Comments on: UK Film Council to be scrapped

By: jules

jules — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:02:51 +0000

Dave 26th Jul 2010
Thank god. The philistines at the Film Council have finally got their come-uppance. Sustainable film industry? What sustainable film industry? Look at the Film Council’s track record. How many of the decent films that they’ve funded would not have been made otherwise? For a decade they’ve been trumpeting the success of Gosford Park. Does anyone really believe that this film would not have happened without the Film Council? The Film Council has rarely taken risky choices. They have funded the tried and tested and avoided dipping their toes into the world of the innovative. They have created lots of one-off opportunities for people to make a short film – but not enabled them to progress any further. Just feels like tokenism to me. And look what they did to the BFI? That organisation is now practically on its knees given that the Film Council has kept its grant on standstill for almost a decade. Shocking.

^^^ OKLOOK YEH! Give them a break! who rolled over and made you in charge of writing evil comments! you’v blatently got a grudge because you’ve either been fired from the company (probably for stealing office supplies) or you have no head for british culture! the likes of guy ritchie have made the british film industry and where do you getoff cutting them up! RUDE! the only thing ‘SHOCKING’ about this is that its actually being dispanded! shame on you!!!! argue with that!!!

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:02:39 +0000

Thank god. The philistines at the Film Council have finally got their come-uppance. Sustainable film industry? What sustainable film industry? Look at the Film Council’s track record. How many of the decent films that they’ve funded would not have been made otherwise? For a decade they’ve been trumpeting the success of Gosford Park. Does anyone really believe that this film would not have happened without the Film Council? The Film Council has rarely taken risky choices. They have funded the tried and tested and avoided dipping their toes into the world of the innovative. They have created lots of one-off opportunities for people to make a short film – but not enabled them to progress any further. Just feels like tokenism to me. And look what they did to the BFI? That organisation is now practically on its knees given that the Film Council has kept its grant on standstill for almost a decade. Shocking.

By: Magda Knight

Magda Knight — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:08:25 +0000

I am so not happy about this. We’ve had some really great Brit directors rise up in the last ten years. Duncan Jones (Moon), Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent), Danny Boyle (Just about everything. Oh, okay, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Slumdog Millionaire). Even Guy Ritchie.

These guys have all worked up from small to big. They’ve all hammered the hell out of low-budget movies with their talent. And, er, with a bit of support and backing.

Without a proper Film Council to handle funds I suspect things are going to dribble away. New and unheard of film directors are not going to get nearly as much support as they need to thrive.

Forget low-budget. It’s going to be no-budget.

Bah. Grumble. Grr.

By: John Underwood

John Underwood — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:06:13 +0000

This site gets about 300 hits a day. If you all sign our petition, think how close to being a militia you’ll be! You know it makes sense – save the UK Film Council http://tinyurl.com/saveukfilm

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:53:42 +0000

Oh no. As if it’s not hard enough to get a movie made in this country as it is! (And by the way, I think you meant, “harsh cuts are going to RAIN down on the arts…”?)