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Multiple Maniacs (Criterion Blu-ray Review) – John Waters’ insane early queer movie is back & as bizarre as ever

March 17, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: David Lochary, Divine, Mink Stole
Director: John Waters
Running Time: 94 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: March 20th 2017 (UK)

Even 47 years on, it’s sometimes difficult to know what to write about John Water’s early work. While he later tempered some of his more depraved urges and found a wider audience with the likes of Hairspray, Serial Mom and Pecker – although all still with the unique Waters stamp – when he first started out he was blazing a trail unlike anyone else.

Multiple Maniacs was Waters’ first feature-length sound movie, made in Baltimore at the tail end of 1969 with a cast and crew composed largely of his friends. It opens with Mr. David (David Lochary) trying to entice people into a tent to see Lady Divine’s Cavalcade Of Perversions. The straight-laced punters aren’t impressed by the ‘real-life queers’, drug addicts, armpit lickers and naked pyramids they find in the tent, and are even less pleased when they discover it’s all been a ruse to kidnap, rob and possibly kill them. [Read more…]

I Am Divine (Review)

July 16, 2014 By Matt Peake 1 Comment

Starring: Divine, John Waters, Ricki Lake, Mink Stole
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
Running Time: 90 min
Certificate: E
Release Date: July 18th 2014 (UK Cinema), August 25th (UK DVD)

“Divine was the burlesque of John”

After premièring in the US at South by Southwest in 2013, I Am Divine finally hits the UK shores. It tells the story of how drag artiste Divine, aka Harris Glen Milstead, became John Waters’ cinematic muse and an international drag icon.

I Am Divine is a definitive biographical portrait of Divine, best known as the drag queen that ate dog poo in Pink Flamingo’s. The documentary honours Divine in just the way he always craved — as a serious artist and immortal star. Unfortunately, he died days before shooting began for Married with Children, where Divine was finally due to be taken seriously as an actor. [Read more…]

I Am Divine Set To Open The London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

February 12, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

i-am-divineThe full programme for this year’s London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival is due to be announced soon (on Feb 19th, to be precise), but to tease us with what will be showing from March 14th-24th, it’s been revealed that the festival will open with the European premiere of the new documentary I Am Divine.

Divine is, of course, the legendary drag queen known for appearing in many of John Waters’ early movies (and eating dog poo in Pink Flamingos). He was born Harris Glen Milstead, but found international fame with his larger than life alter-ego.

The film is from Jeffrey Schwarz, who directed Vito, which screened at last year’s LLGFF. He’s gathered many of Divine’s friends, colleagues, actors and, most notably, his mother to remember the queer icon.

The closing might film meanwhile will be the Canadian drama called Margarita about complicated love likes of attractive young Mexican nanny, as well as the host family who adore her but can’t afford to keep her. The film looks the complex human side if immigration, offering insight into the emotional life of a bright young lesbian.

We’ll know more about what’s screening next week.

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ACTORS: Divine  FILMS: I Am Divine  OTHER: LLGFF, London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

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