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Snobs and their snubs: the people that the Oscars forgot

By By Lars Lindqvist | Feb. 22, 2013

Anytime Oscar season rolls around, I’m reminded of how impossible it is to please everybody. After the nominations are announced and the dust has settled on the passive aggressive (or in the case of some of this years nominations, very aggressive) tweets regarding the selections of the Academy, which films were so called “Oscar bait,” I think to myself how hard it must be sometimes to be a member of the Academy. And while I do agree that occasionally smaller films are overlooked in favor of “Oscar Bait,” I would submit that, more often than not, the best film of the year typically receives the nominations and awards it deserves.

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Dealing with the myths and stigmas of the NC-17 film

By By Lars Lindqvist | Feb. 18, 2013

When one sees a film labeled with an NC-17 rating, several strange connotations come to mind, connotations that don’t necessarily reflect fairly on the movies themselves. For one, many come into the theater expecting to be shocked by something in this movie; after all, this isn’t just some lame torture-porn, R-rated movie, this is an NC-17 movie! Many times the source of this “shock” in the film comes in the form of an increased amount of sexuality and nudity (which is clearly more damaging to younger viewers than “Hostel”), and this has given NC-17 films an unfortunate hook for the audience. Thanks largely to the commercial success of movies like “Showgirls,” many people think that NC-17 films are a place to see naked actors and actresses on a large screen in a place that is not as shady or embarrassing as a dirty movie theater.

By Lars Lindqvist

Snobs and their snubs: the people that the Oscars forgot

Dealing with the myths and stigmas of the NC-17 film

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