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The Ottawa Citizen Feb. 5, 1ST2 Page 29 Taut thriller based on real-life case CKOY, in association with Martin Onrot and Concerts West, presents a WINTER CARNIVAL EVENT THREE DOG NIGHT all the drugs come from, and for a while switches be-guilingly between the sunlit Mediterranean and the sleazy shores of Brooklyn. Friedkin enjoys his contrasts and uses them most effectively. When Hackman and partner pick up the scent in New York, they begin that most harrowing of operations, the tail. In one scene, the tail-ees settle down in a leather and candlelight restaurant to a gourmet meal, while outside, across the street, the tail-er, watches them dourly Somerset THE FRENCH CONNECTION Directed by William Frvtdkin.

Produced by Philip D'Antoni, Starring Geyie Hack-man, Fernando Key and Roy Sckeider. By Noel Taylor One tends to get blase about movies concerning ili ii ii Vli iTi 7f mm aalBJ Capsule reviews of Ottawa movies from a shop doorway and nibbles sadiy on a cold pizza. Gripping story The sympathy value of it, however, is not overdone. Friedkin has a gripping story to tell and wastes little time with diversionary devices. His cameras tail the two cops through the frustrations and rare moments of actual exuberance.

For a few seconds it seems almost possible that they actually do enjoy their work, as the wire-tap picks up a key conversation but the illusion is soon shattered. Their antagonists are not only the dope traffickers. Their own superiors are nothing if not discouraging. So are the Feds, the federal police who move in with the sensitivity of a bulldozer to take over the other mans case. And then, of course, there's the chase.

This one is a beauty-nothing wickedly contrived like a Bondian episode, but the drastic outcome of a murder attempt as the assassin hijacks a subway train and Hackman pursues him relentlessly in a car underneath the El. He gets his man, but not before several innocents die in the crossfire, and the car which he commandeered from a dazed driver, endures more than a demolition derby loser. As the screen goes a discreet black after the final massacre, the roll of dishonor appears in brief flashes. Some of the gang, we are told, are dead, others in prison, and some were tried and released. But the Brain, played by a subtly sinister Fernando Rey, escaped and was never found.

And that's realism. NOTHING LIKE IT IN OTTAWA! SPECIAL 1 US CIVIC CENTRE SATURDAY, FEB. 12 Tickets: $5.50, $4.50, $3.50 Available At All Treble Clef Stores Mail orders accepted with stamped, self-addressed envelope dope rings which get broken, and how brutal New-York cops are. until something like The French Connection comes along, and a grim new perspective rears its ugly head. It comes as something of a shock to realize that this is based on a real-life case and that narcotics squad men really do act like storm troopers and the course of their investigations involves such as laughter of the woo-cents.

Director William Fried-kin presumably made this extraordinary taut thriller with some sort of co-operation from the New York Police Department, and it speaks much for their level of tolerance. The two investigators portrayed here are pretty unpleasant characters. About their only redeeming feature is a sense of dedication which goes far beyond the call of duty. Curled lip They are played by Gene Hackman, with a curled lip and a sustained ferocity, and Roy Scheider, as the straight man, who displays one of the few brief flashes of humanity as they contemplate the fellow cop (albeit a Fed) they have just gunned down. The French Connection begins in Marseilles, where Carnal Knowledge (St.

Laurent Cinema II) A very funny, very bitter and very explicit comic variation on a theme of sexual frustration, with Jack Nicholson and Arthur Garfunkel as a couple of college roommates who travel through the years without ever losing their adolescent hang-ups about women. The splendid cast includes Ann-Margret, Candice Bergen and Cynthia O'Neal, and Mike Nichols has directed the whole thing in a bold and brilliant manner. Diamonds Are Forever (Main Elgin) The dapper and dashing James Bond returns after a two-year screen HUNGARIAN WINES Flaming Hungarian Specialities Luncheon Speciols STAR GYPSY MUSICIANS 'THE YOSHKAS" direct from Budapest entertain you whilt you fin in thii romantic atmosphere. absence in another flamboyant and colorful adventure. The as plot doesn't make much sense, but it has a plentiful supply of speed, sensation and style, and Sean Connery is comfort ably back in his familiar role.

Jill St. John and Lana Wood are the principal ladies in his life this time, and Charles Gray is the villain of the piece. Little HUNGARIAN VILLAGE U4 Lourier Ave. 238-2827 Dirty Harry (Place de Ville Cinema 1) Clint East wood plays a tough San Francisco detective tracking down a murdering sniper in a hard and heady crime melodrama directed with great skill by Don Siegel. Johnny Got his Gun (Odeon 1, St.

