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  • Can Sexual Provocation Still Sell?

    10/28/09 Barring some epic year-end bombshell, Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" is sure to walk away with the designation of year's most provocative movie -- with its sadomasochistic sex, penis smashing and spontaneous clitorectomy, it rivals Nagisa Oshima's 1976 cinema scandal "In the Realm of the Senses" in its efforts to shock and offend.  |  Independent Film Channel (IFC)
  • Korea censorship 'Battle' continues

    05/26/09 Mexican director Carlos Reygadas' "Battle in Heaven" has been given a restricted rating by a local censorship body for the third time, virtually banning the film from release.  |  The Hollywood Reporter
  • A Chinese “Shortbus?” Sexy “Spring Fever” Could Stir Censors

    05/14/09 Listening to Chinese director Lou Ye this afternoon in Cannes, one can't help but feel he's guarded in his response to censorship and his past confrontations with the state controlled Film Bureau in his native country.  |  indieWIRE
  • Gawker Stalks the Tribeca Film Festival [New Things]

    04/23/09 This is all sort of an experiment, but the idea is that you can follow everything our group — which includes, for starters, directors, producers, and other film industry types — tweets about the festival in our Tribeca Twitter Room or on Twitter itself by following StalkingTFF which will (soon, tech tells me) collect all of their Tribeca-related tweets.  |  Gawker
  • Wouter Barendrecht: 1965 - 2009

    04/05/09 Wouter Barendrecht, the co-chairman of leading international sales and production company Fortissimo Films has died, his passing coming as a tremendous shock today to many close friends and colleagues in the international film community. indieWIRE's editors were stunned this afternoon by the word of Wouter's passing, confirming the news in conversations with some of his close friends today.  |  indieWIRE
  • Aaron Eckhart Falls Into a 'Rabbit Hole' with Nicole Kidman

    04/02/09 Moviefone It may be a whopping two years since Nicole Kidman signed on , but now it looks like the big-screen adaptation of Rabbit Hole is kicking back into gear -- and believe it or not, she's still involved!  |  Cinematical.com
  • Korean 'Thirst' poster banned

    03/20/09 Koreans treat their clergy with reverence -- even if that means upsetting a favorite native helmer.  |  Variety
  • Korean cuts plague Japanese film

    03/16/09 "Pandemic," a Japanese disaster movie about a deadly virus, is at the center of controversy in Korea after the movie's importer, KTH Paran, deleted a substantial portion of the film and introduced its own ending without the Japanese producer's permission.  |  The Hollywood Reporter