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This year is no different, and once again, they’ve found a few filmmakers you’d want to spend an hour with, including directors Quentin Tarantino (The Hateful Eight), Ridley Scott (The Martian), and Danny Boyle (Steve Jobs).
The conversation also includes David O. Russell (Joy), Tom Hooper (The Danish Girl), and Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant). All three men have been featured in The Hollywood Reporter in the past, but after the somewhat lukewarm responses for Joy and The Danish Girl, it’s a little surprising they didn’t go with George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road), Ryan Coogler (Creed), or a number of other directors instead. The outlet shoots these conversations often before the films come out, but it would’ve been nice to bring a little new blood in here, especially since they cover some familiar territory from the past roundtables.

http://www.slashfilm.com/thr-directors-roundtable/

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Here's a BBC Doc on the Making of The Day the Clown Died. It's an infamous Jerry Lewis movie made in 1972 which only a handful of people have ever seen. Lewis himself opted to keep it under lock and key, though it will be allowed to be viewed in 10 years when its Library of Congress embargo is up.

Essentially it's the tale of a German clown who is taken in by the Nazis and forced to escort children to the gas chambers....

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-new-28-minute-bbc-documentary-the-story-of-the-day-the-clown-cried-about-jerry-lewis-infamous-disaster-20160111

Harry Shearer is one of the few to have seen it -

With most of these kinds of things, you find that the anticipation, or the concept, is better than the thing itself. But seeing this film was really awe-inspiring, in that you are rarely in the presence of a perfect object. This was a perfect object. This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is. “Oh My God!”—that’s all you can say.

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On 6/18/2015 at 0:09 PM, Goose said:

Just finished watching this - It was made in 2011 and covers some of the early years of the BBFC. What's interesting is that while it does feature talking head interviews, a lot of it is also told through letters and correspondents the BBFC and the film makers (of the time) had. I didn't know it but the letters and such are locked away, and only made available (I assume not to the public) for films that are more than 20 years old. So the documentary could only see letters for films up to 1991. Anything after that is currently locked away (I assume the 1995 is now available).

 

It could have done with being much longer as it spent a lot of time in the 50/60s, and left the video nasties era for the last five minutes (ignore the title of the video, Women in Love gets more discussion than then entire 80s period). Interesting to see the views of the different heads of the BBFC, and very much so James Ferman, who begin his tenure as something of a "anything goes" but changed his tune drastically after the Hungerford massacre. Funny too to see that when they offered their notes on a movie, they often passed critique on it as well.

Great documentary. I have a few interesting tidbits from my 10 years in UK theatrical distribution. 8 years at Disney, 2 years at Fox. 

When Salo was being reconsidered for UK release, I was invited to watch the film at the BFI, by the BBFC. I then took part in a panel as to whether the film could be re-released. As a new father, I voted yes to a theatrical release, but against a DVD release, out of fear that a minor would see it. My decision was countered by a very smart woman who stated that she was more offended by the Scream movies, where teenagers are stabbed to death for laughs. The decision was made for the film to be released on DVD uncut, but with a cigarette packet style DVD cover, with an explicit warning. It is still to this day the most upsetting film I've ever seen. 

In Face/Off, there is a scene where John Travolta gives his daughter a butterfly knife and shows her how to flick, twist and stab with it, for maximum damage. The BBFC lost their shit over it and we needed to edit and re-record dialogue to make the scene work for the UK.

Mulan originally received an 18 certificate due to a headbutt (under James Ferman)

Lilo & Stitch was BANNED on original submission. There is a scene where the kid has an argument with her big sister and sulks, then goes and climbs into the washing machine, to be alone. The BBFC felt that this was emulatable, and so refused a certificate. In the end, the film was actually reanimated, so that the kid crawls behind a pizza box instead.

Mr & Mr's Smith also received an 18, because of the fight in the family home, that starts with attempted murder, but ends with them enjoying the violence so much that it turns to sex. We had to very carefully edit that scene to receive a 12 cert.
 

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Everyone knows how Dallas went off the rails with Bobby and the shower. I didn't know The Colbys lost the plot too. Though apparently the whole thing was quickly brushed over and forgotten about when the character reappeared in parent show Dynasty.

 

 

Apart from a magic ramp replacement, I don't think the effects are even bad, especially for a show that wouldn't be using effects normally.

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Every single snippet about the love, intelligence, craftmanship and artistry that went into the first Jurassic Park makes me heart feel a bit funny. Talk about fucking nailing it, man.

 

Anyway, loved hearing Stan Winston (god bless his soul) described as 'a level 80 effects mage' (the loving tone of that) and there's a few interesting details about the production - George Lucas handled the sourcing of the sound effects, every frame of the T-rex in the rain took 6 hours to render (6 DAYS for a second), a real bit of conversation between Speilberg and the FX guy handling animatronics was put into the movie, they were originally going to use stop-motion before ILM  stepped in to convince Spielberg about the use of CGI etc.

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December 1984.

Poignant photo. This was taken just a few days before Leonard Pearce (Grandad) passed away, filming his very last scene in Only Fools. The episode was incomplete and so never aired. However, it was rewritten with Uncle Albert and became the famous ‘Hole in One’ classic when Albert threw himself down a man hole to claim damages.

 

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