John Waters can currently be seen peeking out from the pages of Entertainment Weekly's "Top 50 Cult Movies" with, perversely enough, his fave "tasteful" movies by the likes of Visconti and Bresson.
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JW: I'm writing this movie about sex addicts, because I haven't had one with any sexual themes in a long time. I like it, because all sex looks surreal. Anyway, it's about sex addicts in blue-collar America and their search for dignity called A Dirty Shame, which is something people's parents say a lot in Baltimore. If they hear about something bad, they'll mutter, "Well, that's a dirty shame." And I like that expression, because it's really old-fashioned. People would say, like, "Do you know so-and-so? It's a dirty shame." "She's a whore." [Laughs.]
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I will always adore John Waters for acclaiming Woody Allen's Interiors, too. He's a very dapper and refined gentleman, in his way (this actually has not much to do with the Interiors thing, more with the things he's said/written and the way he is in person).
I also watched Desperate Living again recently. Not my favorite John Waters movie, but well worth revisiting.
from desperate living:
"Now I won't have any organs! It'll be like having a Barbie doll crotch!"
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Selma Blair as the uncommonly busty Caprice Stickles, heroine of John Waters's A Dirty Shame.
New Line is Putting on Some More Hairspray
Source: Variety
New Line Cinema will produce a feature remake of Hairspray, completing a 16-year full-circle journey from the modestly budgeted John Waters cult movie, starring Ricki Lake, to the Tony-winning smash Broadway musical and now back to a big screen musical. New Line co-chairmen and co-CEOs Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne confirmed to Variety that the new film will be a priority development project aiming for a 2006 release.
Set in Waters' beloved native Baltimore during the 1960s dance TV craze, Hairspray centers on zaftig high school hairhopper Tracy Turnblad as she graduates from outsider to celebrity trendsetter. Along the way she stars on "The Corny Collins Show," wins the heart of resident hunk Link Larkin and kicks down the barriers for black and white integration on local television.
Based on Waters' original script for the 1988 movie, the play's book was written by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, with musical score and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. O'Donnell and Meehan will adapt their existing book for the screen. In addition to composing the score for the film, Shaiman will produce the songs and serve as music supervisor. The next step will be to attach a director.
^ should be moved to why, God, why? thread
i was watching "musique plus" (which is the "mtv of here) and the guy said that the next john waters film was called "live freaky die freaky" and that it was comming out soon. well they got their info fucked, but this live freaky die freaky thing seems cool. anyone know anything about it?
Quote from: Cecil, who doesn't visit as much as he should,live freaky die freaky thing seems cool. anyone know anything about it?
http://www.filmjerk.com/nuke/article598.html
http://www.livefreakydiefreaky.com/
for anybody who cares and is in the NYC area, sunday is the last day of the John Waters exhibit at the new museum. they're showing his old black and white shorts that haven't screened in a LONG time and it's impossible to find copies. i'll be there on saturday.
www.newmuseum.org
Waters Thrilled by Catholic Church Blast at Film
Filmmaker John Waters is thrilled at the review given to his latest film A Dirty Shame from the Catholic News Service - despite it lambasting the movie for being "crude". The cult director's comedic story about sex addicts - starring Tracey Ullman, Johnny Knoxville and Selma Blair - has been met with harsh criticism by the organization, much to the delight of Waters. The review complains, "(The film features) almost non-stop rough, crude and profane language, full frontal nudity, sexual imagery, obscene gestures, scatological humor, casual portrayal and descriptions of deviant sexual practices, a glorification of freewheeling sex and some sacrilegious imagery." Waters tells gossip site Pagesix.Com, "I don't know if I can get a better review than that."
whatever, they cry at anything.
as long as he stops pussying around and makes a good movie again..
That's a really cool avatar.
Scary Christmas from John Waters
New Line Records has A John Waters Christmas, a new CD from the eccentric filmmaker, available in stores and online.
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Filmmaker John Waters has turned his attention to record making, recording and releasing A John Waters Christmas just in time for this holiday season. Waters claims he "channels the eccentric spirit of Christmas through the most heartfelt but truly outlandish holiday songs recorded."
