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Friday, September 15, 1972
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Shaft's Big Score
State
Shaft's Big Score is the second
of what promises to be a long
and lucrative series of Black
sex-and-violence films starring
Richard Roundtree as John
Shaft, the private eye nobody
calls "Boy." The story is simple
-Black gangsters, the Mafia,
and Shaft are all hunting for a
quarter of a billion dollars that
a Black numbers boss/philan-
thropist lost due to his sudden
demise. During the course of a
chase that may seem tame to
recent viewers of the French
Connection or Bullit, Shaft man-
ages to blow gaping holes in
various vital organs of his com-
petition, and intimates that the
money will be funneled back in-
to the Black community. Overall,
the movie is very well produced,
sometimes a bit too slick, which
tends to make those parts that
are dominated by dialogue rather
than mayhem some what boring.
The attempt to temper violence
with clever dialogue compromises
both elements, but there is still a
fair amount of good lines, and a
good deal of gore for the carni-
vore in all of us.
-SHELDON LEEMON
Slaughterhouse Five
Campus
When Billy Pilgrim was young
and innocent and wide-eyed he
witnessed the bombing of Dres-
den.rLater, when middle-aged and
wearing glasses he survived a.
number of other crises, but none
which affected him so deeply as
his experience in Germany; in-
deed, they only brought Dresden
backsto mind more clearly. Final-
ly, as an elderly man Billy began
to take the whole of it in stride,
and consequently his dreams be-
came more pleasant. The horror
of destructon was replaced by the
complacency of a cozy home on
the planet Tralfamadore, totally
controlled by an invisible' being
with a soft, friendly voice. An ex-
treme, maybe, but so was the
war.
George Roy Hill's film version
of Slaughterhouse Five gives us
Pilgrim's-or Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s
-life as a series of random
events out of their proper time
sequences, which is the way
Pilgrim himself sees it by the
end of the filni. Each event
ultimately has no more or less
meaning or importance than
other events, but they are all to
be lived with. Hill's use of re-
peated flashbacks and flash-
forwards shuffles Pilgrim through
time and space gently, some-
times joltingly, though after a
while the process becomes te-
dious. Stephan Gellar has writ-
ten a witty, moving screenplay,
and Michael Sacks gives a good
performance as Billy. Despite
some extraneous and poorly done
slapstick and excessively stagy
sets in the dream sequences, the
picture should keep your eyes
wide open.
-DAVID GRUBER
Play It Again Sam
Michigan
A Woody Allen movie with a
plot? What next? Woody is Felix
Allen, a nebbish cum old movie
buff whose wife leaves him out
of sheer boredom. Coached by
the ghost of Humphry Bogart in
the art of acting tough, Allen
reelsafrom amorous gambit to
amorous gambit only to become
entangled with his best friend's
wife. The humor is pure Woody
Alen, but the ending is all Bo-
gart. All of this good fun was
filmed in San Franscico.
-HERB MALINOFF
The Music Lovers
Fifth Forum
Ken Russell's film concerning
Tschaikowsky's sexual problems
annoyed even more people than
The Devils, if that is possible.
The movie stars Glenda Jack-
son and Richard Chamberlain
as the tormented composer. One
of The Music Lovers' more in-
famous scenes consists of a
blaring 1812 Overture on the
soundtrack paired with a visual
consisting primarily of peoples'
heads exploding every time the
overture reaches one of those fa-
mous cannon blasts. If that's
your kind of movie, enjoy!
-STAFF
Women in Love
Fifth Forum
The ambitious career of di-
rector Ken Russel eventually led
him to attempt the filming of
D. H. Lawrence's Women in
Love, a novel so steeped in mys-
tical sexuality that it seemed too
delicate to withstand the transi-
tion to the screen. But, if Rus-
sel failed,hefailed magnificent-
ly, drawing on fine perform-
ances by Alan Bates, Oliver
Reed, and Glenda Jackson to
create a movie that comes as
close as conceivable to r "Law-
rence on film."
