I'm not excusing anybody. I'm saying that you can't act like a moron and not expect consequences.
That's entirely different. You would not have done anything wrong.
I'm talking about the moron's car being torched.
Iran trys to get holland to ban dutch mp's film about the "violence provoking koran"
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I'm not excusing anybody. I'm saying that you can't act like a moron and not expect consequences.
That's entirely different. You would not have done anything wrong.
I'm talking about the moron's car being torched.
Actually the KKK have rallies in the USA. I remember a large KKK rally in the capitol city of Michigan. A lot of Black Americans live in that city. Not a single person was hurt. For the most part people listened to the perceived grievances and left it at that. Black people know, much as I have come to understand, it's really a waste of breath to try and change some people's attitude. It's better to just ignore them and get on with living life. Sometimes they have a debate but it must be point for point - something that can not happen at a KKK rally. It's like debating a monotheist about God at a religous center - waste of breath, waste of time.
Well, I posted in Linguistics and no there is no evidence that Arabic is the mother of all languages. If anything it appears to be a relatively new language.
Now, what I wonder is, does that change your mind? Do you accept that Arabic is not the root of all languages and is a new language or do you continue to carry on with your beleif?
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Did the Blacks start mocking whites?
yeah, that still doesn't excuse murder - right?
I posted Piss Christ - what if someone made an artwork called Piss Mohammad - is that OK? Or is that too much for Muslim sensitivities? Should we now ban certain forms of art work too? Look, people have the right to their own beliefs - many people believe the Qur'an is a murderous book that promotes bigotry and intolerance. Get used to it. Just as sure as Arsalan is that Xiantiy is not a truly Universal religion - people think Islam = evil. So, the only way to get people to not think Islam = Evil and Mohammad is not Satan is to NOT go on a killing rampage.
Tell me Norsefire, when the Taliban destroyed those 2500 year old statues (much much MUCH worse than this stupid film) did China have the right to then invade and murder Muslims? Well? Does it give them the right?
Think about the Buddhist's response to that atrocity and you'll soon see why most Westerns think Buddhist are good healthy people (even though their beleif system is incompatible with Xianity - to some degree).
If Muslims go off acting like savage animals - that's exactly how they will be seen.
Michael
I posted Piss Christ - what if someone made an artwork called Piss Mohammad - is that OK? Or is that too much for Muslim sensitivities? Should we now ban certain forms of art work too? Look, people have the right to their own beliefs - many people believe the Qur'an is a murderous book that promotes bigotry and intolerance. Get used to it. Just as sure as Arsalan is that Xiantiy is not a truly Universal religion - people think Islam = evil. So, the only way to get people to not think Islam = Evil and Mohammad is not Satan is to NOT go on a killing rampage.
Tell me Norsefire, when the Taliban destroyed those 2500 year old statues (much much MUCH worse than this stupid film) did China have the right to then invade and murder Muslims? Well? Does it give them the right?
Think about the Buddhist's response to that atrocity and you'll soon see why most Westerns think Buddhist are good healthy people (even though their beleif system is incompatible with Xianity - to some degree).
If Muslims go off acting like savage animals - that's exactly how they will be seen.
Michael
If you insult the highest human figure of Islam in the most offensive way, there will be retribution. There's a fine line between disagreeing with the religion's philosophies and teachings, and drawing obscene pictures of its prophet, with the sole purpose of embarrassing and insulting Muslims. This isn't a one-way road for most Muslims, I must remind you. I don't care what faith (or lack thereof) in particular we're discussing - in no circumstance should people be able to insult and spread hate against another religion (or lack thereof).
You don't like Islam? Fine. Get in line. If you truly want to make Islam a "better" religion (as defined by your own standards), then engage in some constructive criticism, but most importantly, be open about what the other side has to say. What good is making a movie that insults and harshly scrutinizes the holiest book to 1/4 of the world's population, without the willingness to hear the other side? Why doesn't this particular filmmaker debate on television somebody knowledgeable regarding Islam? If his inquiries are so genuine, and his knowledge unerring, I'm sure he can be scheduled with Dr. Zakir Naik.
Michael mentions artwork called "Piss Jesus", which I find terrible. I don't care what religion, or what lack of religion, offensive artwork targets - it shouldn't be permissible, as it offends and insults a particular group (in this case, a minority under a microscope). What do movies like this, credible or not, incite? Hatred and misunderstanding. This filmmaker could be inaccurate in every one of his accusations, but to the people who are uneducated on Islam, it would be like a fountain of knowledge. This film will do nothing but cause more hatred and anger towards Muslims, and it will brainwash a public devoid of any knowledge concerning Islam to an even more hopeless state.
You don't like Islam? Fine. Get in line. If you truly want to make Islam a "better" religion (as defined by your own standards), then engage in some constructive criticism, but most importantly, be open about what the other side has to say. What good is making a movie that insults and harshly scrutinizes the holiest book to 1/4 of the world's population, without the willingness to hear the other side? Why doesn't this particular filmmaker debate on television somebody knowledgeable regarding Islam? If his inquiries are so genuine, and his knowledge unerring, I'm sure he can be scheduled with Dr. Zakir Naik.
Michael mentions artwork called "Piss Jesus", which I find terrible. I don't care what religion, or what lack of religion, offensive artwork targets - it shouldn't be permissible, as it offends and insults a particular group (in this case, a minority under a microscope). What do movies like this, credible or not, incite? Hatred and misunderstanding. This filmmaker could be inaccurate in every one of his accusations, but to the people who are uneducated on Islam, it would be like a fountain of knowledge. This film will do nothing but cause more hatred and anger towards Muslims, and it will brainwash a public devoid of any knowledge concerning Islam to an even more hopeless state.
its called respect for people and their beliefs. ITs what holds societies together.
