Deep Throat documentary premieres at Sundance

The documentary film Inside Deep Throat premiered at the Sundance festival this weekend.

"It was the first time respectable middle-class women went to porn theaters," social critic Camille Paglia says in an interview in "Inside Deep Throat." Other cultural commentators appearing in the documentary include Norman Mailer, Ruth Westheimer, Gore Vidal, Erica Jong and Hugh Hefner.

Incorporating explicit oral-sex footage from the 1972 original, "Inside Deep Throat" has drawn an NC-17 rating, prohibiting people younger than 17 from seeing it.

Showing the notorious sex act was necessary for the documentary, said "Inside Deep Throat" directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, the filmmakers behind such acclaimed documentaries as "Party Monster" and "The Eyes of Tammy Faye."

"There was no way we were going to make a film called `Inside Deep Throat' without including the act," Barbato said. "Our film is not salacious or gratuitous. That scene needed to be in there."

This article includes a photo of Deep Throat star Harry Reems looking tan, fit and besweatered at Sundance. Watch the documentary's trailer at insidedeepthroatmovie.com. John Waters and Alan Dershowitz also make talking head appearances, and Dennis Hopper does the film's voiceover narration.

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