Speaking of Terence Stamp, the cinetrix was delighted to learn that Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Teorema is finally coming to dvd this fall.
An old saw claims that there are only two stories in cinema: a stranger comes to town, and a boy becomes a man. Pasolini takes both formulations and runs with them, straight into the heart of perversion, ecstatic religiosity, and madness. I know. Not Pasolini! Epater-ing the bourgeoise? Seriously, who's surprised?
Terence Stamp plays the stranger, a devil or a saint with otherworldly eyes, and seduces an entire household, one by one. It's a riveting performance.
Of course, the same story underpins one of Drew Barrymore's great pulp flicks from her time in the post-rehab wilderness, the excellently trashy Poison Ivy. The cinetrix has long threatened to write about this connection between everybody's favorite leftist, homosexual, murdered Italian intellectual and filmmaker and the grand old Hollywood dynasty. Now I may have to finally put up or shut up.
