It is a sad day in the film world because arthouse and cult filmmaker Paul Morrissey passed away this morning. Pau Morrissey is best known for making films with pop artist icon Andy Warhol at The Factory. Let's talk about his life and his many contributions to nudity onscreen.

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The native New Yorker was born in 1938. After college, he briefly served in the military before moving to the East Village in 1960 to become a film curator. He opened an arthouse theater called Exit Gallery where he showed Brian De Palma's first film, Icarus. He was initially a publicist at Warhold's infamous art complex The Factory in New York City. He worked there from 1965 to 1973. In 1969, he and Warhol also launched the print magazine Interview.

RIP: Remembering The Female Nudity in Paul Morrissey's Amazing Films

He also managed Velvet Underground and Nico, but we want to talk about his career as a filmmaker. Paul Morrissey began his career in 1961 with a series of short films until he made his first ever feature-length film in 1965 called My Hustler.

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Warhol and Morriseey's most well-known movies include Chelsea Girls which remains a super famous Warhol film and a popular song by East Village band The Velvet Underground Nico whom Paul also managed at this time. It starred people who lived and hung out at The Factory.

He also made Tub Girls,Flesh, Heat, and many more throughout the 1960s and early 70s.

RIP: Remembering The Female Nudity in Paul Morrissey's Amazing Films

RIP: Remembering The Female Nudity in Paul Morrissey's Amazing Films

His film that we love the best is 1971's Women in Revolt. This movie is controversial because it satirized the women's liberation movement at the time. He did not think much of the movement and that reputation followed him throughout his career. That being said, the movie was very liberal with its nudity for men and women. That sounds like an equal opportunity win to me.

Fascinatingly, Paul and Warhol had a slight falling out in the mid-70s. Paul was tired of Warhol getting all of the credit when he felt that Warhol did not deserve it because Paul did most of the work. He used to say that Warhol operated cameras while he did everything else on set from lights to getting the story and actors together. However, he would later take even more credit and get angry at people asking him about "Warhol's films".

Whoever made these, they are great.

After he left the famous Factory in 1973, he moved to Italy to make cheap movies that looked beautiful. His films there were Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula which are favorites for 1970s horror nudity. After those films' success, he was given the chance to direct his first Hollywood studio film called The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was not a hit at the box office, but it did not launch him into studio success.

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He was given an award in 1988 by the Chicago International Film Festival to recognize his many contributions to cult cinema. The tide began to turn on his movies and critics saw him as a valuable artist. With nude scenes that he directed like these, I agree!

RIP: Remembering The Female Nudity in Paul Morrissey's Amazing Films

The critically acclaimed director George Cukor took notice of Morrissey and said: "He makes a marvelous kind of world, and a marvelous kind of mischief, holding nothing back and just watching it happen. 'Personal expression' is a much abused expression, but these films are real expression ... Nobody has done anything like it. The selection of people, the casting, is absolutely brilliant and impertinent. The life they see, the gutter they see, or the world they see is so funny and agonizing, and they see it so vividly, with such original humor."

RIP: Remembering The Female Nudity in Paul Morrissey's Amazing Films

He has a very large filmography. His last movie from made in 2010 and then he has lived a quiet life since then in New York City.

Paul Morrissey passed away from pneumonia today in a Manhattan hospital. He was 86 years old.