Indie Sex: Censored (2007) (TV)

Director:

Lesli Klainberg

Release Date:

11 January 2008 (Australia)

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

A Revealing Look at Sex in Cinema

Plot:

The history of film censorship in the United States. The documentary covers the pre-code era, to the 1934 introduction of the Hays Code. This slowly broke down and the MPAA was introduced in 1968. |

Plot Keywords:

Censorship | Film Censorship | Filmmaking | Punctuation In Title | Religious Nut

Cast

Rosanna Arquette	...	Herself
Jamie Babbit	...	Herself
Fenton Bailey	...	Himself
Jami Bernard	...	Herself
Bruce Cohen	...	Himself
Martha Coolidge	...	Herself
Lee Daniels	...	Himself
Alonso Duralde	...	Himself
Bilge Ebiri	...	Himself
Sara Jacobs	...	Herself - Curator, Museum of Sex
Charles Lyons	...	Himself
John Cameron Mitchell	...	Himself
Peter Sarsgaard	...	Himself
Matt Singer	...	Himself
Jason Solomons	...	Himself
Dana Stevens	...	Herself
Guinevere Turner	...	Herself
Dita Von Teese	...	Herself
Stephanie Zacharek	...	Herself

Directed by
Lesli Klainberg

Produced by
Alison Palmer Bourke	....	executive producer
Debbie Demontreux	....	executive producer
Lesli Klainberg	....	producer
Christine Lubrano	....	executive producer
Amy Nieporent	....	associate producer (as Amy Neiporent)
Tammie Rhee	....	co-producer
Evan Shapiro	....	executive producer
Chandra Simon	....	associate producer
Kate Walker	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Douglas J. Cuomo

Cinematography by
Peter Nelson
Ruben O'Malley
John Tanzer

Film Editing by
Judd Blaise
Hope Litoff

Makeup Department
Elena George	....	makeup artist
Celeste Loft	....	makeup artist
Audie Metcalf	....	makeup artist

Art Department
Terence Taylor	....	graphic designer (as Terrence Taylor)

Sound Department
Travis Call	....	sound post-production coordinator
Arun Chaudhary	....	production sound
Judy Karp	....	production sound
Cory Melious	....	sound editor
Cory Melious	....	sound re-recording mixer
Caleb Mose	....	sound
David Renner	....	production sound (as Dave Renner)
J.T. Takagi	....	production sound (as J.T. Tagaki)
Tony Volante	....	supervising re-recording mixer
David Weinstock	....	production sound mixer
Steve Wytas	....	production sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Shaka Brookes	....	grip (as Tshaka Brookes)
Sean Herlihy	....	grip
Dan Kanes	....	grip
Tammie Rhee	....	additional cinematographer
Jennifer Scarlata	....	grip (as Jenny Scarlata)

Editorial Department
Jake Diamond	....	on-line editor
Joanna Jurewicz	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Kevin Aviance	....	composer: main title music

Other crew
Damian Bellino	....	intern
Jami Bernard	....	project consultant
Robert S. Birchard	....	archive and stills (as Bob Birchard)
Patrick Bohan	....	intern
Amanda Bonavita	....	production coordinator
Lisa Callif	....	legal services (as Lisa A. Callif)
Samantha Chaplin	....	intern
Barnett Cohen	....	intern
Joe Conzo	....	archive and stills
Bobby Cox	....	intern
Andrea Derricks	....	intern
Aymeric Contat Desfontaines	....	intern
Michael Donaldson	....	legal services (as Michael C. Donaldson)
Dave Donars	....	production coordinator
Matt Evans	....	intern
Ryan Garnier	....	intern
Lisa Grossman	....	intern
Debra Kozee	....	insurance
Patty Lo Kallan	....	intern
Rebecca Lundgren	....	intern
Erika Millman	....	intern
Christopher Lloyd Mitchell	....	archive and stills
Divya Pathak	....	intern
Michael Thomas	....	intern
John Torres	....	intern
Zaindria Yarborough	....	intern

Thanks
Lisa Ades	....	special thanks
Eric Batt	....	special thanks (as Erik Batt)
Bianca Biscano	....	special thanks (as Bianca Biscaino)
Jane Chotard Wheeler	....	special thanks
Gregg Diller	....	special thanks
Grace Garrison	....	special thanks
Elektra Gray	....	special thanks
Theodore Leuci	....	special thanks
Karen Mock	....	special thanks
Erika Palumbo	....	special thanks
Richard Wagner	....	special thanks (as Dr. Richard Wagner)
Jessica Wolfson	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Orchard Films

Distributors

• Independent Film Channel (IFC) (2007) (worldwide) (all media)
• Independent Film Channel (IFC) (2008) (USA) (DVD)
• Madman Entertainment (2008) (Australia) (DVD)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:R (2007) | Australia:R | USA:TV-MA (cable rating) | New Zealand:R18

Company:

Orchard Films

Movie Connections:

References The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)

Soundtrack:

Strut

Good Doc

Inside Sex: Censored (2007)

*** 1/2 (out of 4)

Nice documentary taking a look at how films have been censored due to sexual acts. There are quite a few movies out there on this topic but this one here does a good job at gathering up the various eras and discussing them. Not only to do we discussions about the Pre-Code era of the 1930s and the breakthrough of the 1970s but we also get those early stag films from 1915 through the 1960s. Also on hand are discussions of the underground filmmakers like Russ Meyer who were creeping nudity into their films and getting them shown around the country. And of course we have discussions about recent films like EYES WIDE SHUT and SHORTBUS. If you know your history on this subject then you're not going to learn too much new stuff here but I love the earlier sections dealing with the pre-code era. I just love how certain people always think that the "early" days of cinema and culture were clean and pure yet they've never done their homework and looked at some of the trash being put out then. Of course, this stuff wasn't being shown in mainstream theaters but it's still out there.