Beyond the valley of the dolls / Twentieth Century Fox ; a Russ Meyer production ; screenplay by Roger Ebert ; story by Roger Ebert and Russ Meyer ; produced and directed by Russ Meyer.
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
1 videodiscs (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages ; color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Container of (work): Beyond the valley of the dolls (Motion picture) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98053033
Notes:
Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John La Zar, Michael Blodgett, David Gurian, Edy Williams, Erica Gavin, Harrison Page. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1970. Widescreen (2.35:1). Special features: Audio commentary from 2003 featuring screenwriter Roger Ebert; Audio commentary from 2006 featuring actors Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Harrison Page, John La Zar, and Erica Gavin; New interview with filmmaker John Waters; Episode from 1988 of The Incredibly Strange Film Show on director Russ Meyer; Q&A about the film for 1992 featuring Meyer, Ebert, La Zar, Read, and actors David Gurian, Charles Napier, Michael Blogett, and Edy Williams with host Michael Dare; Above, beneath, and beyond the valley, Look on up at the bottom, The best of beyond, Sex, drugs, music and murder, and Casey & Roxanne, five documentaries from 2006 about the making of the film, featuring cast and crew; Screen tests; Trailers. Container booklet includes essays "My Happening" by film critic Glenn Kenny and "The Back Lot of Beyond" by Stan Berkowitz.
Summary:
"In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing 'King of the Nudies' Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title to one of its biggest hits, Valley of the Dolls. With a satirical screenplay by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls follows three young female rockers going Hollywood, in hell-bent sixties style, under the spell of a flamboyant producer--whose decadent bashes showcase Meyer's trademark libidinal exuberance. Transgressive and outrageous, this big-studio version of a debaucherous midnight movie is an addictively entertaining romp from one of the movies' great outsider artists"--Container.
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