He may have the title of 'Oz the Great and Powerful', but it will be interesting to see what sway actor James Franco has in Australia after he criticised the nation's Classification Board for banning a gay film, I Want Your Love.

Franco's interest in the film was largely due to the fact that he recently co-directed a bondage sex film, Interior.Leather.Bar, with I Want You Love's director Travis Mathews.

Mathews' story of a gay man who has sex with his best friend while partying in Los Angeles was considered by the Classification Board to be too explicit in its sex scenes and the board wouldn't allow it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival and the Brisbane Queer Film Festival.

The scene itself was a six-minute montage of friends, housemates and partygoers.