John Waters - This Filthy World

Fabulously unhinged and decidedly warped. How I miss his muse, Divine.

This DVD is suppose to be a lecture about the life and works about the infamous film director, John Waters.I have only seen John Waters on interviews and had a passing knowledge of his films. While watching interviews I always found him a funny and witty man. I bought the DVD and kept my fingers crossed that the same sense of humour would be transfer over. I shouldn't have worried, John tells the story about his childhood and his fascination with showbiz and movies; which continues to the struggles of making movies and the interesting characters he has meet on the way.For a film director, he does come across as a funny and charismatic story teller which would make the best stand ups green with envy.

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YukWill make you feel sick

This video is complement my filth film collection.

A great audience with a fascinating and extremely talented writer/director. Brilliant stories from shoplifting to making films with Divine. Loved every minute of it.

This is a very entertaining 90 minutes of wall-to-wall outrageousness and anecdotes from the filmmaking life of John Waters. He has always been brilliant in interviews, and it is hard to imagine anyone being more suited to this easy-going but packed style of stand-up presentation, so refreshingly free of the ingratiating effects that are usually built in to the genre. He doesn't need to fall back on any of this - in fact there is a feeling of pushing forward with the next bit but without it self-consciously coming at you thick and fast. It's striking how lucid he always is, somehow making sense of the most outlandish preoccupations and making a place for them in the sane world. It's almost a way of staying sane, of resisting the boredom of the bourgeois world of respectability by pricking its balloon. More than anything it seems to be his essential self; you can't help thinking what a great life he has lived, what wisdom he has, the most beautiful flowers growing on the dungheap of the world! Luscious and not afraid to stick up and give off their addictive smell ... The tributes to actors, Divine first among them, add a note of seriousness under the zaniness.

The master of cinematic filth walks the boards to deliver a stand-up routine as impressive as any of his films. As a John Waters fanatic I relished this material; cosily familiar, but hilariously shocking nonetheless. But this will come as no surprise to the initiated as the beast of Baltimore ploughs his crude furrow with a wit as sharp as Divine's costumes. New comers to Waters' Filthy World should also benefit as he provides an engaging and colourful history of his film making career, suffused with on and off screen anecdotes, gracious tributes to various actors (not least the irreplaceable Divine but also Mink Stole) and fellow directors, bawdy accounts of Baltimore nightlife, loveable freaks and outsider humour. If you've only seen Hairspray be cautious of this 18 rated show.