Censored is a podcast for the filthy minded. Explore banned films, books, magazines, newspapers and cinema like a smut-obsessed censor.
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In our last (for now) episode, we chat to John Kelleher (http://www.johnkellehermedia.com/about) who was appointed Irish film censor in 2003. When he left in 2009, the Irish Film Censor's Office had been renamed the Irish Film Classification Office, a reform that reflected how it had become, as John says 'more guide dog than guard dog'.
Until the pod returns, thanks to everyone for listening!
A & LM xx
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6 Jun 2024
Transparent Classification
Censors have been replaced by classifiers, opaque silence by annual reports. We read recent annual reports from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) and the Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO) to see how those offices work in a digital media age, and to see what the (complaining) public thinks of their role.
Films mentioned
Minions: the Rise of Gru
Ghostbusters
Watership Down
Bambi
Star Trek the Motion Picture
Nutcracker (by Matthew Bourne)
The Batman
Batman Returns
A Man Called Otto
The Banshees of Inisherin
Saltburn
Cocaine Bear
Benedetta
BBFC 2022 Annual Report (https://www.bbfc.co.uk/about-us/news/110-years-of-classifying-content-bbfc-2022-annual-report)
IFCO published reports (https://ifco.ie/en/IFCO/Pages/News)
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23 May 2024
Abject Grace: Bad Lieutenant (1992) feat. Rob Doyle
This remarkable neo-noir, directed by Abel Ferrara, has never been certified by the Irish Film Classification Office (the new name for the censor’s office). Aoife and Lloyd Meadhbh are joined by author Rob Doyle to discuss how Abel Ferrara and Zoe Lund, with backgrounds in porno sleaze, made a sincere film about redemption, and forgiveness.
Bad Lieutenant (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103759/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt) dir. Abel Ferrara, starring Harvey Keitel
Rob Doyle (https://www.robdoyle.net/)
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Inside a recent episode
Squalid Glamour: Isherwood 'Goodbye to Berlin' (1939)
Published 4 Aug 2021 · Transcript excerpt
[…] He wanted to be in the bars with the boys and knocking them back till 3 a .m. There's, there is that kind of, you know, a squalid glamour of the book and the appeal of that, you know, writ large in the musical with the torn fishness and the badly applied makeup of the show goals and whatever. […]
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