Saturday, February 28, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Saura, erury2, 96 HEMCHGNAIYPaeThe _no" ill g9se events and entertainment week of Feb. 28- March 5 all week i long ALL WEEK LONGj COMMERCIAL CINEMA The Man Who Would Be King - (Michigan) - John Huston'sE best film in years! A rollicking-; ly exciting Rudyard Kipling- based story of two British con- men (Michael Caine and Sean Connery) scheme their way into lordship over a small fictional kingdom north of India. Their ultimate fate follows the time- honored Huston wages-of-greed theme, but The Man Who Would Be King is fresh and multi-lev- eled: It's on the one hand a ter-rific adventure story and at! the same time a hilarious satire on Victorian British Imperial- ism at is worst (Watch the parallels to our own Cowboy- and-Indian syndrome). Connery and Caine perform as if these were the roles they'd been wait- ing to play all their lives, and Huston directs similarly - in- deed, he'd been wanting to make this film for a quarter of a century. Rest assured it was worth the wait. * Barry Lyndon- (The Movies, Briarwood) - Stanley Ku- brick's film from the Thacker- ay novel come across pretty much like folks have been say- ing: Huge, breathtakingly beau- tiful and absolutely bloodless. Oh, the-first hour or so lopes along interestingly enough, with duels, battles and the promise of greater things to come. But as the film sinks ever deeper! into stilted, costumed soap op- era and one realizes that noth- ing of further interest is forth- coming, the viewer has no al-' ternative other than to settle back and concentrate on the scenery - rather akin to stroll- ing through a gallery of Con- stable paintings, all gorgeous' but rather numbing after about the 400th entry. What an im- maculate, itemized waste. ** Oh! Calcutta! - (Fifth For- um) - Cinemazation (complete with laughtrack) of Jacques Levy's mostly - nude review that scandalized Broadway nearly seven (that's right, sev- en) years ago. A lot tamer by today's Deep Throat standards,! and that's probably a goodI thing - many of the show's! skits emerge as humorous and inventive minus the voyeuristicI sensationalism which tended to! obliterate its more basic tal-i ents. It's a generally breezy, I funny film whose occasional; lapses are more ofa sophomor-I ic than gross variety. *** I One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - (The Movies, Briar- wood) - This long-awaited film emerges as an earnst, os- tensibly faithful re-creation of! the novel, but somehow man-1 ages to reverse the book's phi- losophical point almost com-I pletely. Jack Nicholson is cer- tainly the ideal R. P. MMur-c phy, and Louise Fletcher cre- ates a Big Nurse much subtlert and in the process more terri-; fying than that in Ken Kesey'sI original. But director Milor I Forman has altered the ending his steed and save his commun-t ever so slightly, so that now ity from disaster. Based on the OlcMurphy's final tragic act best - selling porney -'satire ofI seems less a liberating martyr- the same name, Stranger may dom than a deluded action of not be much better than theI self-destruction. True, Chief average skin flick; but it is now Broom still escapes, but no 'one a certified cultural HappeningE else is saved, the patients' ward thanks to our moral guardian's remains the same, and the Big backfired manipulations. As Nurse's dominance seems as such, you should probably go-I strong at the end as at the be- if not for the film itself, then! ginning. Forman seems to' be simply for the glamor of the saying "No, you can't beat the event. ** system" - a direct negation The Three Muskateers - of Kesey's redemption of free- (Mediatrics, Nat. Sci. Aud.,, dom theme. As such, for admir- 7:30 & 9:30) - The first