Again, if they want to challenge Islam or criticise it, there's a difference between that and being a moron
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If someone is misguided or idiotic enough to believe that the number thirteen is a cause of bad luck, they are free to believe it. And I am free to point out that it is superstitious nonsense. In case you missed it (back at the beginning of this thread)
The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.
True enough, even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he pleases, provided only he does not try to inflict them upon other men by force. He has a right to argue for them as eloquently as he can, in season and out of season. He has a right to teach them to his children. But certainly he has no right to be protected against the free criticism of those who do not hold them. He has no right to demand that they be treated as sacred. He has no right to preach them without challenge. Did Darrow, in the course of his dreadful bombardment of Bryan, drop a few shells, incidentally, into measurably cleaner camps? Then let the garrisons of those camps look to their defenses. They are free to shoot back. But they can't disarm their enemy.
-- H L Mencken, "Aftermath" (coverage of the Scopes Trial) The Baltimore Evening Sun, (September 14, 1925)
That is how it is here, where we have a first amendment. Andres Serrano's Piss Christ created a controversy, mostly because a government agency provided the funding for this artist. Some questioned whether such highly controversial art should be funded by taxpayers. The freedom of the artist to create the work was never the issue.
Do your worst! Conjure up the most offensive things you can imagine, and film them. To me, nothing is sacred. The Constitution is only important for what it says. Physically burning it is insignificant; undermining the freedom it represents is the only real offense possible.
Stick with offensive words and images, and there is no problem as far as I am concerned. Killing people, burning buildings, rioting; big problem.
Australia
Australia's OFLC (Office of Film and Literature Classification) is responsible for much of the censorship, however each state and territory is free to make additional legislation. See also Censorship in Australia.
In practice, films still get a short cinematic run before they are reviewed & prevented from being shown at cinemas or released on DVD, but broadband Internet access allows people who want to watch such films to do so.
* 1907: The Victorian Chief Secretary banned screenings of The Story of the Kelly Gang in Benalla and Wangaratta.
* 1911: Exhibition of The Story of the Kelly Gang film was banned in Adelaide.
* 1912: The New South Wales police department banned the production of bushranger films.
* 1928 to 1941: Chief Censor Creswell O'Reilly and his board ban many movies in this period, including Dawn, Klondike Annie (starring Mae West), Applause (it contained chorus girls), Compulsory Hands, Cape Forlorn, The Ladies Man (sexual overtones), White Cargo (interracial theme), The Five Year Plan (discussed communism), All Quiet on the Western Front, Gang Bullets, Each Dawn I Die, Hell's Kitchen (three US gangster films), The King and the Chorus Girl, The Birth of a Baby ("not in the public interest"), Green Pastures, Susan and God (blasphemy), Reefer Madness and Of Mice and Men (sex and violence in combination).
* 1942 - The Monster and the Girl, The Man With Two Lives, The Invisible Ghost, and King Kong, Frankenstein, Dracula plus their respective sequels are all banned.
* 1964 to 1970: R. J. Prowse is appointed Chief Censor and Campbell goes into the Appeals Board. During the liberal 1960s many more films were being banned including The Miracle, Viridiana, La dolce vita, Satyricon, The Silence, Blowup and Zabriskie Point.
* 1971: Customs Minister Don Chipp begins the development of a new classification system which includes the much-needed R18+ rating for adult content, meaning movies that were once banned are gradually released.
* 1972: Pink Flamingos was banned until 1984, when it is passed with an X18+ (later R18+) rating.
* 1975: Under pressure from Western conservatives, the OFLC viewed the arthouse Belgian film Vase de Noces (also known as Wedding Trough) and banned it from being played at the Perth International Film Festival (before this, film festivals were not held by restrictions of the censors). In a controversial move, the board lifted the ban on appeal, and the film was allowed to be screened.
* 1976: Pasolini's Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma is banned. Vase de Noces is re-banned, and it remains banned to this day.
* 1984 : A governmental conference is held, resulting in the X18+ rating being introduced to cope with the upsurge in hardcore pornographic films, and the later abolition of X18+ rated material in most Australian states (ownership of hardcore porn remains legal). Cannibal Holocaust, an extremely graphic cannibal film by director Ruggero Deodato, was banned until 2005.
* 1986: Lucker the Necrophagous is banned due to its graphic necrophilia content.
* 1990: Gail Malone is fired and the Queensland Film Board of Review is disbanded when the new Labor Premier Wayne Goss is outraged that the Board had banned an edited version of Bad Taste after a three-week run in cinemas (the South Australian Classification Council cut it by a further 4 min 30 sec for an M rating). It is later released uncut on DVD. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors was also banned for a brief period, but later released on VHS and DVD.
* 1992: The Chinese gore film Dr. Lamb, previously banned in 1981, is released with 9 m 30s cut (the poster is still banned). Nekromantik, its sequel Nekromantik 2 and Joe D'Amato's Buio Omega are banned for necrophilia content, The Beast in Heat is banned for excessive sexual violence and Final Exit are banned for controversial themes after customs consfiscations.
* 1993: The ban on Pasolini's Salò is lifted. The MA15+ classification is introduced.
