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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; censorship</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/censorship/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:26:24 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Zalman King: Sex Thrillers TWO MOON JUNCTION, WILD ORCHID</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/zalman-king-sex-thrillers-two-moon-junction-wild-orchid/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/zalman-king-sex-thrillers-two-moon-junction-wild-orchid/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:09:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37065</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, Two Moon Junction Zalman King Dies Pt.1: Mickey Rourke-Kim Basinger Sex Drama NINE 1/2 WEEKS Though much of the media coverage on the film focused on the Sherilyn Fenn-Richard Tyson sex scenes and a full-frontal nude shot of Fenn, the most interesting aspect of Two Moon Junction was its highly eclectic cast, which included Oscar winners Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/zalman-king-sex-thrillers-two-moon-junction-wild-orchid/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Steve James/THE INTERRUPTERS, Frederick Wiseman/Censored Classic TITICUT FOLLIES: Cinema Eye Honors</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/steve-james-the-interrupters-frederick-wiseman-titicut-follies-cinema-eye-honors/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/steve-james-the-interrupters-frederick-wiseman-titicut-follies-cinema-eye-honors/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:34:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36582</guid> <description><![CDATA[Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies Steve James' The Interrupters topped the 2012 Cinema Eye Honors announced earlier this evening. The Interrupters received honors as Best Nonfiction Film and for Best Director, a first in the organization's five-year history. [Full list of Cinema Eye Honors winners.] Despite generally positive reviews and several US-based critics' awards, The Interrupters is not in the running for the 2012 Oscars. Curiously, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/steve-james-the-interrupters-frederick-wiseman-titicut-follies-cinema-eye-honors/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ken Russell/THE DEVILS DVD Release Missing Rape of Christ Sequence?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ken-russell-the-devils-dvd-rape-of-christ-scene/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ken-russell-the-devils-dvd-rape-of-christ-scene/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:18:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36022</guid> <description><![CDATA[Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave, The Devils Ken Russell, the director of Women in Love, The Boy Friend, and Altered States, died Sunday, Nov. 27, at the age of 84. Coincidentally, the British Film Institute, with much fanfare, announced several months ago that it would be releasing for the first time on DVD the X-rated version of Russell's The Devils, a mix of history, political intrigue, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/ken-russell-the-devils-dvd-rape-of-christ-scene/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Is Justin Bieber Going to Jail? Bieber Against Commercial Felony Streaming Act</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/justin-bieber-jail-commercial-felony-streaming-act/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/justin-bieber-jail-commercial-felony-streaming-act/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:26:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35584</guid> <description><![CDATA[Justin Bieber, pop icon and the star of the documentary Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (right), has come out against the Commercial Felony Streaming Act (S.978), which would make unauthorized online streaming of copyrighted material a felony, punishable by up to five years in prison. Some have been (jokingly) concerned that Bieber could end up behind bars because he has uploaded copyrighted songs on YouTube. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/justin-bieber-jail-commercial-felony-streaming-act/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Iranian Actress Marzieh Vafamehr Freed; Other Filmmakers Less Lucky</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/iranian-actress-marzieh-vafamehr-freed-mojtaba-mirtahmasb/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/iranian-actress-marzieh-vafamehr-freed-mojtaba-mirtahmasb/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:55:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35567</guid> <description><![CDATA[Marzieh Vafamehr, the Iranian actress sentenced to one year in jail and 90 lashes for taking part in Granaz Moussavi's 2009 Australian drama My Tehran for Sale, was released on Monday night (Oct. 24). According to Amnesty International, an appeals court reduced Vafamehr's jail time to three months and overturned the flogging sentence. In My Tehran for Sale, Vafamehr is shown in one scene without [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/iranian-actress-marzieh-vafamehr-freed-mojtaba-mirtahmasb/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SHAME, Michael Fassbender Oscar Chances: Academy Preferential Voting System Helps</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/shame-michael-fassbender-oscar-chances-academy-preferential-voting-system-helps/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/shame-michael-fassbender-oscar-chances-academy-preferential-voting-system-helps/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:23:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35564</guid> <description><![CDATA[Carey Mulligan, Michael Fassbender, Shame SHAME, Michael Fassbender, the Oscars: The Academy vs. NC-17 Movies One thing that bears remembering when it comes to the Academy Award nominations is that thanks to the preferential voting system in place, it is perfectly possible &#8212; in fact, it's perfectly likely &#8212; for an individual or a movie to be shortlisted even if only a relatively small minority [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/shame-michael-fassbender-oscar-chances-academy-preferential-voting-system-helps/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SHAME, Michael Fassbender, the Oscars: The Academy vs. NC-17 Movies?