Real Sex and Movie Ratings in Australia, the UK, and the US
Yesterday was a blood-bath. The Google Site Index for Comstock Films continues to look extremely weird, full of robot.txt excluded pages, and even pages that haven’t been live on our website for years,...
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MARIE AND JACK: A Hardcore Love Story receives an NC-17 rating from the MPAA
Press release speak: MARIE AND JACK: A HARDCORE LOVE STORY earns an NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America.This February, MARIE AND JACK: A HARDCORE LOVE STORY, the first erotic...
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A New (MPAA Approved) Cover for MARIE AND JACK
Back in February we submitted our first film, MARIE AND JACK: A HARDCORE LOVE STORY to the Motion Picture Association of America (The MPAA). Since MARIE AND JACK is a film about grown-up ideas, with...
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How “X-rated” Came to Mean “Porn” and the Death of Movies for Grown-ups
The poster for LAST TANGO IN PARIS, including X-rating symbol (click to enlarge) Fad23 is absolutely right. The X-rating was a part of the MPAA four-tier system first introduced in 1968. But unlike G,...
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A nice mention by Steve Erickson on Nerve’s indie film blog, Screengrab,about our recent experience with the MPAA’s advertising department. Writes Erik: “…He recently decided to get an MPAA rating for...
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Ang Lee Takes On the NC-17 Rating
About a month ago I sent a letter to Dan Glickman, Chairman of the MPAA, asking what, if any plans the MPAA had to rehabilitate the NC-17 rating. Yesterday I called Mr. Glickman’s office in Washington...
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Three Myths About the NC-17 Rating, According to John Fithian
So last Thursday I had a really interesting chat with Joan Graves, Chairwoman of CARA, the board that actually rates films at the MPAA. The reason I was talking with Joan is because my feeling is that...
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Revisiting Rated X
It’s a big weekend for us over in Amsterdam at Jennifer Lyon Bell’s “Rated-X: Amsterdam Alternative Erotic Film Festival”. Over the next couple of days we’ll have three films screening: Matt and Khym:...
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