Saturday, February 7, 1976
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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COMMERCIAL CINEMA
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest - (The Movies, Briar-
wood) - This long-awaited film
emerges as an earnest, osten-
sibly faithful re-creation of the
novel, but somehow manages tc
reverse the book's philosophical
point almost entirely. Jack Ni-
cholson is certainly the ideal R.
P. McMurphy, and Louise
Fletcher creates a Big Nurse
much subtler and, in the pro-
cess, more terrifying than that
in Ken Kesey's original. But di-
rector Milos Forman has alter
ed the ending ever so slightly,
so that now McMurphy's final
tragic act seems less a liberat-
ing martyrdom than a deluded
act of self-destruction. True,
Broom still escapes, but no one
else is saved, the patients'
ward remains the same, and
The Big Nurse's dominance
seems as strong at the end as
at the beginning. Forman seems
to be saying, "No, you can't
beat the System" - an absolute
negation of Kesey's redemption-
of-freedom theme. As such, this
may be one of the most depress-
ing films ever made. ***
A Boy and His Dog (Fifth
Forum) - A dreadful piece of
film that's billed as "kinky" be-
cause the distributors knew they
couldn't attract an audience
based on the flick's merit. Not
so much kinky or even sexy as
just plain ridiculous. The movie
presents a post-2000 world view
in which dogs apparently are
smarter than their masters.
"Why Jason Robards bothered
with this trash?" and "How
do I get my money back?" are
the only questions A Boy and
His Dog provokes. *
Barry Lyndon - (The Movies,
Briarwood) - Stanley Kubrick
takes four years between films,
and unfortunately this one isn't
worth the wait. After making
three brilliant films in a row
that take place in the future,
Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space
Odyssey, and A Clockwork Or-
ange, Kubrick's latest effort
has regressed both in time and
quality. Lyndon's weaknesses
are apparent from the outset-
a badly miscast Ryan O'Neal
in the lead, and a plot that lags
excessively. This is not to say
that Lyndon is awful; it isn't.
Kubrick's cinematography is
magnificent and the supporting
actors help keep the film afloat.
**
The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes's Smarter Brother -
(State) - Gene Wilder has en-
listed the entire Mel Brooks
troupe for this unsuccessful
film. The movie just goes to
show that comedy is not Gene
Wilder without a script, Made-
line Kahn without a German
accent, and Marty Feldman
with only a pair of bulging eyes.
BOMB,
The Hindenburg - (The Mov-
ies, Briarwood) - George C.
Scott stars in yet another dis-
aster film. This movie could
have been really good, but the
director attempted to make a
serious dramatic work with
Scott cast as the man of the
hour. The film culminates with
the destruction of the Hinden-
burg, which means there will
not be a sequel-schucks. *
The Sunshine Boys - (The
Movies, Briarwood) - Two fa-
mous vaudvillians (Walter Mat-
thau and George Burns) are re-
united to do a TV skit after
years of not speaking to each
other. Neil Simon's fling at Che-
kovian pathos just doesn't work
at all - it's offensive when it's
trying to be funny (the endless
gags about the comedians' sen-
ility), and dull when it's trying
to be serious. (After Matthau
has suffered a heart attack,
Burns muses: "When he yelled
at me onstage, he got a mil-
lion laughs - when he yelled
at me offstage, he got a heart
attack". Obviously this line is
supposed to have some deep
philosophic content, but I am
unable to decipher what it is).
