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"Blue Valentine (Cianfrance, 2010)"
Sun Dec-26-10 04:29 PM by ZooTown74

          

(TRAILER)

Good news:

Here are reportedly two locks for acting nominations.

Bad news:

The MPAA rated the film NC-17, so who knows who will get to see it and if it will be hacked up to satisfy censors when that happens.

TRAILER
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809945752/video/22346938

EDIT: NC-17 SWIPE
http://tinyurl.com/3x742u3

In a surprising development, the MPAA ratings board has slapped an NC-17 rating on Blue Valentine, the Derek Cianfrance-directed drama that is creating Oscar buzz for the performances of Ryan Gosling and Michelle Willams. The film, about the slow corrosion of the relationship between a young couple, was acquired by The Weinstein Company after its premiere at the last Sundance Film Festival. The film also played at Cannes and Toronto.

Now, I've watched Harvey Weinstein use the ratings controversy for maximum promotional mileage on past movies that otherwise might have gotten ignored, but I saw Blue Valentine when it premiered in Park City. It is a powerful, worthy film, and the NC-17 is an absolute head-scratcher. I'm told the rating was given for a scene in which the characters played by Gosling and Williams try to save their crumbling marriage by spending a night away in a hotel. They get drunk and their problems intensify when he wants to have sex and she doesn't, but will to get him off her back. That hurts his pride and the result is an upsetting scene that makes you squirm, but is an honest one that establishes clearly that this couple has nothing left and isn't going to make it because love has turned into contempt. There is barely any nudity in the scene, as I recall (though I haven't seen it since last January) and there is no violence. It was hardly a moment that would make you think, well here comes an NC-17.

It wasn't immediately clear what TWC and the filmmakers will do. Certainly the notoriety will help get the film attention, but it seems clear that if they fail in the appeals process, they will have to cut the film to get an R rating, if the picture is to have a shot at broadening beyond a very small release. There are likely complications in running an NC-17 film through TWC's ancillary deals. This is the third Oscar season film on which TWC has butted heads with the MPAA. Weintstein lost a challenge appealing the R rating given The Tillman Story, and he has virtually no chance to overturn the R rating given The King's Speech. The latter film, which many feel will be a strong contender for Best Picture and other awards, lost its chance at the PG-13 because of a scene in which speech therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) helps King George VI (Colin Firth) overcome his stammer by peppering his speech with curse words. He says "fuck" about 42 times in a short amusing sequence. Everybody knows there is a three "fucks" before the R is given, and Firth blows past that in a single line. Director Tom Hooper told Deadline recently that he won't change a frame, but is perplexed that a scene that falls within the context of the film gets an R while a PG-13 is given to Salt despite Angelina Jolie getting waterboarded, and Casino Royale even though Daniel Craig has his testicles pummeled in a rather graphic scene. Hooper felt that the MPAA doesn't consider context when it comes to curse words.

The Blue Valentine preliminary rating is bound to raise similar questions. It doesn't get the R granted a movie like The Human Centipede (First Sequence), a graphic depiction of a mad surgeon's campaign to kidnap victims and surgically link their digestive tracts to create a human centipede?

  

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Blue Valentine (Cianfrance, 2010) [View all] , ricky_BUTLER, Fri Oct-08-10 06:44 PM
 
Subject Author Message Date ID
Looks great
Oct 09th 2010
1
where are you living?
Oct 09th 2010
3
      We didn't get The Fall, Enter The Void, Bronson
Oct 11th 2010
5
RE: Ryan Gosling & Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine (TRAILER)
Oct 09th 2010
2
i just went on a date that looks like michelle williams.
Oct 11th 2010
4
Can't wait + unfair
Oct 12th 2010
6
I liked it quite a bit
Dec 26th 2010
7
As someone who has become obsessed with this movie . . .
Dec 26th 2010
8
      My response to my response.
Jan 15th 2011
13
           So very well put
Jan 16th 2011
14
                Won't happen, but she undoubtedly deserves it more.
Jan 16th 2011
15
                     RE: Won't happen, but she undoubtedly deserves it more.
Jan 24th 2011
16
This probably should have been on the soundtrack (link)
Dec 26th 2010
9
His Young Hercules / Breaker High stuff is even worse.
Dec 26th 2010
10
can't believe this same guy gave this performance
Jan 09th 2011
12
RE: Blue Valentine (Cianfrance, 2010)
Dec 27th 2010
11
An unflinching, unpleasant, and bittersweet mini-masterpiece
Feb 14th 2011
17
Super late pass on this....
Nov 09th 2012
18
Agree with most of that. Gosling was masterful here.
Nov 09th 2012
19
This Grizzly Bear song has still stuck w/ me after seeing it years ago
Nov 09th 2012
20
really liked this when it came out. love it now.
Mar 18th 2019
21
I think I dislike it for the reason you love it
Mar 18th 2019
22

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