Thursday, March 15, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three T h u r s d a y , M a r c h 1 5 ,111111111111119 7 31111TH E 11MI C H I G A N111111DA I L Y11 P a g e11| T h r e e11 1 A 38-hour endurance As American as Disney or Warhol test of 'pure cinema' 9 By DAVID GRUBER Fortunately, there is more to movies than big names. As com- mercial theatres and student film organizations try to stay afloat on the reputations of direc- tors, performers, and box office hits, the 11th Ann Arbor Film Festival is alive and well while having only the elements of sur- prise in its favor. I imagine that to the majority of people watching the festival, myself included, most, if not all, of the names in the various cre- dit listings are unknown. Not pub- licity statements in themselves, they only make us strangely aware that in some place nearby or far away there exists such-, and-such a person, bearing such- and-suchaname, who hasmade one of the films to appear in the Architecture Auditorium this week. With the film this more or less anonymous filmmaker has put his or her imagination on the line, and we come in to laugh, applaud, hiss, or go stir crazy. In its diversity the festival is a kind of endurance test for both the filmmakers and the aud- ience: how long will each film hold up? Opening night held up quite well. The auditorium was pack- ed and growing hot, but the mov- ies, for the most part were good. There was certainly more clev- erness displayed in these f i r s t films, particularly the animated films like Cels and Gilgames, than I can remember noticing on the first few nights of last year's festival. Story lines, when there were story lines (Autostop and Too Much Coffee and Not Enough Sleep, for instance) were much more interesting and involving, and the one computer film shown T u e s d a y, Apotheosis, had its colors, patterns and sounds well organized. What had the greatest impact on me, however, and this is not to belittle other films, was Crime and Unjust Punishment, a 15- minute documentary against capital punishment. While its ar- gument was totally one-sided, which is alright to people who agree, but not terribly fair to those who don't (what was that we learned in freshman Enlish about argumentative papers?), it was still a griping film. This may say something Fr straight, unadorned documentary, i e., the technique of simply having peo- ple voice their opinions in front of the camera. After the movies are over, one has time to wonder about the futures of those behind and in the films. Here and there one can find definite strains of tal- ent. Will these filmmakers ever reach the big festivals in Cannes or Venice? Will they and their casts and crews bec >mne b i g names (some, admittedly, already are)? The festival, though, gives us a chance to see pros azl ama- teurs alike, one right after the other, without all these associa- tions. We see what is there at the moment, react to it, then get set for what follows. In pressur- ing a film of relatively h o r t duration to be coherent, direct, and effective while minrnizing the time the audience has to think about what it has seen, the festival may be as close to a showing of "pure cinema" as we can get. The festival will con- tinue through Sunday. K By SARA RIMER The American Musical 310 may not produce another George Ger- shwin, nor may Underground Film 309 produce another Andy Warhol. But both new Course Mart courses do fill a gaping need in the University curricu- lum. They each began because some students wanted to take similar courses. Since none al- ready existed, they found them- selves in the role of instructor. The similarity between the two courses, however, ends here. The American Musical is as whole- some and acceptable an institu- tion as Walt Disney, while t h e films shown in Underground Film would hardly be run at local com- mercial theatres. Underground Film is taught by undergraduates Louis Miller and Michael Priebe. Both are found- ers of the Ann Arbor Film Co- op, and members of Cinema II Film Society, and they have com- pleted independent studies in film. "Underground Film is like a Great Books course, only it deals with great films," Miller ex- plains. The course meets three times anweek for discussion and FINK films and there will be several F IN K guest lecturers this term. con- Although Miller and Priebe de- arring clined to rigidly define under- ground films, they described the films involved in. the course as "avant garde, independent, ex- perimental; ones not commercial- ly distributed." orgue" Miller admits to a