CFSNEWSLETTER Cincinnati Film Society P.O. Box 14182 Cincinnati, Ohio 45214

February, 1982 Vol. 3, No.2

Love on Films II Valentine's Day Weekend

The second annual festival of films about love will be held over Valentine's Day weekend, at Gabriel's Corner, Liberty and Sycamore. There's plenty of parking on the street and at the School for the Creative and Performing Arts parking lot one block south, so that shouldn't keep you from coming.

We need a big turnout this year; the films we've booked are pretty expensive. So try your damnedest to show up, and tell your friends about it. If you could lend a hand running the festival - taking tickets, setting up chairs, keeping custody of the coveted restroom key, or maybe baking some sensuality­ safisfying goodies, it would be much appreciated (we'll land ya a big wet one). Call Carlos Zavala (281-6741) or Carole Winters (581-9824) if you can help.

MURMUR OF THE HEART was booked elsewhere (too bad; it's terrific), so we just dropped it off the schedule and are go­ ing with four films instead of five. That gives everybody a bet­ ter chance to see all the films (not to mention that it's cheaper).

Here's the schedule: Friday, February 12, 7:30 pm The Bolshoi Ballet's ROMEO AND JULIET. Music by Sergei Prokofiev; choreography by Loenid Lavrovshy: Directed by L. Arnstam and L. Lavrovshy: conducted by Geddadi Rozhdestvensky; with Balina Ulanova and Yuri Zhdanov. An historic performance by the legendary Ulanova highlights this production of the ever-popular ballet. The film is rich in detail and characterized by its live­ ly interior and exterior location work. "A great ballet is here filmed paying great attention to all the values: musical, choreographic and scenic." - Anna Kisselgoff, N. Y. Times.

9:30 pm Milos Forman's LOVES OF A BLONDE A Screenplay by Forman, Ivan Passer, j. Papousek; with Hana Brejchova and Vladimir Pucholt; Czech dialogue with English subtitles. LOVES OF A BLONDE, Foreman's first ma­ jor success, is an understated, perceptive, ironic and funny series of observations on the pretenses, awkwardness and 9:30 pm Louis Malle's THE LOVERS. Written by Louis pathos of post-adolescent love. Malle; with jeanne joreau and Alain Cuny. A truly tender and compassionate examination of a sudden torrid love af­ Saturday, February 13 fair. Possibly jeanne Moreau's greatest performance - 7:30 pm Serge Bourguignon's SUNDAYS AND CYBELE. underscored by the music of Brahms' Sextett, Op. 18. Screenplay by S. Bourguignon and A. Tudal; starring Hardy Kruger and Patricia Gozze. The story of a magical attach­ Sunday, February 14> same schedule as Friday. ment between a crash-injured young man suffering from amnesia and a lonely little 12-year-old girl. "A work of beauty ... a cinematic miracle." - N. Y. Times. FESTIVAL OF FREE (ZE) III CINEDANCE

The festival of free films went off swimmingly, January 9. We The CFS has tentative plans to sponsor a March 21 appearance had a number of head counts - 78 and 94 the highest, and in­ at C.A.G.E. by Amy Greenfield, a well-known New York film cluding a lot of kids. One problem: not everybody found out and video artist who specializes in filming dance - more cor­ about it. No, we weren't snubbing you, we simply had a rectly, cinedance, dance created to be filmed. (Cinedance dif­ date/newsletter deadline conflict (see article below). Next time fers from regular dance the way film acting differs from stage we'll do better - and besides, there were extenuating cir­ acting.) Anybody who'd like to help organize this event should cumstances: Free(ze) coordinator Ginny Gelczis got creamed contact Stephan Bless at 531-2408. in an auto accident a couple of weeks before (and you thought she liked purple eyeshadow). Ginny's okay now - in fact, she's in California as I write this - and we promise to let you know in time next time.

