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The FreanoBeee Fri Dec 30 1977 B4 Capsule movie reviews funny biting artists have dragon of a hie He is the dancing of newcomer Mikhail Baryshnikov is awesome There may be a bit too much ballet lor the average viewer but this fine story will give many others new appreciation of the art Rated PG At with a minimum of violence Charles Bronson stars as a Soviet KGB agent who Joins with CIA counterpart to track down a who Is directing ordi-to commit acts of Filmed ta the US is a spy thriller that makes two hours of enter-PG At val Stariita South HEROES A poignant about a Vietnam war i returning home to find himself anything hut a hero The movie comes off as some-thing of a star vehicle for Henry Winkler Ms attempt ta show the world that The Fonz can act He does show same talent hut he la helped by a script that shows real sensitivity ta the plight of vet (runs of the war nobody wanted Sally Fields is one bright spot ta Ms life and it is their romance that give the film its life An appealing movie to those who can disassociate that face from Fonzie Rated PG At UA Cinemas Pete who runs afoul of absolutely unbelievable vil-bans Helea Reddy i Rooney seem la be with an the staging tag but It's mostly the audience Rated At the Country Squire THE GOODRYE GIRL Neil Simon has given us a brightly wrapped package of humor and warmth that ia to please even the holiday i Dreyftiss i a flair for romantic an actor who I an unusual i the New York i he has rented is already occupied by a friend's ex-room-mate and her daughter Mar- for writing such wed-aonwrs role while Quinn Cummings nearly Although the setting is football there are only a few scenes of the game always accompanied by the ringing of Gene Autry Billy Clyde's favorite The action is off the field Burt Reynolds shines in a role like Billy Clyde combining the rogue with little boy innocence to make the most likeable character Ms Clayburgh does her usual fine job with Barbara Jane letting us see the vulnerability beneath the liberated exterior and Kristoffer-son is appropriately cast as the man who has found the BEAT and will march to no other Doing well in supporting roles are Robert Preston as Big Ed Bookman wanting his players to win and his daughter to get what she wants and Burt Convy as the smooth-talking BEAT leader The language may put off some in the audience but altogether is a good-natured entertaining film It is playing at UA Movies 4 and Sunnyside Drive-In 2 Kathey Clarey SEMI-TOUGH has a lot of bite beneath its funny raunchy surface Director Michael Ritchie who took on beauty pageants in and the Little League in Bad News now takes a look at society through the eyes of his characters Burt Billy Clyde Puckett tries to live up to the macho football player image getting in as many completed passes off the Field as on Kris Shake Tiller has found himself through BEAT something like the EST movement and Jill Barbara Jane Bookman has been through two marriages and divorces and is still trying to find out who she is The trio lives together in one of her apartments (he also owns the team) in a platonic relationship he thinks is abnormal They often -seem like children playing house even after Barbara has started bedding down with Shake The film's rating is for the dialogue since sex just hinted at and never shown CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF IKE THIRD EIND fascinating entertaining film which lata you believe and hope we are not aim Director Steven Spielberg and medal effects wizard Douglas Trumbull have combined their talents to create a UFO atorv that ii both suspenseful and spectacular Richard Dreyfus and Melinda Dillon aUr aa Midwesterners who find their live dramatically changed after contact with alien beings Like many others they are drawn to a spot in Wyoming where acientiita believe they will be able to contact Dying saucers There are aoma confusing scenes in big light show hut overall it it a spellbinding success Rated PG At UA Movies THE TURNING POINT One of