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Show Here we are, winding up another year of film viewing. view-ing. This week the Opera House has returned to the two feature schedule, much to my pleasure. This offers a much better variety to the viewer. Unfortunately, this week is packed with reruns of reruns. re-runs. Sometimes I wonder if the Opera House really isn't a giant television with summer, sum-mer, spring, winter, and fall reruns. Ah, well, new films are hard to book, and most of the older films I know I'd like to see are not very commercial com-mercial or economically sound. But just once, to see again JULES AND JIM or THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG . . . The only new film offered is THE TAKING OF PEL-HAM PEL-HAM ONE TWO THREE. The film is supposed to beasus-penseful beasus-penseful thriller based on a true incident in which thugs siezed a subway car and threatened the lives of the passengers for a ransom. Sounds like the usual promising prom-ising violent fare that film companies thrive on. Ah, for a film without guns! The two stars are promising-Walter promising-Walter Matthau has proven himself to be a talented actor, ac-tor, while Robert Shaw's recent, re-cent, performance in THE STING has distinguished him as an actor of many talents. tal-ents. Of all the reruns, my all-time all-time favorite is offered Woody Allen's ruAY IT AGAIN, SAM. This film is still the best Woody Allen film made offering a good strong story line, excellent supporting actors, and Allen at perhaps his best. I have seen this film too many times to count, but I think I will once again be up front laughing with glee. A note of interest, there is a course being offered at the Salt Lake library on Bergman's women. Six i of Bergman's fine films will i be viewed, with various guest lectures, unfortunately, even if you only want to see the films, you must enroll. Tuition is high for six films for three credits, it will ' cost you $55.00 For no credit, cred-it, it will be $40.00. A bit high for six films, needless to say. But it sounds like an interesting film course for those of you who like to study films as well as view them. If you are up to it, there are some films of interest in Salt Lake that you might want to see, weather permitting. per-mitting. THE NIGHT PORTER PORT-ER has received excellent reviews, although it is not a film for everyone to view. It deals with the sadomasochistic sado-masochistic relationship between be-tween an ex-Nazi who headed head-ed a concentration camp in which his lover had been interred in-terred and forced into various var-ious degrading acts. They reunite, for reasons of their own. Not for the squeamish about sex, but supposedly an excellently made film. I hope to view it soon to give you better insights, as lam guessing gues-sing from reputable reviewers. review-ers. The all time disaster film of the year is THE TOWERING TOWER-ING INFERNO, acclaimed as the best of this series. With stars like Steve McQueen and Paul Newman, they have a great start. Also, they have added a supporting cast of excellent actors like Richard Rich-ard Chamberlain. If this is your bag, you might enjoy the film. An enjoyable film for the holidays is FREEBIE AND THE BEAN, opening at the Regency for Christmas. Combining the unlikely pair of Alan Arkin and James Caan, this film is a comedy about cops, if you can believe be-lieve that. And it is very funny viewing, with lots of action (A bit too much violence, vi-olence, of course), and very funny interchanges between Caan and Arkin. The two play off each other beautifully. beau-tifully. Add a very good performance per-formance by Valerie Harp-er( Harp-er( j'ou remember her she's Rhoda), and you have an entertaining evening. Check out the amusement pages of your paper there are quite a few filrris to be seen out of town. If you happen to be in town, you might enjoy some of the reruns. Or, see the melodrama melo-drama for live entertainment. entertain-ment. The Opera House has more than just movies. |
