Welcome to the Dollhouse
Junior high school student Dawn "Wiener-dog" Wiener is perpetually teased by her classmates and tormented by the school bully, Brandon. All she wants is to be popular and that would certainly help her emerging crush on the lead of her brother’s garage band. Todd (Happiness) Solondz's celebrated coming-of-age comedy won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and young star Heather Matarazzo was awarded Best Debut Performance at the prestigious Independent Spirit Awards. Perfectly capturing the growing pains of youth and suburbia with startling intensity, Welcome to the Dollhouse was widely praised on release with Janet Maslin of the New York Times describing it as a "mordantly hilarious suburban comedy - excruciatingly funny."
Limited Edition Special Features:
• High Definition digital transfer of the film
• Uncompressed stereo PCM audio
• Newly filmed interview with Solondz
• Visual essay by critic and author Hannah Strong on the film and its place within Solondz's work
• Audio commentary by BJ and Harmony Colangelo of the This Ends at Prom podcast
• Trailer
• Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing on the film by A. S. Hamrah, Molly Lambert and archival writings to be confirmed
• Limited edition of 2000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
3 Welcome to the Dollhouse
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Re: 3 Welcome to the Dollhouse
I was really impressed by this film, though it re-open a lot of old high school wounds I've managed to supress for a couple of decades...
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Re: 3 Welcome to the Dollhouse
That seems to be Solondz’ intention throughout his work, creating intrusive intervention to prompt sobriety to the parts of our selves and our lives that we hide from through bold but unconditional self-compassion. His films have empathy for you, and all your variations along the spectrum of normal to fucked up experiences
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Re: 3 Welcome to the Dollhouse
Sold out now at Radiance's store.