Word: cultist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really are conventional stories, or nearly so, with shape and some sort of resolution. Two or three are wholly shapeless, like twelve months out of twelve in the real world. The narrator meets a renowned Indian healer named Rolling Thunder, and nothing happens; then a crazed and menacing religious cultist, and nothing happens again. Even when the narrator's brain- dazed brother, an outlaw biker, kills a man in a brawl -- something happens here, certainly -- the fact comes out only as an aside, as part of a moody, troubling description of his skirmish with a bored psychiatrist...
...Just as easily, the movie can be underrated as a film-school exercise, with visual strategies reminiscent of both Terrence Malick and Sergio Leone, and a grisly climax that borrows from Psycho and Ministry of Fear. But Blood Simple infiltrates the central nervous system even as it opens the cultist's sharp eye. Watch this film, and these film makers, closely. Neither will disappoint...
...offer some interesting modifications of traditional formulas, such as leg of lamb with gin and lemon spaghetti. A handy companion book is Teresa Gilardi Candler's Vegetables the Italian Way (McGraw-Hill; $12.95). Candler, the daughter of a restaurant family in Turin, brings the U.S. a choice, non-cultist collection of vegetable recipes that include such rare surprises as artichoke bread, zucchini chocolate cake and artichokes with filets of sole...
Told by a monk in Rome that there existed a cultist trend called "Mertonism," he disowned followers with a fierce warning: "Anyone who imitates me does so at his own risk. I can promise him some fine moments of naked despair...