Laurent) Dalton Trumbo directed this dramatization of his own novel about tFREE EVENING PARKING! W. Mr ft aTe Lr Tr iT fit aX i a terribly mutilated World War One soldier. Strong cast in dudes Donald Sutherland and Jason Robards. 1 Kotch (Little Elgin) A felicitous directing debut THE NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE THEATRE ASpeCtS dU TONIGHT: QuebeC 72 em EFFET, ON EST DES SAVAGES until by Leandre Bergeron, an historical- EXHIBITION political theme with humour and songs. for Jack Lemmon features the versatile Walter Matthau as a 72-vear-old widower who shares his cottage with an HERITAGE SERIES SUNDAY MATINEE ONLY FEBRUARY 6th NO RESERVE SEATS unwed pregnant teenager.

The result is a sometimes-toudi ing, sometimes-hilarious entertainment. Man in The Wilderness (Place de Ville 2) Superb in the STUDIO 8.00 p.m. S3 (students $2) IN ALL OF HISTORY Sculptures and paintings by Suzanne Guite photography of man against the elements highlight this based-on-truth movie about a fur-trapper (Richard Harris) left behind for dead by an 1820 expedition in Missouri, af ter being mangled by a grizzly bear. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Towne) Life in a Siberian forced-labor camp is harrowingly depict OTTAWA PREMIERE LE MAR I AGE DE FIGARO GRAND HOTEL JOHN BARRYMORI JOAN CRAWFORD ed in this British-Norwegian production based on the fa a mous Alexander Solzhenitsyn novel. Tom Courtenay sets the standard for some strong acting which reveals, in bit de Beoumarchaii ter detail, man capacity to survive.

8 COME EARLY ONE COMPLETE SHOW ONLY" AT P.M. DOORS OPEN 1.30 Mon Oncle Antoine (Elmdale) French Canadian DIRECTED BY: JEAN-LOUIS BARRAULT At director Claude Jutra has fashioned warm and appealing entertainment trom a simple remembrance of a 14-year-old youth coming of age a Quebec asbestos mining com' munity during the course of one fateful Christmas Eve in A co-production of TNM and the NAC with Les Gronds Ballets Canadiens FUTURE SUNDAY ENGAGEMENTS FEB. 13th "SAN FRANCISCO" FEB. 20th "THE GOOD EARTH" FEB. 27fh "THE GREAT CARUSO" MAR.

5th "MATA HARI" the mid-1940s. Perceptive, compassionate and beautifully THEATRE FEB. 7-12 8.00 p.m. made, with fine performances from Jacques Gagnon, Jean Duceppe and Olivette Thibault. In French with English presented by THE NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE THEATRE Directed by Marigold Charlesworth Designed by Nancy Brown A "coloured comic strip" of life with James Edmond, Angela Fusco.

Diane Grant, Heath Lamberts, Araby Lockhart, Richard Partington Senior Citizen and Student Standby Tickets (if available) 30 minutes before curtain time S2.00 suo-uiies. Straw Dogs (Nelson) A smoldering mixture of viol IT'S TOO GOOD TO LET GO ence and with Dustin Hoffman as a quiet American mathematician living in a small English village who is sud Studio 8 p.m. FEB. 22 MAR. 11 S3 (students S2 KV 1 11 denly forced to protect his home and family against some moronic locals.

Bloody but brilliant, directed by Sam (The Wild Bunch) Peckinpah. The Blood on Satan's Claw and The Beast in The Cellar (Rideau) In case there's any doubt about it, this is billed as a festival of horror. The Conformist (Mayfair) Against the background of the rise and fall of Italian Fascism, Jean Louis Trintig-nant portrays a man so obsessed with the need to conform ENTIRELY IN ENGLISH NO SUBTITLES MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RAFAEL FRUEHBECK DE BURGOS Guest conductor Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in Strauss: Don Juan Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in minor, Opus 57 FEB.

9 Opera S.30 pm. $6.00 35.00 (orchestra seats only) that he becomes a hired assassin. Also showing is The Great White Hope a very perceptive boxing film based ITHE IftJITI ATI (mmi satin on the lite of Jack Johnson. The French Connection (Somerset) A major dope ring is broken by the smart work of New York detectives in this already-acclaimed thriller, distinguished for rare realism, taut direction and a chase sequence which excels even that of the film Bullitt. Excellent cast is headed by Gene Hackman.

The Initiation (Mall) Four girls, finding out about all those fearful things mother should have warned them about. Sexy Susan Sins Again, the second feature, concerns a girl who knows what it's all about anyway. N.A.C. ORCHESTRA CHAMBER WORKSHOP under the direction of JOHN BARROWS distinguished French horniit DANZI Trio in Opus 21 Igor Szwec. violin: Norman Sherman, bassoon; Michael Goodwin, French horn.

NIELSEN Ouiniet Opus 43 Jean-Guy Brault, flute; Lawrence Cherney, oboe; Peter Smith, clarinet; Michael Namer, bassoon; Evan Phil potts, French horn. BEETHOVEN Sextet in Flat, Opus 81B Igor Szwec and Keiko Yamarfa. violins; Janet Logan, viola: Grant Canwron, cello; Michael Goodwin and John Barrows, French horns. BOCCHERINI OuintetinC Sally Benson and lynne Hammond, violins; Isaias viola; Martin Heller and Rosalind Sartori, celio, FEB. 20 Theotre 3.00 p.m.

