According to www.dvdactive.com, the upcoming Beyond the Valley of the Dolls dvd, released June 13, will contain the following:


Audio Commentary with Critic Roger Ebert
Audio Commentary with Cast Members
Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley Featurette
Look on Up at the Bottom Featurette
The Best of Beyond: Psychedelic Scrapbook
Sex, Drugs, Music & Murder - Signs of the Time, Baby
Event Footage from S. Perry-Z-man's boobs
Trailers 2:00 & 2:28 (1, 2 and G) plus teaser trailer
Archival Promotional Piece
Multiple Screen Tests

check out the cover art. I like the design, but who the hell IS that?

Yes, the fans have won over the bean counters! This is going to be the packed edition that has been prayed and fought for by so many.

Can't wait, but I'm a bit disappointed in the cover art. I guess it's safe to reveal now that the great Art Chantry was originally set to design the Criterion edition, which would have been a mindblower. Here's a bunch of his work:

http://www.gigposters.com/designers.php?designer=3275

Ahhh, Art Chantry! I've wondered who you were hinting at ever since you revealed this tidbit. Personally, I was holding out hope you'd meant Coop, but he'd be better suited for a FASTER, PUSSYCAT! cover anyway.

Color me unimpressed with the cover as well. The design itself is okay, but just barely. It does make for a decent double-marketing display, as the design elements match well with VALLEY OF THE DOLLS' artwork, but I have to reiterate the musical question: Who is that? The disc is the thing, though, and it's fantastic that Fox has come through with such a packed edition of this, my second favorite film of all time (it's just a few hairs shy of KANE, IMO, and I'm fanatical in my devotion to CK, so you can imagine my excitement overall).

I immediately thought of Coop, too. Oh well, they can wrap this thing in toilet paper for all I care. I just hope all those features are really on the disc.

Wow. Jam-packed two-disc sets of DAZED & CONFUSED, BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS and EQUINOX released on consecutive weeks in June? I've died and gone to heaven.

Maybe she's one of the dancers on the floor at Z-Man's party? Or maybe she's just a model that they thought would look good on the cover. Hey, she's got great, white teeth and a bright smile, right? Touché.

This looks like it will be a totally happenin' release. I wonder what the "Z-Man's boobs" special feature is?

I'm more enthused over the release of the original, unrelated VALLEY--for which there is a wholly separate group of camp followers--than BEYOND, which I've never really been able to groove on, but what the heck I'll probably get both.

"You have to climb Mount Everest...to reach the Valley of the Dolls..."

The Beyond the Valley of the Dolls website is showing slightly different, more appropriate cover art. Still no explanation of what "Siouxzan Perry-Z-Man's boobs" is =)

There was a revival concert featuring Lynn Carey a couple of years ago that was filmed, so the rumors went, for the Criterion dics we were expecting. I hope we see a little of that.

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Looks like a must-have release. Really pleased to see FOX pull out all the stops on this one.

Incidentally, I interviewed Dave Markey (1991: The Year Punk Broke, Desperate Teenage Lovedolls) last year and he was telling me that he'd been interviewed for this release about the influence BTVOTD had on his work, especially on the Lovedolls films. He was quite bemused that they would think to talk to him!

So, all in all, it looks to be quite an exhaustive release, let's just hope it lives up to our expectations.

(and this is my first MHVF post, so seems quite fitting that it would be on one of my favourite films from the great Russ Meyer)

Welcome, Iain! Nice to have you here.

DVD Talk review

For anyone that hasn't yet picked up BVD (hey, today is street date, after all), Costco has an amazing deal: a 2-pack of both BVD and VALLEY OF THE DOLLS for $20 and change. That's more than ten bucks cheaper than even DDD's 20% off sale price for both titles combined, and probably close to fifteen bucks cheaper than anyone else's price.

I didn't preorder either of these titles, figuring that as usual there might be a decent deal on them at Costco on street date, but I still did a double-take when I spotted the case full of 2-packs there this afternoon and saw the price.

Dave

It's on my coffee table, I've got a pint of HD Vanilla ice cream in the freezer, and I can't wait for my daughter to go to bed! :lol:

The Costco deal is sweet, but if your main interest is BVD I think the much different VALLEY will end up as a coaster. Me, I can think of three or four Meyers I like more than BVD (I've never understood the fuss over the title, maybe because I had absorbed Danny Peary's so-so CULT MOVIES review long before I saw it) but VALLEY is in its own camp "woman's pictures" world.

They make high-definition ice cream now??

The supplements are great - all the principals in the making of the film (except for Meyer, of course). Even the notoriously camera-shy Erica Gavin, who used to grace this forum "back in the day," is spotlighted on this set.

A few years back, I requested to interview Gavin for a magazine but it all fell apart. But I did get a phone call from her, which was a blast. She was absolutely hilarious and open about stuff - though it wasn't a formal interview. She invited me out to L.A. where she promised to take me on a tour of "old" Hollywood, where she came up, Meyer haunts, etc. Never happened but maybe someday...

I got to speak to Erica on the phone for a good half hour at least ten years ago, when a mutual friend was trying to get her to start up a website and wanted my input (I had this Barbara Steele website, see...). She had no interest in the internet at the time and we ended up talking about Vixen and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls at great length. She told story after story and had me in stitches. I'm not terribly celebrity-happy but she's one I'd love to meet in person.

DVD Talk is calling BVD an unintentional comedy. Um, nope, there's nothing unintentional about the hilarity of BVD.