Blue Movie (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Blue Movie |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andy Warhol |
| script | Andy Warhol |
| production |
Andy Warhol Paul Morrissey |
| camera | Andy Warhol |
| occupation | |
Blue Movie (alternative title Fuck ) is a 1969 sex film directed by Andy Warhol and starring Viva and Louis Waldon .
action
The film shows Andy Warhol superstar Viva (Susan Hoffman) and actor Louis Waldon having sex in an apartment. There are also dialogues about the Vietnam War and other everyday things like cooking and showering.
background
“I'd always wanted to do a movie that was pure fucking, nothing else, the way Eat had been just eating and Sleep had been just sleeping. So in October '68 I shot a movie of Viva having sex with Louis Waldon. I called it just Fuck. "
“I always wanted to make a film that was just fucking , nothing more than Eat was eating and Sleep was sleeping. So in October '68 I made a movie about Viva having sex with Louis Waldon. I just called him Fuck . "
The filming took place in October 1968 in David Bourdon's apartment in Greenwich Village , New York . The blue coloration of the film was actually not intended and resulted from a technical error: Warhol had used an artificial light film ( tungsten film , see → Wolfram ), but the apartment was flooded with sunlight or daylight on that day , which on the film material was too bluish green. streaky discoloration.
The film was initially only shown in Warhol's Factory . The first public performance under the title Fuck was supposed to take place on July 31, 1969 in New York's Garrick Theater, which Warhol had recently rented, but was stopped by the police. New York City Police Department officers stormed the theater, confiscated a copy of the film, and arrested the manager, projectionist and ticket seller for possession of obscene material. The manager was fined $ 250. After censors had stopped the allegedly pornographic part with the stopwatch, the film was shortened to 90 minutes more “audience-friendly” and shown under the less offensive title Blue Movie .
On September 17, 1969, a three-person criminal judge panel decided after brief deliberations that the film Blue Movie was obscenity in all points because it aroused sexual desires, offended moral feelings and was without any social value; It is therefore a matter of "hard pornography " and is therefore a criminal offense.
Reviews
- “ Blue Movie is a good-humored film for men,” said film critic Vincent Canby in the New York Times , “shot in a pretty nice greenish-blue color, and it's a film in which the actors actually do what conventional works only do is faked. "
- Al Goldstein, the editor of Screw Magazine , found the film “downright amateurish and boring; so I'm shocked that three New York criminal judges even bother to declare him obscene. "
literature
- Enno Patalas (ed.): Andy Warhol and his films: A documentary . Heyne, Munich 1971, ISBN 0-200-41991-9 .
- Stephen Koch: Stargazer. The Life, World and Films of Andy Warhol . London 1974; Updated reissue by Marion Boyars, New York 2002, ISBN 0-7145-2920-6 .
- Bernard Blistène (Ed.): Andy Warhol, Cinema: à l'occasion de l'Exposition Andy Warhol Rétrospective (21 juin - 10 septembre 1990) organized à Paris par le Musée National d'Art Moderne au Center Georges Pompidou . Ed. du Center Georges Pompidou, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-908393-30-1 .
- Debra Miller: Billy Name: Stills from the Warhol films . Prestel, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7913-1367-3 .
- Astrid Johanna Ofner (Ed.): Andy Warhol - Filmmaker. A retrospective of the Viennale and the Austrian Film Museum October 1 to 31, 2005 . Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85266-282-6 .
Web links
- Blue Movie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Blue Movie at warholstars.org (English)