of Ri-I ers of the novel this may be chard Lester's two-part Dumasl one of the most depressing epic, and by far the weaker of films ever made. *** the two segments. Lester's de- The Sunshine Boys - (The cision to divide his film in half Movies, Briarwood) - Two fa- rather than over-condense itf mous ex-vaudevillians (Walter was probably a good decision boys, bluegrass, 10, $1.50. Ark - Bob Franke, folk, 8:30,1 Casa Nova - Him and I, folk-1 $2.50. rock, 9, no cover. Mr. Floods' Party - Bunny & Sure Thing - Purple Gang, Barb, folk, 9:30, 50c. rock, 9:30, $2. Sure Thing - Purple Gang, Rubaiyat - Open Road, top, rock, 9:30, $1., 40's, 9, no cover. sunday CINEMA Sunrise - (Cinema II, Ang. Aud. A, 7 only) - 1927 silent film, directed by F. W. Mur- nau. Presented as part ofthe Karl Struss Film Festival; Mr. Struss will make a personal ap- pearance following the film. Island of Lost Souls - (Cine- ma II, Ang. Aud., A, 9 only)- One of the original mad-scien- tist films, featuring Charles Laughton as a doctor on a re- mote island performing evil ex- periments that turn men into half-men (not what you're thinking, you dirty minds). Kind of crude and low-budget, but Struss's camera work is ex- citing and Laughton is wonder- fully hammy as the weird doc. Matthau and George Burns) are' reunited to do a TV skit after years of not speaking to each other. Neil Simon's fling at Chekovian pathos just doesn't work at all-it's offensive when it's trying: to be funny (the endless gags about the come- dians' senility), and inconse- quential when it's trying to be serious. (After Matthau has suf- artistically (and certainly com- mercially), but Part One inevit- ably suffers since most of the important action occurs in the last half of the novel. The re- sult is too many fight scenes ob- viously employed as a substi- tute for meaningful plot pro- gression, but a wonderfully off- beat cast keeps things alive reasonably well. ** Monday CINEMA The Fixer - (Project Com- mission, Ang. Aud. C, 7:30 only) -Film from the Malamud novel of a Russian Jew held prisoner without trial for years on a trumped-up murder charge. John Frankenheimer's direction is solid, workmanlike and ex- tremely unimaginative -a far' cry from his macabre stylistics of The Manchurian Candidate and Seconds. As the imprisoned handyman, Alan Bates is good but not great. ** Tommy - (Matrix, 7 & 9:30) - See Saturday Cinema. EVENTS Royal Tahitian Dancers - Musical Society again responsi- ble. Power Center, 8 pm. Tuba students recital - Come to the School of Music Recital Hall and watch the tubaists re- cite. 8 p.m. BARS Chances Are - Leslie West, 8, tickets $4.50. in advance, $5 at door. Golden Falcon - Silvertones, blues, 9:30, $1. Mr. Flood's Party - Eric Glatz, blues, 9:30, no cover. Loma Linda-JB & Company, 9:30, no cover. Sure Thing - Purple Gang, rock, 9:30. $1. Tommy - (Matrix, 7 & 9:30) - See Saturday Cinema. EVENTS Mass in B minor-Bach, per-' formed by the Chamber Choir. TheT CINEMA Whose The usicSchool's. bhr Triple Echo - (Ann Ar- Whose? The Music Schol.borFilm Co-op, Ang. Aud., A, Where? At HiB. 8 p.m. 17:15 only) - See Wednesday BARS.Cinema.a Mr. Flood's Party - Eric Women in Love - (Ann Arbor 1 Glatz, blues, 9:30, no cover.