Friday, April 20, 1973
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Page Three
Friday, April 20, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three
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'2." 8:30
MARSHALL
DODGE
downeast humor
Belle de four
Cinema Guild
Fri.
More Bunuelian comic perver-
sion and surrealism, served up
tn high Baroque style. Tooth-
some Severine Serizy (Cather-
ine Deneuve) finds the sexual
6:00 2 4 7 News of her modern married liif e
9 Courtship of Eddie's Father omewha lacking n d ies to
'50 Fiints tonessoehtlcigadeieso
560peration Second Chance look elsewhere for her jollies.
6:30 2 CBS News She becomes a prostitute during
4 NBC News the day and encounters as my-
SeaN of Jeannie riad a group of lovers, as she
50 Gilligan's Island " could ever wish for. Finally she
56 Bridge with Jean Cox becomes overly involved w i t h
7:00 2 Truth or Consequences one customer - a raunchy gang-
4 News ster (Pierre Clementi)' - and
7 To Tellvhe Truth her two happily divided life styles
50 I Love Lucy begin to merge. Or do they? The
56 To Be Announced film never positively assures us
See LISTINGS, Page 9 just what is real and what is
BEER VAULT
First and oldest in U.S. Drive in for beverages for
parties, picnics, or home. KEG BEER.
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imagined by the chara
all lush enough viewin
Bunuel's first color f
it makes precious litt
sense.
T e SienE
Cinema Guild
Sat. & Sun.,
if memory serves nr
icters. It's her son, who watches the pro-
g (this is ceedings and is left as a last
film), but soilrce of positive commumca-
le human tion. Like most Bergman films
The Silence is extremely intensrt.
-STAFF Unlike most Btrgman films bus.
like Cries and Whispers, it offers
fairly limited characterizations.
re It is, of course, worth seeing,
even if you hadn't planed on cele-
brating the end of classes with
ne, this is depression.
Rancho Noto
Cinema II
Sat.
A 1952 Fritz Lang
about an outlaw hideo
Texas. Marlene Dietr
Altar Keane, the mistr
sanctuary for despen
Dietrich sings one s
shows her legs, but
second place tosthe ele
rected fistfights and
Look for George Supern
es in a bit role.
Destry Rides
Cinema IIj
rious
Western
;out in old
(shades of Stanley Kubrick ).
(Not reviewed at press time, of
course).
Jeremiah Johnson
Fox Village
the tenth Ingmar Bergman film
to play in this town during the
past school year. Thankfully, it
will be the last. Not that Berg-
man is a bad filmmaker (he is a
great one) nor that he does not'
deserve to be shown. It is simply
that the emotional and mental
strain of living through his sev-
-DAVID GRUBER
rich plays Cuban 'Film l
'ess f this UGLI Multipurp
ate men. Fri.
ong and New World Film Co
she takes stinting an evening
egantly d:- Films to Ann Arbor.'
shoot-outs. include the highly accl
man Reev mories. of Underdev
Why Moncada?, Brigad
--STAFF ceremos, and 79' Sprin
rare opportunity to see
Again tive cinema of thisi
nation. (Not reviewed
time.)
The Thin Man
Cinema II
Fri.
The Thin Man is a fine exam-
ple of the marvelously diverting
entertainment packages Ameri-
-STAFT Robert Redford is Jerimiah
Johnson, the adventuresome pio-
Night neer, the self-imposed societal
s outcast who, as a young man,
dose seeks the awesome beauty and
austere survival - oriented -life
-op is pre- of the Rocky mountains. We foi-
of Cuban low his life for a number of
The films years, witnessing encounters
aimed Me- with fellow mountaineers, hostile
velopment, and friendly Indians, and set-
da de Ven- tlers. Unlike the majorityrof
ngtimes. A cowboy and Indians genre films,
e the crea- this is a relatively chauvaniirn-
interesting free documentary on mountain
at press life in the last century. The wild-
erness scenery, filmed in na-
tional forests and state parks in
Utah and Colorado, is breath-
taking, the sets . painstakingly
realistic, the acting convincing
biographi- and the action well-paced and not
o complex overly blood-stained. One could
"Bert & I
and
Bob White.
COUNTRY MUSIC
"A fullness and sensitivity
equal to anyone performing
today."-Mich. Daily
l11 Hill STREEt
161*115I
cinema
weekend
gat.
