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	Banned film, banned films
		Banned film icelandic film censors dont give a shit i know a vidoe store that has toned ofbanned films for sale and they are unrated havnt gone trough film censors heh.
		Banned film IFEX :: CMFR condemns banning of a film.
		Banned film Although the DGA does not support a ban on smoking in films, it will supportpublic service announcements to play before audiences view films in which.
	www.security-deposit.net /banned_film.html (1088 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| News \| Iran bans foreign films
		The ban, which follows Mr Ahmadinejad's campaign promise to promote Islamic culture and confront what he called a cultural invasion by the west, aims to distance the state from the open cultural policies undertaken by former reformist president Mohammad Khatami that encouraged cultural coexistence and dialogue among civilisations.
		It is understood that the ban will have little effect on cinemas where few Western films play anyway, but it could dramatically change television, where all channels are controlled by the state and overseen by religious hardliners.
		Films considered hostile to the Islamic values preached by the ruling establishment are already banned altogether.
	film.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,12589,1600883,00.html (432 words)

	BANNED CHINESE FILMS DEBUT AT ATHENS FESTIVAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		They are the work of China's youngest generation of film directors, also referred to as the Sixth Generation, who work in secret to escape government censorship.
		"The films address contemporary social issues and each film maker, ranging in age from his or her late 20s to 30s, has produced at least one award-winning film," Lau said.
		This is the story of a young couple, despairing of lives as art teachers in a depressing urban environment, who retreat to a bucolic vacation in hopes of salvaging their relationship.
	www.ohiou.edu /news/months/JAN1999/124.HTML (398 words)

	Chile: Progress Stalled - Film Censorship Reform
		However, current laws still require television channels, including cable, not to exhibit any film banned by the CCC in earlier years, including many prohibited for political and ideological reasons ("those that foment or propagate doctrines or ideas that are contrary to the fundamental principles of the fatherland or nationality, like Marxism and others").
		Made in 1980, the film was one of six banned by the CCC in 1992.
		It also proposed that films designated as pornographic (a term the law attempts to define) be restricted for exhibition in special theaters distant from residential areas and schools.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2001/chile/Foe05fin-05.htm (2494 words)

	What was the first film to be banned? in The AnswerBank: Film & TV
		Ironically, one of the first films to be banned in Britain has become recognised as one of the best films made - anywhere.
		Most films are banned by governments, but A Clockwork Orange was banned at the behest of the director.
		it was banned in Britain from 1974 to 1997. Kubrick was so worried that his film might be causing mass panic on British streets he asked for it to be removed from UK screens.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article1980.html (657 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		But they have been banned from the big screen in both countries due to government concern that scenes of actresses being romanced by men and dancing in somewhat revealing costumes might permeate their Muslim cultures in which female modesty is prized and intermingling among the sexes is taboo.
		India's Hindi-language film industry in Mumbai, widely known as Bollywood, churns out hundreds of blockbuster films a year which are wildly popular in India and in neighbouring countries where Bollywood stars are household names.
		Bangladeshi authorities banned Indian films at movie theatres in 1972, complaining that scenes of women singing and dancing were erotic and violated Islamic and Bengali traditions.
	www.arabtimesonline.com /arabtimes/breakingnews/view.asp?msgID=12553 (890 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Iran 'crackdown on foreign films'
		Foreign films, particularly action and detective films, are shown on Iranian television and cinema, although they are already strictly censored for sexual content, alcohol usage and women wearing revealing clothing.
		The new ban could mean that state television, cinemas and arts festivals cut back on the number of foreign films they show.
		One film director told the BBC that he feared the vagueness of some of the terms included in the new ban could give a free hand to judges in Iran's conservative judiciary to interpret it as they wished.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/4358780.stm (334 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Banned Cinema
		Featuring seven films, some of which are utterly obscure and some that enjoyed wide release, the Banned Cinema series kicks off with director Martin Scorsese's Last Temptation of Christ (April 30 and May 2), a film that was dogged by protests from fundamentalist groups through every stage of its conception.
		Premiering at a 1967 film festival, court injunction barred Wiseman from showing the film in public again until 1991, ostensibly due to patient privacy issues, but also because administrators sought to squelch public knowledge of hospital conditions.
		Banned Cinema ends with Henry and June (May 7), Philip and Rose Kaufman's sexually explicit film about the writers Henry Miller, Anais Nin and Miller's wife, June.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/04.28.04/banned-0418.html (684 words)

