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This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated
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"This Film Is Not Yet Rated I think anyone who really loves film as an art form an a form of discovery that has so much more to be explored would find most acts of censorship as unfortunate. In the United States we have no official, government regulated legal censorship. But we do have a industry self regulated entity that essentially censors movies with the illusion that it doesn't. It's the ratings board that was created by the MPAA. The members of this board are anonymous. There are no official rules on how they even place one film into one rating or another. The people who are on the board don't even have any official training in child psychology or anything related to it. They are just supposed to be average parents of young children (it's later revealed most aren't). You may argue that even official government censorship would be better than this since at least then you have transparency and the ability to reform. Many people who speak in this docum "
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2005)
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Rebellious Celluloid
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"You've heard the saying "It could only happen in America?" I'd heard people bitching about the MPAA before but I had never read up on the organisation and had no idea just how dumb an idea the whole set up is. The KKK are a knitting circle compared to this bunch of numb-nuts. Interesting documentary though. "
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10 Best Masturbation Scenes
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"Andrew Sarris may be one of the most influential American film critics, but here’s a claim, located within his recent review of In Search of a Midnight Kiss, that may not hold up to some of his better-remembered theories: “Even when we confront 40-year-old virgins of either gender, movies refuse to show them compensating for the lack of a sexual partner. There is lasting shame involved in this spectacle.” Not to ever, ever profess superiority over Sarris, but I’ve nonetheless compiled today’s list as a way of proving the man wrong. There are actually tons and tons of masturbation scenes found in non-porn movies, from the low brow to the high brow, from as indirect as the boy wizard playing with his wand under the covers in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban to as direct as the non-simulated masturbation in Michael Winterbottom’s 9 Songs and John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus (which would probably feature my #1 pick, from the sound of it, if I ev "
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This Film is Not Yet Rated (2005)
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"Released: January 25, 2006 (Sundance)Director: Kirby Dick*****The board which doles out movie ratings, the Motion Picture Association of America, was founded in 1945 and the G-PG-PG 13-R-NC 17 ratings we all know and love came into being in 1968 as a way to head off government involvement in the film industry. Over the years, some ratings have changed (X morphed into NC 17), but one thing has remained the same: no one knows what goes on behind the Ratings Board doors.(Since this film was released, the MPAA has changed some rules on the appeals process and the transparency of their members. We'll talk about that in a minute.)Filmmaker Kirby Dick explores the mysterious ratings board in the documentary This Film is Not Yet Rated, which includes interviews with various other directors who have seen their films go under the knife when faced with an NC 17 rating. In addition to being a quick history lesson on the evolution of the organization, it also becomes a pseudo-sting operation ... "
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"Watching This Film Is Not Yet Rated--a film complaining about the power wielded by the MPAA's anonymous rating-council (the supposéd "parents of children between 5 and 17" who collectively decide upon an American movie's 'G,' 'PG,' 'PG-13,' 'R' or 'NC-17')--and the complaint that stood out is that they are 'anonymous'—unlike any other parental-rating council in the world.My defense of that anonymity is "peer-pressure," like I mentioned in the title. It's not the raters' job to think about whether anyone would be "offended" about a movie, but rather "whether the typical American parent ought to allow his/her children to see the movie."Love the Sinner, Hate the SinOf course, the result is rather different ... the raters are like popular search-engines; they aren't there to decide what gets seen and what does not, but they end up deciding indirectly.So the anonymity is necessary to keeping the ratings purely-parental. The search-engines don't have the anonymity, so any anti-social scu ... "
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Scary Bananas
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"All I have to say is the MPAA are a scary bunch and until watching this film I had no idea they operated the way they do. I reccomend this to anyone who loves movies it is definetly a great insight into the way some our precieved freedoms are trampled over by an underwraps organization. "
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Expose
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"I really had no idea what the MPAA was up to. Despite the stalker type element, this was an enlightening documentary. I felt as though I was a spy along with the creators of the film. I am fairly disgusted with the MPAA at this point, I knew they were trouble for film makers when it comes to 'mature themes' but not with violence, but this really puts it all out there! "
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"Our regular guest writer, Dodd (moviedodd at spout.com), tells us what's the latest in movie rating news, and shares his mixed feelings about the proposed changes. Dodd is finishing up a Master's degree in Film Studies at Ohio University. Recently, there has been a lot of discussion about the current film rating system implemented by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Filmmakers have raised hell about it all on their own for the past few years, but now the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated has served as an expose on the selective standards of MPAA members. The film seems to have had an affect already. Since its release, MPAA head honcho Dan Glickman has admitted to the organization's vague guidelines for what sets an R picture apart from an NC-17 one, and that proper actions would be taken to fix that problem. It seems that Glickman was not just throwing words around for publicity purposes. According to a recent Variety article, Dan Glickman has announced th ... "
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