Amid the recent kerfuffle over the Motion Picture Association of America’s curious decision to slap Derek Cianfrance’s sensitive marital drama (and Oscar hopeful) “Blue Valentine” with a commercially inhibiting NC-17 certificate, I failed to note that the MPAA’s most drastic rating celebrated rather a significant anniversary last week. October 5 made it 20 years since […]
THE LISTS: Top 10 NC-17 rated films
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:10 pm · October 12th, 2010
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INTERVIEW: Michael Shannon
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:53 am · December 24th, 2008
If you’ve seen James Marsh’s “Man on Wire,” then you know of Philippe Petit’s dazzling tight-rope walk between the towers of New York’s World Trade Center on the morning of August 7, 1974. What you probably don’t know is that while Petit was criss-crossing back and forth between the towers for roughly 45 minutes, Michael […]
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