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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. [Volume 39, Number 2. 11th March 1976]

Previews

Previews

PREVIEW

Thursday March 11th

The Sting

A follow-on from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with Paul Newman and Robert Reford, set, however, in Chicago in 1936.

The film is 'so richly detailed and so muted in tone that one almost forgets the film is in colour - and who can possible imagine Al Capone's Chicago other than in terms of black and white." - Sight and Sound.

It involves a con using more twists than a rock-python as the cons are conned. The audience is taken in by the procedings as much as anyone as well.

The plot is incredibly absorbing. From scene to scene it never fails to leave the audience amazed as if bemused by a magician.

Director:

George Roy Hill.

Wednesday March 17th

Deliverance

This is a 'rugged contest between a quartet of city folk and the white water rapids of the Cahulawassee River" - Film Quarterly.

Deliverance is not simply another adventure movie - the multiplicity of themes soon makes this apparent. For example, it is not man's physical strength and cool courage that wins when pitted against a cruel nature, as in a typical adventure story. It is the ordinary humanity that is in all of us that proves to be the group's greatest asset.

The film impressed me, first and foremost, as being very real and vital. The rapid pace of the action matched the frequent and sudden changes of emotion, and overall it was totally absorbing.

Stars:

Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds.

Director:

John Boorman.

Will be shown in the Memorial Theatre