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July 21, 2005
Knowing Saint Jack: Bogdo still banned in Singapore
Peter Bogdanovich's 1978 Saint Jack is getting a new history, acorrding to Channel Newsasia's Yong Shu Chiang. "Based on Paul Theroux's novel about an American pimp hustling for a living in Singapore... the film is still rather obscure and is banned in Singapore, although it did play once at the Singapore International Film Festival in 1997. And to this day, Bogdanovich... still regrets having had to deceive the local authorities..." Singapore-based British author Ben Slater, "formerly a film curator in England, had originally intended to make a documentary... "I think Singapore has a really rich and interesting recent history. What I found researching the book is that it's not easy to get in touch with that history... Saint Jack represented the ends of two eras really. It was the end of the era of Singapore as an exciting, vibrant old port - the ex-colony that was a kind of Wild West town." ... Slater, who curated a programme at the 2003 SIFF that included a film about decaying movie stock, said he was writing the book, to be published by a "major regional publisher", to bring to attention the number of movie gems that fade into obscurity over time."
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