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This year, two movies about black rebellion have imitated film classics of the Irish revolution. Up Tight (TIME, Jan. 3) was based on The Informer; The Lost Man is a darkened copy of Odd Man Out. The transatlantic temptation is all too understandable, for as a French revolutionist observed, "The poor are the Negroes of Europe." Nonetheless, the Irish fiction grew from a native soul and soil. The Lost Man is a legitimate and anguished cry that suffers in translation...
...ragtag band of 160 Cubans tried to trigger an uprising against Dictator Fulgencio Batista by attacking Santiago de Cuba's Moncada Army barracks. The chancy venture was squashed, and half of the partisans were killed. Among those imprisoned was 25-year-old Fidel Castro, a lawyer turned revolutionist, who drew a 15-year sentence. In an act more merciful than wise, Batista granted Castro amnesty after only two years. In 1956, after a brief Mexican exile, Fidel was back in Cuba with another guerrilla band; but this time he was not to be caught. Two years later, he ruled...
...captured guerrilla suspects, including a French leftist intellectual named Jules Regis Debray. A close Castro friend, Debray was picked up walking out of an abandoned guerrilla camp three months ago. Since then, he has told half a dozen conflicting stories, some of them implicating Cuba's long-absent revolutionist, Che Guevara, in the Bolivian operation. Last week's version was that Che organized the guerrilla uprising, then left for parts unknown. The Bolivian government's plan to try Debray has raised a storm of protest in France...
...called situation esthetics, new styles are eagerly seized even before they are fully formed, and almost automatically accepted; as Critic Harold Rosenberg noted in The Tradition of the New: "An appetite for a new look is now a professional requirement, as in Russia to be accredited as a revolutionist is to qualify for privileges...
...through the pretentious piety of multimillion-dollar orgies of Scripturama. Paradoxically, it is the work of a usually irreverent Italian Communist, Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who casts a solemn, hot-eyed Spanish student (Enrique Irazoqui) as Jesus and sends him out to preach among the peasantry with a social revolutionist's fervor. Yet Pasolini at his best has created something more noble and touching than a Marxist Messiah, and more authentic than the customary sun-kissed Hollywood Christ. The film's dialogue, for example, comes intact from the Book of Matthew (with English subtitles translated according...