NYC theater overrules MPAA rating for Snowden documentary

[DamianTV]

http://boingboing.net/2014/12/09/nyc-theater-overrules-mpaa-rat.html

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"While the MPAA has asssigned CITIZENFOUR a rating of R, recommendation that no one under 17 be admitted without a parent or guardian, IFC Center feels that the film is appropriate viewing for mature adolescents. Accordingly, we wil admit high school-age-patrons at our discretion. Not only do we feel the film is suitable for teens, we feel it is essential viewing for anyone who may vote in the next election."

Holy shit! Something good came out of NYC? :eek: I guess the intent of the MPAA is to keep children forcefed a bullshit stream of "privacy is bad" propoganda, and anything that says anything to the contrary, just slap a RESTRICTED label on it so the obedient brainwashed fedbook addicted children dont ever learn about another perspective.

[William Tell]

Does anyone know the content of this film? Does it have strong language or anything that usually earns an R rating for a film?

Was it rated R for political reasons, or is it a typical R film that NYC just feels is important?

It doesn't really matter, just curious.

[twomp]

Idiots. Giving it an "R" rating will only cause high school students to want to see it more.

[Zippyjuan]

Rating is for language. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4044364/

Ratings are guidelines- not mandatory.

[FindLiberty]

...Giving it an "R" rating will only cause high school students to want to see it more.

100%

[MRK]

I'll +rep anyone who can give me a link to a torrent of this film. I've been searching for months. I don't live in North America, so I can't attend any of the showings.

[MRK]

Here's a list of screenings: https://citizenfourfilm.com/screenings-all

And here's a crude copy-paste for your reading convenience:

