Instead, it settles for some bad fake interpretive-dance sex.
Tag: censorship
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Five gay films from an era when queer themes were invisible in Hollywood
Films by Hitchcock, Cukor, and Minnelli turn up on this list of classics from before the Stonewall era.
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Banned Books Week gets entertaining
City Lit Theater’s Books on the Chopping Block pop-up and other local events draw attention to the year’s most challenged works.
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‘Think of the Children’ tells the history of censorship in Chicago through stories and songs
And the censors did not always act in the interest of protecting the children.
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At CIFF: Of Good Report, a kamikaze exercise in shock value from South Africa
Notes on another unfortunate cliche of contemporary global art cinema—and one film that avoids mediocrity by being flat-out bad
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Facebook continues its brave war on vaginas
Yet another image of the female body removed for being “pornographic”
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Iranian-born artist Ario Mashayekhi on the curious timing of the CPS ban of Persepolis
“Censorship is not something new. It happens on and on and on. For the U.S., it’s shocking. For me, it’s expected.”
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Talking to Joon Bai, the man behind the first U.S.-North Korean coproduction (part two)
The second part of an interview with the writer-producer of The Other Side of the Mountain, which screened in Chicago last weekend
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Puppets versus censorship
A preview of the latest feature by local video-making collective Everything Is Terrible!
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In this week’s Reader: Money talks, twice
What’s in the December 15th, 2011 issue of the Reader
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Chicago Publishes unpublishes
Chicago Publishes unpublishes part of an interview with indie publisher Gabriel Levinson
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The Dajaz1.com raid, one year later
Why you should care about how the government handled a hip-hop blog bust
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The Circle
Facets Cinematheque joins the international movement to free jailed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, with a free screening Sunday 1/16 of his 2000 film “The Circle,” about women navigating oppressive institutions.
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The Circle
Facets Cinematheque joins the international movement to free jailed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, with a free screening Sunday 1/16 of his 2000 film “The Circle,” about women navigating oppressive institutions.