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Th Daily Tiir H1 Scott Langley AW, I 5 as'ii FrkI, SpUmbf 2t, 1S73 b A s. "bu; off n TTT fT TPi T",3 Romeo and Juliet Franco Zcflerelli's flamboyant, operatic version of the Shakespeare play. A bit lacking in poetry, perhaps, but it more than compensates with passion and dramatic inventiveness. One of the best of all Shakespearean films. R On Any Sunday An excellent documentary of motorbike racing. It captures so well the excitement of the sport that it's practically guaranteed to leave you exhausted and breathless. R Mary Poppins Julie Andrew is excellent in her Oscar-winning performance, the special effects are good, the music is the best original music score of the sixties, and there is almost none of the bland cuteness that creeps into most Disney live action features. Overall quite good. G A State of Siege Costa Gavras' story of a kidnapping-assassination. Definitely left-wing in sympathy, it still has a complexity and intelligence that Z" never came close to, and many of its scenes have the sweeping power of an Eisenstein film. The year's best film thus far, and one of the two or three best political films of the sound era. Not to be missed. CH Ten From Your Show of Shows Skits from the old Sid Caesar-Imogene Coca T.V. show. All of the skits are funny and some of them are genuine classics. An excellent reminder of what television once could be. CH The Day of the Jackal Fred Zinnemann's story of a killer hired to murder De Gaulle. Zinnemann doesn't really have the technical inclination for a thriller, so the film is really more the fascinating story of a glamorous killer defeated by bureaucratic red tape. Most entertaining, one of the best crafted films in years. D Last Tango in Paris Bernardo Bertolucci's uneven but often tremendously powerful study of a man destroying himself, shocking only in the depth of human despair shown. Those expecting a dirty movie ire really going to be disappointed by this subtitled art film. Marlon Brando's performance is one of the Treatest of all time. R,G The Heartbreak Kid The All-American schmuck dumps his wife for the All-American bitch. A merciless American character comedy of exceptional brilliance, highlighted by perfect casting in every role. R Casablanca The famous Ingrid Bergman Humphrey Bogart classic and one of the finest examples of Hollywood romanticism ever made. R Bang the Drum Slowly Story of two baseball team friends one of whom is dying. Very well done of its kind, with some excellent dialogue and acting. But it's basically cliched mass audience even yokel stuff, and it lacks any sense of film rhythm. R,G Walking Tall Comparisons made to Billy Jack are quite apt. Like that film,- this one deals in mushy thinking and mushy emotions. Strictly for teenyboppers, though this time for right-wingers. D,R,G Let the Good Times Roll A concert of fifties music, much of which isn't very authentically fifties. The music is generally good and the use of fifties material is clever, but the split screen, used here with no sense of rhythm or purpose, quickly becomes exasperating and ruins the film. CH,R,G Godspell Musical life of Christ. Some of the music is good and the film captures well the naive conviction of the Jesus movement. But it makes the usual rock musical mistake of substituting frantic movement for inventiveness and much of the film is just asinine. D A Touch of Class Obnoxious adultery comedy with a dreary Neil Simon sense of comedy and an almost total lack of sophistication or even sincerity. The only bright spot is Glenda Jackson who truly sparkles as a comedienne. G The Legend of Hell House Ridiculous and poorly done horror film. G The following have not been reviewed. Opinions expressed are those of a consensus of critics. Harry in Your Pocket Poor comedy of pickpocket. CH Night Watch Poor thriller with Liz. R The Marriage of A Young Stockbroker Terrible comedy about a voyeur. R Siddhartha If you want your brain to turn tojello, don'4 let me stop you. R I Could Never Have Sex With Any Man Who Has So Little Regard For My Husband. Poor sex comedy D,R Lady Kung-Fu Junk. D.R.G Pippi Longstocking Cheapie kiddie show. G Slaughter's Big Rip-Off Black exploitation film. Gordon's War Black film got some good reviews. G Manson Documentary of the killer got nominated for Oscar. G CH Chapel Hill, D Durham. R Raleigh. G Greensboro Union Films Charly Potentially touching love story of an idiot made into a genius is ruined by sloppy, sloppy work and some awful dialogue. Friday The Sea Gull Sidney LumetV version of the play got mixed reviews. Saturday Rabbitt, Run Film version of the Updike novel was so bad the studio never really released it. Sunday All films are at 6:30 and 9 in the Great Hall Chcpel Hill Film Friends Second Breath Gangster film by Jean-Pierre Melville (Le Samourai). Well controlled and quite similar to its American models with some excellent wise-cracking dialogue. Friday at 9:30 and Saturday at 11:30 in Murphy 111. Alternative Cinema Days and Nights In the Forest Satyajit Ray's film of four business men on vacation. An extraordinary film combining the poetic naturalism of Ray's early period with the psychological probing of his later films. Friday at 7, Saturday at 2, 4z;30, 7 and 9:30 in Murphey 111. Da ys and Nights' calm, probing by Scott Langley Film Critic The great Indian film maker Satyajit Ray an his career with the Apu trilogy, a great uralistic study of young man growing up. continued witha series of films in the le style, containing some of the most ;tic evocations of they mystery of nature ;r filmed. As his international reputation creased, however, he became more electric id turned more to character studies of :ople confronted by modern India. In a rise, his film lost their innocence. , . . .?'