-. Film Co-op, Ang. Aud. A, 9 on-+ Loma Linda - JB & Com-I ly) - See Wednesday Cinema. pany, 9:30, no cover. ....... MASH - (New World, Nat. Chances Are - Street Fiction, Sci. Aud., 7 & 9:30) - Item: rock, 9, $1 to $1.50. an army doctor is aurally spied Blind Pig - Friends Road- upon by his fellow workers dur- show, comedy, 9:30, $1. ing lovemaking, and is subse- quently taunted so unmercifully; about it that he goes berserk and is carted off to a mental Sward. Yuk. Item: a disliked CINEMA nurse is publicly humiliated CINEMAwhen her shower curtain is de- The Triple Echo - (Ann Ar- liberately yanked and she is ex-. bor Film Co-op, Ang. Aud. A., posed to the rest of the medical 7 only) - Army deserter dis- corps, who have set up chairs guises himself as a woman, for the event - she goes into lives with farmer's wife. Star- hysterics. Haw. I skeptically ring Glenda Jackson and Oliv- await the day someone is able er Reed, but nonetheless a to- to define the intrisically humor- tally unknown film to this re- ous value of such scenes per- viewer. meating this leering, heartless Women in Love - (Ann Ar- excuse for a comedy; until bor Film Co-op, Ang. Aud. A, then, I will continue to view 9 only) - A film which seems MASH an an anti-war film that to get better and better as the makes one long to root for the years pass. Ken Russell's work generals. * may not stick too close to the King Kong - (Cinema Guild, D. H. Lawrence original, but in Arch. Aud., 7 & 9:05) - Almost' some ways transcends it; Rus- a half century later still the sell exhibits an amazingly in- greatest monster of them all, ventive, sensuous imagination beside which all the Gorgos and tempered for once by a thor- Godzillas look like pale puppets. ough director's control over his This is the recently spliced-to- material. As such, his picture gether uncensored version, the newly - added footage focusing mostly on Kong's discovery that people taste good. This doesn't detract from his lovableness, though, and all his triumphs re- main intact. Some of the film's dialogue is now quite campy, especially the exchanges be- tween the natives on Kong's is- land and the ape's white captors-to-be. Seduction of Mimi - (Matrix, 7 & 9:30) - See Wednesday Cinema. EVENTS Ensemble Nipponia -Musical Society, Rackham Aud., 8:30 p. m. University Philharmonia - Uri Mayer conducting works by Milhaud, B a t e s, Schumann: Hill, 8 p.m. BARS Blind Pig - Bryan Lee Blues Band, 9:30, $1. Heidelberg Rathskeller - Mustard's Retreat, folk, 9, no cover. Loma Linda - JB & Com- pany, 9:30, no cover. Pretzel Bell - RFD Boys, bluegrass, 9:30, $1. Casa Nova - Dusty Rhodes, folk - rock, 9, no cover. FRIDAY, MARCH 5 CINEMA Bringing Up Baby - (Cinema Guild, Arch. Aud., 7 & 9:05))- Dr. Chicago & Ride, .Dr. Chi- cago, Ride - (Ann Arbor Film See HAPPENINGS, Page 8 fered a heart attack, Burns Tommy (Matrix, 7 & 9:30) South Pacific - Couzens Film muses: "When he yelled at me - The wretched excesses of di- Co-op, Couzens Cafeteria, 9 on- onstage, he got a million rector Ken Russell crash head- ly) - Big, bloated film version laughs - when he yelled at on with The Who's hard-rock of the big, bloated Broadway me offstage, he got a heart at- opera - and the result is a sur- musical. Considered superior tack". Obviously this is suppos- prisingly effective film. Rus- entertainment in its day - how ed to be laden with deep philo- sell's dime-store garishness I times and taste can 'change in sophic content, but I am unble seems for once to have stumb- a couple of decades. ** - and not especially interested led onto a malleable product; Juliet of the Spirits - (Cine-' in - decipheringwhat that con- the resulting collaboration ma Guild, Arch. Aud., 7 & 9:05)I tent is). As the more acerbic drives, drives, drives unrelent- - Neo-psychadelic study of a member of the duo, Matthau ingly and often unpleasantly at woman's fantasies, revolving' grossly overolays his part, but the audience, but the onslaught aroundthe ongoing disintegra-: the ageless Burns brings just of sight and sound is never dull tion of her marriage. Fellini's the right touch of dignity to and is often undeniably com- first color film and he seems E{ l i . his gentler role - the only real class in this unpleasantly over- blown situation comedy. ** The