I nursday, April 19, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pal' Three Thu rsdcy, April 19, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pc!ge Three U AFTER YELLOW SELL YOUR BOOKS SELTO US! 9-6 Mondays through Saturdays n the basement of the Union at your UNIVERSITY CELLAR 'Siege... By RICHARD GLATZER erful int Few American political admin- stitutions istrations have relished criticism attacked of their practices, and our pre- Greek g sent leaders are hardly excep. Then, in tions to the rule. Indeed, Mr. Nix- took ont on is quite intent on stifling med- now fina ia criticism: Shirley Maclaine our own has recently brought attention to others s a bill the Administration h a s shock. proposed that she feels is design- Costa- ed to silence free expression. lv, run u Government censorship of art problem that criticizes American policies while di is a very real possibility. carefully Constantin Costa-Gavres' latest allegianc film, State of Siege, is certainly tical ide highly critical of our leaders' pol- America itics. Costa-Gavras is no new- ards the comer to this sort of thing. or theS Siege is the third in a series of to take politically-minded films lament- also avo ing the oppressive tactics of pow- hard lint Censorsh ernational figures and in- s. The director . f i r s t the present Facist government in Z (1969). The Confession (1971, he' the U.S.S.R. That he has ally turned his guns on American oppression of hould hardly come as a Gavras has, until recent- up against few censorship s. Z and The Confession, istinctly liberal in tone, y avoid any underlying ce with any strict poli- eologies, so only t h o s e ans who feel kindly tow- administration of Greece Soviet Union had reason offense. State of Siege ids identification w i t h .e politics, yet the coun- NEW WORLD FILM COOP "Majestic Photography" -Fifth Estate 2 SHOWS DAILY 7:20 & 9:30 76.1-9700 OU' profs to stage Java puppet show 2 Matinees Daily 1:00 p.m. & 3:15 p.m. e All Seats_ By LORRE WEIDLICH By now, anyone at all. inter- ested in music will have discov- ered the Gamelan, the Indone- sian orchestra conducted by Prof. Judy Becker. Those of us around last summer will remember a mellow afternoon' on the lawn by the music school listening to the sounds of gongs and the re- hab. 'r PARAMOUNTPICTURES PscT A iLMBY Franco e:FIreUA HIS FIRST FILM SINCE "ROMEO & JULIET" "BrOTHer SUn sisTer Moon" Tonight, at 7:30 p.m. in Rack- ham Auditorium, the Gamelan, with the assistance of Ms. Beck- er's husband, Prof. Alton Becker of the linguistics department, will offer a special free treat - the Wayang Kulit, the Javanese shadow puppet theatre. The performance will be slight- ly modified from traditional In- donesian style in that it will last only three to four hours instead * of all night, but the atmosphere will be the same: Perforniers are hoping the audience, like In- donesian audiences, will 'feel free to come and go as they please. The puppets themselves are hand-made, intricate devices of leather, shaped according to conventions developed through long years of tradition - t h e shapes of noses, for example, will indicate whether a puppet is the hero or a villan, a priest or a ruler. They are delicately painted, and Indonesian aud- iences walk freely from the front to the back of the stage to see both the shadows cast on the screen and the puppets them- selves as they are manipulated by the puppeteer. The complete set of puppets numbers about 400, but Michigan owns only about 200, approximately 25 of which will be used tonight. Tonight's drama, like most (f the puppet dramas, is based on See JAVANESE, Page 7 try criticized this 'time is our own. One would expect some Es- tablishment hostility towards the film at the very least. To us paranoids, the recent con- troversy over State of Siege might seem to be the first sign of that hostility. The film was scheduled to be shown two weeks ago at the premiere festival of the American Film Institute's new Kennedy Theatre in Wash- ington, D.C. Just as the time of the theatre's opening drew near, however, George Stevens Jr., di- rector of