SHAMPOO 18

1975 OUT NOW BD EXTRAS Featurettes, Booklet

Shampoo had so much to do with sexual hypocrisy and lying,” says Warren Beatty. In other words, it’s aged well, despite its pertinence to a specific period (set on the eve of Nixon’s election; released post-Watergate). Far from Confessions Of A Hairdresser, this scissor-sharp satire is the Chinatown of ’60s swinging, as Beatty’s George gets into an increasingly bleak tangle with multiple LA women (including an Oscar-nommed Lee Grant). Extras are a bit stingy by Criterion standards: a South Bank Show excerpt? Give us the whole thing! Matthew Leyland