But that rating is creating controversy in two very different American cities: Boise and New York. Which makes one wonder: does Flicks also avoid R-rated movies with heterosexual sex scenes? And are all the strip clubs in Boise dry? And its management decided that the lesbian romance was neither pornographic nor unsuitable for older high schoolers.
Therefore, it announced that it would allow older teens to see Blue. Cinemark marketing chief Frank Gonzales told the Evanston Patch that the theater chain had been thinking for some time about testing the waters and allowing an NC movie to screen in one of its cinemas. All it means is that kids under 17 are not to be admitted. Its purpose was to distinguish grown-up art-film fare such as extreme sexual or violent content from X-worthy pornography, but Flicks and Cinemark, perhaps erring on the side of caution, have assumed it always means porn.
So have many other theater owners, newspaper advertising departments and rental chains, which is why Hollywood has considered NC commercial suicide and usually forces filmmakers to trim their work to receive no worse than an R.
Indeed, even the makers of the upcoming Fifty Shades of Grey , based on the kinky and explicit best-seller, are planning to release the film with an R rating, though they may also make an NC version. Even for a movie whose target audience expects to see explicit sex, the NC is still an iffy commercial prospect, at best.
Some movie exhibitors had a similar policy. Even if an audience for smart, adult movies were out there, it remained difficult to reach them. So, NC quickly gave rise to a death spiral of sorts. Furthermore, the films that seemed most often targeted for NC, as TIME reported in , seemed, consistently, to be explicitly sexual rather than explicitly violent, meaning that the MPAA was meaningfully defining mores.
As Ebert wisely saw, the problem in was that NC had replaced the old X but had never been meaningfully distinguished from it. Maybe the addition of some gradation, enabled by keeping both options around simultaneously, might have helped a number of sophisticated films over the past quarter-century escape cuts.
In recent years, two films have shown that things just might be changing. In , Shame , a movie about sexual compulsion that no reasonable cuts could have rendered suitable for kids, managed to get one of the top debuts ever for an NC film.
It was a limited sample size, but Fox Searchlight, the studio behind Shame , promoted the film aggressively rather than acting cowed. Contact us at letters time. A scene from the movie 'Henry and June'. By Daniel D'Addario.
The movie, which contains lesbian sex scenes and nudity, garnered an Oscar nomination for its cinematography, but critical reviews were mixed. It was therefore believed that a new rating was needed for adult dramas that dealt with serious themes but contained sexually explicit or violent content. The rating simply signals that the content is appropriate only for an adult audience. Though the movie community—from producers to distributors—favored the new rating, some religious organizations and conservative groups initially opposed it.
Radio and television stations operated by religious groups have condemned the new category, and in Birmingham, Ala.
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