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Leaven Reviews The latest remake of "Julius Caesar" comes to us with a caveat. Read through the ads for it and you begin to understand: "No grander Caesar..;No greater cast! "-something is wrong with the production and with the cast. Yet, despite its flaws, which are serious and in some cases infuriatingly obvious, "Julius Caesar" has to be reckoned as one of the top films to visit the local theatres this year. If it lacks the finish and technical assurance of a "Patton," it has nevertheless a speed and moral resonance that charges the screen. Perhaps the film's most inexplicable failing is its casting. Producer Peter Snell has assembled a brilliant company of supporting actors, and then, in effect, thrown away the two main roles. John Gielgud is completely convincing as an arrogant yet engaging, and physically frail Caesar. Robert Vaughn, Diana Rigg, and even Richard Chamberlain are effective and believable, and partake of the play's poetic luster that elevates even minor characters into imposing figures. And Richard Johnson's Cassius calculating, venal, yet, underneath all, a human being NOW PLAYING 1:30-3:20-5:10-7)0-9:00 "ATmur.iPii!" Judith Crist, Nw York Hagtzln mT The Duke University Major Attractions Committee Presents THE BYRDS! Special added attraction-POCO Saturday, Nov. 21, 1970 8 p.m. Duke Indoor Stadium Tickets: $4.00 and $3.50 Reserved $3.00 General Admission Tickets on sale at all area Record Bars and Record and Tape Centers, on the main auad and by mail. Mail orders: Send check, stamped self-addressed envelope to: Page Box Office Box KM Duke Station Durham, N.C. 17706 SffOPGQD B1MS .... w,ww.,y .y vt :??: "'"' " in 5.98 LP NOW ON LY CI, i, i ack 'iM IF I CAN i- SiA5BEAT....VUNOUL. Til 'AVE v be careful: M IT Hi: .it v.. . ... .a .v.... w.w''iiv-' 3.88 n a I : It; 1 n lmaiKesoeaire 11 not entirely without ideals-his Cassiu dominates every scene he is in. Surely it is one of the most impressive performances of the last few years. But the leading roles! Charlton Heston's Antony and Jason Robard's Brutus seem to be alien transplants in the Rome of "Julius Caesar." In ail the other actors, you can hear the decasyllabic line, yet you never doubt that it is as true a medium of speech as was ever invented. It is supple enough to encompass every range of feeling, yet never anything less than poetry. Heston, however, somehow manages to slur his lines. Unable, apparently, to hit upon a satisfactory mode of delivery, he vacillates between a stylized pseudo-British accent ("evil" with a long "i") and a clipped arhythmic patter. Robards, far more grievously, ticks the lines off on his fingers like a schoolboy. But, what the hell! Shakespeare is such a terrific playwright that he can get mileage even out of bad actors. The scene in which Cassius introduces the conspirators to Brutus is just brilliant theatre. One by one, "half' 5c to 2c COPY QUICK ttt.'i E. Fraklla Abort- X, CV Cafeteria Free rtrtlng Moa8at. J 1! I AT LAST! AND AS IF THAT WEREN'T ENOUGH: ALSO INCLUDED ARE - J1MI HENDRIX,ERIC CLAPTON, JOHN SEBASTIAN ,GRAH AM NASH, MAMA CASS, BOOKER T. JONES, DALLAS TAYLOR, & RITA COOLIDGE -WHEW! 456 WHAT AMI THERE'S NO DELICATE QUESTIONS BETWEEN V ervave their faces buried in their cloaks. they file past him. Stuart Burge's direction is sometimes static, sometimes tastelessly ornate. The staging of the forum speeches of Brutus and Antony, for instance, keeps repeating the same tableau. The camera skims over the populace and focuses not on the rostrum, which is off-center, but on the crowded stairway and balcony of which the rostrum is a , part. The intention apparently is to get the effect of people sweating and straining to catch the speaker's words; but the angle has the unintended effect, especially in Antony's speech, of diverting one's attention from the rhetoric. And the rhetoric is what counts. Burge's attempt, also, to visualize Calpurnia's bad dreams results in bombastic cinema. The -production has a strangely abbreviated quality. This is due at least partially insensitive cutting of the script script. Act I, scene ii, for instance, concludes with a soliloquy by Cassius, In the play, the next scene opens with forty lines of dialogue before Cassius again enters. In the film, these intervening lines have been cut, and the time interval between the scenes rendered indistinct. Also, the battle scenes, which surely are ?DE:BflG8QflE Tod ay 4:30 7:30 KOAST