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Divine Trash
''Divine Trash'' is a 1998 American documentary film directed by Steve Yeager about the life and work of filmmaker John Waters, and the making of the 1972 film ''Pink Flamingos'', which is written and directed by Waters and stars Divine. ''Divine Trash'' premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, where it won Yeager the Filmmakers Trophy for Best Documentary. Cast Release ''Divine Trash'' had its premiere at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival in Utah, where it won Yeager the Filmmakers Trophy for Best Documentary. Following its Sundance premiere, Yeager re-cut the film in order to excise roughly eight minutes of footage from films and television programs for which he had not secured the usage rights; after being re-edited, ''Divine Trash'' screened at the Senator Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 5, 1998. Reception On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator, review-aggregation website for film and television. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Yeager (filmmaker)
Steve Yeager (born 1948) is an independent filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. He is best known for his documentary about the indie filmmaking of fellow director John Waters, '' Divine Trash'', which won the Filmmakers Trophy for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998. Career overview Steve Yeager got his start as a resident director at the Corner Theatre ETC, an experimental theatre company in Baltimore, Maryland (a branch of Ellen Stewart's New York-based Cafe La Mama ETC), with such productions as ''Pigeons'' by Lee Dorsey and ''Marguerite'' by C. Richard Gillespie. Yeager also directed an original play entitled ''Chiaroscuro'' while working at Corner. It was during this period that Steve Yeager also had occasion to work with two emerging talents of the day: Howard Rollins, in a 1972 production of John Steinbeck's ''Of Mice and Men;'' and Kathleen Turner, who appeared in Yeager's highly regarded original adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's '' Dr. Jek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Peranio
Vincent Peranio (born 1945) is a retired American production designer, art director, set designer, and actor. Peranio began his career designing film sets for John Waters. Because of his work with Waters, he is considered one of the Dreamlanders, Waters' ensemble of regular cast and crew members. Biography Peranio was born in 1945 in Baltimore, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1968. He is of Italian ancestry. Peranio's first credited project is the creation of ''Lobstora'', a room-sized rapacious lobster in Waters' '' Multiple Maniacs'' (1970). After ''Multiple Maniacs'', Peranio developed a successful career creating the sets for all subsequent films of Waters and other films and TV shows, including Barry Levinson's ''Liberty Heights'' and the crime dramas, '' Homicide: Life on the Street'', ''The Corner'', and the HBO television production ''The Wire''. At times, Peranio's brother Ed Peranio assisted with prop co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore is the List of municipalities in Maryland, most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. With a population of 585,708 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census and estimated at 568,271 in 2024, it is the List of United States cities by population, 30th-most populous U.S. city. The Baltimore metropolitan area is the Metropolitan statistical areas, 20th-largest metropolitan area in the country at 2.84 million residents. The city is also part of the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area, which had a population of 9.97 million in 2020. Baltimore was designated as an Independent city (United States), independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851. Though not located under the jurisdiction of any county in the state, it forms part of the central Maryland region together with Baltimore County, Maryland, the surrounding county that shares its name. The land that is present-day Baltimore was used as hunting ground by Paleo-Indians. In the early 160 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senator Theatre
The Senator Theatre is a historic Art Deco movie theater on York Road in the Govans section of Baltimore, Maryland. It is the oldest operating movie theater in central Maryland and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a designated Baltimore City Landmark. Managers Buzz and Kathleen Cusack renovated the theater and reopened it on October 15, 2010. The theater closed again for more renovations on April 26, 2012. It has since reopened, with three smaller theaters adjacent to the main one. It shows first run movies as well as classics. Architecture The Senator Theatre is an Art Deco landmark built by E. Eyring for Durkee Enterprises at an original cost of $250,000. It opened to the public October 5, 1939. The first movie it featured was '' Stanley and Livingstone'', starring Spencer Tracy and Nancy Kelly. The architect, John Jacob Zink, designed the Senator with a circular upper structure of glass blocks and limestone. Multicolored backlighting of the gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Jacobs
Ken Jacobs (born May 25, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American experimental filmmaker. His style often involves the use of found footage which he edits and manipulates. He has also directed films using his own footage. Ken Jacobs directed '' Blonde Cobra'' in 1963. This short film stars Jack Smith who directed his own '' Flaming Creatures'' the same year. In 1969 he directed '' Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son'' (1969, USA), in which he took the original 1905 short film and manipulated the footage to recontextualize it. This is considered an important first example of deconstruction in film. The film was admitted to the National Film Registry in 2007. His '' Star Spangled to Death'' (2004, USA) is a nearly seven-hour film consisting largely of found footage. Jacobs began compiling the archival footage in 1957 and the film took 47 years to complete. Jacobs taught at the Cinema Department at Harpur College at Binghamton University from 1969 to 2002. His son Azazel Jacobs is als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Kuchar
