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Movies: The logic of censorship is often inscrutable, but the Finns have thought up a way to ban a movie that has the Grand Prix of the Catholic Film Office, First Prize from the Lutheran Film Guild, and the Berlin Silver Bear Award. The film, Question Seven, is about a man of God and his conscience in Red Germany. And one mustn’t embarrass one’s neighbors. Has ever an ideology been so demure and coy as Communism in its cultural affairs, or so priggishly touchy?… Variety notes with satisfaction that the Bleecker Street Cinema knows not the competition of TV (never a part of the life-kit of the Higher Bohemia) and runs every kind of movie successfully, “experimental and abstract, collage, décolletage, Zen and home.”… Tony Perkins and La Bardot are to co-star in Edouard Molinaro’s Une Ravis-sante Idiote, with Perkins speaking his own French…. More title trouble: the polling prognosticators say that the film version of Lillian Hellman’s Toys in the Attic will click in the public intelligence as juvenile stuff, like The Children’s Hour…. Dino de Laurentis, surrounded by such assistant directors as Federico Fellini and Vittorio de Sica, by Christopher Fry and a squad of writerlings, by advisers from the Vatican, Israel, and the Church of England, pushes ahead with his filming of the entire Bible.

Books: The newest volume of the Boswell papers will be published next month, The Ominous Years, the journal of the twenty months after the Hebrides tour with Johnson, a troubled time for the biographer. Edited by Charles Ryskamp and Frederick Pottle (McGraw-Hill, $8.50)…. McGraw-Hill also promises, for June, Jules Feiffer’s first novel, Harry, the Rat with Women ($4.50)…. Mary McCarthy’s two beautiful books, The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed, impressively expensive ($15) in their original formats, will be in paperback next month for $1.35 each. The Evelyn Hofer photographs, however, have been deleted. (Harcourt, Brace & World.)… Stan Evans’ Revolt on the Campus will come out in a German edition this spring.

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Movies: The logic of censorship is often inscrutable, but the Finns have thought up a way to ban a movie that has the Grand Prix of the Catholic Film Office, First Prize from the Lutheran Film Guild, and the Berlin Silver Bear Award. The film, Question Seven, is about a man of God and his conscience in Red Germany. And one mustn’t embarrass one’s neighbors. Has ever an ideology been so demure and coy as Communism in its cultural affairs, or so priggishly touchy?… Variety notes with satisfaction that the Bleecker Street Cinema knows not the competition of TV (never a part of the life-kit of the Higher Bohemia) and runs every kind of movie successfully, “experimental and abstract, collage, décolletage, Zen and home.”… Tony Perkins and La Bardot are to co-star in Edouard Molinaro’s Une Ravis-sante Idiote, with Perkins speaking his own French…. More title trouble: the polling prognosticators say that the film version of Lillian Hellman’s Toys in the Attic will click in the public intelligence as juvenile stuff, like The Children’s Hour…. Dino de Laurentis, surrounded by such assistant directors as Federico Fellini and Vittorio de Sica, by Christopher Fry and a squad of writerlings, by advisers from the Vatican, Israel, and the Church of England, pushes ahead with his filming of the entire Bible.

Books: The newest volume of the Boswell papers will be published next month, The Ominous Years, the journal of the twenty months after the Hebrides tour with Johnson, a troubled time for the biographer. Edited by Charles Ryskamp and Frederick Pottle (McGraw-Hill, $8.50)…. McGraw-Hill also promises, for June, Jules Feiffer’s first novel, Harry, the Rat with Women ($4.50)…. Mary McCarthy’s two beautiful books, The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed, impressively expensive ($15) in their original formats, will be in paperback next month for $1.35 each. The Evelyn Hofer photographs, however, have been deleted. (Harcourt, Brace & World.)… Stan Evans’ Revolt on the Campus will come out in a German edition this spring.