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  MovieFreak.com - "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls " DVD Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is one of the greatest put-ons in cinema history.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is presented in a perfect anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen transfer.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a blast of a film, much more fun than the original and with a lot more going on than meets the eye.
www.moviefreak.com /artman/publish/dvd_beyondvalleydolls.shtml   (1136 words)

  
 Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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www.vermontreview.com /edge/30042-beyond%20the%20valley%20of%20the%20d...   (1304 words)

  
 Valley of the Dolls (Special Edition) / Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1967/1970): Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Sharon ...
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls ends with the gruesome murder of four central characters at a secluded mansion.
The parables of Valley of the Dolls and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, however, are not merely relics of the past.
Dolls and Beyond might help us see that we are, today, all living smack in the middle of the valley of the dolls.
www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/v/valley-of-the-dolls-special.shtml   (1301 words)

  
 Mindjack Film - Valley of the Dolls and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Valley of the Dolls and its non-sequel, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, serve as proof that good cheese ages well.
It might be Valley's biggest legacy that it stands as one of the few films that shows taboo situations while simultaneously being embalmed in a studio-shined veneer of its own outlandish datedness.
As nice as the extras on Valley were, the overall package on Beyond the Valley of the Dolls winds up being even more impressive.
www.mindjack.com /film/valley062506.html   (947 words)

  
 'Valley of the Dolls' and 'Beyond the Valley of the Dolls' - They may sound similar, but try not to confuse these wacky ...
While the hot pink casing for "Valley of the Dolls" is some indication, it may help to watch the 48-minute featurette "Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round" before seeing the movie for an instruction manual and how to properly appreciate Mark Robson's film.
"Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" comes in a corresponding blue case, though it's got plenty of camp appeal for straight and gay viewers alike.
While only Parkins was willing or able to show up and discuss her role in "Valley," the entire cast of "Beyond" is happy to show up and talk about their wacky adventures on what has to be one of the strangest films ever released by a major studio (with an X-rating, to boot).
www.zap2it.com /dvd/zap-dvd-dollsdoublebill,0,4540534.story   (756 words)

  
 Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (Cinema Classics Collection) (1970)
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls is a riotous camp tale about three buxom young women, all aspiring pop singers, who move to Hollywood with hopes of making it big.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls attempts to spoof its predecessor but it fails as parody, comedy, and pretty much everything else.
www.dvdmg.com /beyondthevalleyofthedolls.shtml   (2274 words)

  
 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 drama film starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John LaZar, and Michael Blodgett.
Originally intended as a sequel to Valley of the Dolls with character Casey as the niece of Anne Welles (as seen on the DVD bonus screen test footage) but revised instead as a spoof of it, leading the studio to add a disclaimer in the opening credits.
Valley of the Dolls star Sharon Tate was among the victims.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beyond_the_Valley_of_the_Dolls   (682 words)

  
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Russ Meyer's BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS was a huge success for 20th-Century Fox and Meyer was signed for another picture for the studio.
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS was finally released on VHS and laserdisc in the mid-90s.
Fox is currently working on a DVD release of BVD and I am hoping that they contact Erica Gavin, Cynthia Myers, Edy Williams, and John LeZar for a commentary, as all four have showed their interest in the project.
www.geocities.com /asasidenote/BVD.html   (1572 words)

  
 :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (xhtml)
Remembered after 10 years, "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" seemsmore and more like a movie that got made by accident when the lunatics tookover the asylum.
Whatever its faults or virtues, "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" is an original -- a satire of Hollywood conventions, genres, situations, dialogue, characters and success formulas, heavily overlaid with such shocking violence that some critics didn't know whether the movie "knew" it was a comedy.
In the event, of course, "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" was rated X anyway.
rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19700101/REVIEWS/708110301/1023   (1139 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls
The opening title card of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls explains for legal reasons that this is not a sequel and is "wholly original." I've never seen the original Valley of the Dolls; I think that might be a good thing.
BVD is on DVD." A couple of the photos confirm the rumor that this was Pam Grier's first film.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and beyond so-bad-it's-good.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/beyondvalleydolls.php   (1723 words)

