The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20

[tazber]

The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#1

Posted: 4/23/08 at 2:16pm

Also on that date comes The Night They Raided Minsky's.

More info when I post all the May releases next week.

....but the world goes 'round

[PalJoey]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#2

Posted: 4/23/08 at 2:29pm

"What I am, Michael, is a 32-year-old, ugly, pockmarked Jew fairy, and if it takes me a little while to pull myself together--and if I smoke a little grass before I get up the nerve to show my face to the world--it's nobody's god damned business but my own. And how are YOU this evening?"

When I was 14, that's what I thought my life would be.

And I kinda thought it was fabulous.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#2

Posted: 4/23/08 at 2:32pm

I'm sure you were never ugly or pockmarked. Total Jew fairy, though. :)

[Roscoe]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#3

Posted: 4/23/08 at 2:43pm

NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S!! Woo hoo!!

William Friedkin's one and only good movie!!

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[doodlenyc]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#4

Posted: 4/23/08 at 2:51pm

Pazuzu disagrees.

"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."

"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS

[DayDreamer]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#5

Posted: 4/23/08 at 2:55pm

I didn't get this movie at all when I first saw it. Maybe I should see it again ...

Celebrate Life

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch

[uncageg]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#6

Posted: 4/23/08 at 3:04pm

Thanks for the post. I have been waiting for Boys in the Band to come out on DVD. It has been eons since I saw it.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[Roscoe]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#7

Posted: 4/23/08 at 3:10pm

Pazuzu's entitled to his opinion of course, but I'm not going to lose too much sleep over the opinion of a demon who makes a little girl puke and masturbate with a cross.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

Updated On: 4/23/08 at 03:10 PM

[Borstalboy]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#8

Posted: 4/23/08 at 3:12pm

Are any of the members of the original cast still alive?


Even the magnificent Cliff Gorman is dead.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[MTVMANN]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#9

Posted: 4/23/08 at 3:13pm

Yeah for Leonard Frey!

[WindyCityActor]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#10

Posted: 4/23/08 at 3:20pm

I did a quick internet search and I think the following cast members are still alive:

Peter White (Alan)
Laurence Luckinbill (Hank)
Reuben Greene (Bernard)

[to the Cowboy, Harold's "gift"]
Hank: Would you mind waiting over there with the gifts?

[DMsquared2]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#11

Posted: 4/23/08 at 3:22pm

This is a must-see for lovers of queer cinema.

[JohnBoy2]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#12

Posted: 4/23/08 at 3:25pm

I wonder if it will play any less tediously than it did back in 1970? I found it absolutely insufferable. The "gay" movie I'd like to see again is Some of My Best Friends Are. I didn't find that one tedious.

[SueleenGay]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#13

Posted: 4/23/08 at 3:48pm

I much prefer Making Love. SO much more realistic and heartfelt.

PEACE.

[Roscoe]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#14

Posted: 4/23/08 at 3:58pm

I sat through BOYS IN THE BAND once and don't remember it at all well, it just seemed to equate gayness with misery to such an outrageous extent that I found it hard to take. I mean, why didn't they just all kill themselves if life is so hard.

MAKING LOVE, ick. So sanitized and tidy, not a moment of life in it.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[DG]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#15

Posted: 4/23/08 at 4:02pm

When THE BOYS IN THE BAND is funny, it's very, VERY funny. And even when it's not, it tells the truth for some.

And as for MAKING LOVE, I'd still marry Michael Ontkean. In a heartbeat.

[uncageg]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#16

Posted: 4/23/08 at 4:21pm

I don't remember a lot of it either. I saw it late one night on TV when I was younger. All I can remember is that I liked it. Making Love didn't do much for me.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[DMsquared2]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#17

Posted: 8/6/08 at 10:23am

Update: Available 11/11/08
DVD cover art:

[husk_charmer]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#18

Posted: 8/6/08 at 10:27am

I wondered what happened, I'd been looking for it at Barnes and Noble and Borders and had turned up with nothing.

http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer

[best12bars]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#19

Posted: 8/6/08 at 11:00am

This movie totally creeped me out when I first saw it on TV back in Kansas. This one and Cruising helped scare me safely into the closet for years.

As for Making Love, it actually haunted me for years... in a good but confusing way... until I finally did come out. At the time I saw it, it felt like the gay Ordinary People.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[Unknown User]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#20

Posted: 8/6/08 at 11:02am

I remember thinking it was a sad, miserable life...but I'd live it to get a "Present" like that for my next birthday.

[RetroBoy]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#21

Posted: 8/6/08 at 11:17am

as a gay man i really didn't care for the boys in the band at all. it actually scared me. i saw it when i was a pre-teen and by then i knew i liked boys. i sat there thinking to myself "is this what i have to look forward to as a gay man"...it kept me in the closet for a very, very long time.

maybe that i am now in my 40s i will re-watch it, i don't know, by now it may just ring stale, dated and too stereotypical.

mart crowley, who wrote the play was natalie wood's personal assistant and close confidante for many many years and she actually let him take time off with pay so that he could devote time to writing it.

[uncageg]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#22

Posted: 12/6/08 at 9:58pm

Just got it from Netflix after a long wait and watched it the other night. Am going to watch it again this evening with the commentary. I think I need to own this film. The special features are good also.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[Roscoe]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#23

Posted: 12/7/08 at 7:52am

I rewatched BOYS IN THE BAND recently, and admired it a lot more than I had before. I guess I'd been a teenager when I first saw it, and found the movie easy to dismiss. Such a sad film about such miserable people, my respect for it went way up. Excellent performances all round.

Very much worth seeing.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[tommyboy]

re: The Boys In The Band to arrive on DVD 5/20#24

Posted: 12/7/08 at 8:53am

I don't think this was ever meant to be a movie. I played Alan in a local stage production of BITB. It was good.