Friday;, October 27, 1972
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FRIDAY, 27 OCTOBER
SHOCK CORRIDOR
1963. Samuel Fuller. An ambitious reporter has his stripper
girlfriend commit him to a mental institution in the hopes he
can solve a murder. He enters the nightmare world of three
patients and in the end the pressures of his impersonations
have driven him insane. "Performances . . . hard . . . driving
hrealistic C . Mr. Fuller and his dedicated cast have made
their Shock Corridor vividly shocking."-N.Y.T.
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Eyes Without a Face
Cinema Guild
Fri.
Eyes Without a Face (1959) is
the morbid tale of a scientist
who has a deformed daughter,
and who, like any good father
(or scientist for that matter),
wants to make her beautiful so
she can go to the prom and get
married and all that. Well, her
particular affliction is that she
has no face, so Papa goes out
and kidnaps pretty girls to use
their features for transplant ex-
periments. Alas, he is a bungler,
and the poor daughter ends up
looking like a patchwork quilt
of other peoples' faces. ("Say,
don't I know you from some-
where? You lookuawfully famil-
iar.") So much for a scathing
comment on the inherent evils of
scientific research. But revenge
is sweet, and Papa gets his, of
course.
Ten years before he directed
Eyes Without a Face, Georges
Franju did a documentary of
slaughter houses, and it is ob-
vious that he has brought that
livid gruesomeness to this film,
teo
yet it is excellently done - great
photography, a soundtrack by
Maurice Jarre, and gowns by Gi-
venchy (you thought I was kid-
ding about the prom). In short,
it is a magnificently produced
French horror flic that you might
make you think twice before.
willing your body to Science. In
the original version with sub-
titles.
-WILLIAM MITCHELL
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The Red and the White
Cinema Guild
Sat. & Sun.
The Red and the White is one
of the superb films to have come
out of the cultural flowering of
Hungary in the late Sixties. The
work of master director-scenar-
ist Miklos Jansco, the film util-
izes excellent photography, and
50 Perry Mason
56 High School Football
10:20 9 Nighitbeat
11:00 2 4 7 News, Weather, Sports
9 Cheaters
50 Rollin'
11:30 2 Movie
"The Shuttered Room" (67)
Remote island suffers family
curse.
4 Johnny Carson
7 Dick Cavett
9 Movie
"Torture Garden" (68) Horror
stories abound.
50 Movie
"Land Raiders" (69) Landown-
ers battle Apaches.
1:00 4 News
7 Movie
"The Monk" (69) The suspense
of blackmail and murder.
.1:30 2 Movie
"Death Valley" (41) Killer flees
to the desert.
3:00 2 7 News
wcbn today
9:00 Morning After Show
12:00 Progressive rock
4:00 Folk
7:30 Rhythm & Blues
11:00 Oldies show (runs until 3)
a real feeling on Jansco's part
for the nuances of human emo-
tion, to provide a graphic, sweep-
ing tableau of war.
The action is set against t h e
background of the Russian Revo-
lution of 1917, and portrays the
murderous conflict between sold-
iers of the Red Army and their
Hungarian comrades on one side,
and the counter-revolutionary
Whites on the other. The action
moves rapidly, as control of the,
territory shifts from one side to
the other. The fine pacing helps
the film's exposition of the hu-
man aspects of war, the brutal-
ity and compassion of both sides.
The film does not propagandize
for one side, but rather shows
people acting like people, caught
up in the great and terrible
drama of war.
--SHELDON LEEMON
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Shock Corridor
Cinema II
Fri. & Sun.
A few years ago there was a
Samuel Fuller Festival on this
campus, and I remember going
over to the Architecture Auditor-
ium to hear him speak. I really
don't recall his lecture so much
as I remember the image of
Samuel Fuller wearing dark
glasses, waving a big stogie, and
calling Dennis Hoper a "swell
kid." I was completely fascinat-
ed, because A) here was a real
live Hollywood movie director,
and B) here was a real live
Hollywood movie director w h o
enjoyed immensely playing that
role to the hilt, as if his life
had been one great long Grade
B movie (low budget black and
white, of course). Dennis Hop-
per must have thoughtnso too,
becausehe cast Fuller to play
the part of the director in his
film, The Last Movie. Sam pro-
bably loved every minute of it.
