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BY ERIC ANDERSON
Of The Gamecock staff
Peter Gabriel, singer-actor and
manstermindbehind the inventive
English band Genesis, has
created an -incredibly intriguing
view of America. The Lamb Lies
Down ou Broadway, Genesis'
first release in more than a year,
is the product of two American
tours and was recorded by a
mobile recording unit at the
band's- mountain hideaway
practice hall. The album itself is
a startling and ambiguous
montage for the mind and ears,
alarming in both lyrics and
music.
Rael, a Puerto Rican youth and
product of the streets of New
York City, is the protagonist in
the tale. The story line included
in the album package reads like a
dream sequence, perhaps the
ultimate perversion of the
American Dream. Yet, if it is
perversion, it is caustically real.
References are made to the
jungles of the "Broadway
Everglades;'" "Marshall
McLuhan, casual viewin', head
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BY RON WRIGHT
Of The Gamecock staff
Campus Films
0 LUCKY MAN--Lindsay An
derson, director of IF, has
Malcolm McDowell making his
way through neo-fascist England.
It should prove interesting if you
like the stock character of Mc
Dowell. Costs $1.00 at the Russell
House this Thursday and Friday
nights.
THE CONFORMIST is directed
by Bernardo Bertolucci who made
LAST TANGO IN PARIS. Jean
Louis Trintigant stars as a political
assassin working for the Fascist
Italian Government in the late
Exhibits planned
A photographic exhibit
depicting the life and works of
Franz Kafka, a significant writer
of the 20th century, will be on
display at USC, Jan. 29-Si, In
Sloan College's Huntington
Gallery.
The exhibit has been shown
Internationally and contains
some 75 photographs of Kafka's
travels, work and writings with
enlargements of his manuscripts.
"Done From Life," a survey
exhibition of oils, watercolors,
mural sketches, and drawings by
William De Leftwich Dodge will
opern at Columbia Museum of Art
January 30 during the Columbia
Art Association's 60th annual
mneeting. It will run through the
March 2, 1975.
group
ierican
buried in the sand;" and Ku Klux
Klan sell hot soul food." A
glimpse of mass packaging at its
most grotesque is presented in
the "Grand Parade of Lifeless
Packaging," in which dead
bodies are sealed and sold for
rebirth.
Rael becomes lost in this
dream, fighting to find his way -
out of its maze-like complications
and trying to stay alive. At one
p9int he sits waiting for death,
and is confused: "They say she
comes on a pale horse, but I'm
sure I hear a train." Gabriel
seems to be commenting on the
modernization of death. Rael
does have a brush with death,
whom he calls the "Supernatural
Anaesthetist."
Rael and his brother John meet
at several points in the ad
venture, John consistently
deserting Rael at crucial
moments. At the end, Rael is
forced to make a choice between
escape and saving his brother
from drowning. He chooses to
rescue his brother, and the route
of escape from the nightmare
vanishes. Rael risks his life to
-thquakes,
I other fun
thirties. Problems develop when
he becomes involved with the wife,
Dominique Sanda, of his next
victim. Monday night.
THE MALTESE FALCON-Did
Bogey ever make a bad movie?
No, because no one ever goes to see
the movie, they all go to see
Bogart. In THE MALTESE
FALCON, he plays detective Sam
Spade. The role brings Bogey's
trenchcoat into focus. An adequate
dose of romance and action makes
this one worth seeing. Tuesday at
Russell House Theatre.
DR. STRANGELOVE directed
by Stnley Kubrick of 2001 and
CLOCKWORK ORANGE .fame,
is a comic satire that shows the
eventuality of nuclear war between
the U.S. and Russia. Peter Sellers,
,George C. Scott, Slim Pickens, and
the Atomic Bomb star. Wednesday
night.
Uptown
EARTHQUAKE-Will Richard
Roundtree escape electrocution on
his motorcycle? Will George
Kennedy live to make another
Airport? Will Chuck Heston choose
Ava Gardner or Genevieve Bujold?
What happens if the fire hose
breaks and Lorne Greene falls
sixty stories to the ground? What
happens? We make Earthquake
76. (Jefferson Square PG)
CABARET--Cabaret swept the
Academy Awards right out from
under the Godfather. To this day, I
still can't believe it. At times th'is
movie is actually boring. Oh, the
acting is good, the direction out
standing, etc., etc., etc. BUT, It's
just not entertaining. This could be
your last chance to see it before it
comes to the Russell House next
month. (Fox PG)
views.
dream
save John and is startled to find
the face on his brother's body is
his own.
Needless to say, The Lamb Lies
Down on Broadway's text
abounds with surrealistic
imagery a la Vonnegut and is a
challenge to read. It is also a
fascinating piece of music,
balancing between the delicate
and the dyamic. Genesis em
bodies all the complexities of a
band like Yes, but avoids the
fight for the spotlight that has
plagued such bands in recent
years. Each musician is ex
cellent in his right and seems
satisfied to be part of the whole.
Special note must be made of the
beautiful blending of Steve
Hackett's guitars with Tony
Banks' keyboards. Together they
weave a sort of musical tapestry,
each exhibiting restraint that
must come with artistic
maturity.
