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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1976)
thurxdsy, octcber 7, 1976 pcj 10 deify ncbmkzn rcovi n m fl'C ' .' f"J3l Y1 Vs i y oew f iSms sooi to God screso dromigra ri Lincoln is in the doUrums as far as movies-are con cerusi. Keaxly aH the HLns now playing are reissues of f2sts more than a year old or leftovers from early or Aicut sH the viewer has to pick, from is Alice in Wkmdesisml, a bottom of the barrel sexploitation; The Qzzsa and .SKstf ,!irfc, two films still hanging on from s szzzser; Fctutt, the umpteenth re&ue of the old BIsney c&ssc; or Sex w&A a Smile, a Marty Feliman If yon're imexcited about the above prospects, you're est alone. Earlier this month six theatres along New freeze frames York's Broadway announced they were closing down simply because they could not find enough good new fZmsto screen. . However, there are a number of important or interest Kg pictures either in production or about to be released. The drought should be broken soon. Movies released Ve should be able to see A Matter of Time, the new Vincente Minnelli film starring his daughter, Liza, and Icgrid Bergman. Also awaiting release is The Last Tycoon, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel, starring Robert Deniro and Jack Nicholson, and directed by Ella Kazan. It remains to be seen if Fitzgerald can ever be trans ferred successfully to the screen. John Frankenheimer The Manchurian Candidate has a new thriller entitled Black Sunday about plans to sabotage the Super BowL This one should be fun. Also eagerly awaited is Francis Ford Coppola's Apoca lypse Now, based on Joseph Conrad's novel Heart o Darkness. The film will star Mai Ion Brands, Robert DuvaH and Martin Sheen. John Schlesinger will try his hand at a thriller, Mara thon Man, from the best seller by William Goldman. It will star Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier. FHm discussed One of the most talked about films, to be released at Christmas, is the remake of King Kong. This time, how ever, the ape scales the World Trade Center, instead of the Empire State Building. The Hollywood veterans are keeping busy. Sam Peck fcpsh is in Yugoslavia shooting The Iron Cross, a World War II epic starring James Coburn, James Mason and MaximEian ScheU. George Cukor is directing Faye Dunaway in Vicky, a f2m about an early feminist. Fred Zinneman is making Julia based on a book by Lilian Hellman-starring Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave. Robert Wise wd be attempting to recover from the disasterous Hindenburg with Audrey Rose, a thriller about reincarnation. ' John Sturges and an all-star cast are working on The Eagle Has Landed about a World War II rescue operation. Stanley Kramer is trying a comeback with The Domino Principle, which involves political assasination. William Friedkin (The Exorcist) is back at it again with Sorcerer another thriller starring Roy Schekfer. Peter Yates (Bullitt) and Robert Shaw are currently working on the screen version of Peter Benchley's novel The Deep, which also stars Jacqueline Bissett and Nick Nolte. Work begun Representing music and comedy will be Martin Scor sese's New York, New York, which stars Liza MineDi and Robert Deniro. Woody Allen is at work on an un named project co starring Diane Keaton. Mel Brooks is developing a new film spoofing director Alfred Hitchcock. Producer Joseph Levine is making one of the most expensive films in history, in true blockbuster style. Entitled A Bridge Top Far, the World War II epic boasts a cast consisting of Dirk Bor garde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Elhbt Gould, Gene Hack man, Anthony Hopkins, Hardy Kruger, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Redford,MaximiIlian Schell and Liv Ullrnan. The director is British actor Richard Attenbor ough. The British film industry is busy with a new large scale James Bond feature; a new Tony Richardson feature, Joseph Andrews, starring Ann-Margaret; and the first English film of French director Alain Resnais. Some big scale screen biographies are in the works, including Valentino with Rudolf Nureyev in the title role under Ken Russell's direction; and from the pro ducers of Patton comes MacArthur, starring Gregory Peck. Sequels told Sequels, the staple of Hollywood, also are evident. jimnrt 1977 is tearing up with a cast that includes Jack Umrnon and James Stewart. The Exorcist tt: The Heretic hopes to cash in on the success of its predecessor. The cast includes Richard Burton, Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher, Max Von Sydow and James Earl Jones, John Boorman, who turned down an offer to direct the original version, is doing the sequel. And last but not least, is jaws , attempting to ride the wave or popularity left by its ancestor. There should be something for just about everybody in the new movies. The trouble is that most of the movies will probably be released at the same time, with another drought following. But the main concern of the distri butors is box office, and we shouldn't expect them to change their releasing habits. , . Theatre provides free entertainment Hang onto your hats, the entertainment is free. Chicago's internationally acclaimed Free Street Theatre (FST) will perform at noon today in Sheldon's Sculp ture Garden. . They will conduct an Arts in the Community work shop from 2:30 to 4 pjn. today in the Nebraska Union Small Auditorium. At 6:30 pjn., the troupe moves to 13th and O streets for a street performance. FST is a company of 20 actors, singers, dancers, musi cians and technicians. It was recognized this year by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. The company performs on a 40-foot mobile stage. FST will present shows featuring popular dance, music, puppetry, juggling and audience participation. Carole Gourlay, UNL Student Y director, said ."Some of us saw FST perform at our national YVYCA conven tion last summer and we knew we wanted them to come to the campus to share their spirit of freedom, creativity and involvement in the arts by all people." - FST's visit here is a Mid-America- Arts Alliance project sponsored by the Student Y and Southeast Community College. "The company is racially mixed and is a living, growing statement that diverse peoples can come together, blend their special talents and come up with a beautiful unity," Gourlay said. 11 J (VI l ( ( : . n ) I a capsule history la the beginning it was man alone ainst the wilderness. It didn't take la Eg for the tides to turn. Soon it was the wMeroess In ne csscovered cinema. Of premier imnort ance to out story is that he also discovered movies make money. 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