Last but not least , I had rented the Norwegian film ZERO KELVIN to the
Hirschorn Museum a few years ago. It is a terrific film but has VERY
disturbing animal violence. The programmer noticed two families with
children in the audience and went over to tell them that the film was very
inappropriate for young children because of the animal violence. They blew
her off , one saying that their dog had just died so this was no problem
Well the film takes place 90% at an Arctic outpost but it starts in
Oslo where there is a brief scene in which a couple lie on a bed and the
woman takes off her shirt and breast is visible for five seconds. BOTH
families promptly walked out at this scene. We still joke about how we
forgot about the boobs to scare them off from the film
Good Luck with your director
-- Jessica Rosner Kino International 333 W 39th St. 503 NY NY 10018 jrosner@kino.com> From: "Julie Stump" <stumpj@uhls.lib.ny.us> > Reply-To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu > Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:08:17 -0800 (PST) > To: Multiple recipients of list <videolib@library.berkeley.edu> > Subject: Re: Dealing with disturbing content > > Yes. We had a complaint about Requiem for a dream. A man watched it with > his 14-year old daughter and they were both shocked. My Director is still > not sure she shouldn't remove the video from the collection. We use ratings > stickers on the videos and my Director claimed that because we use the > stickers we don't support the ALA Freedom the View and would be within our > rights to remove the film from the collection. It's a very upsetting > situation. There's just no way to discuss censorship calmly and rationally, > at least in my library. > Julie Stump > Voorheesville Public Library > Voorheesville, NY > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "jon aubrey" <porkstore@yahoo.com> > To: "Multiple recipients of list" <videolib@library.berkeley.edu> > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 5:00 PM > Subject: Re: Dealing with disturbing content > > >> I've found that most patrons realize the risks and >> responsibilities in borrowing and viewing potentially >> disturbing and/or offensive video material. The few >> patrons who have ever complained to me personally >> about content have been elderly ones, not parents of >> teens or others. >> One question I do have is about films that were >> released with an NR (not rated) "rating." A good >> example of this would be Abel Ferrara's Bad >> Lieutenant, a film that's in our collection, available >> for check-out to teens who have been given permission >> to borrow videos by their parents, and not clearly >> marked as NR (and certainly not labeled by the library >> as containing potentially disturbing subject matter >> and imagery). This film went the NR route for a >> reason. Parts of it would have garnered the film an X >> rating had it ever been rated by the MPAA at all (the >> NR indicates that the film has circumvented the rating >> process altogether). No one has ever complained about >> the content of this film, but we're a very liberal >> community. After all, we did purchase the film in the >> first place. Has anyone out there ever had a problem >> with, or question about circulating an NR film? >> >> Jon A. >> Queens, NY >> >> >> __________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! >> http://greetings.yahoo.com >