For movies, come to 'Cabaret' By DIANA YOUNKEN Daily Collegian Staff Writer "What good is sitting alone, in your room? Come hear the music play ."-. . Life is a Cabaret, old chum . . . Come to the Cabaret." Were the subtle promise of this beckoning song as simple as it is charming, movies would be a useless art. It's a joyous refuge, or at least has the rumblings of one, but the world unlocked ' by Elsie with whom the singer "shared jour sordid rooms in Chelsea" is as ,sinister as it appears safe and as 4 paralyzed as it feels free. • With Christmas over and a new year to contemplate, we could all use a "Cabaret." The 1972 film, directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, is quite 'simply a marvelous musical an un ' sentimental, all-absorbing story set in 'Nazi Germany. The star is simply Liza , Minnelli as Sally Bowles, a self 'destructive singer in a decadently delightful Berlin bar. Michael York plays her bisexual boyfriend with touching elegance. The film won eight ,Academy Awards, including best ac !tress for Minnelli, supporting actor for 7 Joel Grey, best director and musical : score. At 7 and 9:15 tonight and Sunday, ,112 Kern. ' ~, Also on campus: "The International Animation ,Festival" includes award-winning short -films from France, England, Belgium, the United States, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia that are far superior to the Saturday morning TV fare. At 7 and 9 tomorrow and Monday night in 112 Kern. "High Anxiety," directed by and starring Mel Brooks, is too slow and cumbersome at times, but it has some - great parodies of Hitchcock's "The 'Birds" and "Psycho." The cast includes Madeline Kahn, Claris Leachman and Harvey Korman and is every bit as -hilarious as one would expect. At 7:15, 9 and 10:45 tonight and tomorrow night, ' 7:15 and 9 p.m. Sunday in 121 Sparks. ) "Bambi" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" make an odd double bill - -sort of ' like "Snow White" opposite "Dirty Harry," to get serious about this. UNIVERSITY CALENDAR SPECIAL EVENTS Friday-Sunday, Jan. 5-7 Friday, Jan. 5 Deadline for applying for Graduate School Tuition Grants-in-Aid for Spring Term 1979. Sports: women's basketball, Penn State Invitational. Commonsplace Theatre, Cabaret, 7 and 9:15 p.m., Room 112 Kern. Commonsplace Coffeehouse, 8 p.m., Room 102 Kern. Meetings: Model Railroad Club, 7 p.m., HUB basement Club Room. Wargamers, 7 p.m. through midnight Sunday, Room 132 EE East . , . Saturday, Jan. 6 • - - . Last date for March graduates to deliver doctoral theses to committee. Sports: women's basketball, Penn State Invitational; men's and women's gymnastics, vs. Springfield, 7:30 p.m. France-Cinema, International Animation Festival, 7 and 9 p.m., Room 112 Kern. Artists Series, Blackstone Magic Show, 8:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium Sunday, Jan. 7 University Chapel Service, 11 a.m., Eisenhower Chapel. Donald M. Crider, rural sociology. • Commonsplace Theatre, Cabaret; 7 and 9:15 p.m., Room 112 Kern. Leonard Nimoy, Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams star in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" currently playing at the State Theater downtown. "Chainsaw," said to be based on a true story, is as gruesome as all get-out. At least one critic said he found intellectual symbolism beneath the gore. At 8 tonight and tomorrow night, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Sunday in Waring Lounge. "Saturday Night Fever" with John Travolta the dancing is convincing but the script isn't. At 7, 9:15 and 11:30 tonight and tomorrow night, 108 Forum; 7:30 and 9:30 Sunday, Pollock Rec Room. "Sleeper" stars Woody Allen and Diane Keaton. At 7, 9 and 11 tonight and tomorrow night, 7:30 and,9:3o - Sunday, Findlay Ree Room. "From ' Russia With Love," starring Sean Connery as James Bond. At 7, 9 and 11 tonight and tomorrow night, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Sunday, 105 Forum. "Butterfly" is rated X. At 7:30, 9 and 10:30 tonight through Sunday, 10 Sparks. Downtown: "The Lord of the Rings," at the Movies. See today's review. "Superman," starring Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder. At the Garden. "Every Which Way But Loose," at the Cinema. See today's review. "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," at the State. To be reviewed Monday. "Oliver's Story," at the Cinema. To be reviewed Monday. "Magic,"at the Flick. "Masterpiece," rated X, Screening Room. 4 6 ; 1e t y, • A Beaver and Pugh-State College „" 7 1 5' s rk' `‘ l 4:ts ; :„ 41 5 r ‘, • • i • ?•% ,•59",s ' ,• <44. ;4 1 7, 4" • • • • ~: • . • . REM illll Winter Outerwear Salle 20% off All Pendleton Shirts and Sweaters IN STOCK 20% off All Insulated Boots UP TO IN STOCK All Woolrich Coats and Shirts IN STOCK All Profile and Swing West Ski Wear IN STOCK 20%0ff All Thane Shirts and Sweaters IN STOCK 20%0ff All Robbins and Boston Trader Sweaters IN STOCK 20%0ff All Gloves IN STOCK s2,Boff 20%0ff Mon and Fri 9:30-9:00 Sorry No Layaways -All other days 9:30-5:30 The Dai " at A"t ts " > an Frid a it:i
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