BEEF Salad & 2 Vegetables $1.29 Entrance: Behind the Loom off Columbia St. Happy Hours: 3:00-6:00 & 8:00-9:00 WED. THRU SAT. Shows: 1-3-5-7-9 THE HEROINE SPENDS AS MUCH TIME STARK . NAKED AS ANY PERFORMER SINCE FLIPPER. WITHOUT A STITCH in color J WEST FRANKLIN ftim (THE FRIENDLY FREAK PLACE ACROSS FROM LEO'S) Agate; not superfluous, are shoddiiy done and confusing. Only in the assasination scene is the film fully effective. Pretending to beg a dispensation, the conspirators draw about Caesar menacingly. As he adamantly replies. " I am constant as the northern star," some of the traitors throw themselves at his feet; others slip behind him. For once in the film the music communicates a frenzied excitement, as the camera jumps nervously from face to face. Then, the knives come out. After the deed is accomplished, and the senators have fled in panic, the conspirators kneel and wash their hands in Caesar's blood. The overhead camera captures the dreadful stillness of their circle, with the dead man at its center. This is what one goes to the movies for. Sometimes Burges and his leads seem to be battling against their script. But the final decision on the 1970's "Julius TONIGHT'S SPECIAL 7:30-9:00P.M. only $PAHETTI Salad, Dread ALL YOU CAN EAT $ 1 .40 'Wtt& m J William Shakespeare's ULfflUS CAESAR Charlton Heston Jason Robards John Gielgud 1? PANA VISION color by TECHNICOLOR CAESAR 4 : 00-6: 30-9: 00 PLAZA 1 CRC COLOR PLAZA 2 LOVERS 3-5-7:10-9:20 Discover The Lost Art Of Tailoring At Milton's Milton's now has a fabulous Greek tailor with 14 years o f experience and can offer you the finest custom alterations. h s v A -.1 M nr. "t'." -WSJ TTI I ....... ..-.-5, .... Lntiiiianf;!ViTjnaT5?LJ6 ) ,m? HPgPT I HAP feUSt: WIM- RTrvl 1 e U Ji1 Caesar" is: Shakespeare wins in a va'Jcgo to see it. ANOTHER LOCAL film, though of considerably less distinction, is "Joe. Here is a movie that had the potential to be an "instant classic: that is. a movie so powerful and so relevant that it is immediately assimilated into, and modifies, our view of reality. "Joe. however, fails because its writers were simply incapable of developing the film's brilliant premise: the evolving relationships between a hardhat and the advertising executive he idolizes for having killed a hippie (in rage). It is painful to see a movie constantly opting for second best: the scene in which Joe has the executive and his wife to dinner at his home, for instance. The film concentrates on the awkwardness-how will people of such diverse interests, backgrounds, even vocabularies, interact? We Are pen 7 DAYS PER WEEK 9:00 a.m. 'til 11:45 p.m. The Evij ELoom Don't Forget After 5 PM. Our TUESDAY NIGHT PIZZA SPECIALS Chicken in the Rough Steaks Salads DELICATESSEN .1 - f i r . xr i. Sandwiches Beer 1004 W. 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NOV. 17 o Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 5-Cloth measure (Pi.) 6- Stalk 7- SaiIor (colloq.) 8- Pronoun 9- Warninj 10-Turf 12- Narrow.fIat board 13- Brands 16-Oceans 19-Hoid sway 21-Scene of simple pleasure and quiet 23 -Coral island 25-VerrtiIated 27-Be ill 29-Base 31-Railroad 1-Newfy married woman 6-Sharp pain 21-Load again 13- SUtionary part of machine 14- Man's nickname 15-Covering of wall 17- Symbol for , tantalum 18- Drink slowly 20- Vapor 21- Three-toed sloths 22- Wife of Zeus 24-Cut of meat 25-Part of drcItOl)33X;w;of stations 25-BrisL'e luggage 28-Marry (slang) 30-Destitute 32- Rai! bird 33- Area between mountains 35-Marries 37-Goby water 33-Dance step 40- Face of watch 42- Eeryone 43- Apportioned 4 5-Devon red 46- Note of scale 47- lnnate 49- Sun god 50- Com positions 52-Setto S4 -Chairs 5 5-Burst forth DOWN 1 -Saucy (colloq.) 2 Depends on 3- Supposing that 4- Plursge 34-River in Korea Distr. by i ii. But all we get are cliches and the typical nervous laughs and non sequitur dialogue which express discomfort but conceal character. Jc himself, as one viewer remarked, is basically not a human being but a center about which all the tnte and obvious prejudices of today r eve he. "Joe is certainty an interesting nov. and at times-the opening murder sene-bruliant. But like so many American films, it lacks conviction and degenerates into awful plottiness by the end. 4 Sub $.50 t fit ? I mm UbIJ forrd CdT. Answer to Yesterd3y s Puzzle ? TODAY -8:30-11:00 P.M. Fish tk Chips f I with ? f Mug of Beer or Cider t it ii slElTf lTlAic' lT! 1RIA N E L. 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