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...first encounter with the myth of Spain came, as I imagine it does with many Americans, through Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Jake, the narrator, is a sullen American expatriate who, frustrated in love, goes to Spain to carouse his solitude away at the Fiesta de San Fermin in Pamplona. Every July a good part of Spain converges on this northern city for a seven-day orgy of wine-drinking and bull-fighting. The bulls selected for each day's contest are run through the city's streets, on the heels of all those brave (and crazy) enough...
...some dirt-cheap red wine, and, with a little practice, I developed a proficiency in squirting the juice into my mouth so that it hit the back of my throat. The night came, the music eddied up toward the moon, and there was dancing in the streets, almost as Hemingway had described it. I was drunk, and winding through groups of elated Spaniards, I regretted that I couldn't speak their language...
Churchill, Stalin, De Gaulle, Marshall, Hemingway, Faulkner, Picasso, MacArthur, DiMaggio, Joe Louis, all seemed to have been around forever and to have a limitless future. There was no room for small figures in the pantheon. An entire generation retreated into a posture of silence, pursuing their desires down a bland alley. Pop culture-film, comics, records and below all, TV-became the national pacifier...
...Have and Have Not, beginning its run on Wednesday, is the first blast in the Brattle's famed month-long festival of Bogart's best. Howard Hawks made this with Bogie and Becall in 1944, using William Faulkner's screenplay of a Hemingway novel. If that line-up isn't strong enough for you, you must be a mouse with a glandular condition. The film's plot--a vaguely confusing story about gun-running--is mildly compelling and tangentially political. This is the confrontation between the matured Bogie and the teen-aged Lauren Bacall. She's just as tough-assed...
...Rossif, is playing tonight and tomorrow in the Science Center. The movies is largely a compilation of fact-film footage taken during the war between the Loyalists and the Nationalists. There have been a lot of film essays on the war in Spain, the most famous of which is Hemingway's The Spanish Earth; Rossif's covers the most ground of any of them. Sir John Gielgud and Irene Worth narrate. This is the third in a series of political movies to be presented by the Greece Action Group to help raise money for the junta's victims, and while...