Boxoffice-September.04.1978

NY Film Festival Public
Performances Schedule
"A Wedding," Robert Altman. September
22, 8:30 p.m.
"Spies," Fritz Lang, September 2.^, 2 p.m.
"Skip Tracer," Zale R. Dalen, September
23, 6 p.m. and September 24, 9 p.m.
"The Green Room," Francois Triiffaut.
September 23, 9 p.m. and September 24,
3 p.m.
"Camouflage," Krzysztof Zanussi, September
24, 6 p.m. and September 25, 6:15
p.m.
"Blood Brothers," Robert Mulligan, September
25, 9:30 p.m. and September 26,
6:15 p.m.
"Styles of Radical Will"—"Babies and
Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency
Brigade," Lorraine Gray, "CIA: Case Officer,"
Saul Landau, and "They Are Their
Own Gifts," Lucille Rhodes and Margaret
Murphy, September 26, 9:30 p.m. and
September 27, 6:15 p.m.
"Newsfront," Philip Noyce, September
27, 9:30 p.m. and September 28, 6:15 p.m.
September 28, 9:30 p.m. and September
29, 6:15 p.m.
"Get Out Your Handkerchiefs," Bertrand
Blier, September 29, 9:30 p.m. and
September 30, 12:30 p.m.
"The Left-Handed Woman," Peter Handke,
September 30, 3 p.m. and October 2.
9:30 p.m.
"Dossier 51." Michael Deville. September
30, 6 p.m. and October 1, 9 p.m.
"Despair," R. W. Fassbinder, September
30, 9 p.m. and October 1, 3 p.m.
"The Turtle on Its Back," Luc Beraud,
October I, 6 p.m. and October 3, 9:30 p.m.
"Gates of Heaven," Errol Morris, and
"Manimals," Robin Lehman, October 2,
6:15 p.m. and October 4, 6:15 p.m.
"Elective Affinities," Gianni Amico,
October 3, 6:15 p.m. and October 4, 9:30
p.m.
"The Shout," Jerzy Skolimowski. October
5, 6:15 p.m. and October 9:30 p.m.
"Perceval," Eric Rohmer, October 6,
6:15 p.m. and October 7, 9 p.m.
"American Boy," Martin Scorsese, and
"Movies Are My Life," Peter Hayden,
October 6, 9:30 p.m. and October 7, 6 p.m.
"The Miracle of the Wolves," Raymond
Bernard October 7, 2 p.m.
"Violette," Claude Chabrol, October 8,
8:30 p.m.
Harrisburg Mall Promotes
Business With Free Films
HARRISBURG. PA. — Motion pictures
will be used in a big way this coming season
to promote shopping at the Harrisburg-
East Mall here. The five screens in the enclosed
shopping mall, the East 5 Theatres,
will be utilized by the mall's merchants to
sponsor "The 10 O'clock Movie" every
Thursday morning for free showings.
The free movies for shoppers starts Thursday
(14) with "A Touch of Class." finishing
out the month with "The Way We
Were" Thursday (21) and "That's Entertainment"
Thursday (28).
BOXOFTICE September 11. 1978
Wide Variety of Foreign, American
Films Offered at NY Film Festival
NEW YORK— Claude Chabrol's "Violette"
has been selected for the closing night
presentation October 8 at the 16th New
York Film Festival. Other final selections
include works by several independent
American filmmakers, exciting new directors
from Europe and the world premiere of a
major American film, it was announced.
"Violette" is an elegant psychological
thriller based on the true story of an 18-yearold
girl who poisoned her mother and her
putative father. Isabelle Huppert in the title
role won a best actress prize at this year's
Cannes Film Festival. Stephen Audran also
stars in the Gaumont-Ncw Yorker Films release.
'Blood Brothers' Premiere
A world premiere presentation will be
Robert Mulligan's "Blood Brothers," a dark,
neurosis-drenched view of the Italian subculture
as seen from the point of view of an
older son who can neither ignore nor accept
his father's values. The Warner Bros.
release stars Paul Sorvino. Tony Lo Bianco.
Richard Gere and Lelia Goldoni.
