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JLos flngtltg HimttS 14 Part IV May 1968 MOVIE REVIEW villager, Charles Bron-son's savage half-breed and SilviSiJPMl's fcfcftft. aristocrat- are all pretty. 6San Sebastian' in Multiples Locally gusty, larger-than-life part that suits him perfectly. (He and Armand Thiri-: ard's color photography of the rugged settings are the picture's only strong points.) Nobody else, except Jaffe, is very effective, perhaps a of the dubbing problems. An- 'Bye Braverman' at Stanley-Warner BY KEVIN: THOMAS Times Stall Writer BY CHARLES CHAMPLIN Times Enloriatnrnont Editor smuggle Quinn with him.

Soon after arriving in the deserted village, destroyed by Yaqui Indians, Jaffe is killed, leaving Quinn to persuade the villagers to return from the hills, rebuild the town and fortify it against the inevitable return of the Indians. One of those actors in whom you believe no matter what, Quinn excels in a janette Comer's adoring -V FRI-SAT-SUN 8:30 Cijeatets 1 10501 W. Pico, Wit.LA.M-;na 1 LOVERS Jessica Walter Is comforted by George Segal in scene from "Bye, Bye Braverman," playing exclusively at Stanley Warner theater, Beverly Hills. MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI Speaking on Transcendental Meditation Paulinho Trio at Apik's in East LA. SY LEONARD FEATHER Times stall Writer glum.

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TONIGHT AT 8:30 WAR THEATRE 160S N. War poken 2Dtama 31ST ANNUAL SEASON Mi- DOROTHY CHANDLER. mviuuiN OF THE MUSIC CENTER MERRICK presents St? ing to the banalities that have been associated with too much pseudc-bossa nova. His wife, Mrs. Paulinho Magalhaes, professionally Lenita Bruno, sings a few tunes to close each set.

Petite and poised, she reveals an inner strength, soul and a well-controlled vibrato. Her "Insensatez," sung in Portuguese and English, showed a rare tenderness and purity of sound. Only Weakness The group's only weakness is its lack of a guitar, an element that seems virtually indispensable in any samba oriented combo. Paulinho assures us, however, that he has just the right man warming up in some Rio bull-pen, and will have him in tow in a matter of days. Guitar or no guitar, if you are inclined toward the' batida diferente, the different beat, head for Apik's.

Accompanied by his Devotees THE BEACH BOYS 'BYE BYE BRAVERMAN' A Wnrner Bros, picture. Produced and directed by Sidney Lumet. Screenplay by Herbert Sargent trom tha novel, "To an Early Grave," by Wallace Markflcld. Photographed by Boris Kaufman. Edited by Gerald Greenberg.

Featuring George Segal, Jack Warden. Joseph Wiseman. Sorrell Booke, Jessica Waltor, Phvllis Newman, Zohra Lamport, Godfrey Cambridge, Alan King. bers of his aloneness; the drawing together just does survive the ride home from the cemetery. There is a beautiful capturing of Manhattan and Brooklyn in Sidney Lumet's direction and in Boris Kaufman's photography.

There are many moments of humor, ranging from the rye to the ribald: Warden's socio-psychoanalytic bed chat with a lady friend; Segal's soliloquy in the form of a news report to a field of tombstones cents plain now costs seven cents and I am now told that it cost $3,500 a year to be a confrontation with Godfrey Cambridge as a Jewish cab driver; Braverman's bitchy widow. The trouble is that Herbert Sargent's script does not always know when to walk softly and carry a smaller shtick; A long scene at a funeral, with comic Alan King as a comedy rabbi delivering a parody eulogy, is not simply distasteful and unnec-cessary. It misses the point (as the rest of the picture does not) that death has to be taken lightly just because it is unbearably serious not because it can be taken lightly. Picture Wobbles Indeed, the picture wobbles between insight and sight-gag, between true observation and a heavy-handed striving for ethnic jokes in a tradition which I suppose dates back beyond Potash Perlmut-ter. The unconventional and refreshing premise is thus compromised by a kind of conventionality.