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/shame-michael-fassbender-academy-awards-nc-17-movies/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/shame-michael-fassbender-academy-awards-nc-17-movies/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:08:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35562</guid> <description><![CDATA[Now that Steve McQueen's Shame has received an NC-17 rating from the censors at the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), some are concerned that the film's two leads, Michael Fassbender (right) and Carey Mulligan, may be penalized by the generally conservative membership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Oscar history, however, shows otherwise. An X rating &#8212; the pre-1990 equivalent to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/shame-michael-fassbender-academy-awards-nc-17-movies/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SHAME Banned to Most Teenagers in the US, UK</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/shame-sex-addict-movie-nc-17-banned-teenagers/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/shame-sex-addict-movie-nc-17-banned-teenagers/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:35:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35553</guid> <description><![CDATA[Michael Fassbender, Shame Steve McQueen's Shame, a look at a man suffering from what some refer to as &#34;sex addiction,&#34; has been screwed with an NC-17 rating by the censors at the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). That means no one under 17 is allowed to watch Shame at a movie theater in the United States. Shame is thus joining an illustrious &#8212; and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/shame-sex-addict-movie-nc-17-banned-teenagers/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kristen Stewart/WELCOME TO THE RILEYS Gets 15-Rating in the UK</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kristen-stewart-welcome-to-the-rileys-uk-release/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kristen-stewart-welcome-to-the-rileys-uk-release/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:56:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35486</guid> <description><![CDATA[Starring James Gandolfini and Kristen Stewart, Jake Scott's Welcome the Rileys has received a &#34;15&#34; rating from the British Board of Film Classification. That means no one under 15 can go to a theater showing Welcome to the Rileys, and no one under 15 can rent or buy a DVD of the film. The reason for the censors' rating is that Scott's drama &#34;contains strong [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kristen-stewart-welcome-to-the-rileys-uk-release/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art, Therapy, or Torture Porn? THE BUNNY GAME Banned in the UK</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/torture-porn-the-bunny-game-banned-uk/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/torture-porn-the-bunny-game-banned-uk/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:26:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35484</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeff Renfro, Rodleen Getsic, The Bunny Game Adam Rehmeier's The Bunny Game, a mix of explicit sex and physical and psychological abuse, has been banned by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), reports Total Film. A few weeks ago, the BBFC stirred up quite a bit of talk after it decided to ban Tom Six's The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence), which opened (to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/torture-porn-the-bunny-game-banned-uk/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>PERSEPOLIS Broadcast: Tunisian Television Station President Apologizes to Offended Muslims</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/persepolis-broadcast-tunisian-television-station-nessma-muslims/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/persepolis-broadcast-tunisian-television-station-nessma-muslims/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:42:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35449</guid> <description><![CDATA[Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis Three days ago a group of 200 Fundamentalist Muslims protested outside the headquarters of a television station in Tunis for showing Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi's Academy Award-nominated animated feature Persepolis. What irked the crowd was that Persepolis features an image of God, while Islam forbids all such depictions. &#34;Arab Spring&#34; or no, Nessma TV Nebil Karoui has apologized [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/persepolis-broadcast-tunisian-television-station-nessma-muslims/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Iranian Actress Marzieh Vafamehr Sentenced to 90 Lashes, One Year in Prison</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/iranian-actress-marzieh-vafameh-lashes-prison/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/iranian-actress-marzieh-vafameh-lashes-prison/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:38:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35448</guid> <description><![CDATA[Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr, the wife of veteran filmmaker Nasser Taghvai, has been sentenced to 90 lashes and a year in prison for appearing without a headscarf in Granaz Moussavi's 2009 drama My Tehran for Sale, reports Deadline.com. Imprisoned since July, Vafamehr's sentence was announced by the Iranian opposition website Kalameh.com. Now, whether Iran's theocratic dictatorship has been set afire by Vafamehr's &#34;immodesty&#34; is debatable. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/iranian-actress-marzieh-vafameh-lashes-prison/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lars von Trier to Refrain from Public Statements, Interviews</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-war-crimes-nazi-controversy/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-war-crimes-nazi-controversy/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:04:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35375</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kirsten Dunst, Melancholia Lars von Trier: Nazi Remarks Lead to Trouble with French Judicial System Below is a very Lars von Trier-esque note (via Empire Online) the filmmaker has released in regard to his being questioned by Danish police: &#34;Today at 2pm I was questioned by the Police of North Zealand in connection with charges [sic] made by the prosecution of Grasse in France from [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-war-crimes-nazi-controversy/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lars von Trier: Nazi Remarks Lead to Trouble with French Judicial System</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-nazi-remarks-french-police/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-nazi-remarks-french-police/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:03:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35374</guid> <description><![CDATA[France is on financial brink. In fact, so is much of Europe. Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Iceland have all gone Third World. Racism and xenophobia are not only a fact of life throughout the continent, but they're frequently official government policy as well. How to deal with those humongous problems? Well, just go after a notorious filmmaker who made a stupid joke while [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lars-von-trier-nazi-remarks-french-police/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Utah Movie Theater Fined for Showing THE HANGOVER 2</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-hangover-2-censorship-utah-movie-theater-fined/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-hangover-2-censorship-utah-movie-theater-fined/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:06:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35310</guid> <description><![CDATA[Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, The Hangover 2 A screening of Todd Phillips' The Hangover Part II led to a $1,600 fine for Utah movie theater Brewvies, which serves liquor to their 21-and-over-only patrons. According to an Associated Press report, the fine was issued by Utah's state liquor board because &#34;of prohibitions on showing a film with sex acts, full-frontal nudity or even the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-hangover-2-censorship-utah-movie-theater-fined/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Watch Emmys 2011 Online Livestream Behind the Scenes</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/watch-emmy-2011-online-livestream-jane-lynch/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/watch-emmy-2011-online-livestream-jane-lynch/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:16:54 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35208</guid> <description><![CDATA[Glee's Jane Lynch, golden guys in very tight golden shorts Jane Lynch will be hosting the Academy of Television Arts &#38; Sciences' 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards this evening at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. The Emmy telecast will be aired live on Fox at 8 ET/5 PT. You can also watch backstage at the Emmys online, as comedian Michael Kosta will be hosting [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/watch-emmy-2011-online-livestream-jane-lynch/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joan Blondell Q&amp;A Pt.3: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, Condoms and Censorship</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-qa-pt-3-a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn-condoms-and-censorship/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-qa-pt-3-a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn-condoms-and-censorship/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:34:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27627</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ted Donaldson, Joan Blondell, Peggy Ann Garner, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Joan Blondell Q&#038;A Pt.2: Joan Blondell-Dick Powell-June Allyson Triangle, Lost Raunchy Pre-Coder CONVENTION CITY My favorite Joan Blondell performance is her Aunt Sissy in Elia Kazan's 20th Century-Fox drama A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945). How did she get that role? What was it like for her to work with Kazan, Peggy Ann [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-qa-pt-3-a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn-condoms-and-censorship/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joan Blondell Q&amp;A Pt.2: Joan Blondell-Dick Powell-June Allyson Triangle, Lost Raunchy Pre-Coder CONVENTION CITY</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-dick-powell-june-allyson-convention-city/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-dick-powell-june-allyson-convention-city/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:31:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27626</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joan Blondell: Q&#038;A with Biographer Matthew Kennedy Pt.1 What did Joan Blondell have to say about the musicals she made for Busby Berkeley? What about Ruby Keeler, James Cagney, and her other fellow contract players? Did she get along with them? [Photo: Joan Blondell in Mervyn LeRoy's Gold Diggers of 1933.] Joan said, not surprisingly, that those musicals were tough. There was extra rehearsal needed [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/joan-blondell-dick-powell-june-allyson-convention-city/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tom Six Responds to HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 British Ban</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tom-six-the-human-centipede-2-british-ban/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tom-six-the-human-centipede-2-british-ban/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:26:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27200</guid> <description><![CDATA[Tom Six Empire has published Dutch-born filmmaker Tom Six's response to the British Board of Film Classification's ban on The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) in the United Kingdom. Empire explains that &#34;the censoring of the F-word, ironically, is Six's.