Pink Flamingos

Friday, March 22 - Sunday, March 31, 2024

John Waters made bad taste perversely transcendent with the forever shocking counterculture sensation PINK FLAMINGOS, his most infamous and daring cinematic transgression. Outré 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 “Filthiest Person Alive.” When a pair of sociopaths (Mink Stole and David Lochary) with a habit of kidnapping women in order to impregnate them attempt to challenge her title, Divine resolves to show them and the world the true meaning of the word “filth.” Incest, cannibalism, shrimping, and film history’s most legendary gross-out ending—Waters and his merry band of Dreamlanders leave no taboo unsmashed in this gleefully subversive ode to outsiderhood, in which camp spectacle and pitch-black satire are wielded in an all-out assault on respectability.

Screening as part of our new midnight series Sicks by John Waters

Previously screened by The Criterion Collection and New Line Cinema presenting the 50th Anniversary 4K restoration in June of 2022.

• Year 1972
• Running Time 93 minutes
• Distributor Warner Brothers
• Director John Waters
• Cast Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce
• Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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