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week of Nov.6-12
Iappenings film reviews are vide us with personalities of a Golden Falcon -
written by Christopher Potter. compelling interest, and the Latin jazz, 9:30.
_- -----=---- three protagonists dissected in Mr. Flood's Party
this film are perhaps the three Folk, 9:30.
most boring individuals this Pretzel Bell - RF
a . eekside of Leonid Brezhnev. Go Rubaiyat -- Celebr
watch the TV soapers instead - Second Chance -I
COMMERCIAL CINEMA for all their corniness, they
Norman, Is That You? - still provide more interest in .1
(Fifth Forum) - Comedy with: five minutes than do two hours
Redd Foxx and Pearl Bailey. of this stately, emotionally
Thus far the recipient of almost parched film. ** CINEMA
unanimously bad reviews, but Rosemary's Baby - (Ann Experimental Film
we'll have to see for ourselves. Arbor Film Co-op, MLB 3, 7 & ma II, Ang. Aud. A,
The Front - (Campus) - 9:30) - Roman Polanski's mas- A series of six sh
Woody Allen stars in this "ser- terly application of the art of none of which I'm far
ious" comedy about entertain- understatement carried to its; Simabaddha (The
ment blacklisting of the early scream - pitched perfection; (Cinema Guild, Arc
'50's. Is it supposed to be funny you can see this a dozen times & 9:05) - Part two
or tragic? Obviously the film's and still want to shout warning Ray's Calcutta Trilo
creators never made up their to Mia Farrow as the witches Goin' Down the Ro
minds, and we are left with a stalk her in New York City.- Arbor Film Co-op,
weak - kneed mouse of a film probably the textbook work of only) - A Canadi
that does little credit to either the horror medium. **** film, about two bud,
the witch-hunt victims of the , . the big city. Said t
time nor to the unremembering The Killing and Killer's Kiss tebgct.Si
audiences of today. ** - (Ann Arbor Film Co-op MLB good.
Man (mete An3tnin
Melodioso,
- Country,
D Boys, 10.
ration, 9.
Blaze, 9:30.
of the semester. This 1927 film
by French director Abel Gance
lanquished for nearly half a
century, during which time it
was only shown in bits and
pieces. Here it is at last in its
4 hour entirety, and, believe
it or not, complete with a dia-
logue sound track and addition-
ally - shot footage, recently as-
sembled by the still-living
Gance.'
as - (Cine. Despite its forbidding length,
8 only) -- Bonaparte has been well - re-
ort works, ceived at various festivals, and
miliar with. should provide a fascinating
Target) - study as to whether sound and
h. Aud., 7 words can be effectively blend-
of Satyajit ed into an art form which was
gy. originally structured on com-
ad - (Ann pensating for the loss of that
MLB 4, 7 sound.
an "road" World of Apu - (Cinema
dies off to Guild, Arch Aud., 7 & 9:05) -
o be quite The final segment of Satyajit
Ray's famed Apu trilogy.
e - (Ann EVENTS
Schrader falter slightly in the
film's questionable, ambiguous
climax, but Taxi Driver's first
nine-tenths constitutes per-
haps the closest thing to a per-
fect film that I have ever seen.
EVENTS
Camelot -- Musket, M&M,
Mendelssohn Theatre, 8 p.m.
Contemporary Music Festival
-- Music School: Hill Aud., 8
p.m.
Tower of Babel -- opera, wrjt-
ten locally: First Presbyterian
Church, 1432 Washtenaw, 8 p.m.
BARS
Blind Pig t- Benson - Drelles;
Quartet, 9:30.
Casa Nova - Mustard's Re-
treat, folk, 9.
Mr. Flood's Party - Mueller
Bros., 9:30.
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JMarahohnShlsnger's(Mude K r -Arbor Film Co-op, MLB 4, 9 Music at Midday - Pe
- Jhn Schlesingers muddled Killonly) - Another import from ton Rm. Union 2nd flr.,n
thriller about an ex-Nazi dentist The rarely - shown first two;up North this one about a Jean Dennison, soprano.
