Ross to screen donated film collection
By Samuel McKewon
Senior editor
It’s the thought of a gift that
counts. But perfect timing never
hurts. i
It’s a way of looking at the
553 short and feature-length
films donated to UNL’s Mary
Riempa Ross Film Theater by
patron Jerry Jensen. The films
range from the silent era to the
1980s, and include a few of the
seminal works of those eras.
Ross Director Dan Ladely
lauded the new additions to the
theater’s collection, adding that
they come at a key time in the
development of the UNL film
community. The Film Studies
major is still defining itself for
the long term, while a new Ross
Film Theater is being built across
the street from its current loca
tion in the Sheldon Memorial Art
Gallery.
“(The collection) is one that
will be invaluable for film stu
dents as well as our patrons for
years to come,” Ladely said. “It is
especially auspicious ip light of
our new building.”
The Ross will have a chance
to showcase seven films in the
collection during its summer out
door series, which starts
Wednesday with “The African
Queen.” Co-sponsored by the
University Program Council with
funding support from the
Nebraska Arts Council, the series
runs on Wednesdays around
9p.m. outside Kimball Recital
Hall. Admission, which includes
complimentary popcorn and
soda, is free.
A schedule of the series:
June 14,h “The African
Queen” (1951)
Think “Heart of Darkness”
without Kurtz and well, the dark
ness, and “The African Queen”
zooms into focus with a tricky
World War I subject. Humphrey
Bogart and Katherine Hepburn
travel on a small boat, whose
mission is to cruise through the
African jungle toward a lake and
sink a German sub.
Not the first picture for
Bogart or Hepburn, their crafts
are well-honed and they play off
each other for the entire movie.
It’s Old Hollywood, and one of its
better directors, John Huston, is
at the helm.
June 21- “Woodstock”
(1970)
This movie is mile-long at
three hours, but at least half of it
is worth watching. “Woodstock”
unflinchingly captures the 1969
experience, better than nearly any
live music documentary ever
filmed. Jimi Hendrix is the show
case for many watchers, but the
film does get repetitive. Some
fans, however, won’t move until
after midnight.
June 28-“It’s a Mad Mad Mad
Mad World (1963)
See this film only if you love
comedy - broad, guffawing com
edy. Another time beast (three
hours, 10 minutes) of epic tom
foolery. Milton Berle, Sid
Caesar, Ethel Merman, Mickey
Rooney and Jimmy Durante.
Want a plot? This film is comedy
with a buried-loot backdrop. I did
not like it But Merman fans will.
July 19,h -“It Happened One
U (The collection) is one that will
be invaluable for film students as
well as our patrons for years to
come. It is especially auspicious in
light of our new building.”
DanLaddy
director, Mary Riepma Ross Theater
Night”
Trademark Frank Capra story
starring Clark Gable and
Claudette Colbert, who meet on a
bus under vastly different cir
cumstances. Sweet, well-played,
meaningful. In other words,
Frank Capra.
July 26 — “M*A*S*H*”
Not everything is initially
lucid about “M*A*S*H*the
first well-know film of Robert
Altman’s career, and still one of
his best. A second viewing is
needed to see all its layers, the
running soundtrack of the base
camp, the attitudes, the odd foot
ball game right in the middle
which serves as a centerpiece of
the movie and an interlude at the
same time. The television show,
which has become more popular
than the movie, owes quite a bit to
Altman.
The movie proves that this
type of narrative, opposite in tone
and sensibility from a movie like
“Saving Private Ryan,” can work
in proper care.
Aug. 2 — “The Bridge on the
River Kwai”
And here comes a completely
different war movie, entrenched
in the struggle of two proud lead
ers. A British officer (Alec
Guinness) is imprisoned in a
Japanese camp and forced to
labor on a bridge by an Axis com
mander (Sessue Hayakawa).
Another prisoner (William
Holden) looks for escape.
Straightforward and tense, direc
tor David Lean based this on a
true story. Hard to say how much
we can really believe.
Aug. 9 - “Butch Cassidy and
the Sundance Kid”
The screenplay by William
Goldman lives in movie lore as a
brilliant, original creation. Well,
it is on most accounts, in the
sense that Goldman writes action
and tense dialogue together per
fectly and the jump scene is cited
over and over as the scene to beat
most scenes. It's hard not to like
bank robbers Butch and
Sundance - Paul Newman and
Robert Redford here. Their pair
ing in “The Sting” sure never
lived up to their chemistry in this
film. And the shift to South
America works surprisingly well.
Not particularly violent, the
whole effort is more or less for
gettable, but very, very good
while moving along.
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