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I've Had It With the Mf'in MPAA and Their Mf'in Hypocrisy!!
3 November 2009 12:03 PM, PST
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Let's say you're watching a horror film in which six or eight people get skewered in relatively explicit fashion. By all accounts, that film should be Rated R: Adults only, unless a parent decides different. That's an example of how a ratings board does good work: They see that a flick called "Saw" has "graphic, extreme violence" and they decide that their 12-year-old can live without that sort of stuff for a few more years. And obviously the same holds true for rampant profanity, nudity, sexual situations, or drug abuse. Some stuff simply isn't meant for kids, period.
So obviously I have no problem with a "ratings board," in theory, but in practice? Sheesh. The one we currently have (the MPAA) is so broken, so twisted, and so confused that I'd like to call for a complete do-over. Fire the whole staff, raze the whole damn building if you have to,
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- Scott Weinberg
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Why is 'Couples Retreat' Rated PG-13?
17 September 2009 8:13 PM, PDT
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Every week, the MPAA releases its ratings of upcoming films. Based on X, Y, or smoking, a movie might get a PG-13 or an R or
whatever. Last week, I caught the list that indicated Couples Retreat would be rated R. "Sounds about right," I thought. The comedy stars Vince
Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Faizon Love, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell, Malin Akerman, and Tasha Smith as four couples who trek to an island
paradise only to find that all the couples (instead of one) are required to go through therapy sessions designed to help their relationships. If hijinx persist
for over 100 minutes, contact your physician.
This past weekend, the advertising blitz started for Couples Retreat in earnest. A lot of TV commercials during college and pro football games,
which isn't surprising given Vince Vaughn's demo. The commercials said, "This film is not yet rated," and I just took
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- Colin Boyd
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Quentin Tarantino: One Helluva Basterd
22 August 2009 12:01 AM, PDT
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In case you missed it last night, Fangoria Radio (heard live every Friday on Sirius Xm Stars satellite radio, Sirius channel 108/Xm channel 139, from 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Est) featured an exclusive pretaped interview between writer/director Quentin Tarantino and cohost/Fango editor Tony Timpone. The acclaimed director of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill and Grindhouse’s Death Proof talked up his latest epic, the rollicking WWII caper film Inglourious Basterds (now playing), his thoughts on the genre and even Fango’s recent 30th-anniversary issue. You can hear the full interview on iTunes (free Fango Radio audio clips are listed in the iTunes Store under the Podcasts tab; simply search for Fangoria) next week, but check out these highlights in the meantime.
Fangoria: So for the uninitiated, could you tell us the basic plot of Inglourious Basterds?
Quentin Tarantino: The idea behind it is a WWII movie,
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (FANGORIA.com)
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Kirby Dick brings "Outrage" to the screen
19 May 2009 1:30 PM, PDT
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While AfterEllen.com is not in the business of outing those who are stuck in the closet, we generally aren’t faced with many women in entertainment who are obviously gay but promote an anti-gay agenda. Fortunately, we have filmmakers like Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated) to show the world how hypocritical some politicians are.
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You may have already heard about and been looking forward to Dick’s new film, Outrage, a documentary about gay politicians who live their lives in the closet and support anti-gay policies, after NPR’s review of the film sparked controversy among many Lgbt blogs and the writer of the review himself. While outing people is obviously not the most journalistically ethical thing to do, reviews of the film have prompted many to wonder where major media outlets draw the line when it comes to exposing elements of people’s private lives.
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Truly Outrageous
8 May 2009 1:03 PM, PDT
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"Outrage," the new film from Oscar-nominated documentarian and redoubtable muckraker Kirby Dick ("This Film Is Not Yet Rated," "Twist of Faith"), isn't an inflammatory exercise in outing politicians, though it certainly isn't afraid to name names. It hones in on how closeted politicos have tended, perversely, to have the most steadily anti-gay rights voting records, counting on the gay community to keep their secret even as they've legislated against it. And as the title promises, "Outrage" is angry, but it's also undoubtedly sad, an analysis of the psychological effect that years of lying, hiding and fear have had on these very public figures. A week after "Outrage"'s premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, I sat down with the filmmaker to talk about outing as a political act, Ed Koch and his challenge to fellow documentary makers.
One of the most interesting elements of the film is the argument that
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- Alison Willmore
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Uncovering Politics' Strange Bedfellows
7 May 2009 9:21 PM, PDT
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Our first black president could be followed by our first gay president -- that's the provocative, and highly debatable, assertion in Kirby Dick's political outing documentary "Outrage."
Even if you buy Dick's claim that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist -- whose sexuality has been the subject of pointed speculation for years -- is one of the leading Gop candidates, there's the questionable "evidence" Dick presents to claim Crist is a closeted gay.