(Laurence Olivier) stalking a works of Stanlev Kubrick. I ytung man's life and loves in Don't Bother Me, IC
Columbia grad student (Dustin haven't seen either of these. Quebec. Cone -- PTP, Power Ctr., 9
Hoffman) over the possibility of Pat and Mike - (Cinema EVENTS Rackham Trio -
a stolen fortune. The film has Guild, Arch. And., 7 & 9:05) - Camelot - Musket & M&M, School, Rackham Aud., 8
some exciting, well - paced Story of a female sunerjock Mendelssohn Theatre, 2, 8 p.m. Works by Beethoven, Moza
sequences, but much of' the (Katherine Henbirn) whoin-t Taming of the Shrew - PTP BARS
time is almost incomnrehen- advertently bet constantly with the Young Vic, Power Ctr., Golden Falcon - Root,
sible plotwise: surprisingly, 9:br3ises the ego of her coach and;2,80.
things are dragged down further mentor (Spencer Tracy). A lot Ruth Laredo - University Mr. Flood's Party -
by Olivier's bug-eyed, Col. of funnv moments, but the film Musical Society, piano concert, Glatz, 9:30. -
Klink-ish internretation of the as a whole seems a trifle un-Rackham Aud., 2:30. Second Chance - Jessie
evil dentist.**%f comfortable - perhaps because Bandorama - Music School, dy, 9:30.
Alice in Wonderland - (Fox Tracy was aging so rapidly at Hilad.ram
Village) - A soft-core x ver- the time that the immortal duo i Aud., 2 p.m.
sion of the Carroll classic, and sm somehow mismatched. Del Rio BJzARS to 9. w ednesGa
a total waste of time. Save your Golden Falcon - Benson and
money for the Art I. BOMB. Three Days of the Condor - Drelles, jazz quartet, 9:30. CINEMA
Swept Away - (The Movies, (Mediatrics, Nat. Sci. And., 7 Mr. Flood's Party - Madcat The Silence - (Cinema G
Briarwood) - ena Wertmul- & 9:45) - An obscure CIA de- and thq Marnga Band, 9:30. Arch. Aud., 7 & 9:05) -
ler's sex-class warfare fantasy coder in New York City inno- Second Chance - Junior third film in Ingmar Bergi
of two mismatched souls strand- cently uncovers a Middle East Walker and the Allstars, and "Silence of God" trilogy,
ed on a desert island. Mostly code, and is subsequently hurl- Masciuerade, 9:30. one of the best he has
extraordinary. ***% ed into terror when his six co- Old Heidelberg - Dick Pin- I made. The story of two si
The Ritz - (Michigan) workers are gunned down-- ney, Mustard's Retreat, and and a small child wand
Richard Lester's film version apparently by other CIA opera- Cabaret night with local mu- through a large city in a n,
of the Terrence McNally com- tines. The film's murky politi- sicians, poets, mimists, magi- less country is one of thei
edy about a Cleveland garbage cal angle comes across as a cians, comedians, dancers and haunting cinematic excur
man who hides out in a gay warmed - over version of The - squids? Yes, that's what it I've ever seen. Most memo
New York bath house in order Conversation, and a prenoster- says - at 9. acrobats and the tank gri
to escape his murderous Mafio- ous romantic subplot further j almost soundlessly but sinis
so brother-in-law. About half g;ms Ri the proceedings: bt through the deserted
Iwhen it concentrates on its '' Qa
of it is deadly, but the other sstreets in the dead of n
half contains enough really hy- thriller aspects, Condor is a '****
sterical gags to make it 'orth generally superior product. Rob- CINEMA Taxi Driver - (Ann A
the price of admission. **% ert Redford proves sufficiently Phaedra - (Ann Arbor Film Film Co-op, Ang. Aud. A,
Burnt Offerings - (The Mo- harried and inventive as the Co-op, MLB 3, 7 only) - A 9) - The best American fil
vies, Briarwood) - The latest h"i"+t hero. *!1960's updating of Euripides' at least a decade, Taxi D
monster epic of the formerly Th- "velve Chairs - Couz- tragedy, with Melina Mercouri is an absolutely stunning to
great Bette Davis, as she and ens , ('o-op, Couzens Cafe- and a reportedly undernourish- force about a young loner
nice Karen Black and nice Oliv- teria. R & 10) - A trio of con- ed Anthony Perkins as the in- becomes a midnight-shift
er Reed are 'terrorized in the men (Ron Moody, Frank Lang- cestuous lovers. bie in New York City.E