&#34; See below: Thank you BBFC for putting spoilers of my movie on your website and thank you for banning my film in this exceptional way. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tom-six-the-human-centipede-2-british-ban/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>British Board of Film Classification Banned Movies: From JE T&#039;AIME MOI NON PLUS to ILSA, SHE WOLF OF THE SS</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/british-board-of-film-classification-banned-movies/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/british-board-of-film-classification-banned-movies/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:12:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27191</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joe Dallesandro, Jane Birkin in Serge Gainsbourg's Je t'aime moi non plus / I Love You, No I Don't According to the &#34;censor watchgroup&#34; site melonfarmers.com, Tom Six's The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) joins a number of other motion pictures banned in the last few years by the concerned folks at the British Board of Film Classification. Among those are several porn/sexually explicit titles [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/british-board-of-film-classification-banned-movies/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE II (FULL SEQUENCE) Banned in the UK: Potentially Harmful and Obscene</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-human-centipede-ii-banned-obscene/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-human-centipede-ii-banned-obscene/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:48:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27190</guid> <description><![CDATA[The British Board of Film Classification, an undemocratic institution like censorship boards everywhere, has just denied a certificate to the direct-to-video release of Tom Six's The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence). In other words, the film cannot be &#34;legally supplied&#34; anywhere in the United Kingdom. The decision was taken by BBFC Director David Cooke and the Presidential Team of Sir Quentin Thomas, Alison Hastings and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-human-centipede-ii-banned-obscene/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>ATLAS SHRUGGED Producer: There May Be Parts II, III, But Without Betraying Ayn Rand&#039;s Principles</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/atlas-shrugged-sequels-ayn-rand-john-aglialoro/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/atlas-shrugged-sequels-ayn-rand-john-aglialoro/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 01:15:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26943</guid> <description><![CDATA[Taylor Schilling as Dagny Taggart, Atlas Shrugged: Part I The marketplace not only shrugged at, but downright turned its back on Atlas Shrugged: Part I, the widely derided film adaptation of Ayn Rand's 1957 novel about the individual's struggle against collectivism and government forces. Directed by Paul Johansson from a screenplay by John Aglialoro and Brian Patrick O'Toole, and starring Taylor Schilling as Rand's heroine [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/atlas-shrugged-sequels-ayn-rand-john-aglialoro/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>10</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Raunchy THE HANGOVER 2 Trailer Pulled from SOURCE CODE Screenings</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-hangover-2-trailer-pulled-source-code/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-hangover-2-trailer-pulled-source-code/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:26:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26818</guid> <description><![CDATA[Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha, Ed Helms, The Hangover 2 Todd Phillips' trailer for The Hangover 2, which features Bradley Cooper and company looking all very sweaty and worse for wear after a rowdy night (nights?) in Bangkok, has been pulled from theaters showing the PG-13-rated Jake Gyllenhaal thriller Source Code. The problem wasn't that the Hangover 2 trailer was deemed too stupid to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-hangover-2-trailer-pulled-source-code/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE KING&#039;S SPEECH Censored PG-13 Version, Charlotte Brontë&#039;s Views on Censorship</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-kings-speech-censored-pg13-charlotte-bronte/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-kings-speech-censored-pg13-charlotte-bronte/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:42:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26802</guid> <description><![CDATA[Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech The PG-13 version of Tom Hooper's The King's Speech opened this past weekend in North America, grossing only $1.13m at 1,011 theaters while averaging a meager $1,121 per theater according to weekend box-office actuals found at Box Office Mojo. The Weinstein Co. release stars Best Actor Oscar winner Colin Firth, who has voiced his strong disapproval of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-kings-speech-censored-pg13-charlotte-bronte/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE WAR GAME Review Pt.2 &#8211; Nuclear Holocaust in Britain</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-war-game-review-ii/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-war-game-review-ii/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:29:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18250</guid> <description><![CDATA[Peter Watkins' The War Game THE WAR GAME Review: Part I Given the spate of nuclear Armageddon films made in the 1960s &#8212; e.g., Sidney Lumet's Fail Safe, Franklin J. Schaffner's Planet of the Apes &#8212; and up through the early 1980s television production The Day After, it’s remarkable how such a low-budget effort like The War Game retains