■4 FILMED Ik United Artists —Vincent Canby, New York Times WITH zl Martin ScorseseHim THE a film by ISTVAN SZABO Based on Klaus Manns nwel DETECTO VISION ONLY $1.50 pennies FROID Heaven “A MUST FOR MONTY PYTHON FANS!” —Daily Telegraph “An incredibly dynamic performance, a dazzling tour-de-force." -Kathleen Carroll. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS TWO BY SZABO San 5rand*w ffljronide U1MMAX FILMS BELEW1 THE COMEDY SMASH OF THE YEAR! “Contains some of the funniest sequences to be found in any first-run movie... CERTIFIED LUNACY!" i WINNER ACADEMY AW -R ichard★Tre ★XanN★EW★HO•U BSEr NiElWliSaPAnPERtS richly deserv^Jts Oscard“ “SbnhOoUuIlUdUn’^t be m issed nsen NEWSWEEK “Extraordinary” -Judith Crist. SATURDAY REVIEW BEST FOREIGN FILM Fri.,June25, 1982 Splendid Film on Folk Heroes My get up and go Has got up and went In spite of it ad I’m able to grin And think of the places My get up has been. " off the airwaves two years later, casualties of the entertainment blacklist. By Judy Stone The deep bass and the dry wit belonged to Lee Hays, dia- betic and a double amputee, but he borrowed a funeral limousine and got up and went to his farewell concerts with the Weavers at Carnegie Hall two years ago. The outpouring of love that greeted those veteran folk singers might have unsettled Samson, but Hays keeps a firm grip on his emotions in “Wasn’t That a Time!,” the splendid documentary opening today at the Surf, which records the preparations for their last reunion and recalls a bit of the long road traveled together by Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert and Fred Hellerman. Hays’ tart tone refuses to sentimentalize the past that skyrocketed them to fame in 1950 with a single record ("Goodnight, Irene” and “Tzena, Tzena”) and dumped them The Weavers formed in 1949. blending what Seeger described as “two low baritones, one brilliant alto and a split tenor.’’The blacklist forced their split in 1952. but a Carnegie Hall reunion concert in 1955 inspired new perfdrmers to join the folk music movement Three musicians who attended that concert formed the Kingston Trio in the documentary, Don McLean, Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary, and Arlo Guthrie tell what the Weavers meant to them. There’s reciprocity in the warm scene between Holly Near and Ronnie Gilbert. As a very young girl, Near said, she had been inspired to hear Ronnie’s voice “soaring over the three men’s.” Ronnie, now graying and buxom, and with a still powerful voice, confesses that “Holly’s songs opened me up to my identity as a woman.” When Gilbert belts out Holly’s number, “A Woman Disappeared in Chile,” at the Carnegie concerts, it was a moving affirtha- tion that the Weavers could still get up and go with the best of the young ones. A STUNNER! HAS ONE HOWLING WITH LAUGHTER, HORROR AND DISBELIEF!”— Vincent Canby H.Y. Times ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE A film by ISTVAN SZABO BESTFOREIGN FILM CONFIDENCE “A celebration...A joyous, heartfelt film...as honestly disarming as a movie can be.” —Janet Maslm, New York Times A joy to the ear, the mind and the heart. more even than music...it’s wonderful” —Joel Siegel, ABC-TV Wasn’t That ATime! The Weavers Pete Seeger Lee Hays Ronnie Gilbert Fred Hellerman DR. STRANGELOVE Clinton St. Quarterly 47
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