Mike Kuchar (born August 31, 1942, in New York City) is an American underground filmmaker, actor, and artist. Kuchar is notable for his low-budget and camp films such as '' Sins of the Fleshapoids'' and ''The Craven Sluck''. Biography Raised in The Bronx, he made his first films as a teenager in the 1950s with his twin brother George Kuchar and participated in New York's underground film scene in the 1960s and 1970s. He divided his time between New York City and his brother's San Francisco apartment until 2007, when he moved to San Francisco permanently; George died in 2011. During the 1980s and 1990s, Mike Kuchar created comics and illustrations for homoerotic publications including '' Meatmen'', '' Gay Heart Throbs'', ''First Hand'', and ''Manscape,'' and continued to draw commissions afterward. '' It Came From Kuchar'', a documentary film about George and Mike Kuchar by Jennifer Kroot, premiered at the South by Southwest film festival on 14 March 2009. In more recent year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Kuchar
George Kuchar (August 31, 1942 – September 6, 2011) was an American underground film film director, director and video artist, known for his "low-fi" aesthetic. Early life and career Kuchar trained as a commercial artist at the School of Industrial Art, now known as the High School of Art and Design, a vocational school in New York City. He graduated in 1960 and drew weather maps for a local news show. During this period, he and his twin brother Mike Kuchar were making 8mm film, 8mm movies, which were showcased in the then-burgeoning underground film scene alongside films by Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, and Stan Brakhage. Ken Jacobs brought attention of their work to Jonas Mekas, who championed their work in the ''Village Voice'' and elsewhere. After being laid off from a commercial art job in New York City, Kuchar was offered a teaching job in the film department of the San Francisco Art Institute, where he taught from 1971 until early 2011. In San Francisco, Kuchar became invo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas (; ; December 24, 1922 – January 23, 2019) was a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist who has been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema". Mekas's work has been exhibited in museums and at festivals worldwide. Mekas was active in New York City, where he co-founded Anthology Film Archives, The Film-Makers' Cooperative, and the journal ''Film Culture''. He was also the first film critic for ''The Village Voice''. In the 1960s, Mekas launched anti-censorship campaigns in defense of the LGBTQ-themed films of Jean Genet and Jack Smith, garnering support from cultural figures including Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Norman Mailer, and Susan Sontag. Mekas mentored and supported many prominent artists and filmmakers, including Ken Jacobs, Peter Bogdanovich, Chantal Akerman, Richard Foreman, John Waters, Barbara Rubin, Yoko Ono, and Martin Scorsese. He helped launch the writing careers of the critics Andrew Sarris, Amy Taubin, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Morrissey
Paul Joseph Morrissey (February 23, 1938 – October 28, 2024) was an American film director, known for his early association with Andy Warhol. His most famous films include ''Flesh (1968 film), Flesh'' (1968), ''Trash (1970 film), Trash'' (1970), ''Heat (1972 film), Heat'' (1972), ''Flesh for Frankenstein'' (1973), and ''Blood for Dracula'' (1974), all starring Joe Dallesandro, 1971's ''Women in Revolt'' and the 1980s New York trilogy ''Forty Deuce'' (1982), ''Mixed Blood (1984 film), Mixed Blood'' (1984), and ''Spike of Bensonhurst'' (1988). From 1965 to 1973, Morrissey ran the publicity and filmmaking activity for Warhol at The Factory (first at 231 E. 47th St. and then at 33 Union Square (Manhattan), Union Square West in New York City). Additionally, between 1966 and 1967, he managed the Velvet Underground and Nico and co-conceived and named Warhol's traveling multi-media Happening the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. In 1969, alongside Warhol and publisher John Wilcock, Morris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David O
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the Kings of Israel and Judah, third king of the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate a victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase (), which is translated as "Davidic line, House of David" by most scholars. The Mesha Stele, erected by King Mesha of Moab in the 9th century BCE, may also refer to the "House of David", although this is disputed. According to Jewish works such as the ''Seder Olam Rabbah'', ''Seder Olam Zutta'', and ''Sefer ha-Qabbalah'' (all written over a thousand years later), David ascended the throne as the king of Judah in 885 BCE. Apart from this, all that is known of David comes from biblical literature, Historicity of the Bible, the historicit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channing Wilroy
Channing Wilroy (born November 8, 1940) is an American film actor who has appeared in seven films by John Waters. His first film role was the character Channing, the manservant in the film ''Pink Flamingos''. Because of his work with Waters, Wilroy is considered one of the Dreamlanders, Waters' ensemble of regular cast and crew members. Prior to appearing in the films of John Waters, he was a regular on ''The Buddy Deane Show'' for three years. He lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts and runs an inn. Filmography *''Pink Flamingos'' (1972) as Channing the Butler *''Female Trouble'' (1974) as Prosecuting Lawyer *''Desperate Living'' (1977) as Lieutenant Wilson *'' Pecker'' (1998) as Wiseguy neighbor *''Divine Trash'' (1998) (himself) *''Cecil B. DeMented'' (2000) as Shop steward *''In Bad Taste'' (2000) (TV) (himself) *''A Dirty Shame'' (2004) as Irate motorist *''All the Dirt on 'A Dirty Shame (2005) (Himself) Other *''The Buddy Deane Show'' (1957) (TV series) *''Cry-Baby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Jarmusch
James Robert Jarmusch ( ; born January 22, 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter and musician. He has been a major proponent of independent film, independent cinema since the 1980s, directing films such as ''Stranger Than Paradise'' (1984), ''Down by Law (film), Down by Law'' (1986), ''Mystery Train (film), Mystery Train'' (1989), ''Night on Earth'' (1991), ''Dead Man'' (1995), ''Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai'' (1999), ''Coffee and Cigarettes'' (2003), ''Broken Flowers'' (2005), ''Only Lovers Left Alive'' (2013), and ''Paterson (film), Paterson'' (2016). ''Stranger Than Paradise'' was added to the National Film Registry in December 2002. As a musician, he has been part of the no wave band The Del-Byzanteens and in addition composed music for some of his films. He has released three musical albums with Jozef van Wissem. Early life Jarmusch was born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, the second of three children of middle-class suburbanites. His mother, of Germans, German and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
