The first “soft-core” sexploitation filmmaker to be honored by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Russ Meyer has been called a “blue-collar surrealist” by Los Angeles Times critic Kevin Thomas, who also asserts that Meyer used “a camera as expressively and rigorously as Hitchcock or Antonioni.” We have featured his classic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) - one of the two Russ Meyer films produced by 20th Century Fox - in past PFA presentations. This program features three of Meyer's twenty independent productions.