Various songs sound like music
from other periods of Genesis'
history. For instance, "Cuckoo
Cucoon," "The Carpet
Crawlers," and "The Lamia" all
could have fit in well with the
material on Trespass, the band's
first major realease. "Counting
Out Time" and "Back in N.Y.C."
are similar in style to parts of
Foxtrot, which was recorded in
1972. There are recurrent
musical themes throughout, such
as "The Lamia" and "The Light
Lies Down on Broadway."
Several songs are lyrically
typical of Peter Gabriel's wit,
occasionally cynical, usually
funny, and always with tongue
planted rather firmly in cheek.
The Lamb Lies Down on
Broadway is some of the most
well-knit music to come along in
quite a while, and coupled with
Gabriel's imaginative text and
inspired vocals, it is certainly a
composition worthy of a great
deal of attention.
'Bus Stop'
scheduled
Feb. 12-15
"Bus Stop," the widely ac
claimed comedy hit by Pulitzer
Prize winning playwright
William Inge, will be presented in
USC's Drayton Hail Theatre,
Feb. 12-15, nightly at 8:15.
Sponsored by the USC
Department of Theatre and
Speech, "Bus Stop" Is the story of
a divergent group of people who
find themselves suddenly thrown
together In a roadside diner when
a Kansas snowstorm keeps them
from continuing their journey.
Tickets are one dollar for
students, two for USC faculty and
staff and three dollars for others.
Reservations can be made by
calling 777-2551. Tickets can be
purchased prior to the per
formance at the Drayton Hall
Box office between noon and 5
p.m. daily and one hour before
curtain time during the per
formance week.
Malesmn McDowei stars n 0 1
to be shown at Russell House Th4
Film com
sets schec
Regardless of whether one
agrees with the evaluation of the
Cinematic Arts Committee's list of
free films as "the worst in years,"
one must'admit that the list of pay
films is the best in many years.
The season started out with
Deliverance, adapted by James
Dickey from his novel and directed
by John Boorman. As Chuck,
Cromer, entertainment editor, put
it, the only real mystery is why
Burt Reynolds didn't die in the
movie.
This week's pay film is Lindsay
Anderson's 0 Lucky Man, a movie
which received great critical
acclaim, but for some strange
reason only played in Columbia
one week. It stars Malcom Mc
Dowell (who played Alex in A
Clockwork Orange) and Ralph
Richardson. This film will be an
exception to standard showing
times (7:00 and 9:30) because of its
length. Shows will be at 6:30 and
9:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday
nights.
The Paper Chase, James
Bridges' film, will play February 6
and 7. It stars Timothy Bottoms,
Lindsay Wagner, and John
Houseman
The Emigrants will be shown
Feb. 13 and 14. Directed by Jan
Troell, it is the first in a film trilogy
on the great Swedish emigration to
America in the mid-nineteenth
century. It stars two of Bergman's
greatest stars, Max von Sydow and
Liv Ullman.
For all Bergman fans who
missed it this summer, on Feb. 20
and 21 The Passion of Anna will be
playing in the Russell House. A
few critics have called It
Bergman's finest. It Is the last in
the committee's Bergman film
festival.
The Cinematic Arts Committee
doesn't have The Godfather this
semester, but it does have Al
Pacino In Serpico, in which Pacino
plays that unusual combination an
honest cop. Serpico runs'Feb. 27
and 28 at Russell House.
That madcap genius, Woody
Allen, returns In Sleeper on March
6 and 7. It stars Woody Allen (of
course) and Diane Keaton. Woody
tries to make his barely adequate
20th century brains work In the
) A4A
Ir
Lucky Man. me of many gms
eater this semester.
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lule
22nd century.
The next pay film was to be Day
for Night, Francois Truffaut's
latest film and winner of the
Academy Award for best foreign
film of 1973. According to Bob
Morrell, chairman of the
Cinematic Arts Committee, the
distributing company decided to
move the date of availability up to
September of this year. A
replacement film has not yet
been selected .
After spring break comes
Cabaret. So much has been said
about this film, especially at the
Academy Awards, that nothing is
left to say. The film stars Liza
Minelli, Joel Grey, and Michael
York. Cabaret will run March 27
28.
For a three-day extravaganza
April 3, 4, and 5, the committee has
brought down American Graffiti.
"Where were you in '62?" asks this
picture. If you're old enough to
remember, you probably recall
disliking sock-hops, hot rods, going
steady, and Wolfman Jack, though
you did like drive-in movies. This
is a nostalgia movie and it's a fun
movie; but a nostalgia movie about
1962?
The Last Detail plays April 10
and 11. It stars Jack Nicholson, a
fine actor who djdn't really get a
good break until Chinatown.
Hicholson Is one of two MP's who
have to escort a young recruit to
the brig. They decide to give the
poor guy a last fling, which they
proceed to do with the
thoroughness of sailors on shore
leave. It is a good fnovie and a fine
performance from Nicholson. The
original movie slated for this week
was The Conversation, which was
withdrawn from circulation by its
distributor because it is being
considered for an Academy
Award.
The last film in the spring
semester's calendar of pay films Is
Nicholas Roeg's Don't Look Now
(April 24 and 25). It stars Donald
Sutherland and Julie Christie as an
English couple in Venice. A very
strange movie, it Involves, along
with the two stars, a mysterious
red phantom, a mad killer, a blind
psychic and her sister, and an
almost fatal fall from a scafold