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EXAMINER Film Shows Dylan as Hostile Genius g3P.xamtrirr-Patji 19 kit May 17J 967 Geary Theatre TONIGHT 8:30 Marines Theatre wlutli consist of Dylan standing in an alley holding up cards emphasizing the line-end words from "Subterranean Homesick Ulues," which is on the background soundtrack. Allen Ginsberg is also in the background during the titles, wandering off across the alley when they finish. The film title, apparently, comes from Dylan's "She Belongs to Me" "She's got every tiling she needs; she's an artist, she don't look back." An ironic statement by one who has so often paid tribute to folk artists and poets of the past, and from one of whom he took his stage name. on stage at the Royal Albert Hall. For me, tliis brought the strongest sympathy for Dylan.

All of "it" was happening too fast for him, too. As the film progresses, he gets more irritable and tired. Yet when the stage call comes and he enters the spotlight it is quite clear that he does, indeed, have a message and that he is, quite surely, a folk' singer. And if he doesn't like people, he certainly likes them to like him. "Don't Look Back" is said to "simply happen" by producer D.

A. Pene-baker. Actually it is his editing which sets the film's whole tone. There is little humor after the titles, Man and Superman "A dazzling Shavian sunburst." -S. F.

Examiner 4 Gaary Thaatrt ManSuparman Tartulla Tartuffa ArtnlcLata ArtanicLaca ArtanicLaca ManSuparman Under Milkwood The Seagull "So many soaring F. Eximinef Marlnaa Ttiaatrt Lone Day's Journay Si Charactara Si Charactara Long Day't Joornay XXX XXX Tha Seagull Long Day'l Journay GEARY BOX OFFICE OPEN 10 AM to 9 PM Reservations lor both theatres at Geary Box Office and Bay Area ticket agencies. MARINES BOX OFFICE OPENS 1 Vi hours before cur tain. Reduced price Student Rush Tickets at both theatre 15 minutes before curtain. San Francisco 94102 1 1 a I lot IHI.Wa.it By PHILIP ELWOOI) The film "Don't Look Back," a rambling hodge-podga of cinematic documentary focusing (usually) on tha enigmatic troubador Bob Dylan, should be seen by anyone either Involved with, or trying to fathom, the generation just arriving at their majority.

Cut down to feature length from about 20 hours generally amateurish filming, the production is a significant and provocative documentation of Dylan's four-week tour of England during 1965. This immediately preceded Dylan's turn to electronic rock from more folk-oriented material. There are often brilliant examples of Dylan during concert performances as well as Dylan pensively observing the misty English countryside, Dylan joshing with nervous school girls, and so forth. But the memorable segments are those which place Dylan in his various roles within the business of being a million dollar concert artist. ON TEOPLE "What's your attitude toward people, Mr.

Dylan?" asks a very square crew-cut 25 year old Midlands reporter. "I don't like them, or you," answers Dylan. "No, I'm not angry," continues Dylan, I Thu Fri Sat May 18 May 19 May 20 1:30 1:30 2 PM 8:30 2 PM 7:30 8:30 8:30 Sun May 21 Tj May 23 Wad May 24 TICKETS GEARY: Tues thru Thurs, Sun Eve: Orch 1st bal $4, S3; 2nd bal $3, $2. Fri Sat Eve: Orch 1st bal $5, 2nd bal $4. S3.

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$2. iffiUfiiBaDgiasiiiiJasEEi NORTHERN CALIF. PREMIERE TONITE 8 P.M. Sponsored by CRIA Commlttoo to Roteu Italian Art Choic Ticket On Sal At Box Offico At Rogular Pricti American Conservatory Theatre 450 Geary Street. Tal 7 1 3 i 1 3 k'f 1 TODAY EXCLUSIVE Only Of AT THI UNITED ARTISTS Northern California Showing "The Bible" This Seatonl SrEPHEN BOYD AVA GARDNER RICHARD HARRIS-JOHN HUSTO.V PETER 0TD0LE-MICHAEL PARKS CEORGECSCOTT 20th CcnluryTm pretnit Dylan portrayed by tliis film is an unpleasant, nerv-ous kid, sympathetically exploited by his manager, Al Grossman.

INGRATIATING Grossman, the principal supporting character, i just wonderful in the film. He is a cherubic Quaker Oats looking type who nev-ertheless tells off hotel lackeys and handles a booking conference with steel nerves and an ingratiating aplomb. But Grossman, and every one else in this film, treat Dylan with saccharine condescension. The Dylan that writes and performs such brilliant social commentary as "Talking World War III Blues" or "Love Minus ZeroNo Limit" appears, in this film, to be both asocial and anti-social. Ills smirking superiority in press conferences and mouthlng-off during a drunken hotel room scene put Dylan in a rather peculiar posture for one who is among the deity of the love generation.