Anyway, Fuller's 1963 release,
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THE
MEANS OF
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217S ASH 2PM.-2AM
Shock Corridor is being shown
this weekend at Cinema II. It con-
cerns a young reporter (Peter
Breck) who hopes to win the Puli-
tzer Prize by entering a mental
institution and solving the mur-
der, of one of its patients. To
do this, he has himself coached
by a psychiatrist to be able to
fake insanity, then has his girl-
friend (a stripper with a high
I.Q.) pose as his sister and com-
mit him to the institution, claim-
ing that he is incestuous (!) It is
possible that the viewer may not
believe these outrageous gaps of
credulity, but this does not seem
to bother Fuller too much. For-
tunately, he makes no pretense
of presenting Shock Corridor ks
"socially significant" expose -
just keeps the story moving along.
It is to his credit that the film
succeeds so well.
In, the end, the enterprising
young reporter does win the
Pulitzer Prize, but not before he
ends up a catatonic schizophrenic
himself. I guess that's what
comes of making a commitment
-WILLIAM MITCHELL
Repulsion
Cinema II
Sat. & Sun.
Roman Polanski's Repulsion
has been described as "the pur-
est exercise in homicidal mania
yet made." It is the same im-
pulses at work here in the direc-
tor that produced the morbid hu-
mor of Cul de Sac and the blood-
spattered version of Macbeth. His
obsession in this film is with
the descent into madness.
There is no element of Hitch-
cockian surprise in the highly
stylized horror, no artful cute-
ness, as the littletshocksare not
to titillate, but to repulse. His
main character is a woman play-
ed by Catherine Deneuve, whose
mind eventually begins to resem-
ble a detailed course in abnorm-
al psychology. In the process,
Polanski manages to assault the
romantic image of the deranged
and attractive women (one can
imagine Edgar Allen Poe, under
the influence of enough good whis-
key, proclaiming that "there is
nothing quite as poetic as a
beautifultwomantgonermad.").
But there is little room for
romanticizing in a film that cen-
ters around grotesque close-ups
of neglected, sprouting potatoes
and half-eaten food lying on plat-
es in cheap restaurants, not to
mention the obligatory hallucina-
tions of rape.
-BRUCE SHLAIN
Bad Company
Fifth Forum
There were draft dodgers dur-
ing the Civil War, too, but in-
stead of escaping to the north,
they went west, across open spac-
es, toward some dream life their
ambitions had etched out for
them. In Bad Company, one pure
soul named Drew Dixon (Barry
Brown) dressed in a fine black
suit and looking like a rejuven-
ated Jimmy Stewart, meets up
with a vengeful soul named Jake
Rumsey (Jeff Bridges), and to-
gether they take on the prairie
and each other. Under the influ-
ence of Jake's waywardness,
Drew's black suit gradually gath-
ers dust, and is finally replaced
by something more suitably rag-
ged; his ambitions and ideals
travel the same path.
Bad Company is an interesting
first film by Robert Benton,
While critics are quick to com-
pare it with his previous work on
the script, of Bonnie and Clyde,
it is actually more reminiscent
of Butch Casidy, and the Sun-
dance Kid. But then it stands
apart from this film also. In
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style it is simpler and more un-
derstated than that of the other
films, the humor is wry, the un-
avoidable violence unbeautified.
Cinematographer Gordon Willis'
autumnal colors give the film a
feeling of history and provide a
rich backdrop for the lives of the
vagabonds on the plains.
-DAVID GRUBER
A Separate Peace
Michigan
Can Larry Peerce (Goodbye
Columbus) create a successful
screen version of John Knowle's
well-loved novel detailing t h e
lives of prep schoolers during
World War II? Probably not, but
A Separate Peace should be in-
teresting anyway. Not reviewed
at press time.
-STAFF
The New Centurions
Fox Village
The New Centurions begins as
a feature length Adam-12 with a
few nifty chase scenes to its
credit. But director Richard
Fleischer and scenarist Sterling
Silliphant fail to give the movie
the depth necessary to really ex-
records
Recycling the Blues'
CULTURE CALEINDAR
HOMECOMING CONCERT-UAC-Daystar brings Commander
Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen to Hill Aud. stage to-
night at 8.
CONCERTS-Chuck Berry appears at EMU's Bowen Field
House tonight at 8.
DANCE-International folk dance, Barbour gym tonight 8-11
DRAMA-University Players continue to bring Beckett's
Endgame to the Frieze Arena stage tonight at 8.
POETRY-Robert Creely continues his visit with an open
discussion, room 126, East Quad, tonight at 8:30.
