CINEMA

Boccaccio '70 is an erotic movie tryptich brilliantly, but unevenly, fashioned by Italian Directors Fellini, Visconti and De Sica. Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg and Romy Schneider are the sex goddesses involved, and they are opulent and expert.

The Notorious Landlady gives Jack Lemmon the chance to show what a fine funnyman he is in a playful mystery-comedy set in London. Kim Novak is delectably Kim Novak, and it would be churlish to ask for anything more.

Lolita. Wind up the Lolita doll and it goes to Hollywood and commits nymphanticide. Sue Lyon, 14, is the titular heroine of the film, and Peter Sellers lightens the encircling tedium.

Stowaway in the Sky dangles a grandfather and a grandson from an orange balloon, and wanders, lazy as a cloud, over the fair land of France. Filmed from a helicopter, Stowaway is a treat for the eye and a tonic to the spirit.

Merrill's Marauders goes behind the Japanese lines with 3,000 U.S. volunteers in Burma, and documents their ordeal as they fought, died and endured in the smothering heat and quiet of the jungle.

The Miracle Worker is Teacher Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), who guided the child Helen Keller (Patty Duke) out of the terrifying void of a sightless, speechless and soundless existence. The two stars are as fine as actors can be.

A Taste of Honey is a heady pint of bitter drawn from that always leaky cask of discontent, the British working class. As a girl with a wit too many and a skin too few, Rita Tushingham may be the feminine cinema find of the year.

Jules and Jim. In France, love makes the world go triangular. Director Franc,ois Truffaut (The 400 Blows) translates the ways of two men with a maid into a film that is charming, sick, hilarious, depressing and wise.

The Counterfeit Traitor. In this superior spy thriller, Allied Espionage Agent William Holden outwits some believable Nazi monsters.

Five Finger Exercise is one long parental tug of war in which the children serve as the rope, and the incessant strife almost kills the family's life.

TELEVISION

Now that the networks are giving viewers the annual summer re-runaround, there are a few notable repeats, plus some hot-weather first runs.

Wed., July 4 Howard K. Smith: News and Comment (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Interpretation and analysis of the week's top news stories.

Kraft Mystery Theater (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Louis Hayward, Signe Hasso, Leo G. Carroll and Audrey Dalton in a melodrama about a couple who grow tired of their marriage and decide that murder is the quickest way to freedom.

Thurs., July 5 CBS Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Fat American" looks at easy living through labor-saving gadgets, and reports on the probable causes of and possible cures for obesity. Repeat.

Sat., July 7

Lawrence Welk Show (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). An-a-one, an-a-two, an-a-three, an-a-four, an-a-five, an-a-six, an-a-seven, an-a-eight years of Welk-schmerz on TV are celebrated tonight by Lawrence and all the Gang.

Sun., July 8

Lamp unto My Feet (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). The ancient pageantry of Whitsunday at St. Mary Redcliffe in Bristol, England, taped for television on June 10.

Washington Conversation (CBS, 12:30-12:55 p.m.). Guest is the Republican Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith.

Buick Open Golf Tournament (NBC, 5:30-7 p.m.). Bud Palmer, Chick Hearn and Walter Hagen Jr. are commentators for this fifth annual event from Warwick Hills club in Grand Blanc, Mich.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A documentary on the artistic explosion of the '20s and the young writers, thinkers, artists, poets and entertainers who went off to Paris to become famous. Repeat.

THEATER

Ogunquit, Me., Ogunquit Playhouse: Here Today, with Tallulah Bankhead and Estelle Winwood.

Skowhegan, Me., Lakewood Theater: Maureen ("You Tarzan, me Jane") O'Sullivan in a pre-Broadway showing of Cradle and All, a comedy about a couple having their first baby after 27 years of marriage.

Beverly, Mass., North Shore Music Theater: Gypsy Rose Lee as Auntie Mame (next attraction: Gypsy, starring Margaret Whiting).

Cambridge, Mass., Loeb Drama Center: The Harvard Summer School Players present Ben Jonson's Volpone.

