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Show I 0 Lake Tribune. Sunday. June II Tin Sail Russians Advertisements mislead film-goe- rs I couldnt agree more, but she then waxes Desmond Ryan about the men who used to make the movie nostalgic r Writer decisions, arguing that they loved films in a way alien a of The trailer for movie is, DETROIT course, to the corporation hacks running the studios today. supposed to create a desire to see the entire feature. This strikes me as nostalgic nonsense. Movies in But what happens if it arouses expectations that are this country are made to make money and when an not fulfilled by the film and chagrined movie-goer- s occasional work of art shows up, its a bonus. It is, to start sharing their disappointment with friends? be sure, a deplorable state of affairs but that the There were two interesting and, I think, damaging did not begin with todays packagers. trailers in the theaters recently to herald Clint philosphy Kubrick's and Bronco Stanley Eastwoods Billy If youre wondering whatever happened to Eastwoods film is so far proving a The Shining. Robert Altmans film about convention of health, box office disappointment and surely one reason is health food aficianados, Robert Altman probably the obtuse trailer that has shown in theaters quite a shares your confusion. It was supposed to open last long time before its arrival Christmas and then it was set for the spring. The latest tentative release date is November, when its The point of the film is that it is an ironic comedy about a man living out a Hollywood fantasy as a story will have a certain pertinence because of the courtly cowboy. The sense of the films humor is presidential election. missing from the trailer, which suggests that Eastwood is simply in a movie about a traveling wild Advertising Problems West show. People who expect only that will be Even though it has a cast littered with names like disappointed and those who might have been Carol Burnett, Glenda Jackson and James Garner, attracted by Eastwood trying something new and 20th Century-Foexecutives are less than enplaying off his own macho image have nothing to thusiastic about its prospects in the market place. It tempt them into the theater is the sort of delay that simply underlines Kaels Littered With Names criticism. Likewise, the trailer for The Shining" showed its Robert De Niro has not been seen smee The Deer a torrent of blood spilling out most graphic image but he has been busy. He has completed two Hunter, of an elevator shaft in an old hotel until the furniture now being readied for release, Raging Bull, films starts floating. From this, a trailer-watche- r might which is about boxer Jake LaMotta, and True reasonably infer that Kubrick had pulled out all the Confessions. He has also just signed to make a film stops and made a really gory horor film. People who called which MGM describes as a Weeds, like such films will be disappointed by the comparacontemporary drama. tive reticence in the use of blood in The Shining and those who dont may easily have been deterred by the thriller By Knight-Ridde- By Thomas Kent Associated Press Writer Russias first homegrown disaster movie is gluing viewers to their seats as they watch a crippled Soviet airliner escape from a shattering earthquake in a volley of special effects The Soviet official press has regularly denounced such American disaster UNO I the Mo it At see first MOSCOW 2!t, thrillers as Jaws" and The Towering Inferno But no one seems to have any ideological complaints about Aircrew. from the Soviet film studio x Mosfilm. Tickets are at a premium for director Alexander Mittas movie, which features destruction of a city by an earthquake, eruptions of volcanoes, a fiery airplane crash into an air terminal and a flight engineer crawling outside his craft to make t. repairs in The heroes are the 4 crew members of a airliner of the Soviet airline Aeroflot, each with his own problems in life and love. The film included almost no politics, though at Moscow's Oktober cinema it followed a long newsreel about the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth. Soviet critics have had little good to say about American disaster films, calling them new opiates for the Western masses. i.rji On location with Windwalker The Uinta Mountains near Mirror Lake were recently the setting for production of a new trailer. This problem extends to the advertising when the film arrives. Take Brubaker, Stuart Rosenbergs fine film about a crusading warden who found out the bodies of murdered inmates were buried on the grounds of his prison. The headline in the advertising says, The most wanted man in Wakefield Prison is the Warden, a claim that really has nothing to do with the content of the film. This kind of advertising can kill a film before you get a chance to see it. A recent instance was Serial, which was not a very good movie, but one arguably done in by its own mid-fligh- TU-15- STARTS WEDNESDAY - film by Kieth Merrill, Windwalker. Cast is headed by actor Trevor Howard. JULY 2ND copywriters. Pauline Kael, who has just returned to the critics or should it be pulpit? At the New Yorker has chair a provocative tirade in the June 23rd issue. Writing at her usual interminable length, Kael takes on the people who now run the film business and attributes the current dismal quality of movies to executives whose experience lies in selling soap powder for conglomerates. 355 .3883, LOCATED SOUTH OF TEMPLE SQUARE SHOWS DAILY 1:50, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 AT Fame is ablaze with energy, freshness, vitality, youth and talent. A bold venture dazzling in its display of song and dance. - J tmrk l (hamplm Injak s Pi inis pame has heart, guts and power. Fame' bursts with electricity from begin n ng to end 7 ki i Rt A jubilant, hugely movie. bill t ii entertaining Vw Vi I, In "An explosion IVI In of talent' dims X'vmk. kikd IV Bursting with fresh faces, Vwswtvk style and energy. I,in! A sensuous story of natural love Director Randal Kleiser, whose last film, "Grease, was an international hit, has now turned his cinematic talent towards a new and unusual subject. Mau-- Mctio-Uolihu- i R! 39 E. n A1.AN PARKER - AML m Winn n i. ( IIRISinmi-.RUiKDAVID UK MIA A i.mALW MARM I.M Pnn tut I, ALAN PARKER 'i in 'iii" :i- mi , 1 ; xbv sTtHto r . . ' I Umed Artist vi iThelElks 1 'n.iu r , . Noon, 2, 4, 6, 8, 1 O SOUTH TEMPI! l 11 14 SI OMVC.WRAS MESMERIZING! 1 m,mmn F Bex Reed 1 ' I Zjf Between stranger.! tiling is possible! fevmOTI0ISIAMAW!U'L Two children, a boy and a girl, are shipwrecked on a lost tropical island. 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Love as nature intended it to be. f MOUSE sty. 11 A,v St PG A bubbling mystery movie Directed CIAIR by CLAUDE LELOUCH 12:15, 215, 4.15, 6 15, 8.15, 10.15 wo, 1M.S MOV I VI) DK FKMM1 'MARY POPPINS" Disney's 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:30 COLUMBIA PICTURES THE BLUE LAGOON ATKINS Martini) BROOKE SHIELDS And Intioduuny CHRISTOPHER LEO McKERN WILLIAM DANIELS Music by BASIL POLEDOURIS Director of Photography NESTOR ALMENDROS RICHARD FRANKLIN Screenplay by DOUGLAS DAY STEWART Produced and Directed by RANDAL KLEISER (G OtKjiniil Motion Picture Soundtrack Available on TK Records and Tapes UP THE ACADEMY (R) t :30, HOU.YWOOD KNIGHTS KRAMER 5:00, 8:30 3:15, 6:45, 10:00 V. KRAMER"PG)1 :30, 5:40, CAUF0RNIA SUITE 3:30, 7:45 9:40 "BRONCO BILLY" 1 XXI, 3:30, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 (PC) Presents A RANDAL KLEISER FILM STARTS WEDNESDAY JULY 2ND c 9BU l i MH Af Cl ' N. Ubu Columbia Lv Picture ft EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT J |