its effectiveness when almost all other [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/the-war-game-review-ii/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Natalie Portman&#039;s Predecessor Ingrid Bergman: Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancy&#039;s Political Fall-Out</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/natalie-portman-ingrid-bergman-out-of-wedlock-pregnancy/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/natalie-portman-ingrid-bergman-out-of-wedlock-pregnancy/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:41:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26586</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#34;Apostle of degradation&#34; Ingrid Bergman and co-star Bing Crosby in Leo McCarey's The Bells St. Mary's Natalie Portman's winning a Best Actress while both pregnant and unmarried has irked Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee. But Huckabee's criticism about the &#34;glamorization&#34; of Portman's out-of-wedlock pregnancy pales in comparison to the furor that greeted the announcement that Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman, then married to dentist Petter Lindström, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/natalie-portman-ingrid-bergman-out-of-wedlock-pregnancy/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Colin Firth Rejects THE KING&#039;S SPEECH Edited PG-13 Version</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/colin-firth-the-kings-speech-edited-pg13-version/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/colin-firth-the-kings-speech-edited-pg13-version/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:15:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26554</guid> <description><![CDATA[Colin Firth as King George VI in Tom Hooper's The King's Speech Colin Firth, last night's Best Actor Oscar winner for The King's Speech, has voiced his opposition to the potential release of an edited version of his film. &#34;I don't take this stuff [coarse language] lightly,&#34; Firth said backstage at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, &#34;but in the context of this film, it could [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/colin-firth-the-kings-speech-edited-pg13-version/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>LENNY Review Pt.2 &#8211; Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lenny-review-dustin-hoffman-lenny-bruce-valerie-perrine/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lenny-review-dustin-hoffman-lenny-bruce-valerie-perrine/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:14:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26298</guid> <description><![CDATA[Valerie Perrine, Dustin Hoffman in Bob Fosse's Lenny LENNY Review Part I Bob Fosse's direction is hardly any help. Throughout much of the film, Fosse's touch is either too heavy or too squeamish. Bruce's private dramas are handled with an overemphasis that turns them into lurid melodrama, while sex scenes and drug-soaked orgies could have been directed with more verve by cloistered nuns. And if [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lenny-review-dustin-hoffman-lenny-bruce-valerie-perrine/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>LENNY Review d: Bob Fosse scr: Julian Barry</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/lenny-bob-fosse-dustin-hoffman-perrine/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/lenny-bob-fosse-dustin-hoffman-perrine/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:10:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/lenny-bob-fosse-dustin-hoffman-perrine/</guid> <description><![CDATA[LENNY (1974) Direction: Bob Fosse Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner, Stanley Beck, Gary Morton Screenplay: Julian Barry; from his own play Oscar Movies Dustin Hoffman, Lenny Bob Fosse's 1974 biopic Lenny has two chief assets: the still relevant free speech issues it raises and Valerie Perrine's scene-stealing turn as the tragic Honey (Marlowe) Bruce. The film itself is neither riveting nor entertaining; in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/lenny-bob-fosse-dustin-hoffman-perrine/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lena Nyman Dies: I AM CURIOUS (YELLOW) Banned as Pornography</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lena-nyman-i-am-curious-yellow-pornography/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lena-nyman-i-am-curious-yellow-pornography/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 23:32:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26211</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lena Nyman in Vilgot Sjöman's I Am Curious (Yellow) Lena Nyman, the Swedish actress who starred in the controversial, sexually charged Swedish drama I Am Curious (Yellow), died today following &#34;a long illness.&#34; She was 66. Curiously, Nyman's death took place one day after that of another star of another controversial, sexually charged release of that era, Last Tango in Paris' Maria Schneider. Shot in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lena-nyman-i-am-curious-yellow-pornography/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Maria Schneider Dies: LAST TANGO IN PARIS, THE PASSENGER</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/maria-schneider-dies-last-tango-in-paris-the-passenger/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/maria-schneider-dies-last-tango-in-paris-the-passenger/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 04:31:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26202</guid> <description><![CDATA[Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris. The scandalous film was reviled by Lucille Ball, admired by Robert Altman, and reinterpreted by Ingmar Bergman Maria Schneider, best known for her sex scenes with Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (1972), died of cancer earlier today in Paris. Schneider was 58. [Addendum: In a strange coincidence, Lena Nyman, the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/maria-schneider-dies-last-tango-in-paris-the-passenger/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jafar Panahi / Mohammad Rasoulof National Society of Film Critics