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10 Section 3 Chicago Triburte. Monday, May 23, 1975 I ompoMovios MOTION PICTURES DOWNTOWN MOTION PICTURES DOWNTOWN MOTION PICTURES DOWNTOWN Day of the Locust5 overdoes itself if M(l iH-H'M i( VHi HM'M Jitu lU Jlil'i 'MM'll tli Jf0ta 1( 'Hi Showing Exclusively Cowntown at the GUiGAGO A Plitt Thaalr. STATE NR. RANDOLPH NOW! Open 8:45 a.m. LAST FEATURE 10 P.M.

jm a- 'Kt-VsP H.Vi. "ENORMOUSLY i our senses never 10th WEEK LAST FEATURE Showing be the Exclusively Goldie Hawn's husband in "The Sugarland Express" as Tod and Donald Sutherland as weird Homer are the only human touchstones In a heavy-handed social diatribe. Sutherland's Homer is someone to behold. With slicked-back hair and heavily perspiring face, Sutherland even in repose is- always threatening to bust loose in anger at his profound loneliness. And to the degree he keeps his emotions in check, he draws our empathy.

The film's remaining characters, however, hide nothing from us, and we feel nothing for them. They simply are used by Schlesinger as just so many stairsteps to a pulpit where he can deliver a lecture. FILM NOTE: Best revivals this week in neighborhood theaters include "Bob A JOHN f-RANKENHEIMLR FILM FERN'ANDO REY i ROBERT ROSEN ALEXANDER JACOBS ROBERT DILLON LAURIE DILLON am ROBERT DILLON 4 Onw nowwr CLAUDE COLOR BY DELUXE EXHILARATING, LIKE A ROLLER-COASTER RIDE!" N.w,w..k win same. fb ot the N- DESPITE 1NDIVIDUAI, scenes of great beauty and two performances of considerable depth, "The Day of the Locust" breaks down most every step of its splendiferous way, because it is so totally obvious about its higher purpose, about its ultimate meaning. The luxurious period film is bated on Nathanael West' bitter 1939 novel about Hollywood's losers and the compelling lure of mob violence as a reaction to an empty life.

West's story is set in Hollywood's heyday, but it's not a saga of stars. The focus, rather, Is on the sour people who, as West wrote, "loitered on the corners or stood with their back to the shop windows and stared at everyone who passed. When their stare wts" returned, their eyes filled with hatred they had come to California to die." West himself worked as a Hollywood screenwriter for five years until his death from an automobile accident in 1940 at age 37. OUR PRINCIPAL guide thru West's Tinsletown is one Tod Hackett, a young, Yale-educated painter drawn to Hollywood to work as a set designer. West doesn't spend much time on the vagaries of Tod's career; instead, he's more concerned with the people Tod meets: Faye Greener, the 17-year-old who says she'll commit suicide if she doesn't become a star; her father Harry, a sickly Vaudevillian MOTION PICTURES 1st Run Chieagoland Sentenced to 28 years in never committed.

Only two A lot of money and 1- IN QUINTAPHONIC SOUND Columbia Pictura Ralaou For Group Soles Call Julie, RA 6-5300 Ext. 221 MOTION PICTURES DOWNTOWN EE BEWARE OF THIS PAIR tender, loving, terrifying! Rudy Ray NOW! Open 9 a.m. LAST FEATURE 10:20 pm I bops on the condemnation bandwagon that West joins only' at the end of his novel. The movie's characters roll by as signs of sickness, not as believable human And that Judgment was made when I saw the picture before I had reread the novel. An attitude of superiority to his characters does not well suit the filmmaking of John Schlesinger.

In "Midnight Cowboy," and more recently in, "Sunday Bloody Sunday," Schlesinger took unconventional people and revealed their strength; in "The Day of the Locust," however, despite the film's 2-hour running time, you get the feeling Schlesinger can't wait to get rid of his characters to indict Hollywood's shallowness. When West nailed Hollywood in 1939, he, was breaking new ground; 36, years later, the target seems too easy. Rather than point his film from the beginning in the direction of West's concluding cataclysm, Schlesinger should have made a smaller film that was only a character study. AS THE PICTURE now stands, the special performances of William Atherton MOTION PICTURES DOWNTOWN ftL IOOP MIMIIRE! and The HAUOY GIRLS tafias TIN Small Bontnuoua kont A.M. 372-2054 DfARBOOtN LAKE wrrlTlilrtnlBaai 1 1 a la.

i WAY Isf in'W TFACH MZ. TrSnan SPECIAL SHOWING Ml WINNER 1 3 SHAMEFUL! SHOCKING! SUSAN PERRY SENSUAL! NOW! Open 9 a. m. iST FEATURE 1:45 pm Midwest Premiere r-' aV Tur cr.prrM'e im uk Rpnun o.m.trrWMl CHARLES bronson FEATURE LAST fhjrf RUDCKI KEITH WILKES as 'Cornbread', first motion picture role. Bone-crushing, skull-spllttlng, brain-blasting action! FuiuaiDt swat lot th( Hiumuiri lI "OMIT D'URVILLE MARTIN JERRY i 1 1 r- Bernard fresson JOHN FRANKENHEIMER LAURIE DILLON RENOIR DON ELUS 1 most unnatural ladies.

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Pt 5r Wiltt Salt kaaoal oa IM MIM-UMl Watt aaN, aaolaaraaaaa) ar Caarao1 Hall, nusle ty Joha Barnr, arodwoS ay Jaroma HoIIimr, Paraawoat Pldoroa nImm at tin PI4yo a4) Maartaa laoatora. RataE n. TNI CAST Hoaaar Donald Sotharlaiul Fm Kirtu Black Hitrr Baroau Maraaita Tot- William Alhartofl llitir Oaralaina Pata Claim Ellta Rlcliara A. Dnart Dlractor WHIIM C. Caatls Carol and Ted and Alice" and "Lovers and Other Strangers," a pair of social comedies in the Adelphl; "Paper Moon" in the Olympic Theater in Cicero; and "The Lion in Winter" in the McClurg Court Theater.

Gene Siskel reviews the movie scene Monday, Wednesday; and Friday on the Channel 2 News at 5 and 10 p.m. MOTION PICTURES DOWNTOWN JONES-LADY REEDnTM MM mi wcnoniyifcl lit; M-( LAST WEEK DEFIANCE! Piua BLACK MARAUDERS naaaiaa etm mm nwww ft. bim wmemre i 1. "SHEBA BABY" 2. "SUGAR Hilt" 3, "Th Soreamlnc Tleer" SOUTH a laOOKS- COMK ASTIWaKI "YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN" 4S.7 4.

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Return with us now to the '30s decor of "Chinatown." Schlesinger hasn't changed West's characters much, save for adding 10 years and a good dose of viclousness to Faye Greener as played by Karen Black. What Schlesinger has done, however, is exaggerate West's attitude of contempt for his characters. He's abetted by a trio of overplayed performances: Miss Black, Burgess Meredith as her father he should have stayed in Stokely, U. S. rather than give us this outsized grab for pathos, and Geraldine Page as a white satin-gowned revivalist preacher, a character not in the novel.

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