Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after all those profits without honor in the serious film world, Hammer is attracting a cineaste cult following. This fall the prestigious British Film Institute showed a retrospective "Tribute to Hammer Films" at London's National Film Theater. The month-long festival came complete with solemn program notes (the portrayal of a Cornish voodoo cult in The Plague of the Zombies is seen as symbolic protest against oppressive modern mineowners). The changing critical climate seems to make Sir James uneasy. "I hope our public realizes that we're not going to change in the same way," he says...
...Topo is a film with such an atmosphere of religious fervor around it that I am hesitant to criticize it for fear of being either damnably sacriligious or damnably wrong about it. The center of the cult is New York, where before the movie officially premiered three weeks ago, it had been showing downtown unofficially for six months, once daily at midnight. It sold out easily every weekend. Its popularity has continued undiminished by the move to a Times Square theatre which shows the film five times a day. The audiences--almost entirely under 25 and freaky--leave the theatre...
Simple Ritual. It is at Colombey, which has a population of 377 and is 150 miles southeast of Paris, that the cult is most evident. After the funeral last year, the village priest, Father Claude Saugey, said to the mayor: "Well, Monsieur le Maire, we can now go back to our dull, humdrum lives again." Hardly. By some estimates, possibly exaggerated, more than 1,000,000 pilgrims have journeyed to the general's off-white marble grave, where he lies beside his daughter Anne. The people come with flowers and handmade crosses of Lorraine, plaques and crude placards reading...
...generation whose work still exerts pressure on modern painting are Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). To artists nurtured on Duchampian irony, the very idea of the culture-hero, which Picasso embodies, is suspect. The last 15 years have seen a reaction against the cult of expressive personality in art, and Picasso has caught the backlash. He took the virtuoso's role, enlarged it, identified it with himself, and reamed out all its possibilities. Hence nobody else can play it: there is no act left to follow. Picasso's current work means little or nothing...
...could generate more, rather than less tension among workers. "The important thing for us is to start our cure from a more basic level," he says, perhaps by giving workers more leisure time at home. Of prime importance is the easing of what Omi calls Japan's "feverish cult of G.N.P." Superhigh production levels, he contends, "only mean that many of our workers have failed to keep up with them and, as a result, have collapsed...