The term “blue movie” was used as slang to describe pornography during the mid-20th century. “But during the Hays Code,” director Elliot Tuttle tells me, “it was used to mark up film cells for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few contemporary films about unresolved childhood abuse — which is always unresolved, in the end, anyway — cut as narrowly close ...

Elliot Tuttle's film was rejected by key festivals and ignored by distributors, but this startling chamber drama finally gets a release from a new shingle starting ...

Elliot Tuttle’s ‘Blue Film’ pairs Reed Birney and Kieron Moore in a provocative chamber piece about sex, loneliness, and ...

Elliot Tuttle knew that “Blue Film,” the fictional story of a camboy who reconnects with a former high school teacher who was fired for sexually assaulting a student, was going to be divisive. After ...

Elliot Tuttle's film, billed by IndieWire as one of the most daring American films of recent vintage, will be released in May. The film has now been picked up by fledgling distributor Obscured ...

Tue, March 24, 2026 at 2:00 PM UTC There was a time when director Elliot Tuttle genuinely believed his upcoming work, Blue Film, would never make it to the screen. Conversations were had with multiple ...

The actor plays a pedophile who reunites with one of his former students (Kieron Moore) in this Mark Duplass-backed film written and directed by Elliot Tuttle. By Jourdain Searles Aaron (Kieron Moore) ...

Though it might sound like five minutes of a Todd Solondz movie stretched to nearly 20 times that, Elliott Tuttle’s feature debut certainly goes the distance, even if its uncompromising nature will be ...

'Blue Film,' the taboo movie rejected from film festivals, wants you to sit in the discomfort Writer and director Elliot Tuttle knew his controversial directorial debut would be a tough sell.