The Michigan Daily-Friday, January 27;1978-Page 7 Events and Entertainment for week of Jan. 27- Feb. 2 All Week COMMERCIAL CINEMA Short Eyes (Campus) This at- tempt to get down to brutal "reality" is a good expose of inner-city prison ills, but fails at any signigicant insight into the prisoners' actions. t**/2 Which Way is Up (State) A Michael Schultz-Richard Pryor comedy. This is an alleged restaging of Lina Wertmuller's perfectly awful Seduc- tion of Mimi. Pete's Dragon (Michigan) Disney fare--take your kid sister. With Helen Reddy. Semi-Tough (Fifth Forum) A mild- ly amusing satire, with psychological self-help theories as its target. Stars Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh and Kris Kristofferson. **2 Close Encounters of the Third Kind Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Fox Village) An absolutely stunning vision of what a visit from extrater- restrials would be like. Stars Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut and special effects. **** Saturday Night Fever (Briarwood) Energetic performances by John Travolta and his grungy co-horts, as well as dynamite disco sequences, overcome a hackneyed script and make this one of the year's most entertaining. *** Star Wars (Briarwood) George Lucas' Flash Gordonesque "space fantasy"--see it again. ***/2 Kentucky Fried Movie (Briar- wood) A:Groove Tube-type series of satirical sketches on television and the movies. Sometimes offensive, sometimes dumb, sometimes quite funny.** The Goodbye Girl (Briarwood) Neil Simon's most thoroughly enjoy- able work, refreshingly free of the stodginess and obsessive one-liners that characterize so many of his others. Richard Dreyfuss steals the show. **** friday January 27 CINEMA Invasion of the Body Snatchers andNight of the Living Dead (Room 100, Hutchins Hall, Invasion at 7:00 and 10:30, Night at 8:45) Two of the all-time best science-fiction-horror films ever produced. Both are among the few movies that can be justifiably labeled "chilling." **** The Sting (Nat Sci Ad, 7:00 and 9:30) George Roy Hill's entertaining, though somewhat mechanical, story of two conmen (Redford and New- man) who go for the big one.Vapid, but well-assembled. ***% Ten From Your Show of Shows (Angell Aud A, 7:00 and 9:00) Ten skits from the marvelously funny fifties comedy show. With Sid Ceas- ar, Imogene Coca and Carl Reiner. Seven Beauties (MLB 3, 7:00 and 9:15) By far Wertmuller's best film, Seven Beauties is so atmospheric and dramatically charged, that it seems to transcend any thematic preaching by the zest of its narrative along. So operatic, you'll leave' the theater singing. **** 200 Motels and Zachariah (MLB 4, 200 Motels at 7:00 and 10:30, Zacha- riah at 9:00) Skip Zachariah altogether. 200 Motels is packed with the kind of surrealistic insanity that perhaps only a true Zappa-fanatic can enjoy, but the whole thing is worth it just for the atonal (and absolutely outrageously obscene) aria some soprano sings with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. They don't come any crazier. ***% Casablanca (Old A&D, 7:00 and 9:05) Out-classics them all--Bogart at his most mythic. *** EVENTS Folk Music--Joseph Hickerson will discuss the history of folk music in the United States at 4 p.m. in Room 306 at Burton Tower. PTP--The Professional Theatre Program presents the musical com- edy, "My Fair Lady" at 8 p.m. in the Power Center for the Performing Arts. Java Enseibble--The Gamelan En- semble presents a program of Java- nese music and dance at 8 p.m. in Hill Auditorium. Ark--Joseph Hickerson sings folk songs at the Ark, at 8:30 p.m. saturday January 28 CINEMA M*A*S*H (Nat Sci Aud, 7:00 and 9:15) Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould give it to the "regular army clowns" in this hilarious look at the Korean (a.k.a., Viet Nam) War. Directed by Robert Altman. **** Hester Street (Angell Aud A, 7:00 and 9:00) Carol Kane plays a Russian immigrant who arrives with her fam- ily in New York during the turn-of- the-century. One of those cheerful, but not-very-amusing pictures that seem to have all the zing of a piece of Zwieback. Directed by Joan Micklin Silver. ** 3 Women (MLB 3, 7:00 and 9:15) Though lambasted for being unduly pretentious, Robert Altman's "dream film" is a compelling, oddly beautiful expression of visionary matriarchy, with many sensitive and highly disturbing moments. ***1/2 King of Hearts (MLB 4, 7:00 and 9:00) Ignore the hackneyed political implications, and you have a reason- ably funny comedy. Why it's Ann Arbor's "favorite" film, though, is a mystery known only by those at the film co-ops. *** The Seven Percent Solution (Old A&D, 7:00 and 9:05) A lively story, as well as a remarkable depiction of the Holmes idiom. Well worth seeing. Herbert Ross directed. *** s g EVENTS Ark--Folk Singer Joseph Hicker- son will perform at the Ark, 8:30 p.m. PTP--"My Fair Lady" will be staged at the Power Center, 2 and 8 p.m. New Year's Eve Party--UAC hosts a belated party beginning at 9 p.m. The band Cyprus provides the music, drinks are not included in the $1 admission. The New Year's Eve event will be held in the Union Ballroom. sunday January 29 CINEMA Heavy Traffic (Angell Aud A, 7:00, 8:30 and 10:00) Not as good as Fritz the Cat, but some amusing moments. **% / Beware of a Holy Whore (Old A&D, 7:00 and 9:00) A meditation on filmmaking, by German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder. ***%/ We're Not the Jet Set and A Sense of Loss (MLB 4, 7:00 and 9:00, respectively) Two documentaries: the first, by actor Robert Duvall deals with the Wild West myth, and the second, by Marcel Ophuls, on Northern Ireland. Sounds interest- ing. EVENTS PTP -- The musical "My Fair Lady" will be presented in the Power Center at 8 p.m. Chamber Concert--The Music School presents a chamber concert in Rackham Auditorium at 4 p.m. m'''onday January 30 CINEMA The Village (Old A&D, 8:00 only, free showing) A highly acclaimed Jap- anese film. Young Mr. Lincoln (Angell Aud A, 9:10 only, free showing) A superbly evocative John Ford film, with Henry Fonda as Abe Lincoln, the trial lawyer. ****. EVENTS New Music--The composer's forum presents a program of new music in the School of Music Recital Hall at 8 p.m. South Africa--Ken Lockwood of the Washington Office on Africa speaks on the nature of American policy and investment at the Forum on South African Investments. Rackham Lec- ture Hall, 8 p.m. tuesda January 31 CINEMA The Decameron (MLB 3, 7:00 and 9:00) An adaptation of the Boccaccio classic, by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Blow-Up (Old A&D, 7:00 and 9:05) Even if one rejects the reality-nonre- ality theme as convoluted crappols, this is a marvelously entertaining Antonioni film, and a stunningly beautiful photographic display. * tiful photographic display. **** Double Indemnity and The Blue Dahlia (Angell Aud A, 7:00 and 9:00, respectively) Two films in the Ray- mond Chandler series--both are great. **** EVENTS South Africa--The forum on South African investments continues with Selby Semela, former treasurer of the South African Student Move- ment, discussing current socio- economic conditions. Modern Lan- guages Building, Auditorium, 4, 4 p.m.A panel discussion on the same subject starts at 8 p.m. in the Rackham Lecture Hall. wednesday February 1 CINEMA Little Big Man (MLB 3, 7:00 and 9:30) Arthur Penn's flawed but thor- oughly enjoyable story of Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman), the lone survivor of the Little Big Horn massacre. 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