proverbial Old Dark Mansion ella and Dom De Luise) scram- Borsalino - (Ann Arbor tionally and communicat
Fame, thou are a' fleeting com- ble across 1920's Ruassia in Dur- Film Co-op, MLB 3; 9 only) - crippled to begin with, he
modity . . . suit of 12 dining room chairs- Jean - Paul Belmondo and Alain as a kind of silent Greekc
Silent ,Movie - (The Movies, one of which contains a fortune Delon go at each others' throats us to the horrors of the big
Briarwood) - Mel Brooks' one- in hidden gems. Mel Brooks' in this recent French tribute to1- gliding his taxi down
word-only film may appear a most everlooked comedy is also Bogie and the gangsters. garish - lit streets, witnes
parody of the silent genre, bt his best - it contains his most - EVENTS squalor and atrocities that
really ,isn't at all; it's a full- cohesive plot, his most controll- Music School - "Meet the Com- ther he - nor anyone els
fledged member in good stand- ed direction and an almost to- poser, John Eaton": Cady Rm., possesses the apparent pow
ing f the wordless art, ready to tal lack of the gross overreach- Stearns Bldg., 8 p.m. alter. The tragic combinati
take its place beside the best g for laughs Present i most BARS sensitivity and helples
works of Keaton, Chaplin and of Brooks' other work. This Blind Pig - Boogie-Woogie grind and wither him unt
the other geniuses of the field, sn't to say that The Twelve Red, 9:30. is finally twisted into a3
to which Brooks' name must Chairs is a nale entry - it's Golden Falcon - V-II-I, jazz, derous, self-styled avengin
certainly now be added. Mas- hilarious. This is one of the 9:30. gel bent on purging the ci
terfully hilarious. **** prime comedies of the '70's, Mr. Flood's Party - Fred its vipers.
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noon. Cries and Whispers - (Ann
Can't Arbor Film Co-op, Ang. Aud. A,
P.M. 7 & 10:30) - Ingmar Bergman's
Music psychological study of three sis-
p.m. ters and their servant girl pitted
art. variously against each other
amidst the trappings of an iso-
jazz, r lated summer estate. This opus
has been hailed by many critics'
Eric as the Swedish director's su-
preme achievement, but from
Bra- my perspective Cries and Whis-
pers is a thoroughly pretentious
bore. Overwritten, floridly direc-
ted, poorly acted (save Harriet
Y Andersson as the dying sister),:
the film comes across to me as
almost a parody of Bergman's
Guild other work. It gropes so fran-'
The' tically for the profound andG
man's suiblime, but strikes me as noth-j
and; ing so much as the ' outward
ever show of a great director run-
isters ning scared, trumpeting that
ering greatness to a public which had
ame- alreadv acknowledged it long
most ago. **
rsions The Touch - (Ann Arbor
rable Film Co-op, Ang. Aud. A, 8:45
inding only) Bergman's 1971 film about
sterly a seemingly content upper-mid-
city die - class Swedish wife (Bibi
night. Andersson) who finds herself
drawn hypnotically into an af-
Arbor fair with an egocentric, emo-
7 & tionally dependent Americans
ilm in visitor (Elliott Gould). Critics
river generally, sneered at the pic-
ur de ture, and lambasted Gould so
who unmercifully that his career
cab- went into temporary eclipse;
Emo- but actually, Gould draws an
ively arresting portrait of a brilliant
acts but immature man - child, and
chor- nicely compliments this inter-
city esting cinematic study of the,
the complexities of human relation-
ss to ships. The Touch is perhaps a
t nei- minor Bergman effort, but still'
se - contains more richness and;
ver to subtlety than anything in the
on of inflated lard of Cries and Whis-
sness pers. It also presents a glorious
til he performance by Andersson, who
mur- defines the hangups and pres-
g an. sures of the Modern Woman
ty of better than any of the recent
"relevant" films this side ofI
nt in the Atlantic. ***
Driv- Planet of the Apes - (Cine-
ector ma Guild, Arch. Aud., 7 & 9:05)
com- --The original ape epic, and if
zling you haven't seen it for a while,
leads certainly worth seeing again.