Mysterious Monsters - (Campus)-Huckster film which slaps together overused infor- mation and underexposed film clips concerning Earth's more worthy pseudo-creatures (Loch Ness, Bigfoot, etc.). A warmed- over hodge-podge that reveals nothing new or startling about our abominable friends, but perhaps useful as an ego boost- er * saturday CINEMA To Have and Have Not - (Cinema II, 7 & 9) - Famous Howard Hawkes film of a Casa- blanca-ish WW II adventure-ro- mance between rum runner Humphrey Bogart and tough girl Lauren Bacall. The movie that spawned the Bogie-Baby love match, and that's really all it's famous for; The Faulk- ner adaptation of the Heming- way story is pretty dull stuff, and Hawkes' direction is far from his best. ** Naked Came the Stranger - (New World, MLB 3 & 4, 7, 8:30 & 10) - The film that made L. Brooks Patterson famous, and vice versa. The months- long campaign by Oakland County's lunatic prosecutor to close down Stranger at a Fern- dale theater has, of course, lent the film precisely the notoriety and financial success it would probably have lacked had Mr. Patterson not decided to mount I pelling. I think even Russell's uncomfortable with it, perhaps Blind Pig - Boogie Woogie severest critics must give Tom- sensing a requirement to pile Red blues, 9:30,$1. my its reluctant, due, even if in as many variations as pos- its success is by and large a sible on his new found element. lucky accident. *** The result is a surrealist extra- Journey Into Fear - (Cinema Ivaganza marked by some dazz.- Guild, Arch. Aud., 7 & 9:05) - ling audio - visual pyrotechnics, This World War II spy film was but sacrificing utterly the inti- CINEMA set for direction by Orson mate moments that were the A Clockwork Orange - (Ann Welles, but was taken out of his best of his earlier works. Juliet Arbor Film Co-op, 7 & 9:45)- hands by skeptical, money-con- I triggered the onset of a diffi- Kubrick's fascinating, imperfect scious studio heads shortly after cult decade for Fellini, the di- adaptation of the Anthony Bur- + production began. Welles re- rector sinking to an over-opu- gess novel. One of the most mained as the star and the film lent low with Satyricon and on- thoroughly unpleasant films is a pretty good one, but one ly recently regaining form with ever made - which was ob- wonders what it could have the refreshingly low-key Amar- viously what the director in been had our most ill-starred cord. *** tended. For all its nastiness, the director been allowed to finish Burn! - (Peonle's Bicenten- picture clearly strikes a pro-I what he started. *** nial Committee, Nat. Sci. Aud., found chord with many people,, EVENTS 7 & 9) - Marlon Brando por- or else we wouldn't see the jam-+ Yehudi Menuhin - Special trays a cynical 19th - century packed audiences every time: Benefit Concert, with Gyorgy mercenary hired to pose as a Clockwork plays here. *** Sandor, sponsored by the Uni- revolutionary to rebelling na- His Girl Friday - (Cinema versity Musical Sociay and the tives on a small Caribbean is- Guild, Arch. Aud., 7 only) - Hi-7 School of Music, Hill Aud., 8:30 land. His subsequent betrayal larious film adaptation of the, p.m. of them makes wrenchingly me- play "The Front Page". Story, BARS morable cinema, but a muddled about newspaper editor and his Ark - Joe Hickerson, -folk, script causes the film to fall former star reporter (and for- 8:30, $2.50. short of greatness. *** mer wife) is one of the really Bimbo's - Gaslighters, rag- Tommy - (Matrix, 7 & 9:30) great American comedies. With, time singalong, 6-1:30, 50c af- - See Saturday Cinema. Cary Grant and Rosalind Rus- ter 8. EVENTS sell. **** Blind Pig-Silvertones, blues, Symphony Band and Wind The Big Heat - (Cinema, 9:30, $1. Ensemble - Sponsored by the