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Article about Mefi which contained a list of FPP including one about a movie so shocking it was only shown once? Any bells ringing?
Also pb, or Matt, can you possibly make the pages for individual categories a number navigation instead of arrows so we dont have to click over and over?
Also pb, or Matt, can you possibly make the pages for individual categories a number navigation instead of arrows so we dont have to click over and over?
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posted by wheelieman at 11:34 AM on April 4, 2011
posted by wheelieman at 11:34 AM on April 4, 2011
Could the movie linked in the FPP the article lists be The Cove?
posted by carsonb at 11:34 AM on April 4, 2011
posted by carsonb at 11:34 AM on April 4, 2011
I discovered the arrow issue while searching for the post, so its related, kind of
posted by wheelieman at 11:35 AM on April 4, 2011
posted by wheelieman at 11:35 AM on April 4, 2011
Hm. I thought Salo had a single showing and then was not screened for a long time after, but a quick skim of the wikipedia article doesn't mention it. It's certainly a shocking film, though. (Or so I'm told. At the moment, it's on my list of movies that I don't really feel the need to see.)
posted by rmd1023 at 11:36 AM on April 4, 2011
posted by rmd1023 at 11:36 AM on April 4, 2011
Your description sounds like "La Fin Du Monde" a fictious movie in John Carpenter's Masters of Horror episode "Cigarette Burns."
posted by miss-lapin at 11:36 AM on April 4, 2011
posted by miss-lapin at 11:36 AM on April 4, 2011
No, thats not it Carson, 1023, or lapkin, but thanks! it was a movie that was shown in the 40s, and the FPP about it it was mentioned in a 10th anniversary write up I think.
posted by wheelieman at 11:39 AM on April 4, 2011
posted by wheelieman at 11:39 AM on April 4, 2011
Sure you're not thinking of political ad Daisy Girl?
posted by orthogonality at 11:49 AM on April 4, 2011
posted by orthogonality at 11:49 AM on April 4, 2011
That girl had it coming......
posted by wheelieman at 11:50 AM on April 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by wheelieman at 11:50 AM on April 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
If it's not that human caterpillar thing, it should be.
posted by SLC Mom at 12:09 PM on April 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by SLC Mom at 12:09 PM on April 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
Was the FPP about A Serbian Film?
Because that's been shown more than once, but it's recent and profoundly controversial.
posted by Unicorn on the cob at 12:13 PM on April 4, 2011
Because that's been shown more than once, but it's recent and profoundly controversial.
posted by Unicorn on the cob at 12:13 PM on April 4, 2011
Did it contain the Funniest Joke in the World? It sounds quite dangerous.
posted by MuffinMan at 1:05 PM on April 4, 2011
posted by MuffinMan at 1:05 PM on April 4, 2011
The Spook Who Sat By The Door - 30 years later.
The Spook Who Sat By The Door, a movie pitched and marketed as blaxploitation, was a low budget political science fiction thriller about black revolution in urban black America based upon the novel written by Sam Greenlee. It was withdrawn two weeks after its release in 1973, ostensibly at the behest of the FBI. Some remember it fondly, while others revile it in recollection. Thirty-one years ...
posted to MeFi by y2karl at 2:39 PM on January 20, 2004
posted by theora55 at 1:23 PM on April 4, 2011
The Spook Who Sat By The Door, a movie pitched and marketed as blaxploitation, was a low budget political science fiction thriller about black revolution in urban black America based upon the novel written by Sam Greenlee. It was withdrawn two weeks after its release in 1973, ostensibly at the behest of the FBI. Some remember it fondly, while others revile it in recollection. Thirty-one years ...
posted to MeFi by y2karl at 2:39 PM on January 20, 2004
posted by theora55 at 1:23 PM on April 4, 2011
Surely a film that was so controversial that it was only screened once would, inevitably, be screened again on the grounds that it was so controversial it had only been screened once before.
I mean, that sort of thing is the lifeblood of film festival programmers. "This lavishly restored print, the ur-text of Movement No One Has Heard Of, has remained unscreened since its debut outing in Capital of Dictatorship (which, as we now know, led directly to the life imprisonment of Actually Really Good Director)."
