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Entert; /Alio pow< to hu By David Baker Film Critic Just as Stanley Kubrick's I 4'2001: A Space Odyssey" heralded an era of films I about outer space, "Altered States is certain to usher to an era of movies about inner space and the power of human thought. And just as 442001M has never been surpassed by any film of its I genre, I feel safe in predicting that "Altered States" will be remembered as the classic of its kind. The most amazing facet of this decidedly amazing movie is that it manages to strike a perfect balance between the visual bravura of its director, Ken Russell, and the verbal bombast of its writer, Paddy Chayefsky, I lyii I Blaire Brown lost j Chica By Lynn Massey Assistant Entnrtainmont Ed I Classic chamber music wa the Chicago Symphony Playei afternoon in the Township All part of the USC Cultural se appreciative crowd was ent compositions by Beethoven, H Mollis Snnhr iue p;ay( centrated on other works fr< Piston. These principle players froi Symphony Orchestra are ve concert stage and perform ,4? of viruoso execution with th collaborating musical minds.' The players include Sai concert master; Milton P Joseph Golan, violin; Frank Joseph Guastafeste, bass; flute; Michael Henoch, oboe; clarinet; Willard Elliot, bass Clevenger, horn. The first composition was I Clarinet, iiassoon, Horn, vio String Bass, Opus 20 by Beethoven. This score, comj was dedicated to the En Theresa and became one o most popular composition! lifetime. The score includes s with a minuet, a theme and \ a scherzo. This work has a i between the three winds a ainmen red i zrful iman who substituted the pseudonym Sidney Aaron on < the screenplay when he and Russell had a parting of the waves on the film's first dav of shooting. It should be mentioned, however, that before abondoning the project, Chavefsky made legally sure that Russell could not tamper with his dialogue. Not one to be told what and what not to do, Russell countered by having the actors deliver their lines so fast that the excess verbiage tends to lose meaning after a while. THIS GIVES THE film an immediacy that fits its subject matter and volcanic fin a bizarre experiment in "A goSyi nnnrtpt Rhvt' M ~ - ?J " lltor melody prev s featured by movements *s last Sunday movement, a iditorium as a marcia-Prestc ries. A small rhythm." ertained with After intern indemith, and return^ tG pi *rs have con- which was wri om Mozart to quintet. This mermusik Op n the Chicago lively quality iterans of the poser's other 1 a combination fast pace thei e intimacy of with a slight displays an ol nuel Magad, for the flute, reves, viola; Before endinj Miller, cello; movement de Donald Peck, structure. Larry Combs, Another ir oon; and Dale formed for th was Louis Sp the Septet for 31).TheNonei lin, Cello, and Mozart, the Ludwig Van mires, and I Meted in 1800, strings while ipress Maria texture, f Beethoven's This compc s during his melodic, but ;ix movements in the thin variations, and movement, 4,r inique balance described as \ nd the string through this it ate tcstii thoi visual style to a tee. Eric Jenkins' sharp editing pushes the picture to an even more frenetic pace, and when it's over, we fee! as if we've been zooming along on the world's fastest roller coaster as skyrockets exploded in our faces. The story told in "Altered States" is that of Edward Jessup, a Harvard whiz kid and hip Dr. Jekyll who, after experimenting with sensory deprivation chambers and mind-expanding drugs, succeeds in turning himself into a four-feet high Mr. Hyde ? a ramapithecus, the earliest known ancestor of W |R^ 11111 km ?mamm mmI J1 Itered States." nphoi hmic action and a waltz-like ail in the fast and slow and ends with the 6th n Andante con moto alia >, which features a "march nission, the chamber olavprc . ?j ^ ay a work by Paul Hindemith itten strictly for the woodwind composition, Kleine Kamius 24, No. 2, has a playful, characteristic of the comworks. The score opens with a ne and develops into a waltz touch of "nostalgia." It also boe solo along with cadenzas bassoon, clarinet, and horn, g in a minor key, the last ?i?? ? c? t nr>?? vciup uiiu a ltiai uu cc-^?i i repressive composition pere last segment of the concert ohr's Nonett (F Major, Opus