Tag Archives: Censorship

Kurt Maetzig (1911-2012)

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Kenneth George Godwin

I was surprised to read over the weekend of the death of Kurt Maetzig. He was 101. Maetzig began his career in film in the ’30s with work on film technologies and animation. After the rise of the Nazis his … Continue reading →

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Cursed by Warner Brothers:
The Strange Fate of Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971)

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Kenneth George Godwin
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After decades of neglect (at best) or even active suppression, the release of Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971) on DVD should be cause for celebration, particularly as it arrives in a 2-disk special edition from the prestigious British Film Institute. … Continue reading →

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In the beginning …

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Kenneth George Godwin

I recently started work on a documentary about the history of movie theatres and movie-going in Winnipeg. A brief article about the project in the Winnipeg Free Press has brought an amazing number of calls and emails from a wide … Continue reading →

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Video Nasties, Part 3

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Kenneth George Godwin

There is a long, if not necessarily venerable, tradition in the arts of creating confrontational, deliberately offensive work to challenge received ideas and to make people conscious of their own conventional assumptions. When work like this is created, it doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Video Nasties, Part 2

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Kenneth George Godwin

After a brief prologue in which a cult of Satanists is banished from Spain by the Inquisition, Evilspeak (Eric Weston, 1981) transports us to an American military academy where a much abused cadet (Clint Howard, younger brother of director Ron … Continue reading →

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DVD of the Week: Video Nasties, The Definitive Guide (2010)

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Kenneth George Godwin

Issues of censorship and freedom of speech are always more complicated than we’d like. It’s never just simply a clear cut question of “this” or “that”. The complete denial that certain elements of pop culture, for instance, can’t possibly do … Continue reading →

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