Deep Throat, the movie that effectively created the adult film industry, went back onto a movie theater screen for the first time in a generation last night, and in a spanking new, re-mastered 35mm print.
The location was the Laemmle Sunset 5 on Sunset Blvd. at Crescent Heights, which also happens to be screening the documentary Inside Deep Throat.
A large audience of adult industry workers, including a sizeable contingent of provocatively clad starlets, turned out for the occasion. For many, it was probably their first experience seeing a hardcore movie in a public theater.
Bill Margold, whose remarks prefaced the screening, pointed out that a large part of the audience hadn’t even been born when the 33 year-old film first opened in Times Square.
The print of Deep Throat is a 35mm film version of the digitally remastered video released by Ray Pistol’s Arrow Productions, owner of the movie, last year. The audience saw on the big screen exactly what AVN Awards voters saw when they named the brightly restored version Best Classic DVD of 2004.
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The movie was introduced by its theatrical distributors, who said they got the idea for a re-release from audience reaction to Inside Deep Throat at the Sundance Film Festival. But the documentary, one of them pointed out, “is not the icon. Deep Throat is the icon.”
The movie has already been booked into theaters into San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia, and a New York venue is being firmed up.
Paul Interlandi introduced the remastered version, which he produced. His travails over transferring the digital version to film for the theatrical release were documented by AVN Senior Editor Mark Kernes in a story on AVN.com.
The movie was followed by Interlandi’s own brief documentary, an extra on the Arrow DVD.
Linda Lovelace’s legendary oral expertise and erotic enthusiasm drew whoops of amazement and approval (“She loves it!” someone yelled) from the partisan crowd. The mostly youthful audience ate up the movie’s corny jokes and dopey situations, and everyone seemed to be having a whale of a good time.
Among the more high profile guests was Digital Playground contract girl Jesse Jane, who arrived in style in a limo. Seymore Butts brought along his Cousin Stevie, contract girls Mari Possa and Flower, and Pure Play Media publicist April Storm. Max Hardcore showed up with Catalina and his new protegee, Layla Rivera. Other industry notables included Brooke Hunter and Don Hollywood, Dani Woodward, Brittney Skye, Samantha Ryan, Trina Michaels, Keri Sable, Eva Angelina, Angie Savage, Lexi Lamour, Ginger Jolie, Kurt Lockwood, Brandon Iron, Tommy Gunn, Jonni Darkko, Miles Long, Anita Cannibal, Ron Hightower, Nadia Styles, Sophie Dee, Brandi May, and AVN President Paul Fishbein.
