by David M. Halbfinger

Kirby Dick was steamed. Somebody would have to pay. It was sometime in 2004, and he had run out of patience. Too many independent filmmakers, people just like him, he said, were being made offers they couldn't refuse: cut cherished scenes from their movies or get smacked with an NC-17 and disappear into commercial oblivion [Read More]

by Anthony Breznican

Documentary maker Kirby Dick had a surprise for the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings board when they sat down to decide which audiences should be allowed to see his latest movie: The film was about them. [Read More]

Kirby Dick has rated the movie-ratings board and come to a blunt conclusion: This panel is not suitable for any audiences. His documentary "This Film Is Not Yet Rated," which premiered Wednesday at the Sundance Film Festival, is a harsh indictment of the ratings system overseen by the Motion Picture Association of America, the trade group for Hollywood's top studios.[Read More]

by Todd McCarthy

"This Film Is Not Yet Rated" constitutes a ballsy expose of the notoriously secretive methods of the Motion Picture Assn. of America's ratings board; the guerrilla enterprise takes, and provokes, gleeful fun at outing the heretofore anonymous panel that decides who can see what and how far filmmakers can go with sex and violence. [Read More]

by Peter Travers

by Gregg Goldstein and Anne Thompson

Director Kirby Dick is taking on what he charges is one of the most powerful, secretive organizations in the country: the film ratings board. And the group representing Hollywood's major studios is none too happy about it.

In "This Film Is Not Yet Rated," a documentary receiving its world premiere Wednesday at the Sundance Film Festival, Dick uses private investigators to unmask the identities of members of the Certification and Rating Administration, which the Motion Picture Assn. of America (MPAA) [Read More]

by Denis Seguin

Michael Moore stalking George Bush. Morgan Spurlock stalking a Big Mac. This year the gonzo documentary they'll all be talking about is Kirby Dick hunting down and dragging, blinking, into the spotlight of publicity, America's notoriously anonymous movie censors. This Film is not Yet Rated, to be shown at the Sundance festival of independent films which starts today, is something of a private crusade for Dick [Read More]

by Anne Thompson

Official prizes at the Sundance Film Festival won't be handed out until Saturday night, but plenty of executives are already heading back to Los Angeles and New York -- either to toast their victories or tend to their wounds. .[Read More]

by Jan Stuart

If there were a prize for the festival's most rabble-rousing film, documentary or otherwise, it would go hands-down to "This Film Is Not Yet Rated," Kirby Dick's gonzo-journalist attack on the MPAA's movie-rating system.[Read More]

A documentary which investigates America's notoriously secretive film ratings board has itself fallen foul of the organisation's restrictive NC-17 classification. This Film Is Not Yet Rated aims to blow the lid off the Motion Picture Association of America, which is charged with [Read More]

IFC Original Documentary by Kirby Dick 'This Film is Not Yet Rated' Investigates Hollywood's Best-kept Secret: the MPAA Film Ratings System and its Impact on American Culture. MPAA gives film about itself an NC-17. Film will air on IFC - uncut, uncensored, and commercial-free - in Fall 2006 --MORE

I may not be in Utah, but that doesn't mean I'm sitting Sundance out completely this year. Early this afternoon, I drove over to Silverlake, to the offices of Chain Camera Productions, where I met Kirby Dick for the first time. I've been writing about his work here on AICN since at least 2001, and I really admire his approach as a documentarian.--MORE

FILM THREAT by Eric Campos

Documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick (Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist, "Twist of Faith") is our fucking hero! And with his latest film that gives the Motion Picture Association of America a good kick in the ass that it's been deserving for way too long, Dick is about to become a hero to a legion of filmmakers who've been unfairly reamed by these bastards. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the time has come for the MPAA to get its ass reamed by our favorite Dick. Let the cheering begin! [Read More]

by Dennis Michael

This Film Is Not Yet Rated is still rated NC-17. The Hollywood Reporter indicates the Classification and Ratings Board has decided to stick to its original NC-17 rating of the documentary by Kirby Dick, despite an appeal [Read More]

by Karina Longworth

Director Kirby Dick (the man behind Derrida and an Oscar nominee for last year's Twist of Faith) has made a documentary that he says will blow the lid off the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings board that is, if he can actually get it shown anywhere [Read More]

HOLLYWOOD infoSLAP

When Kirby dick decided to investigate the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system by doing a documentary about it, part of him must have known that if he dug up anything worth exposing, the MPAA would rate his film into the toilet. And shock, horror - it's done just that [Read More]

The Motion Picture Association of America - those fine folks who represent the movie industry in Washington, campaign against movie piracy and set the ratings on which millions of parents rely for guidance - has never been one to recognize irony, even when it steps in the stuff --MORE