Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1972)
(Paid Advertisement) MOVIES OF THE WEEK Valley riVER TWIN CINEMA T Exclusive Eugene Engagement Open Mon Tue Thu Fri 5:45 Matinees Wed Sat Sun 1 1 : P/V From the Best Selling Novel by Ken Kesey of Eugene Filmed on the Oregon Coast paukKanan HEnaFonoa LEE REMCK amoasaRRazm Sometimes a Great ffotkm A Universal/Newman Foreman Picture TFCHMCOlOP'-PANAVtSlON l**ij Show Times Mon Tues Thu Fri. 5:51 8:00 10:10 Wed Sat Sun 1 30 3 43 5:51 8:00 10:10 Valley riVER TWIN CINEMA g NOW SHOWING Open Mon. - Fri. — 6:15 P.M. Show Time* — *:«*-*: 1» plus Show Time* — l:4S • 4: IS - 1:1# Just a person who protects children and other living things BOOT JACK ! *~,T0M LAUGHLIN - DELORES TAYLOR ! TfCHNtCOlOR*. .. [GP] "IS* “ 342-4142 West lit!’ TWIN “ DRIVE-IN NOW SHOWING Open 6:45 Free Car Heaters mm i SHAFT'S hit name. SHAFT'S his game. [IjxH* METROCOLOR mgm ^ JOE COCKER t* Cl to*v «M MM. * » . Itltil* UvtM ltd iMm • PRIVEIM ^THEATRE^ NOW SHOWING Open 6:45 Free Car Heaters 1 - HELL'S ANGELS ON WHEELS 2 - BORN LOSERS 3 - DEVIL'S ANGELS “JOeis that rare movie you simply have to see! JUOltMCMtt »OCWkv MK rv Sunday, January 23 EMU Ballroom 2 ft 7 p.m. $1.00 sponsored by ASUO Cultural Forum JOE The script by Norman Wexler, often profanely funny, is a hybrid of veristic dialogue and incredible action. A New York advertising executive murders the hippie-junkie lover of his daughter who has put the girl on drugs. In a bar the murderer dazedly mentions his crime to a factory-worker named Joe Curran whom we have just heard spouting, in hard-hat fashion, about "niggers" and young punks. Far from black mailing the wealthy murderer, Joe insists on becoming his friend, out of ideological sympathy, and eventually joins him in an East Village search for the missing daughter. The ending is both predictable and nonsensical, with the mass murder of commune-dwellers by Joe and friend. The outstanding aspect of the script is its ambivalence. A coincidence highlights this. Joe is now playing in two New York theaters. On the East Side, where I saw it, Joe's mouthings drew laughs, and the East Village swingers drew applause. The very same night a friend saw the picture at its Broadway theater where, she reports, Joe was a hero to at least some and where one woman said, after the final shoot-up, "We should kill 'em all." Besides its neatly balanced viewpoint, to make it all things to all men, besides its unbelievable story, the script makes no attempt at exploration of its materials: it simply uses what we know already about every stereotyped character and idea it employs. All these factors make Joe liable to the charge of sheer exploitation. Nevertheless, the picture has some force because of Peter Boyle's performance as Joe. Boyle has great reservoirs of quiet malevolence that give him real cinematic menace, tacit and screen-filling; and he also has the humor to keep Joe from being monotonous. SHAFT STRAW DOGS MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN STRAW DOGS A film of startling suspense and involvement wherein a young couple's idyllic life is disrupted, The ABC Pictures Corp. presentation was filmed on location in the west of England from a screenplay by Peckinpah and David Z. Goodman, based on a novel by Gordon M. Williams. Daniel Melnick was the producer. The music was by Jerry Fielding. Hoffman plays the unusual role of a quiet young American who moves with his English wife portrayed by Susan George, to a farmhouse outside a seemingly peaceful Cornish village. Their placid life is interrupfed when fhey discover fhat the savagery and violence they sought to escape is about to engulf them. Sam Peckinpah, the highly respected and sometimes controversial director of Straw Dogs, has created a film which adds a new dimension to his highly acclaimed career. Con sidered a specalist in the American West, he has attracted the attention of a cinematic "cult" for his previous successes including "The Wild Bunch," "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" and Ride the High Country."