slight sus- picion that some students may have been attracted to the course as a kind of Popular Pornography course. One movie show, 'Flam- ing Creatures," washconfiscated 67) by the AA Police Dept. when Cinema Guild presented it in 66) 1967. Miller and Priebe hope t h a t students will gain enough con- fidence to evaluate films them- selves without resorting to re- views. Discussions of relation- ships between underground film and literature, drama, politics, music, dance, painting, and be- tween underground and tradi- tional films are planned. These should create a sense ^f histori- cal development, provide a ne- cessary theoretical / critical overview and encourage viewing and responding to the films in visual - rather than literary or dramatic - terms. No matter how avant-garde and uncommercial the material in the course, there is still that traditional method -of evaluation to contend with - grades.. Mil- ler's very appealing grading philosophy is modeled after George Harrison's album . .-. "All Things Must Pass." It is almost essential for stu- dents taking The American Mu- sical to arrive fifteen minutes before the class's official start- mgtie It is durn this tim and in the two hour class's break that the class.is at its liveliest. Comments on musicals, both scathingand laudatory, are ex- changed, and it is easy to under- stand why the course is so in- teresting. Undergraduate M a r k Kriechman's qualifications to teach it range from director of seven productions to a compos- er forthe Farmington Summer Theatre. Kriechman views himself more as a coordinator giving the class order than as a traditional lec- turer. He combines informal lec- turing with record playing and discusion. He is by \no means in a position of educating thetn- initiated into the joys of the Broadway musical. Students' backgrounds range from a bud- ding composer to a WCBN an- nouncer for the Broadway show to a girl who wants to choreo- graph. Kriechman claims t h a t there is very little creative out- let for these students in the Uni- versity. Since the course requires some kind of original material and a performance of part of an existing musical, students will have ample opportunity to dis- play their talent. Eleventh Ann Arbor Film Festival Tonight through Sunday. Screenings at 7, 9, 11. Thursday & Friday. Saturday at 1 :00 p.m., 7:00, 9:00 p.m. Winners & Highlights Sunday 7:00, 9:00 & 1 1 :00 in Architecture Auditorium & Auditorium A, Angell Hall. Tickets-$1.00-On Sale Each' Night at 6:00 p.m. at Architecture Aud. No Ad- vance Sales. FILM FESTIVAL WNRZ RADIO NEWSREEL 102.9 FM-on LARRY MONROE'S 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Show. - - - Doily Photo by KEN Dennis James performs on the pipe organ at the Michigan Theater last night. He first gave a cert and sing-a-long program and then accompan ied The Mark of Zorro, a 1920 silent film stE Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. N Sho Based on the novel by ICEBERG SLIM OPEN ow Q12:45 SHOW wing! 1/AT 1,3, 5 7&9 P. 79;- uth state A TE r one 642-626, r Shake hands with "Folks"and"Blue' And then count your fingers! K EoK EAW 4 5, .. OFFICE OF FINANCIAL AID ANNOUNCES.. Applications for Renewal of Aid Are Now Available in 2011 SA B (8:30-12:30 and 1:30-4:30) All students who received assistance through the Office of Financial Aid during 1972-73, and who wish to reapply for next year, should pick up these materials by no later than: FRIDAY, MARCH 16 COMPLETED APPLICATIONS DUE MAY 1, 1973 NEW WORLD MEDIA presents PROGRAM NO. 3 International Film& Discussion Series --THIS WEEK "THE EAST Is RED" ton ight 6:00 2 4 7 News 50 Fiintstones 56 Operation Second Chance 6:30 2 CBS News 4 NBC News 7 ABC News 9 1 Dream of Jeannie 50 Gilligan's Island 56 Classroom Meetings 7:00 2 Truth or Consequences 4 News 7 To Tell the Truth 9 Beverly Hillbillies 50 NVAA Basketball 56 Course of Our Times 7:30 2 What's My Line? 4 Circus! 