Cinema: Jan. 18, 1963

Eclipse. The trouble with modern man, says Michelangelo Antonioni in most of his movies (L'Avventura, La Notte), is that he has gained the whole world and lost his own soul; the trouble with this picture, though it is certainly an effort of supreme style, is that Antonioni in his obsessive pessimism ignores an important fact of human life: a deep shadow can be cast only by a strong light.

David and Lisa, shot for less than $200,000 by a man and his wife (Director Frank and Scenarist Eleanor Perry) who had never made a movie before, tells the anguishing and tender story of two psychotic adolescents (Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin) who meet in the pit of madness and help each other to climb out.

Lawrence of Arabia. A handsome newcomer named Peter O'Toole is the star of this great big beautiful $10 million spectacle—produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Lean—that describes the amazing adventures of the guerrilla genius of World War I, but the customers will find themselves more fascinated by the infinite billowing sea of golden sand that covers Arabia Deserta.

Freud. Director John Huston has turned out an intense, intelligent cinemonograph on the early struggles of the papa of psychiatry. Montgomery Clift does fairly well as Freud, but sometimes looks more like a patient than a psychiatrist.

Electra. Director Cacoyannis has derived a beautiful and sometimes moving film from the play by Euripides.

Jumbo. Jimmy Durante and Martha Raye measure comic talents in this ponderous pachyderm of a picture—a $5,000,000 screen version of the 1935 Broadway musical. Jimmy wins by a nose.

Two for the Seesaw. Shirley MacLaine is pretty funny in a pretty funny film version of William Gibson's Broadway comedy. Robert Mitchum is not.

Long Day's Journey into Night. Eugene O'Neill's play, one of the greatest of the century, is brought to the screen without significant changes and with a better than competent cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr. and Dean Stockwell.

TELEVISION

Wednesday, January 16 Russians: Self-Impressions (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* In dramatizations from the works of great Russian writers (Chekhov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Pasternak), a cast including Jo Van Fleet, Kim Hunter and Sam Wanamaker attempts to give insights into the Russian character.

The Bob Hope Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Highlights of Hope's Christmastime tour of military posts in the Pacific and the Far East.

Friday, January 18

Eyewitness (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). The top news story of the week.

Saturday, January 19 Exploring (NBC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). This week this excellent children's program has everything from a Finnish gymnastics team to a short history of American railroads, but particularly a reading of Rumpelstiltskin by Peter Ustinov.

Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Ski championships from Aspen, Colo.

Sunday, January 20 Washington Report (CBS, 12:30-1 p.m.). Survey of the outstanding developments of the week.

Wild Kingdom (NBC, 3:30-4 p.m.). An examination of the various ways in which wild animals protect themselves.