It’s true that an NC-17 rating can make it difficult for a film to make money at the box office; major chains often won’t even carry them, seeing them as a like-for-like with the X rating it was introduced to replace. While that seems less of an issue in the streaming era, NC-17 still carries a stigma.
Ahead of the release of her soundtrack for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi s new film Evil Does Not Exist , Japanese musician Eiko Ishibashi talks to Ilia Rogatchevski about influential composer director partnerships and her own approaches to scoring film
From Poor Cow (1967) and Kes (1969) to Raining Stones (1993) and My Name is Joe (1998), Loach has elevated the humanity and everyday courage of, in his words, society’s nonpersons.” His deceptively simple stories of families and neighborhoods, captured with an unflinching gaze, vibrate with anger.