Soturday, November 6, 1976 ' . THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pog6 Three Saturday, November 6, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAIL~i' Pog. Three - I el igs... events and entertainment 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. thursday G I 1 t s f 2 t r r t : I A qlU- Tt;11S«- -4. T o_ 1A.'n I 1M1U11 VIlUlt: AULUll7 4The Killingat 0 0 . " Marathon Man - (Michigan) '&er's issii at I~i'U 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. nnrino o~ith r fu th kridi e e ..t nn I .._ .. ... -- lnJ '' en1le- CINEMA 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) TICKETS GO ON SALE OCT. 28 TWO SHOWS - 7:30 and 10 P.M. TICKETS $4:50. Available Cf f ice, (10 a.m. 5 p.m.), and both Discount Records. at Mich. Union Box Schoolkid's Rec rds Information i'63-1 107 j. .-.-.------- -__ s rim r r r i- ---- I i4 j i i r E i'i$ ,r ; i i. ' !; I, , 1 I k4 t ,i MGibert and III Suvanociety DIRECTORS NEEDED for Spring Production Persons interested in positions of Artistic Director, Music Director, or Set Designer should contact Joe Beitel Nov. 8. (761-3861) before iii ......: MAJOR EVENTS OFFICE PRESENTS Fri. Nov. 19 GO BLUES Hill Aud.-8 p.m. BittersweetLove -- (The Mo- Iand as suitata for te Lis as 'for adults. -(e vies, Briarwood) - A new filmf d at The Movie. about which I EVENTS' UL 111C IVIUVIV, aU U ~iy. 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 I Roosevel Sykes "the country blues J Y 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."~ I i I I A ~