"Guess what, now this is happening" is what sells it

@avclub-3943c09cea47e4ded54b24b829c0e4f7:disqus that was only in the unrated version

Ferrell said just a few weeks ago that he, Reilly and McKay were hoping to shoot Step Brothers 2 this fall

there was an alleged plot on the prime minister's life that emerged in the media about three months after Zoolander came out; the Malaysian government denied it and sued the newspaper that reported it

and that's why you don't remember math

SCAP can be blamed to the extent that they left the 1907 obscenity law on the books (along with the vast majority of pre-1945 laws); the body that hands out ratings in Japan (Eirin) was formed during the occupation, but it was formed by the film industry rather than the occupation authorities, had no statutory power…

the Legion of Decency never actually went away, it's called the "United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Office for Film and Broadcasting" now and their classifications aren't the same (they don't say "Condemned" any more), but they still hand out regular judgements:

well that and lazy press-release journalism, I'm guessing if Sorrentino had a U.S. press agent his situation might've got about 1/100th the coverage the Bully/MPAA thing (also fundamentally an issue of corporate censorship) has received

also banning Salò, unbanning it, rebanning it when a more conservative government came in, then unbanning it again but only for home video release (since it's required to have "contextualizing" material alongside the film itself)

meanwhile, Paolo Sorrentino gave an interview last week complaining that the Weinsteins demanded edits to This Must Be the Place to make it more comprehensible to us idiot Americans, joining filmmakers like Chen Kaige, Richard Williams, Stephen Chow, Wisit Sasanatieng, Zhang Yimou, Richard Stanley, Giuseppe Tornatore,…

I just put my Check It Out post in the Being Human (U.S.) thread pending the return of 2 Broke Girls, feel free to make use of it if you prefer

no 2 Broke Girls this week, so I'll put my Check It Out! post here

oh man hearing the AS shop is closed ruined my day, I never got around to picking up the last two volumes of Space Ghost and now I guess I have to buy the lousy NTSC-to-PAL versions from Australia :(

commemorating the 10-year (more or less) anniversary of this interview:

that was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the title of this article — it's a textbook example (and would be even without the coda, with the coda it takes off into another place entirely) and a much more interesting and worthwhile subject of consideration than goddamn Cruising and After.Life

Ferrara's been talking it up for like a decade now, he describes it as a Rashomon-meets-All That Jazz-type thing about Pasolini's last day

yeah man why'd I have to go and ruin those 1500+ positive posts with my negativity

they label it as NC-17 so there was clearly a screwup somewhere along the line

so this was another meta episode, right

I worked at a sports event in China once and one of the things they did at registration time was have one athlete from each country listen to a clip of their anthem and confirm whether it was correct