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Faccia a Faccia

See Face to Face

Face/Off

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2008 Paramount R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2008 Paramount R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

There is said to be a slightly longer version preferred by John Woo but this has never seen the light of day.

Passed 18 after 7s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2009 Buena Vista Online
• UK 2007 Buena Vista Blu-ray
• UK 2001 Buena Vista R2 DVD
• UK 1998 Buena Vista VHS
• UK 1997 cinema release

The BBFC cut 7s from the 1997 cinema release and 1998 Buena Vista video/DVD/Blu-ray

The same cuts list was implemented slightly less severely for the Buena Vista DVD/Blu-rays

• Archer (John Travolta) asks his daughter whether she has protection and demonstrates a butterfly knife by whirling it around. This demonstration does not pass the censor as the butterfly knife is on their list of no-no's. One moment the blade is fully extended, and the next it is closed seemingly with no noise or movement. Also the cut causes a rather obvious sudden jump in the music track.
• The girl eventually gets to use the butterfly knife by stabbing Archer, but we don't get to see the knife.

Faces of Death

• The Original Faces of Death

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2008 Gorgon 30th Anniversary RA Blu-ray  via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2008 Gorgon 30th Anniversary R1 DVD  via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

There was also an uncontentious 2:31s longer version on Dutch VHS. See article from refused-classification.com:

• 15m 42s. A shot of a man holding a long knife is longer (at the end of a reel).
• 20m 33s. Two extra shots of streets in the Middle East
• 32m 28s. An extra medium close up of a man (at the end of a reel).
• 101m 14s. A complete extra 2m 6s sequence involving a psychic

Summary Review: Quite a reputation

Faces of Death has quite a reputation. Needless to say, there's no way the film will live up to its own hype. The narration is predictable, all the scenes involving human death are faked, and the final twenty minutes are basically newsreel footage, which we've all seen elsewhere. The film runs around 105 minutes, which is way too long for something of this nature.

However, the film is now a cultural icon and it's most definitely worth seeing, provided you're a fan of horror movies, exploitation films, or bizarre fringe relics.

The only real death you see is in the beginning where we see all sorts of animals slaughtered. It's not as bad as it sounds though. The animals weren't killed for the film, but rather as part of the routine slaughtering that happens everyday.

Passed 18 after 2:19s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2003 International Trading/Screen Entertainment R2 DVD

• UK 1983 International Trading/Screen Entertainment VHS

The BBFC commented:

Compulsory cuts required to sight of fighting dogs and monkey being cruelly beaten to death.

The BBFC have also clarified exactly which part of the monkey eating scene has been cut.

The part of the scene that shows the brains being eaten (out of an obviously fake rubber head) has NOT been cut. What we HAVE cut is the material leading up to that in which a clearly real and clearly terrified monkey ("goaded to fear and fury" as the Animals Act puts it) is brought to the table in a special 'monkey eating' contraption and is then bashed on the head. It seems entirely possible that the head bashing was done with rubber hammers and the monkey came to no harm. However, the monkey was clearly - at least in the short term - restricted in a cage/head clamp and terrified and this is prohibited by law.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Face to Face

• Faccia A Faccia

A short version was passed 12 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2010 Eureka RB Blu-ray

• UK 1993 RTM VHS

• UK 1968 cinema release

The BBFC noted the submitted running time as 102:19s = 98:13s PAL

Faces of Death II

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The short US Version was further cut by 1:54s for the 2004 International Trading DVD: Cuts required to remove three sequences of real animal cruelty (rabbit being bashed against tree and continuing to struggle as its head is cut off; man biting head off chicken; and monkey with stick in mouth having tube forced down throat and liquid syringed into eyes).

From cuts details on IMDb

The UK DVD is based on the US print which runs around 25 mins shorter than European versions and misses

• footage of German freeway accidents, the El Salvador war
• the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
• a section contrasting religion to the Iranian revolution.

Faces of Death III

Cut when the US print was submitted by International Trading in 2004: A cut was required to remove a scene of graphic sexual violence. Cuts to remove images in a video used in a court case involving a sex crime, including forcible stripping, knife threat and preparation for rape. The pseudo-documentary context was not considered a mitigating factor.

• The BBFC cut was to remove footage during a trial scene where a rapist (played by director John Alan Schwartz) films himself as he prepares to attack a woman.

From cuts details on IMDb

The US print which includes an appearance by Michael Carr as Dr. Francis B. Gross.

