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"Cries and Vhlspr." Carolina Thaatra.
Dubbsd, to go only It you've never seen It
Erllllint examination of emotion. 2, 3:42, 5:24,
7:C3 & 8:43. $2. End today.
"Fe ::inr Roma." Varsity Theatre. Big,
omatlmtt beautiful view of Rome by FtillnL
Too oftart repetloua, vulvar and empty.
Felllnl Is always worth seeing, but this Is not
one of his best 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9. $1.75. Ends
today.
"J?remy." Plaza I. Teeny-bopper love story
cot sood reviews. 3, 5, 7 9. $2. Through
Thursday.
"The Outside Man." Plaza II. Poor crime
film. 3, S, 7 & 9. $2. Through Thursday.
"First .Position." Alternative Cinema.
Beautiful, lyrical, sometimes Inspiring story
of ballet students In New York City. An
excellent attempt to humanize art and artist
Friday at 7, Saturday at 2, 4:30, 7 and 9:33.
$1.53.
"The Bailiff." Chapel HU1 Film Friend.
Japanese film by Kenjl Mlzogouchi. Friday at
9:30, Saturday at 11:30. $1.50.
Free Flicks: "The Learning Tree," Friday,
"The Strawberry Statement" Saturday, and
"Utile Women," Sunday. All films at 6:30 & 9 In
the Great Hail.
Concerts
Judy Col tins. Friday at 9 In Carmlchael
Auditorium. Tickets, $2.50, are available at
the Carolina Union Information Desk.
The New Music Ensemble performing
works by composers Jackson Hlil and Fred
McAfee. Thursday at 8 In Hlil Hail Rehearsal
Hail. Directed by Roger Hannay. Free.
University Chamber Orchestra. Tuesday
Evening Series. Tonight at 8 In Hlil Hall. Free.
Harry Chapin. Monday, Nov. 12, at 8 in
Memorial Halt Tickets, $2, are available at the
Carolina Union Information Desk.
George Shirley. Sunday, Nov. 11, at 8 In
Memorial Hail. Tickets, $2, are available at the
Carolina Union Information Desk.
UNC Jazz Lab Band at the Frog and
Nightgown. Wednesday at 8:30 & 10.
Cameron Village Subway, Raleigh.
Budapest Symphony Orchestra. Tuesday
and Wednesday Nov. 18-17 at 8 In Reynolds
Coliseum, N.C. State University, Raleigh.
Friends of the College Series. Tickets, $1.50,
are now available at the Carolina Union
Information Desk.
Last week 1 said that it was rare to find a comedy which treated human emotions
seriously. A dramatic film which does so is perhaps not so rare but can be much
better. The Hireling, based on a novel by The Go-Between author L.P. Hartley, is as
moving and intelligent a look at the vagaries of complex human feelings as we are
likely to see this year.
The story deals with Lady Franklin, an upper-class English woman in the 1920s
who suffers a nervous collapse after the death of her husband. When she is released
from the hospital she has some difficulty adjusting back to her social environment.
She seeks companionship from Leadbetter, a hired driver whom she employs to
take her about the countryside.
Leadbetter is a strong, pragmatic common man who is at first made a little wary
by the familiarities of "Milady." He soon begins to enjoy her dependence on him
only to lose her as she begins to move in her own social circles again. As the film
moves on it is Leadbetter who has become dependent on Lady Franklin.
The tragedy of the film comes from the undefined boundaries of human
relationships. Neither of the two people can really understand what their actions
mean to the other when Lady Franklin begins to sit in the front seat with
Leadbetter he is much more moved than she can know. Leadbetter falls completely
in love with Lady Franklin, a love based entirely on fantasy interpretations of her
actions.
When Lady Franklin begins to see a young politician (and a real rotter he is, too: a
decadent, weak-smiled fop), Leadbetter can only watch in helpless frustration.
Position beautiful documentary
by Richard Farmer
Feature Writer
One of the finest documentary film
makers working today is William Richert.
His feature. Derby, which played the
Yorktowne briefly to empty houses, was one
of the best films of 1971, and his new film.
First Position, playing this weekend at the
Alternative Cinema, is also a very fine film.
The term documentary requires a little
explanation with respect to Richert's films,
for though he uses cinema-verite techniques,
his films are not strictly that form. I have
always been of the opinion that truly
objective cinematic reporting was
impossible, because of the rules of editing
and camera placement, but Richert puts
even more of himself into the film by
manipulating the action itself.
He lives with the people he is filming to get
to know them and then the film rises out of
the people themselves. In certain scenes, he
tells the people involved roughly what he
wants, and then they do it in a way natural to
them. Purists may object, but this method is
very close to that once used by Robert
Flaherty, "the father of documentaries."
