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:
Two-DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
2 videodiscs (approximately 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, Phyllis Davis, Henry Rowland, Harrison Page, Duncan Mc Leod, Jim Iglehart, Charles Napier, and the Strawberry Alarm Clock. Title from title frame. DVD release of the 1970 motion picture. 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.
Contents:
disc 1. Feature film -- disc 2. Special features.
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. Three girls come to Hollywood to make it big, but find only sex, drugs and sleaze.
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