Russ Meyer
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The Love Witch (2016)
Directed by Anna Biller
influenced by Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), Supervixens (1975)
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Biller has borrowed the movie's look from '60s melodramas like Valley of the Dolls (and its nudity from Russ Meyer's semi-sequel Beyond the Valley of the Dolls).
The violent parts hark back to Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
But that earlier film boasted more variety in an episodic treatment that spoofed a wider gamut of psychotronic cinema, from grindhouse “nudie cuties” to Russ Meyer’s “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.”
A fiercely feminist vision of Powell and Pressburger (“The Red Shoes”) collaborating with Russ Meyer (“Beyond the Valley of the Dolls”)?
And its insider exploitation-nerd references will likely only resonate with cinema obscurists who can gas on about the difference between Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Supervixens .
Kill! Kill! (1965) and Supervixens (1975)—it’s easy to pick up on a robust love of powerful women.
The Neon Demon (2016)
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
influenced by Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
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The closest Refn comes to self-awareness is when he has Keanu Reeves, playing a sleazebag motel owner, recreate a scene straight out of Russ Meyer's cult classic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, sneaking into a sleeping girl's bedroom and sliding a weapon between her parted lips.
Refn had his Neon Demon stars watch Russ Meyer’s infamous rock-star psychodrama Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls for inspiration, and that's no particular surprise: Neon Demon is lurid, lush, and overripe in the same sort of way, with a vulgar vapidity that's baffling and hypnotic at the same time.
The Brown Bunny (2003)
Directed by Vincent Gallo
influenced by Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
Then, film critic and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls scribe Roger Ebert named the film the worst movie ever shown at the French fashion show/film festival.
Babylon (2022)
Directed by Damien Chazelle
influenced by Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
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Not listed but certainly in the director’s debt are the funny, quasi-socially aware, and unabashedly trashy works of Verhoeven and Russ Meyer, the latter of whose depictions of wild Hollywood parties in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) Chazelle has ripped off wholesale.