Reflections on the Spirit of Resistance

Paul Newman’s 1967 film Cool Hand Luke resides at the apex of journeyman director Stuart Rosenberg’s career, the fullest flowering of his skills, representing on the screen a fundamental story. The film assumed only some of the cultural cache of that same year’s Bonnie and Clyde, directed by Arthur Penn, or Mike Nichol’s The Graduate (or 1970’s MASH, by…