As the more acerbic member
of the duo, Matthau grossly ov-
erplays his part, but the age-
less Burns brings just the right
touch of dignity to his gentler
role -the only real class in
this unpleasantly overblown sit-
uation comedy. **
Dog Day Afternoon - (Fox
Village) - Al Pacino sustains
this often funny, sometimes
brilliant film. The story deals
with an actual bungled bank
robbery that took place a couple'
years back in New York. In the
end of the film, Pacino is ar-
rested and thrown in jail. Per-
haps he should have enlisted j
the aid of Marlon Brando. ****
Romeo and Juliet - (Michi-
gan) - Shakespeare purists
howled with rage when Franco
Zefferelli's film was released:
Imagine, having 15 and .17 year
old kids playing the parts of 15'
and 17 year old kids! Well,
here's one instance where thel
public has it all over the elit-
ists; Romeo and Juliet is the
greatest love story to date on i
film, something millions of mov- 1
iegoers know even if most pro-t
fessionals don't. *
The Man Who Would Be King1
--(Michigan) - This Kipling ad-1
venture story receives a good,
but not monumental treatment.E
Directed by John Huston andz
starring Sean Connery and Mich-<
el Caine, the film is an absorb-t
ing tale about a couple of cock-E
neys living in 19th Century In-
dia who travel to Turkey in the
hopes of gaining political pow-
er.***a
ably the most enduring popular cover. Loma Linda - JB & Com-
film of the 1960's. David Lean's Loma Linda - Mixed Bag, pany, 9:30, no cover.
Russian Revolution epic gets jazz, 9:30, no cover. Mr. Flood's Party - Catfish
pretty gloppy in the later stages Rubaiyat - Open Road, top Miller, jug band blues, 9:30, no
as Yuri pens poetry while Lara 40's, 9, no cover. cover.
worries about wolves, but is for
the most part irresistable. Try
not to concentrate on Omar
Sharif's doe-eyes and Julie
Christie's pouts, but instead CINEMA CINEMA
groove on the splendid support- The Sorrow and the Pity - Harold Lloyd Films - (Cine-
ing cast. ** (Cinema II, Angell Aud. A, 7 ma Guild, Arch. Aud., 7 only)
Paper Chase - (Matrix, 7 & only) - Marcel Ophuls' gargan- - Collection of works by the
9:30) - Chronicle of a Harvard tuan documentary on occupied man generally ranked withj
law student's first year makes France during World War II. Chaplin and Keaton as theI
a pleasant but not very drama- The film has been banned in greatest of the silent come-
tic film. It's notable for John France since its release and dians, although to this writer's
Houseman's Oscar-winning film I nti ttiindP.r,,.,A eve Llonever annroached the
it's not difict t.o de staU.' d ey Lod eeraprac te
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9:30) - See Saturday Cinema.
EVENTS
Jonathan Kozol - Future
Worlds presents the educator,
speaking on "Alternative Use of
Education". Hill Aud., 3 p.m.
Sam Hamod - poetry reading
at the Pendleton Rm. in the Un-
ion. 4:10 p.m.
Birth and Death of a Star
This and two other films at 8
p.m., MLB Aud. 3, courtesy of
the Astronomical Film Festival.
BARS
Blind Pig - Jack Orion, jazz,I
9:30, $1.
Mr. Flood's Party - Gemini,
folksy blues, 9:30, no cover.
Loma Linda - JB & Com-
pany, 9:30, no cover.
Chances Are - Sky King,
rock, 9, $1 to $1.50.
!wednesday
CINEMA
Zardoz - (Ann Arbor Film
Co-op, Ang. Aud. A, 7 only) -
John Boorman's tongue-in-cheek
sci-fi thriller was then taken
very seriously (and angrily) by
a lot of film critics, feministsf
and philosophy majors when it America. Probably the best of
debued a couple of years back. all the recent "road" films -
Don't sweat it folks; Zardoz Paul Mazursky's script flirts
makes no pretensions toward with but never slips into the
anything but escapism - and mawkish sentimentality often
succeeds pretty admirably. In j inherent in films of this kind.
the lead role, Sean Connery Harry is a tough old coot, and
lurches around hilariously as a the movie reflects his nature.
sort of space-age Conan the Art Carney gives the perform-
Barbarian. *** ance of his life as Harry, and
The Private Life of Sherlock richly deserved his subsequent-
Holmes - (Ann Arbor Film Co- 1y unexpected Academy Award.