	In the Extreme: Pasolini's Salo
		Along with being a film director, Pasolini was a novelist, poet, theoretician and journalist.
		All his cinematic life, Pasolini was obsessed with the capacity of the film image to impart reality/truth, and to do it with a shock.
		In an age where the Holocaust has been constantly explored, investigated, discussed in both fiction films and documentaries (in an attempt obviously to deal with and resolve it), there are any number of other things that the cinema could at least make an initial stab at but doesn't.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/00/4/salo.html (1616 words)

	Banned film, banned films
		Banned film We have distributed 100 copies of the recently banned film Baise-Moi in centralWellington.
		Banned film The time of distribution and drop off points have been chosen in.
		Banned film First, the ban on a film hastily but unjustly condemned as pornographic by.
	www.cational-journal.com /banned_film.html (1196 words)

	UB Reporter: Buffalo Film Seminars begins another series of classics
		At UB, the film seminars are sponsored by the Capen Chair in American Culture, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of English.
		Renoir's most celebrated film, this satire on the French class structure is so good that the film was banned in France until 1956.
		In the U.S., films were banned because they were too sexy; in France, they were banned because their ideas about society were too accurate.
	www.buffalo.edu /reporter/vol34/vol34n1/articles/Films.html (875 words)

	Film board chief on the defensive over banned movie - theage.com.au
		The film was due to screen at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
		"Every film had to be classified, cuts were demanded, some films were banned," he said.
		He said banning a film was futile in the technological age because content was available on the internet.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/07/04/1057179156219.html (565 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Kabul bans Indian films (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Films are censored by the Afghan Film Institute
		Indian films, with their mix of melodrama, romance and songs have become hugely popular since the fall of the Taleban, who banned music and television.
		Ironically, Indian films and images of women singing are regularly shown in Kandahar, the deeply conservative former Taleban stronghold and often appear on television in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/2222332.stm (383 words)

	Censorship in Singapore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Exception are, however, made for films "made solely for the purpose of reporting of current events", or informing or educating persons on the procedures and polling times of elections or referenda.
		Jeyaretnam was also banned for being a "party political film".
		On 28 September 2006, FEER was banned for failing to comply with conditions imposed under the Newspaper and Printing Presses Act.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Singapore_Rebel (2125 words)

	ALA \| Action Guide, Suggested Activities
		Bauerle explains this somewhat “illogical” grouping—the books were challenged or banned due to their content, not the color of the author—stating that the books provide realistic portrayals of the fl experience and may have been censored because of the sordidness of that experience.
		In each of these books—and in many other banned books throughout the store—are custom-made bookmarks with the author and title of the book, reasons why the book was banned, and in what year.
		observed Banned Books Week by printing a calendar showing activities in the library, as well as holidays, events, etc. Each month of the calendar was illustrated with a quotation by a prominent artist, poet, philosopher, scientist, or statesman on the importance of the freedom to read.
	www.ala.org /ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/actionguide/actionguide.htm (4997 words)

	Banned films - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Films were either approved or not under the Code, and those that were generally had little or no problems passing muster with state or local censors.
		Due to the small size of the country, films banned by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) are rarely even submitted for release in Ireland, due to the high costs of promotion and distribution for such a small area.
		Films on this list were banned and distributors of said films were viable to be prosecuted (some of the films were banned before this list was made).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Banned_films (4388 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Are there any films banned in America?
		Made in 1967, the film was subjected to a worldwide ban until 1992 because the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that it was an invasion of inmate privacy.
		The film goes behind the walls to show stark and graphic images exposing the treatment of inmates by guards, social workers, and psychiatrists.
		The story behind the complicated legal issues raised by this film and the attempts to suppress it are detailed by Carolyn Anderson and Thomas W. Benson in their book, Documentary Dilemmas: Frederick Wiseman's "Titicut Follies" (Southern Illinois University Press, 1991).
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=364490 (1395 words)

	DEFA Film Library Catalog
		Today the film is considered one of the most modern and experimental films in DEFA's history.
		After lending its name to all the banned "Rabbit Films" of 1965, this film earned critical praise after 1989 as one of the most important and courageous works ever filmed by DEFA.
		Based on original documents from the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), this film tells the story of a young warrior Ulzana who is out to avenge the extermination of his tribe, which was led by American geologist Johnson.
	www.defafilmlibrary.com (313 words)

