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Under his tenure, the board banned a total of 19 films in the state between May 1949 and March 1952. Almost all of the films he banned depicted hetero- and homosexual relationships, sexual content, drug addiction, nudity, racial invasions, extreme violence, and pregnancy. Several of the listed banned features were unlisted.
In 1972 and 1974 Swedish television showed the film, resulting in the Swedish television mast on Åland being shut down during the movie because Finns were banned from seeing the film. Director of the Finnish Board of Film, Jerker Eriksson, said that the banning of the film was political because it harmed the Finnish-Soviet relationship.
Anti-film censorship cartoon published in The Film Mercury magazine, circa 1926. Public outcry over perceived immorality in Hollywood and the movies, as well as the growing number of city and state censorship boards, led the movie studios to fear that federal regulations were not far off; so they created, in 1922, the Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association (which became the ...
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The C rating was issued from 1933 until 1978. The Legion's ratings were applied to movies made in the United States as well as those imported from other countries. Since it reviewed films when released for distribution, the Legion usually rated non-U.S. films a few years after their first release in their country of origin, occasionally years ...
Yes, Claire Danes' movies were banned in Manila over 15 years ago reportedly because of comments she made about the city. And while lip-syncing is frowned upon here in the United States, did you ...
Kuwait banned "Barbie" on Aug. 9, according to the Associated Press, citing a statement from state-run news agency KUNA, which said the film promoted "ideas and beliefs that are alien to the ...
Special provisions apply to the propaganda films that were classified as banned films by the Allies in 1945. These include films that contain a clearly racist, anti-Semitic, inciting or war-glorifying message. Since 1966, the former banned films have been in the collection of the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation. These films, which are now ...