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SAN FRANOSCO EXAMINER Hi A wh Ms ExPe 1 A Bully Movie Of the Old West Mar. 3) 1966 tftr jO.ExamlrifrFoge) 29. rimenta JT9 i Japanese Style mm bbi bs bbi a mm bbi bbi 11 ib v- THK RARE BREED," Unhranal ralanai produced bp William Al-laitd) tfiractad by Andrtw V. Mel. Ian; elnamntngraphy by William H.

Clolhiar. With iamaa tawart, Man-raan O'Hara, Brian Kaith, Jullat Mills, Don Galloway, David Brian. Al lha Alhambra, El Ray, Naw Mil ion and fianava Drlva-ln. are surprisingly poorly pho tographed. Yoichl Takabayashl'i 5 "Musashino" is an excep-1- tion; it is a series of quit', lovely scenes which, while1' never being obvious, ex-; ploit the eroticism of lips, -hands, feet, and hair.

I- FOR TTIE record, the, others are: Takahiro Iimura's Dance-party in the King- i ciety, determined to conquer and subdue the vast wilderness of Texas. Miss O'Hara is a flrery and appealing heroine whose cultivated female wiles' turn the rugged westerners into near -English gallants vying for her hand. An excellent performance is also turned in by Brian Keith, that doughty veteran of Walt Disney's outdoor sagas. As an expatriate Scotsman who has built up a Texas cattle empire, he provides a gruffly humorous portrayal of a range baron cajoled out of his misanthropy by Miss O'Hara's womanly guile. JULIET MILLS, in her American screen debut, is thoroughly engaging, with an the warmth and grace of her sister Hayley, and without the latter's sometimes undisciplined flamboyance.

Even the film's contrived ending fails to strike too much of a false note because of Stewart's quietly compelling performance and McLaglen's restrained direction. The whole family will surely enjoy this wholesome and diverting adventure drama. JEANNE MILLER It's nlc to be reminded that James Stewart can still evoke the Indomitable spirit of the rugged plainsman and that he can do It with subtle poignancy when he is provided with a well-written role. In "The Rare Breed," a dandy adventure drama that opened yesterday at the New Mission, Alham-bra, El Key and Geneva Drive-In, Stewart plays an off-beat cowpoke a woman -shy, not -very -honest saddle tramp who has never been willing to accept responsibility, that is, until he crosses paths with that auburn-haired charmer, Maureen O'Hara. SEE PLAYS an English gentlewoman who comes to America with her daughter, Juliet Mills.

And her mission Is to carry out her late husband's dream of cross-breeding British Hereford cattle with hardy Texas longhorns. Though delicately reared, the lady is spirited and cou-rageous enough to cope with all the perils of the Old t-cattle stampedes, lusty saloon brawls and howling on the 1885 range. By GEORGE DUSHECK The first thing to remember about experimental films is that they are experimental; That is to say, if they were slick, balanced, and explicable, they would not be experimental. This applies today to the new program at The Movie on Kearny Street in North Beach: "Japanese Underground." If you are put off by uneven photography, amateur acting, blunt at-, tacks on good taste, and a preoccupation with illness, death, unerotic sex and violence, you will be put off by most of the seven short films contained under this title. BUT IF you are curious to see what young Japanese filmmakers, working with handheld cameras and active imaginations, can produce in 16mm black-and-white movies, you may 1A enjoy "Japanese Underground." Actually, "underground" is pure promotion: With one or two brief exceptions, there are no scenes in this 7 show that could not be shown In any neighborhood theater which has shown "Mondo Cane," or any of its sensational successors.

The real underground films, such as those I saw last summer at a meeting of the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art or the ones shown at midnight at Les Natale's Presidio Theater, are considerably more shocking, erotic and disturbing than this Japanese program put together by Donald Ritchie. HE IS the best-known occidental authority on Japanese films, the author of "The Films of AJdra Kurosawa" and co-author (with Joseph L. Anderson) of "The Japanese Film, Art and Industry." One of his own shorts, a four-minute piece called "Life" Is Included in The Movie's current program. It proves that the quail ties which make for good criticism and exegesis of the work of others do not necessarily lead to creativity. "Life" is a mercifully short piece of heavyhanded symbolism.

I WILL not record my reactions to the others, not because I didn't have any, but because I have no confidence In them. There is too much missing from my (Japanese) cinematic vo cabulary and (Japanese) cultural understanding. For I suspect 3, that Masao Adach's "Rice Bowl" deals with elements of Japanese life (or myth) having profound emotional significance! Graveyards, white robed women, sacrifice, shame, and so on. But it is like trying, to find one's way in a foreign city: Not only are the sips cryptic, but you are not sure where you want to go. Considering the reputa- tion of Japanese cinema-tographers for beautiful1 photography, these films TONIGHT AT 8:15 mSCKT DAVID ACADEMY dom of Lilliput," a 12-min- ute cryptograph with some', I'm sure, coincidental Andy Warhol overtones.

