Tyler Foster wrote: Matt wrote: I may pickup Beyond just for Ebert's commentary. He's always been very good when doing tracks for movies he has no connection to so it should be very interesting to hear him expound on his work on this trash classic.See above. Ebert co-wrote it.
I guess that's why I said, "it should be very interesting to hear him expound on his work on this trash classic.".

Matt wrote: I may pickup Beyond just for Ebert's commentary. He's always been very good when doing tracks for movies he has no connection to so it should be very interesting to hear him expound on his work on this trash classic.See above. Ebert co-wrote it.

I've been wondering why The Fox Movie Channel pulled these movies out of regular rotation.  I should have known.  It always seems like when they do that, DVD announcements are on the way.  They will probably end up back on the schedule closer to the DVD release date.  They haven't been showing Valley of the Dolls in widescreen in a long time.

Elijah Sarkesian wrote: I think I remember reading somewhere that Roger Ebert was a co-writer on the script for Beyond...

Yep, and he also wrote Meyer's "Up" and "Beyond The Valley Of The Ultra-Vixens" and also wrote Meyer's never finshed "Who KIlled Bambi?" that was supposed to star the Sex Pistols.

They'd both better in widescreen because the Fox Movie Channel shows both of them in that. And "Beyond..." is easily Russ Meyer's best film. It's more professionally made than his others are.

Sweet "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" on DVD finally!

I was reading on IMDB that these films are anything but classics. Why are they getting this release.

YlowBstard wrote: I thought these films were B grade pornos, yet they`re get a Film Classics Collection release. Matbe I was wrong about them all this time.

The original is true camp while the sequel is grade B porno

I think I remember reading somewhere that Roger Ebert was a co-writer on the script for Beyond...

ARGH! As much as I want to hate Fox for agonizingly, mercilessly, cruelly double-dipping just about everything, when they do a DVD right, they do it very right. If they were to stop their double-dipping c**p, then they might rank as the best in my book -- good, INTERESTING special features (not just lots of them), relatively good artwork and the trailers to boot. They'd take the crown from New Line, who, since the Platinum Series line went downhill and vanished, has been losing steam (Dumb and Dumber was weak without Farrelly participation, Wedding Singer looks like a terrible excuse for an SE, horrendous artwork and SE title for Final Destination 3).

Isn't this considered like the "Showgirls" of its time?