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 ...

In a move that harkens back to the 1950s while simultaneously echoing the ongoing censorship of depictions of LGBTQ identity nationwide, the Motion Picture Association has given the upcoming queer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The darkest, toughest and most explicit awards contender of the year came to the AFI Fest on Wednesday night. And after getting a look at "Shame" on the huge screen at Grauman's Chinese Theater, ...

Ira Sachs has been making gay films for over 30 years but “Passages,” a gay, bi and hetero drama, marks the first time he’s been slapped with an NC-17 rating. His film, which premiered at Sundance ...

For all its intricacies and complexities, the MPAA system is fairly stable. Everyone knows what the ratings mean, and there’s enough flexibility for films to experiment. Nonetheless, there have been a ...

Ira Sachs' "Passages" is the latest film to be slapped by the MPA with an NC-17. But is the 33-year-old rating a useful designation or just a scarlet letter? He’s totally right, of course. Yet in the ...

Ira Sachs’s new film Passages has received an NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association (MPA), and the out director is not happy about it. Subscribe to our ...

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 ...