Subject: Re: David Lynch news [twin peaks/Cannes film festival]
From: ma299ai@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Jan Bielawski)
Date: 1990-05-22, 10:37
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <3770@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> reiher@onyx.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Peter Reiher) writes:
<In article <GA^$CB*@rpi.edu> prince@pawl.rpi.edu (prince) writes:
<>hot off the press...
<>David Lynch's movie "Wild At Heart" today was awarded the Palme D'Or at the
<>Cannes film festival.
<
<Now for the bad news - "Wild At Heart" will be substantially cut for 
<showing in the U.S.  David Lynch has a contractual obligation to deliver a
<film with an R rating, and has every intention of doing so.  But no one who
<has seen "Wild At Heart" thinks it has a hope in hell of getting an R rating
<in its current form.  It's got a triple whammy against it - lots of sex,
<lots of violence, lots of profanity.

Can't they release both versions (like "Caligula")?  The wide
'R' release and the 'X' (or simply unrated) for the repertory/art houses?

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