Editing Paul Morrissey (section)

== Post-Factory years ==
In March 1973, Morrissey went to [[Rome]] and directed two back-to-back features, ''[[Flesh for Frankenstein]]'' (1973) and ''[[Blood for Dracula]]'' (1974), starring Dallesandro and [[Udo Kier]]. Produced by [[Carlo Ponti]] and presented by Warhol, their international success propelled Morrissey out of the Factory and into his first and only attempt at directing a studio film, ''[[The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978 film)|The Hound of the Baskervilles]]'', co-written by Morrissey, [[Peter Cook]], and [[Dudley Moore]]. It was a commercial and critical flop.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.splittoothmedia.com/paul-morrissey-hound-of-the-baskervilles/ | title=Superstars to Movie Stars: Paul Morrissey and 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' (1978) | date=October 12, 2021 }}</ref> Morrissey moved to Los Angeles in the late 1970s and returned to independently produced features, starting with ''[[Madame Wang's]]'' (1981), a satire of the LA punk-rock scene, starring Patrick Schoene and Morrissey's niece Christina Indri.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://home-of-films.com/en/festival-film/madame-wangs/ | title=Madame Wang's }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://burningretina.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/madame-wangs/ | title=Madame Wang's | date=January 2013 }}</ref>
[[File:Madame Wang's Paris Olympia 2 screenings May 1981 blue flyer copy.tif|thumb|''Madame Wang's'' (1981)]]
[[File:Forty Deuce poster 1982.png|thumb|''Forty Deuce'' (1982)]]
[[File:Mixed Blood (promo sheet) ca. 1985.jpg|thumb|''Mixed Blood'' (1984)]]

Returning to New York City in the early 1980s, Morrissey began a collaboration with playwright and screenwriter [[Alan Bowne]], directing a film version of his 1981 play ''[[Forty Deuce]]'' (1982) starring [[Orson Bean]] and [[Kevin Bacon]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.artforum.com/events/forty-deuce-directed-and-adapted-by-paul-morrissey-from-the-play-by-alan-bowne-224569/ | title="Forty Deuce," directed and adapted by Paul Morrissey from the play by Alan Bowne | date=February 9, 1985 }}</ref> Morrissey worked again with Bowne on the screenplays for ''[[Mixed Blood (1984 film)|Mixed Blood]]'' (1984) and ''[[Spike of Bensonhurst]]'' (1988), completing a trilogy of films taking a satirical, empathetic look at the political, social and moral decay of New York City and its outer boroughs during the [[Ed Koch]] years.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1988/11/11/spike-of-bensonhurst-a-comedy-streaked-with-despair/ | title='Spike of Bensonhurst' A Comedy Streaked with Despair | website=[[Chicago Tribune]] | date=November 11, 1988 }}</ref>

In later years, Morrissey was publicly critical of Warhol, saying that work attributed to Warhol was created by associates without his involvement, and expressing frustration when his films were associated with Warhol's name.<ref name = Grimes/><ref name = Vlessing>{{cite news|url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/paul-morrissey-andy-warhol-collaborator-dies-86-1236046767/|title = Paul Morrissey, Cult Director and Andy Warhol Collaborator, Dies at 86|last = Vlessing|first = Etan|date = October 28, 2024|accessdate = October 30, 2024|work = [[The Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref>

[[File:Spike_of_Bensonhurst_poster_1988.png|thumb|''Spike of Bensonhurst'' (1988)]]

Morrissey's last feature, ''News From Nowhere'' (2010), made its U.S. debut at [[Film at Lincoln Center]] in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |title=An Evening with Paul Morrissey featuring News From Nowhere |url=https://www.filmlinc.org/films/an-evening-with-paul-morrissey-featuring-news-from-nowhere/ |access-date=May 18, 2024 |website=Film at Lincoln Center |language=en}}</ref>

Speaking to screenwriter and biographer [[Gavin Lambert]], filmmaker [[George Cukor]] said of Morrissey's work: 
<blockquote>He makes a marvelous kind of world, and a marvelous kind of mischief, holding nothing back and just watching it happen. "Personal expression" is a much abused expression, but these films are real expression ... Nobody has done anything like it. The selection of people, the casting, is absolutely brilliant and impertinent. The life they see, the gutter they see, or the world they see is so funny and agonizing, and they see it so vividly, with such original humor.<ref>Lambert, Gavin. ''On Cukor''. Putnam. 1972. {{ISBN|9780399109256}} pp 153-4</ref></blockquote>