IDA: As you've screened This Film Is Not Yet Rated --whether on the festival circuit, or in screening rooms, or in living rooms--how have audiences reacted to the film? Director, Gas, Food, Lodging. When you sign the paperwork, you agree that if they rate the film, you agree not to make any changes afterwards. Waiting until it's streaming. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Paddison Memorial Branch. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. Neuse Regional Library. And by the way, almost none of these "parents" have children under 25.
Equipment, games, toys. They've been completely supportive the whole way. COLOR CORRECTION: da Vinci 2K Plus at Filmlook; colorist: Allen Kelly. The hit of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED is an unprecedented undercover investigation into the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) film ratings system and its profound impact on American culture. ES: We made a film about a system used by the general public, that has a tremendous influence on our culture. It tries to expose the flaws and venality in the movie rating system developed by Jack Valenti and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which is a regulatory arm of the six major movie studios and their media conglomerates. Independent Film Channel. You can narrow down the possible answers by specifying the number of letters it contains.
If there are any issues or the possible solution we've given for Org. This crossword clue might have a different answer every time it appears on a new New York Times Crossword, so please make sure to read all the answers until you get to the one that solves current clue. It's difficult to make a documentary and more difficult when the subject doesn't know that you're doing it. Library: NC Cardinal. Sneads Ferry Branch Library. Professional Development Collection. Also there wasn't a comparison to other countries rating system, just a mention that those systems are a little less absurd, which is true if you look at the rating sections on most IMDb film profiles, but some thought here would have been invaluable to this film's argument. Refine the search results by specifying the number of letters. He should take a course in logic. I'm an independent filmmaker, and over the years I've watched how my fellow independent filmmakers were treated unfairly by the ratings process. And when the MPAA gives an independent film an NC-17 rating, they are essentially restricting the films that compete with the studios. By completing this form, I agree to receive occasional emails per the terms of the ACLU's privacy policy. This documentary is one-sided. This Film is not Yet Rated.
Director, Requiem for a Dream. Additional Director of Photography. ATOM EGOYAN AND KIRBY DICK IN THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED. I was very surprised by the amount of paranoia, especially among the independent filmmakers. Reprinted with permission of Dr. Marty Klein from blog Imagine a small group that controls what movies a country's citizens can see, what films can be advertised, what pictures and words filmmakers are allowed to use. Constitution gives every citizen of the USA certain rights already. It tries to expose the flaws and venality in the movie rating system developed by Jack Valenti and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Still, in his latest film, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Dick goes after perhaps the most secretive organization in the film world, the MPAA's ratings board. And I am a continued fan of Michael Moore; I think he really gave the documentary form a good dose of Jolt Cola. It also allegedly exposes the actual names of the rating system's review board and appeals board.
This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. How did you re-create the conversations with the various MPAA staff you use toward the end of the film after this film has received its NC-17 rating? After Sundance, [MPAA rating chair] Joan Graves called to tell me that since I changed the film, I could no longer use the NC-17 rating. General Note: Originally produced for the Independent Film Channel. Going into this, I thought even if the ratings board was controlled by a few people, and comprised of parents who didn't have expertise, I would assume the appeals board would rise above that. Department of Labor Library. For example, it is guilty of special pleading, a form of twisting the facts and ignoring important facts. Government and university employees around the country report that their computers refuse to accept Sexual Intelligence ("unauthorized sexual content"), and cannot be reconfigured. It was such a challenge to do that. Cast: Kirby Dick, Kimberly Peirce, Darren Aronofsky. Saudi Arabia's Wahhabis? Whether Hollywood studios receive detailed directions as how to change an NC-17 film into an R while independent film producers are left guessing? J. Holliday Library. Did you discuss with IFC the possibility of some sort of MPAA backlash, now or in the future for their films?
But the subjects of such award-winning films as Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist, Chain Camera, Derrida and Twist of Faith can't rival his latest adversary: the Motion Picture Association of America. South Granville Branch Library. Tom of Finland immortalized an entire homoerotic look for gay men via his iconic drawings and pictures. This film ratings system is so secretive, so corrupt, and so powerful that a government ratings board--which we condemn 100%--would actually be an improvement.
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Chain Camera is another example. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. It takes only a moment. ES: Kirby and I always envisioned that the private investigator would provide the arc the film needed to sustain our quest, and we always knew that we would submit the film itself for a rating in the third act. Director, A Dirty Shame. Although the ratings system is a voluntary one, members of Congress continue to pressure the MPAA to revise its system to give even more restrictive ratings to films with sexual or violent content. If the appeals board bases its decision on personal vendettas or a film's political content, there's no way of ever knowing. One insisted on anonymity. Published: 29th September 2021Tags: Colton Haynes, Instinct Magazine, Out magazine, Queerty. And studios tend to make films that are more violent, geared toward teens, and the violent films usually get by with an R. Independent filmmakers make films for adults. What did you find the most shocking about your investigation? The film looks at the MPAA's lobbying efforts in Washington to enforce stringent penalties against the sharing of digital information, even non-profit and academic. SICK: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BOB FLANAGAN, SUPERMASOCHIST: Kirby Dick's 1997 profile of this prolific performance artist shows the director's range in emotion and material. When he claims the ratings board helps filmmakers and families, he offers no evidence of either.
Run-Time: 1hr 40mn (2h 11mn w/ Extras). So are the movie's many logical fallacies and illogical violations of the law of non-contradiction. Yet violence as entertainment is condoned, but showing kids what violence really looks like is not. If there were written guidelines about what constitutes a PG and what makes PG-13, people could understand why certain ratings are given or why things have changed. Read our extensive list of rules for more information on other types of posts like fan-art and self-promotion, or message the moderators if you have any questions. Such radicals like to talk about the so-called "Dark Ages" during the Middle Ages and before, but the legacy they presented to the world in the 1960s represents a truly Dark Age that still exploits and corrupts our children, not only in their minds and spirits, but also in their sexually abused bodies. The Story of the National Lampoon. While on the other side you have R-rated movies with really minimal or much more accurate depiction of violence (Michael Mann's "Heat" for one). The other problem with this sort of logic is that this 'average family' is something that really can't be defined in America because of all the different cultures that co-exist here.
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