MEA CULPA

We want to apologize to everyone who would have liked to have attended the Festival of Free(ze) but only found out about it after it happened. (Ahem.) The newsletter has become a fair­ ly complicated production - articles have to be extracted from contributors and editors, and then the thing has to be typeset, laid out and pasted up, printed, prepared for bulk mailing, and mailed. Each function is performed by a different person or business or operation and we can't always drop everything for the newsletter. If it sits just half a day or day at every step, that adds up; if the post office drags its feet - and it can take up to 10 days to deliver bulk mail, though often they get it out faster - some of our material is outdated. The real problem is, we can't predict, when we put the articles together, how long it will be before the newsletter ends up in your mailbox.

Now that you understand what's involved, we hope you won't think we're total goofs. We're trying everything we can to im­ prove our record. Between the time-management texts and the chicken entrails, something's going to get the newsletter out on time. DANCE FILMS

The Cincinnati Dance Alliance would like to co-sponsor a festival of dance films with us, similar to the one we did with the Contemporary Dance Theatre last year. The festival would THE FEBRUARY EXCURSION take place during National Dance Week, April 25 through May 1. The Board members are pretty much overbooked and no will be to the Tuesday, February 16 showing of Ettore Scola's A one can undertake organizing such a festival, but if an ener­ SPECIAL DAY, starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastrianni getic dance lover wishes to emerge from the CFS rank and file as two lonely people in fascist Italy. The movie is at Moviola, at and coordinate the effort, we'll back him or her up. If you're 7:15; afterward we'll pop down to Rusconi's to drink Galliano interested, call David Kampton at 871-3405. (or whatever) and discuss the film.

SPECIAL PROJECTS COORDINATOR

The Board has decided to make official use of Stephan Bless's fevered imagination; we've named him Special Projects Coor­ dinator. If you hav~ any ideas you'd like to develop, or if you're a good detail person and would enjoy playing Trilby to Stephan's Svengali, give him a call at 531-2408. Did you think we're not working on them? Well, we are, but • L'HOMME FRAGILE (THE FRAGILE MAN). details, predictably, are still mushy. Here are the hard ones, Directed by Claire Couzot; with Richard Berry, Francoise though. Lebrun. Two 30-year-old divorcees who work at a left-wing newspaper find themselves drawn to each other; their fear The films will be at Moviola, from March 22 through March 27. of being hurt is as strong as their desire to love again. We will show eight films, one each night on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of that week, two films on Friday • LA DROLESSE. and Saturday. No film will be shown more than once. A Directed by jacques Doillon; with Madeleine Desdevises, French film celebrity of the acting or directing kind will accom­ Claude Hebert. Love and companionship between two pany the films (we've all put in our requests - we don't think lonely people: a 20-year-old Bohemian/bum and an it will be Truffaut, or Gerard Depardieu, or Marie-Christine 11-year-old girl. Barrault, but hope (and lust) springs eternal ... ). We will be ex­ pected to use this celebrity (and the films) in creative ways, so • LA PETITE SIRENE (THE LlTILE SIREN). if you know of any high school or college French or film Directed by Roger Andrieux; with Laura Alexis, Phillippe teachers to plug the festival, plan a syllabus around it, or have Leotard, Evelyne Dress, Marie Dubois. The exceptional the celebrity visit and guest lecture - we will provide the inter­ meeting between two people from completely different preter, if necessary), contact Stephan Bless at 531-2408. worlds: a young, high-society Parisienne and an auto mechanic in' his forties. Here are 7 of the 8 films: • RETOUR EN FORCE (RETURN IN FORCE). • CLARA ET LES CHICS TYPES (CLARA AND THE SWELL Directed by jean-Marie Poire; with Victor Lanoux, Ber­ GUYS). nadette LaFont, Pierre Mondy. After eight years in prison for Directed by jacques Monnet; with Isabelle Adjani. A group a botched heist, Adrien Blausac dreams of collecting his of young men and women form a rock group as a means of loot and returning to his wife and kids. When he's released, escaping the boredom of everday life; on their way to Paris his freinds refuse him his share of the take, and he finds his to perform at a festival they meet Clara, and for two days wife living with a bus driver, his son becomes a petty thief, and three nights their lives are turned into an irresistible and his daughter leading a wild night life. He sets about set­ happening. ting everything right.

