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Extract: Kind Hearts and Coronets bowdlerised when broadcast on Talking Pictures...

Trigger warnings are bad enough -- but this butchery of classic films is unforgivable. By Simon Heffer


Link Here 23rd November 2023

The word ['nigger'] has been excised from the film I regard as the pinnacle of British cinema, Kind Hearts and Coronets. In a crucial scene, the about-to-be-hanged murderer and his mistress quote the traditional version of the rhyme Eeny, meeny, miny, moe: it is the moment when he realises that she knows he has murdered several members of his family, and might just murder his wife, too, if the mistress can have him reprieved. A TV channel on which I recently rewatched the film eliminated this exchange, rather than show a warning that it includes racially offensive language.

It is patronising to assume most of us don't know that the past is a foreign country; that they did things then that we are enlightened enough not to do now. Otherwise, Bowdler-like, we shall according to the latest obsession falsify whatever parts of our heritage culture warriors take exception to. We can't go through life without being offended; but we can and should present our cultural past honestly and in context, and explain the importance of its integrity.

 

 

Choked...

Ludicrous BBFC cuts required for a 15 rating for the cinema release of Monica


Link Here16th November 2023

Monica is a 2022 Italy/US trans drama by Andrea Pallaoro
Starring Emily Browning, Patricia Clarkson and Trace Lysette BBFC link 2020 IMDb

BBFC cuts were required for a 15 rated cinema release in 2023.

Summary Notes

The intimate portrait of a woman who returns home to care for her dying mother. A delicate and nuanced story of a fractured family, the story explores universal themes of abandonment, aging, acceptance, and redemption.

Versions

BBFC cut
cut:  
run: 113:09s
pal: 108:37s
15UK: BBFC 15 rated for strong sex, sex references, language for strong sex, sex references, language after BBFC cuts:
  • 2023 606 cinema release (rated 06/11/2023)

The BBFC commented:

The distributor chose to make a cut to a reference to erotic asphyxiation in order to achieve a 15 rating. An uncut 18 rating was available.

Thanks to Scott who noted that the "reference to erotic asphyxiation" was just in fact just someone saying "Choke me" during sex

 

 

No longer appropriate...

The Simpsons drops scenes showing Homer strangling his son


Link Here4th November 2023
The Simpsons has retired one of its recurring scenes, saying Homer strangling his son Bart is no longer appropriate because times have changed.

The decision was revealed in the 3rd episode of the long-running show's 35th series, in which Homer indicates he is a changed man

Homer strangling Bart had been a regular feature of the animated comedy sitcom ever since it first aired in 1989. Why you little...., a hapless Homer would often yell if his son had angered him, while squeezing his neck until Bart's eyes could be seen bulging out.

Homer's behaviour was addressed during an earlier episode in series 22, when a therapist attempted to get him to see the error of his ways.

 

 

Diary: The Video Shop Horrors Exhibition...

26th October to 11th November at Northumbria University's Gallery North


Link Here31st October 2023
Northumbria University's Gallery North
Sandyford Building
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8QE,

Open 26th October until Saturday 11th November.

Opening times: Thursday and Friday, 12pm - 4pm. Saturday, 10am - 2pm.

A terrifying new exhibition featuring a series of rare movie posters for horror films of the 1980s will be installed at Northumbria University's Gallery North in time for Halloween.

The Video Shop Horrors exhibition, led by the University's new Horror Studies Research Group of academics who specialise in the history of the genre, will include copies of posters from the group's own archive and original artefacts from the period. Original video cassettes and collectable items collated by members of the group during their research, will also feature.


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