― Skottie, Sunday, 9 March 2003 18:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 9 March 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 9 March 2003 20:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― duane, Sunday, 9 March 2003 23:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Sunday, 9 March 2003 23:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 9 March 2003 23:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 10 March 2003 00:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
Same here. You can't top the unspeakably bizarre sensibility of the early films, but Hairspray, the greatest film of 1988, manages to keep the weirdness but add in his essentially, uh..., em,...er...sweet-- personality too. Ricki Lake was brilliant, Divine of course.
No, Homer. Ultrasuede is a miracle. This was just good timing. Or something like that.
― Skottie, Monday, 10 March 2003 01:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Monday, 10 March 2003 01:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yeah, well agreed. And yes the movie overall is quite great!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 March 2003 04:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 27 July 2003 11:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 27 July 2003 11:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 27 July 2003 11:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Tag (Tag), Sunday, 27 July 2003 11:47 (twenty years ago) link
i like how all his movies take place in baltimore.
― kephm, Sunday, 27 July 2003 11:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 July 2003 17:41 (twenty years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 27 July 2003 17:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 July 2003 17:44 (twenty years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Sunday, 27 July 2003 18:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 27 July 2003 19:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Tag (Tag), Sunday, 27 July 2003 19:43 (twenty years ago) link
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― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 27 July 2003 22:41 (twenty years ago) link
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― duane, Monday, 28 July 2003 00:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Tag (Tag), Monday, 28 July 2003 07:54 (twenty years ago) link
― jason m. (jason m), Monday, 28 July 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 July 2003 16:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 28 July 2003 19:04 (twenty years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Monday, 28 July 2003 21:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 28 July 2003 22:56 (twenty years ago) link
What is the trick of being an adorable asshole?
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 00:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 00:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 03:01 (twenty years ago) link
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― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 06:24 (twenty years ago) link
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― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 31 July 2003 05:18 (twenty years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 19 September 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Sunday, 19 September 2004 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 September 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link
that had me laughing for days. he gives the best sheepish little chuckle/snort as he says it.
― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
it had a limited release for baltimore on the 17th and is nationwide (but only 100 prints!) on the 24th.
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 19 September 2004 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― rainy (rainy), Monday, 20 September 2004 02:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 20 September 2004 02:50 (nineteen years ago) link
S&M is dying too. There are very few leather bars left in the country. Gay bars are disappearing. It's getting uncomfortable. It's like having "black bars." They just hang out with everybody. Which I'm for. My message is that I've always been very against separatism. To me, I still like the biker culture, but all bikers are old now. And many of them are fat....
And if they are young, and dressing in leather, you'd think they're gay. They look sort of like the Eagles. But I guess that people tell me that the new, young S&M boys dress like fake skinheads. Non-racist skin heads. That's the look. I guess, I don't see it that much. But I don't go to the bars that much. I live at the beach, and S&M really looks stupid at the beach.
http://gothamist.com/2014/09/02/john_waters_justin_bieber.php
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
Great new interview:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/03/john-waters-multiple-maniacs-baltimore-criterion
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
Even with A Dirty Shame my father said after, “It was funny but I hope as hell I never see it again!” That’s a pretty good quote!
watched this at bma, didn't disappointhttp://www.nytimes.com/video/t-magazine/100000003435098/teaser-john-waters-kiddie-flamingos.html
― am0n, Monday, 31 October 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
Found a complete version of Desperate Living on YouTube last night and it fucking killed me again. So many totally insane characters and scenes. I never really noticed it b4 but its definitely his lesbian/dyke film. Of course, there are other um "avenues" explored but that one is most prominent. The low budget sets are fantastic! The buildings in Mortville are near psychedelic in their coloring. Just beautiful. And also of note, was the absence of Divine, fortunately the other Dreamlanders rise to the occasion. Definitely his darkest film by a considerable margin. I fucking love it!
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Saturday, 29 July 2017 05:14 (six years ago) link
"SEIZE her and FUCK her!"
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 July 2017 06:40 (six years ago) link
LOL! Yeah, there are so many great lines in DL."look at that pelt", "every word I utter is to be taken as a direct, royal proclamation", the aforementioned white man/tampax line. It just goes on and on. The scene wherein Mo emasculates herself, tosses it and some random dog grabs it up. It's truly remarkable how successful it is even without The Divine Miss Divine. And its definitely a film whose appeal to me would never be explainable to my parents ala Warhols Trash and many other favorites.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Saturday, 29 July 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
For some reason, I can't get my library to stock the Criterion of Multiple Maniacs.