• FEMME ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP (WOMAN IN A TWI­ • UN ETRANGE VOYAGE (ON THE TRACK). LIGHT GARDEN). Directed by Alain Cavalier; with jean Rochefort, Camille de Directed by Andre Delvaux; with Marie-Christine Barrault. Casabianca. A man and his young daughter search for the A low-key but powerful study by surrealist filmmaker man's mother, who disappeared from a train; the man is Delvaux of human loyalties and shifting values, set in close to insanity and his relationship with his daughter is Belgium during World War II. troublesome ....

TANGEMAN FILMS FREE TANGEMAN FILMS

The UC Film Society is showing the following films in the Great The UC Film Society is also showing, free, films from the Cin­ Hall of the Tangeman University Center. Admission is $1.50. cinnati Public Library's collection. They're on Tuesdays, some­ 2/12: AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, 7:30, 9:30, where on the 400 floor of Tangeman Center (ask at the Infor­ 11 :30. mation Desk). 2/19: STRIPES, 7:30, 9:30, 11 :30. 2/09: "M", 7:00. 2/20: PEEPING TOM, 8:00 only (1962. Directed by Michael 2/16: GRAND ILLUSION, 7:00. Powell; starring Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna 2/23: LOST WORLD, the original TARZAN OF THE APES, 7:00. Massey). 3/02: POTEMKIN, STRIKE!, 6:30. 2/26: EXCALIBUR, 7:00, 9:30. 3/09: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, 7:00. 2/27: BREAKER MORANT, 8:00 only. 3/05: ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Disney), 7:30, 9:30. Midnight show (not for kids): BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRAVIXENS. J'1m Thompson 2625 Cl ' . C· . e l..nnew A.ve #6 1nC1nndti Oh' 4- ~, 10 5206

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RENEW, RENEW!!! JOIN THE CFS

I know you're getting tired of these articles, but it's very important that you renew on time. It saves us from send­ ing you reminders, wasting money on postage ...taking you off our list and then having to put you back on months later. The CF5 needs your membership dues in order to exist-no joke. We think we give you plenty of opportunities to see films you wouldn't otherwise be able to see, plus an information-packed newsletter, freebies, social events ...a lot for your 10 bucks. 50 please renew on time, and take advantage of one of the last bargains around-a CF5 membership. r--~--

Cincinnati Film Society President. . . . . David Kempton Board: Newsletter Co·Editors: Vice President ..... Dennis Kiel Anita Buck 381·0450 Anita Buck, Ginny Gelczis, Carole Winters Treasurer ...... Mary Judge Lynette Carpenter 542·5441 Secretary ...... Paul Filio Bruce Craddock 221·1718 Design and Paste up: Typesatting: Paul Filio 221-8420 Dennis Kiel, Carole Winters Ginny Gelczis Trustees: Ginny Gelczis 961-7325 Stephan Bless 531·2408 Stephanie Kraemer 961·9006 Film Bookings and Information: Resaarch and Program Development Mary Judge 861·2036 Jerome Pryor, S.J. 745·3550 Larry Thomas Lynette Carpenter, Stephanie Kraemer David Kempton 871-3405 Larry Thomas 381-3456 Dennis Kiel 871-8419 Carole Winters 581-9824 Tom Zaniello 781·3599 Grant Research and Development: Membership: Archivist: Outings Coordinator: Stephan Bless Lynette Carpenter, David Kempton Caleb Deupree 621·1288 Bi II Buetti nger 961·9006 (mailing) Publicity and Graphics: .' Legal Counsal: Pat Folkerth Nancy Bless, Dennis Kiel