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This Week’s Films...
Oct. 14 — "The Gold Root"
“Tho Gold Rush’* is consi
dered by moot to bo tho boot of
Charles Chaplin, sod tLe silent
screen’s finest comedy. It is the
bitter-sweet tele of the Little
Tramp's misplaced love in the
days of the Klondike Gold Rush.
Made from a 36mm print, this is
the complete, original version,
with a new music score recently
added.
Oct. 16 — “Citizen Kane"
' Citizen Kane". Orson Wel
les first film, is s Imdxnsrk of
modern movie-making for its
technical virtuosity. The emo
tion pecked story of Charles
Foster Kane, goliath of the
publishing world, la told with
dynamic editing, backward and
forward in time. Camera angle
and perspective were shifted
imaginatively in all directions to
•wallow the viewer into Kano's
life. Directing his own vital
performance. Welles creates a
truly cinematic masterpiece in
"Citizen Kane."
Ost. 16 - "The Magnificent
Ambernons"
Set in the end of the
nineteenth century. "The Mag-
nificient Ambersons" embodies
the sorrow of love frustrated by
rigid social morals. Isabel
Ambereon. rosily in love with
Eugene Morgan, an automobile
designer, marries one of her
social equals. Upon her hus
band’s death twenty > sera Later,
Isabel seeks to renew her love
for Eugene, only to be
unhappily blocked by her own
egotistical son. In Orson Wel
les' imaginative style, the
tragedy of * unfulfilled love
becomes a cogent study of a
fading aristocracy.
Oct. 18 — *‘400 Blowa"
First and foremost of the New
Wave masterpieces ia this
moving story of a young boy
turned outcast. Not loved at
home or wanted at school, he
sinks jito a private and fugitive
existence that leads to reform
school. Actually the autobio
graphy of Director Francois
Truffaut’s childhood. "The 400
Blows" has now been re-edited
by him into a new and
never-before-seen version.
Movie Review
“Black Sunday ” Marathon Man ”
Orsoe WeUeeias
Bruce Dem is still waiting for
stardom, that aerie position
*» where he will be able to pick
and choose the roles he wants to
play. He’s almost made it. with
meaty roles in "The Great
Gataby," and moat recently, in
Hitchcock's "Family Plot."
Now he’s hoping thmi his
leading role ia Paramount's
"Black Sunday" will put him
over the summit. '
"Being a good actor ia not
enough." says the lanky,
long-faced actor, "like Shake
speare says, the play’s the
thing.’ but in this instance, it’s
a commercial film that counts.
Producers and studios are only
interested in films that make
money. If an actor ia in
money-making films, he gets
his choice of roles. Right now. I
have plenty of offers. I’ve been
working constantly, but I
haven’t reached that plateau yet
where I can afford to turn down
roles, like Radioed and Newman
can."
Dern has immersed himself
m the role of a returned POW
who was tortured by the
Vietnameee. He has had night-
• mares thinking about the
captured pilot cramped up in a
wired tiger cage.
i "When I think about him. I
v-gec^jaaafrophobia." Dern coo-
J tends. "I'm a guy who likes to
ran. I get out and jog every
morning before I report to the
set. When I'm not working —
and that hasn't been often lately
— 1 run up and down the Kjlli
around Lake '“Vkho* wherd I
have a home. So I begin to f^el
all cramped up when I think
about those cages
Curiously, the part ia not
baaed on an actual person or
event. However. Dern talks
about the character as R he
•riled. It ia his own acting
style, frhich be refers to as
immersion rather than “me
thod."
"1 tried to think about whet a
eras like lo be isolated from
/
people, no one to talk too,
completely detached. I sudden
ly took on all of his personality
traits and 1 became a miserable
and unhappy person."
Dern chose an inopportune
time too throw himself*lnto the
character, he says. "I took my
wife to Paris and I ended up
hating the place. 1 looked at
everyone suspiciously and ar
gued conManUy with my wife,
with waiters, with drivers —
everyone. U wasn't me; I was
acting out the role."
"In Black Sunday." baaed on
the best-selling. novel by Tho
mas Harris. Dern plays an
emotionally diatrubed veteran
who pilots the television blimp
covering the Superbowl. Mike
Tender, the character portrayed
by Dern. ia unable to find a )ob
piloting a commercial plane
when he ia released front the
POW camp and seeks ven
geance by volunteering to
participate in an Arab terrorist
plot to bomb the football
stadium.
Swiss-born Marthe Keller,
who made her American film
debut in "Marathon Man,"
which has not yet- been
released, plays a leader of the
Black September organization
lhaft engineers the attack on the
Orange Bowl.
Marthe Keller found her role
in "Black Sunday more chal
lenging than the part she play* j
in "Marathon Man. "
"Now I have to think terrible
things to make me appear
upaet. Everyone ia pleasant and
easy to -work with- But when I
was working with Dustin, it was
different. He was always losing
his temper and making me cry.
so it was easy to play that part
on screen."
Hoffman and Academy A-
ward-winning director John
Schleeinger had constant differ
ences while shooting "Mars-
thoo Man." after Laurence
Cuvier had completed his role
Out of deference to Olivier.
‘ v
Hoffman apparently controlled
his temper until the distinguish
ed actor's departure But the
following day, Hoffman storm
ed off the set after a volatile
exhange with Schleeinger. who
had directed him in "Midnight
Cowboy."
Schleeinger asked Hoffman to
walk through a scene with
Marthe. The actor started and
then stopped short "It’s not
right." he said to the director.
• Dop’t worry about it. Dusty,
I know what I’m doing I'll take
care of it in the editing."
"Man. it's not right It's not
organic." the actor repeated
several times.
"Believe me. Dusty, it'll
work.' ’ Schleeinger insisted
Hoffman shouted a number of
expletives, kicked the floor and
stormed out. pausing briefly to
air his complaints to Robert
Evans.the producer. Evans,
who has been president of
Psramount before becoming an
independent producer, found
himself with a new role as s
moderator
If the movie becomes a
financial success, it may have
been worth it. At any rate, it
was an auspicious beginning for
V art he Keller, and contributed
to her knowledge of English.
"I learned many new words
from Dustin that I didn't learn
in English class. ' the European
star observed.
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