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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097368878549
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 1255
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1970
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 11/11/2008 Run time: 119 minutes Rating: R
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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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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 ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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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
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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
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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
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