https://vo.rs/tags/nudie-cutie/Latest from the Nudie-Cutie desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/the-immoral-mr-teas-russ-meyer-invents-the-nudie-cutie/<p>Some films matter for what they are, and a rare few matter for what they made possible. Russ Meyer&rsquo;s <em>The Immoral Mr. Teas</em> (1959) is squarely in the second category. Watched cold today it is a slight, silly, almost quaint comedy, shot in a few days for pocket change. Watched in context it is one of the most consequential low-budget films ever made in America, a small crack in a dam that had held for decades, and the starting gun for an entire commercial genre. I want to treat it here as film history rather than as titillation, because its real interest lies in what it did to the American censorship regime, and how a wedding photographer from Oakland worked out the loophole nobody else had spotted.</p>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0000