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Like such otherwise di verse works as Godard's Contempt and Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, The Spider's Stratagem concerns the workings of myth, the complicity of fancy and legend in history. The screenplay is an extrapolation from a short fiction by Jorge Borges, Theme of the Traitor and Hero, in which a historical researcher, investigating the death of his great-grandfather, a political martyr, discovers that the man actually traduced his confederates...
...Spider's Stratagem also contains what has become by now a hallmark of every Bertolucci film, a scene of dancing done with a certain intense but stately vigor. Here, the elder Magnani takes a partner and leads her proudly and gracefully round the dance pavilion, demonstrating his contempt for the astonished Blackshirts standing on the sidelines. It is a lovely, graceful scene, and suggests another title for the film, First Polka in Tara. Not as apt, perhaps, but probably more commercial. - Jay Cocks
Change, a national education review, condemned the University today for its failure to take a firm stand in support of Samuel Popkin, assistant professor of Government, during his November contempt trial...
Farr cannot get over the ironies of his situation. Had he been cited for criminal contempt, the maximum sentence would have been 65 days in jail and a fine of $6,500. But a jail stay for civil contempt theoretically can be indefinite-"a virtual life sentence," as he put it. Even as he anticipated the Douglas order, Farr knew that he could be jailed once more if his current appeal fails. He can only free himself of the contempt citation if he discloses his source or if Older relents. For the present, both remain adamant...
Besides self-reliance, the only hope the family has is the false one that whites have always held out to blacks: Jesus will provide. But Ritt clearly holds this solution in contempt. Opening a scene by showing a graveyard adjacent to a black church, he cuts to a line of ancient matrons and a zombie-like preacher who drone out in a deathly wall, "Give Me That Old Time Religion." When the preacher (played, ironically, by Rev. Thomas N. Phillips, a real-life black preacher) pays a call on the Morgans to tell them that the whites at the courthouse...