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The Boys in the Band
from Paramount
starring Kenneth Nelson, Peter White, Leonard Frey, Cliff Gorman, Frederick Combs
directed by William Friedkin

Features:

• Color
• DVD-Video
• Widescreen
• NTSC

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Brilliant film--not so great commentary
  This is truly one of the great plays/films of all time. The bonus features are wonderful except for the commentary by William Friedkin. Friedkin is not watching the film thus not giving the viewer insight to what we are viewing. In fact, some of the words from Friedkin are already in other parts of the DVD. Too bad, it would have been an over the top release if this had not been done in this fashion. (It's also a little boring.) Also, Cliff Gorman's year of birth is incorrect. It is 1936 not 1926.

• Boys In The Band DVD in 16:9 widescreen stereo splendour
  Enough other reviewers have told the truth about the highly informative and beautifully produced extras on this DVD. Reason enough alone to buy it even if you own the VHS version. However Friedkin is not kidding at all about the high quality of the video - especially as compared to the VHS.
  The DVD is actually 16:9 widescreen, not 2.35:1 as listed on this Amazon page. I loaded both the VHS and DVD into my home cinema system and switched between the two to compare the 4:3 full screen VHS to the 16:9... more info

• 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 self-loathing... more info

• 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,... more info

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