With the advent of commercially marketed films, in the early 1900s, there were public calls from religious groups for government regulation of the film industry. According to the ACLU’s webpage on film censorship, beginning in 1909 a National Board of Censorship representing various Protestant denominations was established and called for the regulation of commercial films. […]
Author: Daniel Gauss
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The 20 Best English-language Films about Wimping Out
This is a film list about wimping out. We all think we are moral and we all feel confident about meeting moral crises head-on. We like to think we have the right stuff when it comes to taking a stand and making the right choices. What causes a person, however, to wimp out? Some of […]
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20 Great Anti-War Movies That Are Worth Your Time
In the novel ‘Slaughterhouse 5’, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. said that writing an anti-war book is like writing an anti-glacier book. Both are inevitable, so what’s the point? Au contraire mon frere. Please remember the graffiti from May of 1968 as French students nearly toppled their government: “Be a realist! Expect the impossible!” David Mamet pointed […]
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The 20 Best WTF Movie Endings in Cinema History
So yesterday a guy I know told me he saw Blowup by Antonioni again and thought the film was horribly dated. Au contraire mon frere. The film was deliberately embedded in London’s ‘mod’ culture, it’s not dated at all, it’s a period piece. Then I realized maybe he meant the pantomime performers made the film […]