By all accounts, Destry Rides
Again is a thoroughly enjpyable'
film. Jimmy Stewart plays a~
young man who comes to Bottle-
neck to be a sheriff's, deputy. Ile
refuses, however, to carry a
gun. This being unethical and
Patton
UAC/Mediatri
Fri., Sat.
Patton is a straight
cal look at a man to
THE FRIENDS OF NEWSREEL present
Ton~igh
erity for too long a time, re-
gardless of what truths about life
his films may reveal, is taxing,
and ultimately tiring.
The Silence is actually one of
Bergman's lesser efforts, but an
important one since it is the pre-
cursor of Cries and Whispers
which recently freaked out great
numbers of Ann Arbor movie-
goers. It concerns two sisters,
one of them highly sensual, the,
other love-starved but having
a loathing for sex. They goad each
other and torment each other
though they talk very little. Ac-
companying the sensual ° iszer is
can studio directors turned out
almost effortlessly regularly dur-
ing the '30's. Taken 'from the
Dashiell Hammitt novel, this is
the film that spawned the most
consistently excellent movie ser-
ies Hollywood ever produced and
was the basis for the '50's TV
series. Myrna Loy and William
Powell, as the husband and wife
sleuthing team Nora and Nick
Charles, are a wonderfully so-
phisticated, funny couple. Com-
edy, romance, suspense, and a
wire-haired terrier named Asta.
-STAFF
0
World
Premiere
Engpgement
i
i
The Best of the 2nd Annual
YErotic Fl Festival
complete 90-minute program
7:00-8:00-9:00-10:00' p.m.
Modern Languages Auditoriums
Aud. 3-7:00-9:00; Aud. 4-8:00-10:00
$1.50 contribution
come early and avoid inconvenience; sell-out
shows are anticipated from 8:00 p.m. on...
and coming this WEDNESDAY April 25
the incredible VAMPIRE LOVERS an erotic nightmare
starring Peter Cushing; Ingrid Pitt, Dawn Addams
7:00-8:40-10:20 p.m. $1.25 cont.
BASS LESSONS
STEVE CHALL, currently working with OKRA, will
be taking appointings for private instruction. Call-
Ann Arbor Music Mart
9:30-9:00 MON.-SAT.
769-4980 336 S. STATE ST.
THE U. M: PLAYERS GUILD Presents
JOHN GUARE'S
The House of Blue Leaves
APRIL 19,20,21-8:00 p.m.
ARENA THEATRE-Frieze Building
ALL TICKETS $1.00
tickets on sale, days of performance,
at the. door 5:00-8:00 p.m.
highly impractical in
West, he is labelled a
he triumphs none the
becomes the film's hi
Marlene Dietrich give:
rabbit's foot. Ooolala.
by press time.
Second New
Erotic Film Fr
Friends of News
MLB
Fri., Sat.
A new collection o
erotica. Highlights of1
festival were a film d
woman masturbating-
ions sports equipmen
that soccer ball!) and
up sexual encounter
to the William Tell
Brando in 'Tango'
The film hardly needs any more hype, but we thought we'd share
with you anyway. Detroit premiere Wednesday.
the O'd to handle in any other fashion.
softy. But The film follows this giant per-
less and sonality of General George S.
ero. How? Patton through those moments
s him -her he enjoys most, the gore! and
Not seen glory of war.
George C. Scott won the Oscar
-STAFF not only for his portrayal of blood
'n guts, but for being just George
York C. Scott. The actor is perfectly
suited for the role, and Scott's
estival approach to Hollywood is very
creel reminiscent of Patton's view of
Washington's politicians.v U n-
fortunately, not all the f i I m ' s
f assorted characters effect the same pow-
last years erful reactions. Karl Malden, as
epicting a Omar Bradley, the underst~ad-
with var- ing G.I.'s general, comes off as
t (oooh! the 'Father Knows Best" of WW
a speeded II
performed Patton's appeal can be likene.!
Overtur to the popularity of T.V.'s All-
-- in the Family. Half the audience
this fine still from 'Last Tango'
argue that Robert Redford's
character was a touch over-god-
ly, but this is of minor import.
Go see it.
-MARTY MARMOR
The Discreet Charm
of the Bourgeoisie
Campus
It might well have been called
The' Dreams of the Bourgeoisie,
for thin latest film of Luis Bunuel
is made up of several strange,
surrealistic scenes meant to
sound the depths of its charac-
ters. The charm of the charac-
ters grows out of the fact that
this sounding out does not phase
them in the least. No matter
what goes on around them or
within them, they never regis-
ter anything more than minor
annoyance or irritation. Their
darling smiles remain intact,
their unconsciousness is never
shaken.
