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University Daily Kansan, March 12, 1981
Hollywood offers viewers respectable movie choices
By MIKE GEBERT
Contributing Reviewer
A theater is 24 hours a day, 363 days a year. A day has 24 hours, 363 days out of the year, a few hours of the day.
That's why midnight movies were invented, and that's why Hollywood does its best to provide a steady stream of movies throughout the year to lure you away from your TV set. A box-office hit, "American Gigol," indeed, last year's "American Gigol" became a hilly because it came out at an off-break time of the year. Paramount figured they could dump this apparent bomb in February and nobody would notice. But starved moviegoers pounced on it as the only new movie in town, and made it
So while the next few months won't bring any blockbusters, the screen should be brightly lit with a stream of respectable movie choices. And you never know . . . one of these could be the next "Star Wars." (But more on that in a moment.) What to look for in the next couple of months.
MELVIN AND HOWARD. Universal originally released the latest film by critically acclaimed director Jonathan Demme last year; advertised as a yuk-yuk yokel comedy instead of the sharp descendant of Preston Sturge's comedies that it is, died. With the help of a few Oscar nominations, it has been resurrected and may yet hit Lawrence. It's the story of Melvin Dummar, the gas-station attendant who picked up a driver who turned out to be Howard Higges in a fight. Though that film is based on it, it's really about the American dream, with a fresh, funny-serial slant. Paul LeMat is Melvin, and Oscar-nominee Mary Steenburgen is his wife.
THEIF. James Cana stars as John Bardolino, one of the world's most successful and accomplished thieves. This is the first feature film directed by Michael Mann, director of the TV movie "The Jericho Mile" with Peter Strasburg. Hollywood is expecting it to be a new "French
Connection," from a different point of view of course.
THE DOGS OF WAR. Frederick ("The Day of the Jackal") Forsyth's espiionage thriller, about a mercenary hired by a multinational consortium to overthrow a government in a potentially lucrative country, stars Christopher Walken (Nick from "The Deer Hunter") in his first leading role. Directed by John Irvin, it promises to be a thoughtful, exciting and hopefully more than one-dimensional thriller, something we haven't had in quite a while.
SPHINX. Yes, it's quite probably dreadful,
starring TV's reigning petticots-and-sleaze queen, Lesley-Anne Down, overactor Frank Langelia and, in nice color photography, those pyramids. We can hope that the adaptation of "Asteroid Mk.15" has some fun, at least, though mummy-curses stories are a bad ol' fashioned by now. Franklin Schaffner ("Planet of the Ames") directed.
Flynn, there are fourteen-year-olds and there are fourteen-year-olds, especially in Hollywood). His first Oscar nomination since "Chinatown" stars natassia Jasksi as the heroine of Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles." Reviewers note that she overly caudal, as would seem prudent for Polarski's adaptation, but given the source material and Polarski's reputation, it should be interesting.
TESS, Roman Polanski's first film since his troubles with the law (as the judge said to Errol
RAGTIME. Milos "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Forman took over this adaptation of E.L. Doctorov's 1975 bestseller after producer Dino DeLaures命指 Robert Alman and numerous writers, concentrating on a fiction novel set in the early 1900s, on an embittered black in the early 1900s, on a life shooting of Stanford White, and drawing in characters like Emma Goldman, Scott Joplin and Houdini, the Czech-born Forman should make it an interesting look at America. James was lured from retirement to play a police officer as Stanford White leads a cast newcomers.
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY. The latest James Bond thriller will be due in early summer. The fifth Bond film for Roger Moore and the thirteenth in the series, should be a bit more refined than its glitzy predecessor, "Moonraker". There should be more reliance on character, less on special effects, and the beautiful woman at Bond's side will be played by Carole Bouquet, whom many know from Bunuel's "That Obscure Man". The movie also presents plenty of fast-paced expensive action to mesmerize the viewer as Bond goes to battle with yet another power-mad criminal genius.
EXCALIBUR. And if you still haven't had enough adventure, stand by for a Tolkien-esque boom in sword-and-sorcery stories, including: "Conan the Barbarian," with Arnold Schwarzenegger, a version of Tristan and Isolde from "Allen" director Ridley Scott, a planned sequel to *The Lord of the Rings* experimental director Harsun-Lursen Syberian fame, and "Excalibur," perhaps the most promising of all. Directed by John Boorman, who did "Deliverance" and "Zardoz," a mad-
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denying brilliant and stupid film which might qualify as the most pretentious science fiction
This version of the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table could be the definitive screen version of that tale (not that there's much competition). A fine cast of moderately well-known British actors, including Nicol Williamson as Merlin and splendid location
photography aid what some suspect could be the next "Star Wars."