-STAFF
The Other
Fox Village
Thomas Tyron's bestselling
cient mask and enters world of
horrors!!! When he puts on his
mask, you put on your flimsy
carboard and cellophane con-
traption (which Cinema II will
hopefully supply). There's a cer-
tain amount of enjoyable antici-
pation in waiting for that bas-
tard to finally get the notion of
trying on the raunchy museum
piece, and the world of horrors
- which looks like somebody's
unswept basement - is good for
a few laughs. But the movie's
bag oftricks is soon depleted,
and Eyes of Hell becomes slight-
ly repetitious, exceedingly dull.
-RICHARD GLATZER
Red Planet Mars
Cinema Guild
Sat. & Sun.
Sci-Fi-Adventure - Propaganda-
Morality Flick. Good for laughs.
Peter Graves uses amazing scien-
tific device which allows him to
send radio beam to Mars! His
conversation with 300 yr. old
Martians wins the Cold War for
the U.S. Good Guys while causing
a second Russian Revolution. Ex-
tremely plausible. Comes com-
plete with a Mad-Dog Nazi Scien-
tist, lots of gadgets, and the
President of the U.S. of A. Plugs
for the American Way of Life,
religion and research make it
amusing.
--ERIC LIPSON
The Testament
of Orpheus
Cinema II
Sat. & Sun.
The Testament of Orpheus is
Cocteau's final tribute to Cocteau.
The, film, essentially a celebra-
tion of the Poet's playful struggle
with his Muse, stars the senes-
cent enfant terrible as himself,
and contains a pant-load of al-
lusions to previous works, such
as Orpheus. Of course, there is
the usual quota of mystical won-
derment, including the Poet's
death and subsequent ressurec-
tion, performed for the benefit
of such admirers as Picasso and
Yul Brynner. I must concur with
these luminaries, there is some-
thing engaging about this old
fraud, who was putting people
on long before Warhol could pick
up a soup can; sometimes the
dialogue, the special effects, and
the symbolism of this movie are
so witty and striking that it
doesn't really matter that they
don't mean anything.
-SHELDON LEEMON,
Ben Hur
Cinema Guild
Fri.
When The New York Times
voted Fred Niblo's Ben-Hur one
of the ten best movies of 1925
not many people were surprised.
Small wonder. For, despite the
two years the production crew
wasted on location in Italy com-
bating labor problems, technical
difficulties, and prideful local
politicians (Mussolini banned the
film from Italy when he discover-
ed the Romans do not win the
chariot race), Ben-Hur was the
most ambitious, "action packed
spectacle" of its time, and it
played to packed audiences
everywhere, saving M-G-M from
total bankruptcy. M-G-M spent
more money, built bigger sets;
and had more extras than any
other movie up to that time, thus
setting a precedent for large
scale film production that was
to continue through the next three
decades. Besides its tremendous
financial success, however, Ben-
Hur was also considered to epito-
mize the skill of motion picture
technicians at that stage of film
history. The chariot race in par-
ticular is always singled out as
some of the most exciting foot-
age ever filmed-one critic, com-
nienting on the excellent camera
work, wondered how the film in-
dustry would be able to top it-
self after this one.
The 1958 Charleton Heston re-
make of the chariot race is a
shot-for-shot copy of this 1925
version. The title role is played
by Ramon Novarro (M-G-M's
answer to Rudolph Valentino)
with Francis Bushman as an ap-
propriately villainous Messala.
And Douglas Fairbanks is in the
crowd scene at the Circus Maxi-
mus . . . somewhere.
-WILLIAM MITCHELL
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Night Gallery
KEN RUSSELLS directs
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"A MOVIE THAT CAN ONLY BE SEEN AS THE PRO-
DUCT OF A MAN DRUNK ON THE POWER OF
FILM, on his own masterful and manic command of
the medium and his own excitement over the vision
he is communicating. Ken Russell emerges as one of
the great directors of our era.
-RICHARD SCHICKEL, Life Magazine
"It's really quite extraordinary. I think Ken
Russell is a genius!"
