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You want to examine a country/culture that in recent times actually bans artwork because it's citizens supposedly couldn't handle it? Then meet me in London to watch Clockwork Orange, the Exorcist, and The Evil Dead. Oh wait, you can't....Those films are banned/illegal.
er, wrong, wrong and wrong i'm afraid (and that's 'its' rather than 'it's'). the exorcist can be hired from pretty much any video shop in england these days and they're talking about making sell-through copies available next year. you can buy copies of the evil dead anywhere, albeit the version with a few cuts. a clockwork orange is slightly different in that it wasn't banned but stanley kubrik himself withdrew permission for it to be shown or distributed in england (a lot to do with his family getting death threats when it was shown). there's talk of it being made available again now that he's dead. besides, french ports sell PAL copies of it and i've seen it broadcast on satellite tv in german. the bbfc has become a lot less rigid in the last year of so. the bloke in charge (furman?) retired and, even as part of his leaving speach, spoke out against the rigidity of the system they had to work within. last week, i believe, a french film ('romance') showing an erect penis was cleared for distribution, a first for england. speaking of stanley kubrik, the new mogwai single is rather good. mogwai are from scotland. so are belle and sebastian. good eh? (which reminds me, the techno pagan octopus bloke from last night (who'd've been better if he actually had 8 limbs) rhymed 'buddha' (pronounced 'boodah') with 'dude, eh?'. genius.) speaking of erect penises... oh, i'd better not... funny about all the trouble with the Sensations thing in new york. there was trouble in england when it was on here only over the portrait of a serial child killer made out of handprints of children rather than a religious icon painted in dung. i guess we've just as many bugs up our arses, they're just different bugs. sorry about the off-topicness. i'd've tacked this onto the end of last night's (perfectly on-topic) post if i'd've read the doofus' post at the time. could've been worse, i could've told you my 1000 favourite records of the nineteen hundreds. and apologies if tag's already written this post (only more eloquently) but i'm a digestive. andy ===== andrew dean (koogydelbbog@yahoo.com) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+