Guild, Arch. Aud., 9:05 only)- Chances Are - Masquerade,' Music School, Hill Aud., 3 pm. Fanatically - driven cop (Glenn rock, 8, $2 to $2.50. Faculty Chamber Concert - Ford) wages a single - minded Golden Falcon - Melodioso, Music School also presents. struggle against powerful mob- jazz, 9:30, $1. Rackham Aud., 4 p.m. sters. Probably Fritz Lang's Heidelberg - Barons, Ger- BARS best American film; be warned' man, 9, no cover. Loma Linda - JB & Com- that it's extremely violent but Heidelberg Rathskeller - pany, 9:30, no cover. ,never exploitively so - its mo- Mustard's Retreat, folk, 9, no Chances Are - Mojo Boogie tivation is necessary and hon- covery. Band Leap Year Party, rock, 9, est. One of the greatest of all Loma Linda - JB & Com- $1 to $1.50. 1 crime thrillers. **** r pany, 9:30, no cover.-- -- Mr. Flood's Party - Griev- ous Angels, country, 9:30, $1. Pretzel Bell - North Country Fasching at often takes on a legitimacy all its own - an erotic, literate work of film art above and apart from the novel. This wasE Russell's one great feature ef- fort before he plunged into the abyss of psychotic vulgaria, and showcases Glenda Jackson's ab- solutely demonic Oscar - win- ning performance. FRI.-SAT. $2.50 JOE H ICKERSON, Taxi - (Cinema Guild, Arch. Aud., 7 only) - Obscure early From the Library of Congress, Joe's '30's James Cagney film involv- unique guitar style, his unusual and ing the unlikely theme of a cab I massive repertoire, and his delivery driver's strike. Perhaps moremssvrprtr, n se ey interesting than it sounds. and sense of humor have long made Dishonored - (Cinema Guild, him a favorite wherever he sings- Arch. Aud., 9:05 only) - Jo- seph Von Sternberg's 1931 inter- Thurs. nite-AMANDA BAILEY-country music pretation of the Mata Hari mys- Sun. nite-BOB FRANKE-singer-songwriter tique. Pretty old and creaky,:HILL but Marlene Dietrich is mem- 1421 8:30 761-1451 orable as the spy-vamp. ** Seduction of Mimi - (Matrix, --------.-- -- 7 & 9:30) - Communist factory worker runs a perpetual foot- race to avoid the Sicilian Mafia' on the one hand, his wife on the'T other. A sour, unfunny comedy West Coast Coordinator of by Lena Wertmuller that is vastly inferior to her subse- AMNES" "ITERNATI NAL quent, esquisite Love and Anar- s chy. It should be noted that WILL SPEAK ON most critics raved and raved over this flick, so maybe you'd "Political Prisoners in enjoy it - but don't say you weren't warned. **Ba ,g uay, Chie, Iran BARS and South Korea" Chances Are - Salty Dog, rock, 9, students with ID 50c. MON DAY, MARCH 1 Casa Nova - Dusty Rhodes, folk-rock, 9, no cover. 112 noon: International Center (brown bag) Loma Linda - JB & Com- 4 p.m.: International Center pany, 9:30, no cover. Blind Pig-Silvertones, blues, Sponsored by: Group on Latin American issues 9:30, $1. the Old Heidelberg p.. Century-old German festivity becoming an Ann Arbor tradition If you're looking for an exciting time in Ann Arbor this month we heartily recommend this yearly celebra- tion that takes place at the Heidelberg Restaurant. This Saturday is set aside at the Heidelberg for virtu- ally non-stop celebration. There are German bands, clowns, skits, plus plenty of food and good drink. Back in the old country Fasching began on the eleventh day of the eleventh month at eleven min- utes after eleven o'clock, and lasted until Ash Wednes- day. Here at the Heidelberg festivities are slated for this Saturday, February 28. Now, if you have a costume, by all means wear it. There will be some of the most hilarious outfits you've seen since last Halloween. If you're without a costume, stop by anyway ... we guarantee a great time to be had by one and all. Remember, Saturday, February 28 at the Heidelberg Restaurant on Main Street. I Heidelberg