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Video essays on forgotten corners of film history. Watch here:

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The last part of my series on South Korean Golden Age Cinema is here.

Covering the decline of the film industry, with detours into dictatorship, fake Hong Kong movies and a boat ride to North Korea.

Check it out:
https://t.co/vf3JhvS1hC

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In December 1994, directors Ken Loach and Alan Parker gave evidence at a parliamentary committee on the British film industry. They were not impressed by the quality of their questioners:

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In December 1970, the chief British film censor, John Trevelyan, resigned. He reflected on the past 12 years in the job:

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Born #OTD in 1925: the great Welsh actor Richard Burton. The film critic Alexander Walker writes about Burton's appearance in the film Villain:

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#OTD in 1974: after the new Labour government increases the rate of income tax, director Lindsay Anderson questions the real reason why so many actors and directors were leaving the country:

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#OTD in 1997 the 54th Venice Film Festival opened. Takeshi Kitano's Fireworks won the Golden Lion. Here, a behind the scenes account of the politics behind the selection (from 'Iron Man' by Tom Mes):

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@odouglasj Sean said as much himself:

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Born #OTD in 1930: 007 himself, Sean Connery. Connery had this to say about the producers of the Bond films:

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#OTD in 1977: Pier Paolo Pasolini's final film, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, becomes the latest subject of controversy in British cinemas:

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Released #OTD in 1971: Ken Russell's The Devils, one of the most controversial films ever made. UK and US censors demanded significant cuts and it was never screened in many countries. The uproar in Britain may have been part of a co-ordinated right wing campaign

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In July 1971, the Nationwide Festival of Light- a campaign against sex and violence in cinema and television- began. One of the inspirations behind the campaign was an accidental screening of a trailer for the X-rated Soldier Blue

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#OTD in 1990: leading lights of British cinema meet Margaret Thatcher in a bid to save the film industry

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The new Spider-Man film is released today. The first Spider-Man film was planned as early as 1986, by the maverick Israeli producers Golan and Globus:

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In June 1958, Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory was released in France. The film's depiction of French war crimes did not go over well with some audiences:

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@The_Wub_ Was trying to articulate this after rewatching it recently…the framing of Come and See as anti-war is either a misreading or a dodge by liberal critics…as miserable as it is the film is clearly a defence of the partisans

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#OTD in 1995, the Cannes Film Festival opened. Britain was represented by the Tory Minister for Culture, Stephen Dorrell, who made an embarrassing gaffe. His Labour successor, Chris Smith, was more successful

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#OTD in 1972: would-be presidential assassin Arthur Bremer visits the cinema to see A Clockwork Orange. Bremer's association with the film- along with other alleged copycat incidents- caused Stanley Kubrick to withdraw it from distribution

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@The_Wub_ There are dozens of videos about this and I bet almost none of them mention the very high likelihood that the filmmaker in question actually defected because fascist South Korea banned him from making movies there

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Born #OTD in 1923: the famously grumpy Lindsay Anderson, director of If and O Lucky Man

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My interview with @Frangipane13 of @FilmsRadiance
has just gone live over on @CinemaRetro:

https://t.co/rkIGVnwkIX