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John Waters
portrait Date of Birth: Apr 22, 1946
Nationality: American
Biography: Representing Baltimore, MD in the most bizarre way possible, John Waters has been making wildly unique movies since the 60s. He's recently branched out, releasing of songs he considers romantic and hosting a TV show about spouses who murder each other. [Edit Biography]
Total Films at Criticker: 32 - You've Seen 0
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Blank City (2009)
Summary: During the punk rock stage in the late '70s, downtown New York experienced a wave of "Do it yourself" independent filmmaking.
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It Came from Kuchar (2009)
Summary: IT CAME FROM KUCHAR is the definitive, feature documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaking twins, the Kuchar brothers. George and Mike Kuchar have inspired two generations of filmmakers, actors, musicians, and artists with their zany, "no budget" films and with their uniquely enchanting spirits. (imdb)
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Guest of Cindy Sherman (2008)
Summary: A documentary on art-scene commentator Paul Hasegawa-Overacker's relationship with enigmatic photographer Cindy Sherman.
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Hairspray (2007)
Summary: Based on the 1988 John Waters cult classic, Hairspray is the story of Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, who has only one passion: dancing. When her dream of becoming a regular personality on "The Corny Collins Show" comes true, she wins many fans and becomes an advocate for integration. (New Line Cinema)
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
Summary: Kirby Dick's exposé about the American movie ratings board. (imdb)
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This Filthy World (2006)
Summary: John Waters' one-man show, this "vaudeville" act celebrates the film career and tastes of the man William Burroughs once called "The Pope of Trash." (Cinema Village)
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That Man: Peter Berlin (2005)
Summary: With his trademark Dutchboy haircut, Tom of Finland physique, and oh-so-tight trousers, Peter Berlin was the poster boy for the hedonistic and sexually liberated 1970s. Director Jim Tushinski's fascinating, sexy, and ultimately touching portrait, That Man: Peter Berlin, traces Berlin's story over the past 40 years, from his birth in wartime Germany to his current life in San Francisco, turning the elusive sex icon into a human being. (Gorilla Factory Productions)
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Inside Deep Throat (2005)
Summary: It was a $25,000 movie that became a $600 million phenomenon. It caused an administration to declare war on freedom. It turned buying a ticket into an act of revolution. Now, more than 30 years after Deep Throat first burst upon the public consciousness, this documentary examines the chasm between the modest intentions of the movie's makes and the unforeseen legacy they inadvertently created. (Universal)
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Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2005)
Summary: Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream tells the hidden history of these landmark films, El Topo (1970), Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Harder They Come (1973), Pink Flamingos (1972), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and Eraserhead (1977).
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Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2004)
Summary: Once known as the "California Riviera," the Salton Sea is now called one of America's worst ecological disasters. This documentary covers the historical, economic, political, and environmental issues that face the Sea, it more importantly offers up an offbeat portrait of the eccentric and individualistic people who populate its shores. Hair-raising and hilarious, part history lesson, part cautionary tale and part portrait of one of the strangest communities you've ever seen, this is the American Dream gone as stinky as a dead carp. (Tilapia Corp.)
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Seed of Chucky (2004)
Summary: The killer doll is back and his family must slay together in order to stay together. (Rogue Pictures)
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Dirty Shame, A (2004)
Summary: Rude, joyous and full of sexual anarchy, this John Waters comedy has a generous heart and a dirty mind. (Fine Line Features)
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Totally Gay! (2003)
Summary: Gives a lot of great examples of the diversity in how people see gay issues in the media. (imdb)
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Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002)
Summary: A cannibal caterer kills various young women in preperation for a ritual feast for a long-dormant Egyptian goddess that has him under its control. (imdb)
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Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story (2000)
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Cecil B. DeMented (2000)
Summary: In Baltimore, guerrilla filmmaker Cecil B. Demented leads a band of cinema revolutionaries who kidnap Honey Whitlock, a bitchy and aging movie star of big-budget froth. Cecil wants her in his movie, a screed against Hollywood they film during blitzkrieg attacks on a multiplex, a Maryland Film Commission press conference, and the set of a \"Forrest Gump\" sequel. He insists on celibacy; the cast and crew channel sexual energy into the production... (imdb)
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Divine Trash (1998)
Summary: The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters. Intercut with a 1972 interview of Waters are clips from his first films and recent interviews with his parents, his brother, Divine's mom, actors and crew, other directors, film critics, a film curator, psychologists, and Maryland's last censor, who shudders at the memory of Waters's pictures. (imdb)
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Pecker (1998)
Summary: A Baltimore sandwich shop employee becomes an overnight sensation when photographs he's taken of his weird family become the latest rage in the art world.
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Serial Mom (1994)
Summary: A sweet mother takes a little too much at heart for the defence of her family. (imdb)
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Cry-Baby (1990)
Summary: "Cry-Baby," starring a young Johnny Depp, shares aspects of its plot with "Grease." Allison is a "square" good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker (imdb)
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Hairspray (1988)
Summary: A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show (imdb)
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Attack Force Z (1982)
Summary: A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II. (imdb)
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Polyester (1981)
Summary: A suburban housewife's world falls apart when her pornographer husband admits he's serially unfaithful to her, her daughter gets pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's feet. (imdb)
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Breaker Morant (1980)
Summary: Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers. (imdb)
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Desperate Living (1977)
Summary: A rich housewife enlists her maid's help to murder her husband; they go on the lam and end up in Mortville, a homeless community built into a garbage dump. (imdb)
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Eliza Fraser (1976)
Summary: An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia (imdb)
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End Play (1976)
Summary: The loved can only hope to live...The victim can only wait...The dead can only be revenged (imdb)
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Female Trouble (1974)
Summary: A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitchhiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes. (imdb)
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Pink Flamingos (1972)
Summary: A family of rednecks and a pair of swingers do battle with one another for the rights to the title "The Filthiest People Alive." (imdb)
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Diane Linkletter Story, The (1970)
Summary: This improvised film is based on the true-life suicide of TV personality Art Linkletter's daughter, Diane. Mr. and Mrs. Linkletter fret about their daughter's recent behavior, which includes taking drugs and dating a lowlife named Jim. Eventually, the parents confront Diane... with tragic consequences. (imdb)
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Multiple Maniacs (1970)
Summary: The travelling sideshow 'Lady Divine's Cavalcade of Perversions' is actually a front for a group of psychotic kidnappers, with Lady Divine herself the most vicious and depraved of all - but her life changes after she gets raped by a fifteen-foot lobster... (imdb)
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Mondo Trasho (1969)
Summary: A day in the lives of a hit-and-run driver and her victim, and the bizarre things that happen to them before and after they collide (sexual assault by a crazed foot-fetishist, visions of the Virgin Mary, strange chicken-foot grafting operations). (imdb)
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