European prints are missing all footage of the Doctor and feature additional scenes not in the UK/US print including

• an interview with plane crash survivors, a psychologist discussing the work of German anti-terrorist forces
• footage of a supposed exorcism involving a German clergyman
• a sequence where a group of (naked) people eat a placenta at a dinner table
• a bizarre scene where Ohio residents discuss Bigfoot.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon

Faces of Death IV

• Shin janku: Gekijô-ban - shi no fukkatsu-sai

Pre-cut version passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2006 International Trading/Screen Entertainment R0 DVD

A 4:03s scene showing pigs slaughtered in an abattoir has been omitted. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Factory Girl

Unrated

The US Unrated Version was passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2007 Paramount R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2007 Weinstein R1 DVD at US Amazon

R Rated

• UK 2007 cinema release

Substantially altered with drug taking toned down and minor nudity removed. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Fair Game

The BBFC cut 57s from the Embassy video submitted in 1987:

Thanks to Bleach:

• At 44.5 mins - Remove all but first establishing shot of woman's clothes being cut, and reduce substantially the following scene in which car is driven wildly with her tied to the front, removing in particular all shots revealing her naked breasts (extreme long shot where no breast exposure is clear may remain).

The cut clip is shown more or less in its entirety in the Ozploitation documentary.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available via US Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon

Fair Game

• Mamba

The same cuts apply to the cinema release of 1989 and the video versions of 1989 & 1991

Thanks to MM:

• The missing 4s is a rabbit being bitten by a mamba

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Shown uncut on Zone Thriller

Fair Trade

• Captive Rage
• Blood Ransom
• Fire with Fire

The Braveworld video was cut in 1990 titled Blood Ransom. The same cuts apply to the International Licensing version submitted in 2002 as Fair Trade.

The BBFC commented: Compulsory cut required to remove a scene of sexual violence.

• Cuts to heavily edit a scene where a woman is forcibly tied and raped by two guards.

Thanks to MM who reports that one version, Hollywood DVD, is uncut and includes the rape footage cut by the BBFC

The Fall

The BBFC cut the 2008 cinema release: Distributor was required to remove scenes of real cruelty to horses, occurring during archive cinema clips.

Presumably the same cuts apply to the 2008 technicolor DVD

The Fall of the House of Usher

• House of Usher

Uncut version is available at:

Passed 12 uncut for:

• UK 2003 MGM R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2001 MGM R1 DVD at US Amazon

• UK 1988 VCI VHS

• UK 1960 cinema release

From IMDb:

• Cut to remove a shot of Madeline's bloodstained hands held to her face.

The submitted runtime was noted 78:55s = 75:46s PAL

The Fallen

• The Final Sacrifice

A short version was passed 12 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2011 Metrodome video titled The Final Sacrifice
• UK 2011 cinema release titled The Final Sacrifice

• UK 2007 Scanbox R2 DVD titled The Fallen

Fame

Unrated

The extended version was passed 12 without BBFC cuts for the 2010 EIV DVD/Blu-ray. The BBFC raised the rating from PG to 12 because of the unchallenged use of the word 'retarded'

The additional material is mainly uncontentious plot and a few songs are longer.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut UK Blu-ray is available at UK Amazon

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

PG

Family: Episode 2 John Paul

• Family by Roddy Doyle: Episode 2 John Paul

the Full Version was passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2011 2 Entertain Online
• UK 2011 2 Entertain R2 DVD

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• UK 2011 2 Entertain Online
• UK 2011 2 Entertain R2 DVD

Family Guy: Road to Rhode Island

• Season 2 Episode 13

The Unabridged Version was passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2003 Fox Season 2 R2 DVD at UK Amazon

After 9/11 (2001) US releases deleted a scene showing Osama Bin Laden distracting airport security from watching his bag's x-ray. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Family Guy: Petarded

• Season 4 Episode 6

The Director's Version was passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2006 Fox Season 4 R2 DVD

TV cut

• UK 2006 Fox Season 4 R2 DVD

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

• The line Yeah! In your fucking face, fuckwad! was too much for US TV so was overdubbed
• A musical number was deleted over sensitivity to the word 'retarded'

Family Jewels

• Bijoux de famille
• Les Bijoux de famille
• Try It, You'll Like It
• French Blue

Passed X (18) after BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1976 cinema release

• UK 1975 cinema release

Fanfan La Tulipe

Cut when submitted in 2004 with the following BBFC comment: Compulsory cut required to remove illegal horsefall

