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...work, the screenplay for The Ruling Class, but here he is never as heavy-handed or simply dull as he was in parts of that film. But Barnes' inspired recreation of the House of Lords, shown in The Ruling Class as a stately chamber filled with several hundred mouldy, spider-webbed skeletons madly clapping their metacarpals and rapturously singing "Dem Bones Gonna Rise", is echoed in Carlos' court by the skeleton of St. Ignatius, whose clacking about is easily translated by courtiers attuned to such things. Even when a description of Barnes' ingenuity might make it seem cliched or overdone...
...year shooting in the countryside of northern Italy and a year of shooting on a set in Hollywood," sums up Italian Director Bernardo Bertolucci, "is the same as the difference between a Fiat 500 and a Cadillac." Bertolucci should know, having chauffeured himself from the low-budget The Spider's Stratagem through Last Tango in Paris to his current luxury-class movie, 1900, now being shot near Parma. The film, chronicling eight decades of Italian history, stars Burt Lancaster as a patriarchal land baron and Sterling Hayden as a peasant farmer. Expected to cost $6.5 million, it will...
...Spider John Koerner is making a longawaited return to Cambridge at Passim's this week. Spider John, so named because he's so long and thin, is a superb guitarist who plays all kinds of folk and acoustic blues. He's a local boy who got his start here and has been away of late. It should be a good show; Spider John is a real crowd-pleaser. Through Sunday...
...Spider John Koerner, so named because he's long and thin, is at Passim's this week, from July 17 to 21. Spider John is a local boy and a longtime veteran of the blues-jugband-rag scene around here. He hasn't been in town for a while, and deserves a warm welcome back...
...PARTNER points up Bertolucci's greatest short-coming. Aside from occasional verbal slips, he is most pretentious when his fluid camerawork begins to dominate the content of the film. Superfluous dolly shots, over-emphasis on color, and attempts at unusual angles begin at times to take over his films. Spider's Stratagem is probably the worst offender in this area, since Borges' story needed no extra emphasis at all. But there Bertolucci was merely trying too hard to make his points. In Partner he molds the film to suit his visual whim. A revolving chandelier is the most striking feature...