* 1995: Twelve queer films are banned from Tasmania's Queer film festival, including Spikes and Heels, Coming Out Under Fire, What a Lesbian Looks Like, Mad About the Boy, 21st century Nuns and Sex Fish. [1]
* 1996: The Frighteners was banned in Tasmania because of sensitivity of the nature of the recent Port Arthur massacre (including a similar appearance of the film's antagonist and the gunman, Martin Bryant). The film has been since been televised and as released on VHS and DVD without problems.
* 1997: Pasolini's Salò is re-banned, a ban still in force.
* 2000: Romance is banned, but is later passed on appeal by the OFLC with an R18+ rating.
* 2002: Baise-moi is banned after initially being passed with an R18+ rating.
* 2003: Ken Park is banned, and NSW police close down a planned screening of the film.
* 2005: Wolf Creek was temporarily banned in the Northern Territory to avoid influence during the trial of Bradley John Murdoch for murder. It was re-released in the Northern Territory in January 2006.[2] The OFLC unbanned a number of previously banned films including Cannibal Holocaust and The New York Ripper after a lengthy review. The South Australian Classification Council upgrades the classification of 9 Songs from R18+ to X18+, effectively banning it in South Australia (it remains R18+ in the rest of the country).
Canada
Prior to the late 1980s and early 1990s, all Canadian provinces banned films with no purpose other than the display of explicit sexuality or excessive violence.
* 1918: Manitoba institutes a ban (since lifted) on all comedies.
* 1972: Pink Flamingos is edited in several provinces with the Maritimes banning it outright until 1997.
* 1976: Bloodsucking Freaks is banned in the Maritimes and Ontario.
* 1977: In the Realm of the Senses is banned by all provinces except Quebec. In 1991, the ban was overturned by most provinces.
* 1979: Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens is banned in the Maritimes.
* 1980: Caligula is banned by all provinces, edited versions were later passed.
* 1980: The Tin Drum is edited and later banned outright as child pornography by the Ontario Film Classification Board.
* 1983: I Spit on Your Grave was banned in the Maritimes until 1998.
* 1985: Day of the Dead is banned in Ontario and the Maritimes, with a cut version passed in Ontario.
* 1987: Bad Taste is banned in Nova Scotia; it is now available on DVD with an 18 rating.
* 1989-1993: The Death Scenes video series is banned in the Maritimes.
* 1994: Exit to Eden is temporarily banned by the Saskatchewan Film and Video Classification Board.
* 1997: Bastard Out of Carolina is banned by the Maritime Film Classification Board. This decision was later appealed and a video release was allowed.
* 2001: Fat Girl banned by the Ontario Film Review Board until 2003.
* 2006: Bumfights is banned in seven of the ten provinces; the remaining three give it an R rating.
At present, only films containing prohibited material (such as child pornography) or under court order (such as libel or copyright infringement) are banned in Canadian Provinces.
Finland
* 1940s: During World War II, Finland banned the films Mrs. Miniver and Johnny Eager in 1943.
Other films banned in Finland include:
* 1930: Bronenosets Potyomkin
* 1933-1939: King Kong
* 1947-1949: The Big Sleep .
* 1948: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
* 1956-1959: Rififi, for an extended sequence detailing how to crack a safe. A 1959 re-cut was allowed.
* 1957: The Curse of Frankenstein and its sequels The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969).
* 1960: Peeping Tom
* 1964-1987: The Manchurian Candidate
* 1972: Dirty Harry
* 1981: Cruising
* 1981: Evil Dead
* 1984-2001: Cannibal Holocaust
France
* 1939: Beau Geste was banned until 1977 for portraying the Foreign Legion in a negative light and insulting French culture
* 1943: Le Corbeau was banned until 1969, first by the Nazis, then the French government, for dealing with collaboration.
* 1953: Les statues meurent aussi, a short film by Alain Resnais was banned. Its theme was that Western civilization is responsible for the decline of black art. The film was seen at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953 but subsequently banned by the French censor.[3]
* 1957-1975: Paths of Glory was banned because it suggested that French soldiers in World War I executed their own soldiers for cowardice. [4] This was done by the Italian and British armies, but there is no evidence that it was done by the French.
* 1960: Le Petit Soldat was banned on political grounds and the ban was lifted in 1963 with certain cuts.[5]
* 1970: Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal, also known as Do not Deliver Us from Evil, was a movie based on the Parker-Hulme murder that was banned for blasphemy.
Germany
* 1919: Different From The Others banned for homosexual themes.[3]
* 1933 - 1945: Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin), a film made by Sergei Eisenstein depicting the 1905 Revolution in Odessa, was banned during the period of the Third Reich.
* 1939 - 1945: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, starring James Stewart and directed by Frank Capra, was banned for political reasons, according to Capra's autobiography The Name Above The Title.
* 1940s-1998: The Great Dictator, starring Charlie Chaplin, was banned during Hitler's regime in Germany because of its satirical depictions of the dictator.
* 1945: Triumph of the Will is nowadays only allowed to be shown in critical context, e.g. with introductory remarks.
* 1974: Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS. Also banned in Australia, Norway and the UK.
* 1983: Maniac, the first ban of a video tape in Germany.
* 1984: § 131 StGB, the act against violent media is reformed. In the following time there were many films banned because of violent contents. All these films are still banned.
* 1984: Cannibal Holocaust was banned until 1990; the uncut version is still banned outright.
* 1985: The Evil Dead was banned until a version with a few seconds cut was legalized in 1993; the uncut version is still banned.