ellini- This first of the series was in-
found tended as a strictly one-shot
eaves deal; and if it suffers from not
about knowing whether it's either
f us. straight sci-fi or a satirical al-
Paul legory, Planet of the Apes is
still immeasurably superior to
its lame - brained successors,+
which paraded themselves ina
debasing pageant of ongoing:
self-camp. Charlton Heston's
which paraded themselves in a
film, Rod Serling's tight, liter-
ate script and the Shakespeares
of the makeup department help:
to make this perhaps the bestI
offering in Cinema Guild's most-
welcome Thursday Sci-fi series.:
Animal Farm - (People's
Bicentennial Commission, Nat.
Sci. Aud., 7 & 9) - Superb ani-
mated version of the Orwell
novel. It may be a bit cultural-
ly jarring to watch all these
Disney - type characters behav-
ing in a dead - serious, mur-
derous fashion, but it's a ter-
rifically absorbing film once
one adjust to it. ****
EVENTS
The Bald Soprano - Studio
Theatre Series, Arena Theatre,
Frieze Bldg,, 4 p.m.
Camelot - Musket and M&M,
Mendelssohn Theatre, 8 p.m.
Pendleton "Open Hearth" Ser-
ies - Paul Stewart. "Print-
making": 2nd flr., Mich. Union,
noon.
English Baroque Music in
Court and Country - School of
Music Recital Hall, 8 p.m., Col-
legium Misicuim.
University Philharmonia -
Hill Aud., 8 p.m.
The Tower of Babel - opera,
see Wed. Events.
BARS
Casa Nova - Mustard's Re-
treat, 9.
Golden Falcon - Silvertones,
9:30.
Mr. Flood's Party - Mueller
Bros., 9:30.
Second Chance - Whiz Kids,
9:30.
fr~dayf
CINEMA
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest - (Ann Arbor Film Co-op,
MLB 3 at 7 & 9:15, MLB at
8 & 10:15), The first film in over
forty years to sweep all the ma-
jor Oscars; but still just not as
good as it should have been. Di-
rector Milos Forman opts for
caricature insteads of pathos in
his disturbed inmates, plays for
the easy laugh over the grim
undertones of Kesey's . novel,
and alter the ending just enough
so that McMurphy's ultimate
sacrifice seems less a liberating
martyrdom than a deluded act Double Feature - (Cinema
of self-destruction. Guild, Arch. Aud., It's a Gift
Cuckoo's Nest is technically.(Fields) at 7 only, Goin' to
superb and splendidly acted, but Town (West) at 9:05 only)
Forman's consistent insensitiv- The inimitable duo, appearing
ity toward his material and here separately (which is prob-
characters (an element present ably a good thing). I've never
to varying degree in all this di- seen either film.
rector's work) transforis a po- The Story of Adele H.-(Cine-
tentially brilliant film into a ma II, Ang. Aud. A, 7 & 9) -
competent but eventually de- Francois Truffaut's study of
pressing exercise. **% Victor Hugo's daughter and her
W. C. Fields and Mae West4 (Continued on Page 8)
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MAJOR EVENTS OFFICE PRESENTS
Fri. Nov. 19
GO BLUES
Hill Aud.-8 p.m.
BittersweetLove -- (The Mo- Iand as suitata for te Lis as
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at The Movie. about which I EVENTS'
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know absolutely nothing.
Saturday
CINEMA
Sunday, Bloody Sunday -
(Cinema II, Ang. Aud. A, 7 & 9)
- A widely - praised British
film about a civilized but tor-
tuous three - way relationship
between a writer (Glenda Jack-
son), a homosexual doctor (Pet-
er Finch) and a young artist
(Murray Head) who carries on
a simultaneous affair with
both - each with the other's,
knowledge. The reviewers lav-
ished accolades on this flick -
perhaps because fellow - critic'
Penelope Gilliett happened to
write the screenplay; but I
found the whole exercise a
thoroughgoing bloody, bloody
bore. I'm normally an addict
for films which accentuate char-
acter study, even if it's at the
occasional exnense of action.
But any such focusing must pro-
Oedipus the King - PTP
with the Young Vic; 8:30 p.m.
in the Power Center.