STAR WARS. Speaking of which ... it's all very quiet now, but it seems likely that sometime in April George Lucas *space-western epic* will be re-released. Last time it was re-released, it was followed by ten top-grossing films of the year, so get ready to stand in for the how many times is it now?
TODAY
THE UNIVERSITY OPEN FORUM with
kira and executive vice chancellor, will be
at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday.
On Campus
AN ANTHROPOLOGY LECTURE will feature Ray Thompson, University of Arizona, on "Museum Employment and Cultural Resources" at 1 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union.
AN ART LECTURE by Larry Schwarm photographer, will feature "Snapshots: Homegrown Masterpieces" at 2:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Spencer Museum of Art.
LA MESA ESPANOLA (Spanish Table) will meet from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in 3059 Wescoe. All native speakers and students of Spanish descent are welcome.
THE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL will meet at 3:30 p.m. in 108 Blake Hall.
THE KU GERMAN CLUB will show a series of short films about current events in Germany at the ILLINOIS FILM EXPO.
A LIFE-ISSUE SEMINAR ON SPIRITUAL
WELLNESS will meet a 4pm. in the
Ecumenical Church of St. Mary.
NEW PERSPECTIVES will present a talk by A.E.W. Wildsmith-on "The Natural Sciences Know Nothing of Evolution" at 7 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Union.
THE ACADEMIC COMPUTER CENTER will present an "Introduction to SPSS" at 17:00 p.m. in
the auditorium of the Academic Computer Center.
TOMORROW
A FINE ARTS HORRIB RECTAL will be at 8 pm. in the Swarthorst Recital Hall in Murphy HWY.
A SOCILOGY DEPARTMENT INFORMAL LECTURE will be presented by Judith Stacey on her current research on the Chinese family at 10:30 a.m. in 768 Fraser Hall.
KENNETH A. SPENCER MEMORIAL LECTURE will present Paul Berg, 180 winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, on "Dissection and Reconstruction of Genes and Chromosomes" at 1 p.m. in woodruff Auditorium in the Union.
AN AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM will present Tom McMurry on Who Said It Wouldn't Fly? (A Test Plot's View of Robot Research "Reward vehicle") at 3:00 p.m. in 314 West George.
A SOCILOGY COLLOQUIUM will present Judith Stacey on "Patriarchy and Socialist Revolution in China" at 3:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union.
THE BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Union.
A STUDENT CELLO RECITAL by David Mason p.m. in the Swarthwout Recital Hall in Murphy.
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PLAY BEGINS; Saturday, March 28 10:00 a.m. Clinton Dam
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The Natural Sciences Know Nothing of Evolution."
A talk by Dr.
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7:00 P.M.
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Kansas Union Ballroom Thursday, March 12th 7:00 P.M.
Dr. Wilder-Smith received his first doctorate in physical organic chemistry in 1941 at the University of Reading, England and has since earned two other doctorates. He is the author of coauthor of over 50 scientific publications, and more than 20 books which have been published in English, German, French, Russian, and Rumanian. At present, he is engaged in the production of TV films tracing the origin of the universe and the origin of life and species.
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Deadline—March 13,5 p.m.
Thursday, Mar.12 The River
Jean Renoir's lyrical, sumptuous version
his children's novel about English
children grown up in France.
color photography by his Brother Claude,
Saint Germain. N° 706. Swinburne
(97 min.) Color: L-30.
Friday, Mar. 13
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
(1979)
Alan Alda wrote and stars in this fine film about an up-and-coming scientist, basically a decent fellow, falling prey to the terror of the white-collar portrait of Washingtonian ways, with Mylin Steele, Barbara Harris and Melvin Douglas, directed by Jerry Schatzbinder. "The Cat in the Snow" Locked Home ("10:59 pm") Color: 3:30, 7:00; 9:30.
Unless otherwise noted all film will be shown at various Auditorium in the Friday, Saturday, Popular and Sunday Fridays. Saturday, Popular and Sunday Fridays. Tickets available at $200. Tickets available at $165. See union. 4th level. Information 864-3950. No smoking or refreshments allowed.
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