O Lucky Man

Tues. 28th Feb. 2 p.m.

Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) begins in the film as a coffee salesman who gets posted up and down Britain and who encourages all sorts of wonderful and weird things on the way .

This black comedy directed by Lindsay Anderson and written by McDowell turns out to be magnificent satire on British Capitalism. Anderson says. "We can no longer afford the luxury of laissez-faire, and if we try, we are going to find that it is the most pernicious elements that come out on top."

The film is very much like Kubrick's A Clock work Orange with many deliberate parallels although this film is much better, more entertaining and more politically effective.

The songs of Alan Price and his group provide punctuation and a kind of commentary throughout.

Poets on the Run

Thursday 12— 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

If you haven't hear them it is time you did. Culture seldom comes in such a presentable commodity. Sam Hunt and Gary McCormick are amongst the very few that make a living from their art. Unlike anything picked up in an academic course their poetry is alive, living, and often hilarious; about us and New Zealand today.

A former resident of Bottle Creek, Sam Hunt still lives on the Paramata Arm of the Porirua Harbour in the old Death Homestead. A winding road and spring tides occasionally cut him off from Post Office General store and bottle store. A prolific writer Sam has published Between the Islands, Bracken Country, Bottle Creek, South into Winter and Time To Ride. Drunken Garden is soon to be released.

Gary (ex-school caretaker toilet cleaner postman merry-go-round operator and Truth man of the week) was once on the Porirua City Council with a majority of one vote. His first work was a joint publication with Jon Benson of Gisborne. Later came Naked and Nameless and then a play The Moon Lovers; Poems for the 'Little Red Engine is on the way.

Both poets are performers of old, having toured the country with rock bands in past years in between writing. Their appearance on campus is courtesy of Students Arts Council as part of their grand tour Poets On The Run. The lunch time concert on Thursday with Rough Justice in the Union Hall promises to be reminiscent of their past escapades, Sam with Mammal, Gary with Storm and at Nambassa. Sam, as well as performing with group members before, has also written for Mammal, so it is going to be an afternoon with one of New Zealand's top bands and two of its most entertaining ports.

Later that night (at 8p.m. on the middle floor of the Union Building) Sam and Gary will be back with wine, reading and discussing poetry; mostly their own. Everybody is invited to come and settle in for an interesting evening.

In addition, Poetry is featured on Thursday and at the Mad Hatters Tea Party on Saturday afternoon.

O Lucky Man is possibly the best wholly - British film ever made. The continual excitement and visual stimulus is overpowering with sequence after sequence of unexpected events, which range in location from an old fashioned small town boarding house to a futuristic nuclear research centre.

Rosemary's Baby

Thurs. 2nd. March, 2 p.m.

Polanski's film is much more than just a horror film or a film about witchcraft in a New York apartment block. It is a parallel of the story in the Bible where the father of Rosemary's baby is a divine figure, Rosemary is the chosen vessel, and there is the adoration of the child as the new messiah.

The film treats the myth in such a way that we are forced to accept its literal truth with evion which Christian belief is based We are forced to confront the Christian myth with the realisation that our mode of believing in Christianity is quite different from the one with which we perceive "real" things.