David Lochary
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Film follows the trials and tribulations of Dawn Davenport. Her life is ruined when her parents refuse to get her a pair of 'Cha-Cha heels' for Christmas. This is the original, uncut, full-length version of the film.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
This underground epic, which breaks every rule of good filmmaking and good taste, set a benchmark for the bizarre that has never been equaled. Babs Johnson, a trailer park bon vivant proudly claims the title of the filthiest person alive. The envy of every neighborhood degenerate, it isn't long before another couple set their sites on Divine's legacy, and in the proud American tradition, competition forces each contender to outdo the other.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Outr ̌diva Divine is iconic as the wanted criminal hiding out with her family of degenerates in a trailer outside Baltimore while reveling in her tabloid notoriety as the ₃Filthiest Person Alive.₄ When a pair of sociopaths with a habit of kidnapping women to impregnate them attempt to challenge her title, Divine resolves to show them and the world the true meaning of the word filthy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 929
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Glamour has never been more grotesque than in Female Trouble, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine, director John Waters' larger-than-life muse, 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 impuses land her in the electric...
Series
Criterion collection volume 863
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"John Waters' gloriously grotesque second feature is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema's most memorably blasphemous sequences. Made on a shoestring budget in Waters' native Baltimore, with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling show mounted by a troupe of misfits whose shocking proclivities...