op, Ang. Aud. A, 9:15 only) - Ha lm (
One of a series of "lost films" HIrold Lloyd Films - (Cine-
- pictures recently made but ma Guild, Arch. Aud., only) -
then promptly forgotten by the See Tuesday Cinema.
critics, film distributors and the Illicit (Summer) Interlude
public. An admirable resurrec- (Cinema Guild, 9:05 only) -
tion project, but in the case of Early Ingmar Bergman film
P r i v a t e L i f e of Sherlock that stylistically helped pave
Holmes, this bland, pseudo-hip the way for his more mature
Billy Wilder version of the sup- later efforts.
ersleuth definitely deserves the EVENTS
obscurity in which it has justly U PI-'yers Studio Theater -
languished. * "The Creation, Disobedience,
Harry and Tonto - (Matrix, and Fall of Man and the De-
7 & 9:30) - An elderly man is lIge". Quite a tall order. Arena
ousted from his New York Theater, Frieze Bldg. 4:10 p.m.
apartment by a housing project. BARS
He rejects living with his chil- Bli*d Pig - Friends Road-
dren and decides to take off show, comedy, 9:30, $1.
cross-country with his loyal cat Chinces Are - Sky King,
to see what's happening in See HAPPENINGS, Page 4
debut as a brilliant, icily im-
personal law prof, but there's
little else that's memorable. A
certified campus "cult" film,
however, so you may end up en-
joying it. **
Carnal Knowledge - (Couz-
ens Cafeteria, 8 & 10) - The
famous Mike Nichols - Jules
Feiffer film about American
makes hung up in eternal ado-
lescence over the opposite sex.
The movie structures itself
pretty much like a Feiffer com-
ic strip, with most scenes con-
fined to two-person dialogues or
one-person monologues-a tech-
nique rarely used in American
films but very effective here.
However one regards its philo-
soohic premise, Carnal Knowl-
edge is richly entertaining and
comic, bolstered by Jack Ni-
cholson in his best performance
(tvnsecast, perhaps), and an
exhilirating supporting cast.
why - it emerges as a terrify-
ing indictment of French col-
laboration with the invading Na-
zis, and implies thattheir coun-
try was done in as much by
their own deceit and inaction as
by the German armies. At four
hours-plus, Sorrow demands
considerable stamina from itsi
audience, but is a harrowing,,
involving experience once you
I get into it. ****
Jonathan - Cinema Guild, 7
& 9:05) - Horror film billed as
genius of the other two. A fun-
ny set of films nonetheless. *** l
Red River - (Cinema Guild
Arch. Aud., 9:05) - Howard
Hawkes' great film of the lives
of a cattleman and his adopted
son. As the years pass, theirE
relationship evolves from love
into bitter emnity during the
course of a huge cattle drive
west. John Wayne delivers his{
greatest performance as the
father and Montgomery Clift is
equally good as his son-turned-
CINEMA
Dial M For Murder - (Cine-
ma Guild, Arch. Aud., 7 & 9:05)
- Evil husband arranges to:
have his wife murdered, and
subsequently manipulates the
unexpected results to his ad-
vantage. Unusually talky Hitch-
cock film bertays its stage play
origins, but remains a reason-
ably engrossing thriller. Ray
Milland and Grace Kelly apply
just the right touch to the un-
blissful couple, and Robert
Cummings is only intermittent-
ly ridiculous as Kelly's boy-
friend. ***
Scenes From a Marriage -
(Cinema II, Ang. Aud. A, 7 &1
10) - A three-hour condensa-
tion of Ingmar Bergman's six
one-hour films detailing various.
stages of an upper-middle class}
marriage. Originally made for
Swedish television, Marriage
chronicles the relationship of a
seemingly model couple (Liv
Ullman and Erland Josephson),
gradually exacerbating into bit-
terness and eventually divorce,
concluding with a vague, very
temporary reconciliation. Mar-
riage is in many ways the most
mature study of human interac-
tion yet seen on film, but suf-
fers from a curiously remote
quality that makes it hard to
get overly involved in it. And a
personal observation: The film
should have more visual sex. I
mean that seriously - it is
glaringly absent from a film'
which purports to treat all sides
of a marriage evenhandedly.
