Sex looked pretty boring in Andy Warhol’s movies. So writes Laurence Leamer, with good reason, describing Couch (1964), one of Warhol’s early Factory productions. Leamer’s latest book, Warhol’s Muses , isn’t focused on Warhol as filmmaker, but the celebrity artist’s motion pictures are a recurring motif. “Making films continued to be an exquisite device for getting Warhol into the homes and lives of the rich,” Leamer continues. Hollywood wasn’t calling, but underground filmmaking had achieved cultural cachet in early ‘60s New York, thanks in part to Jonas Meklas’ Filmmakers Cinematheque. Many of Warhol’s flicks were screened there, but Couch was so excruciating, according to Leamer, that Meklas turned it down.

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