DIVINE TRASH

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• Release Year: 1998
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: 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. Also included is footage of Waters making his early movies, culminating in an up-close and in-depth look at Pink Flamingos: the script, the set, the filming conditions, its editing, its distribution, and its impact. In sweet ways, this documentary is also a celebration of Divine (1945-1988).
• Cast: John Waters, Patricia Waters, John Waters Sr., Steve Buscemi, Mink Stole, Steve Waters, Herschell Gordon Lewis, George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar, Pat Moran, Bill Landis, George Figgs, Ken Jacobs, Mary Avara, Lou Cedrone Jr., Fred Hanna, Don Walls, Peter Garey, Jim Jarmusch, George Udell, Bruce Goldstein, Steve Yeager, Divine, Carol Butler, Frances Milstead, Harvey Alexander, Vincent Peranio, Van Smith, Glenn Belverio, Christine Mason, Laurence Kardish, Dennis Dermody, Bob Adams, Stephen Winter, Jack Walsh, Mary Vivian Pearce, Channing Wilroy, Brad Ganson, Linda Olgeirson, Susan Walsh, Bill Porter, Richard Kern, David O. Russell, George Mansour, Jeanine Basinger, John Pierson, Robert Shaye, Alison Gartner, Ben Barenholtz, J. Hoberman, Hal Hartley, Justin Frank, David Lochary, Edith Massey, Jonas Mekas, Danny Mills, Paul Swift, Alec Webb, Kevin Heffernan
• Director: Steve Yeager
• Runtime: 1:37
• Media Format: movie