Last month, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) gave out director Ira Sachs’s new film Passages an NC-17 rating. As noted by the Los Angeles Times, which first reported on the rating, NC-17 was ...

Content Warning: The following article contains discussions of sexual abuse, rape, pedophilia, drug use, and gun violence.Most film directors try to avoid the dreaded NC-17 rating like the plague. It ...

In a move that harkens back to the 1950s while simultaneously echoing the ongoing censorship of depictions of LGBTQ identity nationwide, the Motion Picture Association has given the upcoming queer ...

The MPAA film rating system, especially the NC-17 rating, can significantly impact the commercial success of a film's theatrical release, often favoring studio productions over international or ...

Another year brings another NC-17 controversy at the movies. This time it’s for “Passages,” the acclaimed romance drama from Ira Sachs that earned strong reviews out of the Sundance Film Festival ...

Filmmaker Ira Sachs has spoken out against the Motion Picture Association’s NC-17 rating of his Sundance film “Passages,” slamming the ratings board as “anti-progress” and saying that he will not ...

Ira Sachs’s new film Passages has received an NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association (MPA), and the out director is not happy about it. Subscribe to our ...

Ira Sachs' "Passages" is the latest film to be slapped by the MPA with an NC-17. But is the 33-year-old rating a useful designation or just a scarlet letter? He’s totally right, of course. Yet in the ...

The darkest, toughest and most explicit awards contender of the year came to the AFI Fest on Wednesday night. And after getting a look at "Shame" on the huge screen at Grauman's Chinese Theater, ...

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