Three films investigating various aspects
of contemporary politics will be shown as
"Styles of Radical Will." a title borrowed
from Susan Sontag. In "Babies and Banners:
Story of the Women's Emergency
Brigade,"
Lorraine Gray impressively mixes
footage of the historical General Motors sitdown
strike of 1937 with interviews with the
survivors at their 40th anniversary reunion.
Saul Landau's "CIA: Case Officer" is a
portrait of John Stockwell, a CIA officer
in Angola who finally had to choose between
his career and his conscience. "They
Are Their Own Gifts" by Lucille Rhodes
and Margaret Murphy is a dazzling portrait
of Muriel Rukeyser. politically com-
a
mitted and brilliant
poet.
Pet Films Featured
Another program from American independent
filmmakers double-bills "Gates of
Heaven." a dissertation on California pet
cemetaries. which is a first feature by Errol
Morris and Robin Lehman's "Manimals."
dealing with pets in New York City. Both
films are world premieres.
From Canada comes "Skip Tracer." a
fast, tough and spare first film from director
Zale R. Dalen. It is touted as one of the
most promising debuts in years. Italian director
Gianni Amico's "Elective Affinities"
is based on the Goethe book, considered
one of the world's great novels. The film introduces
two important discoveries: actresses
Veronica Lazar and Francesca Archibugi.
Other French selections include "Get Out
Your Handkerchiefs." a love story and
"buddy movie" by Bertrand Blier. This
comedy of the new morality stars Gerard
Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere and Carole
Laure and is a Robert A. McNeil presentation.
"Dossier 51." by Michel Deville, is a
French thriller which refers as much to the
nature of cinema as it does to the ostensible
subject: the invasion of privacy on a grand
technological scale. "The Turtle on Its
Back." Luc Beraud's first film, is both a delightful
French comedy about a blocked
writer and a serious consideration of the
nature of narrative and authorship. Bernadette
Lafont and Jean-Francois Stevenin
star. Both of the latter films were unveiled
at the 1978 Cannes festival and both are
New Line Cinema releases.
Eric Rohmer's Gallic version of "Perceval"
presents a "medieval Buster Keaton"
who pursues the Holy Grail in a bumbling,
inefficient, but charming manner. This
world premiere is a Gaumont-New Yorker
Films release.
"American Boy" is the second of six profiles
by Martin Scorsese. This time the
director delineates a friend. Steven Prince,
son of a high-ranking Army officer but also
a child of the drug culture of the 1960s.
This world premiere will be shown on a
program with "Movies Are My Life," a
portrait of Scorsese as seen by his colleagues
Robert De Niro. Jodie Foster, John Cassavetes.
Liza Minnelli and Steven Prince.
This film is directed by Peter Hayden of
Great Britain.
International Casts, Directors
With "The Shout," Polish director Jerzy
Skolimowski returns to the screen with a
dazzling fantasy-thriller set in the tranquil
English countryside. The film involves an
erotic and terrifying struggle. Alan Bates
stars with Susannah York and John Hurt
in this offering from Great Britain. It won
a special jury prize at the June Cannes
festival.
"The Left-Handed Woman" is West German
playwright and novelist Peter Handke's
first film, a taut Teutonic variation on "An
Unmarried Woman" where no Prince
Charming comes along to ease the pain. Another
Cannes entry this year, it stars Edith
Clever.
Otiier
Films Announced
Previously announced films for the 16th
annual New York Film Film Festival, which
runs from Friday (22) to October 8 at
Lincoln Center, include Robert Altman's
"A Wedding." Francois Trauffaut's "The
Green Room," Rainer Werner Fassbinder's
"Despair," "Newsfront" directed by Philip
Noice. "The Apple Game" by Vera Chytilova
and Krzystof Zanussi's "Camouflage."
Two retrospective screenings also have been
set: Raymond Bernard's 1924 epic, "The
Miracle of the Wolves." and Fritz Lang's
"Spies."
"Peppermint Soda" by Diane Kurys, one
of the films originally announced, will not
be available for showing at this year's festival.
The boxofficc for the 1978 New York
Film Festival opened at Alice Tully Hall
Sunday (10).