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NEW WORLD FILM COOP

SPRING FILM FESTIVAL

MAY

10 & 11 NED KELLY (Mick Jagger)-- Tony Richardson directs Mick Jagger in the role of a rampaging frontier bandit driven to crime after a frame-up. His gang sealed its doom at their 1878 massacre of several law agents. Jagger gives a virtuoso, violent performance.

PEYOTE QUEEN-- a journey through the underworld of sensory derangement moving at full speed with African beat.

17 & 18 BURN! (Marlon Brando)-- Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo--Technicolor features Marlon Brando as a British agent sent to an island in the Caribbean early 19th century, to break the sugar monopoly. He succeeds by fomenting a revolution of the native peoples enslaved on the sugar plantations, changing to open guerilla warfare against the British interests on the island. Brando's favorite performance. (1970)

SINISTER HARVEST-- a 1930 classic of dope-smoking in Egypt.

24 & 25 HOW I WON THE WAR (John Lennon)-- Surrealistic, satiric war film recounting the experiences of a platoon of British army conscripts in WW I. Lt. Micheal Crawford, a kind of military Don Quixote who never learns from experience. Lennon, ex-fascist joins his platoon in surreal colors and make-up as each member of the platoon is disposed of. NEWSREEL 1939-- Franco wins in Spain.....first overseasair service. Germany starts WW I as Hitler invades Poland.

31 & 1 PRIME CUT-- (Gene Hackman and Lee Marvin)-- Lee Marvin, big time syndicate enforcer pitted against Gene Hackman who runs a "branch office" and decides to do away with syndicate profit sharing. Hackman uses a cattle slaughterhouse as a front for a prostitution racket that attributes it's assets to young women who are orphans. Top notch acting!

JUNE

7 & 8 Candy-- (Marlon Brando, James Coburn, Richard Burton, Elsa Martinelli and Ringo Starr)

14 & 15 to he announced............................................... 

21 & 22 FUTURE SHOCK-- breath-taking, screenplay after the best selling novel, "devastating"-- (42 Minutes)

SCORPIO RISING--  exorcise in black humour portrait of violence, a document of a motorcycle cultist and one spectacular death wish-- 'a hymn to Thanatos'........the hero, Scorpio is intercut with shots of HitIer, James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Jesus Christ. A rough-gay Halloween party of cyclists, buckling leather through glimpses of comic strip characters that reflects a mood of self-destruction, self-mocking.

MYSTERY OF LEAPING FISH-- 1916 COCAINE CLASSIC-- see Douglas Fairbanks Sr., the master of disguise and super sleuth-- as -- clandestine craving "coke" Ennyday, see coke vanquish the nefarious Knaves while dancing the cocaine quiver.

28 & 29 FILLMORE (new release)-- starring Santana,  the Greatful Dead, Hot Tuna, Quicksilver, It's A Beautiful Day, Cold Blood, Boz Scaggs, Elvin Bishop Group, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Lamb, and Bill Graham.

All shows at Modern Languages Bldg. Auditorium 3

(E. Washington at Thayer, Ann Arbor)

All Shows: $1.25                         for info. call - 665-6734