PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) with John Waters LIVE at the Paramount 50th Summer Classic Film Series

The 50th Annual Paramount Summer Classic Film Series presented by Capital Metro
JOHN WATERS LIVE
PINK FLAMINGOS + FEMALE TROUBLE DOUBLE FEATURE!

Q&A MODERATED BY JOHN DOE!
The Paramount Theatre
Saturday, June 8, 2024
Doors: 6pm
Pink Flamingos: 7pm
Q&A w/ John Waters: 8:45pm
Female Trouble: 9:30pm
Double Feature: This ticket gets you into both films, but you are also welcome to attend just one. The second film will screen after a brief intermission.
Thanks to his films’ breathtaking disregard for “social norms,” John Waters earned the nickname “The Pope of Trash.” Well, you better get ready to make a pilgrimage to the Paramount – because the Pope is coming back to town and he’s bringing two of his most celebrated works!
Waters joins us live to present a double feature of his infamous 1972 film PINK FLAMINGOS followed by a 50th anniversary presentation of FEMALE TROUBLE, both starring iconic Waters collaborators including Divine, Mink Stole and Edith Massey. In-between, Waters will share his experiences making these landmark movies with musician, actor and writer John Doe.
Pink Flamingos
1972 | 93 min. | Color | DCP
Directed by: John Waters
Cast: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey and Cookie Mueller
Waters made bad taste perversely transcendent with the forever shocking counterculture sensation PINK FLAMINGOS, his most infamous and daring cinematic transgression. Outré diva Divine is a wanted criminal hiding out with her family of degenerates in a trailer outside Baltimore while reveling in her tabloid notoriety as the “Filthiest Person Alive.” When a pair of sociopaths (Mink Stole and David Lochary) with a habit of kidnapping women in order to impregnate them attempt to challenge her title, Divine resolves to show them and the world the true meaning of the word “filth.” Waters and his merry band of Dreamlanders leave no taboo unsmashed in this gleefully subversive ode to outsiderhood, in which camp spectacle and pitch-black satire are wielded in an all-out assault on respectability.

Female Trouble
1974 | 97 min. | Color | DCP
Directed by: John Waters
Cast: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey and Cookie Mueller
Glamour has never been more grotesque than in FEMALE TROUBLE, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport, the living embodiment of the film’s lurid mantra, “Crime is beauty,” who progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impulses land her in the electric chair. Shot in Waters’ native Baltimore on 16 mm, with a cast drawn from his beloved troupe of regulars, this film­—the director’s favorite of his work with Divine—comes to life through the tinsel-toned vision of production designer Vincent Peranio and costume designer/makeup artist Van Smith.
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