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ftaDiRfin)ifi 'Bloody Sunday'- intelligent, truthful review by Charol Smith John Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday is an unusual film that seems to be very far away from life. It is an intelligent, well planned vision that upon reflection contains a certain truth despite the impro bable circumstances. The movie, which is about people cop ing with life, covers ten days in the lives of three Londoners and the breakup of their love affairs. G lend a Jackson as Alex Greville, an in telligent divorcee who works as an em ployment counselor, and Peter Finch, a Jewish homosexual doctor in his forties, both love Murray Head, a young, soon-to-be successful, kinetic sculpture who divides his time and affections between them. The three principals in the film do an admirable job of acting. Head is all that he should be: a free spirit who avoids pres sure and can't see why there should be any problems with the arrangement Life for him is easy and uncomplicated. Since he doesn't suffer, the others must. Finch's Dr. Daniel Hirsch is a well con ceived character and is the strongest in the film. He does not overdo being Jewish or homosexual, so instead of a stereotype we see a human being. He is precise and exact in his role and it fits perfectly. He doesn't seem to mind getting only half the loaf, and when he tells a patient "People can manage on very little," it seems to be a statement in de fense of himself. Jackson, on the other hand, is not con tent with half a loaf. This we know from close-ups of her mouth as she moves her top lip, a movement to show emotional turmoil. She does not, however, telf us ex actly what it is she does want. Jackson given an intelligent presentation but because it is all cerebral and lacks gut emotion we see and understand, but do not feel. The erotically appealing Jackson is al ways a pleasure to watch, but she doesn't show the audience anything different in this role. Penelope Gilliatt did a superb job with dialogue in her screen play and Schlesinger's direction of it is tight and well placed. Each scene seems to support the theme and Schlesinger elicits exactly the responses he wants, leaving no room for random emotions. The one exception is the bar mitzvah which makes no direct contri bution to the point, but works for just that reason. Sunday Bloody Sunday is a movie that asks us to understand those who hang on to the best deal they can get. Alex's mother says, "You keep throwing in you hand because you haven't got the whole thing. There is no whole thing." Sunday Bloody Sunday is refined emo tional plea, but too refined. The restraint and culture, and even the music, a fragment of a Mozart opera, pointed out how lit Ite many people had in common with the world presented. mmm mm Guys & Gals needed for summer employment at numerous locations throughout the nation including National Parks, Resort Areas, and Private Camps. For free information send self addressed, STAMPED envelope to Oppor tunity Research, Dept. SJO, Century Build ing, Poison, MT 59860. APPLICANTS MUST APPLY EARLY. 1 w original works of graphic art etchings, lithographs, by leading 20th century artists: Pablo Picasso Johnny Fricdlacndcr Marc Chagall Salvador Dali Alexander CalJcr Joan Miro Georges Rouault Victor Vaiarcl; and others. TOMORROW NIGHT Feb. 12th oi 8:00 P.M. EAST BALLROOM CORNHUSKER HOTEL EXHIBITION of Works, 6:30-8:00 p.m., Admission Free PRICES FROM $15.00 ALL WORKS CUSTOM FRAMED PRESENTED BY THE MERIDIAN GALLERY McLean cashes in on nostalgia NEW YORK - Bye-bye Miss American Pie; hello Don McLean. Stardom has come almost lit erally overnight to the 26-year-old balladeer whose "American Pie" record has propelled him from obscurity to fame and for tune in a matter of weeks. But it won't be gone overnight. Mc Lean is being hailed as an orig inial, poetic talent who will be around for a long, long, time. In October, McLean was play ing a Boston Club for $50 a per formance. In December, "American Pie" 1 7 I myi ' cvgg?C9 1309 "o " - y)fOs topped the list of best-selling single records and zoomed to ward total sales of 2 million. "Someone said 'there's no thing as powerful as an idea whose time has come," he said of his sudden fame. "I guess maybe my time just came." It was not only Mclean's time but the time of looking backward for his generation, the kids of the 1960s to whom he sings, "Now for ten years we've been on our own, and moss grows fat on a rollin' stone." In that line are two of the elements that have made "Aitv erican Pie" a hit: nostalgia for "a generation lost in space .with no time left to start again," and cryptic, critical references to musical styles and stars of the decade past (in this case the Rolling Stones rock group.) Deciphering "American Pie." in fact, has become a favorite pastime for McLean's fans and contemporaries. There are refer ences, some appreciative, some scathing, to such stars as Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Mick Jagger and the Byrds. Newsweek Feature Service Cinema 1 "Dirty Harry" 3:19,6:20,7:21,9:23 Cinema 2 "Sunday Bloody Sunday" 1:03, 3:03, 5:03, 7:03, 9:03 Coopaf "Gont With Tha Wind" 8 Embassy "Tha Sensual Mala" 1:10, 2:40, 4:20,6, 7:40,9:20, 11:00 Joyo "American Wilderness" 4:30, 7, 9:15 Nebraska "Play Mity For Me" 2:35, 6, 9:30 "Night of tha Living Dead" 1, 4:25, 7:50 State "The Return of Count Vorga" 2:45, 6:01, 9:17 "Bunny O'Hare" 1:10, 4:26, 7:42 Stuart "The French Connection" 7:17,9:17 Varsity "Some of My Best Friends Are" 1:18, 3:18, 6:18, 7:18,9:18 1:18, PAGE 6 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1972