― the general theme of STUFF (cryptosicko), Saturday, 29 July 2017 15:35 (six years ago) link
TELL HER this isn't some communist daycare center!!!
can't tell you how many times i've thought about the title of this thread re: current administration and basically every single news day about it
― comey did deflategate (daria-g), Sunday, 30 July 2017 02:14 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9P_sxaaMJE
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 27 November 2017 05:50 (six years ago) link
this is pretty priceless btw; the two tone collar is dope and waters is sharp as a tack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEzk1DqTaaQ
amazed no one goes to waters these days with an open checkbook, seems like it would be printing money... has he said he's just not making anything anymore?
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 27 November 2017 06:05 (six years ago) link
I remembered a funny John Waters anecdote yesterday that I told to friends
I saw him speak on my college campus, probably fifteen years ago, and he was joking about how after he'd mentioned poppers a number of times, one of the manufacturers had gifted him a "lifetime supply"
I saw him again a couple years ago, and the topic came up. He said he'd nearly run out! Either they underestimated him or he's lived longer than expected
― mh, Monday, 27 November 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
It’s a good thing I’m not relying on making movies. That’s the only one of the careers I have today that isn’t going so great. In the independent film world now, they want you to make it for $2 million and I don’t want to go backwards. I don’t want to be a faux anarchist underground filmmaker at 71 years old. People say, ‘Well, why don’t you raise money on Kickstarter?’ I own three homes. I’m not panhandling. So that’s fine because I have different ways to tell stories.
Do you miss filmmaking?
No. I mean, I do. I miss it, but not completely. I would make another movie in a minute, but I don’t know when I would make it. I am scheduled for the next year already! I made a lot of movies. It’s not like they’re hard to see. I know I would miss it if I didn’t write. I would miss it if I didn’t do spoken word. I would miss it if I didn’t have a photography career. I’d be happy to make one, but if I don’t make another one, I’m fine with that too.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40480667/john-waters-is-done-being-a-faux-anarchist-underground-filmmaker
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 November 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
I own three homes. I’m not panhandling.
God bless him.
― piscesx, Monday, 27 November 2017 21:48 (six years ago) link
Odorama cards this Fri night in NYC
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/6341
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
I still have my card from when I saw it in the 80s. Haven't sniffed it recently, wonder if it's still got the aromas.
― nickn, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
A hero has passed.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/obituaries/bs-md-ob-david-gluck-20200619-tgunh2dcazbl5pvymnvho2ecvy-story.html
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 June 2020 02:09 (three years ago) link
Also rewatched Female Trouble the other day having finally gotten the Criterion Blu-ray and man, that thing's more crazily prescient than ever.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 June 2020 02:16 (three years ago) link
But of course
John Waters bequeaths his art collection to Baltimore Museum of Art, whose bathrooms will be named in his honor https://t.co/BqVZPKx74z— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) November 12, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link
perfect
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:07 (three years ago) link
my house appeared in pecker for two seconds and i am trying to remember if the house at the end of my street was pecker's house or if i made that up, either way i feel part of this
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:50 (three years ago) link
Lovely new featurehttps://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a37460247/john-waters-cover-story-interview-2021/
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 September 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
Just saw the first date of this year’s Christmas tour here in SF, great as ever. Some news:*4K of Cry-baby on Kino Lorber next year* Possible Criterion of Pink Flamingos in the works.* First novel next year! Liarmouth — about a woman who steals luggage from airports.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 05:51 (two years ago) link
Seeing the Xmas show tonight
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
And it's happening
https://www.criterion.com/films/31320-pink-flamingos
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:49 (two years ago) link
Pink Flamingos is one of the films, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, that I saw numerous times when I was younger, and agree is culturally or historically significant (!) yet have no desire to watch again.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 17 March 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link
I have Pink Flamingos on a VHS videotape somewhere and honestly watching it on a 4K Blu-Ray seems like an example of comically missing the point.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 17 March 2022 19:45 (two years ago) link
Luckily it's just a normal BR.
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Thursday, 17 March 2022 19:47 (two years ago) link
New book, new interview etc.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/scaachikoul/john-waters-book-liarmouth
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
Great read! Thanks Ned!
― BrianB, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 11:05 (one year ago) link
omg omg omg
John Waters to make first film in 20 years with Aubrey Plaza set to star
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 18:34 (two months ago) link
Here's hoping!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 18:57 (two months ago) link
Wow, can't believe it's been that long. By a weird coincidence I am currently reading Liarmouth and it very much feels like one of his films.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 19:12 (two months ago) link