Page Ten THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, September 7, 102 Page Ten THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, September 7, 1972 more groovy films (Continued from Page 3) "All power to the people!" Now it's not everywhere you can get that and a movie too. CINEMA II: Way back around World War I, or so I was told in a history course, some statesman, in a lapse of statesmanship, called Turkey the "sick man of Eu- rope." To borrow that sobriquet, the "sick man" of campus film societies is Cinema II, operating Friday, Saturday, and Sunday out of Auditorium A. This isn't merely a personal judgment, since the society, having fallen over the artistic edge a few years ago, is now teetering on the edge of financial collapse as well. Why? Perhaps because it has been sploshing around try- ing to find its niche in Ann Ar- bor's film community and has yet to find it. There is room for another society on campus, one which can take some of the burden off the Guild by showing recent, mainly foreign, films that don't get a screening in the com- mercial houses; but Cinema II's board has moved instead for a hybrid schedule of relatively new bad and worse movies, an occa- sional Bergman, and some jazz documentaries. V e r y exciting stuff. So the patrons stay away and ship sinks. Such is the way of capitalism. - ANN ARBOR FILM COOP- ERATIVE: Along with the now- defunct Orson Welles Film So- ciety (the Welles organization was closed down for various crimes against humanity), the Coop is the group that really put a dent into Cinema II's au- dience, though I'm told that they aren't in the best of finan- cial health either. Who is these days? The Coop, like Cinema II, uses Auditorium A which, with its 35 mm projectors, is prob- ably the best facility on cam- pus. Again, like Cinema II, its schedule leaves much to be de- sired from an aesthetic stand- point, being constituted mainly of movies that everybody likes best (damning praise) - Mid- night Cowboy, Women in Love, Yellow Submarine, Wait Until Dark. You get the idea. But un- like Cinema II, there is a meth- od to the Coop's mediocrity: the purpose of the group is to raise money for film projects in Ann Arbor, so the film-showing is secondary to the Coop's real activities. The more money they collect in admissions, the more projects they can fund. Up to this point I've been de- scribing places for kids-places where the admission is cheap, the decor shabby, the company fellow freaks. But every Fri- day and Saturday night, by some mysterious spontaneous generation,. a whole different group of people materializes on our streets. The girls, luscious bon bons, wear nylons, and lit- Yo Awas Have ndChise at Felt Tip Pens Clocks tle, neatly pressed print dresses, and buffed shoes, and ribbons in their long hair, and golden tans on their hides, and dashes of perfume behind their ears. Perfume ! Their dates wear crisp slacks with combs stuck in. the back pocket, and sweaters, and not-too-long hairdos, and wing-top shoes, and they drive shiny Chevys and Mustangs. These folks don't go to the Guild or the Conspiracy or Cinema II or even the -Coop. No, every weekend they pop out of fraternities and sororities and bathtubs and shower stalls to hit the commercial theaters. And then they pop right back and we don't see them again for another week.: Amazing. Of the local commercial thea- ters these dry-cleaned people frequent, t h e most simpatico (because it too is dry cleaned)e is the National General Cor- poration's Fox Village out at the Maple Village Shopping Center. The Village, a typically suburban theater of the kind that's replaced the old Roxy, has a modern, spacious interior, cushioney seats, a gargantuan screen, an exceptional sound system, and it usually features blockbuster films; The Gradu- ate, 2001, M*A*S*H, Woodstock, Patton and, more recently, The French Connection and Cabaret all opened there. Alas, if you don't have a car, the trek out may take you over forty-five minutes; but every so often, regardless of the feature, it's almost worth the walk-like by- passing Pizza Bob's and going to a fancy restaurant for the atmosphere, not the food. (The pull of civilization) Another faraway moviehouse where you feel obliged to obey the admoni- tion on the pop machine-DO NOT TAKE DRINKS INTO THE THEATER-is the Butter- field chain's Wayside in Ypsi- lanti. There's the same plas- tic-palace interior, the same huge screen, the plump seats, but unless you like Disney and Grade-Z Westerns, the films here probably won't interest you; even the pull of civiliza- tion has its limits. If, as is likely, your taste runs more to the nostalgic, to the dark, old-fashioned, moldy, neighborhood cavern with a big marquee jutting out front bright as a circus calliope, Ann Arbor has the in-town Butter- field theaters. Rabid school boosters will be happy to know that the chain is part University Ann Arbor Dance Theatre is an organization of people interested in all phases of dance production: concerts 'workshops classes studio performances for more information owned; that way you know your dollars are going to a good cause, I guess. At any rate the admission prices aren't nearly as outrageous as tuition, and the atmosphere, as I've said, is comfy. The State Theater, one of the first sights many Ann Arbor visitors see, has a yum- my floor, perpetually sticky, and a stale odor from ghosts of crushed popcorn boxes splotch- ed with butter. Moreover, in some odd, campy way, the man- agement - no doubt uninten- tionally - plays off the State's tarnished venerability by show- ing "youth" pictures like Easy Rider, Alice's Resturant, 200 Motels, when they aren't show- ing common commercial drek like Skyjacked, Nicholas and Alexandra, The Great White Hope. The Campus Theater, on South University, is more low- slung and fiftiesish, which is in keeping with its programming; this is the "art" house of the Butterfields, the place where foreign films, soft-core porn, and rerun double - bills are screened. (Another feature of the Campus is its recorded mes- sage by theater manager Lois Granberg; she imparts "Thaaa- aaank you for calling," with a kind of musical, Chinese into- nation.) But the Big Bertha of the Butterfields, Ann Arbor's home to Catch 22, Love Story, and The Godfather, is the Michigan, just down Liberty from the State. The Michigan is more like the State than the Campus, old and ornate, only on a larger scale-more gilt, classier balustrades, a bigger lobby. It is also, with the State, one of two theaters in town where, on a Saturday afternoon, you can be pelted with candy from the balcony. Sweet memo- ries! There is, finally, Ann Arbor's independent, Ma and Pa com- mercial theater, the Fifth For- um, tucked away on Fifth Ave- nue like a miniature on a shelf. The Forum at ope time had the reputation of being a semi-art house, with an aluminium sculp- ture in the lobby, two modern wood-cuts flanking the doors, and a tiny coffee lounge. The HAIRSTYLING AS YOU LIKE ITI NEW TRENDS FOR 1972 TRIMS-SHAGS and RAZOR CUTS 2 SHOPS 0 611 E. 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