{"id":64,"date":"2006-06-24T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T16:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2014-09-06T15:02:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T21:02:17","slug":"dolls-rocks-sirens-buzzes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"DOLLS rocks, “Sirens” buzzes"},"content":{"rendered":"

At one time, Chicago Sun-Times<\/u><\/strong> movie critic Roger Ebert<\/strong> declined to provide commentaries on commercial DVD releases, presumably to avoid any perceived conflicts of interest where he might seem to be promoting a given movie and its studio over others. Then came opportunities to digitally preserve his thoughts on\u00a0two of his favorites\u00a0– CITIZEN KANE<\/strong> and DARK CITY<\/strong> – thereby throwing the Urbana native’s prior stance right out the window. Ebert has provided his services to several releases since then, which is not a bad thing considering his knack for efficiently vocalizing his opinions and thoughts on the cinema and its history.<\/p>\n

Last week, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0finally unleashed the movie-and-monologue that we all knew had to transpire. BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS<\/strong>, the 1970 satire chronicling the wild life of an all-girl band called The Carrie Nations, marked the first of two big-studio gigs for the late indie maverick Russ Meyer<\/strong> (FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL!<\/strong>) and the first of only three Ebert screenplays to be produced. (He used pseudonyms for Meyer’s subsequent UP!<\/strong> and BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRA-VIXENS<\/strong>.) On the brand-new DVD, issued simultaneously with its in-name-only predecessor VALLEY OF THE DOLLS <\/strong>(1967), Ebert talks solo on one commentary while the film’s actors discuss the raucous cult classic on a second track, joining a bevy of extras bounding across two discs.<\/p>\n

\"BEYOND<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the new issue of Sirens of Cinema<\/strong><\/u><\/a> magazine (vol.2 no.4) that hit newsstands this past Tuesday<\/strong>, June 20<\/strong>,\u00a0features a two-page article by yours truly on upper East Coast actress Kristen Hudson<\/strong>, who stars in the comedy-horror movies SILVERSCREAM<\/strong> and CHAINSAW SALLY<\/strong>. Also contributing an article is former BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER<\/strong> cast member Amber Benson<\/strong>, who travelled to Champaign County last summer to play a supporting role in the\u00a0Robin Peters<\/strong>\/Dreamscape Cinema<\/strong> production, BLUEHAIR<\/strong> (formerly ANGST<\/strong>). This full-color quarterly was recently re-launched by RAK Media Group, Inc., of Indiana.<\/p>\n

– Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Click to Read<\/a><\/p>\n

Chicago Sun-Times<\/u><\/strong> reprints 1980 Ebert essay from Film Comment<\/u><\/strong> about revisiting BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS<\/strong> at Syracuse University.<\/p>\n

Click to Read<\/a><\/p>\n

A recent Ebert “Answer Man” column in Chicago Sun-Times<\/u><\/strong> summarizes the critic’s thoughts on the new DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roger Ebert waxes psychedelic over BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, new to DVD, while “Sirens of Cinema” magazine runs freelance words by your editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,30,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jp-confidential","category-roger-ebert","category-the-old-school","category-videos-du-c-u"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}