rilyn Home THE • SOPRAN' star, wi eluding ~ lETROPOLITAN OPERA 0, an international super -11 perform selections in : Handel aria at, University m Saturday night. Auditoriti \rol we. AIM 1/‘ ;,,l 'Land': poignant film epic By STEVE IVEY Collegian Staff Writer Fea• really great motion pictures have been made in the last five years. "The New Land" must rank as among the greatest. "The New Land" is a beautifully poignant work of cinematic art and eraftmanship. "Epic" isthe best word to describe this film. Although it is the sequel to another film, "The Emigrants," "The New Land" can stand alone and be every bit as enjoyable. Jan Troell directed, photographed and edited the film with the skill, and patience of a master artisan. His shots of the lush countryside are:fantastic, while the desert sequence with its quick cuts Warhol film bloody failure EARLY. B RD* SPECIAL COMEIN SATURDAY MORNING FROM 9-12 AND GET 15% OFF ALL MERCHANDISE ICY THE ENTIRE STORE. (NOTE:OFFER DOES' NOT APPLY TO ITEMS ALRCADY ON SAE.) itob 10 8 .I ' rB ' 7t. P e u t3: t & t3lsx°'sicelle3) B°4j*' W-115 Now and marvelous juxtaposition is magnificent. Max von Sydow as Karl Oskar and Liv Ullmann as Kristina achieve the highest point in acting through their per formances, making the audience forget they are actors. Instead, they produce completely believable characterizations and provide the characters with real depth. • In "The New Land," Ullmann sur passes her excellent performance in "The Emigrants," a performance that won her the New York Film Critics' award for Best Actress. Von Sydow is amazing and his per formance is equal to "the best of Sir Lawrence Olivier. Kristina and Karl ' Oskar are newly arrived emigrants in the Minnesota Territory in 1850. One could say that "The New Land" is- a film about their problems raising four children on the frontier. But what would only skim the surface of this film. "The New Land" is a chronicle of America and of the people who made her: the emigrants, the Indians and that strange young breed who pushed farther west in search of California gold. The emigrants are beset by many problems homesickpess, internal religious factionalism, rough nature. Yet they manage to make homes for themselves in this new and wild land. In one of the more touching scenes, By TONY D'AUGELLI Collegian Staff Writer Andy Warhol's "Frankenstien," directed by Paul Morissey, is an attempt to revive the horror movie genre by an emple transfusion of new blood. The blood. The blood literally squirts off the screen, but the operation's a failure. Just as the famous Baron, Morissey has created a mutant. The film has received much publicity and, strangely enough, some good reviews. The film certainly is better than Morissey's other films. Those films, made under Warhol's guidance, were made with low budgets. This one was financed by Carlo Ponti, and the production is quite good. Never has so much money been spent on so little talent. witna playin downtown ouwesat i : r ime. 1 6 4 7...3.Cr05qu._ wikoa„; Karl Oskar kills his only ox and after removing its internal organ 4, places his young son inside the ox to keep him warm during a raging blizzard that has almost killed the boy. The film. is critical of the way in which the Indians were treated by the government, blaming it for driving the Indians into starvation. The Indians are given compassionate treatment by the film, but that did not prevent Troell from showing the horrors of the massacre of a Swedish family by the starving Indians. Karl Oskar's brother Robert (Eddie Axberg) pushes west to California in a sequience that is truely impressive. Axberg's acting cannot be faulted. "The New Land" was made with quaint charm: The notion of women as baby factorierNtrongly championed by Kristina, attests to this, as does Karl Oskar's bitter disappointment at being fotind unfit to serve in the Union Army during the Civil War. This film is magnificent in every respect save , one. Its only drawback is v that instead of. ing I the Swedish language version Zth subtitles, it was dubbed in English. though the dubbing was done well, it does not improve the film at all. The theater is expected to receive the Swedish version soon. In all other aspects, Jan Troell's "The New Land" is a touching human epic of America, a poignant story and a superb film. Morissey makes the mistake