In First Position, this method has
produced a beautiful film which never seems
false. It examines the life of students in the
American Ballet Theatre school, and shows
the creation of beauty for the grueling hard
work it is. The students go through a long
series of monotonous exercises.and in some
stunning shots, Richert shows sweat pouring
from them as they seem possessed by their
concentration.
From time to time, Richert cuts to a
production of Petroushka the students
prepared, held in a bare rehearsal hall. The
purpose is partially to draw a parallel
between the awakening of the puppet and
doll to the formation of artists by the
teachers.
But there is another effect, perhaps
unintentional. The bare setting gives a stark
quality to the dancing that completely strips
it of glamour. All the tortuous work was just
a job to produce a product, an interesting
way of taking art down from Mount
Olympus.
The main concentration of the film,
however, is on the people. There is Janis, a
young very ordinary Jewish girl, and her
boyfriend Daniel, who is a typist in a
National Guard unit. In a long scene.
Richert films them together, and shows that,
outside of dancing, they are really rather
banal people with nothing to say. Janis keeps
a diary in which she writes things like, "My
pink stage is becoming deep cranberry red.
There is also the young man who just cannot
take the discipline. Even though the director
feels he is promising, he quits and goes back
to Florida to become a bag-boy in a grocery.
In his desire to humanie art. however.
Richert has no desire to debunk the
dedication of these people. Janis can say,
with a sincerity that is touching, I want to
add beauty to the world. I can do this by
dancing."
And there is the portrayal of Leon
Daniellian. the director of the school.
Although confined to a wheelchair by
arthritis, he continues to teach, and the scene
of him taking charge of a class is a definition
of personal command.
When we see a silent clip of him leaping
about in his younger years, we realize how
the soul of an artist is imprisoned in a body
that must age and wear down. When
Daniellian walks into class after an
operation, the students applaud him. and it
is a truly inspiring moment.
First Position will show Friday at 7 p.m..
Saturday at 2, 4:30, 7 and 9:30 p.m. in
Murphey III.
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Since his feelings are not based on any concrete of intellectual center, he cannot
assert himself in any manly way. He is reduced to making ridiculous excuses to
telephone Lady Franklin or stop by her home. He is in as hopc!css a position as that
of a boy in love with an older woman, and since he is a strong and seemingly self
sufficient man, his humiliation is all the more pitiable.
Director Alan Bridges comes from British television and makes a good cinematic
debut here. Rather uniquely, he is a new director with a good visual sense in which
he docs not over-indulge. During the first part of the film we often see things
subjectively from Lady Franklin's point of view, and they are somewhat distorted;
but, as her madness ends and Lcadbcttcr's begins, it is his subjective point of view
that becomes distorted. Bridges also has a good instinct for the small emotional
detail such as when Leadbetter w atches Lady Franklin w hile she sleeps in his car.
I understand that Wolf Mankiewicz's script departs sufficiently from Hartley's
novel for it to be judged on its own. Mankiewicz has done a very good job. Also
quite impressive was Marc Wilkinson's musical score, which helps to emphasize
mood without ever seeming intrusive.
The greatest strength of the film comes from its two lead players. I've always
thought Sarah Miles to be a potentially strong and attractive actress, but her
mannerisms always seemed to be getting in the way of her performances. This was
particularly true earlier this year in Lady Caroline Lamb she always seems a little
frail but in that picture she looked ready for the undertaker. Bridges keeps her
mannerisms under control so that they contribute to the character rather than
distract from it. It's her finest work to date.
Even better is Robert Shaw as Leadbetter. As Stanley Kauffman pointed out,
Shaw is the only major British actor w ho carries the force of a Brando, the potential
to explode. His Leadbetter is a strong, sane man whose unmelodramatic but still
awful degradation is painful to watch. The terrible thing is that while he has the
threatening explosiveness, there is nothing he can really lash out against.
It would be impossible to discuss the film without referring to its comments on
class differences. It is significant that the film is set at a time in England when the
class structure was beginning to collapse. Yet any actual attack against the upper
classes in the film is half-hearted; the scene near the end when Leadbetter rails
against them is the falsest in the film. Lady Franklin is not seen to be unsympathetic:
she is at worst a little shallow, a victim of her class.
The true worth of this film has nothing to do with its external setting the same
situation might have been effectively portrayed under different circumstances.
What makes The Hireling such a fine film and, for me. such a moving experience, is
its penetrating exploration of the seemingly simple yet quite intricate web of human
emotions.
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