"appeared in the 20 September 2005 journal, and was the first of the year. Revocation notices are also published in the journal, where a film has been banned and then allowed. The 2010 DVD release of the 1978 film ""I Spit on Your Grave"" is the most recent instance of an IFCO ban. The main legislation under which Irish films are censored are: Many films have been banned in Ireland, including ""Monty Python's Life of Brian"", ""From Dusk Till Dawn"" and ""A Clockwork Orange"". A review in 2000 has meant that many of these have since been un-banned and rated"
"the US preceded British distribution), screenings were picketed by both rabbis and nuns (""Nuns with banners!"" observed Michael Palin). It was also banned for eight years in Ireland and for a year in Norway (it was marketed in Sweden as ""The film so funny that it was banned in Norway""). During the film's theatrical run in Finland, a text explaining that the film was a parody of Hollywood historical epics was added to the opening credits. In the UK, Mary Whitehouse, and other traditionalist Christians, pamphleteered and picketed locations where the local cinema was screening the film, a campaign that"
"Some countries, including Ireland and Norway, banned its showing, with a few of these bans lasting decades. The filmmakers used such notoriety to benefit their marketing campaign, with posters in Sweden reading, ""So funny, it was banned in Norway!"" The film was a box office success, the fourth-highest-grossing film in the United Kingdom in 1979, and highest grossing of any British film in the United States that year. It has remained popular, receiving positive reviews. The film was named ""greatest comedy film of all time"" by several magazines and television networks, and it would later receive a 97% ""Fresh"" rating"
"until October 2015. Therefore, blasphemy was illegal until 2015 under the old Penal Code of 1902. The famous writer and social activist Arnulf Øverland was the last to be tried by this law, in 1933, after giving a speech named ""Kristendommen – den tiende landeplage"" (""Christianity – the tenth plague""), but was acquitted. The last person sentenced for blasphemy in Norway was Arnfred Olsen in 1912, and he had to pay a fine of 10 Norwegian krone. The British comedy film ""Monty Python's Life of Brian"" (1979) was briefly banned in Norway by the authorities in early 1980, because it"
"in cinemas in 2006, where it was a box office hit making over 200 million Norwegian kroner in profit. However, when the English-language version was released to the wider world in 2008, it was a direct-to-video release. The original version of the film was critically well received in its native Norway, and remains something of a cult hit in the country, although this may be tied to the director's cult status in Norway, where he is renowned for his work in comic books. The film successfully portrayed modern Norwegian ironic humor. The film was noted for its animation, and won"
"pornography in Denmark. Det kære legetøj Det kære legetøj (The Dear Toy, also known as Danish Blue), made in 1968 by director Gabriel Axel, is a Danish feature film advocating the legalizing of pornography. A campaigning film, it mixes interviews, reconstructions and fiction in playful fashion, seeking to ridicule and undermine Denmark's censorship laws at the time. The film may be said to have been successful in its objective, as a year after its release Denmark completely legalized pornography. The film was banned in France but released in both England and the United States. It started a whole wave of"
"first manager of the first private TV-station (and the only case to present) in Iceland for showing the Danish ""mainstream"" Zodiac-films, ""I Tvillingernes tegn"" and ""I Tyrens tegn"". In early 2013 there was a draft proposal by Ögmundur Jónasson, the Minister of the Interior, to extend the ban to online pornography to protect children from violent sexual imagery. The plan has been stalled since the change in government during the parliamentary election on 27 April 2013. Since then, there have been no changes to the relevant legislation, and no changes have been formally proposed. In Italy, it is illegal to"
"– and specializes in fetish/kink roleplay with older gentlemen. With her new family of friends and admirers, she becomes a huge sensation leading to wealth and infamy in the tabloids. The brothel business also brings out Christine's self-confidence, and leads to repairing a previously strained relationship with her father. The film was banned in the Republic of Ireland upon theatrical release (although the ban was lifted two months later). At the time, there were four films that were banned in Ireland, and Jones had directed three of them (""Personal Services"", ""Monty Python's Life of Brian"", and ""Monty Python's The Meaning"
