Archive for the ‘Film Censorship’ Category
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Space Chimp fans worried about the future of their beloved film have a lot to smile about today. The Classification Review Board has reclassified the animated 'classic' as 'G' and tagged it with consumer advice that ?some scenes may scare young children.'
If the PG rating and 'threatening scenes' warning was ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Does anyone have any idea why Space Chimps is under review (PDF) by the Classification Review Board?
It's currently rated PG (Mild threatening scenes) and though I've never seen the film, it seems like a reasonable rating for an animation about chimps in space. Maybe too harsh a classification, maybe not ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Turns out that seven members of a thirteen member classification panel voted no to releasing that awful 'sadistic sex movie' Salo. Like all of us, Margaret Pomeranz from Watch on Censorship isn't impressed.
Here's what she had to say in today's Brissy Times:
"Salo is a film by a significant filmmaker but ...
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
Between 1993 and 1998, Salo was classified R18+ in Australia. You could see it in select cinemas. Before that it had been banned since 1976, and in 1998 the QLD Attorney General saw to it that be banned once again.
Fast forward 10 years and nothing has changed. Shock's submission to ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
A few weeks back Simon Chapman, a Professor in Public Health at the University of Sydney, warned that health organisations were upping the ante to have smoking banned in films. He questioned whether movies, books, drama and entertainment should be seen as part of some ideological state apparatus for promoting ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Refused Classification has an interesting snippet from Senate Estimates held May 27. In regards to the 'emergency' ban on pornography in certain areas of the Northern Territory, Labor Senator Trish Crossin asked whether expanding the ban to include all of the NT and the ACT had been discussed. Classification Board ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Simon Chapman, a Professor in Public Health at the University of Sydney who specialises in tobacco control, warns that many of his colleagues in the health profession are seeking to have smoking in films either ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Some adults are offended by seeing other adults have sex (creating offspring must be such a dreadful task...). But are those same people representative of broad community values and standards? The Federal Court says yes.
Adult Shop has lost a legal battle to have an X18+ rating overturned for the adult ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) cannot screen their special presentation, The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome, at this year's festival. The package of shorts (currently classified X18+ in Australia) were denied exemption from classification by the OFLC even though they would have been shown to adults only.
"The MQFF ...
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