On September 11, 1964, Doris Wishman’s Behind the Nudist Curtain debuted in the United States. Here’s a drawing of one of my favorite female filmmaking pioneers and underground auteurs to mark the occasion!
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#BehindTheNudistCurtain #DorisWishman #WomenInFilm #GrindhouseFilm #ZMovie #ExploitationFilm #SexploitationFilm #Sexploitation #MidnightMovies #1960sMovies #FilmCensorship #CultCinema #Art #MovieArt #MovieHistory

Three additional films censored by Hong Kong government: "My Pen is Blue" "Please Hold On" "The Reticent Wave" Film festival can't say what was censored or why. Now at least 27 films have been censored in #HongKong since Nov 2020. #FilmCensorship https://hongkongfp.com/2023/06/12/3-film-festival-movies-feature-black-images-and-muted-sound-after-hong-kong-govt-censors-demand-cuts/ https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1668197693989040128#m

This is the 23rd instance of #FilmCensorship in #HongKong since Nov 2020 & the 12th film explicitly banned by OFNAA, the film censorship authority. The still in 豐美股肥 /Phone Made Good Film’s notice shows an old @demosisto banner, “100% Freedom”—could that be the reason?! https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1649456835961782278#m

.@RoOT_film director Kiwi Chow & others explain #FilmCensorship in #HongKong is more insidious than outright bans (of which there’ve been 22). Blacklisted filmmakers are cut off from funding, hiring actors & booking locations. Musicians are also targeted. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/hong-kong-moviemakers-04062023163004.html/ampRFA https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1644691222282338304#m

.@HKOnScreen’s 2023 Film Festival will be April 26-30 in LA, the Bay Area & San Diego. The biggest film fest in the US focused on #HongKong. Especially important to HK culture when #FilmCensorship in HK is at its worst ever. https://www.hkonscreen.org/festival https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1643252856953135104#m

R to @hkdc_us: His “I’m allowed to live my own culture & be patriotic” shtick is #doublespeak. His “patriotism” is loyalty to the #CCP dictatorship that’s cracking down on his “culture” in #HongKong, incl harsh #FilmCensorship. @TheAcademy should stand w/ HK filmmakers, not whitewash repression https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1641897266859462679#m

R to @hkdc_us: The other banned film involved marijuana smoking. The #FilmCensorship authority, OFNAA, said it was misleading as it was labeled fictitious but the actors used their real names. In all, now 22 films have been banned in #HongKong, 12 by OFNAA, the official government censor. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1641038180076904449#m

#HongKong’s #FilmCensorship authority’s banned 2 short films that were to be screened in 豐美股肥/Phone Made Good Film’s “Loose Narratives” festival. One was deemed “detrimental to national security” due to parts about the pandemic, protests & imprisonment http://bitly.ws/Cgi7 https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1641036700162957313#m

@hkdc_us RT by @AnnaKwokFY: The sudden cancellation of screenings of “Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey” was the 20th instance of #FilmCensorship in #HongKong since Nov 2020, including 4 Western films, 5 Taiwanese films & 11 HK films. These were all films that were scheduled to be screened… & then weren’t. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1638960889150730244#m

R to @hkdc_us: Nine of the 20 instances of #FilmCensorship involve films related to the #HongKong protests. The censors of these include universities, CCP-owned media, OFNAA & the directors themselves who thought it useless to try or feared repercussions. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1638960897736712193#m

R to @hkdc_us: Ten of the 20 instances of #FilmCensorship are by the official government censor, the Office for Film, Newspaper & Article Administration. All but one film banned by the OFNAA was to be shown at a film festival; the exception is The Dark Knight. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1638960896310407168#m

R to @hkdc_us: In that sense, the list of 20 instances of #FilmCensorship in HK is just the tip of the iceberg. Imagine what’s submerged & how #Censorship is contorting HK culture. One of the great tragedies of the new authoritarian reality in HK is what goes unsaid. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1638960895014367250#m

The sudden cancellation of screenings of “Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey” was the 20th instance of #FilmCensorship in #HongKong since Nov 2020, including 4 Western films, 5 Taiwanese films & 11 HK films. These were all films that were scheduled to be screened… & then weren’t. https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1638960889150730244#m

See this thread from HKDC’s @AnnaKwokFY to @TheAcademy president @janetyang1 re its inappropriate invite to Communist Party supporter & CPPCC member Donnie Yen to present at #oscar. As #CCP #FilmCensorship in #HongKong is now at its worst we urge @TheAcademy to rescind the invite https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1633998714359431168#m

We urge @TheAcademy to revoke its invite to Donnie Yen to present at #Oscars95. W/ growing #FilmCensorship in #HongKong, Yen—a CPPCC member—supports the #CCP & its crackdown on rights. @TheAcademy should stand for #FreedomofExpression in HK, not against it https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ejeq/donnie-yen-oscars-petition-hong-kong-protests https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1633520065311121409#m

Over Christmas 1922, the Irish press reported on the controversial decision of the British Board of Film Censors to cut the pickpocketing scene from Oliver Twist (US: Coogan, 1922), starring Jackie Coogan and Lon Chaney. Images: Derry Journal & Wikipedia. #EarlyIrishCinema1922 #FilmCensorship #JackieCoogan #LonChaney #SilentFilm #OliverTwist

Yet another article about the drastic increase of #FilmCensorship in #HongKong. Meanwhile, US film festivals including @smithsonian’s @NatAsianArt’s continue to take funding from HK Economic & Trade Office, the very government censoring film in HK. https://www.ft.com/content/66d6702f-4bcb-4843-8456-7b1b49e7bd14 https://nitter.hongkongers.net/hkdc_us/status/1607442012764274688#m

A correspondent to the Irish Independent #OTD 1922 suggested that censors widen their focus from sex in films to violence in Westerns after a group of youngsters carried out a mock lynching, an example of how cinema promoted lawlessness in Civil War Ireland. #EarlyIrishCinema1922 #IrishCivilWar #FilmCensorship