* 1985: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. A court in Munich banned this horror classic (still banned).
* 1988: Friday the 13th Part 3 and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (heavily cut) are banned on the same day by a court in Frankfurt.
* 1991: Dawn of the Dead. The censor's favorite: more than 10 versions of George A. Romero's film are banned in Germany, even heavily cut versions.
* 2000: Braindead - later cut (uncut version still banned).
* 2003: After an 18 year old pupil run amok in a German school and killed 17 people with a handgun before shooting himself, the § 131 StGB was reformed again.
* 2004: Blood Feast. A court in Karlsruhe banned this film more than 40 years after its making.
* 2006: Spielen wir Liebe, an infamous exploitation movie from 1977, was banned because of child pornography.
India
* 1970 - Kissa Kursi Ka was banned for political reasons.
* 1984 - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was banned for its "racist portrayal of Indians and overt imperialistic tendencies".[6] For example, the film shows chilled monkey brains are served as a dessert in India, which in reality, contradicts the reverence Hindus have towards monkeys due to mythological character Hanuman in the epic Ramayana.
* 1996 - Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (cut version available)
Ireland
* 1931: Monkey Business was banned because censors feared it would encourage anarchic tendencies.
* 1967: Ulysses, based on the book by James Joyce - unbanned September 2000.
* 1968: Rocky Road to Dublin (documentary which in part questioned Irish censorship) - unbanned in 2003.
* 1971: A Clockwork Orange - unbanned in 2000.
* 1979: Monty Python's The Life of Brian - unbanned in 1987.
* 1983: Monty Python's The Meaning of Life - unbanned in 1990.
* 1984: Cannibal Holocaust - unbanned in 2006.
* 1989: Meet The Feebles - still banned as of 2007.
* 1991: Riki-Oh - unbanned in 2002.
* 1994: Natural Born Killers - unbanned.
* 1996: From Dusk Till Dawn - unbanned in 2000.
* 1999: Romance - still banned.
* 2000: Baise Moi - still banned.
Israel
The government has media censorship based on British emergency regulations from 1948 stating that applies to domestic media, foreign newspapers and wire service transmissions from or through Israel. The Israeli Military Censor has the power to turn off a broadcaster, stop information and arrest journalists, however these extreme measures have been rarely used. The Israeli Film Ratings Board has banned a few films containing obscene or racist material, or incitement to violence; for "expressing support for illegal or terrorist organizations" or questioning the government's actions against terrorists. An example is the 2002 film Jenin, Jenin, in which survivors of the Jenin massacre, led by Ariel Sharon, were interviewed. The ban was lifted by the country's Supreme Court in August 2005. [7]
Italy
Although there is a censorship board run by the government and in which one member is drawn from the Roman Catholic Church, very few movies are not certified for release. Notably, Lion of the Desert, starring Anthony Quinn and concerning the Libyan revolution against Italy, and a few other films concerning Italian war crimes during its brief colonial history were banned for a time during the post-Mussolini period. Almost all Pasolini's movies, including Salo: 120 Days of Sodom (1975), were banned for a while but then released. Luc Besson's film The Big Blue was banned for 14 years because Enzo Maiorca felt that it inaccurately portrayed him and his rivalry with Jacques Mayol. Last Tango in Paris was banned for some time as well. Another Italian film, Cannibal Holocaust, was banned in Italy from 1980-1984. It was banned on the belief that the actors were actually killed for the movie (i.e. that it was an actual snuff film). When this was proven false, it was banned by an animal cruelty law (the film features the actual slayings of many animals), until the verdict was overturned in 1984. Also banned under Mussolini was the film adaptations of Ayn Rand's novel We the Living, titled Noi vivi and Addio, Kira.
New Zealand
* 1981 - Mad Max[8] (VHS release was not banned[9])
* 2004 - Puni Puni Poemy[10]
* 2006 - Bumfights: Cause for Concern[11], Bumfights 2: Bumlife[12]
* 2006 - Cannibal Holocaust[13]
* 2007 - Hostel: Part II[14] (excisions recommended but not made)
South Africa
* 1971: A Clockwork Orange was banned.
* 1984: Cannibal Holocaust was seized by customs (specific year is unknown at this time). It was given an XX rating, which prevented it from being sold in the country. It is now rated 18 for a cut version (the uncut version is still banned).
* 1990: Henry & June was banned.
* 2007: Saw IV was banned because it refuses to cut out the parts not intended for South Africa.
Spain
* 1939-1976: The Battleship Potemkin was banned.
* 1940-1976: The Great Dictator was banned for its portrayal of Fascism.
* 1957-1986: Paths of Glory was banned by General Francisco Franco's dictatorship, for its anti-military message. It was released in 1986, 11 years after Franco's death.
* 1972: Last Tango in Paris was banned.
Sweden
* 1922-1972: Nosferatu was banned for excessive horror.
* 1981: Mad Max
* 1997: Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation [8]
United Kingdom
* 1932: Freaks is rejected by British censors and banned. Available from 1963
* 1952: Freaks is again rejected for a cinema rating certificate. Available from 1963
* 1954: The Wild One was banned from distribution in the United Kingdom until 1967. Now available
* 1960: La maschera del demonio was banned until 1968 due to its violent content.
* 1963: Freaks is finally passed with an X rating.
* 1968: Roger Corman's film The Trip was banned due to glorification of LSD. It is later unbanned but not released in Britain until the mid-1990s.
* 1972: The Last House on the Left was banned by the BBFC until 2002.
* 1974: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was passed uncut in 1999.
