Pink Flamingos (Waters, 1972: BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6.20pm
This film is part of the 'Scala: Sex, drugs and rock and roll cinema' season at BFI Southbank. The screenings on January 1st and 19th are on digital but youcan see the film on 35mm with intro by Mark Moore and Tasty Tim on Fri 26th January at 8.50pm in NFT1.
Chicago Reader review:
Among the most famous entries in the shock-cinema canon and the key
example of the “Baltimore aesthetic,” this pitch-black
comedy is usually the first stop for the uninitiated. John Waters not only
refuses to glamorize poverty but strives to deglamorize the very idea of
glamor, so much that the film becomes a critique of materialism as much
as an exercise in trash aestheticism. As the director Gus Van Sant once
wrote, “It’s all part of the
lowball-punk-fuck-it-who-cares-and-who’s-gonna-know-anyway ground rules
of the Baltimore aesthetic.”
Drew Hunt
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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