One of my favorite directors and also and incredibly writer and monologist I've had the pleasure to see a few times now.
His absurd early work. His tamer later work. It is all great.
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AMAZING birthday stuff from Friday. 2017 Low repress & check the rad shit from inside the Criterion Pink Flamingos!
Born 19 October 1945, died 7 March 1988: #Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead) revolutionized drag queen artistry. She is a saint of #Antinous. "She started as a homicidal maniac and ended playing a loving mother."-- #JohnWaters
Have a sudden urge to watch #JohnWaters films, so starting with Cry-Baby, which is a personal fave despite how far Depp has fallen.
I watched MULTIPLE MANIACS for the first time last night and subsequently had John Waters-esque dreams as bizarre and extreme as the film itself.
John Waters has listed his favorite movies on Vulture for the last two years. I just read through both lists, and I haven't seen any of these flicks. With the exception of a couple (Oppenheimer and Joker, no thanks), there's a lot here I need to see.
Here's his list of John's favorite 2023 movies
https://archive.is/eCD6X
And here's the 2024 ones
https://archive.is/EAkmE
Today, October 29, the mayor of Baltimore declares it “Honey Whitlock Day” in honor of the A-list actress. Shortly after, she is kidnapped by director Cecil B. Demented and forced to star in his independent film (Cecil B. Demented, 2000)
Happy Birthday #Divine born 19 October 1945 as Harris Glenn #Milstead. "He was a good actor who started his career as a homicidal maniac and ended it playing a loving mother" #JohnWaters. Divine is a saint of #Antinous for transforming drag artistry: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/10/saint-divine-harris-glenn-milstead.html
Today, October 5, a Baltimore jury hears the closing arguments in the trial of unassuming middle-class mom and accused serial killer Beverly Sutphin (Serial Mom, 1994)
My husband Zack got to meet John Waters at the Mahoning Drive-in's "Filthy Film Fest" last weekend in Lehighton, Pa! #mahoningdrivein #drivein #driveins #filthyfilmfest #johnwaters #movies #Divine #divineslobster
VIDEO REVIEW: "CRY-BABY" - KINO LORBER
The new 4K transfer of 'Cry-Baby' ain't no Square.
#CryBaby #JohnWaters #JohnnyDepp #KinoLorber #UniversalPictures #Entertainment #HomeVideo #Movies #Film #Cinema #Musical #Music
Watched Cecil B. Demented on Tuesday. Haven’t had a movie impact me like that ever. It really got me fired up! I definitely recommend it. #movie #film #johnwaters
boxd.itCecil B. Demented (2000)A young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess and force her to star in their radical underground movie.
Today, June 2, Baltimore TV viewers elect Little Inez Stubbs as Miss Hairspray, making her the lead dancer on the Corny Collins Show and racially integrating the show (Hairspray, 2007)
Today in Labor History April 22 April 22, 1946: Writer and director, John Waters, was born. Among his many classic films are his early low budget trash films, staring Divine, like Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Polyester (filmed in “odoroma” with scratch and sniff cards). His later, higher budget films include Pecker, Dirty Shame, Cecil B. Demented, and Hairspray. In the Cockettes documentary, he said the famous drag performers were an early influence on his films.
Today in Labor History February 4, 1974: The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) kidnapped Patty Hearst, granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, in Berkeley, California. One of the SLA’s demands for releasing Hearst was for her family to pay for millions of dollars’ worth of food to be given out free the poor and unhoused of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Hearst complied, with various community organizations distributing 100,000 bags of groceries at 16 sites in 4 counties, before violence brought the program to a halt. The violence occurred because the crowds were bigger than expected and workers started throwing boxes of food off of moving trucks. As a captive, Patty Hearst was held in a closet, blindfolded, with her hands tied, raped and threatened repeatedly with death. She was later offered the choice of freedom, or joining the SLA. She chose the latter. Consequently, she was later sentenced to 35 years in prison for her complicity in SLA robberies. After several years in prison, her sentence was commuted by President Carter. President Clinton pardoned her. Congressional Representative Leo Ryan was murdered by the Jim Jones cult in Guyana several weeks after collecting signatures for her release. Actor John Wayne, of all people, expressed frustration that everyone accepted the idea that Jones had brainwashed hundreds of his followers into mass suicide, but wouldn’t accept that the SLA could have brainwashed a teenage girl. After her release, Hearst went on to become an actress, appearing in several John Waters films, as well as many others.
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New Year and some new-to-me watches:
-#DavidLynch's INLAND EMPIRE
-#HideoNakata's DON'T LOOK UP aka GHOST ACTRESS/GHOST OF AN ACTRESS
-The documentary LYNCH/OZ directed by Alexandre O. Philippe and featuring:
#AmyNicholson (film critic)
#RodneyAscher (Room 237)
#JohnWaters (duh)
#KarynKusama (Girlfight)
#BensonAndMoorhead (The Endless, etc)
#DavidLowery (The Green Knight, etc)
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.
#books #reading #JohnWaters #fiction #novel #author @bookstadon
@leopardboy@netmonkey.xyzI’m going to see Multiple Maniacs tonight at the movie theatre. #JohnWaters #Movies #Film #Cinema
"Hairspray" is back on the big screen for a pair of Pride Month screenings, 35 years after it was released. Here's an interview with its director, John Waters, in which he explains why it will never be banned. "'Hairspray' is such a good sneak attack that even racists like it!" he says. "They're too dumb to realize it's against them!"
Yahoo EntertainmentJohn Waters explains why 'Hairspray' is his 'most devious' movie: 'Even racists like it!'