Pink Flamingos News

If you only know John Waters from his darkly comic, disturbed movies - "Pink Flamingos," "Serial Mom" or his most mainstream effort, "Hairspray" - it might surprise you that the filmmaker who once wrote a hilarious essay titled "Hatchet Piece " has a soft spot for Christmas.

Submitted by Laura Capitano on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 13:48. Nov. 20 & 21 Downtown is going to have a particularly cool weekend coming up, thanks to the Conmoto Art and Music Festival .

The projectors have stopped running, the popcorn has been swept up and bleary-eyed moviegoers have emerged back into the daylight.

SLIPKNOT 's Corey Taylor and Sid Wilson took part in separate webcast/chats this past Halloween when the band performed at Fangoria 's Trinity Of Terrors convention in Las Vegas, Nevada.

CHARLOTTESVILLE - Lamenting the death of burlesque, cult artist and filmmaker John Waters announced from the stage, "This is not a lecture.

Ticket sales for the 22nd-annual Virginia Film Festival - which begins today - have already surpassed the number sold for last year's festival.

John Waters , Barry Levinson and David Simon aren't just appearing on stage for the first time together for the Maryland Film Festival benefit on Nov.

In the 1970s, John Waters was the bad boy of fringe filmmaking with his cult-classic, X-rated Pink Flamingos .

Here it is: the John Waters movie his own parents aren't allowed to watch! The dialogue and performances throughout Waters' 1972 breakthrough Pink Flamingos may not crackle with as much subversive wit as its near-perfect successor Female Trouble , but Flamingos continues to earn its legs as Waters' most offensive and most memorable picture.

When the "Midnight Movie" was in its heyday, the actual movie was a mere side dish to the experience of going to a theatre at midnight and encountering whatever low-budget oddity was currently in vogue.

Lest we forget -- and how could we? -- he once convinced an overweight transvestite actor named Divine to devour something freshly deposited on the pavement by a dog.

In what is set to be the biggest, baddest and most gruesome convention to hit Las Vegas, Fangoria's Trinity Of Terrors continues to add to the list of scream-worthy celebrities set to attend the three day event.

Funny business - in comedy , business, politics, wine and more - is the theme for the 2009 Virginia Film Festival, Nov.

John Waters has pushed every boundary and taken bad taste as far as you can take it.

ArtStars* at Nuit Blanche Oct. 3, 6:55pm-sunrise. Projection at Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. Roving reports throughout the city.

Tonight's premiere of The Naughty Kitchen is notable not because it's another so-called reality show nominally concerned with the preparation and consumption of food.

The theme of this year's Virginia Film Festival is "Funny Business" and what could be more appropriate than screening John Waters' movies? John Waters himself.

CHARLOTTESVILLE - The University of Virginia and the Virginia Film Festival welcome cult artist, photographer, author, actor and filmmaker John Waters to Grounds Nov.

Sunny, sandy and packed with rowdy Rays fans, Florida's west coast seems an odd setting in which to dwell on Gothic horror, its breezy brightness at odds with dank Victorian gloom.

John Waters says the end of his filmmaking career is quickly approaching. By Michelle Garcia John Waters says the end of his filmmaking career is quickly approaching.