"at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) to those attending the midnight screening of this film. Similar bags were handed out during the Stockholm International Film Festival. Reportedly, watching the movie caused one person to throw up and another to faint. In January 2009, The Norwegian Media Authority learned of this incident. Based on the incident and on the assessment that its infliction of violence ""is potentially harmful to children and adults"" the film was banned in Norway. Any person caught screening or selling the film in Norway can face arrest with possible fines or imprisonment. The film has been"
"It was only the scandal over the sequel ""Nekromantik 2"" (1991) which caused the German authorities to temporarily ban sales by mail order of the original film. John Waters proclaimed the film, """"the first ever erotic film for necrophiliacs"""". The film is currently banned outright in Iceland, Norway, Malaysia, Singapore, and the provinces of Nova Scotia and Ontario in Canada. In 1992, The Australian Classification Board banned the film outright in Australia due to ""graphic necrophilia content"". In 1993, the film was banned in Finland. The film was banned outright by the New Zealand Office of Film and Literature Classification"
"Det kære legetøj Det kære legetøj (The Dear Toy, also known as Danish Blue), made in 1968 by director Gabriel Axel, is a Danish feature film advocating the legalizing of pornography. A campaigning film, it mixes interviews, reconstructions and fiction in playful fashion, seeking to ridicule and undermine Denmark's censorship laws at the time. The film may be said to have been successful in its objective, as a year after its release Denmark completely legalized pornography. The film was banned in France but released in both England and the United States. It started a whole wave of documentary films about"
"scripts for the Danish films. Later, starting in 1981, Sweden also produced their own version: ""Jönssonligan"". The films rose to special fame in the former DDR, where the movies were uncensored because official censorship believed them to poke fun at capitalists. However, in the public (unofficial) opinion, the movies poked fun at any authority and did so with ingeniosity and wit. Most of the films start with Egon coming out of jail and being enthusiastically welcomed by Benny and Kjeld. The three men will then have a beer together in the living room of Kjeld's dilapidated home in a run-down"
"Norrlands Guld is also sold outside of Sweden throughout the IKEA retail chain. In 2006, ads started to appear for an upcoming movie called ""Snart är det lördag igen"" (soon it's Saturday again) which was being directed by comedian Henrik Schyffert. It was to star Pontus Gårdinger as Ingemar and was presented as a dramatic revenge story with a completely different tone than the previous commercials. This was actually just a joke and no movie was in the works. It did however spawn a 30-minute mockumentary video where Schyffert and others involved talk about how everything went wrong with the"
"arrested and spent a day in jail. At a court hearing, Alberti banned the movie in Denmark and revoked Olsen's license for his Biograf Theater. In 1907, Olsen premiered ""The Lion Hunt"" in Sweden. Because of the publicity from the protests, ""Løvejagten"" was a huge success abroad. The following year, after the charges of animal cruelty were dropped and the Danish ban was rescinded, the film had its homeland premiere on November 11, 1908. Nordisk Film Kompagni eventually sold 259 prints of ""Løvejagten"", which earned the company an enormous profit. It ushered in the ""golden age"" of Danish cinema when"
"Sweden. It was sold to fifty countries, including the United Kingdom where it was released on 28 March 2008. On 29 July 2009 it premiered in the United States, limited to Film Forum in New York City. The film was well received by Swedish critics, with an aggregate rating of 4.1 out of 5 based on 22 reviews at Kritiker.se, which made it by far the highest rated Swedish film of 2007. Carl-Johan Malmberg at ""Svenska Dagbladet"" called Andersson ""the black diamond of comedy in Swedish film life."" Further, he compared the casting to Vittorio De Sica's 1948 film ""Bicycle"
"feel that sincerely held religious views should not be subject to ridicule. In some cases religious satire has been censored - for example, Molière's play ""Tartuffe"" was banned in 1664. The film ""Life of Brian"" was initially banned in Ireland, Norway, some states of the US, and some towns and councils of the United Kingdom. In an interesting case of life mirroring art, activist groups who protested the film during its release bore striking similarities to some bands of religious zealots within the film itself. Like much religious satire, the intent of the film has been misinterpreted and distorted by"
"rating organisation) ordered that the film be refused classification due to concerns that the content may violate German federal law. On 30 June 2011, a version was allowed with 13 minutes cut, and was rated ""No release to youths"" ""(released to age 18 or older, German: Keine Jugendfreigabe)"". The film was banned in Norway after two months of sales as it was found to be in violation of criminal law (namely sections 204a and 382, which deal with the sexual representation of children and extreme violence). The film was temporarily banned for screening in Brazil. Although the film was given"
