Channel 4 - Banned Season

Pigman II

To tie in with their 'banned season' channel 4 are showing a season of ten contraversial films that should be might be a watch if you haven't arleady done so..........
(can't find an offical microsite for info so heres the films they'll be showing)

FILM: The Evil Dead
Channel: Channel 4
Date: Sunday 6th March 2005
Time: 23:35 to 01:15 (starting in 3 days)
Duration: 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Tim Roth introduces the first film in Channel 4's season of ten notorious films accompanying the Banned season of documentaries. Sam Raimi's notorious horror classic, one of the more infamous of the so-called "video nasties", was often prosecuted and found obscene, but eventually acquitted by a jury at Snaresbrook, who saw the joke at last. The film is screened in its original form having been submitted to the BBFC by FilmFour for screening on the channel. This terrestrial UK TV premiere allows viewers to see for themselves the ingenuity of Raimi's story as a party of high school students settle in a woodland cabin for the weekend. When they find and read a copy of The Book of the Dead, a tome that raises not just demons outside the walls but within, they become demonically possessed with murderous desires...
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Hal Delrich, Betsy Baker, Theresa Tilly, Philip A. Gillis
(Subtitles, Premiere, 1983, 4 Star)

FILM: The Idiots
Channel: Channel 4
Date: Tuesday 8th March 2005
Time: 00:05 to 02:10 (starting in 4 days)
Duration: 2 hours and 5 minutes.
Tim Roth introduces Lars von Trier's The Idiots. Von Trier's first film to be made under the Dogme creed, it caused much controversy for various reasons but is still a fascinating study of how "normal" people treat those judged to be mentally or physically handicapped. Centred on a group of people who decide to pretend to be handicapped, the film is picaresque rather than plot-led but still remains unique. With Bodil Jørgenson, Jens Albinus and Louise Hassing.
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Bodil Jørgensen, Jens Albinus, Anne Louise Hassing, Troels Lyby, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Louise Mieritz
(Subtitles, In Danish with subtitles, 1998, 3 Star)

FILM: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Channel: Channel 4
Date: Wednesday 9th March 2005
Time: 00:05 to 01:45 (starting in 5 days)
Duration: 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Tim Roth introduces Tobe Hooper's horror classic. A group of youngsters come across a family of psychopaths and are dispatched through a variety of gruesome methods before those who survive manage to escape, still pursued by the saw-wielding Leatherface. Rejected by the BBFC in 1975, the then-GLC granted a licence for London screenings and the film was finally approved for release by the BBFC in 1999.
Director: Tobe Hooper
Starring: Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Teri McMinn, Edwin Neal
(Subtitles, Audio Described, Widescreen, 1974, 4 Star)

FILM: Bad Lieutenant
Channel: Channel 4
Date: Thursday 10th March 2005
Time: 00:05 to 02:05 (starting in 6 days)
Duration: 2 hours.
Tim Roth introduces Abel Ferrara's film starring Harvey Keitel as a New York cop addicted to drugs, alcohol and gambling and up to his neck in debt. When a nun is brutally raped, his desire to find the rapist is tempered by the $50,000 reward on offer. Ferrara secures one of Keitel's finest performances and at the same time offers a view that redemption is possible for even the most degraded of human beings. When the BBFC scrutinised the film for video release, they cut nearly two minutes. On re-submission in 2003, the cuts were restored.
Director: Abel Ferrara
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Brian McElroy, Frankie Acciarito, Peggy Gormley, Stella Keitel, Dana Dee
(Subtitles, Widescreen, 1992, 4 Star)

FILM: Kids
Channel: Channel 4
Date: Friday 11th March 2005
Time: 00:40 to 02:20 (starting in 7 days)
Duration: 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Tim Roth introduces Larry Clark's directorial debut, a documentary-style portrayal of teenage life in New York City exposing controversial and deeply disturbing issues surrounding ignorance, sex, alcohol and violence. Leo Fitzpatrick plays Telly, whose only concession to safe sex is to have sex with virgins, even after he discovers that one of the girls from his past tests positive for HIV. With Justin Pierce and Chloe Sevigny. The BBFC passed the film after 59 seconds had been cut. The film was released on video in 2000 with the cuts restored.
Director: Larry Clark
Starring: Leo Fitzpatrick, Sarah Henderson, Justin Pierce, Joseph Chan, Johnathan Staci Kim, Adriane Brown
(Subtitles, Widescreen, 1995, 3 Star)

