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A Film So Controversial, It Was Banned In UK For 24 Years, But It’s Getting Re-Released in October

A movie so shocking that it was banned in 20 countries immediately after its premiere is returning to the big screen 51 years after its first release. The film drew sharp criticism because of its extremely gory scenes, but experts praise it as a true critique of human nature. Read…

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From Greek epics to biblical blockbusters: the 20 best mythological movies – ranked!

Ahead of the release of Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey, we rate the top films based on myths, legends and fables

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Gus Van Sant: ‘My assistant wanted to erect a statue of Luigi Mangione. My generation thought: this is murder’

The Milk and Good Will Hunting director’s new film is about ‘a little guy’ taking violent revenge against the system. He talks about the parallels between Dead Man’s Wire and the homicide case currently dividing Gen Z and boomers

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‘You have to be ready to see it’: Abel Ferrara and Catherine Breillat on why Pasolini’s Salò is a gift that keeps giving

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s notorious film is now 50 years old, and its cavalcade of shocking cruelty and violence still leaves a stark impact on its viewers. Film-makers explain why Pasolini ‘was a saint to us’

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Radical Reads, Dark Gems and Big Ideas—The Books Everyone Will Be Talking About This Winter

Your end-of-year book hit list

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The Silver Book by Olivia Laing review – a thin line of beauty

The world of 1970s Italian cinema is the glossy backdrop for an elegantly wrought but shallow novel

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Olivia Laing on writing their second novel The Silver Book: ‘It was one of those eerie experiences that happens once in a lifetime’

INTERVIEW: Few living writers have had as impressive a career in non-fiction as this British author – but now they’re leaving it all behind. Laing speaks to Hannah Ewens about turning to fiction, creativity and their political queer romance novel, The Silver Book

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What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism is more urgent than ever

With mystery still surrounding Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death, the poet and film-maker’s warnings of corruption and rising totalitarianism offer a chilling message for our times

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Terence Stamp, 60s Icon And Superman Villain, Dies

British actor Terence Stamp, a leading man of 1960s cinema before reinventing himself in a series of striking roles -- including as Superman villain General Zod -- has died aged 87, UK media cited his family announcing Sunday.

International Business Times

Terence Stamp, face of 60s British cinema and star of The Limey and Superman, dies at 87

Family says actor who worked with William Wyler, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Steven Soderbergh, ‘leaves behind an extraordinary body of work’

The Guardian - UK

Terence Stamp, Superman Villain And 'Swinging Sixties' Icon, Dies Aged 87: UK Media

British actor Terence Stamp, who perfected the role of the brooding villain and starred in "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert", has died aged 87, UK media cited his family announcing on Sunday.

International Business Times

The Return review – Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes bring fierce class to elemental Odyssey adaptation

Uberto Pasolini’s raw and urgent drama, from a draft by Edward Bond, sees a traumatised Odysseus face the shameful aftermath of war

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‘One of the most charismatic artists ever’: Piero della Francesca, adored by everyone from Hockney to Heaney

He transfixed Pasolini and painted Seamus Heaney’s favourite artwork – and now David Hockney is paying tribute to this very modern Renaissance master in a joint show

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Deborah Levy: ‘Writing and swimming help each other’

The novelist and memoirist on stamina and solitude, the influence of surrealist art on her work, and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s revelatory travel writing

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Adrian Street obituary

Wrestler whose flamboyant style contrasted with his Welsh coalmining roots and proved influential beyond the ring

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Paolo Di Paolo obituary

Photographer who captured the glamour and spirit of his native Italy in the 1950s and 60s

The Conversation

How Chaucer's medieval Wife of Bath was tamed and then liberated in the 21st century

Chaucer’s Wife of Bath is one of the most famous characters in English literature. Since appearing in the Canterbury tales in 1387, her tale has been rewritten and adapted by authors from the French philosopher Voltaire in the 18th century to the contemporary author Zadie Smith in 2021.

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Paolo Di Paolo: the man who shot the glamour – and grit – of postwar Italy

A new film charts the extraordinary career of a photographer who captured the moment country came to life

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What links Aubrey Plaza to Sally Rooney and The White Lotus?

Sashay down the rabbit hole to discover how the Hollywood actor is connected to these cultural touchstones – as well as a medieval sex farce

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On my radar: Claire Denis’s cultural highlights

The French director on being mesmerised by the film Memoria, and her love of Tindersticks, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and the Mediterranean

The Hindu

The forked walkways less taken

A simple walk has gender, political and economic sides to it

Bangkok Post

The passion of Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini was born in Bologna on March 5, 1922, and died in a violent, mysterious circumstance on the outskirts of Rome in November 1975. This year marks the centenary of the Italian poet's and filmmaker's birth, and this Sunday at 1pm, the Thai Film Archive will screen Pasolini's…

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Carlo Ancelotti: the secret ringer who patched up Pasolini and Bertolucci

The legendary Italian filmmakers had fallen out but a football match between their respective projects Salò and Novecento brought them back together

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