Criterion Reflections – Episode 22 – Russ Meyer’s Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

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Criterion Reflections is David Blakeslee’s ongoing project to watch all of the films included in the Criterion Collection in chronological order of their original release. Each episode of this second season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1970 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by William Remmers and Robert Taylor to discuss Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, directed by Russ Meyer.

Episode Links:

Russ Meyer

• RM Films (official)
• Wikipedia
• PopMatters

Roger Ebert

• RogerEbert.com
• Wikipedia
• The Dissolve (excerpts from his early reviews of the late 1960s)

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

• Criterion
• Roger Ebert (a review of his own film, written in 1980)
• Attack From Planet B
• Cagey Films
• Dreams are What Le Cinema is For
• Not Coming to a Theater Near You
• Slant

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THE SHADOW WITHIN

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THE MAN WHO LEFT HIS WILL ON FILM

MORE!

• Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)
• Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)
• The Eclipse Viewer
• A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

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