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Post by Arthur Pringle on Oct 22, 2019 18:29:39 GMT
'The Night Visitor' from 1971 is a really good film showing tomorrow at 2.15am ( ie. Thursday morning ), first saw this late on ITV about 30 years ago, hasn't been shown since as far as I know.
Then on Friday at 10pm is 'The Snorkel' a Hammer thriller from 1958, another sleeper worth watching or recording.
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Post by Cartman on Oct 22, 2019 19:14:21 GMT
Plays, at one time, were censored by some member of the House of Lords, Lord Chamberlain I think was the title. This started in the 17th century and was only abolished in the 60s. Pretty sure that Hair was the first stage show put on after this was finished.
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Post by Cartman on Oct 22, 2019 19:18:16 GMT
Re warnings & censorship, I'm watching a film now on tptv, 'The Next Of Kin', a briefly seen photo of a woman's breasts in a book was blurred out. The film is from 1942!
Funnily enough there was a scene in the film in a theatre dressing room where a sign on the wall read 'The words damn and hell are objectionable & must not be used in this theatre'
Talking of censorship, 'The Next Of Kin', intended as a military training film, was one of a few that Winston Churchill attempted to ban.
Churchill also once tried to ban The Daily Mirror at one point during the war over a cartoon it published over Merchant Navy crew losses in the Battle of the Atlantic. He was overruled and got nowhere with it
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Post by Three Litre on Oct 22, 2019 19:28:56 GMT
Plays, at one time, were censored by some member of the House of Lords, Lord Chamberlain I think was the title. This started in the 17th century and was only abolished in the 60s. Pretty sure that Hair was the first stage show put on after this was finished. Thats right Carty, the Theatres Act 1968.
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Post by Steve Austin on Oct 22, 2019 21:06:56 GMT
The Anderson Tapes is on now, not the best film ever but I always watch it if it’s on.
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Post by Sparky on Oct 23, 2019 6:19:17 GMT
The quality of the Snorkel is remarkable.
On the censorship thing..
The BBFC rating decision can actually be overwritten by a Local council and Magistrate - and would only apply to one film, in that area.
This happened with the Toby Maguire "Spiderman" films in the early 00's. The first film was rated "12" - so was open to a wider audience; when the second film came out, it was "PG". When kids under 12 rolled up at cinemas, they were turned away. So when the second film came out - people complained.
My mate who owns a cinema in Nottingham asked the BBFC about the ratings. He ended up getting "Spiderman" back for a special showing to a Magistrate and a couple of licencing bods from the local Council. After an hour in the Cinema bar, they agreed to lower the rating from "12" to match the second film at "PG" - this decision only applied to the film showing at his cinema. And both films were re-shown.
Personally, I didn't see the point, as by the time both films were brought back, it was out on DVD anyway.
This would have been how the "Exorcist" was banned by certain areas in 1973.
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Post by Vienna on Oct 23, 2019 12:09:12 GMT
The Anderson Tapes is on now, not the best film ever but I always watch it if it’s on. This film was recently released by Powerhouse Films/Indicator on Blu-ray, Steve Vi
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Oct 23, 2019 14:29:08 GMT
I've always liked The Anderson Tapes. I borrowed the novel on which its based from the library a while ago. The story is told as a series of surveillance recordings, quite an unlikely novel to be made into a film ( it was made into a film the year it was released ). Anderson is a more complicated character in the novel, he is into sadomasochistic sex.
The last film I can remember being 'banned' by certain councils is 'Crash', the 1996 film by David Cronenberg based on JG Ballard's book. There was a lot of hoo ha about the subject matter, ie. people being sexually aroused by car crashes & one of my local cinemas exploited the controversy by putting 'the film they tried to ban' type notices in the front windows of the foyer. I was a fan of Cronenberg's films & went to see it one afternoon, there were less than 10 people in the audience, including a 'dirty mac' type sat at the back.
From memory I'm sure members of staff had a disapproving look on their faces as you went in, as if you were supposed to feel ashamed for watching it. Funny how prudish people were not so long ago, I can't imagine a film being subject to such treatment today, though I'm not sure a film like 'Crash' would be made nowadays, no mainstream producer would finance it.
Here's some info on the ban-
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Post by Cartman on Oct 23, 2019 19:05:29 GMT
I've read Ballard's book of Crash but I haven't seen the film. The book was a bit strange, it was lent to me by a chap I used to work with who liked challenging literature! He also lent me one by Chuck Palhanuick which was completely mad and a couple by Franz Kafka.
Another odd film I remember seeing once was Secretary with James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
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Post by Cartman on Oct 23, 2019 21:12:56 GMT
Another certification anomaly I have just noticed on TPTV was on the excellent 1936 Post office film unit documentary Night Mail which I have just watched. The intro which TPTV put on at the start classified it as PG, but the films original certificate was on at the start, where it was given a U. There was absolutely nothing whatsoever in it which would have prevented it being a U, except maybe a couple of shots of workers crossing the railway lines without hi viz jackets which they didn't have in 1936.
In case no one has seen it, it's a documentary about the west coast postal mail train which ran from Euston to Glasgow overnight and it really was a slick operation. They had nets on the side of the postal vans which could pick up and drop off mail bags at speed and the mail was sorted while the train was moving. The black and white photography is excellent as is the commentary by W H Auden.
Another glimpse of a fascinating lost world
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