* 1975: Umberto Lenzi's Il paese del sesso selvaggio is banned.
* 1981: Ruggero Deodato's La casa sperduta nel parco (The House on the Edge of the Park) is banned until 2002.
* 1984: The infamous video nasty list is created to protect against obscenity. Films on this list were banned and distributors of said films were viable to be prosecuted (some of the films were banned before this list was made). This list banned 74 films at one point in the mid-1980s, but the list was eventually trimmed down when only 39 films were successfully prosecuted. Most of the films (even of the 39 successfully prosecuted) have now been approved by the BBFC either cut or uncut (see Video Recordings Act 1984)
For a list of films included in the list, see Video nasty
* 1989 Visions of Ecstasy is banned under blasphemy laws, and is presently the only film banned in the UK due to blasphemy.
United States
Films are usually not banned today in the United States, as the First Amendment's section on freedom of speech is usually enforced. Decades ago, however, obscenity was a valid reason for a film to be banned in certain cities across the nation.
* 1908: The James Boys in Missouri and Night Riders are banned in Chicago.
* 1915: The Birth of a Nation banned in several American cities, including Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis.
* 1917: The film Birth control, produced by and starring Margaret Sanger banned, with the New York Court of Appeals holding that a film on family planning work may be censored "in the interest of morality, decency, and public safety and welfare".[17] Message Photo-Play v. George H. Bell, 179 A.D. 13 (1917).
* 1919 - 1920: Within Our Gates banned in Chicago, New Orleans, and Omaha, for its depiction of interracial rape, lynching, and racial discrimination.
* 1926: The Red Kimono, based on a real-life Chicago murder case and political scandal, banned in Chicago.
* 1928: The Racket banned in Chicago.
* 1931: Frankenstein banned in Kansas for its portrayal of cruelty.
* 1932: Freaks banned in Cleveland.
* 1932: Scarface, a violent gangster movie set in Chicago, is banned in Chicago.[17]
* 1936 - 1966: The 1931 version of "The Maltese Falcon" (not to be confused with the better known "cleaned-up" 1941 version) could not be shown in its unedited "lewd" version.
* 1945: Scarlet Street banned in New York City, according to Jan Morris' book Manhattan '45.
* 1949: Pinky was banned by the city of Marshall, Texas because it portrayed an interracial couple, a violation of the city's censorship code.
* 1954: Salt of the Earth was banned by the House Un-American Activities Committee for its defense of workers on strike.
* 1961: Victim banned in many American cities due to language. [9]
* 1967 - 1992: Titicut Follies is barred from distribution by legal order because the movie was considered a violation of the privacy of the prison inmates it filmed.[17]
* 1969: I Am Curious (Yellow) is banned as pornography. After three court cases, it was unbanned when the anti-obscenity laws concerning films was overturned.[17]
* 1987: Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story is banned from sale, distribution, and public exhibition by court order after a civil trial on copyright infringement.[17]
* 1997; The Tin Drum (film) was briefly banned in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, who deemed the film child pornography. The shot in question depicted minors performing oral sex.
* 1988: The Last Temptation of Christ banned in Savannah when city leaders sent a petition to Universal Studios requesting a ban. However, opened in Savannah on September 23, 1988, 6 weeks after national and worldwide debut.
* 2002 - present: The Profit is prevented from exhibition by a legal injunction in one jurisdiction by a lawsuit from the Church of Scientology claiming libel, pending trial. The Disinformation Book Of Lists and The Times have characterized The Profit as a "banned film" in the United States.[17][18]
Theoretically, free speech in the U.S. can also be limited if it might cause a clear and present danger of an imminent lawless action, or constitutes a copyright violation.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_films
Australia's OFLC (Office of Film and Literature Classification) is responsible for much of the censorship, however each state and territory is free to make additional legislation. See also Censorship in Australia.
In practice, films still get a short cinematic run before they are reviewed & prevented from being shown at cinemas or released on DVD, but broadband Internet access allows people who want to watch such films to do so.
* 1907: The Victorian Chief Secretary banned screenings of The Story of the Kelly Gang in Benalla and Wangaratta.
* 1911: Exhibition of The Story of the Kelly Gang film was banned in Adelaide.
* 1912: The New South Wales police department banned the production of bushranger films.
* 1928 to 1941: Chief Censor Creswell O'Reilly and his board ban many movies in this period, including Dawn, Klondike Annie (starring Mae West), Applause (it contained chorus girls), Compulsory Hands, Cape Forlorn, The Ladies Man (sexual overtones), White Cargo (interracial theme), The Five Year Plan (discussed communism), All Quiet on the Western Front, Gang Bullets, Each Dawn I Die, Hell's Kitchen (three US gangster films), The King and the Chorus Girl, The Birth of a Baby ("not in the public interest"), Green Pastures, Susan and God (blasphemy), Reefer Madness and Of Mice and Men (sex and violence in combination).
* 1942 - The Monster and the Girl, The Man With Two Lives, The Invisible Ghost, and King Kong, Frankenstein, Dracula plus their respective sequels are all banned.
* 1964 to 1970: R. J. Prowse is appointed Chief Censor and Campbell goes into the Appeals Board. During the liberal 1960s many more films were being banned including The Miracle, Viridiana, La dolce vita, Satyricon, The Silence, Blowup and Zabriskie Point.
* 1971: Customs Minister Don Chipp begins the development of a new classification system which includes the much-needed R18+ rating for adult content, meaning movies that were once banned are gradually released.