Fanny and Alexander

• Fanny och Alexander

The TV Version was passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2011 Palisades Tartan R2 DVD

• UK 2011 Palisades Tartan R2 DVD
• UK 2009 Palisades Tartan R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 1991 Artificial Eye VHS
• UK 1983 cinema release

Fantasm

• World of Sexual Fantasy

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2004 Synapse R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The Australian release is uncut for:

• Au 2004 Umbrella Double Bill R0 PAL DVD via UK Amazon

Thanks to Gary: Underwater sex

The film is softcore bit you can glimpse John Holmes's erection very briefly in an underwater sex scene (which was mostly cut by the OFLC on original release) but it really is blink and miss it. There is also brief penis kissing in the pool scene. Does that count as fellatio?

One state (Queensland) banned Fantasm at the time of its release.

Summary Review: Advanced for its time

This is an erotic film, quite advanced for its time.

A must see for those wishing to see softcore stars Rene Bond, Uschi Digart in the nude with their hairy bushes.

All the outrageous nudity is innocently explained away in scientific jargon by a Professor to get under the oppressive censorship of those times.

Worth the effort but with a grain of salt.

• UK 2010 Nucleus DVD

The BBFC commented:

• Cuts were required to remove potentially harmful material in two scenes. In the first case, cuts were made to remove an eroticised scene of sexual violence in which the victim responds positively to the assault.
• In the second, cuts were made to remove dialogue likely to encourage an interest in sexually abusive activity, in this case incest.

Passed X after substantial BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1978 cinema release

• UK 1977 cinema release

Fantasm Comes Again

• Fantasm 2

The US release claims to be uncut (even though it has a short running time) and is MPAA X Rated for:

• US 2004 Synapse R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The Australian release is uncut for:

• Au 2004 Umbrella Double Bill R0 PAL DVD via UK Amazon

Thanks to Gary: Lost Hardcore

According to David Stratton's The Last New Wave (on 70s Aussie cinema), Fantasm Comes Again was one of the most heavily cut films of its time, so it's ironic that it's suffered far less BBFC cuts than its predecessor.

As for Fantasm Comes Again, the makers did spend a day shooting hardcore material so that a stronger version could be made available.

That footage is now lost and has never appeared in any version of the film that anyone knows about. (Info from Antony Ginnane's commentary on the Australian DVD.)

Review from US Amazon: 70's sleaze-orama

If you like films from the 70's, as much as I do. You'll probably like this film...It has it all, attractive women, nudity and sex (Some of which I am more than sure, isn't simulated)...Just watch the scene in the pool.

The story is rather weak, if you can even locate it [There isn't one - both films are a series of sketches with linking material!] and the acting is god awful...But if your in the mood for a slice of 70's sleaze-orama...It doesn't get much better than this.

• UK 2010 Nucleus DVD

The BBFC commented:

• Distributor was required to make cuts to remove potentially harmful references to incest,
• scenes and references likely to encourage an interest in underage sexual activity,
• and a scene of sexual violence.

No doubt the cut scene is the one mentioned on IMDb:

• Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith who appears in a very politically incorrect vignette about a prudish girl who gets raped by a slob in a van at the drive-in and ends up enjoying it.

Fantastic Four

The BBFC passed the Extended Edition PG uncut for the 2007 20th Century Fox DVD

The Extended Edition inserts scenes previously seen as 'deleted scenes' in DVD extras for the Theatrical Version.

There is also an Alternative Theatrical Version shown in Hong Kong and other countries

See version details on IMDb

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Fantasy Mission Force

• Dragon Attack
• Mi ni te gong dui

There is an extended Japanese Version. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

• UK 2002 Medusa/Eastern Heroes R2 DVD
• UK 1988 Trans Global VHS

Far from the Madding Crowd

All video versions from 1991 to 2006 have been cut to remove a cockfight. The cuts to achieve this have varied from 12s to 26s

The Far Pavilions

Fascination

Unrated

UK: Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2002 Redemption DVD via UK Amazon
• UK 1994 Redemption VHS

Passed uncut but some versions omit 1:25s of the opening credits featuring 2 girls dancing on a bridge.

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2012 Redemption Re-mastered Edition RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon for release on 24th January 2012
• US 2012 Redemption Re-mastered Edition R1 DVD at US Amazon for release on 24th January 2012

Fast & Furious

• Fast & Furious 4

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and PG-13 rated for:

• US 2009 Universal R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2009 Universal R1 DVD at US Amazon

• UK 2009 Universal Online
• UK 2009 Universal R0 Blu-ray
• UK 2009 Universal R2 DVD
• UK 2009 cinema release

The BBFC Commented:

• Distributor chose to make one cut to sight of man having his head slammed into a wall resulting in a follow-on shot of the man's broken and bloodied nose in order to attain a 12A category. An uncut 15 was available.