the Institute, requested that the film be withdrawn from the festival. Much has been made of Stev- ens' actions. Donald Rugoff, the head of Cinema 5 (Siege's dis- tributing company) angrily with- drew other Cinema 5 films that were to have been shown. Rugoff then alleged that the A.F.I. was practising censorship. Clearly, Stevens' first inviting Costa-Gavras to show Siege and then withdrawing his invitation is rudeness of the first order. M. Costa-Gavras has every right to be quite offended. Whether Stevens was trying to keep t h e American public from seeing the film, however, is another matter entirely. State of Siege opened commercialy 13 days ago at a Washington twin theatre and has since had its New York debut. Indeed, the publicity given the entire incident has drawn larg- er audiences to the film than might have been interested other- wise. In the seven days prior to Siege's U.S. premiere run, the two Outer Circle Theatres gross- ed $9500. The film's first four days play at these same theatres has, according to Variety, brought in a "socko" $26,000. That maga- zine quite aptly summarized the, entire A.F.I. censorship affair as, "a great break for the film and Don Rugoff's Cinema 5." And you can be sure Rugoff and Associates are ready and able to take advantage of their "great break." Which brings me to how I managed to See State of Siege. Mr. Rugoff and asso- ciates very graciously arranged for my transportation and hotel so that I might attend a New York preview of the film. Not that I am in any way special - approximately 100 University re- viewers were invited to the screening, some from as far away as Berkeley, all fromaestab- lished, liberal colleges that will most likely supply a large part of Siege's audience. The New York preview was as exciting and .glittery as one would expect a New York preview to be. Servants dressed in black and white served coffee and Dan- ish. A flamboyantlycostumed crowd, peopled by New York poets and personalities (and here For today's TV listings, see Page ?. I*pof and there a self-conscious college student) mingled before the film. Everyone was very attentive dar- ing the movie. Afterwards, peo- ple applauded for minutes on end. The more enthusiastic inem- bers of the audience (or were they merely the more demon- strative members?) shouted bravos. N.B.C.'s cameras wnir- red. Even a French TV crew was on hand to film the proceed- ings. A panel discussion of the film followed, peopled by such cete- art. simply refrained from further commenting. All too often I had the sense that these people, celebrities and audience alike, were simply there to grind their respective axes without caring very much about the film or its makers (who, for the most played an inappro- priately minor role in the dis- cussion.). Three instances of egotism that I remember off hand: one dis- gustingly pretentious spectator lectured Costo-Gavras on how he should reject narrative cinema plus CARTOONS and "FLASH GORDON" NEXT! "SLEUTH" r Costa-Gavras HELD OVER BY POPULAR DEMAND! THE MOVIE THAT ASKS THE QUESTION: "Must Co-Eatus Alw'ays Be Interruptus?" IS HERE THUR. & FRI. at 7 &i9 p.m. only; SAT. & SUN. at 1, 3i,5, 7, 9 p.m. "BEST FEATURE FILM OF THE YEAR:ti Vincent Canby, New York Times I 1 -- A SERGE S L8ERMAN PROOUCTION A film by Luis Bunuel "THI E DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE" iCOLOR. "One of the funniest pictures ever mde." -Stuart Byron, Rolling Stone WINNER-- ACADEMY AWARD BEST Foreign AN EASTER VIGIL AND 0 FESTIVAL EUCHARIST ' will becelebrated at ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH Saturday night., April 21st at 10:30 p.m. y CANTERBURY HOUSE c( ?t --y' <--yt<-- o<--yo<--y" 'Y< > <--yo<--yf<-- ". - - brities as Costa-Gavras, Franco Solinas (Siege's scriptwriter), Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Jose Yg- lesias, Allard Lowenstein, and Nat Hentoff. The discussion was interesting, to be sure, though it added more to the razzle-dazzle excitement of the evening than it did to my understanding of the film. The audience was as inflara- mable as ever: Costa-Gavras and