May 23rd   
Slaughterhouse Five**    
US 1972. Universal/Vanadas. 104m.

An optometrist finds himself flitting back and forth in time, from his experiences as a PoW in Dresden in 1945, to the future on a distant planet.
Reasonably faithful adaptation of the late Kurt Vonnegut's most famous cult novel, which captures the fragmentary but vivid nature of the story in occasionally excessive but highly cinematic style, giving the director good excuse to show off some rapid intercutting between time zones. The science fiction elements of the story, perhaps inevitably, work better on the printed page than on the screen, but certainly earn marks for trying.

Written by: Stephen Geller, from the novel by Kurt Vonnegut.
Producer: Paul Monash.
Director: George Roy Hill.
Starring: Michael Sacks, Valerie Perrine, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Holly Near, Perry King, Friedrich Ledebur, John Dehner, John Wood.
Photography: Miroslav Ondricek.
Music: J.S. Bach (performed by Glen Gould).
Editing: Dede Allen.