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stars in TI New theatre ready By CIIUCK ('ROMER and SAM L. IRVIN JR. Gamecock Staff Writers After a disastrous and uncomfortable summer of watching campus films in the Golden Spur and Calcott College, the Carolina Community will now be able to view Fall Semester films in its original facility, the Russell House Theatre. The theatre was to be under construction until May. 1976, but due to a change in construction priorities, the theatre area was completed before schedule. There are some minor con struction problems, though, that will cause some inconveniences but they are only temporary and will be solved in the coming weeks. An addition to our capsule movie review section will be a four-star rating system. Through this we hope to inform the students as to what we consider a worthwhile film. One star reflects a poor film that would be a ripoff if admission were charged. Two stars stand for mediocrity: a take it or leave it proposition, depending on your monetary status. Three stars make a good film worthy of admission but not an excellent film, which is signified by four stars. If a film is a total fiasco with absolutely nothing to justify our mentioning it to the reader, Campus Films MONEKY BUSINESS AND DUCK SOUP - A special double-feature of nostalgia with two of the Marx Brothers funniest movies being shown. Monkey Business has the Marx Brothers as stowaways on an ocean liner where they hide in four barrels marked "kippered Herring." When they emerge, Groucho proceeds to verbally rape an alluring Thelma Todd, m the process getting entangled in a plot involving gangsters and bathtub gin. DUCK SO11 - A pointed political satire, is the Marx's purest and most insane film that is to say. no time consuming tenors, no ingenues, no instrumental solos, no irrelevant musical numbers, just the real thing. Francois Truffaut once remarked that this and Chaplin's Shoulder Arms were the only valid anti-war films ever made, since they refused to take war seriously. One of their shortest films, it contains most of the I -olhers' most famoufsequences; the lemonade stand, a masterpeice of slow burn; the mirror scene, most famous of all, and a final battle episode that has been copied by everyone friom Woody Allen to Mad Magazine. Thursday, Friday $1. ---- BAI.1.AL) OF CAHlE l0t'E - Directed by Sam Peckinpah, the film tells the story of a grizzled prospector, left without water on the desert by his partners. When he accidentally stumbles on a waterhole, he decides to set L1p a depot station for the stage line. Ilis constant struggie for' sur-vi val and his hobby of saving women whom he helps to fall from grace make this picture what Time Magazine has called: "An exceptionally fine movie, quiet, lyrical, bawdy, funny and sad." Starring Stella Stevens, Jason Robarbs David Warner. Monday. TII E STI(ANGEl-: )irected by Iuchino Visconti with Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina, and Bernard Blier. An expert adaptation of the famed ('amus novel by a noted Italian director, carefully evokes state of mind of unclassifiable Meursault, a young Frenchman, as we follow him from his mother's funeral to a murder trial and im prisonment. Tuesday. --- CAMII,Il - Stars Greta Garbo, obert Taylor, ionel larrymore and Henry D)aniell. This film is considered to b)e one of Garbo's best as she plays a tragic heroine in 19th century Paris whose love affair with TFaylor ends on the rocks. A must for Garbo lovers, but not for all tastes. Wednesday.-' (CIND)ER EI,-A LIBER TV - ,James Caan stars as a sailor who tries to reform a waylaid prostitute and her illegitimate son. Comning Sep tember 11-13. $1. THlE PETRIFIED FORESTI - An all-star cast makes this one of the finest movies of I tollywood 's G;olden Age. Tlhe film, starring Iltumn phrey Bogart. Blette D)avis, and I,eslie I toward, is a very faithful adaptation of the play as it told of a group of personalities who find themselves held at b)ay ifn a small se'rv ice stat ion -rest aurant by a gunman and his gang on the run from pursuing police. There were heavy symbolic overtones(' inovolving the ove'rrrunnling of the doomed intellectunab by corru ptivye b rute force. 'Thiis was Bogart's firnst iini port ant pic tuire that led to his be(inrg ster'ieot yped as a (imi01nalI ('haract(er in films for the next I ive years' WN(OK-TlV (19 I 11.1 m Ti'lEI FORT'FINE' .Jac-k Nicholson and Warren Heatty loin forces only to be uipstaged( by ne(wcomner Slockardi (Channing. If's a filmt by M ike N ichlols , set in the 1920's concenin fg t wo men triy ing to obtain a fortune from a voung hei r('s .Fox Tlhe t-.. F-umphrey Bogart, in a typical criminal pose, ie Petrified Forest, Saturday night on TV 19 for fall films JAWS - Steven Spielberg has directed one of the most shocking thrillers of all-time, and it is now the most successful film of all-time. Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, and Richard Dreyfuss contribute superb performances and the special effects department provides a most convincing shark. The tense direction and moody music make this film the best bet in Columbia. Dutch Square South Theatre. ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH (bomb) Once is definitely more than enough with this dreadful big-budget soap opera. It is frightful that people like Kirk Douglas and Brenda Vacarro have to stoop so low. If you can tolerate soap operas, the film is passable--but only for addicts. Dutch Square North Theatre. NASHVILLE - This overly long attempt by Robert Altman to depict society as displayed in America is as colorless as the people he is talking about. Some of the performances are good, particularly Karen Black. Other stars include Lily Tomlin, Geraldine Chaplin, Keith Carradine, Henry Gibson, Julie Christie, Elliott Gould. Jefferson Square Theatre. -- THE TRIAL OF ILIL JACK (bomb) - This is one of the most over dramatized films ever made. It is three hours worth of melodrama in what is really an expensive remake of BILLY JACK instead of a sequel to it. A lot of money was wasted. Gamecock 2 Theatre. ROLLERBALL - James Caan, Maud Adams, Ralph Richardson, and John Houseman star in this futuristic study of one man fighting against a domineering government. It has been done several times before, but rarely with such style and taste that Norman Jewison gives it. Palmetto Theatre. --- APPLE DUMPLING GANG - It is has been a long time since Disney Productions made a really good film; in fact it is hard to think of any good onces since Disney died. This is Disney's answer to Blazing Saddles, but it gets bogged down with the typical sugar and spice that makes most of these newer Disney films only suitable for the "Kool Aid" set. Don Knotts and Tim Conway aren't even funny. Richland Mall I Theatre. You don't have there to enjoy tl South and Capstone Dining facil residents from the Towers, the H( International House, Commuters a South now has Crepes, Fish' r "Make Your Own" Sand Hours: Mon-Thur 8:00 am- 6:30 pm Close Capstone full serv ice cafeter H our's: M on -Fri B real S,at. Bruni UlNIVERSITY DINING SERVICES to live ie food ities welcome )rseshoe, Bates, nd fraternities too. i Chips, and a wich bar. d afer lunch Friday 'ia & grill U'fast 7:00-10:30 am h1 11 :0()0 :30pm v'h !):00am- 1;0p (I Snth(Idvs