Alberta, British Columbia, and Quebec banned the film.[8] Available in Quebec from 1968 to 2013 with a "14+" rating and since 2013 with a "G" rating.[9]
United Artists withdrew the film from release in the Ontario province on August 4, 1960, after star Burt Lancaster objected to Ontario censor O.J. Silverthorne's removal of a racy line of dialogue.[11] The ban on the film lasted only a week;[12] the cut version began showing at the Carlton theater in Toronto with a Restricted rating on August 18, though it only was a modest box office success in the city.[13] The uncut version is available on DVD with a G rating under the Canadian Home Video Rating System.
Nova Scotia censors banned the film, describing it as "obscene and blasphemous". After an appeal from the distributor and media coverage, the decision was later reversed and the film was released with a "Restricted" rating[14][15]
The National Film Board of Canada blocks the release of Denys Arcand's controversial documentary. An edited version is released in 1976, but the original unedited version was not released until 2004.[16][17]
Alberta and Nova Scotia banned the film.[1] Alberta reversed the ban in 1999. The Maritime Film Classification Board has also reversed the ban.[19] Both jurisdictions now grant an R rating to the film.
Banned in Ontario because the censors deemed it contained "degradation, explicit and prolonged scenes of sexual activity, undue emphasis on human genitals, and its representation of a person under 16 in sexual context".[22]
Banned in Ontario and Saskatchewan on the basis of scenes in which star Brooke Shields, then aged thirteen, was photographed in the nude.[23]: 39 The ban was repealed in 1995.[24]
Banned by all provinces except British Columbia, which received a Restricted rating with a warning. Edited versions were later passed.[citation needed] The 156-minute "unrated" version was passed in British Columbia by the BC Film Classification Office. The uncut version was banned again in Ontario in 2000 for a theatrical reissue due to "sexual violence" "bestality" and "incest".[26] It has subsequently been reevaluated and approved with an R rating in the Maritimes[19] and in Ontario.
The feminist documentary critique of the pornography industry was itself banned in Ontario for its pornographic content, although that decision was ultimately reversed.[28]
Ontario censors banned the film after only watching the first 40 minutes due to "graphic and prolonged scenes of gratuitous violence, torture, crime, cruelty, horror, rape, degradation to humans and animals and exploitation of the blind and children, as well as indignities to the human body in an explicit manner".[31] A softer version missing a lot of the gore was passed with a restricted rating after several cuts were made.[32]
Banned in Ontario and the Maritimes, with a cut, 97 minute version passed in Ontario.[34] The original 101 minute version was resubmitted to the Ontario Film Review Board in 1998 and given a R rating when released on VHS. In 2008 the rating was changed to 14A.[35] The 101-minute version has also been granted an R rating in the Maritimes.[19]
A David Lynch film that was banned by the New Brunswick Film Classification Board due to its prevalence of sexually explicit scenes and of heavily violent scenes.[37] New Brunswick now uses the ratings provided by the Maritime Film Classification Board, which granted an R rating.[19]
Initially banned in Ontario because of "Brutal, graphic violence with blood-letting through, horror, degradation, and torture." Passed with a Restricted rating after New World Mutual agreed to cut 40 seconds of violence.[38]
Banned in Ontario in 2001 because the censor board deemed the film depicted underage sex.[47] The ban was lifted in 2003 with the film being passed with an "R" rating.[48]
This series of shot-on-tape reality productions, is banned in seven of the thirteen provinces and territories; the remaining give it an R rating. [citation needed] As of 2016, the films are still banned in Quebec.[50]
^ abcdefghRating search at the Maritime Film Classification Board website in 2005, since then, all entries for "Not Approved" (ie. rejected) products have been removed.
^Cole, Janis. "Bonnie Sherr Klein". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica-Dominion. Archived from the original on 9 October 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
^Neil Boyd, Censorship and Obscenity: Jurisdiction and the Boundaries of Free Expression, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Volume 23, Number 1 (Spring 1985), p. 56.
^Schwartzberg, Shlomo (30 May 1986). "Now they see it -- not you don't". Toronto Star. Toronto. p. D6.
^Schwartzberg, Shlomo (13 June 1986). "Toxic Avenger makers outraged censors watched only half of film". Toronto Star. Toronto. p. D11.
^Schwartzberg, Shlomo (4 July 1986). "Toxic Avenger still needs a clean-up. film censors say". Toronto Star. Toronto. p. D19.
^Schwartzberg, Shlomo (3 July 1987). "Ontario Film Review Board bans two movies, three videos". Toronto Star. Toronto. p. D11. ISSN0319-0781.
^Tillson, Tamsen (20 November 2000). "French film Baise-Moi gets thumbs down from Ontario Film Review Board". National Post. Toronto. p. D5.
^"BAISE-MOI". Ontario Film Review Board. Archived from the original on 28 December 2017. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
^Pevere, Geoff (23 March 2001). "France's natural porn killers ; Banned Baise-moi can finally be seen (minus 13 seconds)". Toronto Star. Toronto. p. MO04.
^Stone, Jay (16 November 2001). "Leading Canadian filmmakers oppose ban: Ontario board rejected 'Fat Girl' because of teenage sex scenes: Distributor appeals". National Post. Toronto. p. A2.
^Whyte, Murray (30 January 2003). "censors lift Ontario ban on Fat Girl". Toronto Star. Toronto. p. A29.
^Rob, Faulkner (26 Mar 2004). "Meet Steve-O, the Lunatic Prince; Troubled star a crazy punk who pushes boundaries". The Hamilton Spectator. Hamilton. p. G14.