All screenings
Date Venue
Opening Oct 24 New York NY IFC Center Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Oct 24 New York NY Lincoln Plaza Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Oct 31 Albany, CA Albany Twin Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Oct 31 Annapolis, MD Harbour 9 Theatres Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Oct 31 Cambridge, MA Kendall Square Cinema 9 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Oct 31 London ICA Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Oct 31 Lynnwood, WA Alderwood 16 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Oct 31 Malverne, NY Malverne Cinema 5 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Oct 31 Manhasset, NY Manhasset Cinemas 3 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Oct 31 Pasadena, CA Playhouse 7 Cinemas Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Oct 31 Pleasantville, NY Jacob Burns Film Center Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Oct 31 San Rafael, CA Rafael Film Center 3 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Oct 31 Seattle, WA SIFF Cinema at the Uptown Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Oct 31 West Nyack, NY Palisades Center 21 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 6 Besuchen Sie unseren KINOFINDER Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 7 Albany, NY Spectrum 8 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 7 Austin, TX Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar 9 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 7 London Odeon Panton St Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 7 Portland, OR Living Room Theatres Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 7 Salt Lake City, UT Broadway Centre Cinemas Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 7 Santa Ana, CA Regency South Coast Village 3 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 7 Toronto TIFF Bell Lightbox Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 7 West Newton, MA West Newton Cinema 6 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 14 Amherst, MA Amherst Cinema Arts Center 3 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 14 Hartford Real Art Ways Cinema Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 14 Iowa City Film Scene Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 14 Millerton The Mainhouse Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 14 Montreal Montreal Forum Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 14 Montreal Montreal ExCentris Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 14 Philadelphia Ritz at the Bourse Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 14 Providence Cable Car Cinema Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 14 Quebec Quebec City Le Clap Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 14 Rhinebeck Upstate Films Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 14 Santa Fe CCA Cinematheque Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 14 Sebastopol Rialto Cinemas-Sebastopol Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 14 Tucson, AZ Little Theatre 5 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 14 Vancouver Cineplex Odeon International Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 18 Jefferson City, MO Capitol City Cinema Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 18 San Francisco CA Landmark Opera Plaza Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 20 Juneau Gold Town Theater Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 21 Albany Spectrum 8 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 21 Eugene, OR Bijou Metro Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 21 West Hollywood Sundance Sunset Cinema Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 26 Frontenac, MO Plaza Frontenac Cinema 6 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 26 Madison, WI Point 16 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 26 Nashville, TN Belcourt Theatre Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 26 North Ft. Myers, FL Merchants Crossing 16 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 26 Portland, ME Nickelodeon Cinemas 6 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 26 Tampa, FL Veterans Expressway 24 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 26 Washington, DC West End Cinema Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 28 Boca Raton, FL Living Room Theatre Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 28 Honolulu, HI Kahala Theatres Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 28 Montreal Montreal Excentris Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 28 Montreal Montreal Le Clap Ste Foy Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 28 Montreal Montreal Forum Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 28 Ottawa Ottawa S/C Gloucester Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 28 Toronto Toronto Lightbox Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 28 Toronto Toronto Canada Sq Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 28 Traverse City, MI State Cinema Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 28 Vancouver Vancouver International Village Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Nov 28 Waterloo Princess Twin Waterloo Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Dec 5 Dayton, OH Neon 2 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Dec 5 Lincoln, NE Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Dec 5 Lincolnshire, IL Lincolnshire 20 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Dec 5 Little Rock, AR Riverdale 10 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Dec 5 Louisville, KY Baxter Avenue 8 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Dec 5 Naples, FL Silverspot 11 Cinemas Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Dec 5 Omaha, NE Film Streams at the Ruth Sokolof Theatre Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Dec 5 Pittsburgh, PA Harris Theatre Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Dec 5 San Antonio, TX Santikos Bijou @ Crossroads 6 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Dec 5 West Homestead, PA Waterfront Theatre Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Dec 12 Burlington, VT Roxy Cinemas 6 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Dec 12 Nevada City, CA Magic Theatre Buy Tickets Show Details
Dec 13 8:20 PM Belfast Queen's Film Theatre Buy Tickets Show Details
Dec 14 12:00 AM Shetland Mareel Buy Tickets Show Details
Dec 14 7:45 PM London The Tricycle Theatre Buy Tickets Show Details
Dec 15 6:30 PM Belfast Queen's Film Theatre Buy Tickets Show Details
Dec 15 8:00 PM Torrington The Plough Arts Centre Buy Tickets Show Details
Dec 15 8:35 PM Edinburgh Filmhouse Buy Tickets Show Details
Dec 16 8:35 PM Edinburgh Filmhouse Buy Tickets Show Details
Dec 17 6:05 PM Edinburgh Filmhouse Buy Tickets Show Details
Dec 17 8:30 PM London The Tricycle Theatre Buy Tickets Show Details
Dec 18 8:00 PM Shrewsbury Old Market Hall Buy Tickets Show Details
Dec 18 8:35 PM Edinburgh Filmhouse Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Dec 19 Damariscotta, ME Lincoln Theater Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Dec 26 Oakland, CA The New Parkway Theater Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Dec 26 Wilmette, IL Wilmette Theatres 2 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Dec 27 Glasgow Glasgow Film Theatre Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Jan 6 Howell, MI Howell Theatre Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Jan 7 Maidenhead Norden Farm Centre for the Arts Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Jan 7 Malta Eden Cinemas Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Jan 9 Cardiff Chapter Show Details
Jan 9 11:00 AM Hereford The Courtyard Buy Tickets Show Details
Jan 10 5:30 PM Hereford The Courtyard Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Jan 11 Winchester, VA Alamo Drafthouse Winchester 8 Buy Tickets Show Details
Jan 12 6:00 PM Hereford The Courtyard Buy Tickets Show Details
Jan 14 11:00 AM Hereford The Courtyard Buy Tickets Show Details
Jan 15 7:30 PM Watford Palace Theatre Show Details
Opening Jan 17 Atlanta, GA Sandy Springs 8 Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Jan 20 Plymouth Plymouth Arts Centre Buy Tickets Show Details
Opening Jan 26 Downers Grove, IL Tivoli Theatre Buy Tickets Show Details
Jan 29 7:30 PM Caernarfon Galeri Caernarfon Buy Tickets Show Details
Feb 1 5:00 PM Tunbridge Wells Trinity Theatre Buy Tickets Show Details
Feb 3 12:00 AM Swansea Taliesin Arts Centre Show Details
Feb 24 12:00 AM Reading Reading Film Theatre Show Details
Feb 26 7:45 PM Bracknell South Hill Park Buy Tickets Show Details

