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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zach Laws is a longtime entertainment journalist and movie features writer. He is also an independent filmmaker and member of the Screen Actors Guild based out of Los Angeles. Zach grew up watching ...

"Passages" is a drama directed by acclaimed filmmaker Ira Sachs and stars Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopoulos Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He has ...

Filmmaker Ira Sachs has called the Motion Picture Association’s decision to give his film an NC-17 rating “a form of cultural censorship.” In a conversation with the Los Angeles Times, Sachs said that ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Joaquin was pushing me further and going, ‘No, let’s go further,'" Haynes said while teasing his explicit next project during a Cannes Q&A with IndieWire. Speaking to IndieWire’s Eric Kohn during a ...

The post Joaquin Phoenix Exits NC-17 Gay Romance Film After Getting “Cold Feet” appeared first on Consequence. Joaquin Phoenix has exited out an upcoming gay romance film directed by Todd Haynes just ...