Funeral Parade is proud to present Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Russ Meyer’s camp classic about a groovy all-girl rock band trying to make it in sleazy Hollywood.

Rock ‘n’ roll upstarts Kelly, Casey, and Pet are The Kelly Affair, a small-town psychedelic band with big ambitions. Tired of playing high school proms, the girls set out for Los Angeles, where they catch the eye of the “teen tycoon of rock”, Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell, who rebrands them as The Carrie Nations. Under Z-Man’s control, the group rockets to superstardom, but what price will they pay for their success? Hailed by John Waters as “a classic” and “ahead of its time”, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is an outrageous send-up of showbiz melodramas, as well as a barbed satire of the “Swinging Sixties”.

With Introduction from artist, filmmaker and author Maz Murray.

After Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman) injures himself while drunkenly revisiting his high school sports-star days, he and his tempestuous wife, Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor), visit his family's Mississippi plantation for the 65th birthday of his hot-tempered father, Big Daddy (Burl Ives). Cantankerous even with declining health, Big Daddy demands to know why Brick and Maggie haven't yet given him a grandchild, unlike Brick's brother Gooper (Jack Carson) and his fecund wife, Mae (Madeleine Sherwood).

With intro from film curator Sarah Cleary.