DOCUMENTARY: Sex: the Annabel Chong Story
Channel: Channel 4
Date: Sunday 13th March 2005
Time: 23:40 to 01:25 (starting in 10 days)
Duration: 1 hour and 45 minutes.
Tim Roth introduces Gough Lewis's film which features Annabel Chong, the adult film star whose claim to fame was the world's biggest gang bang when she had sex with 251 men in ten hours. The film is an attempt to understand her motivation - she has a degree from USC in gender studies and is an intelligent woman with very clear ideas and understanding about her life - but the scenes of her work in the porn industry and travelling to Singapore to tell her mother just what it is she does show two very different yet fascinating personalities. The film, passed uncut by the BBFC, struggled to find major distribution because of its content. This has been edited for hardcore porn images.
(Subtitles, 1999, 2 Star)

FILM: A Clockwork Orange
Channel: Channel 4
Date: Monday 14th March 2005
Time: 23:05 to 01:40 (starting in 11 days)
Duration: 2 hours and 35 minutes.
Tim Roth introduces the late Stanley Kubrick's most controversial film, banned by the director himself shortly after release, now available for screening. Based on Anthony Burgess' novel, Malcolm Mcdowell stars as the leader of a gang of droogs whose pastime is violence, sex and murder but whose eventual punishment is almost as extreme and violent as his crimes. Set in a dystopian near future, the film is a scathing satire on society that is as unpalatably true now as it was then.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Michael Bates, Malcolm McDowell, Warren Clarke, Miriam Karlin, Patrick Magee, John Savident
(Subtitles, Audio Described, Widescreen, 1971, 5 Star)

FILM: Crimes of Passion
Channel: Channel 4
Date: Tuesday 15th March 2005
Time: 23:05 to 01:15 (starting in 12 days)
Duration: 2 hours and 10 minutes.
Tim Roth introduces Ken Russell's shocking, kinky and unflinching portrayal of an architect, who leads a double life as a hooker named China Blue. As one of her married clients gradually falls in love with her, she is hounded by a crazed preacher obsessed with saving her soul and when the two eventually meet, the film reaches a disturbing, violent climax. The original print submitted to the BBFC saw offensive language and some scenes cut. This screening, passed in 2004, restores those cuts.
Director: Ken Russell
Starring: Kathleen Turner
(Subtitles, Widescreen, Premiere, 1984, 3 Star)

FILM: The Last Temptation of Christ
Channel: Channel 4
Date: Thursday 17th March 2005
Time: 23:05 to 02:05 (starting in 14 days)
Duration: 3 hours.
Tim Roth introduces Oscar-nominated director Martin Scorsese's brilliant, controversial and unorthodox film about the life of Christ, with Willem Dafoe as Christ, Harvey Keitel as Judas, Barbara Hershey as Mary Magdalene, Harry Dean Stanton as Paul, David Bowie as Pontius Pilate and Verna Bloom as Mary. Passed uncut, it created a furore, with the Catholic Church and elements of the press calling for it to be banned and some cinemas screening it were the subject of vociferous demonstrations.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Willem Dafoe, Barbara Hershey, Harry Dean Stanton, David Bowie, Verna Bloom
(Subtitles, Widescreen, 1988, 4 Star)

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TerrorFirmer

Some good films in there, thanks for the info.....

koneko

Sounds good. Only wish I'd get to watch them
Stupid Sky with their E4 instead of Channel 4.

TerrorFirmer

Sounds good. Only wish I'd get to watch them

I only remembered this when you said it. Sky and their gayness :mad:

mike65

Of that lot only Crimes Of Passion is of real interest to me. Kathleen Turner in her prime.



The main interest in the banned season is the series of docus before each film.

Mike.