the finest mast artistic films to come along in years The story canteri around two former prims ballerinas one who gavo up the spotlight for marriage and family and another who stayed on to become a big star Years later they rekindle their relationship when Emma (Anno Bancroft) la a fallen star and DeDe (Shirley MacLaine) is wondering what she might have become Both tee their own dreams realised In the ballet success of DeDe's daughter (Leslie Browne) The entire cast is first rats and the LOOEING FOR MR GOODIAR Diane Keaton delivers an Oscar-worthy performance the heroine of Judith Ressner's bestselling novel about a young womanV nightly and ultimately fatal descent Into the swinging Her schuoph rente as a quiet religious and an girl by day STAR WARS Unquestionably the movie hit or the year It it an elaborate Miry with a beautiful a black knight and a But it ia much that It is a space story that will keep THE GAUNTLET -Clint Eastwood is in fine form in this new action thriller but it is not typical Eastwood fare He plays aa incredibly dumb police officer aselgned to take a witness bom Las Vegas to while mobsters end cop shoot at them all the way Eastwood again directs himself and keeps the dialogue short and the action long so to minimize the gaping hole in the plot through which one could and Eastwood does drive a bus He his coetar Sondra Locke and the vUlians all have trouble shooting straight but there's so much action that most Eastwood fans won't really cue Rated At Festival MoonGla FETE'S DRAGON new feature is a partially animated musical comedy that it not much fun for either adults or children It is a disappointing combination of overacting lackluster songs hackneyed sight gags and a tedious and highljMpredictabie plot The bast part of the film la the animation The Disney wise daughter Simon's dialogue Is sharp as aver and his characters will win your heart your heart alcohol swinger by night is central to Writer-director Richard on the sin-The picture he paint is one of casual sex drugs violence and the search for love This is definitely not the kind of film to nee on a blue day It is a grisly interne film mat is for adults only And its message will make an impression on ill who sea Rated At Fig Garden Cinemas ud it is a visual iz: The special effects are absolutely dazzling The story is simple and eaay to follow (unlike any scl-ft films) and it harkens hack to the grand old adventure stories of early moviei This film should clearly establish George Lucas as a major force ta Hollywood and hopefully will lead to more movies of this kind Rated PG At Feetlval for enjoys good romantic comedy Rated PG At Festival TELEFON A taut suspense film which fit together like aa many pieces of a puzzle Veteran director Don too MANN TMEATPES TOWER Theatre MdinMRiiiy Deers Opaa 12:30 Flsaty af Free Pariung OPEN DAILY 12:30 NOW AT BOTH THEATRES CLOSE ENCOUNTERS JM MS OF THE THIRD KMD wA NOW ON 2 SCREENS! Who is THE WORLb'S GREATEST LOVER Gene Wilder is a very funny fellow but there is more of him in this movie than anyone can stand He wrote it directed it and is seen in virtually every minute of this seemingly unending film Wilder stars as one of losers who goes off to Hollywood where a studio is desperately seeking a new star to rival the great Valentino The movie strives to recreate the slapstick style of the silent movies but all of pratfalls are more foolish than funny and there is so much screaming that it makes you wish it were a silent movie The one thing this movie proves is that Wilder cannot direct himself As in his first directing job (Sherlock Smarter Broth- er) Wilder lets his humor run amuck He really does have a flair for comedy but it is most refined under the hand of someone like Mel Brooks or Woody Allen The supporting efforts of Dorn DeLuice playing the studio boss and Carol Kane as wispy girlfriend are all but lost in all the hysteria At times it seems like a comedy with Wilder trying to do all three parts by himself Indeed if ever there were a case of overacting this is it And