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50 The GAZETTE. Montreal; Oct. 25. 1975 At the movies WOW! sliciild see us new Day' people will hold you jy i -TV1. York street, something's got to happen but there is also comedy.

As the siege draws on through the day and night, and television crews cover the developments, a crowd gathers. To some the bankrobbers are villains to others, heroes. When Sonny makes the cops holster their guns, the crowd cheers. Yet others jeer them for taking hostages. Newsmen beg and steal details of the siege, and homosexuals chant encouragement from across the street.

Amd all the while, the law plods on. Charles Durning as Moretti is a sympathetic cop on the beat. James Bro-derick as FBI agent Sheldon is a cold, efficient man doing his job. IMAGINATIVE On the other side of the cameras, Frank Pierson's screenplay from real life is imaginative and seems all-inclusive. Pierson's earlier writing credits include Cat Ballou and The Anderson Tapes.

Director Sydney Lumet, whose 20 films include Twelve Angry Men and The Pawnbroker, can place a large feather in his cap for this one. STARRING world champion KAREN MAGNUSSEN ONLY 7 DAYS 10 PERFORMANCES i NOV. 18 thru 24 MATINEES: SATURDAY SUNDAY Al Pacino John Cazale in Dog Day Afternoon Nov. ana ai 3 shows Sat. Nov.

22 at 1:30. 5 30 9 p.m. Eves, at 8 p.m. MONDAY thru FRIDAY 'Dog By DANE LANKEN of The Gazette Whether because it is a true story, or just because it is a good movie, the people you meet in Dog Day Afternoon (at the Avenue and Parisien) are interesting. You are intrigued by them early on, curious about their reactions to unusual circumstances, and anxious to find out what happens to them.

The most interesting, of course, are the two hardluck New York Italians (played by Al Pacino and his Godfather brother John Cazale) who try to rob a Brooklyn bank and end up inside, holding a half dozen hostages and trying to bargain with the 250 cops outside. But the others, the bank tellers the policemen, the delivery boy from the pizza parlor, are interesting, too a monument to the thought and care that went into this movie. If there is a complaint, it is that the people who made the movie liked it too much, couldn't decide what to cut to bring it under its slightly bulky two hours-plus length. But that's a minor thing. The major thing Is that it works: You sit there and you want to know what happens.

Of all the people on the screen, it is Pacino who gives the most remarkable performance. He is on the screen for all but a few minutes of the movie, and never does the character a complex one if ever there were fail. COMPASSION Sonny Pacino's role is a man who can both plan and carry out as hostile an act as robbing a bank, yet do it out of compassion. He is a Vietnam veteran, a father, a husband to a woman and a husband to a man. a hopeless dreamer yet a clever schemer under pressure.

Pacino catches all of this; yet Sonny does not become a wide-eyed and unlikely creation, but a human being caught in a massive struggle, and worthy of our sympathy. There's tension in the movie with so many people packing guns on a New COC director goes to States TORONTO (CP) -Bruce Chalmers will leave his position as administrative director of the Canadian Opera Company (COC) in December to accept an appointment as general manager of an opera company in Portland, COC president Douglas Sloan has 1975-1976 SEASON Arthur Garsmi VIOLIN ACIaira Segal VIOLIN if iimi nooeri veraoss viulh Ifan Williams CELLO Concert BEETHOVEN OCT. 26 Concert SCHUBERT NOV. 30 Concert BRAHMS JAN. 25 I A II Concert 5 TCHAIKOWSKY-.

A DVORAK FEB. 29 Concert DEBUSSY-RAVEL MARCH 28 SUNDAY AFTERNOONS At 3 P.M. rr-centaur 2 453 St Francois-Xtviar IN OLD MONTREAL MASTERCHARGE CKARGEX 288-1229 0 Subscription $1 6.00 Subscription for Students, Golden Age $10.00 A Each Concert 4.00 Student Golden Age 2.50 Thin anetitt trt mA peaiili thmfk tin gmmrtf it When you run a Classified Ad plan on being home to answer your 'phone. 739-3331-2 wis OPENING NIGHT MS. NOV.

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Trust and Sauva Frr ttorai MAIL ORDERS ACCEPTED TICKETS NOW ON SALE in llCKtis: kl I 1 1 1111 Ml at I.WIIWIWI (PVM) By DANE LANKEN of The Gazette For those whose sexual tastes run to flagellation, and who can't wait for the screen version of The Story of there is The Image (at the Cinema Place du Canada There's lots of whipping in this one. as well as a variety of other sexual treats all the way to live, on-screen urination. You probably will not find, on any public screen in the province, a more explicit or varied catalog of such delights as this film provides. Of course, there's nothing else, no drama, character, humor or pathos. Those who are looking for sex only will be satisfied; those who take a broader view of human beings will be disappointed, maybe even annoyed.

