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FILM FESTIVAL AT ART CENTER DETROIT FREE PRESS Friday, March M. 7 NOMINATED 1h ACADEMY in Iroi Curtain Cinema Art Makes A WOMAN Look Like MARY POPPINS'wU FOR AWARDS! Including BEST PICTURE! ike, A vim -WtW Hiauij5Bmiwj TONIGHT AT 8:15 rw1 Vk LIONEL NOMINATED FOR 0 SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN A Starkly Icalistic Fila For Adults Only NOW SHOWING EXCLUSIVELY! ACADEMY niMfinnG 0ji PANAVtStOWTECHrflCOLOR RESERVED SEAT TICKETS AT BOX OFFICE OR BY MAIL Tickli alio ol S.on, HutJion'i Moior Slor.i Marwill 8oek Storw MATINEES 2:00 P.M. W.d. Sol. Sun.

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3530107 licieli list xiilikli it ill J. I. HJdsR. Cruwll'i, ml Stirs Slim 'BOX OFFICE OPEN DAILY NOON to 9:00 P.M. BY SUSAN STARK Fin Prut Staff Wrltar Although the quality of the works is uneven, the two-program package of films on view this weekend ftt the Institute of Arts offers an all-too-rare opportunity to see what's going on film-wise in some of the Iron Curtain countries.

At least two shorts and one feature-length film in the group bear the unmistake-able stamp of excellence. "Wild Horses of Fire," a feature-length film of Russia's Srgel Paradjhanov, uses color and light more effectively than any film we have seen since "Elivlra Madigan." Set in the Carpathian Mountains of the Ukraine, the film manages to fuse this primitive, harshly beautiful setting to a tender love story that reminds us of the Romeo and Juliet. Taradjlianov Is particularly sensitive to the universal synv hollam of nature. He uses leaves and aky and earth and water to create a ntxtd, or to convey an emotion, with breath-taking clarity. The power of his film, In fact, comes as a miracle In the face of one of the most nervewrack-Ingly shoddy editing Jobs wo have ever seen.

It's worth sticking with the film, though, Jumpy transitions and all, Just to marvel at the splendid visuals. "Machine," a short by Wolfgang Urchs nf Germany and "Portrait of A Horse," a short by Poland's Witold Giersz, are probably the real highlights in the two evenings of film a they are equal to "Wild Horses of Fire" In freshness of vision and bear none of the scars from a butchering Job like that suf-fered by Paradjhanov's film. Larisa Kadochnikova portrays a Russian Peasant in "Wild Horses of Fire." bounce out of the machine. When the men in pants have children, a new part Is added to the machine and it produces brightly-colored balls for the kids to toss around. As the needs of the people become more complex and more grotesque the machine keeps growing so it oan accomodate them.

At last, It has provided the peope with tools to destroy themselves THIS PICTURE HAS A MESSAGE: "Watch out!" All all in a hellhole of terror! FINAL 5 DAYS! and has grown powerful enough to destroy even the little man on high. Equally original as the I'rchs short is "Portrait of A Horse," in which Witold Giersz, combines live action and animation in oils to create an utterly dazzling effect. The film is really nothing more than a showcase for Glersi's technique. It shows brushstroke horses and men moving In, out of, and against wildly colorful smears of Impasto oil paint Glenn obviously fell in love with the effect and any-one who sees his film won't blame him. The only real disappointment In the whole group of films eight shorts and two features is "Barrier," by Jerzy Skolimowski of Poland.

Inter- i ilIE'lErailEMETROCOLOR MGM I MGM rtitnt GEORGE ENGLUND PRODUCTION wru PM t3 Rpnww.DnnTivinp. wnt ti jiiii vnviiii nviimivii i iLi il iiiiiiiimft 2 pi SSb. fi I PANAVlSION'ind METR0C0L0R S3 WOSTfO PQ9 NUTUM AUOrtNCH PANAVlSIONnd METR0C0L0R luoonrio ton MiTvn mjmnccV VCMWCTUMnpC flLllllL I fl lllvlll Jt J. weaving realistic scenes with surrealistic ones, the film purports to show a young man's attempt to break away from values inherited from preceding gnerations. We found it obscure, pretentious, and WE HAVE DEVELOPED an almost Pavlovian response to cartoons In the West, largely because of Disney's dominance over the form until recently.

We expect them to be sprite-ly films, showing funny creatures doing silly things, with a "that's all, folks" kind of ending. Wolfgang Urch's "Machine" couldn't have less to do with anything Disney and company ever dreamed of. Urchs uses animation to make a cynical, If not downright bitter, statement about the destructive nature of man, "Machine" starts out being cute enough. A little man, sitting on high, works a simple machine to take care of the needs of some little men running around the screen beneath him. Little pairs of pants rmmmmm 20th Century-Fox presents IITIT.T?! "The on the Pulitzer Prize-winning A MARVIN SCHWARTZ Production 9 Starring novel by Bernard Malamud.

Hii. MM MB mmm. feaaaaanH PPPtll I UK A I a I Alaj.am.a I "PROVIDES ALAN BATES WITH A FINE OPPORTUNITY FOR A STRIKING Metto Goldwyn Mdyer presents the John Ftdnkenheimet- Edward Lewis Production of Tm(5 tKNANUU LAiVIAo UAN HtKLlnY JWiS HANS GUDEGAST Produced the fixer i.in- Alan Bates KMARVIN SCHWARTZ-nd TOM GRIES-5 CLAIR HUFFAKERTOM MACLEOD music by jenn i uuLuomnn iv UULUHbyDeLuxe PERFORMANCE!" Dirk Bogarde, Hugh Griffith, Elizabeth Haitman, Ian Holm, David Warner, Carol White Ken Barnard Newt VP DOWNTOWN IA8LIT AT OMNP IIVU II DOWNTOWN IA8LIT AT OMNP IIVU 962-3310 Scteenplay by DiiltonTtunibo, Pioductd by Edwaid Lewis, Diucled by John Fiankenhe imci Two Droqrsms of films, hiah-llohting fetur-liath works made in countries behind the Iron Curtain, will be shown in tha Detroit Institute of Arts Auditorium. Both programs are presented by Janus Films. Tickets available at the Art Institute Ticket Office, Hudson's, Grlnnell'a and Wavne State University.

Prooram 1: "Pistol," bv Wolfaard Urchs, Germany (short) "The Deierf," bv Janusi Kublk, Poland (short) "Portrait of I Horst," Witold Giersz. Poland (short) "Wild Horses of Fire," Seroel Parad-ihanov, Russia (feature) To be shown Friday at 9.X D.m. and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Program II: "Machine," bv Wolfaard Urchs, Germany (short) "Allegro Ma Tronpo," by Paul de Roubaix, France (short) "Texas Romance," by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, U.S.A. (short) "Barrier," bv Jerzv Skolimowski, Poland ((eature) To be shown Friday al 7.

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