. I for one regretted this change, for though ms such as "The Adversary" are great ms, we have no director now who has quite i calm poetry of the younger Ray. "Days and Nights and the Forest" is erefore most welcome. Made in 1969, but leased only this year in this country, it imbines some of the best qualities of early nd late Ray, the poetic naturalism and sychojogical probing. On the surface, it bears some resemblance at first to Deliverance. Four businessmen, tired of the city, decide to rough it. Armed with a hundred-year-old guide-book, they head for the hill country and the forests to commune with nature. But not really and that is the point. For these men are so immersed in a Westernized kind of civilization that they start looking for all the comforts of home as soon as they arrive, and bribe a caretaker to open up a government bungalow. For just as Ray has "progressed" from nature to an awareness of international problems and themes, so have the people of India! "Days and Nights in the Forest" is above all a study of the bastardization of the Indian culture. English is mixed into conversations the way some people here use French to appear cultured, native girls are scorned for being too brown skinned, people speak of something as being "just too bourgeois", and the highest compliment for a country house is that it looks very English. What makes the film such a great one is :Jc5j;l?55jc s$c:$e33::s$c92c :5:5lcs:s:sis5 that Ray doesn't belabor the point. The forests, from which these men's ancestors came, are shown as beautiful and haunting, but there is never the slightest hint of "every thing would be better if we could return." Indeed the natives in the films are really not very well off. Ray merely observes and lets only a hint of regret bubble under the surface. Lest all this sound a bit sombre, it should be pointed out that the film is often quite comic. Ray, like Miles Forman, has the ability to allow us to laugh noncondescendingly at people by stressing their humanity. The men share several adventures on the trip. Three become involved with women, two with very unhappy results, and Ray manages to penetrate to the core of human feeling of each incident, comic or tragic. Antonioni may understand malaise and Fellini flamboyence, but of all the world's great film makers only Renoir and Ozu have shared Ray's ability to understand, without preaching, every facet of human nature. And Ozu is dead, Renoir no longer working. "Days and Nights in the Forest" will play this weekend at the Alternative cinema. Shows at 7' on Friday and Saturday at 2, 4:30, 7, and 9:30. O I H Ads Qt RssuSts e.a.a-a.V .9 ,. fttat f f l9 ?, t .t 9 m The Beogram 3000 One part of a system developed to reproduce sound as it Is. The Beogram 3000 is an integrated, automatic turntable offering utter simplicity of operation and elegant, under stated design. All functions are handled by a single master control: the choice of record size automatically selects the correct speed (33 or 45 rpm). a slight touch of the center disk places the stylus tip in the first groove of the record. When the selection is completed, the tone arm automatically returns to its rest position and shuts off the unit. The tone arm pivots on hardened steel bearings for low horizontal friction. An ingenious system of inclined planes automatically applies the correct amount of anti-skating force as the tone arm travels across the record. A pendulum suspension system isolates the stylus from external vibra tions and acoustic feedback. As a turntable must operate in concert with the cartridge, the Beogram 3000 has been engineered to utilize Bang & Olufsen cartridges. The integration of tone arm and car tridge provides a lower dynamic mass, thus reducing the force required to move the stylus tip. and eliminates unwanted resonances. Bang & Olufsen cartridges have been acknowl edged as being among the world's finest. Excellence in engineering Elegance in design Two traditions from Denmark Bang&Olufsen SOUNDHAUS 1 1 3 N. Columbia942-31 62Fri. 'til 9 at .1., iV f . , IV , 'I- i f. I I ' : - " if it: j Flannel Shirts . . . they feel as good as they look Gei into the warm feel and the good looks of a plaid flannel shirt. Jj .j Choose from the popular - cotton or 100 wool k!J flannel in bold colors mixed t J into man-size plaids... from Gant. Woolrich, or Pendleton. Cm 6 free Valley Mall RatelgK N.C Shop Moiu-SaL 10-9t30 103 East Franklin Chapel I lilUKC Shop MotuSat, 96 -wt 7 n - - ft I f f FRFF " U I any meal or sandwich. r W T,YOur Special Offor At 337 W. Rosemary St. Try any one of our delicious Oyster, Fish (Trout or Flounder), Shrimp or Combination Seafood Platters! We also have Barbeque Platters, Chicken Buckets, and Sandwiches. Cinema "Stats of Stg." Carolina Theatre. 