CRITICS of James Ferman's job said that Britain had no need for a film censor. People should be free to see whatever they fancied. Perhaps. But what of a film such as “Salò”? It is a version of the ...

According to his critics, James Ferman was wily, contradictory, and Jesuitical as chief censor (or chief classifier, as he might have preferred). He guided the BBFC through a period of huge ...

James Ferman, who has died aged 72, served for 23 years as director of the film industry's self-regulatory watchdog, the British Board of Film Classification, so naturally became a target for the ...