The Boys in the Band (Blu-ray) R
Extraordinary. Groundbreaking. Controversial.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 59 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 16, 2015
- Originally Released: 1970
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kenneth Nelson, Leonard Frey, Cliff Gorman, Reuben Greene, Robert La Tourneaux, Laurence Luckinbill, Keith Prentice, Peter White & Frederick Combs | |
Performer: | Maud Adams | |
Directed by | William Friedkin | |
Edited by | Jerry Greenberg & Carl Lerner | |
Screenwriting by | Mart Crowley | |
Produced by | Mart Crowley | |
Director of Photography: | Arthur J. Ornitz |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/5 --
These are not the type of gay boys that you would like to take home.
Film Threat
A movie that needs to finally be acknowledged -- unsullied -- for the groundbreaking status that it deserves.
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Windy City Times
The combination of schoolgirl confessional... with a discernible element of holier-than-thou voyeurism does give off a certain sliminess.
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The Spectator
Many lines, many characters skirt the edges of farce and never quite lose their balance because we can be convinced of their essential truth.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Rating: 4/5 --
lively, edgy, groundbreaking
Shadows on the Wall
[T]his heavy-handed relic of a self-loathing time proves surprisingly relevant -- not to mention funny, disturbing, and deeply moving. -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/4 --
The sizzle of the bon mot%u2013tossing ensemble, intact from the stage original, is bracing and fuels the film's momentum.
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Slant Magazine
Product Description:
Based on Matt Crowley's play of the same name, THE BOYS IN THE BAND is a hilarious farce that focuses on the personal mores and identity politics of a group of gay friends at a private birthday party in Manhattan. Released one year after Federico Fellini's SATYRICON, BOYS reflects director William Friedkin's youthful admiration of the personal European films many American directors were emulating at the time. Michael (Kenneth Nelson) is throwing a birthday party for his scathingly self-deprecating friend Harold (Leonard Frey), and the exclusive circle of friends invited are all gay men, all of whom suffer some form of the identity crises imposed by an intolerant society that requires complicit suppression. The release from social preoccupations behind closed doors results in an alcohol-induced claustrophobia, and when an unexpected visit from Michael's straight college friend takes everyone by surprise, unspoken personal revelations come boiling to the surface. With the sort of lively and rabid repartee of an Oscar Wilde play combined with the dark, psychological stalking of Edward Albee/Mike Nichols WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF', THE BOYS IN THE BAND is Friedkin's most accomplished, and final, European-influenced, auteurist effort before he turned to genre and self-described commercial filmmaking.