CINEMA
Winter Light. Ingmar Bergman probes deeper into religious philosophy in this relentlessly somber and icily beautiful film about an afternoon in the life of a Swedish pastor who finds himself unable to help or love others because he fears that he himself is beyond the help or love of God.
Heavens Above! Peter Sellers again, this time as a vicar who becomes the first Bishop of Outer Space. Sellers seems to be still all right, but, Jack, something has gone wrong with his vehicles.
The Idiot and Sanjuro. These two films by Japan's Akira Kurosawa are not in a class with his Rashomon or Yojimbo. But Kurosawa's genius can make a miss almost as good as a masterpiece.
Two Daughters. In this gentle and witty two-part film, the camera of India's Satyajit Ray speaks a universal language. The Postmaster tells of the touching relationship between a backwoods postmaster and a ten-year-old girl who is his servant; The Conclusion is a comedy about a reluctant bride, ardent groom and spoiled mother.
The Third Lover. Claude Chabrol has made a chilling psychological thriller about the sin of envy. Jacques Charrier is the baby-faced rat who wrecks a marriage and causes a murder because others' happiness makes him angry.
Landru. Another Chabrol film, with a script by Francoise Sagan, this one is a kind of comedy of murders, based on the story of the French Bluebeard who killed off ten women during World War 1. Two of the victims: Danielle Darrieux and Michele Morgan.
Lazarillo. The hero is a 16th-century Huckleberry Finn who pits wits and wiles against a world of unscrupulous adults.
Mondo Cane. The bite of this documentary of depravity is even worse than its bark: the thesis that the world has gone to the dogs.
TELEVISION
Wednesday, May 29 CBS Reports (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*Tonight's subject: birth control.
Friday, May 31
International Showtime (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The Circus Schumann of Copenhagen. Repeat.
Eyewitness (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). The top news story of the week.
Saturday, June 1
Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Indianapolis 500-mile auto race, and the European soccer championship--Portugal v. Italy--from Wembley Stadium in London.
Hootenanny (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Taped at Penn State University, this show includes Martha Schlamme, Ian and Sylvia, Richard and Jim, and The Limeliters.
Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum in River of No Return.
Sunday, June 2
Directions '63 (ABC, 2-2:30 p.m.). "The Wisdom of Maimonides," the 12th century Jewish philosopher analyzed through dramatic readings. Repeat.
Meet the Press (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest: Alabama Governor George C. Wallace.
The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Okinawa--where 100,000 Japanese died in the last major battle of World War II. Some 12,000 Americans also lost their lives in a nightmare of kamikazes and engulfing typhoons. Repeat.
Sunday Night Movie (ABC, 8-10 p.m.). Subway in the Sky, with Van Johnson and Hildegarde Neff.
The Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Guests: Dancer Rudolf Nureyev and Tenor Franco Corelli, Conductor Wilfred Pelletier.
Monday, June 3
Monday Night at the Movies (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). The Bravados, with Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, and Stephen Boyd.
Tuesday, June 4
Chet Huntley Reporting (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). A look at Chrysler's gas-turbine-engine automobile.
THEATER
She Loves Me is an old-fashioned musical that believes in love, and has an up-to-date way of showing it, even if it is in a perfume shop in Old Budapest. He (Daniel Massey) and She (Barbara Cook) make wistful light operatic music together.
Photo Finish reduces the Seven Ages of Man to four--20, 40, 60 and 80--and puts them all onstage at the same time. Author-Director-Star Peter Ustinov, as the 80-year-old, plays philosophical host to his earlier selves, and he treats them, and life, as balefully amusing.
Enter Laughing, by Joseph Stein, has been stained with the familiar finish of Jewish family comedy, but the splintery grain of life still shows through it.
Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill, commits the vibrant resources of the Actors Studio Theater to a 4 1/2 -hour play that would be more than a little stale and distinctly interminable without them. What salvages the drama is the emotional integrity of Geraldine Page and her acting confreres. Limited run ends July 13.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee. A history professor (Arthur Hill) and his bitter half (Uta Hagen) mercilessly tell all the news that's not fit to print about each other. Playwright Albee's larger theme is the sterility of modern life, but it is the nonstop savagery between husband and wife that jolts playgoers.
Hot Spot. A waste of money, except for Judy Holliday.
Tovarich. A waste of money, except for Vivien Leigh.
Mr. President. A waste of money, except for a belly dancer named Wisa D'Orso.
Oliver! After wasting that much money, take out a library card and read this in the original Dickens.
Off Broadway
The Boys from Syracuse. Breeding tells, and this musical is a thoroughbred, originally sired by Shakespeare (Comedy of Errors) out of Plautus. The Rodgers tunes are a lilting delight, the Hart lyrics are a tonic to the ear, and a Most Adorable Cutie award should promptly be minted and bestowed on the bewitchingly gifted Julienne Marie.
Six Characters in Search of an Author, by Luigi Pirandello, offers a model revival of a modern classic. In an uncommonly talented cast, Michael O'Sullivan merits a special citation as the director of the play within the play.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, by Frederick Douglass. In an autobiography he published in 1845 (reissued now in paperback), the greatest American Negro of the last century recalls his life as a slave.
Sprightly Running, by John Wain. In an interim report on himself at 35, British Novelist-Critic Wain provides a witty portrait of his intellectual generation.
Dare Call It Treason, by Richard M. Watt. The mutiny of almost 100 French divisions during World War I was long hushed up, but now it has been skillfully told by a salesman turned history buff.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, by C. G. Jung. In this posthumous autobiography, the late great Swiss psychologist traces his life in dreams, offering some startling insights into a mind that at the end was in flight from its century, from science and particularly from Freud.
The Tin Drum, by Gunter Grass. A grotesque dwarfs-eye view of the Third Reich and its aftermath told by the most powerfully imaginative novelist to emerge in postwar Germany.
Speculations About Jakob, by Uwe Johnson. Writing in a fragmented style, another gifted young German uses a whodunit plot to explore the small tensions and concerns of his divided world.
Our Mother's House, by Julian Gloag. In a little masterpiece of the macabre, seven London youngsters bury their mother in the garden, clout Dad with a poker, and evolve a religion based on the dead.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction, Salinger (1, last week)
2. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier (2)
3. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (3)
4. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (4)
5. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna (5)
6. The Moonflower Vine, Carleton (7)
7. The Tin Drum, Grass (8)
8. When the Legends Die, Borland
9. The Moon-Spinners, Stewart (9)
10. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (6)
NONFICTION
1. The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Hopper (1)
2. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (2)
3. The Ordeal of Power, Hughes (4)
4. Forever Free, Adamson (6)
5. The Great Hunger, Woodham-Smith (7)
6. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (5)
7. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope
8. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (3)
9. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis (9)
10. The Feminine Mystique, Friedan (8)
*All times E.D.T.
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