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9/11 is such a sensitive issue that making a movie that dares to be controversial about it takes a great deal of guts.
Driller Killer was included in the infamous list of 'video-nasties' and therefore automatically received a controversial cult-status without people even seeing it.
Take a thesis that involves elements a bit too controversial for mainstream Hollywood.
Controversial innovations, luxurious locations, and superb casting make LA TRAVIATA even more unique.
Then, last year I remembered Robert and his controversial works.
Although the use of sex, drugs and violence in animation was something new and controversial in '81, the thrill is gone.
Warner Bros. looked for "controversial" themes to release them from their box office slump and found it with topics like this, packaging emotional rubbish into the screens in the form of low budget B grade "content films".
Some of the material was clearly put there merely to be controversial, to tick off the censors and/or otherwise provoke, and while there are points where you can definitely tell that PhD's wrote this, there certainly are also ones where it doesn't feel like that at all.
Very controversial, "?" may meet with many objections from parents groups, activists and the MPAA for its graphic content.
UN CHANT D'AMOUR is the only film made by the controversial French poet and playwright, Jean Genet.
However, if this movie had been produced at greater cost, and with a well-known actor or two, it would most likely have been successful AND controversial.
Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers is quite possibly the most controversial film ever made.
Gulzar's most controversial film made.
This "Interview" dates from the year before the controversial filmmaker's death.
I usually watch stuff like CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, SALO, and other controversial films, but this just sickened me out.
This is a movie that does not require anyone to swim through the gray area of a controversial issue.
Stop Snitchin - Stop Lyin is the most controversial DVD in hip hop history.
Me being a metal-head myself, was thrilled about watching a documentary that digs into the world's most controversial and "forbidden" style of music/art/life.
This was some pseudo-intellectual director's lame attempt at putting to celluloid a pseudo-intellectual playwright's lame attempt at a shocking and controversial play.
Dustin Hoffmann one of the greatest actors ever (even if "Rain Man" was his last truly great film) shines in this biopic about controversial comedian Lenny Bruce.
It seems the university used to be an controversial mental institution specializing in teenagers.
I have been a longtime fan of the controversial TV show South Park, and I went to see the feature-length movie the first night it came out.
Of course, this film is controversial, but it is mostly, if not completely, factual.
"Papillon" stroke me as a little shocking since I wasn't expecting so much "controversial" material in a movie this old, in other words, a movie with Steve Mcqueen.
Dustin Hoffman plays Lenny Bruce, the controversial stand-up comic who views comedy as a form of debate...I am going to take a stab at why this film is in black & white...The vast majority of this film takes place in the late fifties and early sixties..The black and white presentation exudes the era in which Lenny Bruce's popularity prevailed!! Black and White captures the three packs of cigarettes an evening per deviate nightclub era of the Lenny Bruce days so so so cogently!!... Interesting concept.. How many men get their blank blanked.. How many men have blanked a blank.. None?..They aren't telling the truth...especially those in lower middle management!! How about the fact that your wife is not a lesbian, but for purposes of a voyeuristic thrill...Why not?..Kind of degrading!! but for Lenny Bruce, that's the best part... SORT OF!!!...KIND OF!!... How can you curb obscenity when obscenity is the truth?...How does an overzealous, intellectual, New York Jewish comic ignore his upbringing?
For the record, it doesn't rank as awesome as the controversial "X Files" episode about psycho in-breeders, but it comes close!
Yet it can't be said that this is merely done to make a controversial film.
Also what may be of some notice to a few audience members out there is that this flick was the first legitimate cinematic directorial debut by now-respected director Bill Condon, who later went on to great success with a couple of somewhat controversial, and rightfully Oscar-nominated if you've actually seen them, films entitled: "Gods and Monsters" (1998), and "Kinsey" (2005).
The scandalous best-selling novel by Grace Metalious is brought to life in this somewhat watered-down 20th Century Fox production, although it was still considered shocking and controversial for the time.
I checked out this German silent film early in my film collecting days to get another look at the intriguing Louise Brooks, a controversial actress of her day whom I had read a lot of glowing tributes to her by critics.
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