When, oh when, will this movie be released?

*beep*

You've got TCM, AMC, and PBS stations that have their own movie shows, that would show a movie like A Taste Of Honey. If you want, you can write TCM and ask that they show A Taste Of Honey on their Sunday night foreign film show, and they probably will show it.

Good point - if you're in the UK and your player is not multi-region, small children will point and laught at you in the street.

Americans are famous for their insularity. The reason that multi-region DVD players are almost universal in Britain whilst being virtually unknown in America is that Europeans are interested in the world whilst Americans are interested only in America. Few Americans wish to see non-Hollywood films. In any case films made outside America now have to be Americanised to stand a chance of earning American box office receipts. This is why Andie McDowell is in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and Jamie Lee Curtis in "A Fish Called Wanda" ...both films ostensibly about English people, but actually about the American idea of English people. This sort of thing has been going on for quite a long time. Think of Shelly Winters in "Alfie" or even Paul Douglas in "The Maggie". Films about British events must be provided with some kind of spurious American "angle". Thus, in "The Great Escape" two of the three stars, Steve McQueen and James Garner, are American. In fact no American took part in the real escape which took place in March 1944. Where some non-American character has to be portrayed favourably in an American film (a rare occurrance) they are simply played as Americans by American actors ...e.g. Burt Lancaster in "The Train" or Madonna in "Evita". It's not that I am anti-American ...in fact I am married to an American... but this sort of thing can get on your nerves.

Well, those certificates are only a legal nicety, aren't they? Particualrly with films like this one - I saw a twelve recently that had someone being disembowelled.

It's a while since I saw this film, but I suspect this cerificate is more to do with the homosexuality and interracial relationships, discussion of which was taboo in the sixties but commonplace now.

RE:-"What is the legal position of those people who send their children down to the newsagents to buy the newspapers"

Newsagents are pre-warned by the wholesalers a couple of days beforehand that a newspaper will be giving away a DVD with a '15' classification and the legal limitations, so even if children are sent to purchase these papers they won't get served.

Remember,you don't have to be smart if you can pretend to be someone else who is...

The print TCM showed last night, although letterbox was not perfect. Twice words were missed because of a splice and on a few occasions there was some emulsion abrasion.