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* The French film Baise Moi is the latest cause celebré of cinema censorship. A very French Thelma and Louise in which two women, a porn actress and a prostitute, take to the road on a trail of sex and violence, all initiated by them. The film goes further in its depiction of sex than any other granted a certificate in Britain so far. Pure sexploitation? Front Row investigates.
Baise Moi, Certificate 18 opens across the country on Friday 3 May.
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* The 大象传媒's marking of the Queen's Golden Jubilee continues tonight with Queen and Country, the first of a four-part history of her 50-year reign. Written and presented by William Shawcross, the ambition of the series is to examine the Queen's rôle as Head of State, here and abroad. But is it more likely to draw more attention to the footage of her with her family, or her horses or dogs?
Queen and Country is on 大象传媒1 on Wednesday 1 May at at 9.00pm.
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* Even when there is no current conflict, military hospitals have always proved intriguing locations for books and films. For Front Row three writers consider why the military hospital has such a hold on the creative imagination.
John Griesemer's No One Thinks Of Greenland, is set in the aftermath of the Korean war. It is published by Black Swan. Pat Barker's Regeneration was set at Craiglockhart Military hospital in Scotland where the war poets Seigfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen were treated by Dr William Rivers and is published by Penguin. Philip Hoare has written a non-fictional account of Netley, the world's biggest military hospital, Spike Island which is in paperback from Fourth Estate.
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* The dinner party comedy has been going strong since Chekov. At the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough a new play The Safari Party, directed by Alan Ayckbourn, opened on Tuesday 30 April. Written by Tim Firth, best known for his television series Preston Front and the play Neville's Island, it's a contemporary take on the dinner party. The Safari Party is set in rural Cheshire, where two young brothers on a farm meet wealthy incomers. Front Row asks if, for him, the town/country tension hadn't replaced the class tensions of earlier dinner party dramas?
The Safari Party by Tim Firth is on at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough until 18 May.
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* If an actor wins an Oscar, stay away from their next few movies. This golden rule of Hollywood is aptly demonstrated by Denzel Washington, fresh from Oscar success in Training Day, with his execrable new film John Q. But need it always be thus? For Front Row Joe Queenan takes a look at other Oscar hangovers.
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ON THURSDAY'S PROGRAMME
a review of Carol Shields' new novel and John Eliot Gardner on the newly published and lavishly indiscreet letters of the conductor Arturo Toscanini.
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