-REX REED
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-THE MICHIGAN DAILY-
Woodstocl
Modern Languages
Michael Wadleigh ha
ed an epic documenta
the history making e
inspired an entire g
Woodstock is surprisir
colorful, complex, well-r
fascinating for its ent
hour length.
novel The Other was at best a
mediocre attempt to write har-
rowing fiction. Tyron, remem-
Bldg. bered for his third-rate perform-
s fashion- ance in the second-rate Shoes of
ry out of the Fisherman, put together an
vent that uneven, boring account relating
eneration. to the adventures of some weird
ugly fine; twins. The movie, however, is
made, and far superior. It is everything the
tire three book should have been.
Robert Mulligan's last film
-STAFF before this was the sentimental
Summer of '42. But sharper film
buffs will recognize in The Oth-
er hints of the style found in his
To Kill A Mockingbird, with
Gregory Peck. Mulligan also
made the unforgettable Baby the
Rain Must Fall with Steve Mc-
Queen. He has yet. to paint his
masterpiece.
Mon.
The Rookies
NFL
Football
Gunsmoke
Lucille Ball
Doris Day
Bill Cosby
Laugh-in
Movie
Tues.
Temperatures
Rising
Movie
Marcus Welby,
M.D.
Maude
Hawaii 5-0
Movie
Bonanza
The Bold Ones
NBC Reports
"LUST vs.
LOVE ON THE
SEXUAL BATTLEGROUND."
-LOOK
WeknWhrw
Wed
Paul Lynde
Movie
Julie Andrews
Carol Burnett
Medical Center
Cannon
Adam-12
Mystery Movie
Search
Bars
BIMB'S--Oaslighters (Fri., Sat., Sun.)
BIMBO'S ON THE HILL-The Steven James Quintet (Fri.,
Sat., Sun.)
BLIND PIG-Johnny Shines (Fri., Sat., Sun.)
DEL RIO-Armando's Jazz Group (Sun.)
GOLDEN FALCON-The Evil Eye (Fri., Sat.)
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RUBAIYAT-Iris Bell Adventure (Fri., Sat., Sun.)
THE SCENE-discotheque, dancing
Concerts
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA-the first of a
long series of international presentations offered by the
University Musical Society this year, Sat. at 8:30 in Hill
Auditorium. Tickets available at Burton Tower box of-
fice.
RAVI SHANKAR-one of the foremost classical masters of
the sitar appearing with tabla player, Alla Rakha in first
of UAC-Daystar Fall Concert Series, Fri. at 8:00 in Hill
Auditorium. Tickets available at Michigan Union ticket
desk and Salvation Records.
Events
CELEBRATION-benefit show to help pass upcoming abor-
tion reform referendum featuring speakers, musicians,
and theatre groups, including Jennifer, Nanette Natal,
Roberta Kosse, Crisler Arena, 7 p.m. (Sun.)
LAFAYETTE PARK ART FAIR-East Lafayette at Orleans
in Downtown Detroit, 10:00 a.m. to dusk. (Sat., Sun.)
LYN LARSEN at the
BARTON PIPE ORGAN
accompanying the 1926 Silent Film Classic
"The Son of the Shiek"
starring RUDOLPH VALENTINO
plus SING-ALONG and POP-CONCERT
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20
-PETE ROSS
Eyes of Hell
Cinema II
Fri. & Sun.
A cheezy 3-D movie that you
might have seen in 1961 under
the title The Mask. Adventurous
psychoanalyst dons curs-ed an-
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The Men
Thurs.
The Waltons
Movie
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Ironsides
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FRIDAY: "Music Lovers" 6:45
"Women in Love" 9:00
SAT., SUN.: "Music Lovers
2:15 and 6:45
"Women in Love" 4:25 and 9:00
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D. H.LAwRENCE'S
"WOMEN IN LOVE"
directed by KEN RUSSELL (director of "THE DEVILS")
starring
OLIVER REED, ALAN BATES and
GLENDA JACKSON in her
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Comedy Night
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Ghost Story
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