Donald Clarke

Irish Classification Office not “set to ban” Palme d’Or winner

• Cannes Censorship
• June 4, 2013, 15:42

In a shock development, there are — despite fulminations in the Daily Star — no plans afoot to ban “steamy lesbian flick” Blue is the Warmest Colour.

• Censorship
• March 7, 2012, 22:40

We’ve been here before. But let me say again how much I love swearing and violence in the movies. I bow to no one in my devotion to sentimental pictures such as Now Voyager, Random Harvest and Goodbye Mr Chips. …

• Censorship
• June 12, 2011, 23:04

The question is prompted by news from across the water. As you may be aware, the British Board of Film Classification has refused to issue a certificate to the even-more-gruesome sequel to the already fairly hideous The Human Centipede. That …

• Censorship
• November 3, 2010, 20:57

(Parental alert: this post contains images which, according to certain watchdogs, may cause frail, scaredy-cat children to run screaming from the computer and back to the 19th century where they belong.) It has emerged that the British Advertising Standards Authority …

• Censorship
• September 22, 2010, 15:38

Just a quick update on the kerfuffle surrounding the banning of Meir Zarchi’s lovely I Spit on Your Grave. Ger Connolly, the acting classification officer, has issued the following cautious statement: “IFCO does not wish to be drawn into what …

• Censorship
• September 20, 2010, 22:00

Welcome back to 1983 (or so). News reaches us that the Irish Film Classification Office has refused to issue a certificate for the DVD re-issue of first-generation video nasty I Spit on Your Grave. They have, in other words, banned …