  
 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Remembered after 10 years, "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" seems more and more like a movie that got made by accident when the lunatics took over the asylum.
And BVD was made at a time when the studio's own fortunes were so low that the movie was seen almost fatalistically, as a gamble that none of the studio executives really wanted to think about, so that there was a minimum of supervision (or even cognizance) from the Front Office.
Whatever its faults or virtues, "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" is an original--a satire of Hollywood conventions, genres, situations, dialogue, characters and success formulas, heavily overlaid with such shocking violence that some critics didn't know whether the movie "knew" it was a comedy.
www.geocities.com /walward/Dsc_BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls.html   (902 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls: DVD: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,Russ Meyer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
BVD can be viewed as a Sixties' artifact, packed with consummate party scenes (and a cameo appearance by Strawberry Alarm Clock), as the original skin flick, as a proto-cult classic, or as a benchmark in American cinema, since it is actually well- written, artfully shot, and finely edited.
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS isn't just a cheesy movie: it is the Limburger of cheesy movies--a devastatingly awful flick of such horrific proportions that it completely defies every possible expectation.
"Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" is released in Japan as "Wild Party," and the latter title might have told you everthing you see in it; and the director is Russ Meyer, famous for his movies like "Faster Pussycat, Kill!, Kill!" and "Vixen".....
www.amazon.com /Beyond-Valley-Dolls/dp/B000EXDSC0   (2455 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Valley Of The Dolls / Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls [1967]: DVD: Barbara Parkins,Michael Blodgett,Mark ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls however is a mad, highly entertaining film.
Overall Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a highly enteraining film, and Cynthia Myers is probably the best looking girl to grace a Russ Meyer film.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (supposedly not related) was more of a spoof that played straight with seriously hilarious effects.
www.amazon.co.uk /Valley-Dolls-Beyond/dp/B0000VJI70   (1092 words)

  
 Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls - Movie Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
None of that even remotely prepared me for the taste-bereft experience that is Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
As the opening titles warn the viewer, the film is in no way a sequel to the 1967 camp classic Valley of the Dolls, based on the popular Jacqueline Susann novel about three ingĂ©nues’ exposure to Hollywood decadence.
Its seal of approval here should not deceive you into thinking that Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is in any traditional sense a good film.
www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/beyondthevalleyofthedolls   (604 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls [1970]: Video: Dolly Read,Cynthia Myers,Marcia McBroom,John Lazar,Michael ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which features a screenplay by critic Roger Ebert, barely qualifies as a sequel to the film based on Jacqueline Susann's trashy bestseller.
If you have never seen a Russ Meyer movie then 'Beyond the valley of the dolls' will probably be one of the most baffling pieces of modern cinema ever witnessed.
Everything about this film is flawed, from the screenplay to the direction, and yet it has resulted in one of the most entertaining slices of cult cinema anywhere.
www.amazon.co.uk /Beyond-Valley-Dolls-Dolly-Read/dp/B00004CI9A   (850 words)

  
 Slant Magazine - DVD Review: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Both Dolls movies are sexually reactionary movies in the way they hand over the reigns to the opposite sex (Susann to fags like Ted Casablanca, Meyer and Ebert to the collective areola).
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was a critical disaster upon its release, but it made Fox a mint, so I guess you could hardly expect them to rush the negative to the acid bath.
The original Valley of the Dolls was a Bentley.
www.slantmagazine.com /dvd/dvd_review.asp?ID=945   (1113 words)

  
 DVD Talk Review: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls is one of those rare films where everything just came together.
Featurette number three is entitled The Best Of Beyond and at twelve minutes and twenty two seconds in length it details through clips and interviews with many of the participants from the first documentary how the movie has stood the test of time.
While this is more of a really basic history lesson in sixties counter-culture than a Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls specific piece, it does at least give us an idea of where the people involved in the making of the movie were at while they were working on the project.
www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=21911   (4239 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls would be Meyer's first film for a major studio, but his vision was vastly divergent with that of the studio.
Against a backdrop of parties and celebrities things go from bad to worse as the film winds its way to a shocking conclusion foreshadowed in the opening montage, as the fallout from debauchery and decadence take their toll on the young stars.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls will forever be Meyer's masterwork.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=8713   (2311 words)

