Film Censorship

Viridiana with Silvia Pinal. 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…

Brokeback Mountain Gay Love Scenes censored on Italian TV while heterosexual Sex Scene Left Intact. Accident? Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal star.

John Abraham in ‘Dostana’ wallpaper ‘Gay’ Bollywood film ‘Dostana’ banned in Pakistan: Gay marriage, ‘propagation of homosexuality’ to blame Produced by Karan Johar, and written and directed by Tarun Mansukhani,…

Banned gay movies in Australia & Singapore And you thought that Australia is a democracy, where adults are allowed to make their own choices regarding the movies (or books?) they…

The Golden Compass irks US Catholic Archbishop & Vatican newspaper while Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis to show up Moonstruck 20th anniversary screening.

Author and film historian Anthony Slide has another book out, (politically) Incorrect Entertainment or Trash from the Past: A history of political incorrectness and bad taste in 20th century American…

Paul Rudd: I Heart Huckabees on-set blow-up parody co-star (in the Lily Tomlin role). Paul Rudd & Max Showalter parody Lily Tomlin & David O. Russell I Heart Huckabees on-set…

Frank Sinatra in ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’: Groundbreaking drug addiction drama. Although hardly one of Otto Preminger’s better films, The Man with the Golden Arm is worth a…

Erotic movie Destricted Erotic movie ‘Destricted’ allowed to be screened outside British sex shops Quentin Thomas, head of the British Board of Film Classification – that’s the United Kingdom’s censorship…

According to numerous reports, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee who has become a Dutch Member of Parliament for the conservative Liberal Party*, has announced plans to produce a film…

Fuck (movie 2005) review: Tera Patrick, Pat Boone and others debate whether U.S. freedom of speech protections should also be applied to ‘offensive’ language.

Linda Lovelace Deep Throat finally released in the UK Deep Throat, the epoch-making 1972 sexually explicit movie starring Linda Lovelace and directed by Gerard Damiano, was given its first UK…

Submission: Part 1 controversies continue: Clip from Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s anti-Islam short film to be broadcast on Italian television.

Creationist fanatics are going after IMAX theaters’ nature documentaries. Why? Anti-science Christians are enraged by evolution being presented as an empirical fact.

Michael Winterbottom’s sexually explicit movie 9 Songs has been approved for release in Australia - uncut. Kieran O’Brien and Margot Stilley play lovers and rock concert aficionados.

The controversy surrounding the Meera Nazar kiss has the Pakistani actress vs. that country’s Ministry of Culture. Ashmit Patel is her Bollywood costar.

Delaware’s Rehoboth Beach Film Society has had to fight (anti-gay?) puritanism, as a complaint about big-screen ‘explicit sex’ has led to a police investigation.

Was Alexander the Great gay? Inflamed Greek attorneys threaten to ‘take the case further’ if Oliver Stone doesn’t spell out that his 2004 epic about the life of the ancient conqueror is ‘pure fiction.’

9 Songs’ sex scenes have not prevented the British Board of Film Classification from granting Michael Winterbottom’s romantic drama an ’18 certificate’ rating. Some are outraged.

Co-director David O. Russell’s Iraq War documentary Soldiers Pay has landed U.S. distribution despite Warner Bros.’ refusal to release it during a presidential election year.