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...Thailand is governed by a 1930 law that gives the police the right to censor films. But that might be about to change. This month, the Ministry of Culture is pushing before Thailand's military-appointed legislature a controversial new law that proponents say would move the country's censorship rules into the modern era. Many filmmakers, however, fear the proposed changes will only make censorship worse. "They want the power to control us," says Chalida Uabumrungjit, head of the nonprofit Thai Film Foundation...
...There's certainly a degree of dark humor in Apichatpong's latest predicament. Frustrated, and with the domestic prints of Syndromes currently in police custody, he has found inspiration for his next project, a film about censorship in Thailand with the working title of Primitive. The only problem is that there's no guarantee anyone in Thailand will be able...
...whose tastes run to head-spinning violence and slapstick comedy - but no politics or nudity, please. Fewer than 50 local movies are shown annually in Thailand, and the competition for screens spurs many studio bosses to work closely with censors or risk being shut out. The alternative is self-censorship. "We have learned to self-censor ourselves for a long time," says Pimpaka Towira, director of the critically lauded 2003 feature One Night Husband...
...After years of biting their tongues in public over censorship, filmmakers are now finding their voice - and not just art-house mavericks like Apichatpong. The Thai Film Directors' Association is lobbying lawmakers not to pass the act in its current form. Prachya Pinkaew, director of international martial-arts hits Ong-Bak and Tom Yum Goong, now sports a NO CUT, NO BAN anticensorship T shirt...
When students in 1924 accused Widener Library administrators of censorship, one librarian at the time called the act a “duty.” “There are filthy books, salacious books, books corrupting in influence, which it is no part of the library’s duty to distribute to readers,” said the librarian, William C. Lane, according to an editorial in The Crimson that year. While Harvard’s librarians and the Square’s booksellers no longer yank books from their shelves, they are highlighting controversial books as part...