But this is to measure what might have been. What is, is the picture at its most genuine is genuinely funny, and a genuinely moving account of the intimations of mortality recollected in Brooklyn. GUIDE "A Face of War" "Blue" "Bye Bye Braverman" "Closely Watched Trains" "Elvira Madigan" "Benjamin" "Far From the Madding Crowd" "Fever Heat" "Fireball 500" "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" "Guns for San Sebastian" "How I Won the War" "In the Heat of the Night" "La Chinolse" "No Way to Treat a Lady" "Red Line 7000" "Secret War of Harry Frlgg" "Stay Away, Joe" "The Day the Fish Came Out" "The Party" "The Producers" "The Scalphunters" "Tiger Makes Out" "Walt Until Dark" "Will Penny" ADULTS ONLY "Bonnie and Clyde" "Cool Hand Luke" "Good, Bad and the Ugly" "Here We Go Round the Mulberrybush" "Poor Cow" "The Fox" "The Graduate" "Valley of the Dolls" If I tell you that "Bye Bye Braverman" (Stanley-; "Warner, Beverly Hills) is a funny film about death, will rightly say that I have got to be some kind of a nut. All right, it is a ifunny sad film about' death (but not one more 'than the other), a reminder that laughter and tears are bo closely related they have a sibling rivalry going. It is a film which is ethnically very specific, which is also entirely universal.

It is most mov-: ing when it is most univer-; sal, and achieves its power effortlessly; and is less successful when, working its head off, it aims for the ethnic laughs. Four Friends The story is of four friends, each in his way I grieving, going to attend the funeral of the fifth friend, unexpectably and swiftly dead. The four are New York Jewish intellectuals, talky, competitive, brittle, enjoyable, who have apparently come up from poverty together and who now enjoy eminence and affluence (though not a great deal of either). The late Leslie Braver-man was evidently the most eminent of them all, a kind of Semitic Dylan Thomas. "He was not, a perfect person, but he had Integrity, remarks pal George Segal, who has detoured into fund-raising.

"He came home from Bennington with a prostate," snarls Jessica Walter as the widow Braver-man. He had been stricken Brooklyn was he doing in asks Segal, shocked at this lapse from status) and now Segal, Jack Warden (a literary critic aiming to the definitive book on D. H. Lawrence), Sorrell (an art critic smirking over the devasting use Kof Certainly in a putdown critique) and Joseph Wise-'jnan (an old radical who t-was the elder statesman of group) are bound for t-the outer loops of the Belt Parkway to find the servi- ces. Braverman's death dissolves the group by re- minding each of its mem- MOVIE As a guide to parents primarily, The Times lists movies in first runs or in 'multiple locations around Los Angeles.

The catego-. ries of Family, Mature Au-' diences and Adults Only represent a consensus of several national reviewing organizations and The Times' own judgment. We take Mature Audiences to include teen-agers. FAMILY "A Man for All Seasons" "Around the World In 80 Days" "Blackbeard's Ghost" "Brighty of the Grand Can--yon" "Camelot" "Doctor Dollttle" "Enter Laughing" "Gone With the Wind" "Planet of the Apes" "The Bible" "Thoroughly Modern Millie" "2001: A Space Odyssey" "Where Angels Go Trouble Follows" MATURE AUDIENCES "A Man and a Woman" "A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die" SEE IT SUNDAY MAY 19 8:00 PM HOLLYWOOD BOWL TICKETS: S7.5D-6.50-5.5O-q.50-3.5O-2.50-1.50 OK SALE AT H'WD BOWL BOX 0FC, MUTUAL TICKET AGENCIES; ALL WALLICH'S MUSIC CITY STORES. MAIL ORDERS ACCEPTED FIRST EVENT OF THE LOS ANGELES CIVIC LIGHT OPERA In intimate, unpretentious pictures like "Monkey in Winter" and "Any Number Can Win," both starring Jean Gabin, veteran French director Henri Verneuil demonstrated that straightforward story telling and char acter development could still be pertinent and entertaining despite the onslaught of the New Wave.

