(This was apparently encouraged by last winter's uptown success of The Chelsea Girls.) Warhol, which actually predates both in production and original presentation his more notorious The Chelsea Girls, is a typical Warhol rendering of a homosexual strip-tease with words, and it seems quite congenial in the Hudson, where it opened yesterday for what is known in the trade as an exploitation run. The Times review was headed "My Hustler Opens at Hudson: Warhol Work Made up of 2 Conversations." Bosley Crowther wrote in the review, "If Andy Warhol's My Hustler had to be shown hereabout any place outside the underground sanctum of the Filmmakers Cinematheque, it has found an appropriate showplace at the Hudson Theater, which has recently been edifying its patrons with burlesque and nudie film. It was also reviewed in the Village Voice when it opened at the Hudson.
Both the commercial success of The Chelsea Girls and the opening of My Hustler at a cinema outside of the underground film circuit probably played an influence in getting the movie reviewed in the Times. Mainstream movie reviewers had mostly ignored the film when it was screened at the Cinematheque but after it opened at the Hudson it garnered a review in the New York Times. My Hustler re-opened at the Cinematheque in April 1967 and finally opened at the Hudson Theater on 10 July 1967. After that, The Chelsea Girls became the main Warhol film shown by the Cinematheque until it ( The Chelsea Girls) moved to more legitimate cinemas at the end of the year. The last screening advertised in the Voice in 1966 was in an ad that appeared in the June 30th issue which advertised screenings on 4-7 July. It continued to be screened on and off at the Cinematheque over the next year and half. A poster advertised the film as playing April 3 to 10. But, after that, the ads don't mention screenings of the film until the 31 March issue of the Voice where it is advertised as playing Sunday April 3 and April 5 - 10.
The events are based on the underground lifestyle, and music plays a major role in this.The Cinematheque ad in the following week's Village Voice also refers to midnight screenings of the film - on Wednesday to Thursday, January 26-27. The cast of characters grows each year and includes fetish acts, porn starts, club transforming installation, and cutting edge lighting, music, and a great all around atmosphere. It attracts hot guys from around the world in record numbers. The HustlaBall Berlin has now changed the playing field for event parties. The second installment team up Jeffrey Davids with the notorious Pork Boys, transforming the Lure, which was New York’s premier leather bar at the time, into a showcase for the underground lifestyle.
It saw its beginnings in New York City’s infamous hustler club, Stalle’s, back in March of 1998. This is an event that was first conceived by Jeffrey Davids. Hustlaball Berlin 2022: The HustlaBall is a world of hustlers, hookers, pimpe, streetwalkers, flesh-peddlers, porn stars, and individual of a variety of other scandalous sorts.