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Article: The Manila Envelope, Please...; Philippine Censors Ban Another Award-Winning Movie
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- The Washington Post
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- June 16, 1994
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They're at it again.
When we last left the Philippine movie censors, they were under
siege for demanding cuts in "Schindler's List," the Academy
Award-winning Holocaust film by Steven Spielberg. Then came an
uproar over "The Piano," winner of three Oscars, which the censors
effectively banned as "immoral."
Both decisions were eventually overturned amid scathing
criticism, but the Movie and Television Review and Classification
Board, as the censors' panel is officially known, has remained
undeterred.
Now it has banned "Belle Epoque," the Spanish production that
won this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The decision
has enraged moviegoers anew, offended the Spanish Embassy ...