In response, Warhol released a Blue Movie book featuring stills from the film and a transcript of the movie’s dialogue.
Nonetheless, its influence on adult film can be felt decades later thanks to its artistic approach.īlue Movie was equally controversial for its time Warholstars notes the NYPD seized Blue Movie on obscenity grounds shortly after its release.
While technically a famous porn film, Blue Movie isn’t traditional pornography, nor is it intended to be: it depicts sex as it happens, including how it starts, stops, and starts again. The title references both the popular slang term for a pornographic film, and the fact that the film is literally blue due to the way it was filmed.Īlso known as the aptly-titled Fuck, Blue Movie is a realistic portrait of eroticism and romantic desire as shared between a straight couple during sex. Before Deep Throat, The Devil in Miss Jones, and other mainstream ’70s porn flicks, there was Andy Warhol’s arthouse production Blue Movie.