"decided to approve the poster, finding it to not be pornographic since its ""dark tone"" made it ""unlikely to cause sexual excitement"". An alternative poster, featuring only quotes from reviews and no image at all, was used in outdoor venues and as an alternative for publishers who desired it. In 2016, seven years after its original release, the film was banned in France when the Catholic traditionalist group, Promouvoir, campaigned for a ratings reclassification of it. The ruling French court deemed the culture ministry's original decision to release the film ""a mistake."" In Denmark, the film quickly became successful with"
"the showing of the film. In 1972 Donner complained to Supreme Administrative Court of Finland. The Supreme Administrative Court voted for the banning 5-4 on 28 February 1972. When, in 1972 and 1974, Swedish television showed the film, the Swedish television mast on the Åland Islands was shut down during the movie to prevent Finns from seeing the film. Director of the Finnish Board of Film Jerker Eeriksson said that the banning of the film was political because it harmed the Finnish-Soviet relationship. Director of the film Caspar Wrede, who then lived in England, refused to campaign against the banning"
"Sweden when his film ""491"" was originally banned by the Swedish censors due to its explicit sexual content. After some cutting, it was released in 1964. Sjöman went on to cause even wider controversy, depicting sexual intercourse in his 1967 film ""I Am Curious (Yellow)"" (""Jag är nyfiken – gul""). In the United States the film was considered pornography and seized by the customs and banned until 1969. When the film was eventually released, the publicity gained from the legal fight and the revolutionary graphic content drew huge crowds, making the film the most successful Swedish film export ever, and"
"of John Glover, publisher of the newspaper ""The Maoriland Worker"", in 1922. Glover was acquitted. The British comedy film ""Monty Python's Life of Brian"" (1979) about a fictional Jewish man living at the same time and neighbourhood as Jesus Christ, generated significant international controversy, and was banned in several countries including Ireland and Norway. Hundreds of letters were sent to Film Censor's Office to have the film banned in New Zealand as well on the grounds of it being 'blasphemous' against the Christian faith, but the Chief Censor of Films responded by stating that they had found no evidence of"
"with the film because, according to Brooks, Sellers ""had accepted the role of Bloom and then was never heard from again."" The film allegedly was ""banned in Germany."" In Sweden, however, the title literally translates as ""Springtime for Hitler."" As a result of its success, all but two of Mel Brooks movies in Swedish have been given similar titles: ""Springtime for Mother-In-Law"" (""The Twelve Chairs""); ""Springtime for the Sheriff"" (""Blazing Saddles""); ""Springtime for Frankenstein"" (""Young Frankenstein""); ""Springtime for the Silent Movies"" (""Silent Movie""); ""Springtime for the Lunatics"" (""High Anxiety""); ""Springtime for World History"" (""History of the World, Part I""); ""Springtime"
"focused on the satirical interplay between Jensen and Holm and Egon and Kjeld, with a frequent outburst of anger from Olsen. Especially Olsen's long list of slurs are famous, like ""social democrats!"", ""insane woman!"" (to Yvonne), ""lousy amateurs!"", ""cowards!"", ""dog heads!"", ""porridge peasants!"", ""sop!"", ""scumbag!"", to name a few. Recurring characters in the Danish version: The ""Olsen Gang"" have been made in Norwegian and Swedish (""Jönssonligan"") versions too. The films differ a bit from each other, but they follow a generally similar formula to the Danish films. The Norwegian remakes were, with two exceptions, directed by Knut Bohwim based on"
"Brian"" was banned from cinemas in 1979. Pop cultural phenomena are frequently cited. Among these are: M (comic strip) M is a Norwegian comic strip, written by Mads Eriksen. It was published in daily newspapers such as ""Dagbladet"", as well as in its own monthly magazine ""M"", until its discontinuation during the December of 2012. Initially published as a guest strip in ""Pondus"" magazine, it established its own dedicated magazine near the end of 2006. The strip gained a large fanbase in Norway, much due to its quirky humour and numerous pop-cultural references. To this day, reprints are regularly published"
"this now means I'm a pedophile."" In 2011, Nintendo of Europe decided to not distribute """" in Sweden (this also meant the game would not be released in Norway and Denmark), apparently because of a local child pornography law encompassing drawn and animated characters (and despite the age of consent in Sweden being only 15). ABC News mistakenly used GamesRadar's joke image of Ayane ""with the newly attached pterodactyl head and wings of ""Metroid"" boss Ridley"" as an illustration for their article while reporting on this story. Reacting to the Nordic ban, Sterling (writing for GameFront) called her a ""big-eyed"