Obviously there were unavoid-
able TV restrictions involving!
anything overt, but still, the
sight of a supposedly worldly
couple bundled up to the chin
even in bed is jarring out of
kilter with the verbal sophisti-
cation displayed throughout. I
think it seriously damages the
film's integrity. ***
Murder on the Orient Express
- Mediatrics, Nat. Sci., Aud., 7
& 9:15)-Sidney Lumet's block-'
buster films from the Agatha
Christie whodunnit contains an
interesting premise for mur-
der and an unexpected solution.
But what, oh paying customer,
can be so fascinating about a
dozen or so dull, WASP-ish rich
people sitting on a stalled train
talking incessantly for more
than two hours? The most over-
rated film of 1974. **
Doctor Zhivago - (New
World, MLB 3, 8 only) - Prob-
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EVENTS
The Way of the World - The
Acting Comnanv in their final
nroduction for the city of Ann
Arbor. Congreve's classic Res-
toration niece - and judinga
from their past efforts, nrobab-
lv excellent. $3. $4 50, $5.50, $6
and $7. Power Center. 8 pm.
BARS
Ark - Patl Geremia and Bob
White, folk, 8:30, $2.50.
Bimbo's - Gaslibters. rae-1
time singalong, 6-1:30, 50c af-
ter 8.
Mr. Flood's Party - Jaw-
bon'e. coluntrv, 9:30, $1.50.
Blind Pm - Cory Sea QO'ar-
tet. ia77, 9.30, $1.
Chnces Are - Chnnner, rock,
8. $2 to SI 50.
Sra' Taing - Stone Bridge,
"the first anti-fascist vampire rival-both of which help make
movie". That's a relief. Red River a reasonable choice
Paper Chase - (Matrix, 7 & for the best Western ever made.
9:30) - See Saturday Cinema. ***
EVENTS 2001: A Smace Odyssey -
The Way of the World - The (Ann Arbor Film Co-on, Ang.
Acting Company takes their Aud. A, 7 & 9:30) - Stanlev Ku-
final bow for Ann Arbor this brick's Outer Snace Genesis
year, in Congreve's sly, witty IT is, among many other things,
little number. You'll just love one of the most completely per-
it. $3, $4.50, $5.50, $6 and $7. sonaliz7d works in all of cine-
Power, 3 and 8 pm. ma. A maddeningly cryptic
Trombone Choir - Music film, the merits of which will
School, SM Recital Hall. At 2:30 nrobhlv be debated forever -
p.m. nerhans not even a good film,
BARS b'ut certainly an incredible one.
Mr. Flood's Party - Grievous This is a movie which has to
Angels, country, 9:30, 75c. he seen more than once - al-
Del Rio - Jazz, 5, no cover. thouugh most of von doubtless
Loma Linda - Mixed Bag, have seen it at least half a doz-
jazz, 9:30, no cover. en times. ***
Chances Are - Windjammer, Paner Chase - (Matrix, 7 &
rock, 9, $1 to $1.50. f=~c
Sure Thing - Stone Bridge,
rock, 9, no cover. r FEB 14IS
9:0 on a VALENTINE DAY
CINEMA
Paper Chase - Matrix, 7 & Remember Someone
9:30- See Saturday Cinema. i
EVENTS'VALENTINE
The Romeros - Guitarists,
brought to you by the musical GREETINGS'
society. Power Center, 8 p.m.
BARS
Blind Pig - Boogie Woogie DEADLINE: NOON
Red, blues, 9:30, $1. FRI., FEB. 13
I Golden Falcon - Silvertones,, 0
blues, 9, $1. !
Sure Thing - Stone Bridge, Specl Rates
rock, 9, no cover.SR
Chances Are - Mojo Boogie Sorry No Phone Orders
Band, rock, 9, $1 to $1.50. -
roctk. 9. $.
