SUNDAY NOVEMBER 16th

20:30
John Water's
PINK FLAMINGOS 1972
Directed by John Waters
93 minutes
In English

This is the notorious film that made John Waters infamous (before he became famous with CRY BABY and SERIAL MOM) and which started the whole concept of cultivated bad taste. Extremely black humor concerning an obese transvestite (Divine) and her attempts to keep her status as \"the filthiest person in the world.\" A rival family, the Marbles, are set on stealing this honor away from her. The Marbles own an \"adoption clinic\" which is actually a black market baby ring. They kidnap young women, have them impregnated by their servant, and sell the babies to lesbian couples.

Warning: contains high-voltage images of a very explicit nature.
Waters called it \"an exercise in bad taste.\"
When it was released it was immediately banned in Australia, Canada, Serbia, and Norway. It was voted number 27 in the \"50 films that you must see before you die\" festival in London.

The trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibF5HW-sao

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22:15
FEMALE TROUBLE (1974)
Directed by John Waters
Staring DIVINE
97 minutes
in English

This is John Waters' personal favorite of his early films, and rightly so. This is John Waters at his zenith, and all of his original actors are together here for the last time and giving their best performances.
Set in the white trash suburbs of Baltimore, transvestite DIVINE plays Dawn Davenport, the good girl gone bad when she doesn't get the cha-cha shoes she wanted for Christmas. After turning to a life of delinquency, she gets mixed up with some fascist beauty salon owners.This film is about America\'s sick obsession with stardom, which ends in an apocalyptic fashion show.

Especially in these days of high production values, over-slick film making and arrogant actors- this trash masterpiece is more relevant than ever!

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 16th

CINEMA DERIVE
OVERTOOM 301 20:30

Location
overtoom 301 amsterdam



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