Friday; November 3, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Friday, November 3, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PaaeTh.. 1. FACU LTY-G RA D GET-IT-TOGETH ER "The Scene may no Kosher Manisch BUT-Join those SUNDAY, NOV. 5 8 p.m. t serve ewitz who dr SHE ink it!" Scene S. Main I Dinner at Ei Cinema.Guild Fri. George Cukor's 1933 tion of George S. Kau Edna Ferber's Dinner features a star - stud (Lionel Barrymore, Jo more, Marie Dressler, low, Billie Burke, Wa Beery), a diverse v characterizations, and moving narrative depi events leading up to a ing dinner party. -MATTHEW ight d 3 produc- fman and dat Eight dded cast cinemca Weekend The 341 JiTCIRCULATION DEPT. Come in any afternoon 420 Maynard CINEMA I PRESEN TS ** FRIDAY 3 NOVEMBER Blood and S Cinema Guild Sat. & Sun. Fred Niblo (directo 1927 Ben Hur shown a Guild earlier thiss made this silent roma bullfighter (Rudolph V and his glamorous, wife. The film was r 1941 with Tyrone Powe Sosin will be providing background for Valenti making, and that alon be worth the trip. Borsalino Cinema II Fri. & Sun. With picture-perfect hn Barry- ing and nit-picking decorative Jean Har- detail, Borsalino is more of a a 1 1 a c e museum piece than a movie. ariety of Jacques Dersay directs as if the 1 a fast cinematic portrait of the gang- icting the ster as a young man is an en- fascinat- dangered species which must be preserved, even if that involves GERSON draining it of vital fluids and posing it like a stuffed animal in and a showcase. It is a loving, me- ticulous reproduction, but not a dynamic entity; so that the vio- lence seems dull and the chase scenes like instant replays of rt Cinema things you've seen a million itmCinema times before. semester) nce of a The plot is one of those exer- Valentino) cises in criminal daredeviledry unfaithful that Edward G. Robinson and emade in James Cagney familiarized for r. Donald movie fans decades ago. Two g a piano cigar-gnawing punks, (Alain De- no's love- lon and Jean - Paul Belmondo) ne should rise to the top of the 1930's Mar- seilles underworld through a -STAFF combination of ambition and luck. Handling the machine guns and the ladies with equal skill and lazy charm, the part- ners survive everything that celluloid gangsters usually get costum- thrown at them, and wake up one BORSALINO Director James Deray Belmondo and Alain Delon starring in this French gangster caper set in the Roaring Twenties. SATURDAY 4 NOMEMBER - DR. STRANGELOVE See Tomorrow's Daily for revised Cinema II schedule. AUDITORIUM A 7 & 9 o'clock $1.00 - DANCING 8 P.M.-2 A.M. EVERY NIGHT morning as the sole controllers of Marseilles' gambling, prosti- tution, and wholesale meat and fish. Predictably, success turns to ashes and the final winner is the mortician. Unfortunately, he comes too late for Delon, who acts like a stiff throughout most of the mo- vie. Belmondo at least has the grace to look embarrassed in his role as a 1930's clotheshorse. (Certainly the plot is the only threadbare thing in sight; every- one zips through costume chan- ges like Sherman through Geor- gia.) Admittedly antiques h a v e charm. Even jazzed-up, faked antiques have a faint and wist- ful appeal all their own. Borsa- lino is no exception. But lov- ingly etched wax effigies belong in Mme. Tussaud's, not on the screen. -TERRY MARTIN Dr. Strangelove Cinema II Sat. & Sun. Stanley Kubrick made Dr. Strangelove as a forceful reac- tion to people's virtually listless acquiescence in the face of the possibility of nuclear destruc- tion. The film was made to sound an alert, but it is not a siren so much as a subtly-put-together black comic farce on collective madness. The acting of Peter Sellers (as President Muffley) and George C. Scott are caricatures of, re- spectively ineffectuality and the "Pentagon hawk." The ab- surd summit meeting in Wash- ington sets the scene for the ap- pearance of the prophet of doom himself, Strangelove, also play- ed by Sellers. An uncomfortable portrait of Werner Van Braun, Strangelove is the scientist who has defected but still has a soft snot in his hear for the Fueh- rer. His black-gloved right hand makes several attempts to choke himself, as the fearful war inside him mocks the generative urge in man to destroy himself. -BRUCE SHLAIN Reefer Madness Modern Languages Bldg. Fri., Sat. In the late 1930's, few people recognized marijuana as the brain - breaking, death - dealing maker of maniacs that now we all know it to be a group of con- cerned, apparently serious citi- zens set out to transmit these little - known truths to the American public; they vividly portrayed the marijuana mon- ster in a filmed tale of death and ruin, all brought on by the evil weed. The nationwide campaign that generated (Reefer Madness, then. entitled something more like What to Tell Your Children About Marijuana) succeeded in illegalizing grass. So view the film as an historical document, a study in propaganda, an un- fortunate barrel of images still held by many Americans. Or if you want to be more in tune with the rest of the audience, ingest some of the wicked weed yourself and go to laugh at the lies. If you do the latter, you're likely to enjoy the accompanying short feature by the Firesign Theater, Martian Space Party. -LARRY LEMPERT Farewell Uncle Tom Fifth Forum Yup, you guessed it-another movie ripoff about the Black Experience. And this Farewell Uncle Tom even purports to be an "historically documented" ac- count of the evils of slavery, al- though it is really just a series of unrelated episodes reenacted to simulate documentary form- all of it written, directed, and produced by those two Italian guys who made Mondo Cane a few years back. We see the same old tired stereotypes - Blacks as innocents, sex objects, or cat- tle; Whites as tyrants, lechers, or killers - with the slight dif- ference that the sex and vio- lence are a little more graphic, hence the "X" rating (if you can't draw the Blacks, try for the voyeurs). The narration is done in a garbled Italian accent and is difficult to understand, the photography is too cute, and the characterization is atrocious. The theme music I liked. Actually, this is not a Black movie at all, but, rather, a mo- vie for those white people who feel some masochistic need to re- mind themselves periodically of just how awful things were for black people. If you are thus inclined, take whip in hand and go see this mo- vie. Whom you whip is your own business. --WILLIAM MITCHELL A Separate Peace Michigan In the sappy tradition of Love Story and Summer of '42 comes the very, very sappy A Separate Peace. No, I haven't read Knowles' very popular novel (a dubious distinction of mine, yet a distinction nevertheless), but whatever worth the book had has been drowned in an oozy sea of cinematic syrup. What must have been a fragile study of the friend- ship of two students at Devon prep school has been brutalized by vastly inadequate perform- C. Scott was doing in this medio- cre film in the first place. --RAYMOND WILLEY Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex-But Were Afraid to Ask Campus Legend has it that Woody Al- len first conceived of filming Sex while watching Dr. Reuben on a late talk show. A great idea, but how do you go about realizing it? Allen simuply de- cided to compile six skits as answers to various Reubenesque questions: "What is sodomy?" "Do aphrodisiacs work?" "What are sex perverts?" etc., etc., etc. The various conceptions of the skits are often tremendously clever, but once again the prob- lem of execution presents itself. Take the "What is Sodomy" epi- sode. The