JULY 12 13 SAT 7 P.M., SUN 5 P.M.
WHITSELL AUDITORIUM
MAIDS
BRITAIN 1974
DIRECTOR: CHRISTOPHER MILES Glenda Jackson and Susannah York star as Solange and Claire in this intense adaptation of Jean Genet's dark drama of psychological role-playing, class warfare and sexual tension. The two are Paris maids who tend to cruel socialite Madame's (Vivien Merchant) unending domestic needs. Whenever Madame is away, the sisters obsessively act out a complex role-playing psychodrama of domination and control that feeds their powerful lust for revenge upon the haughty, disdainful mistress they serve. But after falsely denouncing Madame's lover to the police, Solange and Claire's shared terror of arrest and the unchecked aggression with which they increasingly infuse their "ceremony" threaten to destroy them even as they perch on the threshold of ecstatic release. (95 mins.)

JULY 13 14 SUN 7 P.M., MON 7 P.M.
WHITSELL AUDITORIUM
THE HOMECOMING
BRITAIN 1973
DIRECTOR: PETER HALL Widely considered the best film adaptation of a Harold Pinter play, Hall's meticulously cinematic production adapts his own 1965 stage production, with performers from both the London and Broadway casts. Ian Holm, Cyril Cusack and Vivien Merchant star as the malevolent members of a clan in this chilling and darkly comic masterpiece. Jayston (Holm) is the son returning home with his wife (Merchant). They find the family nest buzzing with anger and ill feelings, a small colony of creatures-father, uncle (Cusack) and brothers-who can never get out of the terrible, cozy maze of family. "I often find myself seeking solace from this film. Its poetry and twisted sense of compassion and humor have assuaged many moments of despair and confusion. Other people have religion. I have my copy of THE HOMECOMING." - Atom Egoyan. "The film is so much of an entity, so beautifully integrated, that its spell is never broken. . . and does not let up until a final tableau that is both theatrical and cinematic."-Vincent Canby, THE NEW YORK TIMES. (111 mins.)

JULY 18 19 FRI 7 P.M., SAT 7 P.M.
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THE ICEMAN COMETH
US 1973
DIRECTOR: JOHN FRANKENHEIMER Frankenheimer considered his compelling rendition of the Eugene O'Neill tale one of his best creative experiences. In the faded light of Harry (Fredric March) Hope's 1912 skid-row bar, a rag tag group of fallen men, each like a ghost haunting the wreckage of his own life, await the annual arrival of Hickey (Lee Marvin). This year, however, the charismatic Hickey brings not the usual rounds of drinks and laughs, but the unwelcome news that he's off the sauce for good and has come to persuade Hope's drunks to do the same. One by one, the regulars' booze-basted pipe dreams come under Hickey's leering microscope until finally the most shocking self-deception turns out to be Hickey's own. Included in the fine cast are Robert Ryan and Jeff Bridges. "Brilliant performances and a virtuoso directing achievement. . .A definitive film version."-Roger Ebert, THE CHICAGO SUN TIMES. (239 mins.)

JULY 25 26 FRI 7:30 P.M., SAT 7:30 P.M.
WHITSELL AUDITORIUM
BUTLEY
US 1974
DIRECTOR: HAROLD PINTER In the only film ever directed by Harold Pinter, Alan Bates recreates his Tony-winning stage success as the sardonic, sexually confused English literature professor in Simon Gray's outrageous comedy. Bates is the eponymous, Ben Butley, a vicious loudmouth, whose personal and professional life is disintegrating before our eyes. His long suffering assistant-cum-lover Joey Keyston (Richard O'Callaghan) is leaving him for another man and his former wife is asking for a divorce to marry someone he hates, and that's just for starters. But he's determined to give as good as he gets, and as the sly jousting escalates, the proceedings fizzle with wit and verbal pyrotechnics. Co-starring Jessica Tandy, Georgina Hale and Susan Engel, "An extraordinary success . . .a devilishly entertaining piece and showpiece for Alan Bates." -Stanley Eichelbaum, THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER. (130 mins.)

JULY 31 AUG 3 THU 8 P.M., SUN 7 P.M.
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A DELICATE BALANCE
US 1973
DIRECTOR: TONY RICHARDSON Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning drawing room psychodrama about a dysfunctional Connecticut couple whose "delicate balance" is thrown off forever by the arrival of two friends is even more relentless and absorbingly punishing than his "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?." Katharine Hepburn (whose performance was nominated for an Academy Award) and Paul Scofield are Agnes and Tobias, the ferocious couple coming to grips not only with the invasion of outsiders, but with the reality of mortality and the illusions that bind them together. Joseph Cotten and Betsy Blair co-star as the disruptive Harry and Edna, Lee Remick is Agnes, the Tobias' troubled, and also intruding, daughter, and Kate Reid is the peace-destroying alcoholic sister. (132 mins.)

AUG 8 9 FRI 7:30 P.M., SAT 7:30 P.M.
WHITSELL AUDITORIUM
GALILEO
BRITAIN 1975
DIRECTOR: JOSEPH LOSEY In 1947 Losey premiered Bertolt Brecht's complex meditation on the social responsibility of scientists on Broadway with Charles Laughton in the leading role. His film version features Topol as the poor mathematics teacher whose heretical astronomical theories confound the Pope (Michael Lonsdale), his Cardinal (John Gielgud) and Inquisitor (Edward Fox). Forced to renounce his ideas about planetary movement, Galileo nonetheless holds fast to his beliefs, certain that time will vindicate him. The stellar cast also includes John McEnery and Tom Conti as Galileo's erstwhile allies, and Margaret Leighton as a lady of the court. "Mr. Losey knows exactly what kind of 'filmed theater' he wants to achieve, and how to achieve it."-Vincent Canby, THE NEW YORK TIMES. (145 mins.)

AUG 15 16 FRI 7:30 P.M., SAT 7:30 P.M.
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IN CELEBRATION
BRITAIN 1975
DIRECTOR: LINDSAY ANDERSON Adapted from the play by David Storey, Lindsay Anderson, who directed the original stage version, reassembles his cast for a much opened up cinematic interpretation. Alan Bates, James Bolam and Brian Cox play Andrew, Colin and Steven, the well-educated sons of roughhewn coal miner "Mr. Shaw" (Bill Owen) and his wife (Constance Chapman). On the occasion of their parents' 40th wedding anniversary, the three sons return to their home in a Nottinghamshire village. All three boys have become successful, but only Bolam is comfortable with his success. To his parents' dismay, Andrew announces that he has given up his law practice to become an artist; he also confesses to harboring homosexual inclinations. Prompted by the embittered Andrew, the other sons churn up memories of their childhood that they-and their parents-had hoped to keep buried. (131 mins).

AUG 22 23 FRI 7:30 P.M., SAT 7:30 P.M.
GUILD THEATRE
LUTHER
US 1974
DIRECTOR: GUY GREEN Adapted for the screen by Edward Anhalt from the play by John Osborne, LUTHER stars Stacy Keach as Martin Luther, the 16th-century Augustinian monk whose protests against the Roman Church triggered a religious, political and even social reconfiguration of Europe that historians today call the Reformation. Emphasizing the theatrical rather than the cinematic, Green's film traces the steps in Luther's development from an awkward, troubled young seminarian to the leader of a continent-wide movement, comparing throughout his original feelings with the extraordinary turn of events for which so many held him personally responsible. The uniformly excellent cast features Patrick Magee, Hugh Griffith, Judi Dench and Robert Stephens. (112 mins.)