Valley Of The Dolls: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Free Music Review: "GET LOST , I'M THROUGH FOR THE DAY " !!!
Hit: 5 Stars
" FRENCH SUB-TITLES OVER A BARE BOTTOM DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE IT ART" ~. What a great set. Quality is clear and good and the extras are great. I am a huge fan of this movie and the book as well. I even got the Barbara Parkins "GALA" event dvd from ebay where she supposedly dishes dolls.Yeah, well, SHE DOESN'T. In fact that is my point for writing this. I was very excited that one of the extras was Parkins commentary. HOW DISSAPOINTING. She knows and remembers very little about the movie or her co-stars. I got so tired of hearing her say " I don't know" and " I don't remember".
She likes herself,ALOT, and likes to talk about herself,ALOT, which is fine except, again, it's not about "Valley" that she is speaking. Barbara Parkins, a lovely woman, a good actress, the perfect Anne Welles. But, it's too bad Patty did'nt do the comentary or both Duke and Parkins. I'ts to bad Patty wasn't into the project. Perhaps fans would have gotten alot more info and memory's than we did from Parkins.
All in all a great dvd. A must have for "DOLLS" fans.
Free Music Review: Beware of missing extras
Hit: 4 Stars
Although the extras listed on amazon are correct, the pre-release information for this DVD (and the detail listings on many other sites), include many extras that for whatever reason did not make it to the retail version. Among them:
-Doll-A-Palooza: Addicts Forum A Go-Go
-Translate French Porn Movies
-What's My Line? Episode
- a screen test for Judy Garland
- a k.d.lang remix
While the movie is as hilariously awful as it ever was, and the included extras are terrific, be aware that these other extras are NOT on the DVD.
Free Music Review: A great film
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm sick and tired of people just bad mouthing this film. Sure it has a few scenes of Camp and the hair is just too big, but it is still a good movie that I'd give three stars. Okay, Patty chewed the scenery. Do you all know that that's how the director wanted it? Patty didn't want to do it that way. I myself think that that was a great performance because that's how Neely should have been, over the top and childish. Barbara Parkins was just classy without much to do but look concerned, and Sharon Tate turned in the best performance out of all three. She had some bad lines, and I mean bad, but she acted them so well that it was good. If you've seen her screen test you'd know she was the best choice and had a more natural approach to the first phone call to her mother, whereas the director made her yell everything at once and led you to know that there was air on the other end. I guess that's why, out of everyone else, she got a Golden Globe nomination and was listed runner-up for THE STAR OF TOMMORROW. What plagued this film was bad directing, writing, and the male actors that seemed too old or just weren't good.
Free Music Review: "Let 'em droop!"
Hit: 5 Stars
Anne is prim and proper; we know this because she speaks in a whisper and looks like she's going to fall asleep talking to you. She's also from New England where, apparently, it's always snowy.
Neely is spastic; she steals milk from doorways (wild!!) and wears double strand necklaces that do obscene things when she's singing on TV telethons. She also likes to work out in wacky split-screen montages and pours perfectly good whiskey in her swimming pool.
Jennifer is beautiful; she wears big headdresses and makes French art films ("Nudies!!!" says Neely) where she almost spills wine into men's shoes.
What happens when these women all meet is chronicled in "Valley of the Dolls" - or not. Unlike the novel, the movie never develops how any of these women become friends. The movie never develops much of anything and I wouldn't have it any other way. This mess of a film is one of the premier examples of unintentional camp and is a true classic. How can you hate a movie where the extras on the DVD all talk about how bad it is? How often is that done?
Great hair, great wardrobe, bad songs, a John Williams score, Lee Grant's non-sequitirs ("At night, all cats are gray" - what?) and Susan Hayward's neo-classical outfit while she sings about growing trees are just a few delights that await you. The best part of "Dolls" is that it was made in an era where the Hayes code was overruled, but "Dolls" wasn't willing to go all the way into edgy so it strikes an unhappy medium between two worlds. The film we get is a traditional looking, eye-poppingly colorful, Hollywood spectacle where the word "fag" is tossed around like a salad and the characters go through with their abortions, unlike in director Mark Robson's previous scandalous movie, "Peyton Place" where the Hayes code forced a character to simply miscarry. One of Robson's later films was "Earthquake" which would serve well as a double feature with "Dolls".
"Valley of the Dolls" is the best of the worst, and what could be better than the great DVD treatment we are given here? Interviews with the stars, retrospectives, trailers ... this DVD was worth waiting for. You no longer need to climb Mount Everest to reach the "Valley of the Dolls", this baby has finally arrived.
Free Music Review: Best DVD ever....
Hit: 5 Stars
VALLEY OF THE DOLLS is loaded with so many things that can go wrong with a movie: bad 1960's fashion, misguided musical numbers, hairdos that defy logic, way over the top scenes with actresses doing things so they will never again be taken seriously as an artist. It's a train wreck of a movie that will have you screaming with delight and quoting dialoge for days.
VALLEY OF THE DOLLS is the often told story of innocent beauties moving to the big city to find fame and glamour; fortunately for lovers of bad cinema this fame comes with a price: addiction to booze/pills, loss of love, drinking Scotch straight out of the bottle, a cat fight with wig snatching in the ladies room, falling down drunk in back alleys, strait-jackets, .... I could go on and on. I think the intention of the film to was be serious drama showing the horrors of addcition. However, it did not turn out that way. Addiction and madness have never looked so glamerous or as fun as presented in VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.
This DVD is a glittering 2 dics extravaganza loaded with extras. There are lots and lots of behind-the-scences looks at the making of VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, Jacqueline Susann bio stuff, Judy Garland wearing Helen Lawson's wardrobe, photo galleries, and trailers. Ths movie itself is a beautiful widescreen presentation. This two disc set is a loving tribute to this classic of camp.
VALLEY OF THE DOLLS is essential to lovers of so-bad-it-must-be seen-but-still-can't-be believed filmaking. BUY THIS DVD!