Statement</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jafar-panahi-mohammad-rasoulof-national-society-of-film-critics-statement/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jafar-panahi-mohammad-rasoulof-national-society-of-film-critics-statement/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 01:03:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25944</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mohammad Rasoulof's The White Meadows National Society of Film Critics' Statement on the MPAA Ratings System STATEMENT ON JAILED IRANIAN DIRECTORS On December 18, 2010, an Iranian court sentenced Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof to six years in prison and banned both from filmmaking for 20 years for “colluding in gatherings and making propaganda against the regime.” The members of the National Society of Film [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jafar-panahi-mohammad-rasoulof-national-society-of-film-critics-statement/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>National Society of Film Critics Lambastes MPAA Ratings System</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/national-society-of-film-critics-mpaa-ratings-system/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/national-society-of-film-critics-mpaa-ratings-system/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 01:02:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25943</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine National Society of Film Critics Winners In addition to handing out awards to the likes of The Social Network, Carlos, Jesse Eisenberg, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, David Fincher, Roger Deakins, Aaron Sorkin, Olivia Williams, Geoffrey Rush, and Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme, the National Society of Film Critics issued two statements this year. The first statement lambastes the Classification &#38; Ratings Administration [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/national-society-of-film-critics-mpaa-ratings-system/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Metro Manila Film Festival 2011: Catholics vs. Dolphy&#039;s FATHER JEJEMON</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/metro-manila-film-festival-2011-dolphy-father-jejemon/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/metro-manila-film-festival-2011-dolphy-father-jejemon/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 01:53:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25827</guid> <description><![CDATA[This holiday season, moviegoers around the world will be flocking to TRON: Legacy, Little Fockers, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, and other cinematic masterpieces. Except in The Philippines. The Metro Manila Film Festival 2011, which kicked off on Christmas Day, will keep Filipino moviegoers busy with national fare for the next two [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/metro-manila-film-festival-2011-dolphy-father-jejemon/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>&quot;Gay Zombie Porn&quot; &amp; Censorship in Australia: Bruce LaBruce&#039;s L.A. ZOMBIE</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gay-zombie-porn-censorship-australia-bruce-labruce-la-zombie/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gay-zombie-porn-censorship-australia-bruce-labruce-la-zombie/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:28:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25525</guid> <description><![CDATA[Bruce LaBruce's L.A. Zombie, in which gay porn star François Sagat is a Los Angeles zombie (or a schizophrenic homeless man?) who uses (really kinky) sex to bring the dead back to life What's a democracy? A place where police can raid someone's house because its resident has dared to show a banned movie? Nah. Those things would never happen in a democracy. By the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/gay-zombie-porn-censorship-australia-bruce-labruce-la-zombie/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Angelina Jolie&#039;s Bosnia Trouble</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/angelina-jolie-directorial-debut-bosnia/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/angelina-jolie-directorial-debut-bosnia/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:31:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25326</guid> <description><![CDATA[Angelina Jolie received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance in Clint Eastwood's Changeling Angelina Jolie's as-yet-untitled Bosnian War drama about the romance between a Serbian soldier and a Muslim woman/war victim, cannot be shot in Bosnia-Herzegovina, according to Bosnian Culture Minister Gavrilo Grahovac. E! reports that Grahovac revoked Jolie's filming permit after meeting with the local Women Victims of War Association. &#34;They will [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/angelina-jolie-directorial-debut-bosnia/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Harvey Weinstein to Challenge BLUE VALENTINE&#039;s NC-17 Rating</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/harvey-weinstein-blue-valentine-nc-17-rating/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/harvey-weinstein-blue-valentine-nc-17-rating/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:54:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25325</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine As expected, Harvey Weinstein has appealed the MPAA's NC-17 rating slapped on The Weinstein Co.'s Blue Valentine, directed by Derek Cianfrance, and starring Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling as a couple who go from quirky courtship to disintegrating marriage. “We want to express our deepest gratitude to our colleagues in the industry and in the media for their recent [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/harvey-weinstein-blue-valentine-nc-17-rating/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>VIRIDIANA, THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA, FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS: Spain&#039;s Top Ten Censored