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Filmwatchers Club Offers
Best Deal In Town

By PAUL CHAPLIN

With the start of a new
semester, the Filmwatchers
Club presents their series of
fourteen programs featuring
the works of several masters of
the motion picture arts. Under
the supervision of Walter Korte
of the English department, the
series is structured to
accompany the popular
course, Cinema as an Art Form.
The films to be screened will
cover several national schools
and a time span of fifteen
years.

The series started last week
with "Akran," which is perhaps
the most difficult film to
understand of those to be
shown during the year. The
style of that film will be
matched later in the semester
with the showing of
"underground" films, such as
Robert Downey's "Chafed
Elbows" and Kenneth Anger's
"Kustom Kar Kommandos."

In addition to these films
which are seldom seen in
commercial theatres,
Filmwatchers will present
Samuel Beckett's "Film," and
the screen version of LeRoi
Jones' controversial play
"Dutchman."

Earlier works by directors
whose recent films have played
Charlottesville include Joseph
Losey's "Eva," Fellini's "Il
Bodine," and Milos Forman's
"Loves of a Blonde." Two
films which never reached this
town despite their critical
acclaim are Bergman's "The
Passion of Anna," with Liv
Ullman and Max Von Syndow,
and Luis Bunuel's "Tristana,"
featuring Catherine Devuneue.

Orson Welles' second film,
"The Magnificent Ambersons,"
based on Booth Tarkington's
novel, is also scheduled to be
screened. This is an interesting
work due to the absence of
Welles as actor, the fact that
Welles didn't complete the
filming, and for Welles'
characteristic use of the camera.
"Hiroshima Mon Amour,"
features a script by Margarete
Duras, one of the "Nouveau
Roman" authors whose writing
style, with it complexities of
time finds a qualified director
in Alain Resnais.

With the showing of
"Throne of Blood," the
Filmwatchers will sponsor a
mini Japanese film festival. The
film, directed by Kurosawa, is
based on Shakespeare's
"Macbeth," which has been a
source of inspiration for Orson
Welles and Roman Polanski.
On April 10, "Ikiru," will be
shown, with "Women In the
Dunes," to be shown the next
day, April 11. These two films
are the only ones not in the
series. To see any one film in
the series you must be a