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Cecil B. Demented 2000
“Demented forever!”
One of the most underrated films in Waters’ filmography, this is honestly in my top three of Waters’ films. Packed with references far and wide: references to Waters’ favorite filmmakers, references to past Waters films and references to the infamous Patty Hearst kidnapping, CECIL B. DEMENTED feels like Waters making a greatest hits album, and I love every minute of it.
Waters hits the gas pedal go right from the get-go, and doesn’t let up at all. From…
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Female Trouble 1974
“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." Andy Warhol.
This legendary quote is at the core of John Waters’ 1974 masterpiece FEMALE TROUBLE, it represents the logical extreme of this quote and the philosophy behind it.
Dawn Davenport is a high schooler who, after she doesn’t get the cha-cha heels she wanted for Christmas, runs away from home, has sex with a random dude who picked her up hitchhiking, and has a daughter on a motel couch… …
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The House That Jack Built 2018
Boy oh boy, what a nightmarish and terrifying film. The House That Jack Built is the equivalent of a visual poem, every deranged image in this film serves the greater theme of the narrative:
What is truly art?
The film answers, deconstructs, and even dodges that question in its 2 hour and 32 minute runtime, all to varying degrees of success.
Central to the film is the titular house that Jack builds. As Jack kills and kills, he comes ever…Translated from by -
Memories Within Miss Aggie 1974
Dark, disturbing, yet a very good story. I love how it’s more than just sex, rather, it uses sex to tell a powerful story about the sheer failures of memory, and what we can hide within...
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