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

[tazber]

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.

[PalJoey]

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]

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

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

[Roscoe]

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

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

William Friedkin's one and only good movie!!

[doodlenyc]

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

Pazuzu disagrees.

[DayDreamer]

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 ...

[uncageg]

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.

[Roscoe]

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.

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

[Borstalboy]

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.

[MTVMANN]

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

Yeah for Leonard Frey!

[WindyCityActor]

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]

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

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

[JohnBoy2]

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]

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

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

[Roscoe]

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.

[DG]

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]

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.

[DMsquared2]

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

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

[husk_charmer]

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.

[best12bars]

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.

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]

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]

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.

[Roscoe]

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.

[tommyboy]

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.