Joe Dallesandro

[TruthBTold]

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Never realized he had such a nice butt.

[+ azdr0710]

I just watched "Flesh" via Netflix (DVD)....1:30 long.....many of you have seen it, I assume, and might have more-enlightened opinions on the film quality....understandably, being a Warhol-backed production, it's artsy and kooky.....Paul Morrissey, with an assistant, apparently put the whole thing together himself (according to the brief director comments in the DVD's "extras" section).....it may be entirely Morrissey's intent, but the clunky and amateurish editing, sharp cuts/splicing, and inexplicable silent stretches were somewhat irritating.....lots of scenes of Joe fully naked, but no explicit sex.....

 

do any more-sophisticated posters here have comments??!!

 

here's the whole thing (might need to sign in to youtube):

 

 

and a trailer:

 

 

and I found this Roger Ebert (!) review from 1969:

 

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/flesh-1969

 

and the NY Times review from 1968:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B07E7DB1E31E034BC4F51DFBF668383679EDE

[Moondance]

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[Kenny]

I just watched "Flesh" via Netflix (DVD)....1:30 long.....many of you have seen it, I assume, and might have more-enlightened opinions on the film quality....understandably, being a Warhol-backed production, it's artsy and kooky.....Paul Morrissey, with an assistant, apparently put the whole thing together himself (according to the brief director comments in the DVD's "extras" section).....it may be entirely Morrissey's intent, but the clunky and amateurish editing, sharp cuts/splicing, and inexplicable silent stretches were somewhat irritating.....lots of scenes of Joe fully naked, but no explicit sex.....

 

do any more-sophisticated posters here have comments??!!

 

here's the whole thing (might need to sign in to youtube):

 

 

and a trailer:

 

 

and I found this Roger Ebert (!) review from 1969:

 

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/flesh-1969

 

and the NY Times review from 1968:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B07E7DB1E31E034BC4F51DFBF668383679EDE

Paul Morrissey did conceive and direct most of the narrative movies, and Warhol -- essentially acting as their producer -- got above-the-title billing for marketing purposes. "Flesh" isn't nearly as good as "Trash."

[longtime lurker]

No doubt Morrissey's increased influence was due to Warhol still recovering from his gun shot wounds in August 1968 when Flesh was filmed. I am surprised at how sophisticated this experimental film is in plot and storyline. I like how it begins and ends with Joe in pretty much the same position, fast asleep bottoms up.

 

It appears that 1968 was the first big year for male nudity, even if it was restricted to bottom shots and side-views a.k.a. Romeo And Juliet, Planet of the Apes, If..., etc. Then again, all of female nudity was getting more attention with Russ Meyer's Vixen! being the most profitable sexploitation quickie up to that time and getting 20th Century Fox interested in him. When one excludes "blue movies" confined mostly to smoker parties, Times Square 8mm loops and underground experimental films like Jean Genet's Un Chant d'Amour and Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures, all you pretty much had was the landmark 1965 nudist documentary The Raw Ones... the first to remove the volley balls and bath towels. I Am Curious, Yellow was still in a battle with US customs that year. Interesting that Flesh was rushed to theaters rather quickly and picked up by the press faster than Warhol's earlier films.

Midnight Cowboy and Medium Cool were filming at this time. Intriguingly the former stuck to just bottom shots of Jon Voight, like the earlier mainstream features, but the latter may have been the first major studio (Paramount) backed production with a full-frontal... good ol' Robert Forster, who previously rode a horse in the buff in Reflections of a Golden Eye. If Joe was the first male nude star in experimental films, Forster and Alan Bates were the first in mainstream cinema; Bates showing off his rump in 1966's King of Hearts before going full monty with Oliver Reed in Ken Russell's Women In Love, which started filming on the other side of the Atlantic that September, same month Flesh was released in New York City.

[Kenny]

Since Morrissey wrote, directed and shot "Flesh," which was released as "presented by Andy Warhol," I think it is more than simply him benefiting (as it were) from Warhol's incapacity. Morrisey has complained about such claims for years, including in his "Factory Days" memoir. He says it's not the case. Of course, he's a right-wing conservative, and we know how trust-worthy they are.

[TruthBTold]

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Oh, you intellectuals talking about the movie qualities. I want to talk about the qualities of his nipples.