Beneath The Valley Of The Ultra Vixens [1979] [DVD]

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as one of Meyer's late '70s style flicks in terms of dramatic story complexity, it's still Russ Meyer, and that alone makes the film worthwhile. Read all Believe it or not even in Smalltown USA there are still people who are unfulfilled and unrelieved in the midst of plenty. Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens is a 1979 satirical sexploitation film directed by American film-maker Russ Meyer and written by Roger Ebert and Meyer. The situations that various characters find themselves in generally are funny - with the scenes that sees Levonna get her wig and Spanish phrase book, and a sequence taking place in a dentist's surgery being the highlights of the film.

Meyer meticulously documented and saved almost everything – including the rights to most of his films – and it’s a travesty that all that stuff was just sold off (though I’m glad Ashley was able to snag the fabled editing machine). I bought a house that had a 28-foot ceiling, and we built the sets in the house, because it was scaled in such a way.So terrified of anyone blinking on his watch, his films are cross cut in a dizzying manner, presaging the modern action films of a John Woo or Michael Bay. I mean, we shot inside, and we'd forgo lunch and have sex–wonderful, riotous, noisy sex… laughing and scratching.

That's the only true plot thread--which is more than some Meyer movies have--and we follow him as both he and his wife try to "heal" him of this great psychological handicap.By then his life had changed, his brain addled with dementia, his films neglected, and his business affairs sewn up by a housekeeper-turned-assistant-turned administrator-turned-conservator-over-his-physical-being, named Janice Cowart.

I wanted to photograph it myself, because it was a kind of umbilical cord, to see what was happening before you said, "Print it". The young man soon escapes, but she dives down, catches him underwater by fellating him and then overpowers him. Knowing nothing about how a moviola that used to belong to a west coast sexploitation legend works, I needed an east coast sexploitation legend over to give me a crash course. Was there any news about Russ’ films, and whether they would be made available more widely, perhaps on BluRay, perhaps in film festivals?It’s flawed but I highly recommend it as it’s about the most definitive account of Meyer and his films. He readied himself for his swansong, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, and bought a house in which he could film most of the scenes over an eight-week period in 1977. At the side of the building sat Russ’ weights bench, just a few yards from a still pristinely-maintained pool. By today's standards, it seems strange to remember that Russ Meyer was once considered very risque and was pushing back the excessive censorship of that age. She’ll sue – or at least threaten to – anyone who screens even clips of Meyer’s films or uses Russ’ name without her permission.