Friday, March 1, 1974 1HE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five Friday, March 1, 1974 [HE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five .ai. $ .............. ~ . .. _.,..U2....,. . .L .. 11 Cmnem 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. s N frEEE ; a { CA LCULcATORS The Bowma r Ca lcula tors have a new low price. Come on in and try them out. WHY YOU SHOULD BUY FROM THE CELLAR: 1. LOW PRICES 2. GREAT SELECTION 3. WARRANTY PROTECTION-If your calculator should need a warranty repair, the Cellar will handle the ship- ping and give you a loaner. 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. 603 E. Liberty DIAL 665-6290 5th HIT WEEK! OPEN 12:45 SHOWS AT 1, 3, 5, 7,& 9P.M. the, university cellar. in the basement of the Michigan Union 769-7940 '.;w:'N AW \"*_4. ~rA ' : Dear Advertisers: Due to Spring Vacation, the Display Advertising Deadline for Tuesday, i NOW TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME Winner of SAcademy Award Nominations! I T--ttf !wr v. r , r,. ;; . is r. ; :. March 12 Will Be Monday, March 11 at 12:00 Noon ; 'l snapshots of in the pool, the group splashing riding bicycles and TATUM O'NEILL AND MADELINE KAHN Best Supporting Actresses "Paper Moon" At State & Liberty Dial 662-6264 open doily at 12:45 complete double " features at: 1 P.M.-2:40-4:30-6:10 and 8 P.M. d . aF i K aF iK F F i F FaF K i aF F K i F iF K F K K K KaKAt K t 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 The Illustrated Mc 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 FREE .4 an'. A fascnatin ice-fctio tal I & 9 p~m kylyl~yks~r**r 4 I Fil Co-o MN4 YON SYDO ML4 scien March 6-MLB Aud. 3- This THURSDAY: IGMAR BERGMAN'S New World THE PASSION OF Al Starring: LIV ULLMANN and MAX .::":.