the news last week that the Motion Picture Association of America is making crucial changes to its charter, and finally providing at least a little transparency. The move is partially shaped by Kirby Dick’s documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated, new to DVD this week, about the Neapolitan swirl of secrecy and hypocrisy surrounding the ratings board and its secretive system of classification. While far, far from perfect, the movie is certainly an entertaining one, if also intellectually lazy.

“The reason there is secrecy is so that people can’t critique the system — that they don’t understand it and know where to begin a critique of it,” argues Dick. “I think the MPAA basically doesn’t care whether or not there’s a ratings system or not, but if there’s going to be one they want to control it, because they want to make sure that their films get the least restrictive rating, so that they can make the most money.” For the full interview/feature from FilmStew — including a tidbit about Jane Fonda’s legendarily orgasmic writhing in Coming Home, and what it might foretell when combined with the forthcoming changes in classification appeals — click here.