WM Uncut on World Movies
Five R18+ films in five nights, "uncensored, unapologetic, and uncut."
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Next week World Movies screens five films “uncensored, unapologetic, and uncut” over five nights, under the banner WM Uncut.
As the only channel in Australia permitted to play R18+ films on television, the films include A Clockwork Orange, Martyrs, Alvin Purple, Oldboy and Shame.
“World Movies is in a unique position to give Australians the chance to see some of the world’s most controversial films in their purest, most original form,” said World Movies General Manager Chris Keely.
“World Movies has a long history of bringing Australian audiences a diverse range of the world’s most ground-breaking, compelling cinema and WM Uncut continues this tradition with these five uncensored films.”
From Australia’s first R-rated comedy to a stirring look at the depths of sexual addiction, this is the essential collection of unflinching cinema from around the globe in its purest, most original form.
The week begins with Stanley Kubrick’s dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange, followed by the brutal horror epic Martyrs. Don’t miss Australia’s most infamous exploitation romp Alvin Purple, the intense and unpredictable Oldboy, and finally explore the grim life of a sex addict in Shame.
Monday 23 March to Friday 28 March, 9.30pm.
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12 Responses
The other porn channels on Foxtel (Adults Only 1 & 2) can also show R rated films. They don’t pretend they aren’t in the porn business though. SBS is using R level as a marketing tool. TV is allowed to do its own classifications. You can complain and the ACMA will fine them if they aren’t following the rules.
Alvin Purple was classified R for medium level scene scenes in 2004, there are many MA cable dramas that have more graphic sex scenes these days.
A Clockwork Orange is probably still R because of the combination of violence and sex in the rape scene. That was all that had to cut a bit to show it as AV 15+ on FTA IIRC.
SBS has shown an AV 15+ version of Old Boy on FTA, don’t think they had to cut much.
I have the Blu Ray of A Clockwork Orange and it is only an MA Rating, with Strong Violence, Sex Scenes and Adult Themes as the label warning.
Must have a different bluray to the one I own, Paul007, cause the one I own has R clearly on the cover, with High Level Violence in the Box.
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Sounds like you have either a bootleg or a version with a blatant typo on your hands (I’ve seen my share of DVDs/Blu-rays with incorrect classification markings). A Clockwork Orange has only ever been issued an R18+ classification by the ACB.
Wish SBS was able to show this at least on their SBSonDemand services. David what are the chances of that happening?
Well Done to World Movies on the R rating.I have noticed movies that carry the R rating now show everything.Nothing being edited out at all.Even with the sex scenes you see everything
Surely ‘A Clockwork Orange’ is not still rated R?
yes it is DansDans, the bluray is.
A Clockwork Orange was last issued a classification in 2007 (R18+ – High impact violence), upholding the same classification that is has held since 1972. I haven’t seen the film myself so I cannot say whether it should be reduced to an MA15+, but since 2007, a number of previously R18+ rated films have had their classification categories reduced, including Clerks, The Godfather Part I, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, and more recently, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (but only because it has been classified collectively as part of the Twin Peaks complete collection boxset; technically [and legally], the standalone film is still classified R18+).
Really? Clerks was rated R? Well, stab me in the eye with a ballpoint pen. No wonder it was downgraded. From memory, besides the language, it is pretty tame even for M 15+ standards.
MA15+ Didn’t exist when Clerks came out. It was only introduced around 1993.
Actually, MA15+ did exist as it was introduced in 1993. Clerks was first issued a classification in 1995. It went from R18+ for “Medium level coarse language” to an MA15+ in 2009 for “Strong coarse language and sexual references, Strong sexualised nudity”. Apparently the sexually explicit context of the coarse language was what lead to its R18+ classification.
The classification guidelines have been amended over time and the classification board are expected to uphold “community standards”, hence why some films, when reclassified, may receive lower, or in some cases, higher classification categories (and additional viewer advice).