if ever 20th Century Fox lets Wilder do another film all by himself they deserve to be floating in red ink Greatest is rated PG and is playing at Festival Cinemas Scott Tompkins From the outrageous No1 Best-Seller TIE CHOIRBOYS NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE A IMMaBAlO IMS-MO-MS i TOUGH' S-45 IftOO PACIFIC DRIVE INS fOOBIVf IM2SI-Qiivr 4 Clevf1 7 3731 Bee Gees son" ml (t) HM-mKrm asiufi (I) I losivc ms 227-7 frctno At Sluw A -Wttkom Wo Cu "MIURMYMGNT irarm (rat TT (FO CEEH RP9 dsivomi 2 37-so Hwy it IfwV 1 WONDSUAND" AUCI Ml CO-HIT oivm 261 264 OUOI JOHN TRAVOLTA ii Saturday nighT FEVER 1:50 9:35 CettHnwed frwn Page II music changes later the Bee Gees are still where they started at the top Their Deep is Your has been made one of biggest hits of the year long after most of their contemporaries have gone into the dry cleaning business Dog night split up" laughed Barry Gibb recently recalling some of the Bpe former contemporaries I guess the only trio left in the world atf least I think there's another one gqing still making hit records' added brother Barry brothers kind of a seal there" The Bee Gees sink under the weight of that slow syrupy style diplayed injtheir first hits Gotta Get a Message to and Started a in fact the style carried them to further success in the with to and Can You Mend a Broken Heart?" And when it finally appeared their style wits beginning to burden them the Brothers Gtbb passed the most grueling test popular musicians ever face they changed They added funk and freshness to their sound when the times demanded as demonstrated in 1975 with their hit wanted to move into an area of better tighter rhythyms and become more of a land than just three Barry said at the time UBI CAUL DAO news 1 taSS-fW) nummoHira) MSMT PI THEATRE 311 1M4 FUTON 4M-U11 ft MM Mm 0 CONTAINS STUFF YOU WOhTT SEEON TV uniu raocioe pksms'M UNDER 1 2 FREE! A Driwt-im Open at 6:30 SHOW AT 7 00 MIDNIGHT SHOWS EVERY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT THIS WEEKEND WE KOUDIY PRESENT THE FOLLOWING: CHARLES DURMNG LOUS GOSSETT JR PERRY KNT CLYDE KUSATSU STEPHEN MACHI TN McMTRE RANDY 1XJAD CHUCK SACQ DON STR0LH JAAAES WOODS BLJRT YOUNG Co-Sum ROBERT WEBBER BARBARA RHOADES VC MICK Drectedby ROBERT ALDRM Screenpiay bt CHHSTDPHER KNOPf Based on Itie novel bv XSEPH WUBAIJGH Produced by UERV ASELSON and LEE RCH Efeotoe Producers PETRO and HARD BREGNIIARK DAMON Music by FRANK DE VOL ijmehiuns techncouk STARDUST MOTEL X-RATED MOVIES hi lh privacy af year ream ceier TV Watarhedi stirrers ES9S lacy Md Neater CA Ph (f) 5M-2441 leswCaaa Aha Adda nmiMKAr CO-HIT JSML MANN TNCATItfS NOW fllcRrer -WR EXCLUSIVE I 8 Orc1 ESiM OPEN DAILY 12:15 HARRY REEMS his kt Adult Film! PLUS JENNIFER WELLS IN pglSose VV-f unhy "EXPOSE ME iiuiiiuuitittiimuiimiUiiiUiMi THE WAY SHE WAS firyi ori tail i AtXIli ENTERTAINMENT' ft 'h Barry has been working on the new album of his youngest brother Andy Just Want To Be Your and with brothers Maurice and Robin Barry aiso is currently performing under another name Sgt Lonely Hearts Club Band in the movie of the same title It is a rock opera without dialogue and Barry says all three Bee Gees are looking for more acting roles preferably in films that have nothing to do with rock roll "But you put too much energy into Barry cautions himself you forget about your music and crazy It happen taken all lives to get where we are now We want to take it even further The funniest film of I98S 2ND FEATURE of TOW Ml CINEMA 2017 Fresno 442-9842 ADULTS ONLY mm SEE1 CHEVY CHASE "The music comes first IeT En(ntM(ue(Ze The Bee Want Ads a thrifty habit Adult Theatres mm Loneite McKee Margatel Avery A ve Krantz Piodudai Sort by Carl Goifcb and Cecil BrcAii Music score Pad Riser and Mark Dams Deeded bv Michael ScWtz Produced by Steve Krantz 'X'be JC Fjns a TheSfirun jt Mem by InWalntfe' SonjTllhtifijisltf' toes xi Vl'iO Vnun Stigbi Siaganf la-n imi £jTOCTtH 2nd iZZZZWgSHOCKERfl Definitely not for Kids IrtomwuvAor SOU I v-tfW 9 tfti AND: Bart teyiolds Till DIXIE rilWCINEMAS mmU.