The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 16

A 1 AIO The Sacramumu iee i U'ur 1 a Saturday January 19 1980 for Disney which also stars Genevieve Bujold and Ricky Schroder Rogers Gould recently completed Last Flight of his first screen role He is beginning a new film called and will join the rest of the original cast for House 'Silent Scream' Horror Is Less Than Promised gagas? a euAiu By Robert A Masullo Bee Reviewer pered leader of a motley band of degenerates in the new comedy Just two years ago he was delivering pizzas while struggling to establish himself as an actor Then came Animal ELLIOTT GOULD has been signed for a starring role in Walt Devil and Max Steven Stern will direct from a screenplay by Mary TONIGHT MATINEE SUN OPENS 6 OO SHOW 6 30 A STItmU CALLS" "SAME OF FUAT" VAN" (R) BEACH" "POM POM "ROUER BOOGIE" (PG) SUMMER" 2: -0RR0R MOVIES by their nature lose much potential impact before anyone steps in the theater Nothing is as frightening as the unexpected If you're told over and over that a particular film is going to scare your socks off you're on guard When the horrible moment comes well so what? You imagined worse 11 LJ BARGAIN HOUR $200 TO 1:00 PJW Xff SUNDAYS HOI IPAYS i i nv uL uG Vis oruuenis In Newley's Musical By Robert A Masullo Bee Reviewer IheJEi EVERY BABYSITTERS NIGHTMARE BECOMES REAL BIRDCAGE WALK MARTIN se The day belongs toman The night istheirsj 7:00 )2 IS-2 10-4 05-6 05 8 00-10-00 WHEN A STRANGER 9:00 CALLS 0 iirmur (PG) viGimvmi 3 FAYE DUNAWAY TOMMY LEE jONtS EYES OF LAURA MARS io-so Wj Ngferw mu "Bit ajtriti if a a u1 ww This may be the biggest problem with "Silent It is touted too loudly as a horror movie If it were promoted as say just a mystery it probably would have more dramatic clout Newspaper ads for "Silent say: so Sudden there is No Time to The TV commercials show a frightened woman with her mouth open and no sound emanating Whatever the damn thing is it must be a beaut Right? Wrong The horror here I'm sorry to say is nothing more than a woman with a knife not exactly Mary Poppins but neither is she the most dreadful force imaginable "Silent does manage to register on the goosebump meter but just barely There were two times in it I expereinced genuine physical sensations spine chills if you will But both were fleeting mere pikers compared to those received in which I believe still remains the touchstone for all horror movies "Silent is a beautifully photographed film Unfortunately it is filled to overflowing with the cliches of the horror genre an old Victorian home by the sea secret passages filled with cobwebs an old lady in the attic and lots of ohh-oh music Missing is a surprise ending You know who is doing the killing far too early The only mystery is why And the explanation withheld until near the end is hardly satisfactory when it comes The cast which features Rebecca Balding (of "Tony Randall Cameron Mitchell Avery Schreiber (this may be his first noneating role) Barbara Steele Steve Doubet Brad Rearden Yvonne De Carlo still around but hardly most beautiful girl in the she once was said to be) and Juli Andelman perform adequately but without inspiration This was a first effort for director Denny Harris It was not an auspicious beginning But neither was it totally without merit If he learns from experience he may be a significant director in the future "Silent rated is playing at the Sunrise State and Arden Fair theaters and the Sacramento and Forty Niner drive-ins 11 A comedy for adults who can count (R) hi mp'iym 1 mm GEORGE ART BURNS CARNEY "GG5NG IN STYLE" Acometfy ro sreai your neart pG 100-3 05-5 10-7-IS-9 20 ROBERT REDFORD pc JANE FONDA THE ELECTRIC HORSEMAN 12 30-2 SO-S 20-7 50-10 IS It's a wild hilarious hunt fNE WORD sums up the production of Roar of the Greasepaint the Smell of the now at the Wyatt Pavilion: dreadful I keep reminding myself that it is a production of University of California Davis Student Musical Theater a thoroughly student organization I would like to encourage such efforts But this one is indefensible Anthony Newley's done under the best of circumstances would not rate among my favorite musicals But do it with a pathetically costumed cast consisting of actors that act and constantly off-pitch singers