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Cut by
John Waters
John Waters has been
thumbing his nose at Hollywood for more than 30 years, creating
movies that are both shocking and hilarious. Now he reveals
another obsession, yet another string to his artistic bow. In this
collection of photographs, Waters uses his camera to
"re-direct" his favorite movies, juxtaposing images to
create works that explore, expand upon, and sometimes overturn the
intentions of the original directors. In Susan Slade, for
example, he distills an early 1960s melodrama into 16 photographs.
The resulting images manage somehow to combine kitschy appeal with
a degree of emotional impact that transcends that of the film
itself. Waters also works with images from his own life and
movies--including a sequence filmed in 1966 where Divine plays
Jackie Kennedy in a reenactment of JFK's assassination. In another
bravura performance, Liz Taylor is transformed through plastic
surgery into Waters himself.
Waters admits that his project is to photograph
"a favorite movie the way I want to remember it, no
matter what the original director had in mind." The result is
a collection that documents one man's obsessive and deeply kinky
love affair with movies--the kind of love affair in which one
partner brings a whip and the other brings a gallon of olive oil
and a volleyball team.
 Desperate
Visions : The Films of John Waters and the Kuchar by
Jack Stevenson
John Waters is the
notorious director of such cult-movie classics as "Pink
Flamingos", "Female Trouble", "Desperate
Living" and "Hairspray".
Desperate Visions features several
in-depth interviews with Waters, as well as with members of his
legendary entourage including Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink
Stole and Miss Jean Hill. George and Mike Kuchar are the directors
of such low budget/ underground classics as "Sins of the
Fleshapoids" and "Hold Me While I'm Naked". Their
visionary trash aesthetic was a great influence on the young John
Waters.
Desperate Visions includes extensive
interviews with the Kuchars, as well as a comprehensive assessment
of their career and influence. A unique feature on actress, Marion
Eaton, star of the gothic porn epic "Thundercrack!", is
also included. With many rare photographs, filmography and index, Desperate
Visions is an essential introduction to the wild world of John
Waters and to the outrageous camp/underground film tradition which
his movies exemplify.
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By Jay Bliznick
It's not often that you get the privilege of
talking to someone as funny and personable as John Waters. It
seems anyone that is familiar with his work has a story of their
first journey into one of John's celluloid worlds. Since the time
I had seen Pink Flamingos, at the impressionable age of 16, I had
made it a point to be one of the first in line on the opening day
of every film of his that played at the theaters since. I had some
interviews with filmmakers before and in those conversations had
uncovered sides of them that I never knew existed. John, I found,
was John. He is exactly as you think he would be and wears no
veils or masks. Fame hasn't spoiled John Waters. Here's why...
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This ring contains sites about or
dealing with John Waters, his films, movies, books or just about
anything John Waters related.
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Excerpt:
Growing up in Baltimore in the 50's Waters was
not like other children; he was obsessed by violence and gore,
both real and on the screen. With his weird counter culture
friends acting, he began making silent 8mm and 16mm films in the
mid 60's; he screened these in rented Baltimore church halls to
underground audiences drawn by word-of-mouth and street leafleting
campaigns. As his film-making grew more polished and his subject
matter more shocking, his audiences grew bigger, and his write-ups
in the Baltimore papers more outraged. By the early 70's he was
making features which he managed to get shown in midnight
screenings in art cinemas by sheer perseverance. Success came when
Pink Flamingos (1972) - a deliberate exercise in ultra-bad taste -
took off in 1973; helped no doubt by lead actor Divine's infamous
dog-shit eating scene. He continued to make low-budget shocking
movies with his Dreamland repertory company, until Hollywood
crossover success came with Hairspray (1988) in 1987, and although
his movies are now cleaned-up and professional, they retain Waters
playfulness, and reflect his life-long obsessions. ..
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This site is just too beautiful to
describe. For mature audiences.
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A comprehensive John Waters site. Provides news,
biographical information, a detailed filmography, articles,
interviews and more.
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Take a tour of the history of Camp and
Trash. Read descriptions, find the stars, and complete your
John Waters Library.
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