Something about these hot summer days just makes me want to watch some filthy horny hippies.




Posted here instead of the music forum because it seems to be more suited for a drive-in screening.

Jinnistan wrote:

Something about these hot summer days just makes me want to watch some filthy horny hippies.




Posted here instead of the music forum because it seems to be more suited for a drive-in screening.

Is this the one where Steven Stills gets in a fight with someone in the audience?

Rampop II wrote:

I trust you've seen Cleveland Smith Bounty Hunter, right? .

I have not, but have added it to the watchlist.

Rampop II wrote:

I could easily have mistaken You Kill Me First for a John Waters creation if I didn't know any better. .

Cinema of Transgression is not one of my favourite movements, but I've enjoyed a couple of shorts here and there. This is one of the funnier ones I've seen, although one needs to muscle past the shrillness.

Rock wrote:

Cinema of Transgression is not one of my favourite movements, but I've enjoyed a couple of shorts here and there. This is one of the funnier ones I've seen, although one needs to muscle past the shrillness.

Here's some more transgressive shrillness for you



 

Rock wrote:

Cinema of Transgression is not one of my favourite movements, but I've enjoyed a couple of shorts here and there. This is one of the funnier ones I've seen, although one needs to muscle past the shrillness.

Oh, I might have done John Waters an injustice with that comparison. His early stuff shares the same no–budget production value and some similar themes, but his stuff is definitely on a different level. Imaginative, unpredictable, hilarious, he took depravity about as far as it can go.

Also, he had Divine.



Like I said before, nothing else has come close, before or since. 

I'm a bit of an anti–spoiler fanatic so my commentary can be pretty lean on details. "Porno–comedy" would not be an inaccurate description, but still wouldn't quite cover it. Maybe I should let the trailers speak for themselves.



Desperate Living (1977)
I'm leading with the trailer for Desperate Living because, of all the John Waters trailers, I think this one best captures the spirit of his early films. So "inappropriate" you'll have to (DUN–dun–DUNNN) sign in! 






Multiple Maniacs (1970)
Now we're takin' it way back. 16mm b&w convention–trashing guerilla cinema insanity, and a lot of fun. Clutch your prayer beads for dear life, and hang onto your seats for the lobster scene: 






Pink Flamingos (1972)
The most famous of his early films, and for good reason. If any John Waters flick could be considered "seminal," it is without a doubt Pink Flamingos. Or should I say semen–al. Or some anal. Who cares. Guaranteed to defy expectations. I'm looking forward to the upcoming Criterion release. 


With the title of "Filthiest Person Alive" at stake, Babs Johnson (Divine), her degenerate son and dim-bulb mother face stiff competition from the vile Marble clan (David Lochary and Mink Stole) in an unbridled assault on every taboo in the book. Incest, drug trafficking, bestiality and an egg fetish are merely the tip of the proverbial iceberg in this controversial ultra-black comedy from renegade filmmaker John Waters.
—gaymoviereviews


I could have included the trailer for Female Trouble (1974), another good Waters flick, but I think these three trailers are plenty. I have not yet seen Mondo Trasho (1969) or Polyester (1981), Waters' "first movie to flirt with the mainstream." Polyester introduced Odorama, Waters' own variation of the Aroma–Rama/Smell–O–Vision concept: audience members were given scratch–and–sniff cards. Criterion went to great lengths to create faithful replicas of these cards to include with their latest... ahem... release.


"...One critic had said that if you saw my name on a marquee you should walk on the other side of the street and hold your nose. That gave me the idea to make a movie that really stunk!"
—John Waters

My earliest memory of John Waters, without knowing it was John Waters, was being despondent when I realized I was going to miss the 'scratch and sniff' movie that was coming on TV, because I was going to a cottage. So I bought the little card at the local convenience store, before our trip up into the boonie woods, and on the night it was supposed to be playing, at the same hour, sitting on the couch and smelling each of them one by one and trying to figure out what was happening in the movie at that time.
A rose?
Gasoline?
A fart?
Who was this genius and how did he find a way to my heart so directly?

I also think that was the same trip where I fretted the entire week that I had set the timer on my VCR correctly to tape Stuart Gordon's "Dolls", which would be playing as we made our drive home. Turns out I did, and yet the tape ran out and I missed the end credits, which was at least something I could be despondent about.
 

Oh nice, that looks like it's the same transfer as the Blu-ray.

The only annoying thing is that the subtitles are a bit out of sync at times, but it's not too distracting. I never had trouble following along.

A relatively recent upload of the Stones' notorious Cocksucker Blues.  As with the previous uploads, this is probably a 'grab it while you can' deal.



 

I use the auto-translated English subtitles and found them pretty serviceable. Alas, I can't seem to find the sequel with English subtitles.