Last month, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) gave out director Ira Sachs’s new film Passages an NC-17 rating. As noted by the Los Angeles Times, which first reported on the rating, NC-17 was ...

Another year brings another NC-17 controversy at the movies. This time it’s for “Passages,” the acclaimed romance drama from Ira Sachs that earned strong reviews out of the Sundance Film Festival ...

Content Warning: The following article contains discussions of sexual abuse, rape, pedophilia, drug use, and gun violence.Most film directors try to avoid the dreaded NC-17 rating like the plague. It ...

The line between R and NC-17 has always been a moving target, an arbitrary threshold that often reflects moral panic more than genuine concern. For decades, filmmakers have found themselves in battles ...

Filmmaker Ira Sachs has spoken out against the Motion Picture Association’s NC-17 rating of his Sundance film “Passages,” slamming the ratings board as “anti-progress” and saying that he will not ...

This week, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) caused a stir when it labeled the film Passages—the queer love triangle drama from acclaimed filmmaker Ira Sachs—with an infamous NC-17 rating.

It’s almost unheard of these days to see a movie with an NC-17 rating. The adults-only designation was created by the Motion Picture Association of America in an attempt to replace the earlier X ...

Ira Sachs’s new film Passages has received an NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association (MPA), and the out director is not happy about it. Subscribe to our ...

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