* 1972: Pink Flamingos was banned until 1984, when it is passed with an X18+ (later R18+) rating.
* 1975: Under pressure from Western conservatives, the OFLC viewed the arthouse Belgian film Vase de Noces (also known as Wedding Trough) and banned it from being played at the Perth International Film Festival (before this, film festivals were not held by restrictions of the censors). In a controversial move, the board lifted the ban on appeal, and the film was allowed to be screened.
* 1976: Pasolini's Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma is banned. Vase de Noces is re-banned, and it remains banned to this day.
* 1984 : A governmental conference is held, resulting in the X18+ rating being introduced to cope with the upsurge in hardcore pornographic films, and the later abolition of X18+ rated material in most Australian states (ownership of hardcore porn remains legal). Cannibal Holocaust, an extremely graphic cannibal film by director Ruggero Deodato, was banned until 2005.
* 1986: Lucker the Necrophagous is banned due to its graphic necrophilia content.
* 1990: Gail Malone is fired and the Queensland Film Board of Review is disbanded when the new Labor Premier Wayne Goss is outraged that the Board had banned an edited version of Bad Taste after a three-week run in cinemas (the South Australian Classification Council cut it by a further 4 min 30 sec for an M rating). It is later released uncut on DVD. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors was also banned for a brief period, but later released on VHS and DVD.
* 1992: The Chinese gore film Dr. Lamb, previously banned in 1981, is released with 9 m 30s cut (the poster is still banned). Nekromantik, its sequel Nekromantik 2 and Joe D'Amato's Buio Omega are banned for necrophilia content, The Beast in Heat is banned for excessive sexual violence and Final Exit are banned for controversial themes after customs consfiscations.
* 1993: The ban on Pasolini's Salò is lifted. The MA15+ classification is introduced.
* 1995: Twelve queer films are banned from Tasmania's Queer film festival, including Spikes and Heels, Coming Out Under Fire, What a Lesbian Looks Like, Mad About the Boy, 21st century Nuns and Sex Fish. [1]
* 1996: The Frighteners was banned in Tasmania because of sensitivity of the nature of the recent Port Arthur massacre (including a similar appearance of the film's antagonist and the gunman, Martin Bryant). The film has been since been televised and as released on VHS and DVD without problems.
* 1997: Pasolini's Salò is re-banned, a ban still in force.
* 2000: Romance is banned, but is later passed on appeal by the OFLC with an R18+ rating.
* 2002: Baise-moi is banned after initially being passed with an R18+ rating.
* 2003: Ken Park is banned, and NSW police close down a planned screening of the film.
* 2005: Wolf Creek was temporarily banned in the Northern Territory to avoid influence during the trial of Bradley John Murdoch for murder. It was re-released in the Northern Territory in January 2006.[2] The OFLC unbanned a number of previously banned films including Cannibal Holocaust and The New York Ripper after a lengthy review. The South Australian Classification Council upgrades the classification of 9 Songs from R18+ to X18+, effectively banning it in South Australia (it remains R18+ in the rest of the country).
Canada
Prior to the late 1980s and early 1990s, all Canadian provinces banned films with no purpose other than the display of explicit sexuality or excessive violence.
* 1918: Manitoba institutes a ban (since lifted) on all comedies.
* 1972: Pink Flamingos is edited in several provinces with the Maritimes banning it outright until 1997.
* 1976: Bloodsucking Freaks is banned in the Maritimes and Ontario.
* 1977: In the Realm of the Senses is banned by all provinces except Quebec. In 1991, the ban was overturned by most provinces.
* 1979: Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens is banned in the Maritimes.
* 1980: Caligula is banned by all provinces, edited versions were later passed.
* 1980: The Tin Drum is edited and later banned outright as child pornography by the Ontario Film Classification Board.
* 1983: I Spit on Your Grave was banned in the Maritimes until 1998.
* 1985: Day of the Dead is banned in Ontario and the Maritimes, with a cut version passed in Ontario.
* 1987: Bad Taste is banned in Nova Scotia; it is now available on DVD with an 18 rating.
* 1989-1993: The Death Scenes video series is banned in the Maritimes.
* 1994: Exit to Eden is temporarily banned by the Saskatchewan Film and Video Classification Board.
* 1997: Bastard Out of Carolina is banned by the Maritime Film Classification Board. This decision was later appealed and a video release was allowed.
* 2001: Fat Girl banned by the Ontario Film Review Board until 2003.
* 2006: Bumfights is banned in seven of the ten provinces; the remaining three give it an R rating.
At present, only films containing prohibited material (such as child pornography) or under court order (such as libel or copyright infringement) are banned in Canadian Provinces.
Finland
* 1940s: During World War II, Finland banned the films Mrs. Miniver and Johnny Eager in 1943.
Other films banned in Finland include:
* 1930: Bronenosets Potyomkin
* 1933-1939: King Kong
* 1947-1949: The Big Sleep .
* 1948: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
* 1956-1959: Rififi, for an extended sequence detailing how to crack a safe. A 1959 re-cut was allowed.
* 1957: The Curse of Frankenstein and its sequels The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969).
* 1960: Peeping Tom
* 1964-1987: The Manchurian Candidate
* 1972: Dirty Harry
* 1981: Cruising
* 1981: Evil Dead
* 1984-2001: Cannibal Holocaust
France
* 1939: Beau Geste was banned until 1977 for portraying the Foreign Legion in a negative light and insulting French culture
* 1943: Le Corbeau was banned until 1969, first by the Nazis, then the French government, for dealing with collaboration.
