Friday;, October 27, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three F r llli y ,lllll||||151| O c to b e r 1 2 7,1 l 1 9 2T E-I H G N -L a g h e **CINEMA 11 Presents *** 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. AUD. A, ANGELL HALL 7 & 9 p.m. $1.00 i 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 * * * 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 * * V 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, C lC~ TY@ Q Qg md S DANCING 8 P.M.-2 A.M. EVERY NIGHT DRAFT BEER and PIZZA H FROM 5:00 P.M. 341 South Main 0 Ann Arbor 769-560 I, ___________ _______ I tonight 6:00 2 4 7 News, Weather, Sports 9 Eddie's Father 50 Flintstones 56 Bridge with Jean Cox 6:30 2 4 7 News' 9 Jeannie 50 Gilligan's Island 56 Book Beat 7:00 2 Truth or Consequences 4 News, Weather, Sports 7 To Tell The Truth 9 Beverly Hillbillies 50 I Love Lucy 56 World Press 7:30 2 What's My Line? 4 Hollywood Squares 7 Wait Till Your Father Gets Home 9 Lassie 56 Wall Street Week 50 Hogan's Heroes 8:00 2 Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour 4 Sanford and Son 7 Brady Bunch 9 News 56 Washington Week in Review 50 Dragnet 8:30 4 Little People 7 Partridge Family 9 Political Talk 50 Merv Griffin 56 Off the Record 9:00 2 Movie "The McKenzie Break" (70) German POWs plan escape. 4 Ghost Story 7 Room 222 9 Pre-Election Special 56 Realities 9:30 7 Odd Couple 10:00 4 Banyon 7 Love, American Style 9 News, Weather, Sports la '1, THE MEANS OF 4 PERSUATION 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 I ARTS ' ', 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- UAC DAYSTAR prsents.. . IT'S GHOST TIME! Saturday Night, 10/28, Bursley Hall Presents: 8 Hours of continuous horror flicks (Boris Kharloff and Casper, among others) Munchies to keep you going: Cider & Donuts ADMISSION-75c CHEAP 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 See MORE, Page 8 FRIDAY Halloween Treat- A REAL Horror Flick! EYES WITHOUT A FACE (HORROR CHAMBER OF DR. FAUSTUS) DIR. 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