[Frameworks] banned films?

[Gary Thomas]

In the UK film censorship (as opposed to certification) rests with local government - and in the 1980s, London County Council had a slightly more relaxed attitude than the rest of the country - Pasolini's Salo showed in a porn theatre. 

I'm sure Mano Destra and Fuses had problems. The London Filmmakers Coop, the Scala, and other repertory cinemas were able to get round things a bit by being 'membership' cinemas. (And before them, the Arts Lab, where David Curtis screened Flaming Creatures. I may have this wrong, but I think it was also screened for Princess Margaret.)

Taxi Zum Klo was banned for a time. The Night Porter. Cronenberg's Crash. Louis Malle's Pretty Baby.

A Clockwork Orange was removed from distribution at the behest of Kubrick himself. Natural Born Killers couldn't be shown for some time because of certification issues. Ken Russell's The Devils was banned around the world. I'm possibly straying from the 'erotic' with those. Possibly...

Bruce Le Bruce's LA Zombies was banned in Melbourne I think. Jarman's Sebastiane in Ontario. I'm sure Fritz the Cat was banned somewhere..



 
On 28 Mar 2014, at 17:10, Francisco Torres wrote:

> Triumph of the Will was banned after WW2 in most of the civilized world, maybe for good reasons. Still believe it may be banned in Germany and other European countries.
> Ps- Even if we may think it makes the Nazis silly, which it does.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:52 PM, David Tetzlaff <djtet53 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not experimental, and not erotic - unless you have a kink I'd rather not discuss :-) - but the first work that comes to my mind when you say "banned film" is "Titticut Follies". And there is definitely a body horror thing at work there...
> 
> Continuing with the 'docs', but both more experimental and dealing with erotics (if not, in itself, erotic), "Tongues Untied" which PBS refused to show.
> 
> Also repressed by PBS - the amazing "Seventeen" by Joel Demott and some guy who makes film scanners or something :-). Not 'erotic' but the depiction of an inter-racial relationship was one of the elements that got it essentially 'banned'.
> 
> Not actually 'banned', but the Fox News jeremiad against the NEA for having funded a film organization that screened "Thundercrack" probably justifies putting that on the list.
> 
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