* 1953: Les statues meurent aussi, a short film by Alain Resnais was banned. Its theme was that Western civilization is responsible for the decline of black art. The film was seen at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953 but subsequently banned by the French censor.[3]
* 1957-1975: Paths of Glory was banned because it suggested that French soldiers in World War I executed their own soldiers for cowardice. [4] This was done by the Italian and British armies, but there is no evidence that it was done by the French.
* 1960: Le Petit Soldat was banned on political grounds and the ban was lifted in 1963 with certain cuts.[5]
* 1970: Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal, also known as Do not Deliver Us from Evil, was a movie based on the Parker-Hulme murder that was banned for blasphemy.
Germany
* 1919: Different From The Others banned for homosexual themes.[3]
* 1933 - 1945: Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin), a film made by Sergei Eisenstein depicting the 1905 Revolution in Odessa, was banned during the period of the Third Reich.
* 1939 - 1945: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, starring James Stewart and directed by Frank Capra, was banned for political reasons, according to Capra's autobiography The Name Above The Title.
* 1940s-1998: The Great Dictator, starring Charlie Chaplin, was banned during Hitler's regime in Germany because of its satirical depictions of the dictator.
* 1945: Triumph of the Will is nowadays only allowed to be shown in critical context, e.g. with introductory remarks.
* 1974: Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS. Also banned in Australia, Norway and the UK.
* 1983: Maniac, the first ban of a video tape in Germany.
* 1984: § 131 StGB, the act against violent media is reformed. In the following time there were many films banned because of violent contents. All these films are still banned.
* 1984: Cannibal Holocaust was banned until 1990; the uncut version is still banned outright.
* 1985: The Evil Dead was banned until a version with a few seconds cut was legalized in 1993; the uncut version is still banned.
* 1985: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. A court in Munich banned this horror classic (still banned).
* 1988: Friday the 13th Part 3 and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (heavily cut) are banned on the same day by a court in Frankfurt.
* 1991: Dawn of the Dead. The censor's favorite: more than 10 versions of George A. Romero's film are banned in Germany, even heavily cut versions.
* 2000: Braindead - later cut (uncut version still banned).
* 2003: After an 18 year old pupil run amok in a German school and killed 17 people with a handgun before shooting himself, the § 131 StGB was reformed again.
* 2004: Blood Feast. A court in Karlsruhe banned this film more than 40 years after its making.
* 2006: Spielen wir Liebe, an infamous exploitation movie from 1977, was banned because of child pornography.
India
* 1970 - Kissa Kursi Ka was banned for political reasons.
* 1984 - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was banned for its "racist portrayal of Indians and overt imperialistic tendencies".[6] For example, the film shows chilled monkey brains are served as a dessert in India, which in reality, contradicts the reverence Hindus have towards monkeys due to mythological character Hanuman in the epic Ramayana.
* 1996 - Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (cut version available)
Ireland
* 1931: Monkey Business was banned because censors feared it would encourage anarchic tendencies.
* 1967: Ulysses, based on the book by James Joyce - unbanned September 2000.
* 1968: Rocky Road to Dublin (documentary which in part questioned Irish censorship) - unbanned in 2003.
* 1971: A Clockwork Orange - unbanned in 2000.
* 1979: Monty Python's The Life of Brian - unbanned in 1987.
* 1983: Monty Python's The Meaning of Life - unbanned in 1990.
* 1984: Cannibal Holocaust - unbanned in 2006.
* 1989: Meet The Feebles - still banned as of 2007.
* 1991: Riki-Oh - unbanned in 2002.
* 1994: Natural Born Killers - unbanned.
* 1996: From Dusk Till Dawn - unbanned in 2000.
* 1999: Romance - still banned.
* 2000: Baise Moi - still banned.
Israel
The government has media censorship based on British emergency regulations from 1948 stating that applies to domestic media, foreign newspapers and wire service transmissions from or through Israel. The Israeli Military Censor has the power to turn off a broadcaster, stop information and arrest journalists, however these extreme measures have been rarely used. The Israeli Film Ratings Board has banned a few films containing obscene or racist material, or incitement to violence; for "expressing support for illegal or terrorist organizations" or questioning the government's actions against terrorists. An example is the 2002 film Jenin, Jenin, in which survivors of the Jenin massacre, led by Ariel Sharon, were interviewed. The ban was lifted by the country's Supreme Court in August 2005. [7]
Italy
Although there is a censorship board run by the government and in which one member is drawn from the Roman Catholic Church, very few movies are not certified for release. Notably, Lion of the Desert, starring Anthony Quinn and concerning the Libyan revolution against Italy, and a few other films concerning Italian war crimes during its brief colonial history were banned for a time during the post-Mussolini period. Almost all Pasolini's movies, including Salo: 120 Days of Sodom (1975), were banned for a while but then released. Luc Besson's film The Big Blue was banned for 14 years because Enzo Maiorca felt that it inaccurately portrayed him and his rivalry with Jacques Mayol. Last Tango in Paris was banned for some time as well. Another Italian film, Cannibal Holocaust, was banned in Italy from 1980-1984. It was banned on the belief that the actors were actually killed for the movie (i.e. that it was an actual snuff film). When this was proven false, it was banned by an animal cruelty law (the film features the actual slayings of many animals), until the verdict was overturned in 1984. Also banned under Mussolini was the film adaptations of Ayn Rand's novel We the Living, titled Noi vivi and Addio, Kira.
