University of Delaware
Office of Public Relations
UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 20, Feb. 20, 1997

                     '70s films on spring schedule
                                   
  If you're nostalgic for the 1970s or just wonder what the 
world was
like in the "old days," check out a special series of films 
from that
decade beginning this month on campus.
  The free public series includes everything from a 
diabolical
murderer in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy, which opened the 
series last
evening, to the neurotic lovers of Woody Allen's Annie Hall 
to the
almost-unstoppable killer shark in Jaws.
  All films begin at 7 p.m., Wednesdays, in the Trabant 
University
Center Theatre.
  Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles will be screened Feb. 26. The 
1974
parody of the American cowboy genre brought a new brashness 
to
Hollywood comedy and inspired many other movie spoofs.
  The cast includes Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder.
  Bruce Lee stars in Enter the Dragon, scheduled on March 5. 
Called
the best martial arts film ever, this 1973 film also features 
John
Saxon.
  The 1971 film Shaft, directed by Gordon Parks and featuring 
Richard
Roundtree and Moses Gunn, will be shown March 12.
  As the music of Isaac Hayes fills the soundtrack, detective 
John
Shaft works to keep the mob from controlling Harlem.
  On March 19, Stanley Kubrick's controversial vision of the 
near
future, A Clockwork Orange, will be screened.
  The 1971 film stars Malcolm McDowell as a young street 
tough who is
rehabilitated with aversion therapy.
  Modern romance-Woody Allen-style-is explored in the 1978 
film,
Annie Hall, to be shown on April 9. The object of Allen's 
affection is
played by Diane Keaton, who won an Oscar for her performance.
  Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the 1978 remake of the 
1950s
paranoid classic, will be shown on April 16. In this version, 
which
stars Donald Sutherland and Leonard Nimoy, banal yuppies show 
their
true colors when they are revealed to be alien clones.
  Who's more dangerous-the people in the mental institution 
or the
ones running it? That's the question posed by One Flew Over 
the
Cuckoo's Nest, to be screened April 23. Directed by Milos 
Forman, this
1975 film brought Oscars to Jack Nicholson and Louise 
Fletcher for
their performances as Randle Patrick McMurphy and Nurse 
Ratched,
respectively.
  The series concludes on April 30 with Steven Spielberg's 
Jaws, the
1975 thriller in which Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert 
Shaw and
a mechanical shark all spend an eventful summer on-and 
around-a resort
island.
  The film series is sponsored by the Student Center Program 
Advisory
Board.