Two anonymous sources assert Crist -- a longtime bachelor who has repeatedly denied he's gay and who married for the second time last year -- hooked
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- By LOU LUMENICK
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Film: Review: Outrage
7 May 2009 12:03 PM, PDT
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No one has ever accused documentarian Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated) of lacking testicular fortitude. Stylistically his aptly titled new film Outrage is a conservative parade of talking heads and statistics but it’s incredibly audacious all the same. Dick’s incendiary film about closeted gay politicians doesn’t just document blogactive.com activist Michael Rogers’ crusade to out prominent Republicans. It also names names, most notably Florida governor Charlie Crist, a rising star in the party whose name was bandied about as a potential vice presidential nominee in the last election. Instead John McCain chose a
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Review: "Outrage"
6 May 2009 7:24 PM, PDT
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Forget Spock, Transformers and the guy with the metal claws: Nothing says "Summer Movie Season" like a documentary about closeted gay Republican politicians, right?
Opening this week in limited theatrical release, Outrage tackles the "profound conspiracy that works to keep politicians in the closet" in this country.
With a laser-sharp focus on a handful of men who live secret gay lives while maintaining a public image and voting record of social conservatism, the movie's single question appears to be, "Do the people who make our laws have the right to privacy, if that privacy allows them to live lives contrary to their policies?"
Even though the stories told in Outrage aren't terribly shocking or breaking news for those of us who regularly follow gay news in politics, the film nonetheless is a solid and well-packaged treatment of the subject. And it's one that for the most part, hits home a message of inclusion,
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trailer break: ‘Outrage’
4 May 2009 7:14 AM, PDT
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Kirby Dick, who made the excellent indictment of the MPAA in This Film Is Not Yet Rated, now takes on closeted politicians who fight against equal rights for gays. Oh, how I love to see hypocrisy held up to the light.
How can we get this movie on, I dunno, CBS on a Thursday night? Can you imagine it? “This week’s episode of CSI is being preempted so that as many people as possible can see what two-faced, self-hating frauds their leaders are. Enjoy!”
Outrage opens in the U.S. on May 8; no U.K. release date has been announced.
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- MaryAnn Johanson
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Tribeca Video Interview: Outrage Director Kirby Dick
3 May 2009 10:01 PM, PDT
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Kirby Dick doesn't mind if you start calling him a gadfly, or a corporate scourge, or a filmmaker seeking controversy. He only cares if you listen. Following up his 2006 documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated, which exposed the myriad inconsistencies and hypocrisies at the MPAA, Dick is turning his sense of outrage to Washington in, well, Outrage. The title sounds a little overblown unless you know what it's about-- closeted gay politicians who have dedicated their careers toward protecting their own roles in the closet by passing anti-gay legislation. See, now it's a pun!
I talked to Kirby Dick for a good long while last Friday, after his film had successfully drawn significant buzz at the Tribeca Film Festival (you can read my review here). He told me how a gay rumor about Karl Rove was what got him started on the story (the rumors were never corroborated, probably
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Tribeca Review: Outrage
27 April 2009 11:02 AM, PDT
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Hypocrites beware: Kirby Dick will have none of your shenanigans. His Oscar-nominated Twist of Faith dealt with sex-abuse cover-ups within the Catholic Church, and This Film Is Not Yet Rated let the irrational and inconsistent MPAA ratings board have it with both barrels. Now, in the engrossing, revelatory new Outrage, the message is clear. If you're a politician who publicly oppresses the gay community while secretly belonging to it, Kirby Dick will kick your closet door down and tell the world what a hypocrite you are.
The incendiary but thoughtful filmmaker presumably has no beef with politicians who put up a straight facade while secretly gayin' it up when their voting record doesn't suggest anti-gay sentiments. It's only when they spend their days voting against gay marriage and domestic-partnership benefits and filling their speeches with anti-gay rhetoric that Dick believes their private deeds ought to be made public. Outrage is
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- Eric D. Snider
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Life in -- and Out -- of the Hypocritical Gop 'Closet'
26 April 2009 9:23 AM, PDT
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By Eric Kohn
A documentary driven by activism always risks alienating audiences opposed to its intentions.
The success of Kirby Dick's "Outrage," an engrossing survey of closeted conservatives in Washington, D.C.'s, inner circle, became immediately clear after the world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival last night for one reason: Audience complaints about certain omissions from the movie did not preclude their overall appreciation for it.
Dick, whose last feature was the anti-mpaa tirade "This Film Is Not Yet Rated," unearths the "br
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Tribeca Film Festival Focus - "Outrage" - New images and the trailer.
24 April 2009
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We have images in as well as the trailer for "Outrage," showing at the this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
Kirby Dick helms and writes the documentary which Magnolia Pictures will distribute theatrically.
See the trailer here. See all the images here.
From Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated) comes Outrage, a searing indictment of the hypocrisy of closeted politicians with appalling gay rights voting records who actively campaign against the Lgbt community they covertly belong to. Boldly revealing the hidden lives of some of the United States’ most powerful policymakers, Outrage takes a comprehensive look at the harm they’ve inflicted on millions of Americans, and examines the media’s complicity in keeping their secrets. With analysis from prominent members of the gay community such as Congressman Barney Frank, former NJ Governor Jim McGreevey, activist Larry Kramer, radio personality Michelangelo Signorile, and openly gay congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (Representative,
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Tribeca Film Festival Focus - "Outrage" - New images and the trailer.
24 April 2009 12:32 AM, PDT
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We have images in as well as the trailer for "Outrage," showing at the this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
Kirby Dick helms and writes the documentary which Magnolia Pictures will distribute theatrically.
From Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated) comes Outrage, a searing indictment of the hypocrisy of closeted politicians with appalling gay rights voting records who actively campaign against the Lgbt community they covertly belong to. Boldly revealing the hidden lives of some of the United States’ most powerful policymakers, Outrage takes a comprehensive look at the harm they’ve inflicted on millions of Americans, and examines the media’s complicity
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Tribeca Film Festival Focus - "Outrage" - New images and the trailer.
24 April 2009 12:32 AM, PDT
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We have images in as well as the trailer for "Outrage," showing at the this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
Kirby Dick helms and writes the documentary which Magnolia Pictures will distribute theatrically.
From Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated) comes Outrage, a searing indictment of the hypocrisy of closeted politicians with appalling gay rights voting records who actively campaign against the Lgbt community they covertly belong to. Boldly revealing the hidden lives of some of the United States’ most powerful policymakers, Outrage takes a comprehensive look at the harm they’ve inflicted on millions of Americans, and examines the media’s complicity
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Tribeca's Top Ten
21 April 2009 6:33 AM, PDT
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Single-show tickets for the Tribeca Film Festival, which starts tomorrow, went on sale today. Here are some of the titles that are sure to sell out soon:
Whatever Works. Woody Allen's latest marks at least a temporary return to New York, where a physicist (Larry David) falls for a Southern temptress (Evan Rachel Wood) after moving downtown. The festival opener, this one screens just once at Tribeca, on opening night at the Ziegfield. It hits theaters June 19.
Outrage: Thanks to his documentary about closeted politicians who promote anti-gay legislation, Kirby Dick (who took on the MPAA in This Film Is Not Yet Rated) has been designated this year's official bomb-thrower. Barney Frank and former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey go on-camera; many of the political rivals they discuss, it goes without saying, do not.
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"Outrage": This film is not yet giving Larry Craig mad heartburn ... but it will
10 April 2009 7:11 AM, PDT
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Magnolia Pictures has released the official poster for the scandalous new documentary Outrage, which kisses and tells about closeted gays in politics (with an emphasis on the Republican-types, from what we hear).
The film comes from Kirby Dick, the guy behind the excellent This Film Is Not Yet Rated, and it pretty much guarantees to be a shitstorm of red, white and blue when it hits screens later this month (it preems at the Tribeca Film Festival, with a limited rollout shortly after). While part of the film focuses on out gay politicians like Barney Frank, Tammy Baldwin and Jim McGreevey (who at this point would appear on film at the promise of a sandwich or a smile in his general direction), the meat of the story is in exposing the world of gay men and women who work quietly in conservative movements against gay causes.
The topic of "outing
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Will 'Outrage' Become Tribeca Fest's Most Controversial Film?
9 April 2009 6:02 PM, PDT
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Documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick is no stranger to controversy, and it sounds like his latest project, set to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival later this month, might be the most eyebrow-raising yet. After addressing pedophile priests in Twist of Faith (which earned an Oscar nomination) and the corrupt MPAA ratings system in This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Dick is now going after a different breed of hypocrite: politicians who promote anti-gay legislation while secretly living gay lives themselves.
The film is called Outrage, and our colleagues at IndieWIRE have seen an early cut of it. (Dick says they'll be editing right up to the last minute, to ensure timeliness.) The film has interviews with openly gay politicians like Barney Frank, but the real meat seems to be reporting on the closeted politicians -- mostly Republican men -- who rail against homosexuality publicly while engaging in it privately. IndieWIRE,
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- Eric D. Snider
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Tribeca Film Fest unveils partial lineup
9 March 2009 8:43 PM, PDT
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I know it looks dire as it's 28% lighter (at least so far) and minus an artistic director, but no fear, there's still more to come, and with what's been announced theirs some interesting sounding stuff, especially a film we wrote about briefly called Accidents Happen. Also premiering is the comedy Stay Cool and the Danish film Original, along with the North American premier of The Exploding Girl which we also wrote about.
Check the narrative features, world documentary, and discovery lineups after the break!
World Narrative Feature Competition
A compelling cross-section of bold creative visions from every corner of the globe come together in this year’s World Narrative Feature Competition. Presenting a diverse array of unique voices, this international film collection includes premieres from a wide range of directors, such as U.S. indie veterans the Polish brothers and Tony-nominated Conor McPherson, as well as exciting newcomers. Together, these
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