John Waters. Filth 101. 2000 4/4

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Sep 8th, 2010 by MrCult

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www.egs.edu John Waters, American filmmaker, director, writer, personality, visual artist and art collector talking about his films, work, biography, ideas and philosophy. John Waters, born 1946, in a public open lecture with students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department, film and movie program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2000. John Waters. John Waters rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. John Waters’ early films were all shot in the Baltimore area with his company of local actors, the Dreamlanders. In addition to Divine, the group included Mink Stole, Cookie Mueller, Edith Massey, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, and others. These early films were among the first picked up for distribution by New Line Cinema. John Waters’ films premiered at the Baltimore Senator Theatre and sometimes at the Charles Theatre. John Waters’ early campy movies present filthily lovable characters in outrageous situations with hyperbolic dialogue. His early films, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living, which he labeled the Trash Trilogy, pushed hard at the boundaries of conventional propriety and movie censorship. A particularly notorious final segment of Pink Flamingos, simply added in as a non sequitur to the end of the film, featured, in one take without special effects, a small dog defecating and Divine eating the feces. The 1981 film Polyester starred Divine opposite once-teen-idol Tab …

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8 Responses to “John Waters. Filth 101. 2000 4/4”

on 08 Sep 2010 at 1:52 am1toastednomad

John, John, John . . . ‘Bad Taste’ was a New Zealand film, Tut tut
on 08 Sep 2010 at 2:45 am2Raider17

I was amused at “Nobody watches Chainsaw Massacre and thinks ‘Were they really hurt?’” In fact, Gunnar Hansen cut himself with the chainsaw, and, according to Danny Peary, much of the blood on Marilyn Burns is real.
on 08 Sep 2010 at 3:04 am3heitmanek1

god help use.
on 08 Sep 2010 at 3:24 am4hurricanerae

Me too!
on 08 Sep 2010 at 3:29 am5asalingerreference

These were great, thanks for the upload.
on 08 Sep 2010 at 4:14 am6shilpah

AMEN!!! I wish John was my dad and Divine was my mum!!!!!!!
on 08 Sep 2010 at 4:21 am7Arthur5041975

I could listen to John speak all day.
on 08 Sep 2010 at 4:53 am8LittleFrankNFurter

Thanks for putting this up! John is great!

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