  
 DVD Times - Valley of the Dolls & Beyond The Valley of the Dolls SEs in June   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Valley of the Dolls & Beyond The Valley of the Dolls SEs in June
Fox Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of The Valley of the Dolls (Special Edition) and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Special Edition) for 13th June 2006 priced at $26.98 SRP each.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Special Edition) - When three female rock'n'rollers travel to Hollywood to claim an inheritance, they meet up with a kinky music promoter who turns them on to a whole new scene.
www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=61149   (927 words)

  
 IMDb Title Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Valley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage (1967) (TV)
Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill - Behind the Scenes (2004) (V) Monumente pe Valea Oltului (1972)
There may be additional title matches amongst all the alternative titles we have for various regions and languages.
www.imdb.com /Title?VALLEY+OF+THE+DOLLS   (245 words)

  
 X-Rated, Loathed, 'Dolls' Revered Now, Fox Releases 'Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls' On DVD - The ShowBuzz
Shot for $1 million, Meyer's demented saga of an all-girl rock trio — a nonsequel to the 1967 Tinseltown potboiler "Valley of the Dolls" — raked in $7.5 million in six months, saving 20th Century Fox's fiscal bacon after a spate of costly flops.
It climaxed, pardon the phrase, with a quadruple murder (queasily inspired by the 1969 slaying of "Valley of the Dolls" star Sharon Tate) and a triple wedding.
"Valley of the Dolls" novelist Jacqueline Susann, who was not exactly Proust, even sued Fox to distance herself from the production.
www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/06/22/movies/main1741707.shtml   (746 words)

  
 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls DVD Widescreen Russ Meyer (1970)Rare Licensed DVDs:rare dvds region free dvds and region ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls DVD Widescreen Russ Meyer (1970)Rare Licensed DVDs:rare dvds region free dvds and region free dvd players
"Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" is Directed by Russ Meyer and is also lesser known as "Hollywood Vixens"
Russ Meyer's racy, colorful tale about an uninhibited all-girl rock group is not a sequel to its predessor, Valley Of The Dolls, despite its title.
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 Now Playing Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Jacqueline Susann was a failed TV actress who decided to use her experiences in show business as raw material for a melodramatic pulp novel.
Thanks to relentless hype that teased the public with innuendo that the characters were all based on real people, Valley of the Dolls became one of the biggest sellers in publishing history, and guaranteed that her readers would be fed a steady stream of similar tripe from her typewriter until her untimely death in 1974.
Back in 1967, drugs could be used as Dolls’ scapegoat, but Meyer takes the side of youth and blames greed, suppression and oppression for his heroines’ problems.
www.nowplayingmag.com /content/view/3972/47   (782 words)

  
 Variety.com - Reviews - Beyond the Valley of the Dolls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
But hiring the "King of the Nudies" to shoot his first studio pic and tapping a rookie film critic to write it provided Fox with something it didn't bargain for: a deliberately camp satire of an unintentionally camp melodrama.
"Valley of the Dolls" author Jacqueline Susann refused to sign off on a sequel, resulting in a disclaimer at the start of "BVD" that further blurred the line between the two.
"BVD" is actually Meyer's tamest pic; Ebert reveals Fox was aiming for an R rating, but the pic was ironically certified X due to its violence.
www.variety.com /review/VE1117930838?categoryid=1023&cs=1&nid=2562   (466 words)

  
 YouTube - Beyond The Valley of The Dolls Trailer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
YouTube - Beyond The Valley of The Dolls Trailer
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls - The Carrie Nations
Beyond the Valley Of the Dolls Behind the Scenes Trailer
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 Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls & Valley Of The Dolls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Valley Of The Dolls stars Oscar® winner Patty Duke* (The Miracle Worker), Barbara Parkins (“Peyton Place”) and Sharon Tate (“The Beverly Hillbillies”) as three aspiring starlets who let Hollywood go to their heads.
The Valley Of The Dolls DVD arrives loaded with pulpy bonus programming, including the famously sloppy screen test by Judy Garland, as well as original featurettes, “Pill Pop-Up Karaoke,” and much more.
Penned by now-famous film critic Roger Ebert, the outrageously over-the-top Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls earned an X-rating on its quest to out-do the scandalous original with the story of a girl-band, The Carrie Nations, who arrive in Hollywood to find only sex, drugs and sleaze.
assets.m80im.com /webmasters/BTVOTD/Assets/AssetsPage.htm   (685 words)

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