https://vo.rs/tags/roger-ebert/Latest from the Roger Ebert desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sat, 18 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/beyond-the-valley-of-the-dolls-meyer-and-eberts-studio-fever-dream/<p>Somewhere in 1969, a major Hollywood studio looked at its balance sheet, panicked, and made a decision so out of character that the film it produced still reads as a glitch in the system. Reeling from expensive flops and desperate to reach the youth audience it no longer understood, 20th Century Fox hired Russ Meyer — a self-financed smut auteur with no studio track record — and let him make almost anything he wanted. He brought along a young Chicago film critic named Roger Ebert to write it. The result, <em>Beyond the Valley of the Dolls</em>, is the most gloriously deranged thing a major studio ever put its name to, a parody with the budget of the prestige pictures it was mocking.</p>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000