Anyway, when I saw your question I was reminded of Soy Cuba. Doesn't really fit the bill, but it was condemned in Cuba and the USSR, then 'lost' for a few decades, now hailed as a classic, &c.. So if you don't find your film, you could watch that instead - it's very beautiful!
posted by jack_mo at 3:06 PM on April 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
I mean, that sort of thing is the lifeblood of film festival programmers. "This lavishly restored print, the ur-text of Movement No One Has Heard Of, has remained unscreened since its debut outing in Capital of Dictatorship (which, as we now know, led directly to the life imprisonment of Actually Really Good Director)."
Anyway, when I saw your question I was reminded of Soy Cuba. Doesn't really fit the bill, but it was condemned in Cuba and the USSR, then 'lost' for a few decades, now hailed as a classic, &c.. So if you don't find your film, you could watch that instead - it's very beautiful!
posted by jack_mo at 3:06 PM on April 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
The Outlaw? It wasn't only shown once; but it was considered quite shocking at the time (boobies, don't ya know), and was withdrawn after limited release in 1943, and not widely show until 1946. I'm not sure whether this was due to post-war America being inured to decolletage, or Howard Hughes figuring he had gotten as much mileage as possible out of the controversy.
posted by steambadger at 3:31 PM on April 4, 2011
posted by steambadger at 3:31 PM on April 4, 2011
it was a movie that was shown in the 40s, and the FPP about it it was mentioned in a 10th anniversary write up I think.
Was metafilter around in the 50s? On the Western Union platform, perhaps?
posted by steambadger at 3:34 PM on April 4, 2011 [3 favorites]
Was metafilter around in the 50s? On the Western Union platform, perhaps?
posted by steambadger at 3:34 PM on April 4, 2011 [3 favorites]
On the Western Union platform, perhaps?
Don't be ridiculous. Metafilter used to come in over the ticker tape, before Matt upgraded to Teletype.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 3:55 PM on April 4, 2011 [2 favorites]
Don't be ridiculous. Metafilter used to come in over the ticker tape, before Matt upgraded to Teletype.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 3:55 PM on April 4, 2011 [2 favorites]
Metafilter? Yeah, I used to read them, before they sold out and started using electricity.
posted by steambadger at 4:06 PM on April 4, 2011
posted by steambadger at 4:06 PM on April 4, 2011
The 'Justify My Love' video? 'This Note's For You'? 'What It Feels Like For A Girl'? 'By the Time I Get to Arizona?' 'Smack My Bitch Up'? 'Natural Born Killaz'?
posted by box at 4:16 PM on April 4, 2011
posted by box at 4:16 PM on April 4, 2011
a movie so shocking it was only shown once
This made me immediately think of La Fin Absolue du Monde, though that's almost certainly not what you're referring to as the film doesn't actually exist.
posted by hot soup girl at 4:36 PM on April 4, 2011
This made me immediately think of La Fin Absolue du Monde, though that's almost certainly not what you're referring to as the film doesn't actually exist.
posted by hot soup girl at 4:36 PM on April 4, 2011
In a world so shocking, it was only shown once.
posted by not_on_display at 5:20 PM on April 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by not_on_display at 5:20 PM on April 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
I thought of Titicut Follies. Not shown only once but I remember when I was shown it in film school we talked about it not being available for general viewing.
posted by saucysault at 5:22 PM on April 4, 2011
posted by saucysault at 5:22 PM on April 4, 2011
I know it exists SOMEWHERE
posted by wheelieman at 7:06 PM on April 4, 2011
posted by wheelieman at 7:06 PM on April 4, 2011
AHEM it's Lapin (french for bunny) not Lapkin.
(At least buy me a martini before making with the cheap sexual innuendo.)
posted by miss-lapin at 8:22 PM on April 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
(At least buy me a martini before making with the cheap sexual innuendo.)
posted by miss-lapin at 8:22 PM on April 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
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posted by L'Estrange Fruit at 11:30 AM on April 4, 2011 [2 favorites]