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You have used two extreme examples to illustrate a point. No one would have even contemplated making movies like that in the 80s - not even Deodata/Lenzi would have contemplated those concepts. Compared to pre-1999 most films get through unscathed and many previously banned/cut have been reinstated. Not saying it is censorship free just that it is many times more relaxed than before. Agreed that many producers are practicing self-censorship to gain lower ratings. But even within the rating system there has been relaxation. For example would films like Kick-Ass really have gotten a 15 certificate in 1995? 18 cert at best and probably cut too. |
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These days films are made in partnership with the classification board, particularly in America, so bits are getting removed before they're even shot so that they can get the best, or most commercial, rating for the film. Anything too exciting will get NC17 and won't get a cinema release as the big chains won't show anything stronger than R. I think that a UK 18 is stronger than an American R so by this point there is nothing left to cut, unless the studio wants a 15. I think that's why World Cinema and indie films are more enticing these days.
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That said, Demdike is right - most mainstream films are made with a certain rating in sites of producers/studios (usually PG-13) so what we're left with is an abundance of toothless films that would have ben made for older audiences 20 years ago. |
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The Arrow Announcements today seem to have been leaked by DawnoftheDiscs on hamstergram. Crash 4K UHD King of New York 4K UHD The William Grefe Collection (?) Burst City and Lake Michigan Monster. Can't say I'm much interested in the first two personally and have never heard of the rest.Screenshot_20200828-142255_Instagram.jpg Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk |
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He Came From the Swamp: The William Grefe Collection Sting of Death (1966) Death Curse of Tartu (1966) The Hooked Generation (1968) The Psychedelic Priest (1971) The Naked Zoo (1971) and Whiskey Mountain (1977) |
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Burst City sounds really good (to me at least) From 1982 Punk rock gangs and music groups clash with one another and the brutal police force in a futuristic Tokyo setting.
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Full details: NEW UK TITLE: King of New York (4K UHD) Release date: November 16 King of New York returns with guns blazing in this definitive special edition, including a new director-approved 4K restoration "NOT EVERYONE WHO RUNS A CITY IS ELECTED. Arguably maverick filmmaker Abel Ferrara’s most accessible and explosive film, King of New York’s status as an urban gangster classic is cemented by a magnetic, career-best central performance by Christopher Walken, as well as riveting support from Laurence Fishburne, Wesley Snipes, Giancarlo Esposito, Steve Buscemi and David Caruso. After years inside, drug lord Frank White (Walken) is fresh out of jail and back on the streets of New York City. Seeing himself as half Scarface, half Robin Hood, Frank and his enforcers brutally take back control of the city, turf by turf – with starry dreams of using the millions to benefit the community and save a local hospital. Before Frank can fulfil his ruthless lust for power, though, he’s got to get past the crooked cops determined to take him down, and the criminal competition that won’t bend to his will. Still just as relevant and incendiary now as it was three decades ago, King of New York returns with guns blazing in this definitive special edition, including a new director-approved 4K restoration." 4K ULTRA HD SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
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Full details: NEW UK TITLE: NEW UK TITLE: Crash (Limited Edition 4K UHD) also Crash (Limited Edition Blu-ray) Release date: November 30 An incredibly subversive and confrontational piece of cinema – now newly refurbished in a stunning 4K restoration. "Technology and sexuality meet in a head-on collision in Crash – director David Cronenberg’s controversial adaptation of writer J.G. Ballard’s hugely transgressive 1973 novel starring James Spader and Holly Hunter. Spader stars as James Ballard, an advertising executive whose deviant sexual desires are awakened by a near fatal automobile accident with Dr Helen Remington (Hunter). Soon the pair, alongside Ballard’s wife Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger), are drawn into an underground world of car crash fetishism presided over by renegade scientist Vaughan (Elias Koteas). Danger, sex and death become entwined as eroticism and technology join together in a disturbing, deadly union. Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival for originality, daring and audacity, Crash remains an incredibly subversive and confrontational piece of cinema – Cronenberg himself describes it as “a dangerous film” – now newly refurbished in a stunning 4K restoration." Special features:
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