But on stage, particularly in one of the few well-filmed scenes, at Sheffield, Dylan has a magnetism and genius which blot out everything else, including other parts of this film. EPISODIC Although there is an ap parently chronological ac- of von Trapp's baronial estate. All told, the Circle Star's production of "Sound of Music" moves with vivacity and charm and it will not disappoint its admirers who have made the musical one of the most popular creations of the American theater. OPEN 11:15 Hombre means man is A Paul Newman Hombre! PAUL A IlcWMAN FREDRICMARCH RICHARD BOONE UlANtblLtNIU 'HOMBRE' CAMERON MITCHELL BARBARA RUSH and MARTIN BALSAM "0SSII7 Mission For A Killer COLOR TICKETS NOW! WwaR FIELD It Ml! tl. lit mo INDIANAPOLIS 500 RACE On Closed Circuit TV May 30 47 Coiby curacy in the film, "Don't Look Back" is a collection of episodes with distressingly similar environments: hotel rooms, crowd-e auditoriums, dressing rooms, conferences, interviews and a few connecting moments in cars and trains.

Joan Baez makes a strong impact with her disarming beauty during the early scenes just by being in the background and singing a little Turn Toward the end, during' the juicy hotel episode, young Donovan sings one and is most attractive in the camera eye. "It's going to happen fast, all of this; you won't understand," commented Dylan at his London press conference. "I'm not a folk singer, I have no great message, I just write." TOO FAST But then we cut to Dylan, tense, nervous, pouting about his harmonica, pacing the floor prior to going CURRAN noniuAv Tnuir.ur unjnni a Mon. thru Sat. at 8:30 MATS.

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"What is the truth?" asks the Time man (by now quite distressed). "Pictures pictures are the truth," answers Dylan. So we can take Dylan's perspective, and assume that this film is the truth. Dylan emerges as a socially immature, quite hostile entertainer is no reason for what I do other than entertainment, now, is there?" he says.) In spite of his often magnificent talent with words, the "THE SOUND OF MUSIC." RodR-ers and Hammerstein's musical; directed by David Tihmari setting bv Hal Shafer. With Patrice Mun-sel, John Van Dreelen, Jonathan Troy, Linda Kave Henning, Kaihe-rine Hilgenberg, Joanna Shields, Gerry Glasier, Ysabel MacCloskey, Kathleen De Spain, Val Woodland.

At the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos. star's performance is affected by the fact that her four real-life children Heidi, Rhett, Scott and Nicole Schuler play four of the von Trapp youngsters. And a fine craftsman-like job they do, romping and cavorting with their mother who has never looked more trim or glamorous. Van Dreelen plays the tyrannical paterfamilias who gradually falls under Maria's spell with debonair charm and pompous authority. And Katherine Hil-genberg's rich contralto is extremely impressive i her role of the Mother Abbess.

Under David Tihmar's well-paced direction, the supporting cast performs with polished spontaneity, particularly Linda Kaye Henning as the Captain's eldest daughter and Jonathan Troy as a zany concert manager. ARENA STAGING Hal Shafer's skeletal settings do little to enhance the musical's flavor since the arena staging is an almost impossible challenge for a show that moves from the austerity of the Abbey to the plush terrace Mamma's Hung You a inineuoset And I'mFeelin'So Sad Robert Morse Hugh Griffitl Jonathan Winters Barbara Harris Trawcoiot JiW VANESSA REDGRAVE IN Morgan! 00 I P.M. TECHNICOLOR'?) REGULAR PERFORMANCES START TOMORROW 8:30 GROUP INFO Oil 171 4141 I By JEANNE MILLER Patrice Munsel has a different approach to the role of Maria in "The Sound of Music," which opened last night at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos. More mature than the usual scatter-brained pos- tulant, Miss Munsel ex- I ploits this fact in a warm, I vibrant style which happily subtracts a great deal of the cloying stickiness from the sentimental and Hammerstein musical 1 about the Trapp Family Singers. REAL VOCATION With no trace of either tomboyishness or spirituality, Miss Munsel portrays Maria as a sensuous and responsive woman whose real vocation in life is ob- I viously that of a wife and mother.

Her dynamic awareness of Captain von Trapp, suavely portrayed by John Van Dreelen, is a far cry from the frightened-fledgling innocent we are accustomed to seeing in the role. Even when Miss Munsel warbles about her Favorite Things like "crisp apple strudels and schnitzel with noodles," it is apparent that the aforementioned list is really only a sublimation for love and romance which, of course, are just around the corner. HER CHILDREN a the womanly, outgoing quality of the Dm Opm 6 30 ml 7CLUE 7h Added Featuretto "MIRROR OF SPAIN" In Color i TODAT 2 GEORGE PEPPARD -JAMES 1EAS0N WORLD PREMIERE TONIGHT! 1 OPENING TUESDAY, JUNE 13 -j 3 7 WEEKS ONLY 3 2 1 CURRAN THEATRE til 0 Eves. (Exc. Sun.) 8:30 Mats.

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