Kazutomo Fujima's "An i Eatrt," a straightforward; comedy about 'a is revolted by all masticating and digesting' going on before her; and has a Nobuhiko Ohbayashi's' "Complexe," an amusing exploitation of some simple -cinematic trickery. Katsuhiro Tomita's "The Martyr," a gruesome, mor-' bid, and dreamlike examination of gynocide, impo- tence, voyeurism and a few. other psychiatric disorders. The films vary in length, from four to 30 minutes. The whole program takes about two Millbrae Auditions The Millbrae Community; Players will; hold tryout for "The Rape of the Benn Levy's farce, Sunday' at 2:30 p.m.

at the Players' Theater, 255 JAMES STEWART, AND MAUREEN O'HARA A gentlewoman charms a saddle tramp Matador Mesmerized todays highlights By flamenco Master AVAUD HOMItlATIOIlS! If one can accept the somewhat Implausible premise of Ric Hardman's screenplay that otherwise stable, intelligent people would be emotionally Involved, inspired and desolated by the plight of a prize bull then the movie is fresh and gripping, with moments of real excitement. And director Andrew V. McLaglen has allowed the film's animal lore to serve only as a backdrop for the human conflicts. Furthermore, McLaglen has admirably blended this amalgam of romance, comedy, violence and adventure into an integrated whole that rarely allows any lapse of attention. And William H.

Clothier's color camera has superbly captured an appropriate western flavor of loneliness and challenge. STEWART CREDIBLY makes the transition from an unreliable drifter to a dependable member of so captures the flowing lines of dancing ladles; the stop-time rhythms highlighted by upper-range shadings, and the rhythms underscored by a throbbing left thumb, walking the; strings like a jazz bassist. Serrano often makes his gorgeous instrument sound like the world's most beautiful music box, with showers of notes falling with "unbelievable precision and clarity. AND THERE is masculine vitality and assertive-ness in Serrano's flamenco guitar as welL On the tango-like farruca one can al-most see and hear the stomp and click of heels, the slapping of thighs, and the accelerating handclaps ofthejaleo. Rhythmic variations and the confluence of many meter are sometimes matched by Moorish-like harmonies and minor keyed inflections of Arabia basis.

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Hoi. 2:00 ACARlOPOtiUPROOUCnDN New music by Austin, Swift, Roseh, Lu-netta, Mizelle. Members of New Music Ensemble and guests, performing in Freeborn Hall, UC campus, Davis, tonight at 8: 15. Jazz Club Archie Shepp opening tonight for a three-night engage-ment at the Albatross, Hearst and San Pablo, Berkeley. Jazz Club Smiley Winters Combo, opening tonight for a three-night engagement at the Mandrake, 10th and University, Berkeley.

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1 Saa. 2 TM. AH Saata laaarraa lUrti a laara. Braraaaat WarS ISaraOl aa4 a Raaalar ish guitar played ly for the first time.v Apparently the reason for the muffled sounds and slurred notes we often hear is the performer's technical Inferiority. Juan Serrano displays absolute control of his instrument; through it he imparts all the emotion, all the beauty, and all the majesty of his native music.

The hushed, mesmerized audience scarcely dared rattle an ice cube for fear of breaking Serrano's spell. New Showroom In North Beach The F. W. Kuh Memorial Auditorium, a new showroom, will open Wednesday at the Old Spaghetti Factory, 478 Green St. Comedian Larry Hankin, formerly of The Committee, will perform Wednes day through Saturday eve- "Powerful! This frank and often brutal film is commendable Chronicle "Penetrating! Remarkable! Could not be more su perbly engrossing!" Examiner Musica Viva The San Francisco Symphony's festival of contemporary mu-s i continues at Nourse Auditorium, Franklin and Hayes, at 8:30 with a program of instrumental and vocal music for various combinations by Onder-donk, Copland, Pendereckl, del Tredici, arete and Sydeman.

Spanish Dancers Jose Molina company at Harmon Gym, UC, Berkeley, 8:30. German Duo Rolf and Maria Ermeler in flute and piano recital, with lieder singer Edith Zitelli, at Man- hattan Flayhouse, Palo Alto, 8:30. Jason Schoener A one-man show of paintings at Gump's, 250 Post, through March 30. 4 Panl Hassel A retrospective honoring the late photographer, at S.F. Mu.

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a mi By PHILIP F.ELWOOD It will be hard to cry "Ole!" ever again without recalling the enthusiasm and warmth with which El Matador's current overflow crowds are shouting that familiar appreciative encouragement for the magnificent flamenco guitar virtuosity of Juan Serrano. Handsome, detached, sombre, totally absorbed in bis performance, Serrano seems a far cry from many of the Gypsy dances for which his guitar music was originally created. But the fire in his fingers, the unbelievable runs of the buleri-as (whose lopsided accents seem to fall into a strange 38 rhythm) and the flowing waltz-like alegrias capture all the emotional fluctuations of bodily expressions. SERRANO, not yet 30, absorbed his music in growing up: a product of Cordova, he was saturated with flamenco expressions (guitar and dance) from the surrounding Andalusian country. But it was from his father, a master guitarist, that Serrano learned the skills which can elevate only a few into the heights of technical command and facility.

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