Russ Meyer’s Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Blu-ray Special Criterion Collection Edition

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In 1970, 20th Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing King of the Nudies Russ Meyer (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) brought 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.

Special Features

• High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• 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
• Archival interviews with writer, director, and producer Russ Meyer
• Q&A about the film from 1992 featuring Meyer, Ebert, La Zar, Read, and actors David Gurian, Charles Napier, Michael Blodgett, and Edy Williams
• 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 the cast and crew
• Trailers and TV spots
• Screen Tests
• Excerpts from a 1970 account in the UCLA Daily Bruin of a visit to the film's set
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Glenn Kenny

Specifications

• Aspect Ratio:
  2.35:1
• Runtime:
  109
• Language:
  English
• Region:
  A