idea of Gene Wilder falling in love with a sheep strikes me as a very funny one. But the actual episode isn't much more than one of those imitation Love Story Seven - Up commer- cials stretched out for fifteen _A to 0 tonight 6:00 2 4 7 News, Weather, Sports 9 Eddie's Father 50 Flintstones 56 Bridge with Jean Cox 6:39 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 56 I Love Lucy 50 1; Love Lucy 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 Amazing World of Kreskin 56 Washington Week in Review 50 Dragnet 8:30 4 Little People 7 Partridge Family 9 Pig 'N' Whistle 59 Merv Griffin 56 Off the Record 9:00 2 Movie Concludes "The Dirty Dozen." 4 Ghost Story 7 Room 222 9 News 56 NET Journal 9:30 7 Odd Couple 9 Woods and Wheels 10:00 4 Banyon 7 Love, American Style 9 Tommy Hunter 50 Perry Mason 56 High School Football 10:30 2 Political Talk 11:00 2 4 7 9 News, Weather, sports 50 Rolin' 11:20 9 Nightbeat 11:30 2 Movie--Dfama "The Chapman Report." (1962) 4 Johnny Carson 7 Dick Cavett 50 Movie Prehistoric monsters in "The Valley of Gwangi." (1969) 12:00 9 Movie "Eye of the Cat." (1969) 1:00 4 News 7 Movie "Circle of Deception." (1960) 1:30 2 Movie "The Vanquished." (1953) 3:00 2 7 News p j I z DRAF ARTS T BEER and PIZZA FROM 5:00 P.M. 341 South Main Ann Arbor 769-5960 r I FRIDAY DINNER AT EIGHT Dir. George Cukor 1933 The greatest s t a r s of Hollywood are giving you a party: Marie Dressler, J o h n Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Berry, Jean Harlow, Billy Burke. wcbn today CULTURE CA\p8\.5 fm 89.5 ________________ 9:00 12:00 4:00 7:30 11:00 Morning After Show Progressive rock Folk Rhythm & Blues Oldies show (runs until 3) Prizewinning s c r i p t Edna Ferber & George Kaufman. *" by S. RE-ELECT SYLVESTER A.' LEONARD COUNTY TREASURERI HONEST-TRUSTWORTHY QUALIFIED BY EXPERIENCE 25 YEARS AS PUBLIC OFFICIAL 10 YEARS COUNTY TREASURER; 10 YRS. COUNTY SUPERVISOR 5 YRS. LINCOLN SCHOOL BOARD Republican t . Pd. Pol. Adv. " I SAT. SUN. Change in Program Blood and Sand With Rudolf Valentino ARCHITECTURE AUDITORIUM I DRAMA-PTP presents the Phoenix Repertory Company prior to Broadway in two productions in Power Center this weekend. Moliere's Don Juan, directed by Stephen Porter will be presented at 3 and 8 Saturday. Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown, directed by Harold Prince will be presented at 3 and 8 on Sunday. Tickets are available at the Mendelssohn Box Office. DRAMA-The Residential College's production of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba continues at the RC Audi- torium tonight. MUSIC-Paul Siebel performs tonight at the Ark. at 9. Also, the People's Ballroom presents Deliverance and Hydra- mosz tonight at 8. DANCE-University Musical Society presents the Batsheva Dance Company from Israel at the Power Center tonight at 8; international folk dance tonight at Barbour Gym, 8-11. WEEKEND BARS AND MUSIC-Blind Pig, Garfield Blues Band (Fri., Sat.) cover, classical music (Sun.) no cover; Golden Falcon, First Concept (Fri., Sat.) cover; Mr. Flood's Party, Diesel Smoke and Dangerous Curves (Fri., Sat.) cover; Odyssey, TNT (Fri., Sat.) cover Jam Night (Sun.) no cover; Pretzel Bell, RFD Boys (Fri., Sat.) cover; Rubaiyat, Iris Bell Adventure (Fri., Sat., Sun.) no cover; Bimbo's on the Hill, Long John Silver (Fri., Sat.) cover; Del Rio, Armando's Jazz Group (Sun.) no cover; Bimbo's, Gaslighters (Fri., Sat., Sun.) cover; Mackinac Jack's, Radio King and the Court of Rhy- thm (Fri., Sat.) cover, Okra (Sun.) cover. The Residential College Players presents: The House of Bernarda Alba by: FREDRICO GARCIA LORCA 8:00 P.m. EAST QUAD AUDITORIUM November 2, 3, 4, 1972 ances by an unimpressive group of new faces, by Larry Peerce's precocious direction, by a filmic style that could serve as a veri- table