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Films » Campus films relieve local cinema slump So you want to go to a movie, and the only films playing down town are mutilated prints of the summer's hits and exploita tion films like Teenage Jailbait Babysitter Stewardess. The new fall releases will be arriving soon; until then, the best bets for movie goers will be found on campus. Several organizations are spon soring film series that will run throughout the term. Some series consist merely of 16 mm prints of last year's hits, but others are put together so that the individual films elucidate common themes or genres. One such series is the English Graduate Students' Shake I spearean Film Festival, which opens tonight and plays through next Wednesday. Tonight's film, like most of those in this group, is best judged not on its cinematic merits but on its success in inter preting Shakespeare's plays. The Hamlet that stars Nicol Wil liamson is powerful because of the neurotic energy he invests in the prince of Denmark. Neither intellectual nor very likeable, this Hamlet struts and frets his way across the screen in quite the most engaging interpretation I have seen in several years. Other highlights of the series in clude Roman Polanski’s Macbeth, the most visually acute film of the group; two lush and re latively empty Franco Zeffirelli films, Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew, a stolid 1970 version of Julius Caesar that is not nearly as interesting as BART’S EXXON Formerly located at Broadway & Pearl Sts. is now 2 miles East on 1-5 Next to Denny’s 343-8114 Joseph Mankiewicz’ 1953 film starring Marlon Brando as Marc Antony; and Peter Brooks King Lear, reknowned for its unique staging and Paul Schofield's magnificent performance. The Cultural Forum has already managed to bring those tired old chestnuts, Butch Cassidy, The Graduate and King of Hearts to campus, and we can at least be grateful that they are presumably over with for this term. Most of the rest of the Cultural Forum lineup is equally imaginative, but hidden among the swine are a few pearls that should not be missed. A series-within-a-series will spotlight women in American films, and while some of them, like Mae West’s She Done Him Wrong, are not very good movies, they are all excellent entertain ment. On Oct. 8, Howard Hawk’s classic of jazz age journalism, His Girl Friday, starring Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant plays, fol lowed later in the month by those old warhorses Mildred Pierce and Sunset Boulevard. In November you’ll be able to see Marlene Dietrich in Destry Rides Again, Bette Davis in Davis in All About Eve and Greta Garbo in Camille. Also scattered among Cultural Forum's more prosaic choices are Nicholas Roeg’s superb thriller Don't Look Now, in which Julie Christie, Donald Suther land and Venice never looked lovelier — a dwarf cloaked in red never looked more ominous — and Woody Allen’s futurist fantasy Sleeper, possibly his funniest film. The lineup also includes another chance to look at such recent and estimable hits as The Omen, The Turning Point and Looking for Mr. Goodbar. The Ananda Marga Society’s list includes such incompetent, recent films as The Last Remake of Beau Geste, Rocky, The Front and Coming Home alongside such treats as Bound for Glory, American Graffiti, Little Big Man and the wonderful and rarely seen Thief of Baghdad, Alexander Korda’s colorful Arabian Nights fantasy. The Department of Landscape Architecture is bringing at least two excellent films to campus this term: Anthony Mann’s Send of the River, the best western ever made bistro • cafe • TAVERNA • restaurant • kafeneion • TAVERNA pqopg greek peasant food "outside seating’ 675 E. 13th 343-0846 8:00 am-10:30 pm closed Tuesday Now Comes Miller Time DUFFY’S THURSDAY SEPT. 28th 7:00 pm Pitcher Sale 8:30 pm FREE Miller’s Duffy’s T-Shirts to first 300 people 9*00 pm Disco Nite Friday Sept. 29th Pitcher Sale 4-6 Live Music 5-6 Friday & Saturday Dance to Abacus 9-2 Get your act together for Duffy’s Amazing Gong Show, Thurs. Oct 5. about the settlement of Oregon, and Werner Herzog's desert epic Fata Morgana. The most interesting program available to campus moviegoers this term comes from the Iris (for merly University) Film Society. Each term this year the Society will present films of a particular genre. Next term it’s the western, but this fall brings the opportunity to view some classic gangster and detective movies you haven’t seen in years. Highlights of the series are Howard Hawks’ film version of Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep, playing this Saturday night; John Huston’s The Maltese Fal con on Oct. 14;Sam Fuller’sDeacf Pigeon on Beethoven Street and Underworld U.S.A. Oct. 21 and again Dec. 9; Carol Reed’s The Third Man starring Orson Welles on Nov. 4; and Jacques Tourneur’s magnificent Out of the Past, a rarely seen 1947 thriller starring a young and sexy Robert Mitchum, on Oct. 28. So you’re not so dependent on the whims of downtown film pro gramming after all. Check posters around campus and Emerald classifieds for dates, times and lo cations, and spend the whole fall watching movies when you should be studying. By Bill Lingle roofs Die (Continued from Page 9B) In Godfather a major tenet was that organized crime and big busi ness operate upon the same rules and neither is as loathsome as we would make them out to be. There are fundamental rules in this world | and it’s just too bad they have no thing to do with morality. In Fools, Puzo makes his case for a similar observation about the worlds of gambling, movies and literature. These three worlds, where everyone is hustling for himself, worlds without allegiance to family or corporation, in fact suffer more under Puzo’s crap-detecting gaze than did the worlds of crime or bus iness in Godfather. It’s to Puzo's credit that while he’s showboating for the literary establishment, he takes a candid view of it as well. It’s also to his credit that even the autobio graphically drawn Merlyn indulges in bribe taking at one point and in an adulterous affair at another. Merlyn wants to have it both ways — wants a faithful wife and a faithful mistress. The contradic tion is of course unworkable, and his affair fails ultimately when his lover sleeps with Osano. Puzo, the novelist, wants Fools to be both a mammoth bestseller and a literary masterpiece. “You have to have heavy bones in your work when you write a novel,” says Osano. This book has heavy bestseller bones and light literary ones. It is deformed and barely survives, hobbles along, the victim of its creator's greed for commercial and critical success. By William Kogut A note from m 4-Oth A Donald Eugene, Oregon 34-5-8289 Bring this ad and get 33 Vs % OFF LIST PRICE of any new GUITAR in our store when purchased with its case at the regular price. Limit one coupon per customer, no trades. Expires 10-15-78
