Ang Lee has cut approximately 30 minutes from his Venice Film Festival winner Lust, Caution in order for it to play on Chinese screens. China, which has no rating system requires all films to be suitable for all audiences or it will not be screened. According to Variety, the film may also be trimmed for… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Ratings
No shame in NC-17: Ang Lee
Ang Lee spoke up on the NC-17 rating attached to his new erotic thriller Lust, Caution (AP via L.A. Times) : “In the past, NC-17 movies were equated with pornographic movies. Most movie theaters don’t show them,” Lee said after arriving to attend the Venice Film Festival, where “Lust, Caution” is competing for the top Golden… Read more »
Focus steps up: accepts NC-17 on 'Lust, Caution'
Focus Features accepted an NC-17 rating for Oscar-winner Ang Lee’s period drama Lust, Caution, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Lust” follows a young Chinese woman in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II who becomes the center of a plot to seduce and kill a married enemy collaborator. The trailer for the subtitled Chinese-language film shows… Read more »
Disney joins Universal in cutting smoking in movies
Disney announced yesterday it’s banning smoking in Disney-branded films. According to the Hollywood Reporter: “The Walt Disney Co. shares your concern regarding deaths due to cigarette smoking,” Iger wrote to (Congressman Ed) Markey. “We discourage depictions of cigarette smoking in Disney, Touchstone and Miramax films. In particular, we expect that depictions of cigarette smoking in… Read more »
NC-17 – Use It or Lose It
Entertainment Weekly posts a provocative dissection of the movie rating system from its June 22 edition online. Writer Mark Harris, prompted by the extreme and sexualized violence of Hostel II receiving an R rating, puts his finger firmly on some of the weaknesses of the rating system as it now exists: The hypocrisies of the… Read more »