I watched Cecil B. Demented once around the time that it came out, and have since thought of it as my least favorite John Waters movie. The part of the film that stuck with was Cecil’s crew introducing themselves one by one to the big Hollywood star they have kidnapped to be in their underground [...]
I re-watch my favorite John Waters movies such as a Desperate Living and Female Trouble on a fairly regular basis (not every day or anything like that), but Serial Mom is one that I hadn’t seen since it first came out. Seeing it again reminded me that it is basically covers the same basic themes [...]
Desperate Living, like all of John Waters’ films, is one that I have seen many times. While it is not as notorious as Pink Flamingos, nor as lauded as Polyester or Hairspray, it is one of my favorite Waters films. Waters has always been a filmmaker with a disdain for reality, and Desperate Living is [...]
Continuing to try to squeeze in a few more John Waters before the end of the year, I went back to one of my favorites, Female Trouble. Although Pink Flamingos has always been Waters’ most notorious movies, the follow up is a far better and funnier film. Waters wrote in his memoirs Shock Value that [...]
Released in 1969, John Waters’ Mondo Trasho, is the anti-thesis both to the hippie movement and the “New Hollywood” renaissance that was changing the face of a American film at the time. While Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda were out in Monument Valley filming scenes of motorcycles roaring down wide-open desert roads, John Waters was [...]
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Cecil B. DeMented (2000)
I watched Cecil B. Demented once around the time that it came out, and have since thought of it as my least favorite John Waters movie. The part of the film that stuck with was Cecil’s crew introducing themselves one by one to the big Hollywood star they have kidnapped to be in their underground [...]
Serial Mom (1994)
I re-watch my favorite John Waters movies such as a Desperate Living and Female Trouble on a fairly regular basis (not every day or anything like that), but Serial Mom is one that I hadn’t seen since it first came out. Seeing it again reminded me that it is basically covers the same basic themes [...]
Desperate Living (1977)
Desperate Living, like all of John Waters’ films, is one that I have seen many times. While it is not as notorious as Pink Flamingos, nor as lauded as Polyester or Hairspray, it is one of my favorite Waters films. Waters has always been a filmmaker with a disdain for reality, and Desperate Living is [...]
Female Trouble (1974)
Continuing to try to squeeze in a few more John Waters before the end of the year, I went back to one of my favorites, Female Trouble. Although Pink Flamingos has always been Waters’ most notorious movies, the follow up is a far better and funnier film. Waters wrote in his memoirs Shock Value that [...]
Mondo Trasho (1969)
Released in 1969, John Waters’ Mondo Trasho, is the anti-thesis both to the hippie movement and the “New Hollywood” renaissance that was changing the face of a American film at the time. While Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda were out in Monument Valley filming scenes of motorcycles roaring down wide-open desert roads, John Waters was [...]