LONDON, Oct. 16 — Norman Mailer took a pounding from young British film enthusiasts this week over his new, loose-gaited motion picture called “Maidstone.” Mr. Mailer told his critics they would like his picture better if they saw it 10 times.
“Maidstone” was given its world premiere at Cinema City, a film festival playing to capacity crowds at the Roundhouse, a former railroad building in North London that has become an avant-garde arts center.