PG, PG-13, R and NC-17. You’ve seen them everywhere: on cinema posters, streaming platforms, and even Netflix thumbnails, and wondered what they mean. They are supposed to tell you whether a movie is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Movie ratings are strange, and every country has a different rating system and different things that the people behind that system take into account when it comes to deciding a movie’s rating. There ...

The MPAA film rating system, especially the NC-17 rating, can significantly impact the commercial success of a film's theatrical release, often favoring studio productions over international or ...

The upcoming film “Passages,” directed and co-written by Ira Sachs, has received a rare NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Assn., the Los Angeles Times has exclusively learned. A decision has been ...

Director Bertolucci, who knows about controversy from his “Last Tango in Paris” days decades ago, said in a statement, “‘The Dreamers’ is finally making it to the U.S. in its uncut version. I’m ...

David Heath is a List Writer from the UK specializing in video games, movies, TV shows, and the occasional anime. While some countries restrict films with age ratings, the US is surprisingly loose by ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ira Sachs never set out to make an NC-17-rated film. The New York-based, 57-year-old filmmaker of sharply observed independent films ( “Love Is Strange,”“Little Men” ) was compelled to ...

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