[Mani]

I'm not going to call Conspiracy Theory on this, because MPAA is a bit idiotic at times.

They rated Kings Speech "R" because the king's speech impediment involves a lot of "F" bombs. There's no sex, no violence, no adult situations or anything. My mother in law asked if she could take my son, he was 12 at the time, I'm like, "YES!" "Go ahead!!"

There's more sex, violence, gore, and everything else in most PG-13 Movies! How a movie like King's Speech can be rating R which is the equivalent of movies which are almost pornographic or extremely gory and violent just shows how the MPAA is out of touch with reality.

Too many F Bombs can cause an R rating, it's just plain stupid.


I normally use commonsensemedia.org as a "guide" when deciding what's appropriate for my kids. It will tell you in detail why they feel it's for that age, how many f bombs, if there's any nudity, or adult situations, etc. And there's also kid reviews and parent reviews if you want more opinions. Although I put less weight into the individual kid/parent reviews as everyone has their own compass on these things, but sometimes it's nice just to see what the parents are saying when I'm on the fence.

For example commonsensemedia.org put kings speech at 14 years old (they usually lean a bit conservative), but most of the parent reviews go from 10 to 12 years old.

[tangent4ronpaul]

Does anyone know the content of this film? Does it have strong language or anything that usually earns an R rating for a film?

Was it rated R for political reasons, or is it a typical R film that NYC just feels is important?

It doesn't really matter, just curious.

It's the Snowden Documentary.

-t

[William Tell]

It's the Snowden Documentary.

-t
:rolleyes: Ty, t...

[acptulsa]

Here's a list of screenings: https://citizenfourfilm.com/screenings-all

Just about every corner of Great Britain and only half of these United States...

[muh_roads]

R-rated documentaries are rarely hosted by the major theaters. They know what they are doing.

[jllundqu]

I think we should buy it and have a RPF Screening online...

[NIU Students for Liberty]

I'm not going to call Conspiracy Theory on this, because MPAA is a bit idiotic at times.

They rated Kings Speech "R" because the king's speech impediment involves a lot of "F" bombs. There's no sex, no violence, no adult situations or anything. My mother in law asked if she could take my son, he was 12 at the time, I'm like, "YES!" "Go ahead!!"

There's more sex, violence, gore, and everything else in most PG-13 Movies! How a movie like King's Speech can be rating R which is the equivalent of movies which are almost pornographic or extremely gory and violent just shows how the MPAA is out of touch with reality.

Too many F Bombs can cause an R rating, it's just plain stupid.


I normally use commonsensemedia.org as a "guide" when deciding what's appropriate for my kids. It will tell you in detail why they feel it's for that age, how many f bombs, if there's any nudity, or adult situations, etc. And there's also kid reviews and parent reviews if you want more opinions. Although I put less weight into the individual kid/parent reviews as everyone has their own compass on these things, but sometimes it's nice just to see what the parents are saying when I'm on the fence.

For example commonsensemedia.org put kings speech at 14 years old (they usually lean a bit conservative), but most of the parent reviews go from 10 to 12 years old.

I don't know if it's still on Netflix but I recommend checking out this flick, which discusses the arbitrary guidelines the MPAA follows when administering a rating:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTL3XMDwY0c

[georgiaboy]

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