CENSORSHIP, a conversation – Part 8: “Henry & June” (1990)

This is the final part of an eight-part series about American movie ratings. 

Part 1 focused on Prano Baily-Bond’s “Censor”. Part 2 focused on Mike Nichols’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”. Part 3 focused on Brian DePalma’s “Greetings”. Part 4 focused on Gordon Flemyng’s “The Split”. Part 5 focused on Steven Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”. Part 6 focused on Garry Marshall’s “The Flamingo Kid”. Part 7 focused on John McNaughton’s “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer”.

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Referenced media:

• “Taboo” (Kirdy Stevens, 1980)
• “Goodfellas” (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
• “King of New York” (Abel Ferrara, 1990)
• “Miller’s Crossing” (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 1990)
• “Jacob’s Ladder” (Adrian Lyne, 1990)
• “Dances With Wolves” (Kevin Costner, 1990)
• “Misery” (Rob Reiner, 1990)
• “The Grifters” (Stephen Frears, 1990)
• “The Godfather Part III” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1990)
• “Sid and Nancy” (Alex Cox, 1986)
• “Red Shoe Diaries” (Zalman King, 1992-1997)
• “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
• “Un Chien Andalou” (Luis Buñuel, 1929)
• “Mädchen in Uniform” (Leontine Sagan, 1931)
• “The L Word” (Ilene Chaiken, Michele Abbot, and Kathy Greenberg, 2004-2009)
• “Mr. Belvedere” (Frank Dungan and Jeff Stein, 1985-1990)
• “Airplane!” (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, 1980)
• “Clash of the Titans” (Desmond Davis, 1981)
• “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (Philip Kaufman, 1978)
• “The Right Stuff” (Philip Kaufman, 1983)
• “Mank” (David Fincher, 2020)
• “Cape Fear” (Martin Scorsese, 1991)
• “The Exorcist: Extended Director’s Cut” (William Friedkin, 2000)
• “Showgirls” (Paul Verhoeven, 1995)
• “Deep Throat” (Gerard Damiano, 1972)
• “Behind the Green Door” (Artie Mitchell and Jim Mitchell, 1972)