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Carly, the mistress of Pornblography took her time seeing Inside Deep Throat to avoid the hyped-up first-weekers. Later, braving a not-so-rare-these-days torrential rain, she walked with The Boy to Laemmle's Sunset 5 on Sunset Boulevard for a look.

I’ll be honest with you – I’ve never seen Deep Throat. I’ve also never seen Behind The Green Door. Aside from a few scant minutes of The Devil in Miss Jones and seeing Misty Beethoven in its entirety, I can’t say that I’ve seen any classic porn, really. Why? Because it doesn’t turn me on. Then again, neither does most of today’s porn either, but I won’t get into whining about that subject yet again.

Getting back on track. . . The theatre was. . . suitably packed. Obviously, despite my lack of classic porn knowledge, I was well aware of Deep Throat’s existence, but not so much its cultural significance or the controversy that brewed around it save for Linda Lovelace’s allegations of rape. There was no question that directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato had a huge task on their hands, because really, how do you encapsulate 30 years of history into a two-hour documentary? I think they did a pretty damn good job. (For more, got to Pornblography and scroll down until you see the shiny red lips)

Chris Vognar, reviewing IDT for the Tennessean.com website, seems impressed with the documentary:

There should be no question that Inside Deep Throat is a better film than its subject. Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, known for delivering a camp sensibility in their work for the movies (The Eyes of Tammy Faye, narrative and doc versions of Party Monster) and TV (Brilliant But Canceled, Showbiz Moms & Dads), turn Inside into a feast of cultural commentary, graphics and vintage music.

In Pittsburgh, at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Ed Blank seems positive:

Although there are no references to kiddie porno or snuff films, the documentary weighs in on First Amendment freedom of speech and the freedom to choose what one little old lady gleefully calls "dirty movies." "Inside Deep Throat" is never less than an interesting look behind the scenes of the most famous hard-core porno picture of all time, "Deep Throat" (1972).