FLESHPOT ON 42ND STREET (1973)

A true product of Times Square, Andy Milligan — the "Fassbinder of 42nd Street" — brings his trademark misanthropic melodrama to hardcore cinema in what many consider his finest work. Fleshpot on 42nd Street follows the unlikely bond between young drifter Dusty Cole and drag queen Cherry Lane as they navigate sex work, survival, and misfortune in the grimy heart of New York City.

Released a year after Deep Throat and praised for its raw, unglamourised portrait of street life, Fleshpot is scuzzy, feel-bad cinema with a surprsingly compaassionate flare, a rare exploitation film that looks its subjects in the eye.

CW: Unsimulated sex and sexual assult.

Part of our season MEAT RACK: The Underworlds of NYC.

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