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Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini, marxist, poet, novelist, and film-maker, is at the age of forty-seven earning a place as one of the great Italian film directors. His reputation in this country is based largely on Acca tone and The Gospel According to St. Matthew.
On April 3 two new films of his opened in London: Oedipus Rex, a version of Sophocles' classic tragedy, and Theorem-which was the sensation of the 1968 Venice Film Festival. There it received enormous critical praise. In Rome, however, after a short but record-breaking run it was seized by the police and impounded as 'obscene.' Later the courts declared the film 'could not be considered obscene because of its artistic value.'
Release shows excerpts from both films and talks to Pasolini, Franco Rossolini the producer, and Terence Stamp who stars in Theorem.

£5,000 for a Novel
The second programme in the Release series featuring in depth some of the authors on the short list for the largest literary prize ever known in this country.

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