London: A disgruntled filmmaker has succeeded in his quest to force the UK's film censorship board to sit through a 607-minute film of paint drying. A pair of censors sat through the entire, almost featureless epic before giving it a "U" certificate, which means "no material likely to offend or harm", a BBFC spokeswoman told Fairfax. They finished watching the film and agreed on the certificate on Tuesday afternoon. In a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" the day before, filmmaker Charlie Lyne said he had begun the project as a "protest against censorship and mandatory...
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