The Discreet Charm feels as
though it was made by a man
who is content with his long and
See CINEMA, Page 9
NM
*f mediatrics,
Last Film for this year
PATON
7 & 9:30 p.m.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY
NAT. SC1. AUD.
ONLY 75c Tickets on sale at 6 p.m.
* * NEW WORLD MEDIA
-presents-
the FI RST U.S. CUBAN
FILM FESTIVAL
-featu ring-
MEMORIES OF
UNDERDEVELOPMENT
idirected by
TdMAS ALEA
A study of the difficulties a
middle class intellectual has
adjusting to the new revolu-
tionary society.
RECENTLY SEIZED AT
THE 1972 CUBAN FILM
FESTIVAL ATTEMPTED
:BY AMERICAN DOCU-
MENTARY FILMS.
1
Gold Prize 1971 Moscow Film Festivral.
International Federation of Film Critics Award.
WHY MONCADA? dir. Sergio Martinez-ALSO-BRIGADA DE VENCEREMOS (1970)
"It was a fabulous time, one of those rare, magical The story of the Venceremos Brigade, young
moments of history when'cynics are transformed Americans who went to Cuba in 1970 to help
into romantics and romantics into fanatics, and harvest the 10 million ton zafra.
everything seems possible. For the Cubans, and "Everywhere along the harbor, people stood
for much of the on-loing world, Fidel Castro watching us come in. The Cubans were smiling,
seemed a modern incarnation of the legendary waving and giving us the clenched-fist symbol of
savior-hero, a bearded Parsifal who had brought revolutionary solidarity. We had arrived; revolu-
miraculous deliverance to an ailing Cuba." tionary Cuba, a dream in progress in the western
-Lee Lockwood hemisphere. We were ecstatic."
-.'Glenda Cimino
-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
dcoditor- Photo Display of
Ceosita d Tech Hi-Fi
* Venceromos Brigade
sympathizes, and sees only a
man symbolic of America- ag-
gi'essiveness. The other hald em-
pathizes, and receives vicarious
pleasure in Patton's war. A s k
Dick Nixon.
-JEFF EPSTEIN
C'11UUW'RI c EINDAR
SOCK HOP-WCBN and UAC present Jimmy and the Jave-
lins and Chastity and the Belts in their last campus ap-
pearance tonight at 8:30, Union ballroom.
MUSIC SCHOOL-Chamber music tonight at 8, SM Recital
Hall; John Hall, tenor, tonight at 8, Cady Hall, Stearns
Bldg.
DANCE-Dance Dept. presents Grad Rag tonight and tomor-
row night at 8, Barbour Gym.
WEEKEND BARS AND MUSIC-Ark, Marshall Dodge. and
Bob White (Fri., Sat.) admission; Rive Gauche, Lorre
Weidlich and Dave Moultrup (Fri.) admission; Del Rio,
Jazz (Sun., 5 pm.) no cover; Pretzel Bell, RFD Boys (Fri.,
Sat.) cover; Golden Falcon, Ars Nova (Fri., Sat.) cover;
Rubaiyat, Iris Bell Adventure (Fri., Sat., Sun.) no cover; "
Bimbo's, Gaslighters (Fri., Sat.) cover; Mr. Flood's Party,
Brooklyn Bluesbusters (Fri., Sat.) cover; Bimbo's on the
Hill, Cricket Smith (Fri., Sat.) cover;
UNION GALLERY-Baroque Trio performs tonight at 7;
Memorabilia of the Once Group: AA Avant Garde on dis-
play tomorrow and Sunday; Allow 4-6 weeks for Delivery
on display April 25; Art Trot (tour of local galleries)
April 28, 29.
UPCOMING DETROIT CONCERTS - Siegel-Schwall Blues
Band, It's a Beautiful Day, April 21; Shawn Phillips,
Sandy Denny, April 24; Steve Miller Band, April 20; John-
ny Winter, Foghat, April 26; Merle Haggard, April 29;
Faces, April 30; Slade, Peter Frampton, Strawbs, May 2;
Pink Floyd, June 23; Led Zeppelin, July 12, 13.
LAW SCHOOL FILM
FRIDAY, APRIL 20
HUTCHIN HALL
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