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Page 10- The Michigan Daily - Friday, June 20, 1986
Film's antics
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and get away with it.
By LOUIS Goldberg Ferris does have one problem,
however, a problem that not even he
T'S IMPOSSIBLE to argue against seems able to get around, the problem
any film that involves youth out- of being a great character stuck in a -
witting authority. Pulling scams is a not-always-great movie.
too important and too often neglected Matthew Broderick's personalitya'
aspect of education for us to ignore carries the entire production on his
any source for pointers. In addition, shoulders. His smug smile, his dry
any film that helps expose the routine verbal wit, and the different ex-
and repression of high school deser- pressions he uses to convince his
ves high praise. The problem with parents that he is their "ideal son"
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, however, are enough to produce much laughter 4
isn't that it's subversive, it's that it and applause. In addition, as Ferris's
isn't subversive enough. companions, the serene Mia Sara and
- As heroes go, Ferris Bueller isn't gawky Alan Ruck add much with <<
Rambo or Indiana Jones. He's more their charm and spontaneous looks of
the modern descendent of astonishment.
Boudu, Groucho, and Eddie Haskell, But any moment that Broderick is
a deviant anarchist who breaks the not on screen slows the film and stops
rules, assaults the institutions, and the laughs. The entire middle section
tests all tolerance. is not only episodic, but it sub- Matthew Broderick and Co. enjoy a day of fun and foolery n John Hughes' latest teen-flic,
Be it faking illness to his parents, stitutes the hero's verbal banter with Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
intimidating maitre'ds, or convin- a poor attempt at physical slapstick.
cing his entire school that he is on the The school principal's mishaps in Ferris's friend Cameron. In a film Still, while this film isn't an advan- the entire city of Chicag aS i it wee
verge of death, Ferris's schemes and trying to expose Ferris, the slow burn whose tone is light and whose ap- ce over its director's previous Sixteen cutting the compositions, the caera
his ability to pull them off make him that Ferris' sister does, the suspen- proach is fantasy, it is simply out-of- Candles or The Breakfast Club, it move ment i and color
one of the most dynamic characters se" of Ferris's mother checking up on place to give a character a serious demonstrates his growing ability with cinematography are smooth. The
the screen has offered us in a while. him or that of his father nearly problem and soul-searching dialogue. filmmaking. Where The Breakfast evidence argues that something very
His character is so dynamic that the sighting him, produce little en- Had all these sub-plots been scrapped Club was almost confined to one impressive could come from all this
screen cannot contain it. Ferris's joyment for all the screen time they and replaced with more of Ferris's room, Ferris Bueller's Day Off uses talent. Maybe next time we'll see.
command over events is so strong are devoted. A more important botch, antics, the result may have been
that he can actually insult us directly however, is the conflict given to classic.
FRIDAYParadise.
Snakeout,-The Blind Pig.
Buckwheat Zydeco - Rick's
Campus Cinema American Cafe.

i

The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956)
CG, 7:00 p.m., MLB 4.
The Naked City (Jules Dassin,1948)
CG,8:45 p.m., MLB 4.
Manhattan Melodrama (W.S. Van
Dyke, 1934) C2, Aud. A. 7:30 p.m.
The This Man (W.S. Van Dyke,.
1934) C2,9:15 p.m., Aud A.
Performances .
Sly Fox: Performance Network.
8:00 p.m., at Performance Network,
408 W. Washington. Call 663-0681 for
more information.
Bars and Clubs
John McCutheon - The Ark
Naima - Bird of Paradise
Blue Front Persuaders - The Blind
Pig.
Koko Taylor - Rick's American
Cafe.
Speakers
Astrofest - free public presentation
featuring discussion of the space shut-
tle, 7:30p.m., MLB3.
Meetings
Gay Coffee Night - 8:00 p.m., Guild
House, 802 Monroe St.
SATURDAY
Campus Cinema
Take the Money and Run (Woody
Allen, 1968) AAFC, 7:00 p.aa 4A0:65.
Wa.mt'UMLBp TLgrs y- (Wo, d
What'a Up Tiger Lily? (Woody

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Allen/Senkichi Tanizuchi, 1966)
AAFC, 8:35 p.m., MLB 4.
It Happened One Night (Frank
Capra, 1934) CG, 7:00 p.m., MLB 3.
A Night At the Opera (Sam Wood,
1935) CG, 9:15 p.m., MLB 3.
Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jar-
musch, 1984) C2, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.,
Aud. A.
Performances
Sly Fox: Performance Network.
8:00 p.m., at Performance Network,
408 W. Washington. Call 663-0681 for
more information.
Bars and Clubs
Stephanie Ozer and Kathy Moore -
The Ark.
Steve Nardella Rock and Roll Trio
- TheBlind Pig.
Naima - Bird of Paradise.
Koko Taylor - Rick's American
Cafe.
Speakers
Perry Bullard - Lesbian/Gay
Pride Week rally, 2 p.m., downtown.
Furthermore
"Mean Something" poetry series -
9:30 p.m., Dawn Treader Books, 1202
S. UniversityStreet.
SUNDAY

Performances TUESDAY
Sly Fox: Performance Network. Campus Cinema
8:00 p.m., at Performance Network,
408 W. Washington. Call 663-0681 for Variety (Betty Gordon, 1984)
moreinformation. Eyemediae, 214 N. Fourth Ave. 8:00
p.m.

Furthermore
Formatting a Rackham Disser-
tation with TEX - 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.,
1013 NUBS.
THURSDAY
Campus Cinema
Nofilms.
Performances

Bars and Clubs
Mustard's Retreat - The Ark
Reed/Anderson Ensemble - Bird
of Paradise.

kBars and Clubs
Bill Held Trio - Bird of Paradise.
I-V-1- The Blind Pig.
Wild Woodys - Rick's American
Cafe.

Speakers
MONDAYA Little S
Randy Davis, MIT - title to be an- Kerrytown Concei
nounced, 4:15 p.m., Hale Aud, Kerrytown Conc
Business Administration School. Fourth Ave. Call
Campus Cinema mation.
Furthermore
No films.
Introduction to Tell-A-Graf - 7:00 Bars and Clul
to 9:00 p.m., 1013 NUBS.
June Millington
WEDNESDAY Ron Brooks
Paradise.
Performances 'Campus Cinema Jeanne and th
Blind Pig.
The Language of Eroticism: No films. Adventures -
Eyemediae. 8:00 p.m. at Eyemediae, Cafe.
214 N. Fourth Ave. Call 662-2470 for
more information. Performances
Summer Civic Band Concert: Ann
Arbor Recreation Department. 8:00 Furthermore
Bars and Clubs p.m., West Park bandshell. Free. Call
994-2326for moreinformation. Introduction to

ondheim Music:
rt House. 8:00 p.m.,
ert House, 415 N.
769-2999 for infor-
bs
- The Ark.
Trio - Bird of
e Dreams - The
Rick's American
Tell-A-Graf - 7:00

ra tvngn a wraene._. _ ..s s ; a " .. _ ....m... _ ...

Paul Vornhagen & Friends - Bird to 9:00 p.m., 1013 NUBS.
Paa.Bars and Clubst9:pm.1ONBS
Campus Cinema a ar ,.d Club,"The Magic of the Monkey K
Nofilma.sa.41' sfrv' I8 i: . .......4. . . -
No ims. Cafe. Ron Brooks Trio - Bird of

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