Movies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/viridiana-for-whom-the-bell-tolls-spain-censored-movies/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/viridiana-for-whom-the-bell-tolls-spain-censored-movies/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:43:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25299</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper in Sam Wood's For Whom the Bell Tolls (top); &#34;The Last Supper&#34; scene in Luis Buñuel's Viridiana (middle); Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (bottom) The ludicrous censors at the Motion Picture Association of America and their precursors at the Production Code Office have always had counterparts in other countries. Whether for political, religious, social, economic, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/viridiana-for-whom-the-bell-tolls-spain-censored-movies/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Michelle Williams, Ryan Gosling in BLUE VALENTINE Trailer/Clip; Surprising NC-17 Rating</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/michelle-williams-ryan-gosling-blue-valentine-trailer-clip/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/michelle-williams-ryan-gosling-blue-valentine-trailer-clip/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:05:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25280</guid> <description><![CDATA[Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling have been mentioned as potential Oscar contenders for their performances as carefree lovers-turned-unhappily-married couple in Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine, which The Weinstein Company will be releasing in the United States on Dec. 31. But members of the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings (i.e., censorship) board, whose job is to perpetuate the ludicrousness of the Hays Office and the Breen [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/michelle-williams-ryan-gosling-blue-valentine-trailer-clip/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Peter Facinelli BLEEPing Thanks NEW MOON Best BLEEP Movie Win: 2010 MTV Movie Awards Clip</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/peter-facinelli-fucking-mtv-movie-awards/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/peter-facinelli-fucking-mtv-movie-awards/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:45:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24455</guid> <description><![CDATA[Watch the 2010 MTV Movie Awards at MTV.com! Peter Facinelli, who plays the Cullen family patriarch in the Twilight Saga movies, used the word &#34;fucking&#34; in his speech more often than I've used it all year to date. While Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Anna Kendrick, Elizabeth Reaser, and other Twilight cast members watched, Facinelli thanked his fucking director Chris Weitz, the series' fucking [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/peter-facinelli-fucking-mtv-movie-awards/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Stephenie Meyer&#039;s TWILIGHT SAGA Books Among &quot;Most Challenged&quot;: American Library Association</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/stephenie-meyer-twilight-saga-books-censorship/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/stephenie-meyer-twilight-saga-books-censorship/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:24:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23936</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson Twilight Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga series has a number of elements in common with J.K. Rowlings' Harry Potter novels: both book franchises involve teens, mysteries, otherworldly creatures, and supernatural powers; both are worldwide bestsellers mostly aimed at young readers; and both are on the list of books most complained about by parents and educators. Well, at least a certain ilk of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/stephenie-meyer-twilight-saga-books-censorship/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR: The China Ban Controversy</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/politics/avatar-china-controversy-445/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/politics/avatar-china-controversy-445/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:57:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21133</guid> <description><![CDATA[Chinese government officials have denied reports that the State is in any way responsible for pulling Avatar out of hundreds of theaters showing the 2D version of James Cameron's sci-fi epic starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, and Sigourney Weaver. A deputy director of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has asserted that the film was being dropped by the exhibitors themselves because their [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/politics/avatar-china-controversy-445/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR (Partially) Banned in China</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/avatar-banned-in-china-990/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/avatar-banned-in-china-990/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:29:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21055</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sam Worthington, Laz Alonso in Avatar (WETA / 20th Century Fox) Government paranoia strikes again. The latest such instance, according to reports, comes from China. (Please read this follow-up: AVATAR: The China Ban Controversy.) James Cameron's Avatar has been a worldwide blockbuster. It's now the #3 movie at the North American box office (not accounting for inflation or 3D/IMAX surcharges) and #2 worldwide (not accounting [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/avatar-banned-in-china-990/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Another Gay Movie Seized in Canada: Trevor Anderson&#039;s DINX</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/trevor-anderson-dinx-gay-movie-canada-435/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/trevor-anderson-dinx-gay-movie-canada-435/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:09:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Alessandro Moretti</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=19118</guid> <description><![CDATA[Following