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NET FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). To commemorate the 300th anniversary of the master's death, "In Search of Rembrandt" visits Leyden, where the painter was born, Amsterdam, where he lived, and museums throughout the world.
THEATER
With Broadway and Off Broadway about to plunge into a new and busy season, now might be the time to catch up with last season's more successful shows.
Broadway
FORTY CARATS. Julie Harris manages to look both pretty and plausible as a 40-year-old divorcee who is wooed and finally wed by a young man just about half her age.
PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM is Woody Allen's new comedy, in which he plays a woefully unconfident young man trying desperately to be as successful with girls as his idol, Bogey.
Off Broadway
ADAPTATION—NEXT. Elaine May directs two of last season's funniest one-acters. Adaptation, which Miss May also wrote, is the game of life staged like a television game. Next, by Terrence McNally, has James Coco in a fine performance as a middle-aged man undergoing a series of humiliating pre-induction examinations.
DAMES AT SEA. The cast is still tapping its way to stardom in this affectionate parody of the movie musicals of the '30s.
NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY is a sometimes rambling, but always absorbing study of the contemporary fabric of black-white and black-black relations.
OH! CALCUTTA! The contents of this "nudie revue" may be disappointing when one considers the list of contributors—and the authors have not come through with the promised "elegant erotica"—but the bodies are indeed handsome.
TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK is a moving and often amusing evening of readings and dramatizations from the works of the late Lorraine Hansberry.
CINEMA
THE GYPSY MOTHS. Three sky divers (Burt Lancaster, Gene Hackman and Scott Wilson) barnstorm through Kansas challenging an irrevocable fate in John Frankenheimer's tense and sober investigation of existential courage.
MARRY ME, MARRY ME. Claude Berri (The Two of Us) has directed another wistful, undemonstrative film, this one about courtship, love and marriage in a French Jewish family.
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN. In a movie year not noted for levity, Woody Allen's first film as a director comes on like gangbusters. Although it tends to lose its comic momentum toward the end, there are more than enough insanely funny moments to sustain the picture.
ALICE'S RESTAURANT. Arthur Penn has deepened and widened the scope of Arlo Guthrie's hilarious talking blues record and transformed it into a melancholy epitaph for a whole way of life. Alternately funny and poignant, Alice's Restaurant may be the best film about young people ever made in this country.
MEDIUM COOL is the most impassioned and impressive film released so far this year. Writer-Director-Cinematographer Haskell Wexler's loose narrative about a TV cameraman during last summer's Chicago convention fuses documentary and narrative techniques into a vivid portrait of a nation in conflict.