textbook of visual cliches. Add one more body to the corpse heap of mutilated "filmed liter- ature." -RICHARD GLATZER Fiddler on the Roof State Norman Jewison's Fiddler pre- sents us with a seemingly anti- quated world of hard-working, simple peasantry. But the film achieves - in the wistful and happy, yet moving and poignant tale of life struggles and quests -a universal story of man's exis- tence. Israeli actor Topol plays a virile, tough Tevye, ever wise and down to earth, yet full of in- sight, packed with heart. He highly values his daughters' wishes, breaking his people's precious Tradition by allowing his kin to marry whom they choose. The music, the dancing, Tevye's "If I Were a Rich Man," the moving staging of "Sunrise, Sunset," an excellent cast, all serve to etch in one's mind the emotions, humor, and philosophy of the Jewish people - a peo- ple struggling to, "Play a pret- ty simple tune without breaking (one's) neck." -MATTHEW GERSON 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- 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 one year, and Roy (Stacy Keach), his youthful partner - are plagued with a variety of plausible mis- fortunes. All of which soon be- comeunconvincingly 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 1I rA minutes. Then too, Allen seems I e s s comically sure of himself when he's being self-consciously dirty. Unfunny puns and double enten- dres abound, most of the skits just trail off towards the end, and some of the humor is almost kinky. Even so, Sex is a very funny movie. It features. a monstrous tit that roams the countryside nursing people to death; a great satire of Antonioni ("Why do some women have troubles reach- ing orgasm?") replete w i t h Woody in shades and continental clothes, sultry Louise Lasser in a blonde wig, and Italian dialo- gue; Lou Jacobi as a transves- tite; What's My Perversion, with Jack Berry and M. C. and Robert Q. Lewis and Pamela Mason among the panel members: a final episode in which Allen plays a sperm about to be ejacu- lated; and many, many other fantastic delights that no Woody Allen fan will want to live with- out. -RICHARD GLATZER Alice's Restaurant Campus Arthur Penn's uncanny knack for feeling the pulse of our coun- try is a well-known one; he is unrivaled in being able to detect, analyze, and then cinematize national consciousness, national movements and events, national optimism and depression. Take .Alice's Restaurant. Penn's fine film is a faithful and funny adaption of Arlo Guthrie's mu- sical saga. But the movie's also a lot more - a sympathetic de- piction of people trying to achieve a true sense of com- munity, a melancholic chronicle of their inevitable failure. -STAFF Not to Mention ... Rhett andtScarlett are back; Gone With the Wind is at the Wayside this week. (See it on the bid screen - only $.75 for the Wednesday matinee.) Anoth- er bargain: The Groundstar Conspiracy, a critically well-re- ceived thriller, is the Fifth For- um's cheapy offering: $.75 for Sat. and Sun. Matinee, $.99 for Fri. and Sat. Late Show. The uncut King Kong is being shown Fri. and Sat. at the Modern Lan- guageBuilding. Couzens is show- ing The Fall of the House of Usher and The Sign of Zorro. And finally, Bursley is showing Lovers and Other Strangers Sat. -STAFF IfRADIO KING cour * r-wIIvN AND WE, 217SAS 2P?&-2AM BRIGHTON CINEMA 3 1-96 and Grand River-227-6144 CINEMA I - Dr. Zhivago CINEMA ti- A Separate Peace PG 7&9 p.m. 75c I UAC-DAYSTAR presents JAMES Iunhurnrn i17 TAYLOR FRIDAY 8 P.M. with SECTION $3.50 $4.50 $5.50 crisler arena Friday, 8 & 10 p.m.-Nat. Sci. Aud.-75c Presented by McGovern -Shriver Committee - * The * * STAR * LOUNGE 4 proudly announces appearances by Reserve your seats today at Michigan Union. 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