University of Virginia Library

THURSDAY

Avanti (University; 1,3:30,
6 and 8:30 p.m.; $2)

The Ipcress File (Wilson
Hall; 5:30, 8 and 10:30 p.m.;
75 cents or series ticket)
Michael Caine plays Len
Deighton's Harry Palmer – one
of that by now familiar family
of bumbling, scared and
expendable secret agents.
Nothing happens most of the
time and this is supposed to be
funny and ironic; what it is
instead is dull. Caine's
performance and Harry's rather
ratty, fetishist character is all
that saves this.