Golden. eon - Melodioso,
in" 9, -1.
P-it el PPll - RFD Boys,.
bll yramS 10. $1.50.
Cra Nova - Him and T, 9. no
cover.
Heidelberg - Sorgenbrecher,
German band, 9:30, no cover.
Heidelberg Rathskeller -
M istard's Retreat, folk, 9:30, no
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Featuring this week ... Thi
Dine, dance, drink, and be merry.
That's the old-style tradition that Fritz
Kochendorfer's Heidelberg has been offering
Ann Arbor diners and revelers for 15 years.
A favorite gathering place for the city's Ger-
man community. The Heidelberg is a pleasant
escape from the impersonality of fast fooddom
to the quaintness and comfort of a Bavarian
country inn.
The original alpine murals, woodcarvings,
live German music and, of course, palate
pleasing German specialties are authentic re-
minders of old Europe. And for those people
with more colonial than continental tastes,
the Heidelberg serves a tempting variety of
American cuisine.
As a master butcher, Fritz knows his food.
And the Heidelberg serves only the finest cuts
of meat. The mouth-watering Wiener schnitzel,
breaded veal, is carefully prepared to meet
every specification of Fritz's special recipe.
Sausage lovers will have a hard time choos-
ing between the Heidelberg's own hearty help-
ing of knackwurst made from a tasty blend
of beef and spices, and bratwurst made from
tender young veal. The Heidelberg's special
.dishof rouladen and sauerbraten combines
the best German beef preparations. Rouladen
is roast sirloin of beef rolled around bacon,.
swiss cheese and spices, then lightly sauteed
and baked. Sauerbraten, which is served with
red cabbage and light potato pancakes, is
roast beef marinated in wine, vinegar and
spices. And you can also try the kassler ripp-
chen, two smoked pork chops, or fried German
meat patties served piping hot with onions
and just the right combination of savory
spices.
The hearty meal also includes a choice of
German or French friend potatoes, German
e Old Heidelberg
potato salad, mashed potatoes, or spatzen-
German potato noodles topped with a special,
smooth and rich gravy. And there is also a
choice of farm-fresh vegetables, cole slaw,
jello, or tossed salad. And, of course, every
dinner includes a selection of German rolls,
crackers, bread sticks and sweet dairy butter.
For the tireless eater who always has room
for dessert, the Heidelberg offers oven-fresh
apple strudel, ice cream, or delightful German
cheesecake topped with sour cream and a
choice of blueberry, strawberry, or cherry
fruit sauce.
Open from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Tuesday through
Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Sundays,
the Heidelberg is also a perfect place for the
luncheon crowd. The menu displays a com-
plete selection of sandwiches, salads, cold
plates and omlettes.
Its convenient location at 215 N. Main is
only a ten minute walk from campus and near
the heart of Ann Arbor's downtown business
district. So if you're just looking for a place
for quiet conversation with friends, compli-
mented by the best in American and Bavarian
spirits, the Hedelberg offers a complete wine
and beer list as well as specially blended
coffees combined with tasy liqueur.
The colorful ethnic flavor of Kochendorfer's
eatery is accented daily by the breezy sounds
of folk performers in the downstairs Rath-
skeller, and the rambunctious tones of Ger-
man dance bands every weekend. From 4 p.m.
to 6 p.m. on Tuesday through Friday, enjoy
the Heidelberg's two-for-the-price-of-one cock-
tail hour. And best of all, there's no cover
charge.
So whether it's good food, good times, rea-
The Rathskellar Bluegrass Band
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Daily did not include their local
address:
618S. MAIN ST., ANN ARBOR
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sonable prices or good service that
plan an evening at the Heidelberg
a taste of Old Bavaria.
suits you,
and grab
Diners enjoying the easy sound of Rathskellar
and the good food of the Heidelberg.
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Heidelbergo
Enjoy an intim
dining with the
of Rich Farner.
ate evening of fine
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