The Edited Movie Encyclopedia: CLEANFLIX GOING TO TORONTO

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

CLEANFLIX GOING TO TORONTO

BY SEAN MEANS / July 22, 2009
The Salt Lake Tribune (Blog)

Two Provo filmmakers will premiere their first documentary at the biggest film event in North America: The Toronto International Film Festival.

"Cleanflix," a documentary by Provo's Andrew James (pictured at far left) and Joshua Ligairi, is among 17 documentaries selected for Toronto, according to IndieWire.

The movie tells of Utah's once-thriving industry in selling and renting sanitized home-video copies of Hollywood movies, and the court battle these stores faced when the Directors Guild of America successfully sued them for violating the studios' copyrights.

The Provo filmmakers will be in heady company. Other documentaries at Toronto include new works by Chris Smith ("American Movie"), Mark Levin ("Slam") and Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein ("Gunner Palace"). Also, at least one of the DGA members involved in the Cleanflix lawsuit, Steven Soderbergh, will be in Toronto with a new movie ("The Informant!").

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Spielberg says no one has the right to impose their truth on top of his. My response to that is, he's the God of truth? We just want to watch a movie without sex and nudity.
Ray Lines, C.E.O. Clean Flicks

Sometimes a movie can be like a Trojan Horse from Satan.
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A lot of people are just really tired of [. . . ] turning on the TV or renting a movie and constantly being hit by violence, profanity and nudity. A lot of people want to go back to the 1950s, before this sort of thing was routine.
Sandra Teraci, Family Flix USA

This has very little to do with protecting children. There are all kinds of religious, political and ideological biases at work.
Robert Rosen, Dean of UCLA Film

Sanitizing movies to delete content that may offend some people is an illegitimate business.
Judge Richard Matsch, U.S. District Court

I think it's stupid that Hollywood is getting all artistic and putting that garbage into films.
Dawn Gillings, Cougar Video Customer

It's sad that Hollywood finds it wrong to take out profanity, sexual content and nudity.
Daniel Thompson, Clean Flicks Dealer

People have been ordering $200, $300 worth of movies. What else can they do? They know it's the last chance they'll have. This is Satan at his best.
Mandy Botts, Manager of 3 Clean Flicks Dealerships

Audiences can now be assured that the films they buy or rent are the vision of the filmmakers who made them and not the arbitrary choices of a third-party editor.
Michael Apted, DGA

This is a typical case of David vs. Goliath, but in this case, Hollywood rewrote the ending. We're going to continue to fight.
Ray Lines, C.E.O. Clean Flicks

Once you edit Kate Winslett’s breasts out of 'Titanic,' what’s the point of the movie? It is a little-known fact that the inspiration for 'Titanic' began when James Cameron asked himself, 'How can I get Kate Winslett to take off her clothes on camera?'
Robert Stacy McCain, Opinion Columnist and Blogger

Daniel Dean Thompson . . . has NEVER been a partner, officer, affiliate, dealer, franchisee, collaborator, consultant or representative of any Clean Flicks entity in any capacity.
Ray Lines, C.E.O. Clean Ficks