But Janet Downs, an activist with the Local Schools Network, accused the Department for Education of trying to avoid bad
publicity about academies by pushing the release back until after the release of its white paper on March 17.
It's not hard to see why Martin Scorsese's religious epic
about Jesuit missionaries suffering in Japan went almost entirely ignored by the
Academy — it's a punishing, draining three - hour experience that had minimal
publicity and a quiet late - year release.