Blue Movie

Blue Movie (also known as Fuck and F,k)[2][4][5] is a 1969 American erotic film written, produced and directed by Andy Warhol.

Blue Movie was released Elgin Theater in New York City on June 12, 1969, before the legalization of pornography in Denmark on July 1, 1969.

[12][13] According to Warhol, Blue Movie was a major influence in the making of Last Tango in Paris (1972), an internationally controversial erotic drama film starring Marlon Brando.

[14] The film includes dialogue about the Vietnam War, various mundane tasks and sexual intercourse, during a blissful afternoon in a New York City apartment[1][6] (owned by art critic David Bourdon).

Warhol explained to Leticia Kent in an interview for Vogue magazine that the lack of a plot in his films was intentional:Scripts bore me.

So I told him about 7242, 7241, and the need to use the proper filter to balance the color when you used indoor stock outdoors, or vice versa.

[2] While it was initially shown at The Factory, Blue Movie was not presented to a wider audience until it opened at the New Andy Warhol Garrick Theater in New York City[21][22] on July 21, 1969, with a running time of 105 minutes.

"The sex in 'Blue Movie' is, in fact, quite charming and a great deal more artistic than the embarrassingly phony gropings of panting actors which predominate in most commercial films," he said.

[25] Critic John Huddy of the Miami Herald, who didn't like the movie, wrote "Cipnic should win a Pulitzer Prize for comedy—the most elaborate, best sounding justification for utter slop I've ever read."

"[26][16] In 1970, Warhol published Blue Movie in book form, with film dialogue and explicit stills, through Grove Press.

[23] When Last Tango in Paris, an internationally controversial erotic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Marlon Brando, was released in 1972, Warhol considered Blue Movie to be its inspiration.

[4] Mona the Virgin Nymph, an erotic film depicting explicit sex, also received a mainstream theatrical release in the United States in 1970.

Shortly thereafter, other adult films, such as Boys in the Sand, Deep Throat, Behind the Green Door, The Devil in Miss Jones, and The Opening of Misty Beethoven were released, continuing the Golden Age of Porn that began with Blue Movie.