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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0086162701733
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Label: Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Home Entertainment
Release Date: December 06, 1980
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 8733
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: March 17, 1970
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A sensitive yet humorous adaptation of the stage play, this 1970 film directed by William Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist) is one of the first films to openly address gay issues in a matter-of-fact style that largely avoids stereotyping. Shot on one set and featuring a birthday party as the festive setting, a group of friends assemble to celebrate, reminisce, and discuss their lives and the travails of being gay, even as one friend insists he's straight. The night turns from a light celebration to a sometimes-vindictive ordeal of revelation and betrayal, as each man in turn must confess his true feelings. Performed by the original cast of the stage production, the film may feel dated to some, but it still manages to be truthful and entertaining as it explores a subject that to this day is not often addressed. --Robert Lane
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Rating:  - A milepost in American gay pop culture
The 1970 film "Boys In The Band," based on a stage play from 1968, is an interesting snapshot of American gay culture in the 1960s. Originally written and produced before the Stonewall Riots that shaped the gay rights movement of the 1970s, the play transposes the psychology-heavy drama of Edward Albee, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, et al. into a gay milieu, albeit into the catty, queeny world of the pre-gay-lib era.
Within the LGBT world, the film is controversial due to the lacerating ... Read More
Rating:  - BRILLIANT, SEARING, AND STILL RELEVANT
Let there be general rejoicing through the land at the DVD release of this landmark film! BOYS IN THE BAND is both brilliant, bitingly funny filmmaking and a penetrating examination of the (still) dysfunctional ways gay men cope with basic conflicts imposed by American society. Mart Crowley penned more memorable lines than any three Bette Davis films and Friedkin established a sense of place and mood in his main character's tony 1968 Manhattan apartment that is just uncanny. By the time LOOK OF LOVE plays, ... Read More
Rating: - A Must See!
Most gay men, and many heterosexual people, have heard of or seen "The Boys in the Band" so I won't describe the story. The details, as well as the written play, are readily available. Finally this classic gay film is available on DVD; and it's a masterpiece in every way imaginable. As William Friedkin & Mart Crowley have said, this is the best looking print of "The Boys in the Band" ever produced ... better than any theatrical print in existence. The bonus features are icing on the cake. They are presented ... Read More
Rating: - Gone but not forgotten
I didn't see this film for the first time until I was well into my mid twenties in 1998. Therefore, my experience of this movie is probably different from those who saw in 1970 when times were different. I can see how many would see this as a very negative story but that said, I like this movie quite a bit. As a time capsule, it's a look at New York in a specific time and place with the great late 60s/early 70s fashions. As a narrative, it's every gay man's nightmare: a dinner party gone very wrong.
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Rating: - Turning ... Revolution complete.
At long last, Mart Crowley's "The Boys in the Band" is available on DVD (I can finally discard the VHS tape I have held onto for so long fearing it would warp or degrade over time). The play the film was based on was penned just over forty years ago, and the film was released thirty-eight years ago. Because the camera work, direction, and acting are so contemporary in feeling the film sometimes feels like it was made yesterday. But then, as I was watching it and enjoying it, I realized that when I saw the movie when ... Read More
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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0086162701733
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Label: Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Home Entertainment
Release Date: December 06, 1980
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 8733
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: March 17, 1970