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dogknob

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11. Yeah, Whitings play enjoyed a fair amount of controversy.

Reply to blogslut (Reply #10)

Mon Jan 23, 2012, 02:19 PM

Jan 2012

...and it wasn't even "Russell-ed up."

WB, by excising scenes from the BFI release, wants to obfuscate the meaning of the film in the hope that it will get buried by a public who can't figure it out.

Given the average intellectual level of our current culture, we'll probably reject it anyway.

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Wow, great post. napoleon_in_rags Jan 2012 #1

i remember seeing that flick, very intense whatever the version was we saw. nt msongs Jan 2012 #2

Interesting thematic juxtapositions... yoyossarian Jan 2012 #3

The film remains in my "personal top ten." I have a "restored" British TV version on disc villager Jan 2012 #4

Is that the one with the Mark Kermode documentary attached? dogknob Jan 2012 #7

it's the Channel 4 restoration -- and it was much "harder" than my memories of having seen... villager Jan 2012 #14

Shit. cliffordu Jan 2012 #5

I am not at liberty to say here. dogknob Jan 2012 #6

Wonderfully informative post, dogknob... Surya Gayatri Jan 2012 #8

BFI's release will still be incomplete... dogknob Jan 2012 #9

Just to add blogslut Jan 2012 #10

Yeah, Whitings play enjoyed a fair amount of controversy. dogknob Jan 2012 #11

Well, all I know is the play blogslut Jan 2012 #12

would love to see the play... directed a brief cutting from it in college villager Jan 2012 #15

I auditioned for the priest's lover blogslut Jan 2012 #16

Lucky. dogknob Jan 2012 #17

Oops. dogknob Jan 2012 #13