The film is said to be based on the "renowned French underground novel L'Image" by Jean de Berg who, it is claimed, is really the French filmmaker (he helped Res-nais on Last Year at Marienbad) Alain Robbe-Grillet. The director is Radley Metzger, whose contribution to the development of movies has been to mix explicit sex with technical competence. Therese and Isabelle and Camille 2000 are among his previous efforts. 0M0E Mil ACADEMY At 73, Rodgers still makes Register WOW for additional Beginners JAZZ BALLET Tues. Thurs.

10 a m. 5 30 thinks his work or anything he does may not be up to his own high standards. "I've been practicing for a year, and the doctors say my voice is remarkable." But then everything about Dick Rodgers is remarkable. He has been composing for more than a half century, producing the most memorable of musicals: Pal Joey, Oklahoma, The Sound of Music, South Pacific, The King and and his own personal favorite. Carousel.

And he still lives by the philosophy expressed in his recent autobiography (mucial Stages) "when one show is finished, the only thing to do is go on to the next one and hope." The next one is Rex, a 6 30 p.m ORIENTAL BELLY DANCE Mon. to Thurs a p.m SOCIAL (disco, Latin American ballroom) DANCING Tues Thurs. 8 30 p.m. to 9 30 Fri 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.

all classes commence COME AND ENJOY THIS WONDERFUL WAY OF LIVING NOV. 3rd (comer rrnondon) 6512 DECARIE A glimpse into a varied Matisse musicals in the orchestra pit when Rex opens. That chore will be handled by Jay Blackton, who has been musical director for all Rodgers' Broadway shows starting with "Oklahoma" In 1943. This is Rodgers' first musical since 1970, when Two By Two with Martin Charnin brought his tally of Broadway musicals and revues to 43 in 50 years. But he points out be hasn't been idle.

He helped prepare the "Rodgers and Hart" reprise produced earlier this year, worked on out of town revivals of other Rodgers shows, and his autobiography, which was published in September; took the best part of three years to complete. The exhibition gives you a glimpse of the variety in Matisse's output. It's limited, as are all the exhibitions this series, by the resources ot the National Ualleiy only works from the Gallery's collections are used but is there a better, way to present those resources, to keep their collections alive? musical about power based on the life and loves of Henry VIII, who was a composer in his own right. Rodgers puts in a five-day week in his mid-town Madison Avenue offices. "For me, work is just a matter of survival," he says in his book.

"I'm here every day," he said in the interview. "I spend the week in town and the weekends in the country'' with his wife Dorothy to whom he's been married nearly 45 years. Though many of Rodgers biggest moments in his career have come while conducting first nights feeling "the vibrations in the back of my neck which denote a hit" he will not be drawings all with those weary ladies Matisse was so fond of as subjects. There's a slide show and a free pamphlet too. (The suggestions for further reading in the pamphlet don't include the May '75 issue of Arts Magazine and the July-August '75 issue of Art in America both are devoted to Matisse By GLENNE CURRIE of UPI NEW YORK (UPI) -Richard Rodgers is working on his 44th stage musical at an age (73) when most men would prefer to be an observer than a competitor.

He couldn't live any other way. He thrives on hard work' and challenge, and has put as much energy into overcoming a larengectomy as he does into his five-day work week. "My voice is not good today," he said in an interview. "It's usually much better than this." He has learned to speak with his esophagus since the April, 1974, operation, and is annoyed at himself when he pointed out, the subject is not the woman's head, but the process of making the woman's head, i LEGEND The large (approximately 6 by 13 lout i beige and white decorative canvas. Oceania, the Sea 1947.

doesn't seem very colorful at first, but look again it is 1 1 ,1111 By JOCK IRELAND for The Gazette The National Gallery has a really terrific idea. Every month or two they set up a small exhibition designed to focus on a certain work or certain works from their collections. Last August and September they showed three works by Edgar Degas (1834-1917) beside some Renaissance portraits. You got a good idea of what Degas learned from Renaissance portraiture and the Renaissance portraits were refreshed too. For the rest of this month to the end of November, the Exploring the Collections series will focus on Henri Matisse who died 1954 in his mid-80s.

For the moment at least, he has eclipsed Picasso as the greatest visual artist of the 20th century. POWERFUL The most powerful work in the National Gallery's show is Henriette II (1927), a sculpture. (It's subtitled Stout Head, a potentially misleading translation of Grosse Tete. I think simply "big" might be a better translation. "Stout" might mislead you to believe that Matisse was after some kind of essence stoutness, say, as distinct somehow from plumpness or chubbiness We should remember, that Henriette 11 is one of a series of three heads: and that, as William Tucker has Nude on a Yellow Sofa, 1926.

4Ak. CBC TELEVISION MONTREAL CBMT6 kind of colorful, in a way. There's a painting, Nude on a Yellow Sofa (1926), which, according to legend, says Linda Street, co-organ-izer of the show, Matisse himself wanted the National Gallery to have. There are five or six graphic works a couple of lithographs, a pen and ink drawing, some charcoal A CBC -TV DOCUMENTARY- DRAMA SPECIAL SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26,1975 8.30 p.m. -11 p.m.

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