Queer Cinema: Lost & Found

BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS

Directed by Russ Meyer/Penelope Spheeris

USA, 1970/72, 2h 11min, DCP/Digital

Queer Cinema: Lost & Found

There are no current or future screenings planned for this film.

“It’s fabulous, teddy bear—a psychedelic wow that serves up the free love, plunging necklines, androgynous boys, and lusty lezzies of the era with a narcotized abandon.”
The Village Voice

“A delirious comedy melodrama, soused in self- parody but spiked with dope, sex and thrills.”
Time Out

No, it’s not a sequel to Jacqueline Susann’s VALLEY OF THE DOLLS — there has been nothing like it! A girl group heads to Hollywood to make it big only to fall into a pit of drugs, murder, and (gasp!) lesbianism in this legendary X-rated major-studio film by critic-turned-writer Roger Ebert and “King of the Nudies” Russ Meyer. Paired with the sequel to Penelope Spheeris’s I DON’T KNOW (screened in January), HATS OFF TO HOLLYWOOD. Queer Cinema: Lost & Found programmer Elizabeth Purchell will join us for a discussion after the screening on Saturday, February 11.

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