of thinking that satire is easy. His Frankenstein, a Euritanical necro philiac, works in his laboratory to produce a perfect male and a perfect ferriale from various spare parts. In the beginning of the film, the female is done and the male needs a head. Since a "sen suous" male is needed so that, the pair can mate, the Baron and his dim-witted helper look for a candidate at a local brothel. As you can guess, very soon a good-looking head is on its way to a waiting torso. The plan fails because it is the head- of a would-be monk, not the stud the Baron expected. Once sewn on the body, the head can't' communicate the right message to the trunk. Throughout the film, the camera lingers on blood and entrails, and jux-, 4 -**************;k ******************************* * "I-1 , y_ r 4E trunchit,' baby?" *if** 44AF -f -f4 l - 1 1-4--**-1 1 -4-4-4-4 1 .4-4-4-*********4-4-4-4-4--****** -***-11-* Dress-a-sig Theme "The Movies" Zip Strip - Limbo Marilyn Home Maryilyn Horne, mezz-soprano star of stage of the opera house American the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, singers dream about, and it was a Covent Garden and the Chicago Lyric resounding success. "People just stood Opera Company, will appear, this there applauding and yelling," wrote Saturday night at 8:30 p.m. in the Harold C. Schonberg, music critic for University Auditorium. The New York Times. "(Horne) comes The first of the Artists Series' music to the Metropolitan Opera in her vocal series, Horne's Concert will include a prime, and she was in complete Handel aria from "Semele," ihnother authority. ' aria to be announced, and pitkes by Horne successfully completed her bid* Henry Purcell, Schumann, Debussy and for major stardom two years ago when Dvorak. she starred opposite James McCracken in the Metropolitan's Leonard Bernstein conducted production of Bizet's "Car men." It was a critical triumph for both Horne and the Metropolitan. Despite her many commitments to the Metroptilitan Opera and other opera houses around the world (most top opera perform'ers and conductors have their A native of Bradford, Pa., Horne is considered to be an international opera superstar. She reached the top with her performance of the role of Adalgisa opposite Joan Sutherland's "Norma" in the 1970 Metropolitan Opera season. It was her first performance from the =Collegian arts 'Tamarind': run-of-the-mill "The Tamarind Seed" is an espionage movie and love story that doesn't make it on either count. Omar Sharif plays a Russian spy, a piece of casting cribbed directly from Dr. Zhivago, which appropriately enough is playing in the theater next door. Julie Andrews is a very proper British lady (what else?) with whom Sharif falls madly in love. Much of the story's credibility depends upon the audience's willingness to believe in Sharif's insatiable lust for Andrews. Sharif falls rapidly from favor with the Russians, evidently because he can find little time - to do anything other than trying to persuade the lady to go to bed with him. She refuses with a diligence entirely proper for Mary Poppins. After many languid afternoons with Andrews and threats of violence from home, he „decides to defect. With this the suspense such as it is, begins. They are trailed to Barbados by armies of spies of every conceivable description. The film climaxes in a token gross scene filled with towering flames and Technicolor blood. Sharif and Andrews are firebombed in their tropical lovenest by a motley crew of Russian spies. No jury in the world would convict them. I will not reveal the surprise (ho, hum) ending, except to say that it is designed to allow the spectators to dry their tears be fore leaving the theater. "Tamarind" contains all the proper ingredients for a run-of the-mill spy thriller. t.pciies sex in a repulsive way. Various tdily organs are thrust at the viewer, ers fall out of bodies, incisions are filmed in lurid close-ups. All of this is decidedly gratuitous, and the background music is intended to un derscore the • irony. The sex scenes, ekpecially those between the Baron's wife and a farm hand, " are played seriously, with no humor. The high point of the film occurs when the Baron has intercourse with his female zombie While fingering her spleen. All this, by the way, is in 3-D. The excess is the point, of course. We are supposed to