in a frigid theater (well below the mandated 65 degrees) with poor seating and bad lighting and you have the makings of a truly memorable experience like Pearl Harbor If there was one slightly redeeming feature it was the singing of Greg Dawson His acting was on a par with the rest of the production but at times the musical quality of his voice showed promise Even this must be qualified however for he had a tendency to direct his voice to the floor or the rear of the stage or up his sleeve The production will be repeated today and next Saturday at 2:30 pm and today and Tuesday through next Saturday at 8 15 pm Winner take all Kramer Kramer DUSTIN HOFFMAN l1S-3 20-5 30-7 35-9 SO Spradlin joins George Scott Marlon Brando and Marthe Keller in THE FORMULA He plays an oil company executive involved in a synthetic fuel conspiracy Spradlin in real life is an Oklahoma oil and cattle man who chose a second career as a film actor Steve Shagan wrote the screenplay from his best-selling novel John Avildsen is directing THE SPHINX is now in production in Budapest Hungary starring Lesley-Ann Down and Frank Langella Frankln Schaffner is directing senes set in an Egyptian tomb and other massive sets built at the Mafilm Studios Sir John Gielgud recently joined the cast to play an Egyptian shopkeeper The film is based on Robin novel Ten-year-old Louanne of Fort Worth Tex will play opposite George Burns in OH GOD! OH GOD! BURT REYNOLDS and his wrecking crew are returning for a new movie called and the Bandit Have a The movie also stars Sally Field Jerry Reed Jackie Gleason as Sheriff Buford Justice and Mike Henry as his son The Statler Brothers will also appear Stuntman Hal Needham who made his directorial debut with the original will also direct the Rastar-Mort Engelberg Production STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE has earned $675 million in worldwide box office receipts during its first month of release The Paramount picture released Dec 7 is now playing in 1005 theaters in the United States and Canada The movie began its first foreign showings in late December STEPHEN FURST who stars in has come a long way since he delivered pizzas Furst plays the spoiled pam -GENERAL CINEMA THEATRES More words have been written and spoken about this movie than any other movie ever made You must see it to believe it Overseas Films Join Oscar Derby Twent pm Century Fo 1 (ES fSECWOJWJ WC-jr Lvl fiwwrrom Adult Theatres MANOt THtATVU HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Twenty-three foreign language films have been submitted for Academy Award consideration including an Austrian entry produced and directed by Maximilian Schell Each of the films submitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences were selected by each nation as the best movie made and released in that country during 1979 Five films will be selected for Oscar nomination and the winner will be chosen by a special committee headed by director George Cukor Academy rules require that dialogue be predominantly in a langauge of the country of origin and that the movies include English subtitles Among the movies submitted for consideration this year is "Tales From the Vienna by Schell who won the best actor Oscar in 1961 for his role in "Judgment at Among the foreign films that have already been or are scheduled for release in the United States are "A Simple from France "The Tin from West Germany from Israel and Forget from Italy Other movies submitted for consideration from European countries include: In A Twilight Belgium Bulgaria "Wonderful Men With A Czechoslovakia Denmark Hungary and "A Woman Like The Netherlands Maids of Poland "Mama Turns A Spain Respectable Sweden Petites Switzerland USSR and Man To Yugoslavia The other entries are "The Argentina "From Silence Or Primal Canada China Egypt in the Hong Kong and Japan I DOLBY STEREO SHOWS 1 004 OO I 7 00 OO SHOWS 10 30 1 15 3 50 6 30 9 30 Open 6 45 Wknrtes 6 30 Wkends PUSSYCAT HATVI 1 0 SHORTS PLUS- ZODIAC tSCORTID mi in nA ret 10 NT SMOBTS XXX PlATUttS He was a poor black son who never dreamed he was adopted TOWN TMtATYI GENEVA" WtSTlAM MlVf-tN MAU AMERICAN MUSTIER USA A Arts Briefs TOWIUIE 4700 Auburn at Myrtle e332-473Q-i New KTXL Series Celebrates That Era Of The