Guarneri Quartet - Univer-
sity Musical Society, Rackham
And., 8:30 p.m.
Thad Jones / Mel Lewis -
Eclipse Jazz, League Ballroom,,
7:30, 10:30.]
Chinese Acrobats - Univer-
sity Musical Society, Hill Aud.,
8:30.
London Eurythmy Groun
Arithroponsophical Student Assoc.
sponsors an evening of eury-
thmy in the Trueblood Theatre,
8 p.m.
University Club - Roots jazz
trio. Michiaan Union, 8:30.
Children's fair and open house
-Pound House Children's Ctr.,
enmes, songs, magician; 1024
Hill St.. 1-4 p.m.
Camelot - Musket and M&M,
Mendelssohn Theatre, 2, 8.
BARS3
Bimbo's - Gaslighters, rag-
time. 8.
Blind Pig - Cynergy, 9:30.
Small, 9:30. 1Robert DeNiro is brillia
Second Chance - General the cabbie's role, but Taxi
George, 9:30. er belongs utterly to dir
Martin Scorcese. Blending
passionate rage with daz
technical style, Scorcese3
CINEMA 11the viewer through a Fe
CINEMA esque vision of Hell so prof
Bonaparte and the Revolu- and terrifying that one le
tion - (Ann Arbor Film Co-op, the theater feeling doubt
Ang. Aud. A, 7:30 only) - the salvation of any of
Probably the most unusual treat' Scorcese and screenwriter
WWI
ANN AUIIL [E LM CC-0p
TONIGHT in MLB!
ROMAN POLANSKi Saturday, Nov. 6
ROSEMARY'S BABY
(Roman Polansk 1968) MLB 3-7 & 9:30
Forerunner of the Excrcist, The Omen, The Abby and the whole
Devil worship genre. Rosemary's Baby, in the hands of the master
of macabre Roman Polanski, remains one of the most horrifying
documents of justified paranoia ever filmed. Did Mia Farrow
really become pregnant at a Satanacal Orgy or was it a gruesome
nightmare? In Polanski's cinema of mood,' one answer is as
frightening as the other. with John Cassavettes, Ruth Gordon
and Sidney fiaehmer.
STANLEY KUBRICK'S
THE KILLING
(Stanlev Kubrick. 1956) MLB 4-7 & 10:30
Two very rare films. The Killing and The Killers Kiss show
Kubrick's style in its developmental stage-his meticulous tech-
nique, driving narrative ability and montage skills are in full
evidence in these fast-oaced crime-thrillers.
THE KILLING, tubrick's third feature is a quickly paced tale
of theft and deceit. The brilliance of its construction, the precise
working out of the racetrack robbery sequence and the way in
which events are integrated into the suspense by audacious and
ingenious flashback techniques alerted critics to 28-year-old Ku-
brick's limitless potential. "Young Kubrick has more imagination
with dialogue and camera than Hollywood has seen since the
obstreperous Orson wells went riding out of town."-Time. Sterling
Hayden. Elijah Cook. Vince Edwards.
HEPBURN & TRACY in 1952
PAT AND MIKE
"Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy played together so expertly in
PAT AND MIKE that some of their previous films seemed almost like
warm-ups. It's the most pleasant of the Hepburn-Tracy comedies."
-Pauline Kael.
Hepburn is a professional super athlete who takes Tracy on as her
trainer and manager and winds up dealing with the mob. One of George
Cukor's best comedies. Short: WHAT'S OPERA DOC? (Chuck Jones
animation).
SUN.: Ray's SIMA BAPPHA
CIN EMA' G U I LD TONIGHT AT OLD ARCH. AUD.
7:00 & 9:05 Admission $1.25
JOHN SCH LESINGER'S 1971
S UNDAY, BLOODY, SUN DAY
John Schlesinger says of his film, "Anyone who has ever had an un-
satisfactory emotional relationship and doesn't know how to end it,
anyone who wants to get out of something painful without hurting
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Sykes
"the country blues
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pa ace"
Dawki ns
"his guitar drives a metallic
spike through,- your consci-
ousness."-DOWNBEA T
the legendary
Otis
Rush
anyone who has seen him
play will testify to his brilli-
ance ... he simply leans back
and plays the blues."~
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