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DVD : BeefcakeIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Daniel MacIvor, Joshua Peace, Jack Griffin Mazeika, Carroll Godsman, Jonathan Torrens directed by: Thom Fitzgerald  List Price: $34.99 Amazon.com's Price: $31.49 You Save: $3.50 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)Binding: DVD EAN: 0712267990825 Format: Color, NTSC Label: Strand Releasing Manufacturer: Strand Releasing Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Strand Releasing Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 23, 2001 Running Time: 97 minutes Studio: Strand Releasing Theatrical Release Date: 1999 Sales Rank: 31815 MPN: D9908-2D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: "Beefcake," Thom Fitzgerald's (The Hanging Garden) provocative blending of fiction and documentary, tells the story of Bob Mizer, the pioneering founder of the Athletic Model Guild, a company which produced still photographs and short films extolling the beauty and chiseled physiques of men. The fiction story follows photographer and enterprising businessman Mizer, who teamed up with his mother in 1945 to film his beefy star-wannabes around his sun-drenched pool. It is here that Neil, a naive, right-off-the-bus teen is lured into using his handsome looks to become a model. The wide-eyed Neil soon learns about the world of sex and prostitution. But a police raid and ensuing criminal trial soon threaten both of the men's worlds. Interspersed with the story are rare archival footage and interviews with former co-workers, customers and models. Amazon.com: Canadian filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald made his name on the gay film scene with his dramatic fantasia The Hanging Garden, but with Beefcake he captures a more lightheartedly dreamy tone: The film takes its lead from Valentine Hooven's lip-smackingly compulsive coffee table tome of the same name. We're offered a teasing, pseudo-history of mid-century pop male photography, featuring quaint muscle-mag shots and nude "studies" of, among others, a hungrily seductive young Joe Dallesandro (before he made his name in underground Andy Warhol flicks like Flesh). Dallesandro's here to talk, along with other "models" who mostly supply commentary on Bob Mizer, the enterprising founder of the Athletic Model Guild. Fitzgerald blends the real-life documentary material into his fictional confection concerning a sexy bumpkin who falls into Mizer's AMG set-up (it produced America's first closeted gay erotica publication, passing itself off as an innocently obsessive guide to health and fitness). The campy original story--the hero's Valley of the Dolls-inspired name is Neil O'Hara--is a bit dumb, actually, mostly because it's not even half as interesting as the real deal. Lots of innocently nude frolicking doesn't hurt, though, and the film engages when it manages to be as naively sweet and erotic as Mizer's bygone magazines. --Steve Wiecking Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Beefcake, the movieHow did I miss this movie when it came out? I happened upon it in Amazon, and since the price was right, I thought I'd take a chance on it. It is part documentary/part recreation of the career of Bob Mizer who created and published Physique Pictorial in the 1950's and 1960's. The movie is very funny and not at all insulting to its subject. Since I was not there I cannot say how accurate it is, and the ex-models they interview are clearly trying to gloss over their shady pasts, but as far as I ... Read More Rating: - Excitement from the magazine section at the supermarketThis is a great documentary slash story. All of us who've browsed the muscle mags at the supermarket with embarrassed discretion when the grocery moms wheelled down the aisle now know we were not alone. Fabulously presented. Rating: - Editorial MasterpieceOutstanding. Superior dramatization of the life and works of Bob Mizer. There are not enough accolades to describe this extraordinary look back at the fifties/early sixties. Particularly noteworthy is the actual glimpse of film footage of Dick Dubouis - one of his most incredible models. Surprisingly enough, there are no actual film flashbacks of Ed Fury and Bud Counts who also were some of his more featured models. It is extremely hard to believe that Mr. Mizer did not take advantage of all those ... Read More Rating:  - Say Cheesy"BEEFCAKE" Say Cheese Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride Thom Fitzgerald, the director of "The Hanging Garden" and "3 Needles" gives us "Beefcake" which could have been a wonderful movie but falls short of the mark. The movie is supposed to tell us about "beefcake" magazines, male physique publications of the 1950s, long before the widespread advent of porn. The movie focuses on Bob Mixer who was one of the most known photographers of the male form. Mixer was largely ... Read More Rating: - Fun look at a forgotten time in gay AmericaBeefcake is a bright fun movie, that looks at the beginings of the modern gay porn era. The movie focuses on Bob Mizer and his Athletic Model Guild Studio. Started at first as a modeling agency for male physique models. The enterprizing Mizer soon discover that his photos of the handsome semi-nude men were more in demand than the models themselves! Thus began an industry based the (gay) erotisim of physical male beauty. You might say that Mizer is the father of ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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