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...Kimberly Peirce, the director of the 1999 Boys Don't Cry, which won a Best Actress Oscar for Hillary Swank, puts is bluntly: "The studio won't release your film if you have an NC-17." Which raises the question most relevant to filmmakers: Does the U.S. have a place for movies you wouldn't want your kids...
...Dick - who made the terrific (NC-17) study Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist in 1977, and earned an Oscar nomination for the predatory-priest doc Twist of Faith - asks pertinent, pointed questions about the secrecy of the process. Filmmakers are not told the identity of their judges, either on the nine-person ratings committee or on the larger appeals board. Part of the movie's fun is in Dick's hiring of a detective who tracks down the names of the members on these two star chambers. (The sleuthing is amusing but ultimately irrelevant. The raters...
...Once upon a time, in the late '60s and early '70s, there was something that deserved the term adult entertainment. It delved responsibly into mature themes for a wide, grown-up audience. Midnight Cowboy, which won the Oscar as best picture of 1969, was rated X; if you weren't at least 18, you couldn't see it. Same with such excellent films as Medium Cool and The Devils. I don't remember mass complaints that kids couldn't see these films. The idea then was that some things - intelligent films and, for that matter, the profits that came from...
JESSICA LANGE needs to get out more. Filmmaking is often "drudgery," the two time Oscar winner told TIME. "You're held prisoner in your trailer, and then you kinda drag yourself over to the set." Not so with her spunky new road movie, Bonneville, which premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Her character hijacks two pals (KATHY BATES and, in the backseat, JOAN ALLEN) in a '66 Bonneville as she drives her husband's ashes to California to be buried next to his first wife. Why was that the most filmmaking fun Lange...
...goes by so fast you want to do a quick rewind - Short's buttery impression of Ray Bolger, as an animated fencepost in a spoof of The Wizard of Oz, for example, or the spot-on impressions of Jodie Foster and Ren?e Zellweger announcing the nominees in Marty's Oscar category (he loses, but makes a soused acceptance speech anyway). Some of the Broadway parodies - a Tommy Tune on stilts, a Godspell-Jesus Christ Superstar sendup - are more familiar, but sharp and funny nevertheless...