Writer-director Ira Sachs' "Passages," starring Ben Whishaw and Franz Rogowski, is the latest in a long line of queer films slapped with an NC-17 rating. It’s been 10 years since “Blue Is the Warmest ...

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 upcoming film “Passages,” directed and co-written by Ira Sachs, has received a rare NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Assn., the Los Angeles Times has exclusively learned. A decision has been ...

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 ...

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’ latest feature, “Passages,” has already garnered a hefty amount of attention, particularly for being given an NC-17 rating due to its frank depiction of sexuality (while continuing to ...

This week, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) caused a stir when it labeled the film Passages—the queer love triangle drama from acclaimed filmmaker Ira Sachs—with an infamous NC-17 rating.

Filmmaker Ira Sachs and distributor MUBI are rejecting the NC-17 rating and will release the film in theaters unrated this August. “MUBI has officially rejected this NC-17 rating,” the distributor ...

Passages was one of the most-acclaimed films to premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. IndieWire called it a “signature new drama” that’s “both generously tender in its brutality and unsparingly ...

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