tt is very much like the style of composer Spohr greatly adhas more emphasis on the the woodwinds enhance the Ksition is very rhythmic and it becomes somewhat solemn i movement. In the last rhe Vivace," the music can be ;ery lively and seems to gallop finale. Spohr's Nonett helped s'a nony ight physical well-being, but she is powerless to stop him and so eventually goes along for the ride, a ride she'll never forget. me numanrace. His anthropologist wife, Emily, sees Eddie tarn pering with his mental and Ironically, Russell has made some bizarre motion pictures in the past several years, such as "The Devils," "Tommy," "Lisztomania" and "Valentino." With each one, he had to stretch so far into the imagination that most came across simply as preposterous. Here, he iL: ? A.i _i u biiuuu> mings as mey snouiu be and, in so doing, winds up being wilder than ever. BUT RUSSELL'S direction would be nothing without a talented cast and William Hurt and Blair Brown, both relative newcomers with extensive stage backgrounds, are two shades beyond remarkable as Edward and Emily. Hurt mesmerizingly renders a finely-wrought portrait of a man obsessed with obsession. As his piercing blue eyes register the precise thoughts racing through Jessup's contorted mind, we experience his excitement, his passion and, ummaieiy, nis lerror in me discovery that took him almost a decade to reach. Hurt's is a towering performance and it gives us every indication that he'll be an exceedingly hot property in Hollywood for many years to come. He looks like a tan, blonde, more handsome version of Dustin Hoffman and that can only add to his popularity as far as most ladies are concerned. nyarti ft ,& : iy ^SK*"" ^K japW ;;/ ?Kf yff x*. ^j^y. . > JivA^^K ^--w E?? - * jMMTM| K? * Hffi" The veteran musicians oi music Sunday at the Towi him to win recognition as a became famous later for his ( It was very evident wh Symphony Players, who are artists as well as lecturers have been called the "crerm pP^? * Hurt Brown portrays Edwai obsessed white experirr deprivation chambers and r "Altered States," a movie a power of human thought. And Brown is every bit his i match. Petite, red-haired, < with a smile bright enough to \ dazzle everyone in viewing i distance, Brown, too, is 1 destined to become a star of \ the first magnitude. Perhaps i when "Altered States" starts raking in money, Warner Bros, will attempt to i release "One Trick Pony," the long-delayed Robert M. Young film in which Brown co-stars with Paul Simon. THE CHEMISTRY between Brown and Hurt is undeniably strong and the love scenes they share are among the most erotic ever filmed. With such a taut thread rnnninp hot'veen the two leads, it's surprisingly easy to accept Chavefsky's thesis that love is the final truth, a thesis the author seems to be trying to disprove throughout most of the movie's 102 minutes. And in that "Altered States" concludes in such a hopeful manner, it has given stic, in v JBL ... - 15 ^Snm *? ** jj " ?Am By > Jg Bfr JW . the Chicago Symphony Play <ship. composer. He by music critics pera "Faust." It is a rare c the Chicago performed by a aiso recording able to play w md clinicians, sometimes mis de la creme" play chamber n BBH 1 j d Jessup who becomes renting with sensory nind-expandiny drugs in )bout innerspace and the as new hope that the Ireadful cinematic year iust passed was only a momentary regression in Hollywood's striving to come jp with the unparalleled moviegoing experience. "Altered States" truly can be called a masterpiece and that's a term I've not used since my review of Woody's Allen's "Manhattan" two years ago. Normally, I would urge everyone to rush to see a movie as exceptional as this, but here I think such a statement would be ridiculous. There's no need to rush to where this movie is playing, for it's going to be playing there a long, long time. I WOULDN'T raise an eyebrow if, on July 4, we could go straight from an outdoor fireworks display to an inside showing of the fireworks display Russell, Chavefsky, Hurt and Brown have combined to create in "Altered States." tense ^ * LJB&'tjm n jg ers performed chamber >pportunity to see a concert group of musicians who are 'ith such "artistic intensity sing from those groups that nusic exclusively."