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to unexpectantly parodying it like a raving Woody Allen's early features. Pure, undiluted
schizophrenic. Richard Gere and Diane Lane are the laughs, a very rare and special treat whose growing
two single least electric screen presences to ever cult popularity is easily understandable. 7:10 and
lead a film. 7:00 and 9:20, at the State Theater, 231 S. 9:30, at the Movies at Briarwood, Briarwood Mall.
State.
AMADEUS
Director Milos Forman's idea of depicting Mozart
as a pop star is a clever premise, but the screenplay
never pans out and what is meant to be irreverance
is merely irrelevance. In the end the film ends up
totemizing Mozart with all the same excessive and
pompous empty praise it originally sets out to super-
sede. You can, if you want, just close your eyes and
enjoy the score. 8:45 at the Movies as Briarwood,
Briarwood mall.
BEVERLY HILLS COP
Eddie Murphy goes through his usual fast jiving,
smart ass routines (albeit a little more
whitewashed) in a comedy/thriller about a Detroit
police detective who goes to California in search of
his friend's murderer. This is clearly Murphy's
vehicle, an open forum for him to improvise in front
of the camera while the rest of the cast just stands
there and plays it straight. Murphy's antics are
lowbrow but his naturally likable presence and fast
timing make for some easy, lightweight giggles,
though you're always very conscious how shabbily
slapped together the whole movie is. 7:00 and 9:30 at
the Movies at Briarwood, Briarwood Mall.
CITY HEAT
Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwod team up for a
gangster comedy set in the thirties. Even Eastwod
fans, who must have the lowest imaginable stan-
dards, are staying away. 7:30 and 10:00, the Movies
at Briarwood, Briarwood Mall.
THE COTTON CLUB
Francis Ford Coppola's take of Harlem's famed
prohibition era nightclub is far better than his recent
work, but that doesn't say much. Cotton Club wan-
CAMPUS
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The Shining (Stanley Kubrick,1980)
February might be the shortest month, but it is
long on films if its opening week is any indication.
The month's first film is, I think, its best. The movie
is different than the Stephen King novel, but it is
close to perfect in its own way. Jack Nicholson is
hired to look after the Overlook and gets to stay there
forever, and ever, and ever. Yes, I recommend it.
(Cinema 2; MLB 4,7 p.m., 9:30 p.m.)
Koyaanlsqatsi (Geoffrey Reggigo, 1983)
A very weird movie that got a very good reception
is also nlaying. No words. No plot. No actors. Just an
intriguing series of images of modern America put to
the music of Philip Glass. (Cinema Guild; Aud. A, 7
p.m., 8:40 p.m.)
To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944)
A loose adaptation of the Hemingway novel. Hum-
phrey Bogart is a fisherman who does a little spying
on the side, trying to reel in Nazis. One day,.he casts
his line and ends up with Lauren Bacall, making her
film debut. (Alternative Action; Nat. Sci. Aud., 7:30
p.m.)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston,
1948)
Gold lurks under the volcanoes of the Sierra
Madres in this tale that was also scripted by Huston.
He won an Academy Award for that and one for his
direction. The prospectors are played by Humphrey
Bogart, Oscar winner Walter Huston, and Tim Holt.
(Alternative Action; Nat. Sci. Aud., 9:15 p.m.)
The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan, 1983)
A UM physics graduate commits suicide, and
eight of his fellow classmates reunite for the funeral.
They gossip and remember back to the glory days of
the sixties and get upset while watching a Michigan
football game on TV. Kasdan, a Michigan gradute,
also scripted. The performances he gets are quite
good, and the comedy is funny. But the film is a bit
too slick to realize its full potential. (Michigan
Theater Foundation; Michigan Theater, 7 p.m., 11
p.m.)
The Return of the Secaucus Seven (John Sayles,
1960)
The director of The Brother From Another Planet
did this superior version of The Big Chill before
Kasdan's. It lacks the Hollywood budget and the
Hollywood stars, but it has the genuine emotion.
