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8 March
LGBTQ and the world of F-Rated films : Read more below, and your comments are welcome – is it a good match for those who do not identify with polarity of gender, or see themselves as necessarily having a gender, etc., etc. ? (work in progress)
Not exactly for #IWD2017, but #UCFF keeps asking, when a film written or directed by a woman gets an @F__Rating, what does it say / mean ?— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 8, 2017
WATCH @hollytarq 10 min @TEDxYouthBath talk about the F-@F__Rating— F-Rated (@F__Rating) December 6, 2016
Pass it on xhttps://t.co/psLCXn27nl
More:https://t.co/C1F0f5xQm6 pic.twitter.com/rFTyQd8VM6
As a result of the efforts of Holly Tarquini at Bath Film Festival (@BathFilm), a rating for films, F Rated, has not only been used at the Festival, and elsewhere, for a while (@F__Rating, but is now being adopted by IMDb.
Great news about @BathFilm @F__Rating as it's adopted by @IMDb - well done @hollytarq & team! 🤗https://t.co/xaPA30JCJr— Theatre Bath (@TheatreBath) March 5, 2017
@THEAGENTAPSLEY @BathFilm @IMDb no very true. But still a big positive step I the right direction :-)— Theatre Bath (@TheatreBath) March 5, 2017
IMDb, short for the International Movie Data-base (@IMDb), is both, as in the Bath area, amongst the Festival’s neighbours and one of its collaborators (and owned by Amazon, hence all those promotional banners / links to buy on Amazon…)
The fact that @IMDb's owned by @amazon is more obvious nowadays :— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 6, 2017
Looking at a film prompts you to buy a copy - a move to promote sales ? https://t.co/Dv8UzisSSL
However, confusion already exists, by virtue of people assuming – or being told, and not checking – that ‘F’ denotes ‘feminist’. Although the criteria for F-Rating clearly do not say this, and a film can be F-Rated simply by virtue of the fact that a woman directed or wrote it (or both), does whether an F-Rated film is then wrongly taken to be an endorsement of it or its values and ethos need due consideration - not least when IMDb / Amazon start F-Rating films in earnest ?
Conversely, a highly misogynistic film could ensure satisfying the @BechdelTestFest criteria - if the director's female, it gets @F__Rating.— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 6, 2017
And, then, does the stipulation of a female director start posing questions, when it was Andy and Larry Wachowski (now, respectively, Lilly and Lana) who made The Matrix (1999), etc. [the IMDb biography for Lana Wachowski, compared with that for Lilly, has greatly submerged the birth-name] ? :
The Wachowskis and the various films of The Matrix (1999), @IMDb credits them as transitioned = @F__Rating as writer / directors— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 8, 2017
Conversely, a highly misogynistic film could ensure satisfying the @BechdelTestFest criteria - if the director's female, it gets @F__Rating.— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 6, 2017
Finally, someone might present, say, as female, but may not identify with that / any gender = a right to opt out of @F__Rating, @BathFilm ?— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 8, 2017
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