2:40, 4:45, 6:50 8:53. Through Oct 4. Friday and Saturday late night show: Th Last Picture Show." 11:15. -Ten From Your Show of Shows." Varsity Thettre. 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9. Through Saturday. Starts Sunday: "Lady Kung Fu." 1:20, 3:15, 5:10, 7:05 ft 9. Through Oct. 2. Friday and Saturday late show, "Play It Again, Sam." 11:15. "Cays and Nights In the Forest" Alternative Cinema. Tonight at 7, Saturday at 2, 4:30, 7 ft 9:30. Murphey 111. "October 10 Days That Shook The World." Marjlc Eye Films. Sergei Eisensleln's silent film. Sunday, Oct 23, t 4 ft 7:30 p.m. In 1-A Swain Hall. "Second Breath." Chapel Hill Film Friends. Tonight at 9:30, Saturday at 11:30 p.m. Murphey 111. "Jutes and J-m" and "News Parade." Janus Rims. Sunday at 8 ft 10 p.m. at Town Hall. "Delia Oe Jour." Freewater Film Society. Tonight at 7, 9:30 ft 11:30 p.m. Biological Sciences Auditorium, Duke University. "Cries and Whispers." Quadrangle Pictures. Saturday and Sundat at 7 ft 9 p.m. Page Auditorium, Duke University. "Mutiny on the Bounty." (1935 original) Stars Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone. Sunday at 7:30 ft 10 p.m. Cat's Cradle. Free Flicks. Friday: "Charly." Saturday: The Sea GulU" Sunday: "Rabbit Run." All Hicks at 6:30 and 9 p.m. In the Great Hall, Carolina Union. Theatre "Showboat" Village Dinner Theatre In Raleigh. Buffat at 6:45 p.m., 8:30 curtain. Tickets are $9 Sunday through Thursday, $10 Friday and $11 Saturday. Nightly except Monday. For reservations call 787-7771. Stewart Theatre. Tickets are now available at the box office at the NCSU student center Tor the theatre's broadway, classical, Jazz and dance series. Tickets, $1.50, are now on sale at the Carolina Union Information Desk for the Agnes de Mille Heritage Dance Theatre, the first performance (h the Friends of the College series scheduled for Oct 3. 4 ft 5 at 8 p.m. In Reynolds Coliseum, N.C State University. General admission tickets, $2.75, are now available at 102 Graham Memorial and tedbetter-Plckard's downtown for the Playmakers' opening production, "The Threepenny Opera." "Threepenny" wtll be " CHINESE DINNER egg roll, egg: J drop soup, chicken almond, sweet; I and sour chicken, tea and almondX cookie sponsored by the; ; Community School for People; ;Under Six. Adults. $2.25.; Children. $1.00. Saturday.; September 29. Wesley; ; Foundation, 214 Pittsboro St.. 4-8 ; ;p.m. Tickets available during the; day at the Community School. 210 2 W. Cameron, or at the dinner. presented Oct 3 6 at at 8:30 p.m. in Forest Theatre. "The Hostage. Duke Players first production of the 1973-74 season. Oct 11-14, and Oct 18-21 at 8:15 In Branson Theatre, Duke University East Campus. Concerts John McLaughlin and the Mahavtshnu Orchestra. Carmlchael Auditorium. Wednesday, Oct 10 at 8 p.m. Tickets, $2.50, re now available at the Carolina Union Information Desk. Season tickets, $8, for the Chapel Kll Concert Series are now available at the Carolina Union Information Desk. The series Includes Baroque Ensemble of USSR, Leonard Rose and Gary Graffman, Edward Vlllella and George Shirley. All concerts at 8 p.m. In Memorial Ha!L $2 single admission tickets on sale two weeks prior to concert date. Michael Zenge, pianoforte. Sunday Evening Series. 8 p.m. In Kill Hall auditorium. Nightlife Town Hall. Hydra, rock from Atlanta, and Mike Williams, folk. Music begins at 9 p.m. Through Friday. Endangered Species. Tonight A.C BushncK. Music begins at 9 p.m. Cat's Cradle. Tonight: Ernest East Music begins st 9 p.m. Deep Jonah. Friday: Cedar Creek Band and Anga McBryde. Brown-bagging of beer and wine. All students must bring I.D.'s and proof of age. 8 p.m. In the union basement coffeehouse. Radio WCHL "Interlude." 1 360 on the dial. Vivaldi: Bassoon Concert! In F and No. 13 in C. Stamitz: Orchestral Trios In G maor and C major. 6:15 to 7 p.m. WDBS "Dally Concert" 107.1 FM stereo. Brehm, Chadwick, Ives, Phillips, Copland, Carter, Joplin. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. "Spotlight" Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys, by Traffic 6:30 p.m. Taster's Choice, or the Entertainment Calendar, Is Included in every issue of the Dally Tar Heel. Its purpose is to provide a thorough guide to entertainment and culture In the Triangle Area. Those wishing to Include items in the calendar should call Kevin McCarthy at 933-1011, between 3 and 5 p.m. Contraceptives .c7r.Boutique mm contraceptives books pregnancy tests love oils Franklin & Columbia Mon.-Fri. 9-6 Sat 10-4 - - (over CCB) 929-01 70 :OOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOQCOCCCC Duke University Union Major Speakers And The Environmental Center Present Rm Buckminster Fuller speaking on E-3iimarts So The Universe Tuesday Oct. 2 8:15 P.M. 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