The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 31

Aug. 1 1. 1977 S.F. EXAMINER PaflO 31 Ballet school ought to be disbarred Better the second time 'round 1 1 i 'i By John Stark The only thing stranger than the cast of characters In the horror film "Suspiria" was some of the audience at the St Francis Theater, i where I saw it screened yesterday. That, however, is another story one I found much more interesting than the movie.

7 i her face is slowly shoved through a glass window. Following that, she's repeatedly stabbed and slashed, then hanged from the rafters. That all takes place in the first five minutes of the film, long before things really get rough. Making a rare screen appearance is veteran film actress Joan Bennett, who plays Madame Blank, a director of the school. All I can say is, Bennett's come a long way since "Little Women," not all of it uphill.

Jessica Harper plays Suzy, a young American dancer who learns the terrifying truth about Joan Bennett "Suspiria" is mostly gore, with little plot or intrigue. One thing you have to say these dancers sure have it worse than the kids in "A swing from active to static and back. The procedure by no means original jn fact, it's the soul of dance-but Berg understands it better than some of his colleagues. Last night's program also brought a Joyous round of numbers by that very cultivated troupe, Theatre Flamenco. The Palace stage didnt convey much Spanish atmosphere, but the Flamencans' relaxed and pingy footwork (the feet working like a pianist's hands, one frequently syncopating against the other) was eloquent enough to make up for the atmosphere gap.

And it was a pleasure to see this company dancing before a near-capacity house, Instead of the meager band of faithful who take in their performances at Veterans Auditorium. To judge by the claque-like ovation greeting Dance Spectrum's "North Country Moods," a new number by Carlos Carvajal to a folk song suite of Hoist. It's Spectrum that brought out such a large audience. But "Moods" was the weakest ballet of the evening. The English folk song material Carvajal is working with is really quite simple stuff, and it doesn't need the arch and Dvrotechnical choreographic posturings he's applied to it The evening's concluding number, John Pasqualet-ti's "Resurrection," to late Stravinsky, and danced bv Oakland Ballet, was quite bleak and arcane, until a marvelously buoyant final scene.

By Arthur Bloomfield It's nice when a ballet, a painting, any work of art, makes a better impression the second time around, revealing previously missed delights instead of showing up cracks in its esthetic foundation. Henry Berg's ballet "La Prlmavera," which was Pacific Ballet's share of the Summer Dance program last night at the Palace of Fine Arts, is just such a work, its past promise giving way to present fulfillment. Set for three women in white, to the "Spring" concerto from Vivaldi's "The Seasons," it makes highly Inventive, but never self-conscious use of a variety of classic dance steps and formations. The choreography is closely but not slavishly tied to the various temperature changes of the music, darting movements and quick body vibrations in stormy, "furioso" passages giving way to floating, circling movements and prolonged states of suspension in more ethereal sections. Berg is at his very best when he forges a music-to-dance linkage that suggests the music is capturing the dancers in its grip and then releasing them.

Think of a dance phrase in which the music builds up great energy, driving the dancers pn to great movement, only to break off Into a pause or a quiet section in which the dancers are left in repose, or given time to regroup. Parts of "Primavera" work this way, In a natural i "Suspiria," which is also play-; tog at the Serramonte 6 and Metro II. is a violent, blood-spilling movie about witches in a German ballet school vill dance or I'll put a hex on your The movie was written and directed by Dario I Argento, whose press biography includes a list of his other horror films none I've ever heard of. Joan Bennett returns to the screen as a witch. Chorus Line." One last question: Since the movie takes place over a several month period, how come the thunder and lightning storm never lets up? In one scene, a beautiful young dancer is strangled to death while Dust to dust, crashes to crashes Camp 1 vm ina.

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$1.50 1st hr. daily; $3:50 till 5PM: $4:00 after 5PM on avaiiaoia seating oniy PLU "TUHNID OH" II Ft.01 SHORT1 TMH a.VIMO AILV "eNJ" 1:00. AlM I DLV "uiiNJl" AT i On, 410 AND :OP.M, i 40, Wt rQ JBNO tfl jhpfA, 3JC0 favorite scene is the Rolls-Royce being completely torn apart in a destruction derby. Now, that's decadence! As did "Eat My Dust" "Grand Theft Auto" portrays parents as Jerks and cops as bumbling nincompoops. Two questions before closing this review: How come the Rolls-Royce never ran out of gas, and how come an actress as young as Nancy Morgan has such puffy purple bags under her eyes? (It looks like she's never slept.) John Stark Forum on Bay Area leftism Author Jessica Mitford will head a forum entitled "The Grand Old Conflict," based on her forthcoming book, "A Fine Old Conflict," about leftist political activities in the Bay Area during the 50s, on Sunday, Aug.

21, at 7:30 p.m. at Epic West, 2640 College Berkeley. The forum will be a benefit for Epic West, a nonprofit cultural center. For further information, call You like Ron Howard. I like Ron Howard.

So, how come Ron Howard doesn't like us? How come he's made another car chase film, one as tedious as last year's "Eat My This film is called "Grand Theft Auto," and it's playing at the New Mission, St Francis, Serramonte 6 and Spruce Drive-In. Ron Howard is not only the star, but co-writer and director. This movie could be "Eat My Dust," except it has a Rolls-Royce in it "Grand Theft Auto" is about two misunderstood young lovers, Sam Freeman (Howard) and Paula Powers (Nancy Morgan). Powers' father is a Beverly Hills capitalist who opposes her affair with the proletarian Howard. The two horny lovebirds take matters into their own hands by stealing a Rolls-Royce and eloping to Las Vegas.

A $50,000 reward is posted for the capture of the two elopers. Everybody on the highway gets into the act, and most of the film is one long car chase. I will admit the destruction scenes are pretty spectacular, and make Evil Kneivel look like Spring Byington. My Ifs a brand new Love Bug-In a race for his life! WALT DISNEYpRooucnoNS' GOES TO i MONTE CARLO San Francisco Movies i a. r.

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