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Friday, January 16, 1987Part VI 17 Cos Angeles Sixties 'WINDOW THE THEORY IS BETTER THAN PRACTICE "The Arrival of 'American Tail' is a Time for Jubilation. Fievel takes his place in the animated pantheon with Jiminy Cricket, Dumbo and The Seven Dwarfs. A tuneful, adventurous, just plain wonderful movie the whole family's been waiting a stunning One Shalit, The Tod Show" MUSIC REVIEW VIENNA OCTET AT EBELL The Vienna Octet brought its civilized, immaculately polished wares to the Wilshire Ebell Theatre on Wednesday to the delight of a large Music Guild audience. These first-chair players of the Vienna Philharmonic opened a long but never wearying program at the top, so to speak, by presenting the grandly scaled Clarinet Quintet of Brahms in a reading by turns intense and gentle, with the vibra-toless, straight-arrow clarinet of Peter Schmidl appropriately dominating the sweet-toned, lightweight string quartet composed of violinists Werner Hink and Mario Beyer, violist Josef Staar and cellist Friedrich Dolezal. The dark moonings of Brahms gave way to the chiaroscuro of Hugo Wolfs sly "Italian Serenade" (originally for string quartet) in an arrangement by Alfred Hartl, tongue-in-cheekily executed by the full ensemble: the aforementioned quintet plus bassist Herbert Manhart, bassoonist Dietmar Ze-man and horn player Guenther Hoegner.

Beethoven's doggedly chipper Septet in E-flat seemed a good deal shorter and more substantial than usual in the hands of these energetic masters of Classical style. Presided over by Hink's mercurial violin, with notable assists from Hoegner, the dashing elegance of Dolezal's cello and, again, the incisive clarinet of Schmidl, the ensemble put some welcome sting into Beethoven's sugar-coated chestnut. -HERBERT GLASS STEVEN SPIELBERG fowls One guilt leads to another, and, by the end, Lambert is tangled in the murderer's personality, the classic Hitchcockian "wrong man." Sylvia and Denise, two opposing forces, pull him in opposite directions, toward lies and toward responsibility. And the fourth side of the quadrangle is the killer himself (BradGreenquist). Still, "The Bedroom Window" engrosses you in theory more than practice.

As a thriller, it has elements that many recent Hitchcock pastiches have lacked: interesting characters and a somewhat complex plot. But perhaps this story simply looks good by contrast. The movie also lacks sheer juice and voltage, or even enough perverse surprises Mke the kind you briefly get when Wally Shawn, as a conniving defense attorney, comes on in the courtroom scene, snarling and smirking. The actors are good. McGovern, Huppert, Shawn and Paul Shenar (as Sylvia's husband) are all excellent, and Guttenberg is fine (a yuppie on the rack), until the last part of the film.

There, logic tells you that Lambert should be in a state of mortal terror, but he shows something nearer the jitters of a premed student. There's another drawback: Hitchcock, as much as Raymond Chandler, really belongs to a specific period, a different era's private romanticism and public morality. And "The Bedroom dozens of others never succeeds in updating him. It's only an amiable try though whenever Isabelle Huppert or Elizabeth McGovern are on screen, also a seductive one. By MICHAEL WILMINGTON Some movies have a premise so interesting that, for a while, they're carried by it.

That's almost the case with "The Bedroom Window" (citywide), a Hitchcock-ian pastiche about successively deeper layers of voyeurism, terror and guilt. As in "Psycho," writer-director Curtis Hanson takes us from adultery and deceit to murder, madness and destruction's brink. The premise is from a British mystery by Anne Hoiden, "The Witnesses," which Hanson transfers to Baltimore. It's about an adulteress in a jam, a murderer and yet another "wrong man." In the movie, Sylvia Wentworth (Isabelle Huppert) on a fling with her husband's top architect, Terry Lambert (Steve Gutten-berg) witnesses a near-rape from her lover's bedroom window. For Sylvia, propriety is as strong as promiscuity.

Since she won't tell the police what she saw or where she was, Lambert who missed everything agrees to be her proxy: to pretend he saw it. His resolve gets stronger after a rape-murder occurs that evening, apparently the work of the same assailant and stronger still after he meets the winsome miss, Denise (Elizabeth McGovern), who was nearly killed before Sylvia's eyes. But the lovers' plan is preposterous. Before long, Lambert is a suspect himself, and Sylvia, shallow to the core, pulls away. As she does, he experiences guilt on three levels: for his actual sin (adultery), for another's (the rape-murders), and for crimes still to come.

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