Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Todd Haynes: The Other Side of Dreams
November 18 - 29, 2015
Russ Meyer and Roger Ebert’s manic, hysterical assault on American celebrity culture is a true oddity—an X-rated, tonally berserk black comedy commissioned when a major studio decided to fund a parody of one of its own films—and a clear antecedent to Haynes’s three films about the perils and ecstasies of fame.
Russ Meyer and Roger Ebert’s manic, hysterical assault on American celebrity culture has risen to the status of a modern classic, but in its time it was a true oddity: an X-rated, tonally berserk black comedy commissioned when a major studio decided to fund a parody of one of its own films. In this sequel to Mark Robson’s much saner Valley of the Dolls, three young women form a rock band, travel cross country, and—as their star rises—descend into a frenzy of drug use, violence, and love affairs of every kind under the influence of a gender-ambiguous Svengali. With its deadpan, taboo-bending humor and its interest in bodily breakdown, BVD (as it’s known to its many fans) is a clear antecedent to Haynes’s three films about the perils and ecstasies of fame.
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