Thanks to Gavin: Fast Rethink

The film appeared on the BBFC site for a week or so with a 15 rating. That entry seems to have now disappeared. Presumably the distributor decided to make a last minute change.

The BBFC explained their rating: Extended Detail

Fast & Furious is the fourth in the series of action/ car chase films. This time the lead character and his federal agent adversary team up to avenge the death of a friend by drug traffickers. The film was passed ‘12A’ for strong action violence.

The film contains several scenes of tonally and visually strong action violence, notably the throttling and then dangling of a man by his ankle from a window (from which he is dropped), the heavy slamming of a man's head against a marble wall, clear sight of a gunshot impact to shoulder and the deliberate ramming of a villain with a car so that he is crushed between two cars. Although injury detail is rather restrained, tonally the violence appears callous though it is contained within the 12A guidelines which allow for the fact that 'violence must not dwell on detail. There should be no emphasis on injuries or blood.' These tonal qualities and the degree of process to the violence place the scenes within the '12A' category.

The film contains one clear use of ‘fuck’ and other moderate language (e.g. bitch, pussy and muffled uses of strong language). The uses were in line with BBFC's '12A' Guidelines which state 'the use of strong language (eg 'fuck') must be infrequent.'

The film also contains several intense car chase sequences involving dangerous stunts (e.g. jumping from one moving vehicle to another, street racing through public roads where other traffic and people are present), plus some moderate sexualised posing by scantily-clad female extras and three women kissing passionately for a man’s pleasure as he films them.

A scene involving brief sight of a cockfight filmed outside the UK was considered not to contravene the Cinematograph Film (Animals) Act 1939, given that it did not involve the cruel infliction of pain or terror, or cruel goading to fury.

Fast & Furious 5

• Fast Five

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

2011 US action film by Justin Lin with Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson. See IMDb

The Extended Version/Extended Cut was passed 12 uncut for moderate action violence and infrequent strong language for:

• UK 2011 Universal Online
• UK 2011 Universal (Theatrical + Extended) R2 DVD/RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2011 Universal (Theatrical + Extended) R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2011 Universal (Theatrical + Extended) R1 DVD/RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2011 Universal (Theatrical + Extended) R1 DVD at US Amazon

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

Aside from a few short plot lengthenings, about one dozen typical MPAA-cuts, mostly just frames, were reintegrated in the Theatrical Version. Some depictions of bullet and stab wounds were equipped with CGI blood textures, but mostly their quality isn't that good and it doesn't fit to the rest of the action sequences, which are quite bloodless. All in all, the Extended Cut is a nice bonus to Fast Five but the minor changes can barely be seen during the action sequences due to the fast cutting.

73s

PG-13

• UK 2011 Universal Online
• UK 2011 Universal (Theatrical + Extended) R2 DVD/RB Blu-ray
• UK 2011 Universal (Theatrical + Extended) R2 DVD
• UK 2011 cinema release

The Fast and the Furious

cut

PG-13

The cut US Theatrical Version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for the 2001 cinema release, 2002 20th Century Fox DVD and 2002 Universal DVD

The movie was cut to obtain a US PG-13 rather than an R rating from the MPAA.

• As shown on the DVD extras, the producers trimmed down the scene where Vin Diesel's character is hijacking the truck towards the end. They removed the shots of the guy's arm being ripped by the wiring on the truck and the agony he expressed.
• The scene where the motor mechanic is beaten up and doused in grease has also been shortened.

Fast Times at Ridgemont Times

• Fast Times

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R Rated

The Theatrical Version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2011 R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon

There's no signs of the MPAA cuts being restored so for the moment this is the best available version

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R Rated

The Theatrical Version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2002 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD via UK Amazon
• UK 1987 CIC VHS
• UK 1987 cinema release

From cuts details on IMDb

• The MPAA originally slapped the film with an "X" rating, stating that the male frontal nudity had to be cut from the boathouse sex scene. This cut, along with a few other trims to that scene, was made and the MPAA gave the film an "R" rating which was distributed worldwide.
• Also reports of other small edits to VHS version along with a change of sound track

Fat Girl

See A Ma Soeur