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Last fall the big studios and their "independent" affiliates, such as Sony Pictures Classics and Fox Searchlight, lost an additional month when the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) barred the sending out of screeners, the videos and DVDs that Oscar voters use to catch up on unseen films. Outrage ensued. One studio had some publicity material returned to it with notes reading "No screener, no vote" and "I'm only voting for independent movies...
...MPAA Rating Board consists of twelve elderly coots whose only qualifications, according to the MPAA website, are “a shared parenthood experience,” “an intelligent maturity” and “the capacity to put themselves in the role of most American parents...
...subjectivity of MPAA ratings has been compared by their defenders to the nutritional labels on food packaging. But the difference is clear; after all, there’s no pimply 17-year-old standing at the checkout line, declaring that you can’t buy that package of Ho-Hos because you’re three times your target body weight. Waiting in line last Monday to see the abomination that was Intolerable Cruelty, I was held up by a ticket ripper who wouldn’t let a teenager get into Lost in Translation, despite the fact that...
...endless string of MPAA faults demands structural modifications to both its ratings system and its board. To amend the former, Roger Ebert has suggested an “A” rating for films that would fall between R and NC-17. The idea would be to allow material inappropriate for minors to be presented to adult audiences without bearing the pornographic stigma of an NC-17. But if this system were instituted, the MPAA would need to make a distinction solely based on the artistry of an “A” film over that...
...chosen at random to speak for the interests of all social conditions, not just those of suburban soccer moms. After each screening, they would assign the movie a rating and issue an explanation for their decision. Each of these explanations would then be available for public scrutiny on the MPAA website...