But when he moved on to expensive international' co-productions their large scale and lousy dubbing overwhelmed his gift for solid crafts manship. Where before he could be described as a traditionalist in the best sense of the word, "The 25th Hour" and now "Guns for San Sebastian" (in multiples) have made him seem hopelessly old fashioned and plodding, despite the fact that both starred Anthony Quinn, who responds to his direction every bit as well as Gabin did. "The 25th Hour," in GUNS FOB SAN SEBASTIAN' A Jacques Bar production for MSM release. (A Frcnch-Mexlcan-Italfan cc-productlon.) Director: Henri Verneuil; screenplay: James R. Webb.

Based on a novel by William Barby Faherty, SJ. Camera: Armand Thlrard. Film editor: Francolse Bonnet. Music: En-nlo Morrlcone. Art directors: Robert Clavel, Roberto Sllva.

Sound: William R. Slvel. Assistant directors: Claude Plnoteau, Franscope Metroscope. Running time, 100 mlnutis. With Anthony Oulnn, Anlanetfe Comer, Charles Bronson, Sam Jaffe, Silvia Pinal, Jorae Martinez de Hoyos, Jose Chavez, Jaime Fernandez, Rosa Furman.

Jorge Russek, Leon Askln. which Quinn played a Yugoslavian peasant mistaken for a Jew during World War II, had real possibilities and some good moments, but "Guns for San Sebastian" was pretty much doomed from the start. It's the old story of sinner turned saint by priestly robes. In this instance Quinn inherits them from old Father Joseph (none other than the Grand Lama himself, Sam Jaffe), who had given him sanctuary from government troops in Colonial Mexico. For this he is banished to San Sebastian, a tiny settle ment in the mountains of Chihuahua but manages to ralph 1 BLEZASO Silt.

MU Aula Club, VHIHea-i Sun. at 7 PM St Mali. 3 PM Phona (213) 626-72U mi k.i Nightly (except Sun.) at 8:30 No matinee pertormancea DAVID tony 1T MARY ROBERT MARTIN PRESTON DON DO' Drefltrfby COWER CHAMPION Seats still available The Pavilion box office (Plaza level) Southern California Music Co. and All Mutual Musical Conductor: The Westside Room I CENTURY PLAZA HOTEL. Reservations: 277-2000 East Los Angeles would not seem to be a promising area in which to scout around for music of unusual quality.

Nevertheless, working your way east along Whittier Blvd. you will eventually arrive at Apik's. Here, the regimen is easy on stomach and ear alike: Armenian and American food In the restaurant, Brazilian music in the adjacent nightclub. Paulinho, whose trio and vocalist-wife are installed through May 12 with options, is best known for his work with guitarist Bola Sete's trio, which he left a while back. (Coincidental-ly, Bola Sete's revamped group is at the Lighthouse through May 12.) Winner of annual awards throughout the 1950s as Brazil's No.

1 drummer, Paulinho has found a sympathetic new partner in Chaim Lewak, who may well be the only Israeli Brazilian pianist. The two have worked out routines tha call for subtle metric and rhythmic shifts, achieved through obviously careful preparation. New Arrival Lewak, who arrived in the United States to join Paulinho a couple of months ago, is steeped in the Brazilian tradition. Only rarely, as in "Blues Walk," is there a suggestion of any jazz influence. He plays with a crisp, percussive attack, on a piano that would do him better justice if somebody tuned it.

The trio's only direct link with jazz is the bassist, a local musician named Perry Steinberg. On his night off (Monday), Steinberg plays with the Don Ellis band. He lits into the Brazilian context fairly well, occasionally playing well-conceived parallel lines with Lewak. Without indulging in excessive solo acrobatics, Paulinho remains the center of attraction in the Rio-style trio. Obviously a musician of broad experience, (he played with symphonies in Brazil and has done extensive TV and film soundtracking here), he maintains a vibrant, commanding double-beat (eight to the bar) throughout many numbers, without ever resort LOVE! GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS 4 11 TONITE 8:30 P.M.

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