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN 1936
Capra's two-fold solution to the depression, entertainment and hope, is carried off brilliantly in this
portrayal of Longfellow Deeds. Gary Cooper inherits $20 million and tries to give it away. A bunch
of rich lawyers, attempting to foil his philanthropic endeavors, are no match for the folksy character
of Deeds. Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur. 7 & 9:15 P.M.
SATURDAY, MARCH 2nd
LOST HORIZON 1937
Starring:
ROD STIEGER
CLAIR BLOOME
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This THURSDAY:
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Starring: LIV ULLMANN and MAX
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