Solinas received bravos and loud applause. Schlesinger f o u n d himself the sole defender of Democracy and John Kennedy in an audience as radically chic as it could be, and accepted his pos- ition quite bad-naturedly. When he'd had enough of all the aud- ience's hissing and hooting, he and make truly revolutionary, Godardian film. Later (after Cos- ta-Gavras had left), Mr. Yglesias insisted the director - as ideol- ogy-freea man as I can think of - was actually a Marxist. And Arthur Schlesinger actually cursedNat Hentoff for attempt- ing to interrupt him in mid-sent- ence. It was all ultimately just a bit silly. In retrospect, the entire affair seems typical of the publicity and promotional hype given to certain recent controversial films. All the hoopla does bring the people in, but it just as frequent- ly misleads them as to the na- ture of what they are about to see. State of Siege is an import- See STATE, Page 7 _L ---- -----------___ -- - 1 NOW SHOWING! 1214 unioriLy A BAROQUE TRIO April 20, 7-10 p.m. performing at the. Union Gallery 1 st Floor, Michigan Union -- ------ r Q7NQY QXRGER is finally here! True seafood lovers celebrate this occasion with a downeast feast DINNER NIGHTLYINCLUDING SUNDAYS 401 DEPOT ST. ANN ARBOR' RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED 769-0592 Clww ULT 7URE ALEIN D AR FILM-Cinema Guild shows Bunuel's Belle de Jour tonight in Arch. Aud. at 7, 9:05; New World Film Co-op presents I Am Curious (Blue) tonight at 7:30, 9:30 at MLB; AA Film Co-op shows Stuart's Willy Wonka and the Choco- late Factory tonight in Aud. A, Angell at 7, 9; Rugby Benefit Film -shows Them tonight at Nat. Sci. Aud. at 7, 9. DANCE-Dance Dept. presents Trek, indoor-outdoor dance theatre at East Quad tonight at 7. POETRY-Larry Goldstein gives a poetry reading tonight at the Pyramid Gallery at 7:30. MUSIC-Music school presents Claudia Edward on organ today at 4:30 in organ studio 2110, School of Music; U Philharmonic and Chamber Choir presents New Music for Orchestra and Choir at Hill tonight at 8; Music School presents Gamelan tonight at Rackham Aud. at 7:30; Kenneth Miller gives a cello recital tonight at 8 in the School of Music Recital Hall. NEW WORLD MEDIA -presents- the FIRST U.S. CUBAN FILM FESTIVAL -featuring- MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT directed by TOMAS ALEA A study of the difficulties a m iddle class intellectual 'has adjusting to the new revolu- tionary society, RECENTLY SEIZED AT THE 1972 CUBAN FILM f >< aFESTIVAL ATTEMPTED * |BY AMERICAN DOCU- MENTARY FILMS. Gold Prize 1971 Moscow Film Festival. International Federation of Film Critics Award. WHY MONCADA? dir. Sergio Martinez-ALSO--BRIGADA DE VENCEREMOS (1970) I HOW THE WEST WAS WON! 1 1 THE ~UNION GALLERY NUMBER 3 OEWOMANSH 11 IN Opening Reception: Friday, April 27, 7-10 _- ,GALLERY HOURS: Wed. through Sun. 12-5 p.m., Fri. eve I1-- _ __ 11 "It was a fabulous time, one of those rare, magical moments of history when cynics are transformed into romantics and romantics into fanatics, and everything seems possible For the Cubans, and for much of the - on-looking world, Fidel Castro seemed a modern incarnation of the legendary savior-hero, a bearded Parsifal who had brought miraculous deliverance to an ailing Cuba." -Lee Lockwood The story of the Venceremos Brigade, young Americans who went to Cuba in 1970 to help harvest the 10 million ton zafra. "Everywhere along the harbor, people stood watching us come in. The Cubans were smiling, waving and giving us the clenched-fist symbol of revolutionary solidarity. We had arrived; revolu- tionary Cuba, a dream in progress in the western hemisphere. We were ecstatic." -Glenda Cimino r TONITE! ] II TOMORROW "World Premiere" TOMORROW -AND- 79 SPRINGTIMES directed by Santiago Alvarez A documental poem of Ho Chi Minh on film. Ho Chi Minh was a man whose life spanned three revolu- tions, three continents, and three wars (musical background) SPEAKER Music Sandra Levinson Poster & compliments doCEtioo-Photo Display of Co-Editor- Tech Hi-Fi t 4.. '-I Best of 2nd Annual N. Y. Erotic Film Festival in Ann Arbor I tm ,w.