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Diane Keaton, Kristin Griffith and Marybeth Hurt in Woody Allen's "Interiors."

Michele Presle and Francois Brion in "Néa."

A scene from George A. Romero's "Martin."

The Long Hot Summer

RICHARD MCGUINNESS

National Lampoon's Animal House

Directed by John Landis

Interiors

Directed by Woody Allen.

Martin

Directed by George A. Romero

Néa

Directed by Nelly Kaplan

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Michael Moriarty and Nick Nolte hatch a smuggling plot in "Who'll Stop the Rain."

Who'll Stop the Rain

Directed by Karel Reisz

ational Lampoon's Animal House is a more traditional movie than I had expected. The film, about the mythical Delta fraternity house where the hippest slobs on this 1962 campus collect, demonstrates a surprisingly old-fashioned affection for its antiheroes. Animal House is really the sort of Hollywood college or showbiz movie where the good but unpretentious kids, despite drawbacks of money or breeding, manage to infect an indifferent audience or campus with their high spirits. In this updating, instead of high spirits the Deltas inflict honest, animalbrand chaos on the entire stuck-up college population.

Despite its basically nonsubversive spirit, however, the film still slips in some nasty digs at past campus preciosity. At one point an animal destroys the guitar of

John Belushi and Bruce McGill prepare to steal a horse in "National Lapoon's Animal House."