Fitchburg, Mass., Lake Whalom Playhouse: John Loves Mary, with Fabian.

West Springfield, Mass., Storrowton Music Fair: George Gobel in Bye Bye Birdie.

Provincetown, Mass., Provincetown Playhouse on the Wharf: Three sea plays by Eugene O'Neill: The Rope, lie, The Long Voyage Home.

Newport, R.I., Playhouse: Krapp's Last Tape and The American Dream.

Stratford, Conn., American Shakespeare Festival: Henry IV, Part I, and Richard II in rotation.

Westport, Conn., Westport Country Playhouse: Ionesco's Rhinoceros, with Walter Slezak doing the bellowing.

Clinton, N.J., Hunterdon Hills Playhouse: The World of Jules Feiffer, a new revue with book by Cartoonist Feiffer, music and lyrics by West Side Story's Lyricist Stephen Sondheim, directed by Mike Nichols.

Washington, D.C., Washington Shakespeare Festival: The Taming of the Shrew.

Danville, Ky., Pioneer Playhouse: One of a planned series of ten new plays by ten new playwrights, Hero to His Son, a comedy-drama by TV Writer John Lynn.

Milwaukee, Wis., Fred Miller Theater: Three one-act plays: Harold Pinter's The

Dumb Waiter, Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha and Samuel Beckett's Act Without Words II.

Hinsdale, ILL., Salt Creek Playhouse: Gigi, with Margaret O'Brien.

Kansas City, Mo., Starlight Theater: The Carol Burnett Show, a more or less one-woman revue.

Dallas, Texas, State Fair Music Hall: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, with John Raitt in the role he created.

Stanford, Calif., Stanford Players' Little Theater: Samuel Beckett's Happy Days.

Seattle, Wash., Aqua Theater: Annie, Get Your Gun, starring Giselle MacKenzie.

Stratford, Ont., Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth, The Tempest, and The Taming of the Shrew in rotation, with G. & S.'s The Gondoliers on the side.

BOOKS

Best Reading

The Slave, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The author, writing with a skill that frequently gives his tale the force of legend, recasts the Biblical story of Jacob and Rachel in war-ravaged 17th century Poland.

Letting Go, by Philip Roth. Characters are subtly and astringently drawn in this look at university life, but the book is overlong, and suffers from a world-weary young hero.

The Reivers, by William Faulkner. In a fresh, comic book, the sage of Yoknapatawpha County matches Mark Twain as a teller of tall stories, laces his narrative with agreeable anecdotes.

Saint Francis, by Nikos Kazantzakis. This retelling of the life of the great saint has all the beauty of earlier versions, and much more power.

An Unofficial Rose, by Iris Murdoch. The romantic lower depths of Britain's upper classes intricately explored by an artful philosopher-novelist.

The Wax Boom, by George Mandel. This war story makes a point that others fudge: a soldier in combat can often be close to insanity.

Patriotic Gore, by Edmund Wilson. Northerners and Southerners are treated with equal insight and compassion in this vast exploration of Civil War writings.

Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter. Human frailty is bitterly depicted in this voyage of the ship of life.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Ship of Fools, Porter (1, last week)

2. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (2)

3. Franny and Zooey, Salinger (3)

4. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (4)

5. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (6)

6. The Bull from the Sea, Renault (5)

7. Devil Water, Seton (7)

8. A Prologue to Love, Caldwell

9. The Fox in the Attic, Hughes (9)

10. The Big Laugh, O'Hara (8)

NONFICTION

1. The Rothschilds, Morton (1)

2. My Life in Court, Nizer (2)

3. Calories Don't Count, Taller (3)

4. The Guns of August, Tuchman (7)

5. In The Clearing, Frost (4)

6. Six Crises, Nixon (6)

7. The Making of the President 1960, White

8. Conversations With Stalin, Djilas (5)

9. Scott Fitzgerald, Turnbull (10)

10. The Last Plantagenets, Costain

*All times E.D.T.

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