$2 Box Office Opens Monday I COLOR 111 1 1 lflllUll A Trwrt is IN ttmt and 1h place tn rtry yourtq yrls UW COLOR in MUSICAL SHOW SUBSCRIPTION SERIES INITIATION ATION SUSAN AT: 1.30 5.09 1.30 15.00 .45 10.15 SPARKS ST. MALL 233-2771 hebdo Caught up with jet set Springs, and a sportsman en route to an African safari. week THE MUSICAL HIT IrHIILSIMOM IUIT IACHARACH HAL DAYID FEB. 10-12 SOLD Opera 8.30 p.m. ai Sat.

matinee 2.30 p.m. KJ I MUSICAL SHOW SUBSCRIPTION SERIES Leslie Grade presents BRUCE FORSYTH THE STARS OF THE LONDON PALLADIUM SHOW burlesque club: CHICAGO (AP) A starling named Space Cadet has been caught after spending 10 days flying around inside the passenger terminal of O'Hare International Airport, the world's busiest. Space Cadet ate crumbs from snack bars and a bartender swears that he was seen dipping his long beak into a martini. Suggestions for capturing the swinging starling came from such travellers passing through as a nuclear scientist, an ornithologist, a falcon fancier from Colorado 3 323 bank street 236-3500 wifh THE HOGANAS THE CASTORS 1 I THE ARTHUR WORSLET THE NORMAN MAEN BEL CANTO DANCERS TRIO ATHENEE SINGERS Devised 4 Produced by Albeit J. Knight FEB.

22 27 OPERA Evenings: 8.30 p.m. S6.50 S5.50 S4.00 $3.09 FRIDAY and SATURDAY SOLD OUT! Sat. and Sun. matinees: 2.30 p.m. $4.50 S3.50 $2.75 $2.00 Box Office Opens Monday 6 toix SAMSAT 5 Fev.

VENFRI 11 Fev. EXHIBITION: "Three Thousand Years of Chines large color photographs present highlights of the Chinese Collection of the Royal Ontario Museum. Illustrated on the panels are ancient bronzes from 1200 B.C.. jade sculpture. Included are robes, ceremonial vessels; Marchand Hall, 245 Nicholas.

1 pm 6 pm: till Feb. 22nd 5 THEATRE The Dram Guild UO presents "The Penelope Masque" written and directed by Joel Miller. The production style which reflects the theme of the play, that is. the problem of purposelessness. evolves In three different styles, each involving a greater degree of abstraction; Academic Hall.

133 Wilbrod. 8:30 pro I CINEMA PESTAIOZZI The 0. Wgettwr with the Communications Center presents Marion Hall, 365 Nicholas. 7 pm FILM DOCUMENTAIRE Le departement des lettres Francal. sea UO projette "Visages de deux projections: Amphitheatre Medecine, 275 Nicholas, rmdi et Pavilion Simard.

165 Waller, 4 pm RECITAL "Panorama it la Musique M. Clauds Hellfer, pianists interpret des oeuvres Xenaku. Boulei, Boueourechliev; Salle Academiqoe. 133 Wilbrod. 8 30 pm FESTIVAL DES ROMANS FRANCAIS AU CINEMA: "Zazie dans la metro" de Raymond Queneau a ete realise par Louis Malta an I960.

Avec Catherine Oemongeot, Philippe NoireU una projection Pavilion Marion, pm CINEPO: 'La departement des Sciences Politique UO presents "Terra an transe" de Glaubert Rocha. un des grands pretres do cinema "novo" bresilien; Amphitheatre de Mdtie-cine. pm tt CONFERENCE M. Raymond Carrier, eoordinoteur de la pastorale expiique "La role de I'Eglis apostoliqua aujourd'hui 's Pavilion Simard. sail 200.

pm tt FESTIVAL DES ROMANS FRANCAIS AU CINEMA "Germinal" dtrrule Zola a eta porta" i eeran par Yves Allegrat en 1963: deux projection: Amphitheatre de Medecine, midi et Pavilion Marion, 8 pm It CINt-CLUB En collaboration avec le Centre de Communic. tions UO. le Cine-Club USt Paul projette "Le Genou de Claire" d'Eric Bohmer (19701: St Paul. 223 Main. 8 pm Frais d'entreeAdmission Charge Animation culturelle 231-3487 Cultural Affairs Services aux etudiants Student Services Midnight JiW 2 Every Night f2 i NUDE i DANCING i 006 OEtimn Ptlr- ULLI MARLENE 7 Acts New Show Weekly delightfully risque and entertaining SHOWS EVERY NIGHT Monday to Saturday 6 to 12 Midnight SPECItl SHOW Friday Midnigiit TP JOSE GRECO PERFORMANCE POSTPONED Friday, Feb.

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