laugh at the hearts, lungs and spurting appendages. We are expected to 'enjoy the deadpan acting, the lifeless dialogue, the basic idiocy. Some in the theater enjoyed it. I kept Sigma Chi "Derby Days" Soiority Games Muiical Mud Tubs Bat Spin Three-legged Race Mystery Event day September 29 0 p.m. HUB Lawn A soprano superstar performs at Penn State By PATRICK SOKAS of the Collegian Staff Don't miss the best food in town SUNDAY BRUNCH Sun. Sept. 29 All you can enjoy Adults $2.50 Children under 12 $.95 10:30 - 1 p.m. In the Maple Room of the H. Dev. Building All the stock characters are present. There is the young diplomat on themake, with whom Andrews has just concluded an affair; a gruff but good hearted detective; a prominant government official, who in this case both a homosexual and a Communist; and his wife, who keeps herself busy by having affairs. The performances are more than - adequate, especially Anthony Quayle's properly underplayed detective -spy. The trouble with the film rests mainly witlrthe clumsy direction of Blake , Edwards, Andrews' husband. Edwards is consistently unwilling to leave anything up to the audience's imagination, a flaw which disperses suspense as fast as it is built up ,In one scene that would be laughable were it not so em barrassing, Andrews actually stands in line between a Russian spy and a British spy in order to buy her ticket to Barbados, a locale used mainly to allow the stars to take most of their clothes off without doing anything naughty. In addition, the love story theme of tgn becomes obtrusive. Even as Omar's life is falling apart around him, he finds time to persuade Julie eloquently to go for stumble. She finally consents when he suggests that they either have sex or go swimming. Must have a terrible fear of the water. It is indeed a shame the thing got out of hand. Under more expert care, "Tamarind" might have become an interesting, if not innovative, film id. the espionage genre. As it is, "The Tamarind Seed" is best left to those fans willing to watch Omar Sharif and or Julie Andrewsdo anything or, more accurately, almost nothing. Better luck next time. fiddling with my 3-D glasses, wondering if the film wasn't better without them Ut becomes an unfocussed blur). For a film designed to be funny, "Wankenstein" has only one or two real laughs. What is truly depressing about this film is its evident expense. Morissey, whose last film, "Heat," had the visual flair of a soap opera, 'has had much help here.' The editing, the photography, and the riusic are excellent but are ab solutely wasted on this junk. In addition to MOrissey's script, the film has to struggle against the worst acting since "Heat." Joe Dallesandro wins the booby prize as the only actor to my knowledge who is incapable of vocal inflection. He is closely rivalled 'by Udo Kier, who plays Frankenstein with a Germanic lisp. The Daily Collegian Friday. September 27,1974-- schedules planned out two and three years in advance), Horne appears regularly in concerts and with or chestras. This year the 40-year-old singer is scheduled to appear in the Metropolitan's revival of Rossini's comic tour-de-force "L'ltaliana in Algeri" ("The Italiahtirl in Algiers"), a work that is expected, to challenge her comic capabilities. ":" Horne is the wife oCHem - y Lewis, conductor of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Tickets for Saturday's concert are on sale this week at the University Auditorium from 9 a.m. to-4 p.m. week days and 10 a.m. to noon Saturday. Tickets will also be sold at the door if they are not sold out beforehand. Is Morissey a new talent to be reckoned with in American film? Let's hppebot. He has missed the point of his mentor, Warhol. Although showing Mundane objects of our mass-produced reality, Warhol's work encouraged us to kiok at these things differently. Morrissey, instead of pursuing the mundane as a means to an end, seems to pursue the inane as an end in itself. He aims no higher than our stomachs. - One last note: the 3-D process works only once in the film, when bats fly toward the viewer. Otherwise, while it does seem to add depth, the darkness of the plastic distorts the color of the film. I also found myself closing one eye to focus. All of this to watch a head be cut off by a giant scissors!
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