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- Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 American satirical musical melodrama film starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett and David Gurian.
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Originally intended as a sequel to the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was instead revised as a parody of the commercially successful but critically reviled original. Beyond met a similar fate; critics initially panned it, but it became a box office success.
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.
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is one of those movies that escapes simple classification — perhaps more so than any other. It’s a satire, yes, but it’s also a sex comedy, a musical, a horror film of a particularly odd pedigree. The movie, slapped with an X-rating from the MPAA (and still maintaining an NC-17 over 50 years later) wears the rating li...
Roger Ebert was no defender of the critically-maligned original Valley of the Dolls film. Few people are. It has plenty of comedic value — not in the same way as Beyond, which is knowingly comedic— due to the way that it’s obtusely unaware of its own inherent silliness and the way it depicts a spiraling descent into a decadent world of sex and drug...
It’s a natural progression for Ebert to try his hand at screenwriting. Critics often become screenwriters, presumably because many of the skills it requires to do successfully pool from what they’ve already established with their day jobs. Paul Schrader and Peter Bogdanovich come from critical backgrounds, and the world of cinema itself was turned ...
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Sep 28, 2016 · The biggest was “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,” a CinemaScope spectacular filmed on a series of huge sets and stocked with gyrating actresses, models, agents, managers, musicians and uncategorizable oddballs.
Russ Meyer went from directing X-rated pornographic features to the biggest cult classic perhaps ever with his outrageous, erotic sexploitation comedy Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970).
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Apr 4, 2013 · Ebert, who died today of cancer, may be best known for flashing his thumbs with Gene Siskel and posting immaculate analyses at his Chicago Sun-Times blog, but he’s also the mind behind a cult classic that deserves a mention, the 1970 dark comedy “Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls.”
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 American satirical musical melodrama film starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett and David Gurian. The film was directed by Russ Meyer and co-written by Meyer and Roger Ebert.
