Films banned in Ireland

Sean7

Is there any sign to an end of banning in this country? The list has none for the past few years and I'm wondering if they will just give up on it. Seeing as how widespread internet access has rendered it pointless. There is no reason why, in modern times, an adult cannot see whatever they want anyway.

rizzla

Was Fear and Loathin in Las Vegas ever banned. I remeber you couldn't pick this up anywhere about 2 years ago. I had to get the 2 disc region 1 criterion version. Now it's all over the place.

adam_ccfc

rizzla wrote:

Was Fear and Loathin in Las Vegas ever banned. I remeber you couldn't pick this up anywhere about 2 years ago. I had to get the 2 disc region 1 criterion version. Now it's all over the place.

To my knowledge it was never banned. The reason it's suddenly surfaced is that Universal decided to give it a UK DVD release. Anyway, the Criterion is by far and away the best release available.

Hugh Hefner

adam_ccfc wrote:

I Spit On Your Grave and Cannibal Holocaust

I Spit On Your Grave in currently on sale in Virgin off Grafton St. so I doubt it's actually banned.

Are any non-porno movies literally banned in Ireland anymore?

Pigman II

2003 (1 film banned)

Spun 08/07/03*27 Jonas Akerlund

Spun wasn't banned? I saw it in UGC around November 2003.

It *should* have been banned tho purely for being a piece of shít

StarryBud

Spun *was* banned but the decision was overturned (unanimously, ouch) by the Film Appeals board. They basically told Kelleher to shove his ban up his hairy hole. Same thing happened with Boy Eats Girl.

I Spit On Your Grave is definitely banned on video by the way:

http://www.irisoifigiuil.ie/pdfs/ir120202.pdf

This is the heavily cut UK version aswell (same runtime as the hacked to bits UK version. Banned films slip through all the time - Man Bites Dog has sat quite happily on the shelf in my local HMV for years despite being banned aswell.

rizzla

StarryBud wrote:

Banned films slip through all the time - Man Bites Dog has sat quite happily on the shelf in my local HMV for years despite being banned aswell.

I have the criterion version of this too, which, if I'm correct, is completely uncut. Also is Ichi the Killer banned, or just some versions? I have the region 1, 124min version.

DaBreno

Just about every banned film from 1990 onwards has been on English tv stations that we recieve as some point and I have happily been exposed to all its filth and depravity in the last few years.
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Xcom2

fisty wrote:

There has been no successful prosecution for blasphemy in Ireland since the 1850's. There was, however, a case in England in the 1970's where Mary Whitehouse successfully brought a case against Gay News magazine.

Nigel Wingrove's(the guy behind Redemption video) short film Visions of Ecstasy was banned in the UK in 1989.


http://www.sbbfc.co.uk/case_study_visionsofe.asp

" In 1989 this short film was submitted to the BBFC. It contained a fantasy scene in which the sexualised figure of St Teresa of Avila caresses the body of Christ on the cross. The BBFC , having taken professional legal advice, judged the film to be potentially liable to prosecution under the common law offence of blasphemous libel. Because cuts would have removed about half the work (which was only 19 minutes long) the only option was to refuse it a certificate. There was much debate in the press about whether or not the film was a serious experimental work and about whether the offence of blasphemy had any place in a modern society.

Nigel Wingrove, the film's director and distributor, appealed against the Board's rejection to the independent Video Appeals Committee. This Committee was established by the Video Recordings Act in 1984 to hear appeals from distributors who felt that the Board's decisions on their works were too restrictive. After hearing evidence from both sides, including a defence of the film by film maker Derek Jarman, the Committee upheld the BBFC's original decision, being satisfied that a reasonable jury was likely to convict. Indeed, only 10 years previously, Gay News had been successfully prosecuted for blasphemy after publishing a poem by James Kirkup describing a Roman soldier's fantasies about Christ.

The distributor finally took his case to the European Court of Human Rights in 1996. Although the Court did not consider whether or not the video itself was blasphemous (since that was a matter that could only be decided under UK law) it was asked to consider whether the existence of a law of blaphemy was consistent with the right of Freedom of Expression, guaranteed by the European Convention of Human Rights. In their conclusion they stated that:-

“Freedom of expression constitutes one of the essential foundations of a democratic society. As paragraph 2 of Article 10 expressly recognises, however, the exercise of that freedom carries with it duties and responsibilities. Amongst them, in the context of religious beliefs, may legitimately be included a duty to avoid as far as possible an expression that is, in regard to objects of veneration, gratuitously offensive to others and profanatory”.

The BBFC's decision to reject the film was therefore upheld and Visions of Ecstasy remains the only film to be banned in the UK on grounds of blasphemy. "

Karl Hungus

I've been waiting for someone to notice that this is a 3 year old thread, but so far nobody seems to have seen that little fact.

Sean7

Well at least it shows someone uses the search bar

nitrogen

Sean7 wrote:

Is there any sign to an end of banning in this country? The list has none for the past few years and I'm wondering if they will just give up on it. Seeing as how widespread internet access has rendered it pointless. There is no reason why, in modern times, an adult cannot see whatever they want anyway.

Very very true. Shocking in this day and age that a group of people have the right to ban a film for adults.

jayteecork

Bump!

anybody have an updated list?

Was the Human Centipede banned outright in Ireland?

A 9 year old thread, seriously?

I imagine that if you want to discuss banned films the best thing to do is create a new thread.

Mannix1888

Didn't they ban The Excorcist in 1973 in Ireland? I don't see it on the 1973 list in the OP's list.

B.A._Baracus

Karl Hungus wrote: »

I've been waiting for someone to notice that this is a 3 year old thread, but so far nobody seems to have seen that little fact.

Shut up you from the past.
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