"countries, especially those that were allied with Nazi Germany, such as Finland, where it made its debut on 8 March 1942 under the title of ""Rakkaus voittaa kaikken"". Later it was renamed there to ""Vapauden liekki"", and in 1941, it was banned from the stages. The movie was also shown in Italy (""La volpe insanguinata""), Greece (""I epanastatis"") and even in the Soviet Union (""Vozmezdie""). After the war, it was banned by the Allies. The Fox of Glenarvon The Fox of Glenarvon (German: Der Fuchs von Glenarvon) is a German propaganda film from the Nazi era portraying the years of"
"35,000 tickets in its Norwegian theater run, and was the highest-grossing Nordic film of 2008 in Germany with a total of 70,000 admissions. The second highest-grossing Nordic film of that year was ""You, the Living"" with 60,000 admissions. In France, ""The Art of Negative Thinking"" was first screened in the CineNordica program in Paris and then launched in theaters on 26 November 2008. ""The Art of Negative Thinking"" received multiple international film awards. It won the ""Best Film"" category at the Lübeck Nordic Film Days. Breien won the Best Director Award at the 42nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and"
"Gröna Lund and told his studio that ""There are two funny guys down at Gröna Lund. Why don't you let them do a movie? There aren't too many funny movies these days."" The duo was Hans Alfredsson and Tage Danielsson, known as Hasse & Tage, who made a movie called ""Svenska bilder"". Their own production company AB Svenska Ord made many more movies after that one, directed either by Hasse or Tage. They include, among others ""Docking the Boat"" (""Att angöra en brygga""), ""The Apple War"" (""Äppelkriget""), ""The Man Who Quit Smoking"" (""Mannen som slutade röka""), ""Release the Prisoners to"
"Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called ""Deutschneyland"" (a wordplay of Deutschland and Disneyland). Some of the locals dislike the idea, including the magically talented Lindberg family, and work to frustrate the development plans. In order: The film won the Swedish Film Institute's Guldbagge Award (""Golden Beetle"") award in 1972 in three categories: The Apple War The Apple War () is a 1971 Swedish comedy-drama film directed by Tage Danielsson, starring Gösta Ekman, Hans Alfredsson, Tage Danielsson, Monica Zetterlund and Max von Sydow. The political theme of the film is the battle between nature on the one"
"shown in arthouse club cinemas which screen unclassified films. Two minutes and 35 seconds of cuts were required before the film received a certificate in Hong Kong. In Finland, the film was rated K18 (Forbidden for under 18). An uncut version was shown in both cinemas and on TV. Although the film's release in Bulgaria was otherwise uncontroversial, a program conducted an experiment in which two 14-year-olds were sent to buy tickets for it. The teenagers successfully made the purchase and even entered the cinema, but left after the opening credits. Rather than discussing the film itself, the program focused"
"sites Vísir and Mbl.is. Iceland is home to ""LazyTown"" (Icelandic: ""Latibær""), a children's educational musical comedy program created by Magnús Scheving. It has become a very popular programme for children and adults and is shown in over 100 countries, including the Americas, the UK and Sweden. The ""LazyTown"" studios are located in Garðabær. The 2015 television crime series ""Trapped"" aired in the UK on BBC4 in February and March 2016, to critical acclaim and according to the Guardian ""the unlikeliest TV hit of the year"". In 1992, the Icelandic film industry achieved its greatest recognition hitherto, when Friðrik Þór Friðriksson"
"big eighties idea of “making it”. Indeed, the book makes fun of almost every aspect of artistic life in Iceland in the years from Ragga's birth in 1959 until she finally reaches her “stardom” in 1994, when she is paralysed from waist down in an accident on the set of a no-budget Icelandic Viking movie and ends up on the front page in a wheelchair, all smiling and happy with her long overdue fame. The book became a local hit and a theatre version was put on stage at the National Theatre of Iceland in 2004, directed by Baltasar Kormákur."
"is substantially higher than the figures given by Latvian authorities. The film was also controversial because of scenes which involved Hollender having sex with Latvian prostitutes. In Latvia, soon after its first screening at the Gothenburg Film Festival in February 2001, the film was seen as a purposeful attempt to distort the country's image given that it was supported by the Swedish Film Institute. Latvian President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga called the film ""political propaganda"", Prime Minister Andris Bērziņš suggested that the country could file an international criminal case against the film's authors, and the Prosecutor-General's Office advised the Interior Ministry to"