	Banned Cinema Season (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		All eleven of the films that made up this outstanding collection were withdrawn by the communist authorities, despite the fact that few openly attacked the political system.
		Some were banned for using imagery other than socialist realism, others due to the involvement of ‘objectionable’ people.
		The films were preceded by original newsreels from the year they were made, recreating the atmosphere of central and Eastern European movie theatres as they were in the 60s and 70s, and highlighting the sharp contrast between the propaganda material of the time and how it all was seen by the fillmakers.
	www.hungary.org.uk /English/diary/2002/banned_cinema_season.htm (221 words)

	A fresh look at banned Russian films \| Fenway Views (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		”Brief Encounters,” her 1967 debut, and the follow-up, ”Long Farewells,” provoked such strong reaction that both were banned in that country for their realism and most of the director’s work was suppressed.
		The films were finally made widely available, and Muratova has become a key figure of late-20th-century Russian cinema.
		The retrospective includes ”Passions,” one of Muratova’s most popular films in Russia and winner of the 1994 Nika (the country’s equivalent of an Oscar) for best film.
	fenway-views.com /a_fresh_look_at_banned_russian_films (146 words)

	What movies are banned in your country? - Movie-List Forums
		I can think of only one film banned in UK where the ban is likely to remain if the studios tried to release them now.
		Both wer banned for rape and were released last year in cut form.
		Banned films I feel are just pure exploitation that pushes the boundaries of taste which is not what movies should do - they can be shocking, but they can't just be an indurance test in replusion.
	www.movie-list.com /forum/showthread.php?t=9118 (990 words)

	Ban on Western films attempts to curtail social freedoms, experts say its futile
		The ban aims to distance the Persian state from the open cultural policies undertaken by Khatami that encouraged cultural coexistence and dialogue among civilizations.
		The Supreme Cultural Revolutionary Council said the banned films "damage and humiliate eastern traditions and culture" and promote "arrogant powers," a propaganda term Iran's government uses to describe the United States.
		Raisian said the ban would have little affect on cinemas where few Western films play any way, but it could dramatically change television, where all channels are controlled by the state and overseen by religious hard-liners.
	www.freenewmexican.com /news/34234.html (1027 words)

	Films About Palestine That Are Banned in the USA : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		These films are basically BANNED in the US and in Israel, BUT thanks to modern technology, it is as simple as one-two-three to order one or all of them with your computer.
		This film is showing in Europe to critical acclaim, yet all the PBS channels and programs, such as POV, etc., have refused to show it here in America, although it is making the rounds in various film festivals.
		The film was so popular at last April's Chicago Palestine Film Festival that hundreds of people had to be turned away, even when an unscheduled screening was added.
	sf.indymedia.org /news/2002/12/1554318.php (3740 words)

	China Bans Cartoons With Live Actors - CBS News
		The government's main television and film regulator warned in a Feb. 15 notice to broadcasters and theaters that cartoons including live characters could no longer be shown.
		The cartoon ban is intended to "promote the development and prosperity of the cartoon industry in China," said the statement issued by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.
		It has said it might ban all foreign cartoons from prime time television once the quantity and quality of domestic productions is considered adequate.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/02/23/entertainment/main1340800.shtml (601 words)

	Uncle Remus, folktales and personal freedom, Confederate magnets, Silent Sam UNC
		The book that the film is based on is called Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings, written by Joel Chandler Harris in the aftermath of the War Between the States.
		All of this was made acceptable to the white Southern audiences of the 1870's and the 1940's by the fact that while Brer Rabbit is often violent and hateful, his narrator, Uncle Remus the slave, is always loving, kind and docile.
		This is the very reason that Song of the South was banned in the 1960's.
	www.bannedfilms.com (1622 words)

	Should adult films be banned on TV? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Police say operators have flouted a ban on films rated A or U/A by the Indian Censor Board.
		Yes i think 'A' graded movies should be banned on tv sets as it has become a offence to watch in front of parents.Now people...
		As per my opinion/experience, it should not be banned as it is the right of each and every citizens to what we have to watch.
	www.rediff.com /movies/2006/aug/24msg1.htm (200 words)

	Association for Asia Research- Foreign films banned in Beijing this summer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		An unnamed government official from the Film Administration Bureau stated that companies have already been notified that starting in July they will only be allowed to show domestic films.
		The domestic film industry in China is experiencing severe strain from the availability of inexpensive, pirated films.
		There are two reasons for the Chinese government ban on the importation of foreign films.
	www.asianresearch.org /articles/2168.html (270 words)

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