“Deep Throat” is coming to a theater near you—again. The legendary X-rated film will be re-released for its 50th anniversary this year. Banned, protested and subjected to numerous obscenity trials after its 1972 debut, the 4K restoration of “the Golden Age of Porn’s” magnum opus initially had a hard time booking US theaters.
It seems history repeats itself: “Fifty years later, we’re still having this conversation about free speech and censorship—the very same issues that our parents fought for,” said the woman responsible for the film’s re-release, who eventually found theaters open to showing it. She added, “‘Deep Throat’ is very vanilla, it’s wholesome, almost, and naive compared to the deviant things you can find with two clicks on an iPhone under the covers at night.” The 4K “Deep Throat” will have its world premiere at The Slipper Room on the Lower East Side with burlesque dancers, a Q&A and three shows, including a midnight screening that “harkens back to the grindhouse days of 42nd Street”—additional dates in the US and Europe will be held in the fall.
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Check out more about the 4K re-release of “Deep Throat”: https://nypost.com/2022/06/10/deep-throat-still-hard-to-swallow-on-50th-anniversary/
