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One thing that immediately struck me is that the art category stops in 1968, while "values" and "religion" are a lot more recent. I wonder if that is related t

• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > I wonder if that is related to the more open interpretation of sexual themes and topics more critical of organized religion in more recent arthouse cinema. Probably not, because the entries in the “art” category mostly aren’t “arthouse” films to start with, it seems to be a catchall for things being recommended other than for religion or values (that is, its not a genre label, but a label for why it is recommended “as art” rather than “for religious contemplation” or “for lessons on values”.) I would hazard that the Pontifical Commission just viewed that the “as art” basis of recommendation benefited from time and seasoning, while the religious/values basis were more readily assessable without that (note that the Church has historically viewed pre-publication evaluation of religion/values as not merely practical but a necessary task for it to do, but not so for artistic merit outside those bounds, so...)