Silent Films STEVE MARTIN IhejERK A UNIVERSAL PICTURE OPENS AT 9:45 AM PATAKA RHOMIIRG AS JANINE IN -PIUS- STARRING UING IN COLOR ADULTS ONLY By John Hurst Bee Reviewer DOWN" OF THE j'i'ciK'i U'Al mi S'UD-OS UC A rc served I'rtraqe Wait Shop BIRDCAGE WALK Cartery Cample SACRAMENTO 3 INI MAS 6 O'HF I 33 657 "ANIMAL OPEN 6:30 200-400 FIRST RUN- STARRING LINDA JADE SUZANNE MICHEL MAUREEN GIUIS -PLUS STARRING HAROLD REEVES A MARLENE FORCE HARPSICHORDIST Louis Bagger a member of the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and a frequent concert artist in the New York area will be an artist in residence at the department of music at the University of California at Davis this quarter In addition to lecturing he will be featured in concerts assisted by other musicians in a wide variety of music Jan 20 and 27 Feb 8 and 22 and March 14 all in the Chemistry Auditorium at 8:15 pm General admission will be $2 students $1 Canceled The Keith Green concert noted in the Community Center calendar of events and listed in On the Go section of The Bee has been canceled fa 4 enacting an execution by firing squad Unexpectedly these and other snippets show a sharpness and clarity not normally associated with silent film There is no blizzard of spots and scratches The images are vivid and cleanly focused The movement is natural not fast and jerky Much of the original technical excellence and tonal range it is explained was lost in the process of making copies of the film There are scenes from Great Train the first feature film to run a full 15 minutes and to tell a story And there are contemporary interviews with GM "Broncho Anderson who played a robber There is film of Sarah Bernhardt as she appeared in There are scenes from an innovative 1913 thriller directed by a woman the same Lois Weber who played its lead There are excerpts from European films of the period films whose technique and innovation were well beyond their American competition And there is DW Griffith the seminal director whose monument is Birth of a and whose early production averaged 80 films a year It was he who brought us the closeup the peril-and-rescue formula and a veritable host of techniques that were quickly to become cliches Included in the first program of the series is an interview with Griffith filmed in 1930 and a generous sampling of scenes from his of a as well as a lengthy examination of its effect on the national HERE IS MORE to the silent film than meets the eye or for that matter the ear It had color It had sound talking pictures reportedly were shunned by audiences in 1914 Nor did it have to be jerky and blurred either visually or in terms of content Sacramento area viewers can see and hear all this for themselves tonight when KTXL Channel 40 begins showing a series of 13 one-hour programs described as celebration of the American silent The syndicated series produced by Thames Television Ltd will be shown at 9 pm Saturdays through spring opening hour sketches the early history of the moving picture from its beginnings as a penny arcade novelty to its emergence with "The Birth of a as a medium with the power to provoke passion It illustrates this history with a generous sampling of early film beginning with a 30-second continuous loop prepared in the mid-1890s for the burgeoning penny arcade trade This one shows a woman dancing and each frame of the film was tinted by hand As series narrator James Mason points out it take filmmakers long to discover the two ingredients that best drew audiences: sex and here the camera shows an early continuous loop of a girl in a body stocking rising from an oyster and violence as illustrated by another loop WESTLANE DRIVE-IN OPENS 6 30 STARTS 7 00 ADULTS ONLY ALL AMERICAN Pius HUSTLER PAUL USA CAROLINE GENA LEE 80 Near Davis Exit Frontage Rd 756-4451 GRAND A DITTUXTI71 A Forbidden Love Based on a True Story STUMBLES MELV'N SIMON PRODUCTIONS PrKenlS a stanlev kramer production THE RUNNFR STUMBLES DCK VAN DVKE KA1HIEEN QUINLAN MAURI EN STAPLETON RAV BOLGEft TAMMY GRIMES and BEAU BRIDE IS Screenpay By MILAN STIT1 Based on His Bioadway Pay Produced and Directed By STANL LY KRAMER Director ol Ptiotograotry LASLO K0VACS A Associate Producer 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