Sayles has a real feel for the characters in his movie,
and the wood-chopping scene at the end is a potent
one. See the double feature for this and think of The
Big Chill as dessert or an appetizer. (Michigan
Theater Foundation; Michigan Theater, 9 p.m.)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock,
1956)
This is the second, better version. James Stewart
and Doris Day go to Morocco and meet a very nice
couple and a very interesting man. The man is killed.
The nice couple kidnaps James and Doris' son.
Throw in an assassination attempt and you end up
with a top-notch film. Let us not forget that Doris
sings 'Que Sera, Sera." (Ann Arbor Film Coop; MLB
3, 7 p.m.)
DUNE
David Lynch's adaptation of frank Herbert's
longwinded bit of pulp sci-fi is a stupefyingly bad
film. Lynch is one of the most brilliant filmmakers
working today, but there's no trace of his hand in this
plotless, textureless, astonishingly crude space
opera. Dune borrows a lot froin Star Wars and Alien,
but in spirit and lack of intellect its much closer to a
fifties bible epic. At the State Theater, 231 S. State.
THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN
Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn play two American
teenagers involved in an intricate scheme to sell
government secrets to the KGB. Based on a true
story. At the Campus Theater, 1214 S. University.
FALLING IN LOVE
Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep fall in love,
audiences fall asleep. It would take a sharp script
and a sensitive director to make two adulterors into
sympathetic characters, Falling in Love lacks both.
7:00 at the Movies at Briarwood, Briarwood Mall.
THE FLAMINGO KID
Matt Dillon gives a surprisingly well measured
performance as a middle class kid coming of age in
the sixties in this comedy by Gary Marshal. Though
not as good as Diner or American Graffiti, it still
carves a comfortable niche for itself just beside
them. 7:25 and 9:40 at the State Theater, 231 S. State.
THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY
An African bushman sees an empty Coke bottle
tossed out of a passing airplane fall to earth at his
feet, and assuming it to be the lost property of the
gods, decides to go about returning it. This African
import is technically very crude, but is the most
HEAVENLY BODIES
No information available at presstime. Fox Village
Theater, 375 N. Maple.
JOHNNY DANGEROUSLY
Michael Keaton plays a loveable mobster in this
blunt witted parody. Hell must be a double feature of
this with City Heat. 7:00 and 9:30, the Movies at
Briarwood, Briarwood Mall.
THE KILLING FIELDS
Unfocused but at times very powerful film about a
New York Times correspondent (played by Sam
Waterson) and his Cambodian assistant Haing S.
Ngor) who are trapped in Cambodia during the Kh-
mer Rouge's genocidal revolution of 1975. For his fir-
st feature, director Roland Joffe, keeps a clean, tight
control over each individual secenes, but lacks a
crucial overall sense for structure and the film
flounders toward the end. Still, it's a very worth-
while, important film. Ann Arbor Theater, 210S. Fif-
th Ave.
MICKI & MAUDE
Only Blake Edwards could conceive of polygamy
as suitable material for a feature comedy, and only
Dudley Moore could be hustled into starring in it.
7:00 and 9:45 at the Fox Village Theater, 375 N.
Maple.
PROTOCOL
Goldie Hawn plays (surprise) a flaky blonde who
stumbles into a job as a goverment attache who turns
Washington D.C. upside down. Written by Buck
Henry and directed by Herbert Ross, who have both
labored on far more worthy projects. 7:10 and 9:40 at
the Movies at Briarwood.
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Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Yet another great film for this first day of
February. James Stewart is a photographer who
breaks his leg and ends up in his apartment where all
he can do is look out his rear window and wait for
Grace Kelly to drop in and visit. When Jimmy per-
suades Grace and his housekeeper that he saw a
murder across the courtyard, the real fun begins. I
do wish I could be in more place than one this
evening ... (Ann Arbor Film Coop; MLB 3,9 p.m.)
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Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
... so it is a good thing that some of the excellent
movies are on hand again tonight. See yesterday's
listing for details. The time and place are different
tonight. (Ann Arbor Film Coop; Nat. Sci. Aud., 7
p.m.)