WEEKEND BARS AND MUSIC-Bimbo's, Gaslighters (Fri.,
Sat., Sun.) cover; Bimbo's on the Hill, Long John Silver
(Fri., Sat.) cover; Blind Pig, Asleep at the Wheel (Fri.,
Sat.) cover, classical music (Sun.) no cover; Golden Fal-
con, New Concept (Fri., Sat., Sun.) cover; Mackinac
Jack's, The Means of Persuasion with Ike Noble (Fri.,
Sat.) cover, Okra (Sun.) cover; Mr. Flood's Party, Mill-
town Blues Band (Fri., Sat.) cover; Odyssey, The Roc-
kets (Fri., Sat.) cover, Jam Night (Sun.) no cover; Rubai-
yat, Iris Bell Adventure (Fri., Sat., Sun.) no cover; Pret-
zel Bell, RFD Boys (Fri., Sat.) cover; Del Rio, Armando's
Jazz Group (Sun.) no cover.
Information concerning local cultural happenings to ap-
pear in Culture Calendar should be sent to the Arts Editor
c/o The Daily.
amine its subject: cop as an in-
dividual against society. As the
plot develops, two patrolmen -
Andy (George C. Scott), a pa-
trolman due to retire in o n e
year, and Roy (Stacy Keach), his
youthful partner - are plagued
with a variety of plausible mis-
fortunes. All of which soon be-
come unconvincingly complicat-
ed, however.
Roy undergoes a metamor-
phosis that Kafka would admire.
And Andy, after retiring f r o m
the police force, decides to take
a powder and commit suicide.
One wonders just what George
C. Scott was doing in this medio-
cre film in the first place.
-RAYMOND WILLEY
Cocoanuts
Monkey Business
Campus
In light of the current wave of
nostalgia for the fabulous reces-
sion years of the Fifties, it is
strange that so little attention
is paid to the even zanier, more
carefree era of the Great De-
pression. Hopefully, the two
Marx Brothers movies at the
Campus will remind the youth
See CINEMA, Page 8
By HARRY HAMMITT
In the new wave of blues per-
formers who began to make an
impression about five years ago,
the emphasis was mainly on
hard-driving urban blues which
could be infused with the dy-
namism of the emerging rock
form. This was done with con-
siderable success by such groups
as Cream, Led Zeppelin, and
Canned Heat, and is still finding
popularity with such bands as J.
Geils.
But the blues started out as
strictly a country form which
eventually produced the urban
offshoot. It appeared that there
would be no new crop of coun-
try blues artists to continue the
form. There was a definite inter-
est in country blues amongst the
young whites and people 1 i k e
Son House and Skip James. But
Skip James is dead now and Son
House is over 90, so that line
won't continue much longer.
Things looked bleak in country
blues until the advent of one of
the best and most refreshing
blues performers to come into the
public eye in the last decade,
Taj Mahal. Taj Mahal started
out, with an urban sound with a
blues band that had the likes of
Ry Cooder and Jesse Davis in
it. With each successive album,
his music came closer to the
country form until he released a
double-album which contained one
entire record of just him sing-
ing, playing guitar, banjo, and
harmonica. The album was sen-
sational, but Taj apparently felt
that people weren't paying any
attention to him, so he quit mu-
sic and moved to Spain.
After he was gone people real-
ly began to miss him, so he re-
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turned about a year later. He
got a new band together which
featured a section of four tubas
and recorded an album at the
Fillimiore. Since then, he h a s
recorded by himself with the aid
of certain sidemen. He has now
released his second album since
the Fillmore record; it's called
.Recycling the Blues & Other Re-
lated Stuff (Columbia KC 31605).
The album is every bit as good
as all his previous ones.
One of the best ways to de-
scribe Taj, Mahal's music is to
say that it's happy music. raj has
an approach to the blues unlike
any other young performer, he
loves the blues for their beauti-
ful simplicity. He is interested
in establishing why theblues
have remained as one of the most
potent parts of our American mu-
sical inheritance. He wants us
to appreciate the blues for what
they are, a very moving rhythm
with universal tunes, not just a
platform for flashy improvisation.
His approach is completely void
of any pretense. On this album
he is always accompanied by
only one instrument, usually a
guitar or -banjo, with one excep-
tion. Meanwhile he sings in a
good strong, clear voice which is
completely natural with a slight
hint of laziness in it.
The first side of this album
is recorded live and it's an ex-
cellent recording. Taj Mahal has,
of late, been interested in West.
Indian music and he begins and
ends the live side by playing
the conch which, if it isn't the
shell itself, is certainly a close
relative. He also plays a quick
instrumental on the kalimba
which is an instrument that
sounds like a cross between a
xylophone and a harp. Otherwise,
all the songs are blues, includ-
ing a strong ppssionate. render-
ing of "Bound to Love Me Some,"
a spirited banjo instrumental; an
emotional unaccompanied spirit-
ual; and a sensitive version of
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A REAL Horror Flick!
EYES WITHOUT
A FACE
(HORROR CHAMBER OF
DR. FAUSTUS)
DIR. GEORGES FRANJU. 1959
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