New Zealand
* 1981 - Mad Max[8] (VHS release was not banned[9])
* 2004 - Puni Puni Poemy[10]
* 2006 - Bumfights: Cause for Concern[11], Bumfights 2: Bumlife[12]
* 2006 - Cannibal Holocaust[13]
* 2007 - Hostel: Part II[14] (excisions recommended but not made)
South Africa
* 1971: A Clockwork Orange was banned.
* 1984: Cannibal Holocaust was seized by customs (specific year is unknown at this time). It was given an XX rating, which prevented it from being sold in the country. It is now rated 18 for a cut version (the uncut version is still banned).
* 1990: Henry & June was banned.
* 2007: Saw IV was banned because it refuses to cut out the parts not intended for South Africa.
Spain
* 1939-1976: The Battleship Potemkin was banned.
* 1940-1976: The Great Dictator was banned for its portrayal of Fascism.
* 1957-1986: Paths of Glory was banned by General Francisco Franco's dictatorship, for its anti-military message. It was released in 1986, 11 years after Franco's death.
* 1972: Last Tango in Paris was banned.
Sweden
* 1922-1972: Nosferatu was banned for excessive horror.
* 1981: Mad Max
* 1997: Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation [8]
United Kingdom
* 1932: Freaks is rejected by British censors and banned. Available from 1963
* 1952: Freaks is again rejected for a cinema rating certificate. Available from 1963
* 1954: The Wild One was banned from distribution in the United Kingdom until 1967. Now available
* 1960: La maschera del demonio was banned until 1968 due to its violent content.
* 1963: Freaks is finally passed with an X rating.
* 1968: Roger Corman's film The Trip was banned due to glorification of LSD. It is later unbanned but not released in Britain until the mid-1990s.
* 1972: The Last House on the Left was banned by the BBFC until 2002.
* 1974: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was passed uncut in 1999.
* 1975: Umberto Lenzi's Il paese del sesso selvaggio is banned.
* 1981: Ruggero Deodato's La casa sperduta nel parco (The House on the Edge of the Park) is banned until 2002.
* 1984: The infamous video nasty list is created to protect against obscenity. Films on this list were banned and distributors of said films were viable to be prosecuted (some of the films were banned before this list was made). This list banned 74 films at one point in the mid-1980s, but the list was eventually trimmed down when only 39 films were successfully prosecuted. Most of the films (even of the 39 successfully prosecuted) have now been approved by the BBFC either cut or uncut (see Video Recordings Act 1984)
For a list of films included in the list, see Video nasty
* 1989 Visions of Ecstasy is banned under blasphemy laws, and is presently the only film banned in the UK due to blasphemy.
United States
Films are usually not banned today in the United States, as the First Amendment's section on freedom of speech is usually enforced. Decades ago, however, obscenity was a valid reason for a film to be banned in certain cities across the nation.
* 1908: The James Boys in Missouri and Night Riders are banned in Chicago.
* 1915: The Birth of a Nation banned in several American cities, including Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis.
* 1917: The film Birth control, produced by and starring Margaret Sanger banned, with the New York Court of Appeals holding that a film on family planning work may be censored "in the interest of morality, decency, and public safety and welfare".[17] Message Photo-Play v. George H. Bell, 179 A.D. 13 (1917).
* 1919 - 1920: Within Our Gates banned in Chicago, New Orleans, and Omaha, for its depiction of interracial rape, lynching, and racial discrimination.
* 1926: The Red Kimono, based on a real-life Chicago murder case and political scandal, banned in Chicago.
* 1928: The Racket banned in Chicago.
* 1931: Frankenstein banned in Kansas for its portrayal of cruelty.
* 1932: Freaks banned in Cleveland.
* 1932: Scarface, a violent gangster movie set in Chicago, is banned in Chicago.[17]
* 1936 - 1966: The 1931 version of "The Maltese Falcon" (not to be confused with the better known "cleaned-up" 1941 version) could not be shown in its unedited "lewd" version.
* 1945: Scarlet Street banned in New York City, according to Jan Morris' book Manhattan '45.
* 1949: Pinky was banned by the city of Marshall, Texas because it portrayed an interracial couple, a violation of the city's censorship code.
* 1954: Salt of the Earth was banned by the House Un-American Activities Committee for its defense of workers on strike.
* 1961: Victim banned in many American cities due to language. [9]
* 1967 - 1992: Titicut Follies is barred from distribution by legal order because the movie was considered a violation of the privacy of the prison inmates it filmed.[17]
* 1969: I Am Curious (Yellow) is banned as pornography. After three court cases, it was unbanned when the anti-obscenity laws concerning films was overturned.[17]
* 1987: Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story is banned from sale, distribution, and public exhibition by court order after a civil trial on copyright infringement.[17]
* 1997; The Tin Drum (film) was briefly banned in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, who deemed the film child pornography. The shot in question depicted minors performing oral sex.
* 1988: The Last Temptation of Christ banned in Savannah when city leaders sent a petition to Universal Studios requesting a ban. However, opened in Savannah on September 23, 1988, 6 weeks after national and worldwide debut.
* 2002 - present: The Profit is prevented from exhibition by a legal injunction in one jurisdiction by a lawsuit from the Church of Scientology claiming libel, pending trial. The Disinformation Book Of Lists and The Times have characterized The Profit as a "banned film" in the United States.[17][18]
Theoretically, free speech in the U.S. can also be limited if it might cause a clear and present danger of an imminent lawless action, or constitutes a copyright violation.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_films