240 I N T E R N A T I O N A L PfiRtErr Wednesday, May 9,1979

Argentine Films . (Continued from page 238)..

Erika Wallner, Franklin Cai-

NUEVO CINE COM EDIA ROTA (Broken Comedy) Dist. Cinetel Director: Oscar Barney Finn Cast: Julia von Grolman, Gianni

Lunadei, Arturo Garcia Buhr, Elsa Daniel.

PARNASO EL FANTASTICO MUNDO DE

MARIA MONTIEL (The Fantastic World of Maria

Montiel) Dist. Producciones del Plata Director: Zuhair Jury Cast: Rodolfo Beban, Leonor Bene­

detto, Raul Lavie, Juanita Lara. PRODUCTORES AMERICANOS

EL PODER DE LAS TINIEBLAS (The Power of Darkness) Dist. Producciones del Plata Prod. Emilio Spitz Director: Mario Sabato

Cast: Sergio Renan LOS SUPERAGENTES Y EL TE-

SORO MALDITO (The Superagents And the Damned

Treasure) Dist. Producciones del Plata Prod. Emilio Spitz Director: Mario Sabato Cast: Victor Bo, Ricardo Bauleo,

Julio De Grazia, Jorge Salcedo, Osvaldo Terranova, Nathan Pin-zon

RE Y FILMS CON MI MUJER NO PUEDO (With My Wife I Can't) Dist. Producciones del Plata Director: Enrique Dawi Cast: Guillermo Bredeston, Leo­

nor Benedetto, Javier Portales, Julio De Grazia, Mariquita Gal-legos.

RUMBO ESE LOCO AMOR LOCO (That Crazy Love Crazy) Director: EvaLandeck Cast: Irene Morack, Hector Gio-

vine, Ulises Dumont, Ignacio

Quiros, Silvina Rada

SIFA EL ULTIMO AMOR EN TIERRA

DEL FUEGO Last Love In Tierra del Fuego) Dist. Columbia Director: Armando Bo Cast: Isabel Sarli, Armando Bo EXTASIS TROPICAL (Tropical Ecstasy) Dist. Columbia Director:Armando Bo Cast: Isabel Sarli, Armando Bo,

Miguel Angel Olmos

SILUETAS LA PARTE DEL LEON (Lion's Share) Dist. Siluetas Prod. Lita Stantic Director: Adolfo Aristarain Cast: Julio De Grazia, Luisina

Brando, Fernando Mistral, Julio Chavez, Ulises Dumont

FURIA EN LA ISLA (Fury On The Island) Dist. Siluetas Prod. Hector and Ruben Otero Director: Oscar Cabeillou Cast : Libertad Leblanc, Enzo

Viena, Luis Medina Castro, Zel-mar Guenol

Japan Society Celebrates In U.S. The Japan Society will sponsor a three-month celebration of modern

Japanese arts and culture, "Japan Today," in seven major U.S. cities. This will include exhibitions, performances, film showings and panel dis­cussions and will explore all trends in the arts and crafts of Japan today and offer an overview of the economy, the politics and the life patterns of a Vitally important contemporary culture.

The film series, "Three Decades: Postwar Japanese Society Through Film," will include five American premieres among the 12 films to be shown. Films will be shown in New York, Washington, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and Long Beach. Film critic Donald Richie will make key­note presentations at openings in the first four cities.

A second special series in Boston will cover the most important films produced in Japan during the past five years. Additional film program­ming is planned for the Museum of Modern Art, the Film Forum and the Bleecker Street Cinema in New York; Facets Multimedia and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago; the Denver International Film Festival; and the Torrance Civic Enter Library and Bing Auditorium in Los Angeles.

VICTORIA YO TAMBIENTENGO FIACA (I Have Fiaca Too) Dist. Cinematografica Victoria Director: EnriqueCahen Salaberry Cast: Susana Gimenez, Juan Carlos

Calabro, Osvaldo Pacheco, Hen-ny Trailes, Santiago Bal

VICTORICA BORGES PARA MILLONES

Why Paul Mazursky Makes Films

in New\brk City

"It's vital, passionate, beautiful... a constant surprise. I love shooting in Hew York City."

New York City. The place you can't compare to anywhere. The city with a program geared to make f i lm ing easier and less costly. The city where all municipal services needed by a producer are coordinated through a single department, The Mayor's Office of Mot ion Pictures and Tele­

vision. Where location permits, police assistance, fire and sanitation apparatus are free. New York City. Where Paul Mazursky directed the Academy Award nominee "An Unmarried Woman. "

Where.he's working on "Wi l l ie and Phi l " r ight now. New York City. Where Paul Mazursky makes f i lms.

MAYOR'S O F F I C E O F MOTION P I C T U R E S & TELEVISION NANCY LITTLEFIELD, Director, 110 WEST 57th STREET, NEW YORK 10019.(212)489-6714

(Borges For Millions) Dist. Distrifilms Director: Ricardo Wullicher Documentary with Jorge Luis

Borges playing himself.

W.K. MARGARITO TERERE (Margarito Terere) Dist. Producciones Imperial Director: Waldo Belloso Cast: Jovita Diaz, Armando Guer-isoli, Cesar Franco, Graciela Copa

Police Say Woman Torched Drive-In Over Alleged Porn

Somerset, Mass. Frances Robidoux, 39, who has

been opposing an allegedly porno­graphic film drive-in, tried to burn the ozoner down, police here de­clare. She will face charges of at­tempted arson, malicious mischief and breaking and entering during the nighttime

Police said an employe of the Family Drive-in, whose license Robidoux was petitioning the selectmen to revoke, found a door damaged and a flammable liquid splashed on the building.

Boston Herald On Bids: 'Money Is The Public's'

Boston. The Boston Herald American

published an editorial on blind bids, in part as follows:

"Jack Valenti, front man for the film industry, might be correct in calling the current brawl between movie distributors and theatre own­ers in this state a 'war' and a 'vile, squalid quarrel about profits, about money.' But, he's dead wrong in claiming that the movie-going public has no interest in the issue, because the money he's talking about is theirs. For that reason, if no other, Massachusetts ought to de­cree an end to it, either by legis­lative action or a court injunction.

The Central Point "The squabble centers around

the trade practice of 'blind bid­ding.' That's a device under which theatre owners are forced to bid, sight unseen, for the right to show a film without first seeing it to decide whether it is a big hit or a bomb. Valenti defends it, on the ground that it compels exhibitors to share some of the financial risk of making a film. Theatre owners, both the large chains and the small inde­pendent exhibitors, oppose it be­cause, they say, it drives up the price of pictures. How? Two ways, really. By jacking up the prices of a turkey' or promoting it relent­

lessly to keep it running, in order to recoup as much of their bid as pos­sible. In either case, though, the customer pays — and loses."