Friday, July 9, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Friday, July 9, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Happenings .. . This week's HAPPENINGS film reviews were written by Kim Potter. All week iong COMMERCIAL CINEMA Buffalo Bill and the Indians- (The Movies, Briarwood) - A splendidly made but strangely unmoving study of the famed cowboy's wild west show of the 1880's. Based loosely of Arthur Kopit's play, Indians, the film swiftly establishes its dual theme of the White Man's in- humanity to the Red Man and of the power of image-making to distort and often obliterate reality, than plays variations on those subjects the rest of the way. Buffalo Bill lacks some- thing undefinable - maybe it's just the fact that most of its characters are such schmucks that it's hard to get involved with them. Incidentally, Paul Newman gives his best perform- ance in years as the film's phony-herobprotagonist.*** Murder by Death -- (The Movies Briarwood) - Neil Si- mon's gentle satire in which a group of Hollywood's most fam- ous screen detectives are men- aced in a sinister mansion by the unlikely personage of Tru- man Capote. A low-key farce that is quite harmless and, for the most part, quite funny. *** The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea - (State) - Absurd story of an affair between an American seaman and an English widow, disrupt- ed by a group of neo-fascist schoolboys offended by the sai- lor's defection from his "per- fet balance" with the life of the sea. *?W Logan's Run - (Fox Village) A post-apocalypse tale of a 23rd Century domed city housing the remnents of Earth's population, and the efforts of two individu- alists to escape its stagnant confines. The first half of the film is brilliant, spine-tingling sci-fi; the second half falls flat on it's face. It's all really a shame, be- cause much of Logan's Run ri- vals 2001 in both scope and imaginative fling - why did they have to go louse up the end? **1/2 The Omen - (Fifth Forum)- This year's runaway box office blockbuster, and by and large deservedly so. The story about the rebirth of Satan in the form of a five-year-old boy manages stylistically to avoid both the overt grotesqueness of The Ex- orcist and the overamorphous subtleties of Rosemary's Baby, and also is in no way a thematic rip off of either; it is a streight, starkly ominous exercise in fear, and in its, own way a cinematic masterpiece. **** Friday CINEMA Mean Streets - (Cinema II, Ang. Aud. A, 7:30 & 9:30) - Martin Scorcese made a stun- ning directorial debut with this Open All Weekend FRI. and SAT. SIna.m.- 1a.m. SUNDAYS 1 p.m.-12 mid. BILLIARDS, BOWLING and PINBALL At the UNION brilliant, atmospheric film about a young New York mafi- oso faced with the moral dilem- ma of saving his best friend who is on the outs with the mob, or protecting his own fu- ture by doing nothing. This pow- erful and original drama pre- dated Scorcese's current Taxi Driver by two years, and in many ways surpasses it; his sensuous direction is comple- mented memorably by Harvey Keitel as the sensitive but crav- en young mobster, and by Rob- ert DiNiro, who makes a verit- able cinematic ballet out of his portrayal of Keitel's free-flung, psychotically self - destructive friend. **** Performance-(Cinema Guild, Arch. Aud., 7:30 & 9:30) - A gangster fleeing fellow gang members takes refuge in the home of an aging rock star (Mick Jagger), thus opening the door to a mind-warping surreal -a excursion into the quandry of truth vs. illusion. Buster Keaton Night - (Ann Arbor Film Co-op, MLB 4, 7 only) - A trio of films by America's greatest comic gen- ius, including Sherlock, Jr., Col- lege and a short called Cops. Guaranteed gold. Reefer Madness - (Ann Ar- bor Film Co-op, MLB 4, 9:30 only)-The famed dope-is-death public service film, released in the '40's under the title "Tell Your Children." Unintentionally hilarious, but not endlessly so - and they're enervating its effect here by showing it too often. High camp should be savored, not guzzled. King of Hearts - (Ann Ar- bor Film Co-op, MLB 3, 7 & 9) - You know it all. *** Happenings for the rest of the coming week will be pub- lished in tomorrow's Daily. TONIGHT at 8 p.m. MICHIGAN REPERTORY'76 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICIIGAN presents JETSUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR - Music by Lyricsby ANDREW LOYo WEBBER TIM RICE, n the A Air-conditioned !ower Center PERFORMANCE TIME 8 P.M. IULY 10 MAT. 2 P.M. 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