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Andy Price

“We had long debates about how long we should keep George's bum on screen”: Director Mike Christie tells us how his revelatory new Wham! film exposes a lot more than just a moment of cultural change…

George Michael.

In our recent lengthy interview with Mike Christie - director of the brand new Wham! 10 Days in China film - the difficulty of restoring and shaping the archive footage that forms the film’s foundation was explained to us in great detail…

“We always knew these cans of film existed in some classic artist archive warehouse in the middle of nowhere,” Christie told us. “Artists don’t get rid of anything, everything goes into an archive somewhere, so we knew those cans were in there.”

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