In his liner notes on the New Line Records release, Waters writes, "Close your eyes and imagine you're with me in my house Christmas morning listening to favorite carols." He acknowledges this is not exactly a Dickensian thought.
Titles include "Santa Claus Is a Black Man" and "Here Comes Fatty Claus," in addition to Little Cindy's "Happy Birthday Jesus," Roger Christian's orphan ode "Little Mary Christmas," the soulful sounds of Fat Daddy's "Fat Daddy (Is Santa Claus)" and Big Dee Irwin and Little Eva's "I Wish You a Merry Christmas."
A John Waters Christmas is now available in stores and online.
Director John Waters recalls career of bad taste
Director John Waters, self-confessed king of all things tasteless and tacky, celebrates a life spent shocking audiences and mocking the movie world in a film version of his stand-up act.
In "This Filthy World," Waters delivers a rapid-fire monologue about life in film, from his first home-made picture "Hag in a Black Leather Jacket," reportedly costing $30, to international fame for cross-dressing classic "Hairspray."
The "Pope of Trash" was in Berlin this week to present the film, and the laughter and applause at a packed screening late on Monday showed his cult following spreads well beyond the shores of his native America.
The moustachioed 60-year-old ruminates on everything from shop-lifting as a boy to battles with movie censors, and from how to make voting more attractive to young people to what is wrong with capital punishment.
"I am against it (capital punishment) for the reason that I'm afraid I'll get it," he quipped. "We all have bad nights."
He also had advice to gay people trying too hard to act as they feel they ought to.
"You don't have to like Liza Minnelli," Waters told a live audience at a U.S. college where "This Filthy World" was shot over two nights. "And S & M does look stupid on the beach."
When he was younger, Waters said he used to tour courtrooms across the United States to get ideas for his films, and he and other members of the public would boast to each other about which famous cases they had watched.
One woman topped them all, however, when she told him: "I was at Nuremberg," referring to the trial of leading German Nazis after World War Two.
The arch-provocateur also recalls his long collaboration with Divine, the obese, cross-dressing star of many of his movies including "Pink Flamingos," which includes the infamous scene where his character eats dog feces.
"I'm not a sadist, it was only one take," joked the director.
Another of their collaborations was "Polyester," where audiences were given scratch-n-sniff cards so they could smell what they saw on film.
Asked if his movies had become tame over time, and whether he would return to the more cutting edge pictures of the past, Waters told the audience after the film was shown:
"I never want to go backwards and do something I did before. If I wanted to do what I did at the very beginning I wouldn't be here any more."
He was also asked if wanted to make a spoof of a science fiction movie, one of the genres he had yet to tackle. "That's the only genre I could never do," he said. "I don't get it."
And his next venture? A "very weird" children's movie for "special children and their even more special parents."
From cult to kid movies. Has John Waters mellowed?
After years as a cult filmmaker specializing in all things tasteless and weird, John Waters has edged closer to the mainstream with two recent projects -- a children's film and starring role in a TV drama.
Over the past four decades, Waters, 60, has gradually moved from underground movies to more commercial films, acting, screenwriting and photography, and this year will shoot a "terribly wonderful children's Christmas adventure called 'Fruitcake."'
One of his best-known films, "Hairspray," is headed back to the big screen in a New Line Cinema remake starring John Travolta.
While Waters is enjoying more mainstream acceptance, one thing has not changed -- his fascination for the macabre, which attracted him to another project, playing the narrator, or "Groom Reaper," in a Court TV cable series dramatizing real-life murderous marriages.
"I'm known for humor that makes people a bit nervous, but I'm never mean spirited. I've done horror but with a wink," Waters told Reuters in a telephone interview.
"Have I gone more mainstream? I think the general public has changed more than I, but you do have to reinvent yourself," he said.
Waters said his work still causes a stir, even though it may no longer be quite so shocking as the notorious scene at the end of his 1972 film "Pink Flamingos" in which the obese, cross-dressing lead character eats dog feces.
As an example, he cites his 2004 movie "A Dirty Shame," about a suburban housewife who becomes a sex addict after she is hit on the head.
"It was a huge censorship hassle," Waters recalled.
But a children's movie?
"Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them," he said.
Waters expects his fans to enjoy the dark humor in the 13-part TV true-crime drama series "Til Death Do Us Part," which debuts on Court TV on March 19, featuring a different story each week that always ends in murder by one of the spouses.
Waters said the role of the moderator was irresistible to him because since an early age he had been intrigued by crime and what leads ordinary people to do something terrible. He used to spend days in courtrooms watching trials until he kept being recognized.
"It's a sardonic part in a TV show that is about a serious topic. Everyone has that moment when they say one little thing that really gets on your nerves," he said.
"The stories we do are all based on regular people. These are the people who live in your neighborhood and had a wedding as optimistic as you did. The main question is why they did not get divorced.
"Stay single and stay alive. That's my theory."
Johnny Knoxville, Parker Posey join 'Fruitcake'
John Waters' film may go to ThinkFilm
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey are attached to star in John Waters' Christmas film "Fruitcake."
The plot is officially under wraps but is said to center on the title character, a boy named after his favorite dessert. He runs away from home during the holidays after he and his parents are caught shoplifting meat, then meets up with a runaway girl raised by two gay men and searching for her birth mother.
This Is That Prods. and Killer Films are producing "Fruitcake," which once was set up at New Line. ThinkFilm is said to be in talks to come aboard.
John Waters Notes to Obama
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/7814498.stm
**** a John Waters Criterion video has happened ****
jesus christ:
HAIRSPRAY (1988) 30TH ANNIVERSARY
JUL 23 7:30PM PT (http://www.oscars.org/events/hairspray-1988-30th-anniversary)
Samuel Goldwyn Theater
With writer-director John Waters, cast members Deborah Harry, Ricki Lake, Clayton Prince, Mink Stole, Pia Zadora and more. Hosted by Oscar-winning writer-director Barry Jenkins.
Tickets on sale July 2, 2018.
John Waters Returns to Filmmaking After Nearly 20 Years to Direct Adaptation of His Novel 'Liarmouth'
Variety
Legendary filmmaker John Waters is stepping back to the director's chair for the first time in 18 years, for an adaptation of his 2022 novel "Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance." Waters — a pioneering independent filmmaker who catapulted to cinema infamy with bad taste masterpieces like 1972's "Pink Flamingos" and 1981's "Polyester" — will write and direct the project for Village Roadshow, with Steve Rabineau producing. It will be Waters' first movie since 2004's "A Dirty Shame."
"'Liarmouth' is the craziest thing I've written in a while so maybe it's fitting that my novel was shocking enough to jumpstart the engine of my film career," the 76-year-old filmmaker said in a statement. "Thrilled to be back in the movie business, hopefully to spread demented joy to adventuresome moviegoers around the world."
The novel follows three generations of women in the same family: Adora, who runs an unauthorized veterinarian practice on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that specializes in plastic surgery for pets; Adora's daughter Marsha, a pathological thief and misanthrope who is the "liarmouth" of the title; and Marsha's daughter Poppy, who runs a trampoline park on the outskirts of Baltimore. Eventually, they all conspire to kill each other.
"Liarmouth" is, somehow, Waters' debut novel. In the 1980s and '90s, he shifted from the gleeful fringe of subversive cult cinema into a kind of mainstream avatar for his own queer, campy sensibility, especially after his 1988 film "Hairspray" was adapted into a Tony-winning Broadway hit musical in 2002, and then re-adapted into a 2007 feature film. But after "A Dirty Shame," Waters stepped away from filmmaking, publishing a series of non-fiction books, touring with spoken word performances, and appearing in a series of cameos in other film and TV projects.
The deal for "Liarmouth" was handled by Jack Tantleff at Paradigm, on behalf of Bill Clegg at The Clegg Agency and Waters' lawyer Jason P. Hendler at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller & Gellman, L.L.P.
A Dirty Shame was pretty bad. No wonder it's been so long. But maybe Waters just isn't my thing.
Quote from: wilder on October 06, 2022, 07:10:36 PMIt will be Waters' first movie since 2004's "A Dirty Shame."
... Waters' lawyer Jason P. Hendler at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller & Gellman, L.L.P.
LOL.