the outrage sparked by Canadian border guards' decision to seize three gay-themed films (Shamim Sarif's I Can't See Straight, Adrian Shergold's Clapham Junction and Ella Lemhagen's Patrik, Age 1.5) headed to Ottawa's gay film festival a couple of weeks ago, Jenn Ruddy reports at xtra.com that another gay-themed film was held up by Canadian authorities for more than a month. That's Dinx, a short [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/trevor-anderson-dinx-gay-movie-canada-435/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gay Films Seized in Canada</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/gay-films-seized-in-canada-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/gay-films-seized-in-canada-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:44:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Alessandro Moretti</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18717</guid> <description><![CDATA[Clapham Junction by Adrian Shergold (top); Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth in I Can't Think Straight (middle); Patrik Age. 1.5 by Ella Lemhagen (bottom) Canada an egalitarian gay haven? Think again. Marcus McCann reports in Xtra.com that Canada Border Services Agency customs officers have seized three gay-themed films en route to Ottawa's three-day Inside Out gay film festival, which ends tomorrow, Nov. 22. No explanation was [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/gay-films-seized-in-canada-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gay Documentary THIS AREA IS UNDER QUARANTINE Banned</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/gay-this-area-is-under-quarantine-banned/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/gay-this-area-is-under-quarantine-banned/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:14:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18157</guid> <description><![CDATA[Thunska Pansittivorakul's Thai-made experimental documentary This Area Is Under Quarantine, which discusses the difficulties faced by both gays and Muslims in Thailand, has been banned by that country's Ministry of Culture from showing at next month's World Film Festival of Bangkok. According to a report in the Bangkok Post, the problem has less to do with an outright ban of the film's themes &#8212; which [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/gay-this-area-is-under-quarantine-banned/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>FRANCESCA Controversy: Alessandra Mussolini Called &quot;a Whore&quot;</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/francesca-alessandra-mussolini-whore/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/francesca-alessandra-mussolini-whore/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:25:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15890</guid> <description><![CDATA[Monica Birladeanu in Francesca (top); Bobby Paunescu (bottom) Romanian-born filmmaker Bobby Paunescu's Francesca, which premiered at this year's Venice Film Festival, may be banned from Italian screens following a legal motion by far-right lawmaker Alessandra Mussolini (right), granddaughter of dictator Benito Mussolini and niece of Sophia Loren. Reason for Mussolini's outrage: in one scene in Francesca, she is called &#34;a whore.&#34; (In 2007, Mussolini created [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/francesca-alessandra-mussolini-whore/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE 10 CONDITIONS OF LOVE Controversy at the Melbourne Film Festival</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/the-10-conditions-of-love-melbourne-festival/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/the-10-conditions-of-love-melbourne-festival/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:24:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Irene Young</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=14738</guid> <description><![CDATA[Protesting the planned appearance of Uighur-independence activist Rebiya Kadeer, whom the Chinese government blames for the ethnic violence this month between Uighurs and Han Chinese, a hacker has posted a Chinese flag on the Web site of the Melbourne International Film Festival, the New York Times has reported, citing the Associated Press. The ethnic riots in the East Turkistan region left nearly 200 people dead. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/the-10-conditions-of-love-melbourne-festival/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Luis Buñuel&#039;s VIRIDIANA Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/viridiana-luis-bunuel-silvia-pinal/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/viridiana-luis-bunuel-silvia-pinal/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:58:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=10124</guid> <description><![CDATA[Viridiana, Luis Buñuel's provocative 1961 Palme d'Or-winning classic proving that life is a bitch and then you play cards, will run at New York City's Film Forum from Friday, April 24, through Thursday, April 30. Inspired by a painting of Saint Viridiana kneeling on the floor before a crucifix and crown of thorns (and by Benito Pérez Galdós' novel Halma), co-written by Buñuel and Julio [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/viridiana-luis-bunuel-silvia-pinal/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009: Auraeus Solito&#039;s BOY</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/turin-gay-film-festival-2009-boy/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/turin-gay-film-festival-2009-boy/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:53:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=9874</guid> <description><![CDATA[Filipino filmmaker Auraeus Solito, best known for his 2006 Teddy Award-winning The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros, will be at the Torino GLBT Film Festival, which runs April 23-30, as a member of the international jury and to present the world premiere of his new feature, Boy, recently banned in Singapore. In Boy, a young poet sells his comic books to afford a one-night stand with [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/turin-gay-film-festival-2009-boy/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
