University of Virginia Library

Films For The Week

A convenient listing of the
week's films. Commercial
schedules may be subject to
change. (Some films shown by
University groups may be
inadvertently omitted. If your
group's film is one of these, we
would appreciate hearing from
you.)

TONIGHT

They Shoot Horses Don't
They (Wilson Hall; 4:30, 7, and
9 p.m.; $1), 1969. Jane Fonda,
Michael Sarrazin, Susannah
York, Gig Young, Bonnie
Bedelia, Red Buttons, Bruce
Dern. The sinisterly narcotic
world of the dance marathon is
recreated in all its tawdriness
and with a false gaiety that
would make a tin angel whelp.

The Getaway (Barracks
Road; 12:45, 2:50, 4:55, 7 and
9:05 p.m.; $2 except
4:30-5:30; $1). Steve McQueen
and All MacGraw in one of
Sam Peckinpah's interesting
almost great movies. Through
April 5th.

Young Winston (University;
1, 3:30, 6, 8:30 p.m.; $2)
Anne Bancroft and Robert
Shaw. Through tomorrow.

The Last Picture Show
(Ridge; 7:00 p.m.; $2).

Preacherman meets
Widderwoman (Cinema;
2,4,6,8, and 10 p.m.; $2) The
ads say she buried vie – too
bad this movie wasn't one of
them.

Child's Play (Paramount;
1,3,5,7, and 9 p.m.; $2) See
today's review.

Through Tomorrow

Adult Late Show (Cinema;
10 p.m.; $2)

WEDNESDAY

The French Connection and
MASH (Ridge; 7 p.m. $2)

Mexican Bus Ride and
Simon of the Desert (Wilson
Hall; 4:30, 7, and 9 p.m.; series
ticket) Two by the master of
the surreal and the painfully
perverse. Bunuel makes the
charitable the butt of endless
jokes, the saintly the victims of
endless sensual temptations
and worthless miracles, the
poor examples of an eternally
damning greed and lechery.
There is no kind of behavior
that escapes ridicule, even that
of the truly saintly Simon
whose fate it is to be tempted
by Silvia Pinal as the devil and
finally to wind up a lost soul in
a Greenwich Village
discotheque.

Duck Soup and
Horsefeathers (Paramount; $2;
check for times) The Marx
Brothers run riot. In
Horsefeathers Groucho is
trying to be president of a
university badly in need of a
winning football team. Duck
Soup, probably their best,
involves Freedonia – the land
of the spree and the home of
the knave.

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.

FRIDAY

The Thief that Came to Dinner
(Paramount; 1,3,5,7, and 9
p.m.; $2) If Ryan O'Neill had a
body that was as much fun to
watch as Jackie Bisset's, there
would be two reasons to go see
this movie.