The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan, 1983)
See Yesterday's listing. (Michigan Theater Foun-
dation; Michigan Theater, 7 p.m., 11 p.m.)
The Return of the Secaucus Seven (John Sayles,
1980)
See yesterday's listing. (Michigan Theater Foun-
dation; Michigan Theater, 9 p.m.)
Listen to the City (Ron Mann, 1984)
A man escapes from a mental hospital after a long
confinement, which perhaps took place only because
he was ahead of his time. The director will be on
hand for discussion between showings of this Ann
Arbor premiere. (Office of Ethics and Religion;
MLB 3, 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m.)
Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowsky, 1971)
John Moulder-Brown plays a youth in the throes of
his first love. The fact that the object of his atten-
tions, a bathhouse attendant, already has a fiance
and a lover fails to daunt him in the least. Ah, to be
young again. (Cinema 2; Aud. A, 7 p.m.)
Sundays and Cybele (Serge Bourguignon, 1962)
Another unusual romance. An insane veteran and
a very young girl romance each other, in a way,
every Sunday in the park. An Oscar winner for best
Foreign Film. French with subtitles. (Cinema 2;
Aud. A, 9 p.m.)
Romancing the Stone (Robert Zameckis, 1984)
A surprise hit of last year, this is a more romantic
Indiana Jones. I found both the romance between
Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner and the clif-
fhangers to be a bit blase, but that is a minority
viewpoint. The sequel is on the way. (Mediatrics;
MLB 4,7:30, 9:30 p.m.)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick,1971)
Two Kubrick masterpieces in one week! Here,
Malcolm McDowell is a man married to Beethoven
and the old ultraviolence. Society sets out to cure him
of his addiction to the latter and overdoes it a bit. Los
of violence, but all is integral to the movie. From
the Anthony Burgess novel. Recommended. (Hill
Street Cinema; 1429 Hill, 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m.)
The Champ (Franco Zeffirelli, 1979)
The second version of a story about boxer Jon
Voight and son Ricky Schroeder and the ex-wife who
wants custody, Faye Dunaway. Hankies not included.
in the price of admission, so bring your own.
(Michigan theater Foundation; Michigan Theater,
1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m.)
Love Affair or The Case of the Missing Switchboard
Operator
(Dusan Makavejev,1967)
The two titles really do have a connection but you
have to see the movie to find out what. Part of a
series on women in East European cinema. Serbo-
croation with subtitles. (Alternative Action and Free
University; MLB 4,7 p.m., FREE)
Secret Squirrel
An assortment of cartoons with the Secret
Squirrel. (Alternative Action, Aud. A, 7 p.m.)
A Man Called Flintstone (Joseph Barbara and
William Hanna, 1966)
Fred, Wilma, Barney, Betty, Dino, and the whole
crew in a globe-spanning animated spy movie. Rome
will never look the same again after you've seen this.
(Alternative Action; Aud. A, 8:40 p.m.)
Exodus (Otto Preminger, 1960)
The historical novel by Leon Uris about the har-
dships in reaching Palestine shortly before the
creation of Israel comes to the big screen. Paul
Newman, Eva Marie Saint, and Sal Mineo are in the
cast. (Hill Street Cinema; 1429 Hill, 8 p.m.)
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto and
others are together on a space ship and find them-
selves joined by something that likes to eat humans.
You can eat an Italian buffet before seeing this
horror movie transplanted into outer space.
(University Club; U-Club, 7:10 p.m.)
The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey, 1968)
Two excellent performances by Peter O'Toole and
Katherine Hepburn highlight this historical drama
about Eleanor of Aquitane and Henry V. Sit back and
watch the sparks. Recommended. (Mediatrics; Nat.
Sci. Aud., 7 p.m.)
A Man For All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann, 1966)
This second historical drama is a movie for all
Academy Awards. It won Best Picture, Best Direc-
tor, Best Screenplay, Best Color Costume Design,
and Best Color Cinematography. Robert Shaw and
Orson Welles are part of the cast. Sir Thomas More
and Henry VIII are the subjects. (Mediatrics; Nat.
Sci. Aud., 9:15 p.m.)
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