THE SCREEN

Harvard. There are no movies at Harvard this week that I know about.

Madrid 1936. This is not To Die in Madrid, the most well-known documentary about the Spanish Civil War, but it was reportedly supervised by Luis Bunuel. A rare opportunity to see a film (for free) which has never before been available in this country.

A Very Curious Girl. Nelly Kaplan's much-praised feminist work about a young French woman who becomes a prostitute. Picasso called it "Insolence raised to the level of art."

Lucia. The second fussed-over film from revolutionary Cuba to pass through here recently, some say that this is even better than Memories of Underdevelopment. Made by the 31-year-old Humberto Solas.

Strange Cargo. One of Frank Borzage's (Seventh Heaven) presumably sentimental and presumably wonderful old pictures. Made in 1940 with Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Peter Lorre.

The Maltese Falcon. John Huston's first, and arguably his best. 1940, with Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook, Jr. From the Dash Hammett novel.

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. The new Clint Eastwood, which should be enough to say. Except that the proper Gonzo approach to Eastwood--getting off on the savage and appalling vulgarity of it all--may be undermined by the appearance of Jeff Bridges, who has been known to act. One can be assured that Eastwood won't. Don't miss it. At the Savoy.

I Dismember Mama. Playing in Boston, paired with The Blood Splattered Bride. This seems an appropriate moment to mention that the new feature movies in town ain't so distinguished this week. At the Paramount.

Samurai. Part four of Swords of Death and The Ambitious are at the Park Square Moviehouse tonight and tomorrow. The Moviehouse is going to expand, taking in the old Kenmore Cinema and running Park-Square-type programs starting in the middle of June.

Badlands has an interesting dream-like quality about it, which works best for the way it shatters at the end. But ultimately empty and cliched, so that affecting as the picture is, one makes cynical remarks about oh-how-alienated-they-all-are on the way home. With an appearance by Professor John Womack, Jr. as a Montana State Trooper who says "Yer quite an individual, boy," near the end. See it because of all the critical conniptions it triggered. At the Cheri.

Visions of Eight. Eight directors from around the world look at the Munich Olympics. Kon Ichikawa, Arthur Penn, Milos Forman, Claude Lelouch, Mai Zetterling, Juri Ozerov, Michael Pfleghar, and John Schlesinger. At Cinema 733, Sunday and Monday.

Chaplin. Modern Times and City Lights are at the Park Square Moviehouse Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.

The Groove Tube tries to show how obscene television is, mostly by making obscene jokes about, sometimes with success. At the Charles.