THE SCREEN

The Sugariand Express. This didn't last very long in Boston, at the inauspicious Pans Cinema (from lisa to Disney last month), but last year it was touted along with Terry Malick's Badlands as an exciting new seventies road picture by a fresh young director. A good movie to be showing at Harvard Directed by Steven Spielberg, with Goldie Hawn. Ben Johnson, and Michael Sacks '70 of Leverett House and Albany, N.Y.

Lels Montee. Andrew Sarris's numero uno, and a lot of other people's 100. About the famous dancer/mistress who had affairs with people like Ludwig of Bavaria and that composer who travelled around in a wagon--Liazt. I think, or maybe Griag. Max Ophuls's last film, made in 1955 in color with Martina Carol. Anton Walbrook and Peter Ustinov. Part of Harvard-Epworth's Ophule festival. The Shadow Catcher, at the Welles, sounds real interesting. About Edward S. Curtis and the Native Americans he photographed and filmed at the beginning of this century. With narration by Donald Sutherland and Patrick Watson. Showing with it is Thomas Edison's The Great Train Robbery (1913). The Phantom of the Opera. This must be the 1925 Rupert Julian American version with Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin (the best version), because Harkness Commons is featuring a live piano player. Too bad there can't be an organ there for the Phantom pumping away at Toccata and Fugue in the sewers under the Opera House.

Battle of Algiers. The best political film I've ever seen--wise, electrifying, and set in the Casbah.