Trash (1970)

A heroin addict (Joe Dallesandro) is impotent because of his drug use which frustrates his live in girlfriend (Holly Woodlawn). She eventually concocts a plan to get on welfare by pretending to be pregnant. Written and directed by Paul Morrisey (CHELSEA GIRLS), this underground film is perhaps a perfect specimen of the 16 millimeter improv films turned out by the Andy Warhol factory from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s before they petered out. It's certainly one if not the most "commercial" entries and it was a hit in art houses in the urban film markets. The "acting" is almost non existent (most of the enervated actors sound like they're reading their lines off a cue card) although the transgender actress Holly Woodlawn gives a vigorous comic performance. The movie has a feel for the squalor of the 70s subculture and even today, some of its scenes are quite shocking. Its use of graphic drug taking (shooting up with needles), nudity (Dallesandro's casual full frontal) and sex (Woodlawn has sex with a beer bottle) are both gasp inducing and hilarious, often at the same time. With Jane Forth, Michael Sklar, Bruce Pecheur, Andrea Feldman and Geri Miller.