The major chains that have theaters in New York and L.A. may not show NC-17
films, but independent theaters and smaller chains (such as Laemmle in the L.A.
area) generally have no problem with NC-17 or unrated films.
> On Mar 26, 2022, at 5:31 PM, Tom Wolper wrote:
>
> The cinemas in New
And Robert Osborne loved "This Is Spinal Tap."
There's no accounting ...
--Dave Sikula
On Saturday, March 26, 2022, 09:11:31 AM PDT, Jim Ellwanger
wrote:
Better hope the vengeful ghost of Alex Trebek doesn't take note of a former
"Jeopardy!" champion calling "How Green Was My Valley"
The only NC-17 rated film I remember seeing was Showgirls… and I wish I
could forget I ever saw it. I believe in that instance the rating was more
of a stunt than a viewer advisory. There was less nudity and less sex in
that than in other (better) movies with an R rating.
On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at
The cinemas in New York and Los Angeles won’t show NC-17 films. The ones
that will would also show them unrated. It’s possible they’re using the
adult rating as a selling point.
On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 8:15 PM Adam Bowie wrote:
> I have to concur with Tom that this makes little to no sense.
>
>
I have to concur with Tom that this makes little to no sense.
I know that they have cinemas in New York and Los Angeles, so could it be
that they need MPAA certificates to get into even just those theatres? In
the UK, a few Netflix films get short cinema runs in some of the arthouse
chains (and I
Kirby Dick made a documentary a few years ago called This Film is Not Yet
Rated where he went into the history of the ratings system and the opaque
way it is implemented. He found lots of arbitrary decisions.
On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 6:58 PM Kevin M. wrote:
> A while back, filmmaker and
A while back, filmmaker and occasional pot smoker Kevin Smith penned an
essay about the MPAA that a quick Google search did not unearth, but I
recall him explaining the process including the appeals for several of his
films.
On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 3:52 PM Tom Wolper wrote:
> I find this story
I find this story the way it’s reported to be confounding. Here’s what I
understand about movie ratings:
Originally each state had a censorship board and each film had to be
submitted to each one and then cuts would have to be made in order for the
film to be distributed to theaters. As Hollywood
"Blonde," the Netflix adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' novelization of the
life of Marilyn Monroe starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn, has picked up the
scarlet "adults only" rating from the MPA, the first film made for a
streamer with that rating:
Fair enough. MH didn’t make the new rules (or burn the old ones) herself.
But she does play the game by the new rules with exceptional vigor, and
their are reporters at the Times who still seem to okay it with
substantially more ethics and principle.
On Sat, 26 Mar 2022 at 7:32 AM Tom Wolper
Merv Griffin, invoking the Zbornak Rule: “No parting gifts!”
https://youtu.be/BPlBYUaxcyM
> On Mar 26, 2022, at 12:11, Jim Ellwanger wrote:
>
> Better hope the vengeful ghost of Alex Trebek doesn't take note of a former
> "Jeopardy!" champion calling "How Green Was My Valley" lousy. (I have
Better hope the vengeful ghost of Alex Trebek doesn't take note of a former
"Jeopardy!" champion calling "How Green Was My Valley" lousy. (I have no
opinion about it, because I haven't seen it... in fact, all I really know about
it is that Alex always said it was his favorite film.)
> On Mar
I’d never want to participate in a best/worst film of all time discussion
because in the era of streaming I have the ability to see movies that I saw
decades ago that disappeared from screens both big and small. There are
films I thought were mind blowing years ago that I now see as trash and
I see Haberman as the fruit of a poisoned tree and not a rogue in a
fundamentally sound institution. In the run up to choosing Trump the GOP
decided to get rid of their guardrails and disrupt the entire political
system. US institutions that relied upon the stability of that system,
including
The Redeemer Award went to Will Smith.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2022/03/26/razzie-awards-torch-diana-musical-show-love-smith/7172685001/
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Be prepared for mind blowing. I'd like to just be his cataloguer.
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"Don't Look Up" is indeed terrible, but there have been lousy nominees
aplenty over the years. I actually kind of like "Greatest Show;" it's not
great, but once one gets a sense of DeMille's directing style (it's
especially apparent in "The Ten Commandments," in that he never stopped
directing
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