7 Michigan Outdoors 9 Movie "Tartan and the Slave Girl." (1950) 56 Behind the Lines 8:00 2 The Waltons 4 Flip Wilson 7 Mod Squad 56 Advocates 9:00 2 Applause 4 Ironside 7 Kung Fu 9 News 56 An American Family 50 Merv Griffin 9:30 9 Happy Though Married 0 11:00 2 4 7 News 9 CBC News 11:20 9 News 11:30 2 Movie "Murders in the Rue M (1971) 4 Johnny Carson 7 TV Times 50 Movie "Magic Town" (1947) 12:00 9 Movie "The King's Pirate." (19 1:00 4 7 News 1:15 2 iovie "Tender Scoundrel" (19 2:45 2TV High School 35 20 News cable tv channel 3 3:30 Pixanne 4:00 Today's Woman 4:30 Something Else (Rock) 5:00 Stratasphere Playhouse 5 :30 Local News and Events 6:00 Love and the Law 6:30 NCAASports 7:00-8:00 Community Dialogue wcbn 89.5 fm 9:00 The Morning After 12:00 Progressive Rock 4:00 Folk 7:00 Future World Lecture Seri J. B. Rhine 8:00 Jazz 11:00 Progressive Rock 3:00 Sign-off es- Concert features new musical directons The Cpntemporary Directions Ensemble,. conducted by Sydney Hodkinson, will present a concert of new American and European music this Saturday night at 8:00 in Rackham- Lecture H -Al. This will be the sixth public appear- ance of the group thi3 year, which is now a credit ensemble in the University's School of Music. EMU Major Events Committee presents B B KI with special guest Howlin Wolfe 10:00 4 9. 561 10:30 9I 501 Dean Martin Streets of San Francisco Adieu Alouette Masterpiece Theatre Countrytime Perry Mason The history of the Chinese Peoples epic ballad opera form. "A SIGHT TO BEHOLD"- Revolutionary struggle in --N.Y. Times MARCH 23, 8:00 P.M. BOWEN FIELD HOUSE $2-$3-$4 F Tickets may be purchased at Ann Arbor Music Mart, Huc- kleberry Party Store, McKenny Union and Hudsons APRIL 7: URIAHIIIEP FRIDAY 7:30 P.M. MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM (3rd Floor) Undergrad. Library NO ADMISSION CHARGE U of M Campus ***Special guest speaker from the Chinese Student Association SPONSORED BY NEW WORLD FILM CO-OP COMING KEN KESEY'S pau NEtD ioniNiNRg FonDa minmEl. saaa n v TUESDAY & THURSDAY MARCH 20 & 22 NEW WORLD FILM CO-OP C1.,UL TURE CALENDAR DRAMA-The U Players present Shakespeare's King Lear at 8 tonight in the Power Center. FILMS-Cinema Guild presents the eleventh annual Ann Arbor Film Festival in Arch. Aud., at 7,9,11 tonight. New World Film Co-op presents Warhol's Trash at 7:30, 9:30 in Aud. 3 in the Modern Language Bldg. Ann Arbor Film Co-op presents Russell's Women in Love at 7, 9 in Aud. A Angell. South Quad Films presents Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Hip Hurry in the Cafeteria at 6:45, 9:45 tonight. DANCE-Program by dance composition students: at 4 in the Waterman. SCHOOL OF MUSIC-Piano student recital: SM Recital Hall at 12:30 this afternoon. Woodwind quintet: Rackham at 8 tonight. RETURN CHILD CARE TELEPHONE SURVEYS Two works for solo instruments by one of the* world's leading composers will be presented. Elinor Hathaway, a se'tior harp major and Thomas Clark, trom- bonist on the theory faculty of Indiana University, will perform Luciano Berio's Sequenzas No. 2 and No. 5. Two vocal ocamber pieces by the young P o 1i s h composer. Krzysztof Meyer and the Canadian Bruce Mather will be offered. The second perform- ance of David Foley's Cat Music I for brass quintet will also be featured. Foley is on the music faculty of Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana and will be a guest of the Compositio'n Depart- ment for this concert. Opening the program, the. cn-" semble will play Caroms by Uni- versity composer William Al- bright and the evening will close with New Yorker William Bol- com's 'Session 3". William Ben- jamin of the University's Theory faculty will be guest pianist in the Bolcom work. A special prelude to the con- cert will be offered by R. Hud- son Ladd, University Carillon- neur. Beginning at 7:15 p.m., Ladd will present a 45 minute program of contemporary music for the carillon at Burton Tower, opposite Rackham Auditorium. Many young composers are cur- rently writing for the carillon and Ladd has chosen an interesting recital of avant-garde works se- lected from his performances in United States and abroad. The playing cabin of the carillon will be open to any interested mem- bers of the audience. artistic writing poetry, and music, drama, dance, film, or writing feature stories about the arts: Contact ArtE Editor, c/0 The Michigan: Daily. s I JAZZ IN DETROIT ALLEN GINSBERG, JACK KEROUAC in two films by ROBERT FRANK ME AND MY BROTHER. WEATHER REPRT MAR. 16o18 STRATA CONCERT GALLERY/46 SELDEN TICKETS: $4 advance. $5 at door FIRST SHOW, 9:30-SECOND SHOW, MIDNIGHT FRI. & SAT. FIRST SHOW, 8:00-SECOND SHOW, 10:30/SUN. to Rm. 332, TICKETS AVAILABLE AT: STRATA CONCERT GALLERY, 831-1666 DISCOUNT RECORDS, 1235 S. UNIV., I ANN ARBOR Michigan Union by Friday 763-4186 P- I 1968 91 mms COLOR 0 moml Fiction and documentary portrait of the relationship among Ginsberg, Peter Orloysky and his "schizo- phrenic" brother-brilliant and tender. -PLUS- PULL MY DAISY Frank's infectiously high-spirited profile of the "Beat Generation," narrated by Jack Kerouac. 7:15 and 9:30 I- TONIGHT!-MARCH 15-ONLY!-7 & 9:30 p.m. r KenE sIN LOVE Ken Russell's masterpiece based on D.H. Lawrence's novel witb GLENDA .