University Daily Kansan
Thursday, November 29, 1973
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By C. S. GROOM
Kanan Reviewer
Cops Steal to Cope with World
Kansan Reviewer
"Cops and Robbers" will surprise you—it's a good movie. Yet, you wouldn't think so with such a typical title. It's a typical movie but it's a typical insight. It also was the Mafia.
Cliff Gorman and Joseph Bologna star as two policemen who decide to use their police uniforms in an underbanded way. They are dissatisfied with their meaty salaries and are envious of the wealthy men in New York City, where they work.
The beginning of the movie shows us why
Movie Describes Dancers' Work
By MICHELE LONSDORFER
Kansas Restaurant
"Life is one's work, and my life is to dance," says Rudolph Nureysev, universally recognized as the best dancer in the world, in "I Am a Dancer." Work is also the theme of the movie which stars Nureysev and Dame Margot Fontenoy.
The approach is sober, and the subject is treated quite seriously. Dance is a religion; its priest and talented son is Nureyce. As in each religious cult, sacrifices are needed. The hard work, the long, dull, painful exercises, the rehearsals, the total hours of training is the search for perfection through the total control of each nerve and muscle.
There are few traces of stardom in this movie, made three years ago for French television by Pierre Jourdan. Instead, the behind-the-stage work is emphasized.
The result is a masterful rendition of the transformation of a man into a character of ballet, the stretching of the personality, as well as the muscles, to reach and overcome
The dreary work is strikingly opposed to the shining alabootness and easiness apparent onstage, as shown in excerpts from ballets like *Tragicus* (1967), *"La Sylphide"* and *"Sleeping Beauty"*.
The short modern dance sequence gives added excitement to make the movie well
The movie is a very well produced introduction to different aspects of dance that allows all viewers to enjoy dreams of perfect beauty.
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they are dissatisfied with their jobs. The movie doesn't spare the audience from any of the gore city policemen go through daily. You see that the cops get bored when they have to give traffic tickets, and you see some shot-outs with crazy people. You also see an injured woman who has murdered someone and doesn't want to take the job. They don't even realize very real and very taxing. The movie wasn't funny at all at first.
You also see the living conditions of what must be the typical city policeman. It doesn't look like much fun, and you sympathize with police who want higher salaries. So you understand why these two cops want to be rich. However, it's not quite so clear as to why they choose an underground method.
"Cops and Robbers" is supposedly a funny movie. But the audience didn't laugh
The theme of the movie is that with "this many people" in New York City, "you've gotta steal it to make up the difference," in the movie, however—especially the portrait of the typical "Mafia." The humor is dry, and if you're not careful, it can skip by you fairly easily. Moreover, "Cops and Robbers" makes sense because same feeling "Bonnie and Cludy" evokes,
much. The two cops evoke too much sadness because of their personalities.
The movie has a capacity to gnaw at the audience because it shows things you've always heard about, but never wanted to believe.
"Cops and Robbers" isn't the movie to see if you want a vacation from the troubled news of the newspapers. It reverts to the question of how much we can trust any part of the government. Perhaps the movie has been misplaced in time—perhaps, if we were watered by the government this at night, we could find some things to launch at.
Then again, perhaps there are some citizens who have remained untouched by the Watergate matter. They will be able to laugh at several incidents in this movie.
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"A superb and important film...It has a desperate urgency all its own. Scrupulously fair, profoundly humanistic, undeflected by rhetoric and propaganda, Ophuls is the Orwell of the cinema."
"I think Ophuls has succeeded at the very highest and the most important level. Few feelings have contributed as much to our understanding of the psychology of political conflict."
"The sights and sounds of Northern Ireland in Marcel Ophuls' 'A Sense of Loss' do not easily wash away. They stick like salty sand." — Vincent Canby, New York Times
A film about Northern Ireland.
A SENSE OF LOSS
by Marcel Ophuls, Who made 'The Sorrow and the Pity'
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