The video box says NC-17 because Fox has a policy against never releasing an X-rated tape. back when it was cool! Trivia: The reason this X seems so mild is because it was intended for an R! Meyer did prepare a more explicit version, but when this tamer cut was X'd, Fox elected to distribute it instead of the racier print. The editing and camerawork are fast-paced and super-stylish, as usual with Meyer. The women, sporting big hair and thick false eyelashes, are all incredibly beautiful, and Russ Meyer lovingly captures them in neon-bright color. The acting is very good (though Dolly Read's natural British and fake American accents are openly battling throughout), with top prizes taken by John LaZar as freaked-out record mogul Z-Man and Edy Williams as voracious porno queen Ashley St. The ending has to be seen to be believed, and even then. One particularly sudsy moment is even accompanied by swelling daytime-TV organ music! There are obvious jokes, which are spirited and very funny, and even some sly references to Valley of the Dolls (a character named Miriam, the Warwick Court Apartments). All of this is played with a deceptively straight face, with the wild comedy arising from the ludicrousness of the soap-opera situations. Marcia McBroom is Pet, the soul sister." Whoa! Anyway, our trio of sexy supervixens move out to Hollywood, get discovered immediately, and are thrown into a whirlpool of pill addiction, alcoholism, lesbianism, abortions, depression, double crosses, crippling injuries, lots of violence, and lots of sex. From one trailer: "Dolly Read is Kelly, the singer. Our three lusty, busty heroines are the members of an all-girl pop group.
The synopses, trailers and other links on our website, further information about contentĪnd age-appropriateness for specific films can be found onĪs well as through general internet searches.One of the all-time great cult films, BVD is an energetic, imaginative parody of Valley of the Dolls and other such dippy Hollywood melodramas. Triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. IFC Center does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially
Cast Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John Lazar, Michael Blodgett, Edy Williams, Phyllis Davis Whatever its faults or virtues, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is an original - a satire of Hollywood conventions, genres, situations, dialogue, characters.Writer Roger Ebert (screenplay), Russ Meyer (story).Screening as part of our Summer 2019 series, “ Waverly Midnights: Staff Picks.” “There’s nothing oppositional, and thus outwardly political, about the film, because its subversion works from the inside out, violently ripping its way up from the entrails of the belly of the beast. That is, it’s the ‘60s, man, and consumer culture ironically dictates that people be defined by their chosen accoutrements, not the other way around. As lead-singer Kelly (Dolly Read) first encounters Z-Man (John LaZar), a coke-fueled promoter, Meyer fragments the surrounding party by providing brief flashes of interactions that draw interest away from each character’s psychology and toward the furniture, clothing, and drapery as the star personas. As the Carrie Nations, a trio of female rockers, work their way through the Hollywood Hills, they meet up with their fair share of sex, drugs, and Rolls Royces, but the filmmaking couldn’t be less interested in explicitly admonishing these pursuits. “The plot borrows so loosely from Jacqueline Susann’s novel that an opening disclaimer ensures its separation, though anyone with functioning eyes and ears will likely know that almost from the jump. This is the living, breathing cine-embodiment of blue balls, a film of pent-up desire for ample flesh comported straight from the pages of Penthouse-and the imagined activity inside the Playboy mansion’s bedrooms. While Roger Ebert’s screenplay contains overt jabs at Hollywood’s culture of exploitation, BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS cannot be called anything but sincere regarding its penchant for buxom female anatomy. “Russ Meyer claimed BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS to be satire, but no amount of disjunctive editing or hyper-saturated colors can disguise his fixation with the breasts of his female stars, which exceeds unconscious fetish or even knowing obsessive focus the film could be alternately titled A Treatise on Tits, as its maker wants to forever roam between the largest pair he can find. Staff Pick! Chosen by Asha who says: “This dark comedy’s sharp-tongued delivery and devastating, sugar-sweet pop-rock soundtrack make this film a perennial, infectious favorite of mine. *Please note the late-night screenings on Fri Sep 6 & Sat Sep 7 begin at 12:15am, not 11:59pm!* Friday, September 6 - Saturday, September 7, 2019
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