Page 2 — Arts THE OBSERVER October 15. 1980 Matthau Stars In "Hopscotch" by Bill Arloff Wanted List. It is here that he some spots and Beatty's mouth "Neyer get angry - just get teams up with an old ex-agent gets disgusting at times, but it ali even" is a subtle way to descnbe friend Glenda Jackson (who played Walter Matthau's undoing of the beside him in House Colls) in Cl.A. in Rofiald Neame's new Salzberg to help him get through movie Hopscotch. Matthau, playing the suave experienced the perpetuai dilemma. From here C.I.A. agent Miles Kendig, gets in- we are taken to Savannah, back to to a discrepency with Ned Beatty Salzberg, and to London on an over a recent assignment involving amusing chase with Matthau soviet intelligence,v which, un- disclosing each chapter of his 9 A^« j«Mt^ A ifeA fortunately for him, leads to his memoirs and staying one step dismissal and reduction in jobs to ahead of the opposition (Sam Arts Information chief of the filing room. Thafs not Waterston, Ned Beatty, and Wednesday. October 15, Talent Show, reallv what Miles had in mind. He Herbert Lom as Soviet superspy 8:00 p.m. - Centennial Hall then shreds his own files and takes Yaskov). Thursday, October 16, Kenunist Fórum, vengeance in a more discerning Matthau is a delight as he out- 12:00 p.m. - College Center Board Room way. He goes underground and smarts his foes with his multi- Friday, October 17, Homecoming begins to write memoirs revealing disguises such as playing Eleanor Convocation, Mike Cross, Arust, 11:00 ali past happenings in the C.I.A., a.m. - Centennial Hall exposing many to public em- Roosevelt, a southerner with a goes quite unnoticed. Hopscotch, no Saturday, October 18, Homecoming barrassment. This undoubtedly forced drawl, an Arabian prince, as doubt, is a fun game to watch. Concert, Band, Choir, Orchestra 10:00 a.m. puts him on the C.I.A.'s Most well as an enjoyable number of . Hopscotch is currently playing at - Centennial Hall. Alumní Band Concert, others. The movie may be slow in the Showcase Cinemas in Milan. 5:30-6:30 p.m - Centennia] HaB Trends In Films — First of a Series Free Travelogues Arrangements have beeri made with the Rock Isiand Exchange Club and with the Women: Victimized On Screen and Off Putnam Museum of Davenport to allow the by Chris Bettin Thumbing through the arts sec- show. Audiences can do the same Augustana faculty, staff, emeritus, Throughout the 1970's, women tion of one of the Quad Cities for this raunchy trend thafs per- cooperating teachers and stodents to attend their travelogues by presenting made advances in ali áreas of newspapers, one can find the latest vading the nations movie houses - their pass or I.D. We hope yon wDl take society, including the movie in- entry in this sick movie fad, a show no dollars down at the ticket win- advantage of this opportunity. dustry. Roles with substance called He Knows You're Alone. It's dow and these films would die Listed below are the travelogues forth e became a more consistent oc- a quaint little film about another faster than the women that drop 1980-81 season along with dates ihey will currence for actresses as women knife killer who butchers brides to like flies within their reels. be shown: took a giant step towards moving be. Next there will be divorcees as Rock Isiand Exchange Club -Thursdays, Nowadays we have slaughter - en 8:00 p.m., Centennial Hall out of the not self-imposed dark victims, then career women, then, masse! What do filmmakers have October 23, "Byways of France" - Bob ages of their position in film's first heaven help us, a killer of pregnant against women anyway? For that Ditta. five decades. Women also began women. Could Hollywood stoop so matter, what do they have against November 20, Quebec" - Howard and taking their long overdue positions low? It's hard to put it past them. originality? Ninety-five percent of Barbara Pollard. in the director's chair, behind the The list of these trashy films just Halloween's successors completely January 29, "Gulf States" - Lee producer's desk and at the script keeps growing, now including such lack any "scare-ability". They Cavanagh. February 26, 'Italy and Boate" - Phil writer's typewriter. Why? A com- dainties as this summer's I Spit on don't raise shivers up spines, but Walker. bination of reasons actually, but Your Grave, Co-ed Murders, make stomachs do flip-flops in- March 26, 'Badlands" - Romain primarily because critics com- Almost Human, Friday the 13th, stead. These movies have turned Wilhelmsen. plained constantly (particularly Prom Night and Don't Go in the from any artistic form of suspense- May 7, "Britain" - Jim McDonald. female critics), studio big-shots House. building to merely grinding out Putnam Museum - Wednesdays, 8:00 wised up, and women in the Filmmakers have already put a shock sequence after shock sequen- p.m., Centennial Hall. ce of beheadings, disembowlments November 12, "High Adventure Beyond business like Jane Fonda, Vanessa significant damper on holidays the Zambezi" • Ron Shanin. Redgrave, Meryl Streep and Jill with shows featuring mass mur- and mutilations of, for the most January 21, "Wonderful México" - Bill Clayburgh simply strove hardcr derèrs dòirig their thing'on Christ- part, women. Seriously, how many Vladsen. for their personal betterment. mas and Halloween - what next - ways are there to kill someone off March 4, "Iceland" - Hany Reed. Rewards WERE reaped. "Easter Bunny Killer"? They have before it becomes purely April 8, "We Swedes" - Ed Lark. However, a current, sick trend in viewed with shocking new per- gratuitous? Where is the respect films is doing its best to bringback spective several commonplace ac- and concern for the depiction of Homecoming Concert the dark ages - those films of thè tivities (babysiting, dorm life, human life, and death? Certainly it The Augustana Choir, Augustana taking showers, summer camp, is one thing to depict realistically Symphony Orchestra and Aogustana last two years that depict women the taking of a human life on 'oncert Band will appear in a jomt concert as objects for violence, figures to prom). and are now turning to the at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, in Centennial even more ridiculous and outlan- screen, after ali, it does happen. be brutalized and murdered. But to set up human figures (not Hall. The program will be in conjunction An exact starting date for this dish for subject matter with, for with homecoming weekend on the example, a piece of tripé released even characters really, for they are Augustana campus. Admission is free. trend is difficult to pinpoint, but it rarely granted enough screen time seems to have picked up con- this summer called Humanoids A highlight of the concert wiD be a from the Deep. Believe it or not, to develop a discernable per- jerformance of "Missi Sancti Nkolai" (St. siderably since the release two sonality), for the purpose of in- Vicholas Massl by Franz Joseph Haydn. years ago of Halloween. this film was about amphibious venting new ways to destroy them It will be presented by the choir and Halloween was a well-crafted, creatures that come ashore at is obscene. Besides this, how many orchestra under the direction of Donald scarier-than-hell horror film about night to rape human women. The ways are there to portray knife- Worrison. Soloists are Kathryn Focht, a deranged killer that stalks three ending shows a baby humanoid wielding maniacs before the gamut oprano, Barbara Buddin, alto, Nile bursting through the stomach (a Ia Norton, tenor, and David Alt. baritone. teenaged babysitters on Halloween is run? Also included in the program wiO be the night. The movie received rave Alien) of its human mother. concert band, conducted by George reviews despite the triteness of its EGAD! The creature should be Women have given so much to Opheim, performing selections from their plot because of the remarkable skiU turning over in its Black Lagoon. the history of film, from their days spring tour repertoire. employed in its production. Who is responsible for these sor- of playing the heroes lady to-their La ter in the day, the alumni band will get As Hollywood typically goes, did examples of film making? Are current burgeoning independence. ogether for a rehearsal and then present a these films a lashing out by their >rief concert starting at 5:30 pjn. in however, Halloween has become Women in film have produced such ^ehtennial Hall. the unfortunate foster parent to makers at women for their currrent gems as Jane Fondas war this whole brood of similar, but ability to irhprove their position in "widow" in Corning Home, Meryl Saga Editors Needed considerably less well-made, horror society? Is there a subconscious Streeps searching wife in Kramer Anvone interested in being on the flicks. These successors, of which jealousy or anger involved here vs. Kramer, and Jill Clayburgh's ditorial board for Saga should contact Dr. only a very few are worthy of that boils to the surface in the form struggling Unmarried Woman. ohn Lang by Thursday, October 23. viewing (the recent Dressed to Kill, of these trashy movies? Perhaps. Theyre ali roles about women fin- for instance), have taken the idea But the most obvious and logical ding themselves. Film in the seven- produces smut like Humanoids of female vulnerability and twisted reason for their continued existen- ties found WOMEN and with the from the Deep persiste in por- it into more perverse distortions ce, with no psychology attached, is discovery a wealth of virtually traying women as something well than imaginable. the fact that they make money. previously unexplored potential below that which their film con- Remember the good ol' days of the Certainly people can blame the thafs time has come to be fully tributions denote they deserve, horror film - King Kong, Bela filmmakers, charging them with and positively realized. Its a and as something that is merely a Lugosi's Dracula, The Creature being careless, perverted, tacky, or shame when a trash trend that slur to womanhood in general. from the Black Lagoon, The Mole any other adjective from a long list Men? These monsters ali went af- of credible descriptions. But who ter the girl, but not with murder on can blame them for wanting to their minds. They did so because in make money. Artistic respon- their own pathetic, misunderstood sibility? Yes, it is lacking here, but way they were in love with them. it would be silly to believe that They actually behaved almost like everyone involved in the artistic MUMS THE WORD gentlemeni Of course, the community has a true sense of or generally repulsive looks of the even concern for what is w