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As a passionate cineaste, I would have
suspected that the recent demise of the UK Film Council would have
filled me with greater horror/ shock/ outrage than it actually did.
True, it funded many successful films (even if some were a million
lightyears away from past glories- Bend It Like Beckham is
one film that springs readily to mind as endorsing Truffaut’s famous
statement about the British and cinema). On the negative side, I’m not
sure it did much for films at a grass roots level- preferring to farm
out such niceties as funding to regional agencies (who seem to have the
same dubious politics as their parent). My biggest question is not ‘why
was it abolished?’ but, to weave in a line from Spike Milligan’s feted Q
programmes, ‘what are we going to do now?’ |
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