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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381015522
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 11, 2005
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 82352
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1970
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
'Why do you have to be unconscious?' asks Holly (played by Holly Woodlawn) while fingering the unresponsive crotch of her passed-out junkie boyfriend, Joe (Joe Dallesandro). Joe passes through a series of flaccid sexual encounters until, on account of his drug habit, he hits rock bottom as Holly is forced out of frustration to consummate with one of his discarded beer bottles. A radical and infinitely more compassionate departure from producer Andy Warhol's art-as-commodity (or commodification) discourse, director Paul Morrissey set out to make a reactionary antidrug film (originally titled Drug Trash), but the film instead turned into a sweaty, cinema-verité black comedy about the pitfalls of, to use a popular catch phrase of the time, 'dropping out' of society and, inevitably, losing all hope of human intimacy. In this case, dropping out is not so much an escape as it is a further complicity: rather than an exercise in free will, one form of mindless consumer addiction has simply exchanged with another. As a time capsule, societal criticism, and cult oddity all in one, grab this from the trash heap of film history on your way out of a burning building. --Christopher Chase
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Trash
"Trash" is the second of Paul Morrissey's loose trilogy (bookended by Flesh and Heat). Joe Dallesandro plays a Village junkie who lacks the ability to satisfy women due to his drug habit. He shacks up with his girlfriend, Holly, in a rundown apartment without heat but outfitted with scrap salvaged from dumpsters.
In one hilarious scene, Holly feels they deserve welfare, though Joe's addiction presents obstacles. A weaselly welfare officer comes to visit their dive; Holly greets ... Read More
Rating:  - Proverbial Van Down by the River
Despite the gracious full frontal male nudity which is shocking now days, this film is boring! Even though D'Allesandro (the random hung naked guy of many Morissey / Warhol films) is every inch (literally) gorgeous (despite crawling around looking like a homeless man), nothing prevents the crawling creeping restless boredom of this film. (If that was the intent of this film, well then-well done.) If nothing else it serves as a prompting for a liberal's worst nightmare awakening: that hippies and ... Read More
Rating:  - TRASH,TRASH,TRASH!!
The movie is really trash. The movie starts out showing Joe Dallesandro's [rear] and Geri Miller go-go dancing naked. Later on in the movie we meet Holly Woodlawn a trash collector who is a transvestite and a former prostitute. More graphic nudity and sex come up when Jane Forth and her husband come in the story. An all right beginning,middle, and end but the story is terrible.
Rating: - Exploring the junky side of the moon
This film deals with drugs, very precisely heroin. We are in the post hippy period when drugs became an addiction after having been a life style. The drug addict is reduced in his sexuality, in his thinking and in his social life. He only survives in a hostile environment. But that was in 1970. The environment of the drug addict is either looking for easy kicks by flirting with drugs (high-school students for example), or for sexual kicks among young middle class couples or people who try to use ... Read More
Rating: - Visual Heroin
As a fan of cult cinema and gay underground films, I admit, my expectations for this DVD were pretty slim. I knew Dallesandro would be a visual feast, if not a genuine screen presence. Other than that, I can't say that I expected this film to impress me.
Well, it didn't. I've waded through John Waters' early efforts with more mirth than this sad film could hope to inspire. Laughing at this film is like empathizing with the upper-crust couple that Joe has the misfortune of encountering: ... Read More
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